RCD names new board members

Chuck MarLett and Linda Moore were elected by current board members to join the Resource Center Dallas board of directors during the board’s monthly meeting on Monday, Aug. 2.
MarLett is a former vice president and associate general counsel for AMR Corporation, the parent company of Fort Worth-based American Airlines. He was one of the founders of the airline’s LGBT resource group, GLEAM, and served as its senior officer advisor.
MarLett is also a former co-chair of the board for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, was a founding member and director of the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Dallas and served on the boards Dallas Summer Musicals and Dallas Theater Center. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh, an MBA from Wharton and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Moore is a former board member of the center who served on the center’s finance committee for five years and was board president from October 2005 to March 2008. She is also the co-chair of the center’s capital campaign.
Moore is a commercial litigation attorney with K&L Gates in Dallas and also served as a board member for Elder Power. Her passion for cocker spaniels led her to serve in several board positions for the American Spaniel Club and American Spaniel Club Foundation, and a black cocker spaniel she owns is currently one of the top 10 dogs in the country.

Gramick to speak in Dallas

Sister Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministries, and Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministries executive director, will be the featured guest speakers about the movement for equality for LGBT people in society and the Catholic Church on Wednesday, Aug. 11, from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., at Resource Center Dallas, 2701 Reagan St.
Gramick, who joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the 1960s, obtained her masters degree from the Catholic school in 1969 and later earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. While there, Gramick became friends with a gay man, and that friendship led her to begin ministries within the church for lesbians and gays.
Gramick eventually helped create three organizations for lesbian and gay Catholics, including, with Fr. Robert Nugent, New Ways Ministries.
However, in 2000 after more than 20 years of working with the LGBT community, Gramick was ordered by the School Sisters of Notre Dame — under orders from the Vatican’s Congregation For the Doctrine of Faith, which accused Gramick of having made grave doctrinal errors — to end her work and not speak publicly on LGBT issues.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 6, 2010.