Unitarian Church To Observe 75th Anniversary In City

Unitarian Church To Observe 75th Anniversary In City

Celebration To Begin Jan. 18; Elliot To Talk

Special Meeting Will Be Held On Jan. 21, Actual Birthday

The Unitarian church will open the celebration of its 75th anniversary Sunday, Jan. 18. A special service will be held Wednesday night, Jan. 21, the date on which the church was organized here in 1867.

Dr. Frederick Eliot, of Boston, president of the American Unitarian Association, will preach the sermon Jan. 18.

In the evening there will be a student meeting on the general question, “The Place of the Unitarian Church in Student Affairs.” Speakers will be former students at the University of Michigan, who will return to Ann Arbor for the occasion.

The special service on Jan. 21 will be addressed by Dr. Sidney Robbins, professor of philosophy at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., and former minister of the church here.

Dr. Robbins left here in 1928 to accept a teaching position at Lombard College. He was active in community work and was president of the Rotary Club.

On Friday evening, Jan. 23, a parish supper will be served by the women of the church. The speaker will be Phillip C. Nash, president of the University of Toledo and nominee for moderator of the Unitarian Churches of America. His subject will be: "The Next Seventy-Five Years.”

This Sunday morning the pastor, Rev. H. P. Marley, will preach on "Apocolypse—1942 Style.” The Student meeting will be addressed by Dr. Edward Blakeman, University religious counselor.