Howard and Flora McKinney. 1946-1949. Howard and Flora were pastors in Central City at the time that Kenneth and Mildred Mesner, and Warren and Selma Mesner were married. When they left Central City Howard went with AFSC to Gaza Palestine. When he came back, he worked with AFSC through 1956, from 1954 through 1956 as the Executive in the Regional Office in Des Moines. Sometime in the late 60's, Howard and Flora began to be active with Friends World Committee. They attended four of the Triennial Meetings over a span of 20 years or more, Sigtuna, Sweden; Ghatt, Switzerland; Kenya, and Mexico. By the time of the meeting in Mexico, they were serving as part time staff, which they did after Howard had retired. Somewhere over the years, he served as chairman on the FWCC Personnel Committee.
     The McKinneys were very much involved in establishing a Meeting when they lived in Charleston, West Virginia. And at different times, they each served a term as Clerk of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting. After moving to the Chicago area, both Howard and Flora were active in the Illinois Yearly Meeting. One year Flora gave the "Plumber Lecture".
     After Howard left AFSC at the end of 1956, the McKinneys weren't where they had much contact with AFSC until they moved to the Chicago area in 1973. Then they both became quite active in their programs. Flora was on the Executive committee and eventually became chairperson for the Region, and was very much in the long process when the Chicago and Dayton Regions were united. For one period of six months she was also the acting Director.
     Howard was the on Youth Committee, the Middle East Committee, Yearly Meeting Representative to the Corporation and some time on the Regional Executive Committee.
     After they moved to their new location in New Jersey in 1988, Howard was on the FGC Central Committee and at one point was on both Finance and Personnel Committee. For a number of years they visited Yearly Meetings for either FWCC or FGC.
     Currently he is a Yearly Meeting Representative to AFSC Corporation, serves on the Committee for Retirement, and both Howard and Flora have served on the Committee to establish an AFSC project in their area for Community Peace Training.
     Howard is also on the Yearly Meeting Personnel Committee. He is a member of Pendle Hill General Board and serves on their Resident Life Committee.
     A year ago he gave up the position of clerk of Haddonfield Meeting, a position he had served for five years.

Willis Srack (Interim). 1949-1950.

Lindley J. and Corona (Rayle) Cook and their son, Ralph. 1950-1971. Lindley and Corona Cook came to Central City Friends in August, 1950, after serving the Friends in Portland, Maine for 21 years. Lindley was here for 21 years also. Both were active in community as well as the Meeting. Lindley worked as a painter to earn extra money and worked to improve the Meetinghouse in any way that was needed. He and Henry Schutz did many projects together. For several years he and Corona also served the Arborville Congregational church over by Polk, and encouraged the two church to do things together. They joined choirs at Christmas for a few years and had joint picnics. Lindley retrieved old bricks and wood from Hord Hall and built a nice home in the south part of Central City.
     Corona was one of the organizers when the Merrick County Church Women came into being in Merrick County, and was very active with several Friends women to support her. She put the children of the Sunday School in the limelight several times a year, and it seemed to give them a sense of confidence and stage presence that many young children don't have.
     Corona's mother, Mrs. Rayle, came to live with them for a time until her death. Both Corona and Lindley were only children and they had the one son, Ralph.
     After Corona's death, Lindley sold their house and moved to Arborville to live for a time. Later he did some buying and trading so instead of the old parsonage the Meeting owns the house east on the same block.

James and Elizabeth Newby. 1971-1973. James came to the Central City Meeting from Wichita, Kansas to decide if he really wanted to go into the ministry. His father, Richard Newby, was well known to Friends as a minister. James and Elizabeth (Liz) went to Richmond, Indiana from Central City, where James attended the Earlham School of Religion. Now James is in Des Moines serving a Congregational Church, but still carrying the Yoke of Fellowship that Elton Trueblood had started. Both James and Elizabeth Newby have become writers. They have one daughter, Alicia. The Newbys served the Central City Friends Meeting from 1971-1973.
     Elizabeth came from a migrant family and has written and talked about the life of migrants One of her books is Migrant with Hope.

Gordon Harris. 1973-1977. Gordon came to the Central City Meeting when he graduated from the Earlham School of Religion. In 1974, Gordon attended the Sioux Falls area meeting. He worked on the movement of Native Americans for Justice in 1975, and attended the trials of Russell Means after Wounded Knee as an observer. He went to Washington, D.C. later and took care of his parents, who were in poor health. His father had Huntington's Disease and Gordon helped him until his death. Now Gordon is living in Maine afflicted with the same disease. He has a large support group from Friends as well as an organization specifically to support those with Huntington's Disease. The last report indicated that new medicines were helping him.

Delano and Ardis Cunningham. 1977-1984. Delano and Ardis came to Central City Friends as a tentmaker minister. While Don and Barbara Reeves were living in the east while Don worked with FCNL, Delano and Ardis resided in the Reeves house and Delano worked with Neil Mesner on the farm. After a few years they moved to Palmer and served the Methodist church there with 2 other churches, then moved to Wallace to serve Methodist churches there. They have kept their membership with Friends. The couple is retiring the end of June, 1999. They hope to travel.

(No picture)   Beth Zuehlke. 1986-1988. Beth, James and their sons, James Eric and Matthew first came to Central City Friends, they traveled 56 miles from Rockville. They were approved for membership in 1982. In 1986, Beth was given the title of Ministering Secretary. When Beth, James and their two sons, left Central City, they went to Richmond, Indiana so Beth could enter the Earlham School of Religion. She has served a few churches around Indiana, then the family moved to Goldsboro, N.C. where she is now the pastor. James works with the young people and does a very good job in that area of church work.

Lloyd Boyce. 1989 Lloyd serves as pastor of the Chapman Baptist Church and has served the Central City Friends Meeting as a part-time pastor since 1989, also. He also represents the meeting in the Ministerial Alliance, taking a turn with devotions, Bible studies and church services at Long Term Care, Integrated Health Services and Merrick Manor. Even though Lloyd is a Baptist, he has studied Friends works enough to give the Meeting some good Quaker sermons. He, his wife Mickey, and their two daughters, Amanda and Rebecca live at Chapman.