We are pleased to introduce the final two candidates for our Vestry Class 2025-2028, Rosemary Choate and Brent Schindele. To read about last week's candidates, go to https://bit.ly/slate2025-part1
Members of the Vestry are elected to three-year terms, or until their successors are qualified and elected. Voting will take place at our annual meeting, to be held in our Historic Sanctuary (with an online option) on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 9 am.
A parish potluck breakfast will be held in Cleaver Hall after the meeting.
Your Vestry meets on the third Tuesday of every month.
Rosemary Choate
My search for a church home has been a long one, and I am truly thankful that I found Church of Our Saviour and that the church found me. Currently I serve on the Forum Committee and am one of four English teachers for our Mandarin-speaking community. I have been a leader of the women’s Bible study, Journey in Joy, for over 20 years.
I grew up in L.A.’s Los Feliz district, where I attended local schools, graduating from John Marshall High. Years later, I joined the Marshall faculty as an English teacher.
I earned my bachelor’s degree in European history from Pomona College, where my husband, Joe, and I met as freshmen. We married some years later and shared a wonderful life together, rearing two terrific sons and raising lots of pets! Over the years, we developed lasting relationships with special friends whom we claim as our family.
I earned graduate degrees in History and in Literature and have taught courses in both subjects. I have been an alumna volunteer for decades at Pomona College and have also volunteered at a variety of other institutions, frequently in the fields of marketing, event planning, and public relations.
I am deeply honored to be considered as a candidate for the Vestry. I am grateful for being nominated and, if elected, will look forward to assisting the church in whatever ways that I can.
Brent Schindele
I feel like I’ve known this neighborhood all my life. I was born in Akron, Ohio, but my mother grew up on San Marino Avenue and some of my earliest memories are at my grandmother’s house there and toddling along on the tours my mom led as a docent at the Huntington Library and Gardens. She met my dad at USC and they were married at Church of Our Saviour in 1968! My two brothers and I were raised not far away in Fullerton, California.
I got my bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College, double-majoring in Political Science and Theology, also spending a semester at Edinburgh University’s school of divinity in Scotland. I worked briefly for the United Nations in Geneva, took the Foreign Service exam, and worked in the U.S. State Department in United Nations Political Affairs. While in Washington, D.C., I began a master’s program in foreign policy and international security but also became more involved there as a professional actor and performer. My double life came to a head, and I needed to make a choice. Feeling the latter to be my true vocation, I left Washington for New York City and completed my training as an actor.
My initial break in New York came as a replacement for the lead role in the national touring production of West Side Story. When that contract ended, I decided to return home to Southern California and have primarily lived and worked here since in my “chosen” profession. I met my wife in a production at a small theater on the campus of Hollywood Presbyterian Church, my then-spiritual home. We were married in 2013 and our first home together was on Huntington Drive in South Pasadena; in 2018 we moved to our current location, within blocks of Church of Our Saviour. Our son Jack was born in 2019 and attended two years of preschool at A Child’s Garden School. He and I are often found in the late afternoons riding our bikes around the church campus and the adjacent cemetery paths.
My wife was raised Catholic, so we welcome Episcopal services on Sundays as a “compromise” between her traditions and my Presbyterian ones, and I have greatly enjoyed meeting many of the church leaders and stalwarts at the Monday morning men’s group meetings at Colonial Kitchen. We feel blessed to live in this wonderful neighborhood near this beautiful and historic church, and I’m happy to help in my small way to see its congregation thrive.
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