JEAN ANN HITE Résumé, April 2012 440 W. 21st Street, Box 211 New York, NY 10011 Cell Phone: (239) 980-0912 Email: [email protected] Objective: To obtain a position as a rector or an assistant/associate rector or curate, focusing on reconciliation, teaching and preaching, liturgy and worship, formation and pastoral care Present Status: Transitional Deacon, Episcopal Diocese of SW Florida • Student, The General Theological Seminary (New York City), Class of 2012, Master of Divinity degree program Work Experience: 2011-Present St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, New York, NY: Seminarian Intern • Preaching • Liturgical Diaconal Ministry • Spiritual director 2010–Present The Church of the Epiphany, New York, NY: Seminarian Intern • Adult Education: Class content design and facilitation • Quiet Day Meditations • Liturgical Diaconal Ministry and Evening Prayer Officiant • Preaching • Office and web-site consultation Summer 2011 St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Marco Island, FL: Seminarian Intern • Camp Able (summer camp for disabled children) • Vacation Bible School • Preaching • Pastoral care seminars Summer 2010 Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater, FL: Clinical Pastoral Education • Hospital Chaplain 2006-2009 St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Bonita Springs, FL: Lay Leadership • Establishment and leadership of Taizé worship • Morning and Evening Prayer Officiant; Lay Reader and Leader • Preaching (weekend Eucharists, Taizé, weekday Eucharists) • Pastoral care representation - Bentley Village, Naples • Nursing home ministry • Lay Eucharistic and Visitation ministry • Healing prayer ministry • Alpha Program • Centering Prayer and Garden Meditation, foundation and facilitation • Retreat leader (Lent and Advent Quiet Days and retreat leader) • Prayer class instructor (curriculum development and facilitator) • EFM mentor and theological reflection facilitator • Cursillo team worker and speaker • Commission memberships: Christian Formation; Worship • Vestry nominating committee and secretarial work • Substitute office administrator - 1 - JEAN ANN HITE Résumé, April 2012 2004-2006 • United Way of Lee County, Florida (Allocations) • After school tutoring – migrant workers’ camp • Tutoring; Lee County (Florida) Literacy Council 2005-2006 Postulancy/Novitiate (monastic): Julian House Monastery, Order of Julian of Norwich, Waukesha, WI • Liturgy • Sacristan • Publications 1979 - 2004 David Hite, Inc. (Columbus, OH; Englewood, NJ: Ft. Myers, FL) • Co-founder and President of a small business dedicated to: the design and production of quality clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces for professionals and students; and custom instrument and mouthpiece modification for professional musicians • Administration and office management • Advertising, publicity • Wholesale and retail distribution • Web-site design and maintenance 1981 – 1984 ClariNetwork International • Co-founder of a non-profit organization that sponsored clarinet conferences and published news and educational information for clarinetists • Editor, ClariNetwork Magazine • Conference advertising and promotion 1983 – 2004 Master class instructor & recitalist (misc. colleges and universities) 1976 – 1981 Freelance musician (Columbus, OH) 1972 – 1979 Private clarinet and piano instructor (Columbus, OH) ___________________________________________________________ Prior Education: 1968 – 1972 Logan (Ohio) High School, Valedictorian 1972 – 1976 Capital University (Columbus, Ohio), cum laude, Bachelor of Music Education (K – 12 certification) 1976 – 1978 The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), cum laude, Master of Music 2004 – 2008 School of Theology, University of the South (Sewanee, Tennessee): Education for Ministry (graduate & mentor certification) Publications: 2000 – 2005 Southern Music Company (compiler and editor of educational studies in music) Memberships, Affiliations, Conferences: • Order of St. Luke (facilitator certification) • Fellowship of the Love of God (Sisters of the Love of God, Oxford, U.K.) • Friends of Benedict (Benedictine Experiences; Anglican pilgrimage, England and Wales) • Contemplative Outreach (retreats and training, Sarasota, FL; Sewanee, TN) • Cathedral College, National Cathedral, Washington D.C. - 2 - JEAN ANN HITE Résumé, April 2012 440 W. 21st Street, Box 211 New York, NY 10011 Cell Phone: (239) 980-0912 Email: [email protected] Supplemental Résumé (with a focus on professional life and work experience prior to 2006) Work Experience: 1968 - 1972 • Church Organist • Sunday School and Vacation Bible School teacher (Kline Memorial United Methodist Church, Hocking County, Ohio) • Summer Church Camp Counselor (United Methodist Church) 1972 - 1976 • Established and maintained a private studio as an instructor of clarinet and piano (students grades 1 through 9) • Freelance musician (performing band, symphony and chamber music) 1976 - 2004 Co-founder and President of David Hite, Inc. (DHI) , a small business dedicated to the design and production of clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces and custom instrument modification. DHI was founded as a subchapter S corporation in 1979, later converted to Subchapter C. DHI Trademarks: J&D HITE and PREMIERE by HITE. DHI Patents: J&D HITE clarinet ligature. DHI number of employees: 4 My responsibilities in this entrepreneurial enterprise included: − Administration and office management − Financial and tax preparation including payroll/withholding tax, sales tax records and filing − Advertising and publicity (included establishing and publishing an educational newsletter with a circulation of 3500, as well as national magazine ads, etc.) − Establishing an international retail and wholesale distribution network (major wholesale distributors were the G. Leblanc Corporation, Kenosha, WI in the U.S.A.; Bill Lewington Ltd., London in the U.K.; Lohff & Pfeiffer, Denmark in Europe; misc. distributors in Australia and New Zealand) − Establishing a web presence (beginning in 1994); design and maintenance of “The Hite Site” David Hite, Inc. was sold in 2005 to the J.J. Babbitt Co., Elkhart, Indiana - 3 - JEAN ANN HITE Résumé, April 2012 1981 – 1984 Co-founder of ClariNetwork InterNational, a non-profit organization that sponsored national/international clarinet educational conferences and published news and educational information for student, amateur and professional clarinetists. My responsibilities in this non-profit enterprise included: − Obtaining sponsorship and advertising from corporate sources − Recruiting and organizing volunteers for conferences − Founder and editor of the professional journal ClariNetwork (including contracting printers and distribution network; journal design and production; budgeting; hiring and recruiting writers; overseeing advertising sales) ClariNetwork InterNational merged with the International Clarinet Society in 1988. 1986 - 1991 • Member of Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Ft. Myers, Florida • Member of the Calussa Chamber Players, Ft. Myers, Florida 1983 - 2004 Master class instructor & recitalist (misc. colleges and universities on the East Coast of the U.S.) ___________________________________________________________ Memberships, Affiliations, Conferences: • NAMM – National Association of Music Manufacturers • MENC – Music Educators National Convention • OMEA – Ohio Music Education Association • American Federation of Musicians’ Union (Local 103, Columbus, Ohio) • The Columbus Museum of Art • The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (professional and financial supporter) - 4 - .