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Rev. Richard Hood
has served the church on a part time basis since
1971. He is a graduate of Tufts University in
Massachusetts and Colgate Rochester Divinity
School. Rev. Hood is married and has two grown
sons. He recently retired from his job as
administrator of an assisted living facility in
Rochester. He is a member of Pullman Memorial.
"I love coming to Albion in spite of all the years I
have served here, Rev. Hood commented, "Every
Sunday brings a new challenge and new joys. Our
members are very committed to the church and work very
hard to insure its health. We are the only UU
church between Rochester and Buffalo, and we serve the
unique role of proclaiming our liberal religious faith in
a very conservative area. Together we have created
a warm and caring community where we practice well our
values of tolerance and acceptance." (Rev. Hood retired from
active ministry in May 2006.)
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Rev. Donald Reidell
has
served the church part time since 1977. He holds a
Bachelor degree from State University of New York College
at Buffalo, a Master degree in English Education, and a
Master of Theology from Canisius College. He is married
and has three children--Erich, Kimberley, and Marcus. For
37 years he was a high school teacher of English,
retiring in 1997. In addition to serving the
Pullman Memorial Universalist Church twice a month, he
serves U.U. churches in Jamestown, Niagara Falls, and
Hamburg. "Serving the Pullman church provides
me with inspiration and renewal. Each member is fully
committed, not only to his or her own religious quest but
also committed to a covenant of the church. It is my
privilege to serve in this congregation."
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Susan
Dodge-Peters Daiss
is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist,
raised in Boston, and with a leaning since childhood
toward the sacred. "My professional life for the
past 25 years has been within the art world, writing and
teaching about the visual experience. My love of the arts
--especially the visual arts and writing--my connections
to the natural world, and my commitment to help others
connect with the sacred in themselves, others, and
the world--has been leading me very slowly toward
ministry. I have been attending Colgate Rochester
Divinity School working toward an MDiv. for almost a
decade. I've been taking a class a semester in
addition to pursuing a very fulltime job at the Memorial
Art Gallery in Rochester and raising a family. I began
leading a service a month at Pullman (and in the summers
at the Cobblestone Church) in the fall of 1995. Over
these years I have become deeply attached to the people
in the church and am incredibly grateful to have found
such a welcoming community in which to test out my very
fledgling wings."
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Rev.
John Rex is a graduate of Bowdoin College, and has advanced degrees
from SUNY at Buffalo and Starr King School for the Ministry. After
27 years of teaching high school English, John entered seminary and
was ordained in the UU ministry in 1995. He has served UU
congregations in Fredericksburg, VA, Jacksonville, FL, and North Palm
Beach, FL. He served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from
1962-64, and again in Namibia from 2003-04, and is now the chairperson
of the newly organized Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of
Western New York. While in seminary, he spent nine months
doing independent study in India during which time he visited UU
groups in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. He later spent six months
in a ministry to the tribal Khasi Unitarians in North East India. Johns
daughter, Anne, is a doctor and the mother of twins, Drew and Gwen,
born on 3/8/06.
Although
now retired from full time ministry, John preaches at UU churches in
the area as needed, and remains very active as a member of the Buffalo
Gay Mens Chorus.
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