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From our occasional series:
"Who’s in the Pew?!"
our incoming Senior Warden,
Tusi Mayer
By Jean Steele
Tusi Mayer was born in American Samoa on Christmas Day. She has had a dual career: 31 years as a flight attendant and almost as long as an oncology nurse. She met her husband, John, when she was assigned to write a paper about Pacific Islanders practicing Western medicine. She got off to a rough start with John when she mistook him for another student, not a member of the faculty.
But by the Fourth of July that year, there were fireworks for them both and their long marriage ensued. Tusi reports that John is a “walking encyclopedia” and a great storyteller. Both he and their two sons like to “pull her leg,” making her life like Saturday Night Live, she laughs.
Tusi has been teaching Sunday School at Holy Nativity for 32 years. Almost the entire time, she has
partnered with Chandi Hinrichs. She remembers when there were many more children and they
produced chancel dramas using beautiful costumes and other props lent by the HNS music teacher. The
children enacted stories of Noah’s Ark, Jonah and the Whale, Creation and the Ten Commandments, etc.
When Reverend Libby asked Tusi to be senior warden, Tusi reports that Reverend was very eloquent! Tusi said she would pray about it. She says God whispered in her ear “You are ready.” She looks forward to the new opportunities to serve God, her family, the Church and the community.
Hoping for new possibilities, she quotes the song
“It only takes a spark to get a fire going!”
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