Former Executive Director Tonia Baney resigned in January in order to return to her home on Maui, Hawaii with her husband Steve. She had served for seven and a half years, during which she led in creating and implementing a comprehensive business and marketing plan that helped increase book sales and move the Foundation toward a more multi-national framework. She steered the staff with sensitivity and skill. Her vision of future possibilities led her to organize the Matthew Project, a team of volunteers who are working to raise the Foundation's profile among readers and attract the funding that will be needed to make The Urantia Bookand its translations available throughout the world.
Mindy Williams served as Office Manager for four years, ably assisting with complicated legal aspects of the Foundation's work and also assuming many other duties. Immediately after Tonia's departure she cheerfully filled in for several months as the senior manager of the Foundation office in Chicago, but in May she decided to return to Florida with her husband Allen.
We will all miss Tonia and Mindy, and we wish them every success in their new - and warmer! - surroundings. On an interim basis, Jay Peregrine will serve as Acting Office Manager until the Trustees choose and appoint a new senior manager.