Our Newest Members...

Alicia & Matt Argano are residents of Greenbrook and are currently expecting their first child. Matt is a senior Director with The Children’s Place & Disney stores. Alicia is a massage therapist who is self-employed. She is formerly a member of First Presbyterian Church of Cranford.

Michael & Jill Fackelman reside in Piscataway. Michael is a Music Educator at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield. Jill is a Health Educator at Westfield High School, currently on a child rearing leave raising their 4 month old twins, Michael John and Jordyn Marie. In addition they have three older daughters, Elizabeth, Lauren and Julia Fackelman. Elizabeth and Lauren attend high school and Julia is in the middle school.

Hannah Kerwin has been the Director of Bound Brook Memorial Library for the past seven years. She resides in Chatham and formerly was a member of Stanley Congregational Church, Chatham, and the Metuchen Presbyterian Church. Hannah’s daughter Calandra attends Drexel University and her twin sons, Perry & Bennett, are in third grade.

M. LaVerne & William Miner are residents of Arbor Glen, Bridgewater, having moved their homes from Watertown, MA & Washington, DC, seven years ago. Of their 15 year commuter marriage, the Miners describe themselves as being old-fashioned—that is, they were married 15 years before they started living together! A Philadelphia native, LaVerne earned a Master’s degree from the University of Rochester, a Certificate of Advanced Studies from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She taught French & Spanish and retired in 1997 after having taught in Watertown Public Schools for 24 years. Bill is a native of Wooster, OH and received a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan, a Ph.D. in social policy & social planning from Brandeis University and an honorary LL.D. degree from the College of Wooster. Bill has worked in social work & public health education and in community & urban development overseas for the American Friends Service Committee, the United Nations & the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He retired from USAID in 1998 after 37 years. Music has been a big part of their lives. At Arbor Glen, LaVerne accompanies the Arbor Glen Singers on piano & organ. Bill directs the community sing-alongs. In October 2005 he was elected vice-president of the Arbor Glen Residents’ Association and became president in October 2006. In that capacity he is a member ‘ex officio’ of the Board of Directors of Friends Retirement Concepts, Inc. Both have been selected as Living Treasures—Bill in 2003 and LaVerne in 2006.