About Us
Ministerial & Administrative Staff
• Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie • Senior Minister
• George Whitehouse • Minister at Large
• Phyllis Guiliano • Church Administrator
• Jeffrey Bouchard • Assistant to the Administrator
• Mark David Buckles • Director of Music
• Rev. Eugene B. Navias • Associate Minister Emeritus
• Brad Nobles • Sexton
• Music Staff
Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie • Senior Minister • office@ascboston.org
The Reverend Ms. Kim K. Crawford Harvie was raised in Concord, Massachusetts and graduated with honors from Middlebury College (Vermont) and Harvard Divinity School. Ordained into the Unitarian Universalist ministry in 1984, she spent the following year as an intern at First Parish in Brewster, Massachusetts. In 1985, she was called to the Universalist Meeting House in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which she served until 1989. In 1987, she received the Maximilian Kolbe Award for Community Service and, in 1988, she was named Provincetown Citizen of the Year. In 1989, she was called to Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, where she continues to serve as Senior Minister.
In Boston, Rev. Crawford Harvie co-founded two non-profit organizations: In the Best Interests of the Children, dedicated to providing educational and material assistance to young people and families affected by pediatric HIV/AIDS; and The Shared Heart, a traveling exhibition and book of photographs (released in 1997 by William Morrow) of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teenagers with accompanying text in their own words, designed to support the Massachusetts Safe Schools Initiative.
In 1992, Rev. Crawford Harvie was the recipient of Harvard Divinity School’s First Decade Award. In the same year, Rev. Crawford Harvie also received distinguished alumnae awards from Middlebury College and Concord Carlisle High School. In 1996, the Legacy Foundation named Rev. Crawford Harvie Uncommon Woman of the Year. In 1999, Rev. Crawford Harvie was named one of ten delegates from the United States to Women Waging Peace, an international women’s peacemaking initiative. In 2002, the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston honored her as one of 100 outstanding women in the Commonwealth.
Rev. Crawford Harvie resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her wife, Kem Morehead, and their three daughters.
Phyllis Guiliano • Church Administrator
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Jeffrey Bouchard • Assistant to the Administrator • JBouchard@ascboston.org
Jeffrey David Bouchard is the Assistant to the Administrator at ASC. He is responsible for coordinating building usage by the congregation and the public, maintaining church property, ensuring security and fire systems are operating properly, and giving tours of our facilities to the public and UU youth groups. Jeffrey schedules numerous weddings, concerts, lectures, and meetings at ASC every year.
Jeffrey, the son of a Pentecostal minister, was raised in the Belfast/Searsport, Maine area. For many years he taught Sunday School and played piano during the worship services at his father’s church. Prior to coming to ASC, Jeffrey was the sexton/Assistant to the Administrator at the Park Street UU Church in Bangor, Maine, where he became a Unitarian Universalist. His current favorite vacation playland is Provincetown, which he visits a few times a year.
Brad Nobles • Sexton
Brad Nobles has been Sexton at ASC since 1995. He is responsible for the upkeep of the building, including preparing the sanctuary and the Parish Hall for its many, many uses. Brad sets up for events, concerts, and weddings. He provides a knowledgeable presence and helping hands for our congregation, guests, and renters. Brad also helps the volunteers who set-up and staff the weekly Friday Night Supper Program.
Brad was born in New York City and raised in Boston. He loves jazz and sports. Before he came to ASC, he worked for twenty years in movie theatres, which he truly loved. He was a motion picture operator at such grand old theatres in Boston as The Orpheum, The Opera House, and The Strand in Dorchester.
Rev. George G. Whitehouse • Minister at Large • GWhitehouse@ascboston.org
The Reverend George G. Whitehouse was appointed Minister-at-Large by the Arlington Street Church under the Reverend Jack Mendelsohn in 1969. He attended Northeastern University and Harvard Divinity School and was ordained by Arlington Street Church. Since 1969 he has represented ASC in many social outreach programs involving students, children, families and several Juvenile Criminal Justice start-up programs. George is currently on the board of the Bethany Union for Young Women (a subsidized housing facility in Boston for young women between the ages of 18–30), the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Heritage Society, and the Tuckerman Coalition (a consortium of UU’s advocating for legislation affecting families and children living in poverty). He has also been the resident Campanologist at ASC since 1961.
Mark David Buckles • Director of Music • MBuckles@ascboston.org
Mark David Buckles, conductor, composer, music educator, and multi-instrumentalist, is a native of Beverly Hills, Michigan. Mark received his Masters of Music in Conducting at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and his Bachelors of Music in Composition from the University of Michigan School of Music.
Mark serves as Adjunct Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and as Music Director Emeritus of Juventas, the acclaimed Boston-based New Music Ensemble dedicated to performing the works of young composers, which he co-founded in 2005.
In 2003 and 2005, Mark participated in the European American Music Alliance in Paris, where he received honors for his studies in counterpoint and harmony. Mark is also a 2006 graduate of the Conductors’ Institute at Bard College.
A prolific composer and arranger of choral, vocal, and instrumental music, Mark has received commissions from the University of Michigan Women’s Glee Club, the University of Michigan Honors Convocation, Miller College, and Dixboro United Methodist Church. His works have been performed and recorded by the University of Michigan Chamber Choir, the Boston Choral Ensemble, the Boston University Concert Chorus, the Saint Petersburg String Quartet, and various other ensembles.
Laura Evonne Steinman • Religious Educator
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Updated August, 2010