Daryl has quietly been steering the administrative side of St. Francis de Sales parish for 20 years! Joining the parish with his wife Geri in December of 1996, he was asked by Father Dave Braun to Co-Chair the Finance committee right off the bat in 1997. He has also been the Treasurer Trustee on and off since 2002 (often stepping up when someone could not serve), and, after taking a break from 2006 to 2012, he is currently serving our parish in that capacity.
Daryl has been the catalyst for setting up many systems within our parish to create more efficient accounting, including Quick Books and Excel. He has conducted stewardship surveys and extracts information from the parish database for mailings and other studies. He created a system for invoicing tuitions. He was a tremendous help in establishing our Parish email database. He works with the finance committee on the parish budget and watches carefully for trends or issues. He works carefully with our office manager on all types of data entering and analysis.
Most recently he served on the Project 2017 committee and is a consultant in the School Choice program. Daryl has a degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University, but his career took him down the business management path. What you might not know is that Daryl is also a very talented woodworker, and has donated this “talent” to SFDS as well.
His projects include the cabinet in the sacristy, the corner table in the conference room, the window in the confessional door, the sink area in the sacristy, the sacrarium, and more. His most recent creation was to modify the Hymn board (that he originally built in 2006) with a drawer at the bottom to hold all of the number cards—genius!
Thank you Daryl for all that you do for our parish! We so appreciate all of your hard work in keeping St. Francis de Sales technologically up to date and for all of your beautiful woodwork donations. Most of all, we appreciate your steady support—always with a smile!