Morris Library Special Collections
Addresses and to the Unitarian Fellowship and Other Items, from 1958
Russ Trimble has preserved talks and sermons at Sunday services, along with other miscellaneous items, from 1958 until the present. These include complete versions of the talks summarized in the Talk Sampler for the years 1952 to 1978. These addresses to the Fellowship are in the Special Collections division of Morris Library, and are listed as Collection 103. A description of this collection can be viewed at http://www.lib.siu.edu/spcol/manus_guide.htm#U.
Russ Trimble's notes list the following as included in Special Collection 103 :
Material to Morris Library Special Collections
Unitarian Fellowship of Carbondale for 1999/2000 Year
1. File of Bulletins and Programs from 07/11/99 through 06/18/00
2. CUF Links (monthly newsletter) Late Summer 1999 to Summer 2000 (11)
3. Minutes of Board Meetings 08/01/99, 09/07/99. 10/05/99, 11/02/99,
11/30/99, 01/11/00, 02/03/00,
03/02/00, 04/06/00, 05/04/00 and Treasurer's Report 11/02/99 and 05/04/00.
4. Miscellaneous
5. Assorted nespaper clippings about, or mentioning, Fellowship and
Fellowship members.
6. Typescript of "Fellowship: The First Twenty-five Years ." with
editorial
changes.
6. Material from Chris Moe (separate listing).
7. Talks (sermons) given between 8/8/99 and 6/11/00 By Bill Sasso unless
otherwise attributed
8/8/99 Roy Sumner, Report: General Assembly, 1999
8/15 Sharing Our Ministry
8/22 Ed Heist, Joan Juul, Mary Campbell, Peter Ruger, Why I Became a
Unitarian
8/29 Sharing Our Faith
9/5 Solidarity Forever
9/19 Carbondale in Harmiony: Real or Ideal?
9/26 The Covenantal Relationship
10/3 Love and Hatred
10/10 Meanings of Worship
10/17 To Grow More Deeply
10/31 The Universalist Message Today
11/7 Jack Haywars, A Unitarian Creationism
11/14 Uniting for Social Justice
11/28 Converstions With the Bible
12/5 Lighting the Flaming ChaliceTaking Time
Bill Sasso's ordination
David Bumbaugh, The Minister, the Church, and the State
12/12 Ken Starbuck, Joys & Responsibilities in a Multi-Faith Community
1/2/00 Keith Kron, The Van Gogh Café
1/9 Taking Time
1/16 Lillian Adams, John & Beverly Howie, Jane Adams, Sharing Stories
of
the Struggle
1/23 The Parable of the Talents
Kelley Dinsmore, The Welcoming Congregation
2/6 That All May Be Welcome
2/13 Renewing Our Vows
2/20 Chris Moe & Bob Mueller, Questing Humanity and the Universe
2/27 Carla Feldhamer, Nancy Ringler, JoAnn Nelson, Bob Camp, Ann Ruger, &
JoAnne Johnson, Sharing Our Own Beliefs
3/5 Courage to Teach
3/12 Money and the Meaning of Life
3/26 David Clarke, Buddhism and the Eternal
4/2 Lillian Adams, Fundamentalism: A Feminist Perspective
4/9 A Vision of Community
4/16 Carbondale Clean and Green
4/23 The Resurrection of Life
4/30 Jack Hatward, Was Mine "The Greatest Generation"?
5/7 Gowing Pains
5/14 Sandy Charlson, A Perspective on Motherhood
5/21 The State of the Fellowship [missing]
6/11 Kim Magwire, Reclaiming Christianity
Unitarian Fellowship Material from Chris Moe
Material from playreadings:
1.How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Crossing, by Christian Moe and Cameron
Garbutt, adapted from a
story by Bret Harte 12/05/93
2. Why the Lord Came to Sand Mountain by Romulus Linney. 04/25/93
3. Letter about reading of A Christmas Carol. 12/11/??
4. Program for The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by J. Lawrence and R. Lee.
05/03/87
5. Celebration of Spring in Shakespeare. 04/26/81
TALKS
Undated (but early 1960's)
1. Thaddeus Clark, The Church: Dead and Deathless
2. Henry Nelson Wieman, Why the Church?
3. Maybelle Moore, Unitarianism and Youth
4. D.E. Tollefson, Bill Potter, Nancy Rice, Terry Bloss, Sylvia Brooks, and
Cynthia Lean, Family Problems: A Teenage Point of View
5. William Henry Harris, The Nature and Conditions of Interfaith Dialogue
6. " Christian Contribution to Interfaith Dialogue
7. Ellsworth M. Smith, The Importance of Being Human
8. S. Morris Eames, The Lost Individual and Religious Unity
1965
1. 01/10. William Henry Harris, Human Values and the Technological Revolution
2. 01/24. Don Ihde, A Philosophy of Work
3. 01/31. George T. McClure, Religious Implications of Social Inevitability
4. 02/14. Will Gay Bottje, Men, Music, and Machines
5. 02/21. J. Joseph Leonard, What Brave New World?
6. 02/28. Richard and Paula Franklin, Aftermath of a Revolution
7. 03/14. Henry Nelson Wieman, Memorial for James Reeb
8. 03/21. Richard E. Richman, Responsible Politicians and Irresponsible
Citizens
9. 04/04. Rev. Webster Kitchell, Life, Death, Ceremony, and Economics
10. 04/25. John G. Martire, Humanism and Mental Health
11. 05/02. George McClure, Ugliness and Morality
12. 06/06. Edward Adams, Using Our Abundance
1964
1. 01/19. Noble Kelley, Moral Values and Human Nature
2. 01/26. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Introduction to Religion in an Age of Science
3. 02/16, Dr. Bernard Loomer, The Place of the Institution of the Church
(outline only)
4. 02/??. Henry Nelson Wieman, The Role of Institutional Religion in the
Contemporary World (conclusions and comments)
5. 03/01. David E. Christensen, Space Men and Liberal Religion
6. 04/05. Gemma Amare, The Impact of Western Culture on Ethiopia
7. 10/18. Willis Moore, The Liberal Perspective and Our Times
8. 10/25. Rev. John W. Brigham, The Religious Component of Human Freedom
9. 11/01. Henry Nelson Wieman, The Idea of God
10. 11/08. Harold P. Marley, In Place of God: The Alternative of Humanism
11. 11/15. William Henry Harris, God and the Sacredness of Persons
12. 11/22. John Childs, Is Dr, Wieman's God Dispensable?
13. 11/29. Wieman Replies to Dr. Childs' Criticism
14. 12/06. Noble Kelley, Reverence and Commitment - to What?
15. 12/20. J. Joseph Leonard, Service for Christmas Season
1963
1. 01/13. Paula Franklin, Till Death Do Us Part
2. 04/21. George Axtelle, Christening of Eric Dean Tollefson and Leigh Ellen
Frazier
3. 11/24. Henry Nelson Wieman, The Power of a Silent Voice (memorial service
for John F, Kennedy)
4. 11/29. Morton Kenner, The Changing of the Guard
1962
1. 09/30. Willis Moore, New Morals for a New World
2. 11/18. Rev. Kenneth C. Walker, Liberalism and Church Unity
1961
1. 01/08. Wesley K. Morgan, Aesthetics and Unitarianism
Existentialism: A Colloquium
2. 02/19. Henry Nelson Wieman, What is the Meaning of Existentialism?
3. 02/26. Charles Blinderman, The Pleasures of the Absurd
4. 03/05. Dee G. Applezweig, The Human Condition and Anxiety
5. 03/12. William Henry Harris, Existence and the Existent
6. 05/21. Fred Lingle, Semantics and Ethics
7. 05/28. Thaddeus B. Clark, Man's New Conscience
8. 10/08/61. Henry Nelson Wieman, The Potential of Unitarian Commitment
9. 10/15. Willis Moore, The Liberal Spirit
10. 10/22. Morton Kenner, Liberal Religion and Liberal Action
11. 10/29. David McIntosh, Folksongs of Religion
12. 12/17. Charles Blinderman, The Ministry of Hate
1960
1. 12/04. John G. Martire, A Need for Ethics
Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship - material donated to Morris
Library, Dec.
2001
1. Copies of 46 sermons delivered from July 2, 2000 through
Dec. 23, 2001
All except the following were by Bill Sasso:
7/2/00 Rev. Kathleen Ellis, "Amazing Grace"
97/9 Mary Campbell, Notes on the 2000 UUA General Assembly
8/27 Jack Hayward, Kenneth Starbuck, & Bill Sasso, "Why I Became
a
Unitarian"
9/3 Ted Kionka (as Tjomas Jeffereson); "Religion, Theology, and Ethics"
9/17 Pat York, Jim Kelly, & Leah Ekstrom, "Religious Education Sunday"
9/24 Rev. Julia Aegerter, "Laborers in a Vineyard"
10/15 Rev. Timothy Madison, "When Religion Gets Sick"
2/4/01 Lois Carrier, Beverly & John Howie, & Pat York, "Building
Your Own
Theology"
5/27 Tom Dickey, "Beyond Atheism"
6/2 Hugh Muldoon, ""Some Questions I've Learned in Campus Ministry"
7/15 Toby Saken, "What Made Me Do It?"
7/22 Lois Carrier, "More Than a Dream: The Work of Morris Dees"
7/29 Kathleen Fralish, "What Made Me Do It? - To Bless and Be Blessed"
8/5 Zoe Lightfoor, "What Made Me Do It - A Quest for Women Scientists"
8/19 David Christensen, Carla Feldhamer, Sandy Charlson, & Bob Camp, "Why
I Became a Unitarian"
9/23 Kenneth Starbuck, "A Theology of Listening"
10/14 Cheryl Schmit, Roy Sumner, Kathy O"Laughlin, & Tom Lieb, "Our
Whole
Lives"
10/28 Jack Hayward, "Learning to Live Generously"
11/4 Paul Mundschenk, "Religion, Spirituality, and the Irony of
Unitarianism"
11/25 David Christensen, "Jesus: Perspective and Challenge"
2. CUF Links - 14 issues (Aug/Sept. 2000 through December 2001)
3. Bulletin (mailed weekly except when CUF Links appears) and
the weekly
Order of Service from June 25, 2000 through Dec. 30, 2001.
4. Minutes :
Board Meetings (2001, incomplete): Jan. 11, Feb. 5. Sept. 13. Oct. 11,
Nov, 8
Congregational Meetings: May 21, 2000, Nov. 12, 2000, Feb. 25, 2001, May6
and May 20, 2001, and September 16,2001
Minister-Congregation Covenant (draft, 11/2/99)
RE Directoir-Congregation Covenant (draft, 10/22/00)
2000-2001 Budget and Report, 5/5/01
2001-2001 Budget, 5/3/01
Explanation of Proposed Changes ti the CUF Constitution, 11/12/00
By-Laws of the First Unitarian Fellowship of Carbondale, Illinois, as
ammended 2/25/01, and 5/6/01
Five-year Financial Plan (2001-01 to 2005-06)
5. Memorials:
Zachary Smith, 12/11/99; Madelon Golden Schilpp, 12/20/99; Jo S. Layer,
1/6/00; Curtis Nelson, 11/3/00;
Edward L. Adams, 2/18/01; Muriel Sternglanz Hayward, 6/?/01; John H. and
Kay Wotiz, 8/26/01;
Lenore Foster Brooks, 12/15/01
Miscellaneous
Membership Lists for 2/99, 6/00, and 7/01
Draft Committee List for 1999-2000 (includes purpose and activities)
Southern Unitarian-Universalists in the Civil Rights Era - A Story of
Small Acts of Great Courage, presented by the Rv. Gordon D. Gibson, 2/2/01
Attendance figures and graph for 6/3/01 thru 12/30/01
Organ Preservation by Nancy Ringler
Programs for 1st (1/17/00) and 2nd (1/14/01) Carbondale Community
Celebration of Martin Luther King
Summary of Congregational Feedback at Mar./Apr. 2001 Cottege Meetings
Welcoming Congregation - Workshop Program and "What We Have Done"
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Material to Morris Library Special Collections - taken June 18, 2003
1. Bulletins 1/13/02 - 6/1/03
2. Orders of Service 1/6/02 - 6/1/03
Memorial Service for Melvin Brooks, 1/12/02
Memorial Service for James ingler, 8/1/02
3. CUF Links Jan. /Dec. 2002; Jan. /May 2003
4. Talks Jan. 6, 2002 - June 1, 2003
5. Board Minutes June 2002 - May 2003
6. Congregational Meeting Minutes 1/20/02; 3/24/02; 5/5/02; 5/19/02;
6/16/02;
9/15/02; 2/16/03; 5/18/03
7. New Building items
6. Miscellany: a. Membership List Jan. 2002; Dec. 2000
b. Budgets, etc. '99-'00; '00-'01; '01-'02; '02-'03; '03-'04
c. Unclassified stuff
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Report of Historical Records Committee
Meeting 8/7/93 at Meetinghouse
Trimble, McCoy, Christensen, (Moe out of town)
**Last update dsc 9/23/03**