Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville Collection
M2009.04

Folder 1: Constitution and By-laws - Constitution and by-laws of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville. Dates 1982-1995. 

Photocopy of certification from The American Unitarian Association welcoming the Unitarian Fellowship of Asheville, North Carolina as a member organization of the association, dated May 26, 1950. 

Proposed changes in the Church By-Laws. Date September 17, 1973. 

Bylaws of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville. N.C. Date November 1973. 

Bylaws of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville. N.C. 14 pages. Date July 1, 1991. 

Note from church historian Bob Potter dated April 21, 1995 regarding persons appearing on Reverend Lon Ray Call's Charter and the earliest mailing list. Attached is a letter from the UUA Office of Public Information in Boston responding to Mr. Potter's 1993 inquiry about original charter signers of the Unitarian Fellowship of Asheville in May 1950, with copies of suggested by-laws and meetings minutes from May 9, 1950 and an early mailing list. 

Pages photocopied from unidentified book describing "the historical roots of Unitarian universalism," "an organized movement in America," and "Parker's 28 questions." 

Typed extract of "Report of George L. Chaney, Southern Supt." Taken from American Unitarian Association Reports 1891-1899, Boston. In Yearbook 1892: pp34-35. 

Booklet "A Brief History of Unitarianism in Asheville, North Carolina." Two copies. Date 1972. 

Summary "Additional Information for 1986-87." Two typed pages listing events. 

Booklet "An Introduction to the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Asheville." 4pp. Dates 1990 and 1991. 

Report "The First Fifty Years." Handwritten pages describing the history of the church in Asheville from 1950. Author unknown. 9pp. 

Notes, "Pertinent notes to use when writing history of church... June 1983 to June 1984." Author unknown. 

Photocopied clipping "Constables To Lead Unitarian Meeting" from Asheville Citizen, September 6, 1951. 

Historical report covering the first thirty-five years of UUCA, dated February 21, 1985. 7pp. 

Booklet "Introduction to Unitarianism" by Paul Carnes, designed for use with Beacon Twenty-Five course. Undated. 54pp. 

Folder 3: History Committee Guidelines. Dates 1989-2001. 

Retention schedule "What a church should keep and for how long." Written by Carol Gibson. Date 1992. 

Job description for committee chairs, 1995. Attached is an appreciation letter from Reverend Maureen Killoran to Ruth Beard dated 2001. 

Guidelines "Writing the history of your local society." Written by Dorothy Tilden Spoerl. Undated. 

Extract from "Maintaining record and archives." From The Congregational Handbook, How to Develop and Sustain Your Unitarian Universalist Congregation." Edited by Lawrence X. Peers. Undated. 

Guidelines "Tips For Interviewers." Pertains to conducting oral histories. Date June 5, 1982. 

Brochure "Keeping Local Congregational Records." Published by Canadian Unitarian & Universalist Archival Records Survey. Date 1989. 

Extract "Electronic records." Source unknown. 

Extracts from "Double fold: libraries and the assault on paper." Written by Nicholson Baker. Date 2001. 

Folder 5: History Committee Reports - Reports and meeting minutes from the History Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville. Dates 1992-2004. 

Folder 7: History Committee, Oral History Guidelines - Suggested guidelines pertaining to Oral History interviews. Dates 1992-2001. 

Folder 9: History Committee, Notes & Jottings - Notes from the History Committee. Dates 1974-1996. 

Folder 1: Daniel M. Welch - Two pieces of correspondence from Rev. Daniel M. Welch, Minister Emeritus. Dates 1963. 

Folder 3: William D. Hammond - Materials related to William D. Hammond, Minister Emeritus include memos, draft letters, correspondence, sermons, sermon notes, sermon drafts, announcements, church bulletins, schedules. Dates 1974-1991. -Also included are a burial certificate, eulogies, tributes and obituary notices following the death of William D. Hammond on November 17, 2005. Dates 2005-2006. 

Folder 5: William Houff - Materials related to Rev. Dr. William Houff, Interim Minister include employment agreements, church news bulletins, sermons, and eight photographs. Dates 1990-1991. 

Folder 7: Mark Ward. Materials related to Rev. Mark Ward include ordination and installation announcements; newspaper clippings. Date 2005. 

Folder 9: Guest Preachers - Materials related to guest preachers include sermons, correspondence, church bulletins, church service proceedings, and newspaper clippings. Dates 1993-2000. 

Audio tape entitled "The Recovery of Silence. Ronald Manheimert and Richard Chess." Date January 7, 1990. 

Audio tape entitled "Holiday Expectations. Brewer and Brass Choir." Date December 17, 1989. 

Audio tape entitled "Congregational Grow." Two tapes. Date March 1, 1989. 

Audio tape(s) entitled "Quest for Reverence." One large and one small cassette tape. Date February 18, 1990. 

Audio tape: "Anniversary Sunday" Celebrating 60 Years, Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Maureen Killoran, May 9, 2010 [2017 donation] 

Audio tape: "A Dream That's Big Enough!", Rev. Mark Ward & Strategic Planning Committee, November 11, 2007 [2017 donation] 

Folder 1: 1979-1990 Canvass - Items pertaining to Canvass, the annual budget drive, include Host and Hostess and Canvass Committee Manuals and a Director's Final Report from 1979; proxy authorizations for a special election to determine whether to hire a professional fundraiser; church attendance graphs; membership reports, yearly agendas and event planning; a fellowship luncheon invitation; budget reports; and the satirical lyrics -- "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Pledge" -- intended for the committee members. 

Folder 3: 1994-1996 Canvass - Items pertaining to Canvass, the annual budget drive, include publication and advertising materials and two form letters. 

Folder 5: 1998-1999 Canvass - Items pertaining to Canvass, the annual budget drive, include publications. form letters to members, emails, correspondence, and yearly budget reports. 

Folder 7: Committees Programs and Activities - Annual Reports. Dates 1990-2000. 

Folder 9: Building Rentals Committee - Items include a lease agreement and report to the U.U.C./A. Board. Dates 1984-1985. 

Folder 11: Finance Committee - Items include a retirement trust agreement from 1975; the handbook for the Church Finance Committee from 1980; handwritten memos; budget proposals and reports; meeting minutes; correspondence; two "Jello" reports from 1986 and 1987 discussing church growth and expansion; a memo from a congregant about the "fair share" of pledges as appropriate to family income; statements of proposed costs for ministerial internships from 1995 and 1996; and a draft of a fundraising calendar for 2003-2004. Dates 1972-2004. 

Folder 1: Laymen's League - Materials include meeting minutes; ledgers of expenses and dues; a receipt for four apple pies at $.50 apiece from Quality Bakery; the Constitution and By-Laws from May 1, 1967; fundraising letters and appeals; a memo addressing a constitutional amendment to raise annual fees. Dates 1957-1969. 

Folder 3: Membership Committee - Report to the board dated November 22, 1982; undated correspondence discussing committee duties and assignments. 

Folder 5: Ministerial Search Packet, 1983 - Materials collected in a single informational binder for potential UUCA ministerial candidates include a summary of the Ministerial Search Committee Questionnaire; sample service programs; newsletters; budgets; Board of Trustees and other reports; and booklets and brochures about Asheville and Western North Carolina. Dates 1982-1983. 

Folder 7: New Congregation Task Force - New Member Packet including membership directory from January 1, 1979, a pamphlet of "A Brief History of Unitarianism in Asheville North Carolina," brochures on church finances and core ideas, a flyer from the Boston Office of Development, a name badge order blank, information sheets on the co-operative church school, social programs, and Personnel Committee, and a "Profile for Giving" formula for calculating family contributions; correspondence, meeting minutes, a questionnaire and a report discussing the potential to develop an additional congregation in 1998; programs and membership lists from the UU Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley from 2002. Dates 1979-2002. 

Folder 9: Unicorns - Materials include brochures for fundraising auctions held in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1990 and 2001; undated information sheet about the Unicorns; undated song lyrics for "The Unicorn"; folder of minutes, notes, reports, announcements, bills, lists and instructions for auctions held from 1977 to 1984. Dates 1977-2001. 

Folder 11: Women's Alliance - Program from 1976 noting the transition from twenty years of the Women's Alliance to a new group for both men and women, with poem by Esther Logan Anthony; thank-you notes and miscellaneous correspondence; newspaper clippings of activities from 1963-1973; undated Alliance by-laws; program from dedication of UU Church of Asheville, October 15, 1972. Dates 1963-1976. 

Folder 13: Worship Committee - Memos from parishioners to committee expressing concerns over inappropriate clapping, behavior and content of services. Dates 1992-1995. 

Folder 1: UUCA Newsletters 1950s - Newsletter from Asheville Unitarian Fellowship dated August 1959; undated Newsletter History of UUCA documenting various items from 1952 to 1955. 

Folder 3: UUCA Newsletters 1970s - Materials include a special edition progress report from November 8, 1971 discussing construction of the Sanctuary and Social Hall; newsletters from September 1970 to August 1979. Dates 1970-1979. 

Folder 5: UUCA Newsletters 1993 - Newsletters from January to December 1993. 

Folder 7: UUCA Newsletters 1995 - Newsletters from January to December 1995. One newsletter from the Thomas Jefferson District, UUA of Atlanta, Winter 1995. 

Folder 9: UUCA Newsletters 1998 - Newsletter from December 1998. 

Folder 1: UUCA Newsletters 2000 

Folder 3: UUCA Newsletters 2002 

Folder 5: UUCA Newsletters 2005 

Folder 7: UUCA Newsletters 2007 

Folder 9: UUCA Newsletters 2009 

Folder 11: UUCA Newsletters 2011 

Folder 13: UUCA Newsletters 2013 

Folder 1: - UUAC Sunday Service Attendance - Notebook of handwritten service attendance records from 1963 to 1981. Categories include adults, children, Sunday School, weather and comments. 

Folder 3: - Visitors Register, 1995-1996 - Guest book of signatures and addresses from September 3, 1995 to December 15, 1996. 

Folder 5: Membership Tea Register - Hand decorated folder of signatures from attendees at a Membership Tea dated October 28, 1972. 

Folder 7: Membership Directories, 1963-1995 - Directories from 1963, 1965, 1969, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994 and 1995. Note: the 1963 and 1965 directories include professional backgrounds and personal interests of members. 

Folder 9: Membership Directories, 2002-2007. Directories from 2002 through 2007. 

Folder 1: Membership Lists, Unbound - Membership lists, pledge lists, directories and addenda. Dates 1972-1993. 

Folder 3: Membership Committee Miscellany - Description of responsibilities for the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and general committee members; directory update, 1996; new member welcome sheets, 2001; guest commentary from a new member, 2003; undated Newcomer Picnic and new member update memos. Dates 1996-2003. 

Folder 5: Informational Pamphlets - Three information pamphlets from the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, MA; two from 1982 and one undated. One welcome booklet for new UUCA members, "What's Going on at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville"from 1998; a UUCA All-Church Program Guide from 2001. Dates 1982-2001. 

Folder 7: Deaths & Births - Obituaries, birth and death notices, and funeral programs. Dates 1972-2006. 

Folder 9: Lewis Nolan - Clippings and death notices for Dr. Lewis Nolan, who died December 8, 1970 at the age of 69. 

Folder 11: Sandburg - Clippings on Carl and Lillian Sandburg, including obituaries of Lillian; numerous articles on a Carl Sandburg exhibit at the Henderson County Library; the opening of Connemara National Historic Site in Flat Rock, NC; the groundbreaking ceremony and the new church building which housed a Sandburg collection donated by UUCA member Lillian Sandburg; and "The Poet and the Dream Girl", love letters of the Sandburgs published in 1987. Dates 1963-1987. 

Folder 13: Correspondence - The file includes letters to and from the UUCA Board of Trustees; "Dear Abby" clippings about the appropriateness of applause in church; letters of appreciation; a Christmas card; and thank you cards. Dates 1993-2005. 

Folder 15: Assorted Clippings - Dated and undated clippings from The Asheville Citizen, UU/World, Asheville Citizen-Times, and WNC Woman include advertisements for Unitarianism from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, 120 Vermont; coverage of a farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Habel; a picture of Dr. Tracy Pullman; local authors from the congregation; a fledgling UU congregation from Swannanoa Valley; building dedication by the UU of Transylvania County; Reverend Forrest Church of the UUA New York on the nature of sin; the passage of an organ donation bill; letters to the editor on Christmas, the repeal of the estate tax, Bush tax cuts, media bias, Patsy Keever's congregational candidacy, alternative news sources, the environmental record of Representative Charles Taylor, faith and freedom, the rights of the terminally ill, nuclear issues, and the term "socialism"; a church attack in Knoxville; a production of Cyrano de Bergerac; the Tocqueville Society; a profile of Reverend Sarah York; efforts by volunteer Larry Holt to clean up graffiti; the concept of "patience" and the healthcare system; and a cleanup of the French Broad River. Dates 1964-2009. 

Folder 1: Construction of New Church Building, 1971 - Materials include specifications for a church building from Moore-Robinson Associates dated April 1971; mortgage papers; a newsletter progress report from November 1971; architectural plans; an undated newspaper clipping announcing the construction plans; a clipping from 1975 concerning a merit award for William O. Moore's architectural designs of 1 Edwin Place; instructions, manuals and maintenance and repair records for the heating and cooling systems. Dates 1971-1980. 

Folder 3: Addition, 1979 - Materials include architectural plans and specifications; newsletter updates; Board of Trustees correspondence; church completion program reports; eligible congregation voting lists; project bids for the demolition of Beacon House at 7 Edwin Place; Building Fund and Budget Canvass, 1979 brochure; project proposals; three unidentified photographs; building loan papers; Building Committee, budget and financial reports; financing plans; correspondence pertaining to acoustical wall treatments, a sound system, and landscaping. Dates 1977-1982. 

Folder 5: Lease to Montessori Children's Center - Draft of proposed lease of church premises to Montessori Children's Center. Date 1984. 

Folder 7: Building Task Force - Materials include meeting minutes; reports on space and facility needs; a waste reduction report; a draft of goals, objectives and activities by program budget categories; 5-year projected plans for facility space; task force correspondence, memos and emails; a report on proposed repairs and improvements for Jefferson House; and an information sheet about a proposed addition and renovation to Sandburg Hall. Dates 1998-2001. 

Folder 1: Social Justice Program and Miscellany - Materials include proposed budgets for Social Concerns Committee, 1986; information sheets about structuring a social justice program; proposals for social action projects; meeting minutes and memos; notes and reports from Care Ring meetings to clarify social action projects; and a resource booklet entitled "Social Justice Empowerment Program" from The Unitarian Universalist Association. Other items include a 1972 flyer on a program called Sharing Suppers; a 1982 clipping from the Asheville Citizen-Times on Advocates for a Nuclear Arms Freeze; correspondence to and from church historians in 1995 and 1997; clippings from the Asheville Citizen-Times on oral historian Dorothy Joynes, and a reunion of Allen High students, 1996. Dates 1972-1997. 

Folder 3: Social Action Committee, 2000-2005 - Materials include a committee mission statement adopted October 1, 2000; organizational structure and membership list; meeting minutes, reports, correspondence; proposed budgets and agendas; newsletters; a resource guide on Criminal Justice and Prison Reform; memos discussing the Announcement Policy at Sunday services; and a 2005 clipping of a guest commentary by Robert H. MacPherson on alternatives to prison in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Dates 2000-2005. 

Folder 5: Jinotega, Nicaragua - Materials include fundraising appeals, correspondence, newsletters, bills, balance sheets, and financial statements connected with the Jinotega Medical Support Project of the Central America Task Force. Dates 1988-1990. 

Folder 7: Social Action Committee Task Force on Prevention of Violence - Materials include copies of task force committee letters to President Clinton; the Asheville Citizen-Times; Western North Carolina delegates; Senator Jesse Helms; Congressman Charles H. Taylor; and Senator Lauch Faircloth. Topics include nuclear disarmament; prison expenditures and social programs; handgun legislation; environmental regulations; land mines; domestic violence; and the Anti-Terrorism Act. Dates 1995-1998. 

Folder 9: UUSC - Contains two items of correspondence to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in Cambridge, MA. Dates 1996-1997. 

Folder 11: Mountain Learning Disabilities Camp - Correspondence from staff at Mountain Learning Disabilities Camp to UUCA acknowledging church donations. Date 1974. 

Folder 13: Book Sale - Materials include instructions, volunteer and vendor lists, correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, publicity flyers, thank-you notes, and schedules pertaining to annual book sales, 1995-1998; an undated handwritten sheet listing annual Rummage Sale Profits from 1966 to 1974. 

Folder 15: Robert MacPherson, Ph.D. - Materials include continuing education certificates; correspondence to the UUA Ministerial Fellowship Committee in Boston; an editorial to the Asheville Citizen-Times; and a poem tribute from his secretary. Dates 1983-2002. 

Folder 1: Reach for the Sky, I - Materials include information sheets; meeting minutes and agendas; memos; correspondence; mission statements; reports; and budget tables pertaining to the Reach for the Sky Task Force, a committee assembled to develop a five-year plan for UUCA. Dates 1999-2000. 

Folder 3: UURA Documents/Meetings - Materials include reports; by-laws; statements of purpose; proposed admission criteria; Articles of Incorporation dated May 9, 1989; meeting minutes and agendas; flyers; memos; proposals; and lists of board members associated with the Universalist Unitarian Retirement Association of Asheville, North Carolina, formed to study the feasibility of developing a UUCA retirement community. The earliest record is a copy of a statement of intention to be submitted with a grant proposal in June 1987. A memo dated June 6, 1991 concerns a request "for a standing committee on housing in lieu of our UURA." Dates 1987-1991. 

Folder 5: UURA Surveys - Materials include several surveys, disseminated over different stages of the project, to UUCA members and others to gauge interest in the proposed retirement community and possible sites for development. The most comprehensive survey was returned on October 7, 1990. Survey responses and tabulations; reports; and spreadsheets are included. Dates 1988-1990. 

Folder 7: UUCA Growth Task Force - Materials include an undated list of Task Force members, ca. 1993; a series of overhead slides for a presentation of the five-phase plan for growth begun in February 1997; a comprehensive task force report from 1998; and a graph and chart indicating growth patterns from 1950-1999. Dates ca. 1993-1999. 

Folder 9 - Sunday Morning Task Force - Materials include correspondence; a congregational survey; and a newsletter pertaining to the church's transition to an additional Sunday service; and a report to to the Board of Trustees regarding Sunday morning activities. Dates 1993-1995. 

Folder 1: Lifework - Information sheets and a flyer on Lifework, a 6-unit program "designed to deepen and enhance a lay person's religious life and sense of fulfillment within the liberal religious community." Date 1999. 

Folder 3: Membership Ideas - A memo from Reverend Killoran regarding assimilation of new church members is supplemented with a relevant chapter from the UUA's Congregational Handbook, an orientation chart, information sheets, a congregational survey and a rating scale. Minutes from two UUCA Membership Committee meetings and correspondence from a UU recruitment program manager in Olympia, Washington are included. Dates 1997-1999. 

Folder 5: Sunday Service, End of Life Choices, November 16, 2003 - The file pertains to a UUCA service of November 16, 2003 entitled, "What Choice Do We Have?" exploring end of life issues. Materials include a soliloquy from Hamlet; the Unitarian Universalists statement on the Right to Die with Dignity,1988; lyrics to The Hemlock Song by Mimi Manners and Jeanne Levy; and a program packet for the service, with information about Health Care Power of Attorney, Advance Directives and the Caring Friends program, which promotes alternatives to achieve a peaceful death. Date 2003. 

Folder 7: Dedication of the New Ediface, 1972 - Materials include programs, appreciation cards, and newspaper clippings from the The Native Stone and Asheville Citizen-Times connected to the dedication weekend and service for the new ediface at 1 Edwin Place on October 15, 1972. Date 1972. 

Folder 9: Pastoral Visitors - Materials include memos, information sheets, newspaper articles, meeting minutes and agendas, organizational charts, and correspondence pertaining to UUCA Pastoral Visitors and the shifting role of the committee, with an emphasis on the church's transition to a new minister, Mark Ward, In 2004; dated and undated brochures and flyers highlighting local resources for palliative, medical, social support and hospice care; and photocopied pictures of church activities from August 2003 to March 2004. Dates 1999-2004. 

Folder 11: Photo Album, 1990s - Eleven envelopes of assorted photos from the 1990s, including OWL classes and BVG cleanups. 

Folder 13: Booklets - Assorted informational booklets on topics such as the history of Unitarian Universalism; discussions of death; durable medical equipment on loan; fundraising; intergenerational worship; and activities. Dates 1976-2009. 

Folder 1: Board of Trustees/Reports, 1965-1968 - Materials include board minutes, correspondence, budget reports, agendas, treasurer's reports, and minister's reports. Of note is an inquiry to the Secretary of State in Raleigh regarding the formal change of the church name from "The Unitarian Church of Asheville" to "The Unitarian-Univeralist Church of Asheville"in 1968. Dates 1965-1968. 

Folder 3: Annual Reports/Minister's Reports - Materials include annual Historian reports; letters to the Board of Trustees; Annual Meeting minutes, agendas and reports; Minister's Reports; and committee reports. A Carolinas Unitarian Universalist Conference Annual Report from 1962-1963 is included. Dates 1963-2010. 

Folder 5: UUCA Strategic Planning, 2007-2009 - CD of files. 

Folder 1: Sermons, 1994-2003 

Folder 3: Sermons, Jan - May 2005 

Folder 5: Sermons, Jan - April 2006 

Folder 1: Sermon Mailings, (2007) 

Folder 3: Sermons, July - Dec 2007 

Folder 5: Sermons, 2009 

Folder 1: Wm. D. Hammond, Sermons, 1975-83 

Folder 3: Miscellaneous Items Grouped in Folder, (1970s) 

Folder 5: "A History of Universalism in NC", 1964 

Folder 7: UUCA Board Planning Retreat, 2010 

Folder 1: Social Justice Program, 2005-11 

Folder 3: Day One, 2014 

"Liberalism is Still the Answer", Tracy M. Pullman, 1948 

Folder 1: Board Book 

Folder 3: Committee on Ministries, 2008-11 

Folder 5: Annual Gatherings, 2003-12 

Folder 7: Membership - New Members 

Folder 9: Membership Leaflets 

Folder 11: A Welcoming Congregation, 2015 

Folder 1: Member Directory, 2008 

Folder 3: Campaigns, 2015-16 

Folder 5: "Reflections on the First Ten Years", Mark Ward, 2014 

Folder 7: Worship Associates Training, 2015 

Folder 9: Alternative Worship Experience, 2014-15 

Folder 11: Interweave, (1994-1999) 

Folder 13: Helen Reed File, (1967 - 1975) - Meeting notes, remarks, and other documents 

Folder 15: Ethical Eating, (2008) 

Folder 1: Social Justice Council - Meetings, 2006-2008 

Folder 3: Social Justice Council - Teams, Budget & Events, 2007 

Folder 5: Name Change, 2007-2010 

Folder 7: Clara Barton Sisterhood, 2011 

Folder 9: Annual Reports and Annual Meetings, 2008/09 - 2013/14