Meet the Team
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The Reverend Kathryn Nesbit Elledge, Vicar 
We welcome our new vicar, the Rev. Kathryn Nesbit Elledge.  Kate is a Chicago area native, with an M.Div. and an M.S.W. from the University of Chicago, and a Certificate of Advanced Theological Study from Seabury-Western Seminary. She has been a priest for more than 30 years, serving congregations and Episcopal schools in Hawaii, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and for the past ten + years in the diocese of Massachusetts, most recently at Christ Church in Cambridge.  She has a son who lives and works on the south shore, and her daughter attends Salem State University.  Kate lives in Marblehead with her husband, the Rev. C. Clyde Elledge, and their dog, St. Francis of Assisi.    Her email is kate@sjcb.org

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          Hannah K. Roy, Parish Administrator 
          Hannah Roy is a  4th generation community member of St. Johns. Hannah currently holds a Master's
          Degree in Psychology. She is excited to take on this new role and get to know this community in a new
          way. She would love to greet you in the Church Office and welcome you to St. John's. In her free time,
          Hannah enjoys painting with acrylic and watercolor, reading, and writing. You may reach Hannah at
         office@sjcb.org.

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Francis Conover Fitch, Minister of Music 
Frances Conover Fitch has served primarily Episcopal congregations for nearly half a century - since her undergraduate days in New York State. As a church musician, she has led many avocational musical activities - adult and children’s choirs, handbell players, musical productions, fund-raisers - in Gloucester, Newburyport, Boston, Topsfield, and Swampscott, and has been Artistic Director of a concert series in most of these parishes. At St. John’s in Gloucester, MA, she facilitated the installation of a new pipe organ - C.B. Fisk Opus 97. She was on the faculty for the Presiding Bishop’s Leadership Program for Musicians Serving Small Parishes, and served on the Diocesan Music and Liturgy Committee at the time of the ordination of the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion, the Right Reverend Barbara C. Harris.

Frances first studied organ and harpsichord while at Bard College; later she completed organ studies at the New England Conservatory of Music before going to Holland to further her harpsichord studies with Gustav Leonhardt. Fitch spent much of the late '70s and early '80s in Europe, where she taught at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis and co-founded the early music ensemble Concerto Castello. A recording by Concerto Castello earned Fitch an honorable mention at the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis competition held in Berlin in 1983. Returning to the United States, Frances began an active free-lance career, playing with early music groups such as the Boston Camerata and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and participating in major music festivals, such as Aston Magna and Tanglewood. Although these days she is most often heard in concert as a soloist, Fitch is noted for her sensitivity and intuitive strengths as a continuo player, and outside of her many recordings with Boston Camerata for Erato and Nonesuch, she has recorded for Wildboar, Titanic, Koch, EMI Reflexe, and Centaur, in addition to making many radio recordings while in Europe. She has published several encyclopedia articles and a workbook for keyboard players.

As a teacher, Fitch instructed graduate students at her alma mater, the New England Conservatory of Music, for most of the 1990s. She served as chair of the Early Music Department at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, where she taught, served on many committees and performed for nearly three decades. In addition to several workshops, she now teaches at Tufts and Brandeis Universities, and New England Conservatory, and has a private studio. In 2012, she had the honor to spend a semester as Guest Professor at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan - originally a seminary founded by an American missionary. Frances is also a Licensed teacher of the course What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body.   

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Peter Bouras, Sexton
Our Sexton, Peter, is from Salem, and has two sons, Demetri and Damian. Peter is a graduate of Lynn Vocational Technical Institute. He was in the food business for twenty years and for a number of years owned his own pizzeria. Before coming to St. John's, Peter worked for Homeland Security as a Transportation Security Officer at Logan Airport. Peter’s main hobbies are sports and spending time with his family. You may email Peter at peter@sjcb.org

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