|
Church Timeline |
|
Year |
Church Events |
World Events |
Ministers |
Presidents |
R.E. Directors |
|
1953-54 |
Unitarian Fellowship of Aiken |
|
|
|
|
|
1954-55 |
Unitarian Fellowship of Augusta First Meeting Place: Walton Way Temple |
Joseph McCarthy begins his televised hearings into alleged Communists |
|
Larry Annis |
Children transported to Aiken for R.E. program |
|
1955-56 |
Meeting in Dolinoff Ballet Studio |
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus |
|
Dean Lund |
|
|
1956-57 |
Meeting at Old Government House |
|
Larry Annis |
Augusta Sunday School started |
|
|
1957-58 |
Meeting in Augusta Academy of Music |
|
|
Don Hostetler |
|
|
1958-59 |
Meeting at Seventh Day Adventist Church |
|
|
Kay Sutherland |
|
|
1959-60 |
Alaska and Hawaii become the last states admitted into the Union |
|
Don Hostetler |
|
|
|
1960-61 |
Berlin Wall created |
|
Bob Martens |
|
|
|
1961-62 |
Unitarians and Universalists merge to form the UUA |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
|
Jim Sutherland |
|
|
1962-63 |
|
Congress passes a law mandating equal pay to women |
|
Don Hostetler |
|
|
1963-64 |
|
|
|
Don Kelly |
|
|
1964-65 |
|
Don Hostetler |
|
||
|
1965-66 |
|
|
|
Bob Lester |
Peggy Kelly |
|
1966-67 |
|
First successful human heart transplant |
|
J. Banister/D. Bolander |
|
|
1967-68 |
We challenge prayer in school Name change to Unitarian Church of Augusta |
TET Offensive—bloodiest battle of Vietnam War |
Extension Minister |
Kip Brown |
Ann Diggs |
|
1968-69 |
|
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
|
Walter Diggs |
|
|
|
1969-70 |
|
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon The first Earth Day is celebrated |
|
Allan Gates |
|
|
1970-71 |
|
|
|
Rosemary Morris |
|
|
1971-72 |
|
|
|
Merle Riley |
|
|
1972-73 |
Richmond County builds Firehouse across from church |
Clarence Ehrlich |
|
||
|
1973-74 |
|
U.S. helicopters evacuate the last of U.S. personnel from Saigon. |
|
Jack Hamilton |
|
|
1974-75 |
Unitarian Fellowship of Aiken disbands |
|
|
Don Hostetler |
|
|
1975-76 |
UF of Aiken deeds building to UCA— office wing added |
|
|
|
|
|
1976-77 |
Sale of Aiken Building |
|
Gretchen Bremer |
Betty Ann Lee |
|
|
1977-78 |
|
|
Betty Hostetler |
|
|
|
1978-79 |
|
|
Bill Kanne |
|
|
|
1979-80 |
CNN 24-hour news channel |
|
Liz Cahoon (Goodson) |
Julie Nyquist |
|
|
1980-81 |
|
|
Bill Austin |
|
|
|
1981-82 |
|
|
Betsy Carl |
Corky Nosek |
|
|
1982-83 |
|
|
|
Vicki Proefrock |
|
|
1983-84 |
Name Change to Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta |
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space |
|
Tom Nosek |
|
|
1985 |
|
Joyce Nolin |
|
||
|
1986 |
|
Nuclear accident at Chernobyl |
Don Hostetler |
Joyce Nolin |
|
|
1987 |
|
|
|
Anita Bell |
|
|
1988 |
|
|
|
Will Williams |
|
|
1989 |
|
|
Margaret Tuck |
|
|
|
1990 |
|
Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years in prison |
|
Frank Carl |
|
|
1991 |
|
Don Hostetler |
|