USCMA New Board Members 


Two new USCMA Board members were elected during the Annual Meeting at University of Notre Dame in October 2006. Below are the introductions of the newly- elected Board members. Their terms will begin at the March 2007 Board meeting in Washington, DC.

Sr. Flotilda Lape, ICM

Sr. Flotilda Lape belongs to the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary (ICM). She has an extensive cross-cultural and mission experience. She
is in the national leadership team of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary (ICM) and a member of the regional Core team of the Americas for
the same community. Sr. Flotida or Tellie, has been a missionary to the US since
1994. She worked in different parishes along the Texas-Rio Grande border,
reaching out to young people in the colonias, giving leadership training,
community organizing, and spiritual formation. At present she is the Executive
Director of Proyecto Desarollo Humano, a community project along the borders
of the Rio Grande valley in Texas that focuses on formation of healthy families
and empowerment of lay people, particularly women and children. The Center
promotes total human development that includes economic, educational, health
and spiritual concerns. Prior to coming to the US as a missionary, she has worked
in formation, vocation promotion, school administration and pastoral ministry.

She has a global perspective in that she has been involved in many national and
international meetings of her congregation. Sr. Tellie holds a Bachelor’s degree
in Elementary education with a Master’s degree in School Administration and
Supervision, Special Education and some studies in counseling, spiritual
direction and pastoral ministry.

Sr. Tellie comes from a family of ten that has produced one diocesan priest, one
missionary priest in Papua New Guinea, and she, a religious missionary sister.

Sr. Mayon Sylvain, RSM

Sr. Mayon Sylvain of Guyana has been living and serving in the USA since 1987.
She is a graduate of College Misericordia, Dallas, PA, where she received her
BSN degree and holds an MPH from Boston University. Sister Mayon is
completing her second four year term as a member of the Leadership Team,
Sisters of Mercy, Dallas, PA.

Sister Mayon is actively involved in organizational redesign, merger integration,
building partnerships with other organizations and sponsor relationships with
non-profit organizations. Other experiences include recruiting of personnel for
international services and securing supplies as requested, review and
recommendation of requests for funding, and evaluation of programs and services.

Sister Mayon is a member of the Advisory Committee, Women with Children
Program, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA; National Black Sisters Conference;
Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing; a member of the Board
of Directors, Catherine McCauley Center (temporary and permanent housing for
women and children), College Misericordia, and Mercy Center Nursing Unit. Her
responsibilities on the Leadership Team include that of liaison to Mercy
Hospital, Georgetown, Guyana.

Sister Mayon has served as a staff nurse, Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre, PA, and
Assistant Administrator, St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, Guyana, South America;
Project Coordinator, Shared Care Health connection, Dept. of Health and
Hospitals, Boston, MA; Community Assessment Coordinator, Mercy Hospital,
Wilkes Barre, PA and developed and directed HealthSPAN (neighborhood
programs for low-income families of Wilkes Barre and Scranton, PA).

Sister Mayon was a member of the Board of Directors of United Way of Luzerne
County, PA, and Mercy Hospital, Scranton, PA, and a member of the Advisory
Board, Human Services Office, Luzerne County, PA.

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