Meet the Interim Pastor

This summer we welcomed the Rev. Peter W. Sipple who will serve as interim pastor from now until a newly appointed rector joins St. Nick's. Rev. Sipple and his wife Margaret moved to Cornwall-on-Hudson several years ago after careers in education and the ministry.  After earning a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, Peter taught at Wellesley College, then headed three Church-related independent schools, the Oregon Episcopal School; Salisbury School, Salisbury, CT; and Moravian Academy in Bethlehem, PA. Ordained in 1974, Peter served as interim rector at two parishes in and near Philadelphia  before being invited back to the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr PA as Rector. Leaving that post in 2009, Peter and Margaret found their home along the Hudson where he has enjoyed getting to know the parishes of the northern part of our Diocese.  Along the way Peter directed the development programs at Yale Divinity School and Episcopal Community Services in Philadelphia, and enjoyed a year’s sabbatical at Yale's Institute of Sacred Music. In 2007 he and Margaret received honorary doctorates from the seminary they attended, Church Divinity School of the Pacific.  Peter very much looks forward to more beautiful worship and happy times with the people of St. Nick’s.

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Meet the Organist and Choir Director

Dan Fannon is a very recent transplant (summer 2015) to New Hamburg from New York City, where he served as organist and choir director in several Episcopal churches, including St. Mary-the-Virgin Manhattan, St. Paul's Staten Island, and Grace Church Nyack. He has completed graduate studies in orchestral conducting at the Guildhall School of Music, London, and the Akadamie fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, and holds a Master's degree in conducting from the Mozartuem, Salzburg. 

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​Meet the Parish Administrator

Dana Rowinski has been Parish Administrator at St. Nick's since fall 2014. Dana is a long-time Wappingers (and Beacon) resident, with a background in bookkeeping and administration. She comes to us most recently from the Martin Luther King Center in Beacon, where she oversaw their payroll and bookkeeping systems. At St. Nick's, she is in charge of all the day-to-day operations of the office, from website maintenance to organizing readers and servers for Sunday services. Dana can be reached during the week at: stnicholasnewhamburg@gmail.com or 845-297-2010.

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Additional Staff
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Carolyn Mangini, bookkeeper
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The Vestry
The St. Nick's Vestry is its Board, and is responsible for the finances and physical plant.  The vestry meets every second Wednesday of the month, 7 - 8:30 pm.

Wardens (Chairs)
Paul Curran (Senior Warden)
(Junior Warden)


Class of 2017 
Paul Bruening 
Jack Devine
Melanie Hexel

Class of 2018
Mary Hornbeck
Paul Curran
Janine Gauzza

Class of 2019
Ed Sayago
Sue Blodgett
Greg Freeman

Class of 2020
Christine Ackerly
Jack Parry
Debra Evans