May 24, 1919

The Y.P.C.U. of the Liberal Christian Church met in the Sunday School room of the Church on May 24, 1919.

In the absence of the President and V. President, Dr. Keirn was appointed chairman and Miss Durdin as acting Secretary, the regular secretary also being absent.

Lucy Rhyne of the Devotional Committee announced that Araminta Edwards was to be Leader at the Devotional meeting on Sunday May 25. Esther Bowers was appointed as Leader for June 1, Saphronia Durdin for June 8 and Florence Perkins June 15.

Clayton Rhyne was elected Onward Superintendent.

Mrs. Cagle, Mary Davis and Florence Perkins were elected as a Membership Committee.

Esther Bowers reported on the Legion of the Cross work that we have nine members from the Atlanta Union, making a total of 64 for the State.

There being no further business the meeting then adjourned.

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Saphronia Durdin
Acting Secretary

Physical Archive: UUCA Box: 26   Folder: 07    Page: 9 – 10
Citation: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta Records, RG 026, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta GA

Archivist Note: There is a five-month gap in meeting minutes. The last meeting minutes of Nov 15, 1918 are recorded on page 9 of the meeting notebook. The entry of May 25, 1919 is recorded at the bottom of page 9 and continues on page 10.

In this meeting minute it is announced that group is now known as the “Y.P.C.U. of the Liberal Christian Church.” The Y.P.C.U. was originally organized at the First Universalist Church.

Atlanta Unitarians and Universalists temporarily merged in Feb 1918. The merger, however, continued until the early 1950’s when the joint Unitarian and Universalist congregation failed, vacated the 301 West Peachtree church (later re-numbered to 669 West Peachtree) building and disbanded.

In July 1918, the merged church adopted the name Liberal Christian Church. It is assumed that this May 1919 meeting is taking place in the Unitarian Church on West Peachtree Street. Dr. Rev. Keirn was the minister of this combined church.

Also, it “appears” that meetings of the Y.P.C.U. had continued since the previous meeting recorded in November 1918. That is, there is no mention in the May 1919 entry of the group “resuming meeting.” Also, the meeting appears to have a “business as usual” representation with the appointing of Devotional Leaders and other comments of operational activities. The physical archives do not contain any other documentation on meetings that may have been held between Nov 1918 and May 1919.