The Results are In!!

The results are in! On January 8, 2012, our congregation gathered and voted to name the rooms in our building for the following influential UUs:

1.) Susan B. Anthony (36 votes): (1820-1906) Suffragist and women’s rights leader. Unitarian.

2.) Rev. Lewis McGee (31 votes): First African American to be called to a predominately white congregation. Was a candidate for ministry at UUCF, but was not called.

3.) Clara Barton (30 votes): (1821-1912) Founder of the American Red Cross. Universalist.

4.) Auldin Nelson (28 votes): Former member of UUCF and architect of the newest edition of our building.

5.) Olympia Brown (26 votes): (1835-1926) First fully ordained woman minister in the United States. Universalist.

6.) Ralph Waldo Emerson (26 votes): (1803-1882) essayist and poet, author of Self-Reliance. Unitarian

7.) Martha and Rev. Waitstill Sharp (24 votes): helped hundreds of people escape nazi persecution during WWII.

8.)Henry David Thoreau (24 votes): (1817-1862) American poet, author, philosopher and abolitionist.

9.)Beatrix Potter (24 votes): (1866-1943) Author, natural scientist and conservationist.

10.) Julia Ward Howe (23 votes): (1819-1910) American abolitionist, women’s rights leader, poet, philosopher. Unitarian

11.) Abigail and John Adams (22 votes): second president and first lady of the United States. Unitarian.

12.) Charles Dickens (21 votes): (1812-1870): English Novelist. Unitarian


Staff Offices:

Religious Education Office:
Sophia Lyon Fahs: (1876-1978): revolutionized Unitarian Religious Education.

Music Office:
Amy Beach: (1867 - 1944) - The first successful female American composer

Minister's Office:
Rev. David Bumbaugh: was in the pulpit for 44 years before teaching at first Drew Theological Seminary, then Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. He has written two books Education of God and Unitarian Universalism: A Narrative History.


Thanks to all who participated in this process!