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Staff
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Ministers & Professional
Staff
Pastors
Dr. Russell C. Sullivan,
Jr. M. Div.,
D. Min.
email:
RSullivan@pinestreet.org
Organist-Choirmaster
Thomas Clark-Jones,
M.A.
email:
tjones@pinestreet.org
Director of Family & Lay Ministry
Cheryl A.Goode
email:
cgoode@pinestreet.org
Minister of Music
Emeritus
Donald L. Clapper,
M.A.
Seminarian
Lorrie Cooney
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OTHER PINE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH STAFF
Elaine B.
Strokoff, Director, Downtown Daily
Bread
Diana L.
Robertson, Church Administrator
email:
drobertson@pinestreet.org
Michelle
Kennedy, Office Manager
email:
mkennedy@pinestreet.org
Elizabeth
Gnazzo, Secretary/Archivist
email:
egnazzo@pinestreet.org
Peter L.
Hollander, Building and Grounds
Manager
email:
phollander@pinestreet.org
Kenneth E. Taylor
Custodian
June
Ferguson
Custodian Emeritus
Shyla Jones
Nursery
Director
Brenda L.
Ervin and Blondie Doleman
D.D.B. Cooks
Carter Nash
Client Counselor
Eric L.
and Rebecca A. Hinderliter Missionaries to Lithuania (LCC |
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Dr. Russell C. Sullivan, Jr.,
M. Div., D. Min.,
Senior Pastor
email: RSullivan@pinestreet.org
Russell attended college at the College of Charleston, graduating in
1976 with a major in history and a minor in German. Following college,
he worked in a congressional campaign and then went to work with the Social
Security Administration for seven years. He attended Princeton Theological
Seminary in 1986. and prior to his senior year, the German government
granted him a fellowship to study German at the Goethe Institute in Bremen,
Germany. Upon graduation from seminary, he returned to Europe, this time to
Oxford, Great Britain, where, supported by a Graduate Study Fellowship in
Parish Ministry, he engaged in studies in theology.
Following seminary he served at the Westminster Presbyterian Church of
Florence, South Carolina, then in 1994 accepted a call to be the Associate
Pastor at the Second Presbyterian Church of Bloomington, Illinois. His last
call before coming to Pine Street was Pastor/Head of Staff at Neshaminy-Warwick
Presbyterian Church, an historic church in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Russell enjoys camping, bicycle riding, reading, music, movies,
learning to ski, and great cooking!
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Thomas
Clark-Jones,
M.A., Organist-Choirmaster 
email:
tjones@pinestreet.org
Thomas (Tom) Clark-Jones is a native of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He holds degrees from Wilkes College (B.Mus.) and the State College of New Jersey (M.A.). During college, he was Organist-Choirmaster at St. Clement's Church (Episcopal) in Wilkes-Barre, and later served as associate organist at St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia. In 1971 he was appointed musician at Abington Church (American Baptist) and organist at Temple Shalom in Levittown, PA. In 1977 he began a ten year tenure as Music Director of Court Street Church (United Methodist) in Flint, Michigan and was also on the faculty of the University of Michigan-Flint. In 1986 he began another decade-long tenure at First Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, Virginia where he also founded Cantate, a professional children's choir.
Tom joined the staff of Pine Street Church in March of 1998. He is active in the American Guild of Organists, currently serving the Harrisburg Chapter as a Chairman of the Violet Cassels Scholarship Committee. He is a member of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. He has also concertized widely throughout the U.S. and Canada having played major recitals in Philadlephia,
New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and Montreal. Tom and his wife, Denise are
parents of three children, Jillian, Jenna and William. They live in Camp
Hill.
Cheryl A. Goode Director of Family & Lay Ministry
Cheryl was born and raised in Central Pennsylvania where she lives with
her husband John. They share four sons, Jason, Scott, Michael and Matthew
who are grown. Her work has been as a Sunday school teacher and
administrator. She has worked with the Youth and Presbyterian Youth
Council. She has been a deacon and a member of the Carlisle Presbytery
Education Committee. Cheryl is a member of the Association of Presbyterian
Church Educators and recently has earned her certificate as an enrolled
educational assistant. She is currently working towards being a certified
associate Christian educator. When not working she enjoys reading,
gardening, cooking and baking.
Donald
L. Clapper, M.A., Minister of
Music Emeritus
Donald (Don) L. Clapper
was born in Altoona PA, graduated from High School there, and attended
Indiana University of Pennsylvania receiving a degree in Music Education.
He taught for a brief time in Lewisburg, PA and was drafted during the
Korean War. Following his discharge, he attended Westminster Choir College
in Princeton, NJ, earning the degree of Master of
Music.
He began his ministry
at Pine Street in 1954. For 37 years, he was director of the Harrisburg
Choral Society, taught music appreciation to the student nurses at
Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital, and conducted massed choirs for the
Governor's Tree Lighting ceremony. He has been guest conductor of several
county choral festivals. He was twice nominated for the Governor's Award
for Excellent in the Arts. He received the Alumni Merit Award Citation
from Westminster Choir College and the Arts Award 93 for distinguished
service to the arts in the Capital area. He is an honorary member of Phi
Mu Alpha (Sinfonia) the national honorary music fraternity. His hobbies
are stained glass and gardening.
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