Peter Arfaa

Peter Arfaa has been a principal architect in Philadelphia for over 40 years, and he brings to the Board decades of experience in business and educational leadership as tenured professor, department head, professional lecturer, and board member. He served as the Chairman of the Drexel University Department of Architecture for over 10 years and was the Director of the American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia Chapter for 5 years. In addition to being the principal architect of his firm, Peter F. Architects, P.C., Mr. Arfaa has served on the Board of Directors for many local organizations such as Stapley of Germantown, University City Arts League, Stratford Friends School, Lansdowne Friends School, Friends Central School as well experience as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Wagner Free Institute, National Council of Architectural Registration Mid Atlantic Region Board, Middle East Forum. Peter is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and lives in Philadelphia with his wife Anne.

Evelyn Eskin

Evelyn Eskin and her husband David Major began their life together in Center City and always planned to return. After raising their three daughters in West Mt. Airy, they moved back to Center City in 1996. Evelyn is President of HealthPower Associates, which provides medical practice management, consulting, planning, and educational services to health care professionals and organizations. Her current work includes teaching health care administration, health policy, and topics related to medical practice management at colleges, universities and health care organizations. She has a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Evelyn is active in many professional and community organizations, and is currently serving on the Boards of the Wanamaker House, the Germantown Jewish Centre, the Health Careers Academy, and the Picasso Project of the Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth.

Margaret W. Harkins

Margaret W. Harkins (Meg) and her husband John retired to Old City Philadelphia five years ago.  For twenty-two years they lived in Germantown, where they raised two children and joined the Germantown Monthly Meeting.  After sixteen years as  librarian and Director of Admissions at Friends Select School, Meg spent eleven years with the University of Pennsylvania where she was Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at the Graduate School of Education.  Meg currently serves on the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Education Standing Committee, volunteers at the Philadelphia Art Museum, and works at the American Friends Service Committee Archives on a part-time basis.

Mary Anne Hunter

Mary Anne lives and works in Center City where she has her own landscape design firm. With Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, she has non-profit and public management experience in human resources, organization and program development. Currently she serves as the president of the Fair Hill Burial Ground Corporation, which has restored and manages an historic site in North Philadelphia. She also serves on the Boards of Awbury Arboretum Association and City Parks Association. Mary Anne and Jack raised two children in center city; Anne, a family practice physician in Chestnut Hill, and Ross, a state legislator in Medina, Washington. They have two grandchildren on the west coast and one in Philadelphia.

Tony is an architect and a writer who lives and works in Center City.  He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a B.Arch from MIT, a Diploma in Architecture from the Ecole Americaine Des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France, and Masters degrees in Architecture and City Planning from Penn’s Graduate School of Fine Arts.  He has taught at Penn, Columbia, NC State, and Moore College of Art.  He is on the boards of Friends Select School and the Octavia Hill Association.  He is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends.  Tony and his wife Lee have three children and four grandchildren living in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Texas. This summer, Tony's first novel, Tunnel's Boys, was published by iUniverse.

John Lloyd

John is a principal of Tower Bridge Advisors, where he is a member of the investment committee and serves as a portfolio manager.  John founded his own investment counsel firm in 1971, which he sold to Tower Bridge in 2001.  He holds a BA from Wesleyan University, an MBA from Drexel University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).  He is a member of the board of Overbrook School for the Blind, and Woodland Cemetery.  He has served as board chair at Overbrook, Woodland, and at St. Peter’s School in Center City.  He is a long time member of St. Peter’s Church and a past vestry member.  John and his wife Florry have four children and five grandsons.

Ted Reed

Ted and his wife Dianne moved to center city four years ago after living in Mount Airy for 25 years. Ted heads a center city based marketing research firm, reed | group and is also a partner in Small Business Research Center (the nation’s most comprehensive database of small business expenditures) and LibertyPoll, a Philadelphia region omnibus polling service. During his time in Mt. Airy Ted helped to found and was the long term board president of Mt. Airy, USA the successful non-profit community development corporation in Mt. Airy. He also serves on the board of Cliveden of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has been instrumental in bringing the Trust’s new nationally focused community revitalization program to Philadelphia (to be housed at Cliveden). Ted and Dianne, between them, have four children scattered across the region and the country.

Henrietta Roberts

Henrietta Roberts, BA, MA, recently retired from over 45 years as a health care administrator. For the past 23 years, Henrietta was Executive Director of Stapeley in Germantown, a Quaker retirement community in Philadelphia. She currently serves on several boards of directors, including Northwest Victims Services, Center in the Park, and the Safety Committee for Abington Memorial Hospital. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. A proud mother of three grown children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, Henrietta lives in Willow Grove.

Neville Strumpf

Neville is the Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.  She was the director of the Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program, ranked first nationally in U.S. News & World Report.  Currently, she directs the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence and the Center of Gerontologic Nursing Science.  Neville is a widely acclaimed researcher, known among other things for her work with the frail elderly, palliative care in nursing homes, and falls prevention among inner city elderly.  She has received numerous honors for her contributions to the field of gerontology, and is the author and co-author of more than 100 articles, book chapters and books.  Neville lives in Center City.

Jane Unkefer, Board Secretary

Jane Miller Unkefer, a native of Utica, New York, came to the Philadelphia area to attend Bryn Mawr College. After graduation she spent several years in New York City where she worked as a researcher and assistant to a Senior Editor. Marriage to Tom in 1962 brought her back to Center City and eventually to her alma mater where she worked, first as Director of Annual Giving and then, for over 12 years, as Executive Director of the Alumnae Association. Jane currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Norris Square Neighborhood Project and The Quadrangle. She is a member and past president of the Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia, and formerly served on the board of the Associated Services for the Blind. She is co-clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Development Services Working Group.

R. Thomas Unkefer

Tom and his wife, Jane, have lived in the Franklin Institute area of Center City Philadelphia for 35 years where they raised their three children.  He is a professional engineer and commercial building contractor.  During his career he has managed the construction of several multiple occupancy buildings for independent and assisted living for the elderly and for health care.  Tom is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School.  He is a past-president of the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia and the General Contractors Association of Pennsylvania.  Currently he is a board member of the Associated Services for the Blind, Jeanes Hospital and the Logan Square Neighborhood Association.  Both he and Jane belong to the Arch Street Friends Meeting where he serves as the chair of the Finance Committee.

Richard Wolgin, Board Treasurer

A lifelong resident of Center City Philadelphia, Richard graduated from Friends' Select School and Penn State University.  He is a licensed real estate salesperson whose principal focus is Center City.  He began his career as a real estate developer in Cuernava, Mexico, building vacation complexes for the local population.  Upon returning to the US, he entered the medical administrative field, serving as executive director of the South Philadelphia Medical Group, a multi-specialty medical group allied with the Albert Einstein Medical Center-Daroff Division that served over 50,000 patients at six locations.  For several years, he was co-owner of the Webb Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of advertising specialty items.  In 1992, Richard returned to the medical consultant industry with Transitional Hospital Corporation, developing transitional care facilities nationwide.  He is currently still active in real estate.

Jeanne Simon Angell

Jeanne Simon Angell is our part-time Project Coordinator. She is currently working on publicity, membership development, fundraising, data management and web site maintenance. She has a B.A. from Earlham College and a M.S.S. from the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research. She and her husband, Sam, are members of Germantown Monthly Meeting. They are raising three lively boys.