Vestry Members
Coventry (Covie) Edwards-Pitt
Senior Warden
Covie has been a member of Good Shepherd since early 2022 when she and her family attended their first Celtic Eucharist. Her family has loved Good Shepherd ever since, singing as volunteer members in choir (soprano, alto, and bass!), participating in the 2022 Confirmation Class Pilgrimage to the UK, and attending biweekly Sunday evening Do Love service sessions with current and former Confirmands and their families. Covie is the Founder and Director of Ballentine Partners' Center for Family Well-Being and has authored the firm's Healthy, Wealthy & Wise 3-book collection, centered on reconciling financial resources with the relationships and values that matter most. She also founded the shop Sew & Bloom in Cambridge, MA and can often be found in her garden admiring the bees and making peace with the bunnies.
Chris Sole
Junior Warden
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Chris has attended Good Shepherd since 2000. He has taught confirmands, sings in the choir and has served four times on the vestry as Jr. Warden.
Chris runs a company serving the needs of internet advertising companies for data analytics. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering (U. Birmingham UK), and in Business from Stanford University.
Chris lives in Newton Highlands.
Gail Murphy
Treasurer
Gail has been a parishioner at Good Shepherd for over 30 years, joining when her son Matthew was born. Matthew and daughter Caitlin were both baptized and confirmed at Good Shepherd.
Currently Gail is the Treasurer and also serves as usher, lector and intercessor. She and her husband Harry have also taught Sunday School. Gail is retired from a career in tax, finance and auditing. She enjoys serving other parishes in meeting their audit commitments.
Gene Wayne
Clerk
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Gene Wayne has been a member of Good Shepherd since 2015. Prior to serving as Clerk, he served a full term as a vestry member in addition to serving on the regathering committee, and as a lector and usher. A mathematics professor at Boston University, Gene and his wife, Ruth Sondermann, live in Newton Highlands, and have an adult daughter, Hannah.
Barbara Bower
Vestry Member
Barbara grew up in New Jersey and attended Lafayette College where she received a BA in Economics and Business with a minor in Literature in 1990. She attended veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania. It was during her time at Penn that she met her husband, John Corcoran, who before his death served this parish in many ways. Barb and John attended Good Shepherd the first Sunday after moving to Boston October 2002, knowing they'd found their church home, too. Their children, Jack and Christi, are both undergrads at Harvard.
Brad Peloquin
Vestry Member
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Brad has been a member of Good Shepherd for over 20 years. He is currently a choir member and was previously a full-term vestry member. He has also served on the Music Director Search Committee. Brad is married to Jeff Puolos, his partner of 28 years. He is a Lead Business Analyst for Boston University where he served in previous roles as the Director of Admissions for both the BU School of Music and the BU School of Public Health.
Callie Emery
Vestry Member
Callie Emery is an opera singer, vocal coach, powerlifter, personal trainer, and nutrition coach located in eastern Massachusetts. She graduated from Vanderbilt University (2020) with a Bachelor of Music in Musical Arts (Voice) and then the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2022) with Master of Music in Opera Performance. She holds both her personal trainer and nutrition certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (2025).
Callie specializes in coaching young voices, which has come in handy as she volunteers with the children's chorus at PGS. You can also find her in the adult choir on many Sunday mornings.
Greg Manthei
Vestry Member
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Greg's association with Good Shepherd dates to 1997 when he and his wife Jennifer were married at the Church; he has been a parishioner since 2013, has taught Sunday school and put away innumerable Church folding chairs and tables over the years. Greg is the President and Founder of the recruiting firm Pelham Berkeley Search.
Maritza Ebling
Vestry Member
Maritza grew up in Waban, attending PGS with her family. She reconnected with the parish when she married Matt Hillard - Fr. Jay officiated the ceremony. Maritza lives in the South End with her husband and two young daughters, Lusiné and Ani, and is thrilled to be part of the community once again.
Ken Rothwell
Vestry Member
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Ken Rothwell has been a member of Good Shepherd for over thirty years. He and his wife Pam raised their two children in Newton.
He is a professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Nick Nesgos
Vestry Member
Nick has been a member of Good Shepherd since 1968, when his family relocated to Waban. He has served in various capacities at the parish, including as a member of the 2016 Search Committee, on the Vestry, and on the Finance Committee.
Nick is a partner at Arent, Fox, Shiff, and heads the Complex Litigation practice for their Boston office. He studied at Connecticut College (BA), the London School of Economics, and Cornell University (JD).
Nick is married to Maggie, whom he married at Parish of the Good Shepherd. They have two daughters, Phoebe and Anna.
Allie Baker
Vestry Member
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Allie Baker, her husband, and their three children have been attending Good Shepherd since 2021. Previously, she was a volunteer soprano in the St. James' Episcopal Church choir in New York City. Allie is a child, adolescent and perinatal psychiatrist, serving on the faculty at MGH and HMS, with a private practice in Wellesley. She earned her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed her residency and fellowship training at NewYork-Presbyterian, the teaching hospital of Columbia and Cornell.
Lewis (Lew) Cantor
Vestry Member
My name is Lewis (Lew) Cantor. I was born in the Bronx, NY, but lived most of my life in Salinas, CA. My wife Sally and I have been married for 52 years. We have two daughters: Hilary, who lives in Denver, CO, and Alison Corkery, who lives in Waban. We also have two grandchildren: Catie, a freshman at Colby College, and Brendan, a junior at Newton South.
I have been a member of Good Shepherd for approximately five years, but attended church here for another 10 years as we visited our children and grandchildren. When in California I was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Salinas, California and served on their vestry for several years.
I attended Rutgers for my undergraduate degree and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY for my medical degree. I did a pediatric residency and chief residency at the U. Cal San Francisco and practiced Pediatrics in Salinas from 1975 until 2019. I was the president of Coastal Kids Home Care, a nonprofit which provides home care for children with chronic diseases for 15 years.
Matthew Groves
Vestry Member
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Matthew began attending Good Shepherd in November of 2023 and has been assisting with the A/V system. He and his wife Elise both grew up in Oregon and moved to Boston in 2010, and have a son Michael who was born in March 2023. Matthew is an Eagle Scout, a software engineering manager at Accenture, and also plays bass trombone with the Brookline Symphony Orchestra.