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Show The Last Decades: 1 96 1-1 99 1 group worker and Association for Family Living and was a at 1959. Rev. Gillilan served to education instructor at the sex Chicago, Illinois, as from 1958 associate minister in the Ridgewood Methodist Church in Parma, Ohio, from 1959 to 1961, but it was not a particularly pleasant experience, because he realized that he was "no longer thinking and feeling and believing as Methodists typically do.,,4 Rev. Gillilan with his came as wife, Janet, and minister to Salt Lake City in two July small children, 1961. It was Rev. Gillilan who started the present church newsletter, The Torch, with its first issue coming forth on 6 September 1961. During the General Assembly irr May 1961 the American merged with the Universalist Church of America (which traditionally proclaimed a universal sal vation for all after death as opposed to a "hellfire and damnation" for the Wicked) to form the Unitarian Univer Unitarian Association The Salt Lake Unitarians also decided salist Association. a change officially some of as on seventy years of being known "The First Unitarian Society of Salt Lake City," name, for after members felt that the term "church" would have a religious connotation. At the meeting of the board of trustees on 5 January 1962 it was mentioned that letters had more been received from Helen LeCheminant and AlIa N. Mulhall, in which they proposed a resolution to change the name of the organization from society to church. As a result, at the annual meeting on 26 January 1962 Gilbert Howard, vice president of the board of trustees, asked those present to read the proposed constitutional amendment, which, if adopted, would make the After reading and discussion, a secret ballot was conducted and fifty-three votes were in favor of the amendment, while eighteen were against it. Since this change. .. Hugh Gillilan Interview, U-1 OSS, Accession 814. 133 |
