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Show The Last Decades: 1961-1991 Thomas Y ondorf from was an intern minister in Salt Lake 1984 to March 1 985. August divided his time equally During this City period he between the First Unitarian Church and the young South Valley Unitarian/Universalist SOciety, where he first spoke on 9 September 1984.36 When he left sponsored a fund raiser known as Night," during which he gave his farewell address. He received a D.Min. degree in 1987 from Mead ville/Lombard and is presently the minister of the Allen March in 1 985, he "California Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church at When Rev. Henry retired in Portland, Maine. August 1986, the title of "emeritus minister" was bestowed upon him, the first such at the Salt Lake City church. Upon his retirement, Mead ville/Lombard Theological School invited him to serve as minister-in-residence for the fall quarter 1986, and then to serve on its search committee for a new dean. During his retirement, Dr. Henry wrote his life story entitled "Odyssey," in which he reminisced about the intangible rewards of being a Unitarian minister: I've told ... little about the real heart of a minister's life, the ways in which one's deepest springs get fed and over the incomparable nobility of people: by witnessing people facing tough decisions, tragedy, and death; people making the most of reverses of fortune and coming out triumphantly; people coming into flower from buds you'd given up on or felt would never happen, and yet, warmed by the care of a community of loving folk, realizing powers in themselves even they themselves doubted. You know you did something right, when the son of parents who were in your parish and whose father had shot his mother, then myriad over [had] - 36 turned the gun when that The Torch 24 son on himself and appears in (4 September 1984): a [had] blown his brains out congregation twenty-five years later I. located in Ms 508. Bx 107, Fd 8. 157 |
