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

Salk develops polio vaccine

 

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

Purchased Lot on Walton Way

Alaska and Hawaii become the last states admitted into the Union

 

Don Hostetler

 

1960-61

Building Dedicated

Kennedy elected

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

Kennedy assassination

 

Don Hostetler

 

1963-64   

 

 

 

Don Kelly

 

1964-65   

Open Door Kindergarten opens

Civil Rights Act passed

 

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

Chris Raible,

Extension Minister

Kip Brown

Ann Diggs

1968-69  

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated

 

John Goldthwait

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

Roe V. Wade decision

Terrorists kill 11 at Munich Olympics

Richard Harris

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

 

 

Wallace White

 

1976-77

Sale of Aiken Building

 

Consulting Ministers

Gretchen Bremer

Betty Ann Lee

1977-78   

 

The King is dead-Elvis Presley dies

 

Betty Hostetler

 

1978-79   

 

Mass murder-suicide in Jonestown

 

Bill Kanne

 

1979-80   

We celebrate our Silver Anniversary

CNN 24-hour news channel

 

Liz Cahoon (Goodson)

Julie Nyquist

1980-81  

 

 

Kate Rohde

Bill Austin

 

1981-82  

 

Scientists identify AIDS

 

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

Addition of new Sanctuary

 

Consulting Minister

Joyce Nolin

 

1986

 

Challenger Explosion

Nuclear accident at Chernobyl

Rod Thompson

Don Hostetler

Joyce Nolin

1987

 

 

 

Anita Bell

 

1988

 

 

 

Will Williams

 

1989

 

Berlin Wall falls

 

Margaret Tuck

 

1990

 

Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years in prison

 

Frank Carl

 

1991

Purchased new hymnals

Operation Desert Storm

 

Don Hostetler