Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee is composed of 12 persons, with at
least one from each Quarterly Meeting. One-third of the Committee
is nominated each year by the Interim Meeting for appointment
by the Yearly Meeting. Quarterly Meetings may suggest the names
of suitable persons from their membership to serve on the Nominating
Committee.
The Committee recommends to the Yearly Meeting in session the
names of persons to serve on committees and in other offices for
which no other means of nomination has been herein provided. Unless
otherwise specified, a three-year term is suggested for all committee
members, one-third of the membership of a committee being appointed
each year to serve from the close of the Yearly Meeting sessions
at which they were appointed. Persons may be appointed to an office
or committee for no more than six consecutive years, unless longer
terms are specified.
Nominations may arise in the Nominating Committee, or may be
suggested to the Committee by Quarterly or Monthly Meetings, by
clerks or members of established committees, or by any member
of the Yearly Meeting. Normally, persons eligible for nomination
are members of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. However, the Nominating
Committee may nominate Friends from other Yearly Meetings who
are sojourning among us. On the recommendation of a Monthly Meeting,
the Committee may nominate an active attender, except that appointments
to other Friends’ organizations must be limited to members of
the Society of Friends if the applicable bylaws so specify.
In general, committees charged with a nominating function do
not nominate any of their own members; in general, Friends should
attempt to serve the Yearly Meeting on no more than one standing
committee at a time. However, these principles should not prevent
the nomination of a particularly well qualified Friend as a representative
to an outside body or as a member of an ad hoc committee, after
the Nominating Committee has given due consideration to other
qualified Friends. Nothing in this Manual should be interpreted
as barring any Friend from serving in a specific capacity when
special circumstances warrant.
Friends appointed to the Nominating Committee may complete a
term already being served on another committee; and a Nominating
Committee member may be nominated for service on another committee
immediately on rotation off the Nominating Committee.
In order for the business and concerns of the Yearly Meeting
to be effectively carried forward, it is desirable for committees
to be representative of various age groups and interests and for
Friends to become acquainted with various aspects of Yearly Meeting
affairs. It is the duty of the Nominating Committee to evaluate
the qualifications of Friends for committee service and to endeavor
to be informed about the functioning of Yearly Meeting committees,
in order to ascertain at what point a committee assignment or
a change of assignment might benefit a Friend, the Yearly Meeting,
or both.
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Manual of Procedure, August 2005
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Interchange - Spring 2007
BYM Committee Opportunities
Have you ever wondered how the Religious Society
of Friends continues to thrive and change? Friends’
Meetings depend on Spirit moving through you to open
the way. Getting involved in Yearly Meeting committees
and activities is one way to open to Spirit.
Serving on a BYM committee can be a special experience.
It is an opportunity to engage in meaningful
work to deepen Quaker roots and to widen horizons by
meeting Friends from the 53 Monthly Meetings throughout
BYM and visiting their Meeting Houses. The growing
knowledge and inter-visitation experience gained
strengthens the Friend serving and your Monthly
Meeting as well.
Areas of interest and service include administration,
ministry and pastoral care, peace and social concerns,
children and youth, advancement and outreach, and representing
BYM at various Friends’ organizations. Please
see BYM’s website (www.bym-rsf.org) for full
descriptions of each committee.
Service is a three-year commitment, which begins
at the August Annual Session this year. Your Monthly
Meeting clerk will be collecting indications of interest
and communicating those to a member of the BYM
Nominating Committee. Alternatively, you can express
your interest directly to one of the following Nominating
Committee members: Charlotte Boynton, Langley
Hill; Ramona Buck, Patapsco; Jason Eaby, Nottingham;
Andrei Israel, Friends’ Meeting of Washington; Nancy
Moore, Stony Run; Barbara Thomas, Annapolis; Cathy
Tunis, Herndon; or Bronna Zlochiver, Sandy Spring.
Annual Report 2004
Our committee met four times this year, in November at Frederick
Monthly Meeting, in February at the home of Rod and Caroline
Pelton (Goose Creek),
in March at the spring Interim Meeting at Bethesda
Monthly Meeting, and in June at the Summer Interim Meeting
at Deer Creek Monthly Meeting.
By phone, through e-mail, and in conversations, we collected information
from and about Friends who might be interested in serving the
Yearly Meeting in various ways. We discussed ideas about such
service with Friends whose names were suggested, and prepared
about sixty names of Friends to nominate to the Yearly Meeting
at its Annual Session.
Our committee observes that, in the right time and with the right
placement, Friends are joyfully generous in their service to the
Yearly Meeting and to related Friends’ organizations.
Ruth Flower, Clerk
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