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Show Preface Virginia Picht, Gilchrist and Harriett Gilchrist, and Martha Stewart. Harriett Virginia Picht continued committee until their deaths in Martha Stewart respectively. members of this as February was and May 1990, the causal force in the donation and conveyance of the Unitarian church's. docu ments to the University of Utah Library. Possibly her previous professional assocation with the Utah State Historical Society made her cognizant of the advantages of placing these valuable documents in a manuscripts repository, where they would be preserved faithfully volunteered collection. are her time She also .help process the Unitarian present Betty Greenhalgh, Edwin Wilson, and At Muriel Zwick and available for research. to also members of the Historians Committee. Betty Greenhalgh voluntarily helped process this material, especially the Religious Education and Women's Alliance records. Salt Lake cences Edwin Wilson, former minister who returned City in his retirement, provided to firsthand reminis of Unitarian life in the 1940s. Muriel Zwick newspaper articles for the collection. scrapbooks and clipped biographies In the The processing of the Unitarian records and the writing of the centennial history spanned the tenures of four presi dents of the board: in 1987, Gary Child, transferring who the records to signed the deed of gift the University of Utah; letter in 1988 in support of the request for funds from the Veatch Program in Plandome, New York; Rayce Tucker, who in 1989 accepted the matching Joan Proctor, who wrote a grant of $17,000 from the Veatch program, which matched an anonymous donation of $17 ,000 to the University of Utah who in 1990 process the records; and Helen Hodgson, helped with the various decisions on publishing this history. to The foregoing would not have happened if it were not for xiii |
