Rev. Mulac was born in Salem, Ohio on December 6, 1944, a “cradle Episcopalian” living with her parents and brother in Alliance, Ohio until moving to Evanston, Illinois in 1952. Her eight years older brother, Tony, wanted to study organ with the renowned Tom Matthews, so the family joined St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston. Pam was confirmed in third grade and sang in the choir and was involved in both Sunday school and the youth group.
After attending Bryn Mawr College for two years, she transferred to the University of Chicago and graduated with an A.B. majoring in psychology. While considering a Ph.D. in clinical psychology or a Ph.D. in personality and theology, she broke from academia for a few years dancing with the Lyric Opera Ballet, modeling/narrating at auto shows, and acting in a few commercials. In the midst of this work, she felt called to pursue some kind of pastoral counseling ministry and enrolled at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary graduating in their first class to include women, with a M.Div in 1974 fulfilling dual concentrations in New Testament and pastoral psychology. She was ordained a deacon in 1974, through the auspices of the Diocese of Chicago, and a priest in 1978, through the auspices of the Diocese of Western Michigan, as the standing committee of Chicago could not support the ordination of a female during this early period. Following two years as a hospital chaplain and assisting at her home parish of St. Luke’s, she entered Garrett/Northwestern in their interdisciplinary doctoral program in pastoral psychology. In the fall of 1984, Pam moved to the Los Angeles area for a position in pastoral psychotherapy. Newly divorced in California, she was geographically closer to her parents and brother in Santa Barbara and also able to serve as a priest in Upland under the son of the Bishop who priested her—Charles E. Bennison, jr. She remarried the Methodist Rev. George Larsen,Ed. D., completed her dissertation receiving a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and served various churches including All Saints, Pasadena under George Regas. After several successful interim rector positions in La Canada-Flintridge, Apple Valley, and Riverside, Pam was selected as the rector of St. Stephen’s in Whittier, CA. Always a welcoming parish, under Pam’s leadership the parish developed an integrated yearly cycle of liturgical, fellowship, and educational events. During her tenure as rector, Pam also taught Pastoral Care and Counseling at the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont, served on the Council of the Diocese, and was Dean of her deanery. She has been a national reader for the Episcopal Church’s General Ordination Examination (a national exam taken by most candidates for ordination) for seven years. Before coming to St. Alban’s she served as interim vicar at St. Paul’s in Winslow, and assisted at St. Luke’s, in her current home town of Prescott.