UUSS HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS

Time Line

Illustrations

Introductions and Acknowledgements

Foreword by the Reverend Doug Kraft

PART ONE: The First Half Century (1868-1915)

  1. Earliest Events in Sacramento

  2. Origins of the First Unitarian Church in Sacramento

  3. Sacramento Unitarian Church Revived (1887)

  4. A Sacramento Minister and a Church Service of 1889

  5. One Unitarian Week of Eighty Five Years Ago

  6. The 1892 Incorporation as the First Unitarian Society

  7. Sacramento Unitarians of the 1890s

  8. The Sacramento Society Enters the Twentieth Century

  9. Onward and Upward Forever (1912)

10. Church Building Plans and More Liberal Principles (1912)

11. Church Building, The Bold Venture of 1914

12. Completion of the Church Building (1915)

13. Symbol of the Past, Symbol of the Future (1915)

PART TWO: The Long Thirty Years (1915-1945)

14. World War I Years and the Return to Peace (1916-1921)

15. The Society in the Nineteen-Twenties

16. Robert E. Starkey (1927-1931)

17. The Storm Clouds Gather

18. The Depression Deepens

19. The Stockton Connection

20. Looking Back at the Era of 1936-1945

PART THREE: Transition into the Modern Sacramento Society

21. The Postwar Period

22. The Year of 1946

23. Theodore Curtis Abell’s Early Life

24. A Season of Disenchantment

25. Dominating Purpose

26. Progress Under the “Four-Year Plan”

27. The Church School Gets Its Own Building

PART FOUR: The House of a Thousand Windows — Building the New Church on Sierra Boulevard

28. Easter 1951

29. A Labor of Love

30. “The Way We Were” — 1951

31. The Idea: A New Church Building

32. A Summer’s Interlude

33. Gathering Momentum

34. The Proposed North Sacramento Site

35. Sierra Boulevard Site Chosen

36. Developing a Commitment

37. Raising the Money

38. The Structure Rises, 1959-1960

39. The Annual Meeting, 1960

40. Triumph and Tragedy

PART FIVE: The Sixties (1960-1970)

41. Autumn 1960

42. “Seating” the Minister

43. 1961 — The Year of the Church School

44. Easter 1962

45. Early Life of Ford Lewis

46. A Surprising Entrance into an Academic Career

47. Phyllis Gardner and Planned Parenthood

48. An Expanding Congregation

49. The Sacramento Unitarian Centennial Celebration (1968)

50. The Sixties: A Decade of Religious Education

51. An Overview of the 1960s Congregation

PART SIX: 1970-1984

52. Search for a New Minister

53. The New Minister

54. Administrative Structure of the Church

55. The Religious Education Program

56. Alliance

57. Forum

58. Servetus Club

59. Notes from the Unigram and Annual Reports

60. The Church Banners

61. Retreat of 1981

62. The Minister’s First Ten Years

63. Epilogue

Appendix

Biography of Rodney Cobb

Biography of Irma West, M.D

Publication History

Inside UUSS History

 

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