Staff at Saint Mary's

The Reverend Stephen V. Smith became the 6th rector of Saint Mary's in October, 2004. Steve has been a priest since 1982, serving Episcopal churches in MN and MA, most recently as Rector of St. John's Church, Westwood, MA. A native of Massachusetts growing up in Newton, Steve married Jeanette Hanlon in 1979 and they have three grown children, Jamie, Martin and Colleen. Jeanette,a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and licensed social worker, has a private practice in psychotherapy, spiritual direction, consulting and coaching in Mashpee. Steve has a variety of interests including biking, hiking and painting. More recently, he is being tutored in the art of salt water fly-fishing. He relishes this opportunity to be in the natural splendor of Cape Cod and called to this ministry at St. Mary's.

Daniel Romero is Organist and Director of Music for St. Mary’s where he over sees a program including adult choir, children’s and youth choirs, and instrumentalists. A native of Denver, CO, Daniel received a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from Metropolitan State College of Denver. There he studied organ with Dr. Joyce Shupe Kull, FAGO. Daniel has served as organist and music director at several Denver area churches and most recently at Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Downtown Denver from 2001-2009. From 2005-2009 Daniel served as accompanist and assistant director of the Cherry Creek Children’s Chorus. He holds the Colleague Certificate (CAGO) from the American Guild of Organists. In 1999 Daniel received the rank of Eagle Scout from Troop 130 in Golden, CO. Daniel’s other interests include playing the theater pipe organ, organ building, running, travel, and history. Daniel is very happy to be here at St. Mary’s and is enjoying the people and natural splendor of Cape Cod.

Director of Family Ministries, Kathleen O'Donoghue, has just recently joined the Saint Mary’s staff.  Kathy is originally from Dorchester, MA and has lived in Massachusetts for most of her life. Moving to the Cape 20 years ago, she loves the solitude of the winters and the energy of the summers. Kathy earned a B.S in Education from Gordon College, a MDiv degree from North Park Theological Seminary of Chicago and is writing her dissertation, completing a PhD in Education from Capella University in Minneapolis.  She has worked in parish ministry with individuals and families and as a seminary administrator, supervising ministry interns. She presently serves part time as a hospice chaplain. Kathy is a birth, adoptive and foster parent and lives with her spouse Charlene, children Jerrica and Austin and many many pets. Her daughter Hannah attends Curry College in Milton, MA and her son Joe lives in Chicago and works with Lookingglass Theatre and Barrel of Monkeys, teaching creative writing workshops in the Chicago Public Schools and performing as an ensemble member in various productions. Kathy is committed to the ideas of radical hospitality and reflecting the love of God to all who enter Saint Mary’s doors. She looks forward to meeting all of the Saint Mary’s family and hopes you will come visit her if you are in the neighborhood!

Parish Administrator, Connie Sullivan, was born in Falmouth, has lived in Harwich Port, South Yarmouth and Dennis Port, and now resides in Marstons Mills with husband of 21 years, Brian, and their daughter Shannon, age 14, and son Liam, age 9. She received her B.A. cum laude from Wellesley College in 1986 with a major in Sociology. After college, Connie worked her way up the retail management ladder for eight years at Bradlees. In 1995, she became a full time Mom and joined her daughter in baptism at Christ Church in Harwich Port, the long-time church of her maternal family. In 2002, after a year-long confirmation class at St. Mary's, she joined the church fully and continued to teach Church School. In the fall of 2005, she joined the staff at St. Mary's and worked alongside her ever-giving mentor and friend, Barbara Hersey in the role of Church School Co-Coordinator. In June of 2009 she stepped into the role of Parish Administrator.     

Jon F. Ferguson, Maintenance Supervisor, was born in Albany NY and graduated from Bethlehem Central High school class of ’58. He worked in a gas station for a year before enlisting in the Air Force. The opportunity came up for cadet training to be a fighter pilot. Jon placed fourth and they only had room for three. He thought that he would be an auto mechanic but they ran all of their tests and said ‘uncle needs you in electronics’. Jon spent his entire career in the strategic air command on long range bombers. After the first three years he cross-trained into computers. Everyone else at that time headed for Southeast Asia, Jon was sent to Alaska for three years. When his tour finished an opportunity came to join a friend in a startup company. Systomation Inc made test equipment and Laser drilling machines for large industry. Everything went great until the company ran into an economic slow down in the mid ‘70s. This is the only time in Jon's life that he spent time out of work. Big house, three kids, two cars, two horses, and no job. Thank God for good credit. A friend at St. George’s Episcopal Church knew a neighbor that needed to fill an Instrument Technician position at General Electric, Knolls Atomic Power in West Milton NY. After the security clearance process Jon started on a new career. He spent 25 years at KAPL in many areas of testing and design. Jon divorced in 1983 and spent many years alone. He remarried in September 2000 to his soul mate, Diane McGuire, who also worked for KAPL. When Jon retired in 2002, they moved to Cape Cod. His family includes 4 girls and 1 boy, 9 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren who enjoy visiting Cape Cod often.

Jim Cranitch joined St. Mary’s Church in 2004. He became Financial Administrator in July 2007. Jim had previous experience as a banker for 26 years, in customer service, student loan officer, loan officer, and mortgage officer. Formerly of Dorchester Mass., he moved to Cape Cod in 2004. Jim has a B.A. in Political Science & History. He was married to Bruce Vandebrock in May 2004. They live in Hyannis with their two Shi tzu’s, Duffy and Casey. His interests include reading, gardening, theology & cooking. Jim also volunteers in many ways at St. Mary’s including being lector and Eucharistic minister.