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Introduction Approximately 58 cubic feet

The Ethical Society of St. Louis Records contains meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, marriage applications, and cassette and VHS tapes relating to the group’s mission to create and sustain an ethical humanist congregation dedicated to the advancement of ethical values and behavior without reference to or a . Materials of interest include meeting minutes of the Board of Trustees and annual membership meetings, which include discussions on the Society’s move from Sheldon Memorial to 9001 Clayton Road, finances, and membership outreach.

In April 1886, several progressive St. Louisans gathered in the office of attorney Charles Nagel Sr., to meet with S. Burn Weston and Walter Sheldon (1858-1907), representatives of the burgeoning Ethical Culture movement, to discuss establishing an ethical society in St. Louis. The progenitor of this movement was (1851-1933), a scholar of religion and philosophy, with roots in Reform . His father, , was the rabbi for Temple Emanu-El’s in from 1857 to 1891. In May 1876, Felix Adler gave a series of lectures before liberal members of his father’s temple at Standard Hall in New York City, calling for the creation of a lecture movement focused on creating a “practical religion,” dedicated to fostering ethical behavior in all individuals, without adhering to in a deity or traditional religious or customs. Inspired by Adler’s vision, attendees began purchasing subscriptions for Adler’s continuing lecture series, leading to the establishment of the New York Society of Ethical Culture on February 21, 1877.

The New York Society, led by Adler, held Sunday meetings, known as platforms, where Adler and others could lecture on topics such as religion, philosophy, and . Adler also embarked on social service projects, including the establishment of the Workingman’s School in 1880, which provided attendees with elementary, secondary, and industrial arts . Between 1882 and 1886, the popularity of the New York Society lead to the movement’s expansion into , , and eventually St. Louis, leading to the creation of the American Ethical Union in 1889 to serve as an umbrella organization for ethical societies in the .

After the St. Louis group met with Weston and Sheldon in April 1886, they invited Sheldon to deliver a series of lectures about the Ethical Culture movement to other interested St. Louisans at Memorial Hall in the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts on May 21, 26, and 30, 1886. Sheldon’s talks convinced the attendees to begin raising funds for an ethical society in St. Louis, which they organized as the Society of Ethical Culture on November 27, 1886, at Pickwick Theater Hall (The Society changed its name to the Ethical Society of St. Louis on May 14, 1896). During this meeting, members adopted a constitution and bylaws for the Society and elected Manning Tredway and James Taussig as president and vice president of

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the Society Board of Trustees, respectively. The Missouri Department of State later approved the Society’s certificate of incorporation on May 14, 1889.

According to the bylaws established at the Society’s November 27, 1886, meeting, with the last revision on May 15, 2018, the Ethical Society of St. Louis governs itself in partnership with the Board of Trustees, the ministry team, and the congregation. Ethical Society congregants are responsible for selecting the seven-member Board of Trustees, who serve staggered, three-year terms. The Board meets monthly and is responsible for overseeing the Society’s leadership, finances, and the programs developed by the Society’s committees. An executive committee, chaired by the president of the Board of Trustees, handle issues that arise between Board meetings. The Board of Trustees is also responsible for selecting the Ethical Society’s leader, per approval by the Society’s membership, who oversee the Society’s staff, volunteers, provide ethical guidance and counseling to the membership, and implement policies established by the Board. The Board also holds an annual membership meeting at the end of the fiscal year (May), where members vote on candidates for the Board of Trustees, the Society’s upcoming budget, and other issues put forth by the Board and the Society’s various committees.

During the November 27, 1886 meeting, the Society’s founding members selected Walter Sheldon as their principle lecturer. Under his leadership, the Society established Sunday platforms similar to the New York Society for Ethical Culture, which included an address by Sheldon or a visiting lecturer, as well as music. Early guest lecturers included Felix Adler and Dr. , the founder of the West Ethical Society. The Society held platforms from October to May, in the tradition of New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Other initiatives begun by Sheldon included the Society’s first , the Children’s (February 1887) and the Wage Earner’s Self Culture Clubs (1888), which provided educational opportunities to St. Louisans, including free reading rooms and classes in Domestic Economy at 1532 Franklin Avenue. The success of the Self Culture Club led the Society to spin off the club into a separate organization, the Self-Culture Hall Association, on June 1, 1893. Sheldon was also instrumental in establishing the Greek Ethics Club (1891), which held discussion and talks on historical Greek politics, art, and , as well as the Political Science Club (1892).

Walter Sheldon’s passing on October 12, 1907, resulted in the ascension of his widow, Anna Sheldon (1863-1924), to the leadership position. During her tenure, the Society’s membership focused on finding a permanent home for the Ethical Society. For over twenty years, the Society had used Memorial Hall at the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts as its principal home. Shortly after the 1904 World’s Fair, however, the museum’s director, Halsey C. Ives, decided to move the museum to the Palace of Fine Arts at Forest Park in 1909. Spurred by Ives’s decision, Anna Sheldon donated $37,000 to the Society on November 1, 1909, for the construction of a permanent home for the building. The only stipulations Sheldon attached to the gift were that the Board of Trustees had to purchase the lot and secure pledges to help with the building’s construction. In January 1910, the Society purchased a lot on Washington Avenue for $25,000. Members eventually pledged $82,848

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Percival Ashley Chubb (1860-1960) succeeded Anna Sheldon as leader of the Ethical Society in 1911. Chubb, a native of Davenport, , and a founding member of the , had previously served as assistant leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture from 1905 to 1911. One of Chubb’s significant contributions to the Ethical Society of St. Louis was instituting celebrations acknowledge the cycles of human life. Chubb believed these secular fostered a sense of community and belonging among humans. As a result, celebrations such as ‘Thanksgiving Festival,’ which focused on ‘giving thanks to the human family,’ and ‘Recognition Day,’ honoring the Society’s Sunday school graduates, became mainstays of the Society.

Chubb was also responsible for rejuvenating the Greek Ethics Club, which he renamed the Contemporary Literature Circle to focus on literature and poetry. He was also instrumental in restructuring the Children’s Sunday Assembly—later renamed the Junior Sunday Assembly in 1929—along with Cecelia Boette, who was the Assembly’s associate superintendent and superintendent from 1907 to 1929. Eschewing Sheldon’s didactic methods, Chubb permitted Boette greater freedom to expand the school’s curriculum, with lessons focused on teaching children to explore and learn about community welfare, outside familial relationships, including sexuality, and critical examination of the Bible and traditional religion.

Upon Chubb’s retirement in 1933, the Board of Trustees selected J. Hutton Hynd (1898- 1969) to replace Chubb as leader on February 19, 1933. A native of Scotland, Hynd was a follower of Dr. Stanton Coit. Despite Hynd’s creative platform lectures on science and art, membership contracted from 411 in 1933 to 342 in 1939 due to what some members considered his cold demeanor. When Hynd resigned from his post as leader on April 10, 1950, the Board of Trustees recommended John F. Hornback (1919-2009) as Hynd’s replacement at the annual membership meeting on May 24, 1951. The members present at the meeting voted in favor of the Board’s decision. Hornback was a graduate of Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri, and joined the Chicago Ethical Society in 1941, before becoming the leader of the Westchester County Ethical Society in 1947. Hornback’s platforms espoused the scientific , the theory that humans could reach objective principles by studying contrasting values using deductive reasoning.

During Hornback’s tenure, the Society began making plans to secure a new home in St. Louis County. On December 13, 1954, the Board of Trustees established the Growth and Development Committee to study and devise plans for the growth of the Society’s membership, location, activities, and physical plant. In the committee’s May 10, 1955 report to the Board of Trustees, they noted that making improvements to the aging Sheldon Memorial was cost prohibitive due to higher maintenance costs. More importantly, recent population trends revealed that St. Louis Metropolitan residents were migrating westward from St. Louis City into St. Louis County. They recommended that the Society either establish a satellite ethical society in St. Louis County or move the Society’s headquarters to the county.

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After a failed attempt at administrating a satellite branch of the Society at the Young Women’s Christian Association building in Clayton, Missouri, from 1956 to 1958, the Growth and Development Committee recommended to the Board of Trustees on February 9, 1958, that it abort the experiment and allow the committee to begin searching for potential sites in St. Louis County for a new headquarters. By July 1958, the Growth and Development Committee choose a site at 8955 Clayton Road in Ladue; the Board of Trustees approved the measure, and the members ratified the decision on June 23, 1958. The new building, located at 9001 Clayton Road, was designed by St. Louis architect Harris Armstrong and completed in 1964. The Society dedicated the building on January 24, 1965, with an address by the noted community organizer Saul Alinsky. The Society retained ownership of Sheldon Memorial until its sale to St. Michael’s Spiritual Organization in May 1974.

John Hoad (1927-2011) became the leader of the Society following John Hornback’s retirement in 1984. A popular lecturer, Hoad’s lecturers increased platform attendance from 150 in 1984 to 200 in 1990. Hoad’s tenure as leader coincided with the Ethical Society’s centennial celebration. During this period the Board of Trustees commissioned Society member James O’Neill on May 21, 1985 to write a history of the Society. O’Neal’s book, A Community of Free Thinkers: A History of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, chronicles the history of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, as well as the philosophical underpinnings of the . The Board also established the Oral History (Audio Visual Committee) in 1989 to conduct oral history interviews with members of the Society, which included interviews with John F. Hornback and Elliot Chubb, Percival Chubb’s grandson. The committee eventually expanded its mission to the include filming of the Society’s events, including platforms, memorials, and the fall and winter festivals.

Judy Toth replaced Hoad as the leader of the Ethical Society of St. Louis in 1995 after his retirement. Toth’s administrative talents led to a successful capital campaign from 1997 to1998, resulting in the addition of the northwest wing to the building as well as an elevator in the summer of 1999. After Toth’s retirement in 2002, Don Johnson served briefly as the leader of the Ethical Society from 2002 to 2005, before Kate Lovelady succeeded him in 2005.

Donor Information The records were donated to the University of Missouri by James F. Hornback on August 22, 1984 (Accession No. SA1439). An addition was made on August 22, 1984 by James F. Hornback (Accession No. SA1440). An addition was made on August 22, 1984 by James F. Hornback (Accession No. SA1441). An addition was made on February 28, 1984 by James F. Hornback (Accession No. SA2603). An addition was made on July 24, 1984 by James F. Hornback (Accession No. SA2636). An addition was made on August 7, 1984 by James F. Hornback (Accession No. SA2641). An addition was made on November 26, 1984 by James F. Hornback (Accession No. SA2662). An addition was made July 20, 1993 by Diane Schuch (Accession No. SA3122). An addition was made on September 7, 2000 by a representative of the Ethical Society of St. Louis (Accession No. SA3385). An addition was made on October 9, 2018 by Kate Lovelady (Accession No. SA4369). An addition was made on October 22, 2018 by Kate Lovelady (Accession No. Page 4 of 70

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SA4372). An addition was made on January 15, 2019 by Kate Lovelady (Accession No. SA4383).

Copyright and Restrictions The Donor has given and assigned to the State Historical Society of Missouri all rights of copyright which the Donor has in the Materials and in such of the Donor’s works as may be found among any collections of Materials received by the Society from others.

Box List

Box 1 Felix Adler Addresses Addresses, 1880-1905: “The Workingman's School and Free Kindergarten,” 1880; Address of May 15, 1876; “Twentieth Anniversary of the Society for Ethical Culture of New York,” June 1896; “Marcus Aurelius: A Philosopher on the Throne,” January 1900; “Changes in the Conception of ,” December 1902; “The Punishment of Children,” November 1905 Addresses, 1906-1909: “Twentieth Anniversary Celebration,” May 5, 1906; “The Moral Effect of Gambling,” September 1908; “Foreign Experiences and Loyalty to American Ideals,” October 1909; “The Aim of the Ethical Culture Societies,” 1909 Addresses, 1911-1924: “The Point of View of the Ethical Culture Societies,” September 1911; “The Ethical Culture Movement,” December 1911; “Ethical Development Extending Through Life,” September 1912; “False Ethics in Social Reform Movements,” November 1913; “The Ethical Society, What It Means,” 1915; “Religion and the Joy of Life,” 1919; “Disarmament: Its Ideals and Possibilities,” 1921; “The of Culture for Business Men,” 1924 Pamphlets, no date: “An Ethical Programme for Business Men”; “Ethical Religion and the Child:” “A New Rule of Ethical Living;” The Purpose of the Ethical Movement” Walter Sheldon Pamphlets and Addresses Pamphlets, 1886-1894, no date: “An Ethical Movement, A Volume of Lectures,” no date; “Ethical Culture, Its Threefold Attitude,” 1886; “The Meaning of Ethics,” 1888; “Ethics in the Sunday School,” 1888; “The Meaning of the Ethical Movement,” 1891; “Ethics and the Belief in a God,” 1892; “A Plea for the Ethical of Poetry,” 1893; “True Heroism and What it Means,” 1893; “True Liberalism,” 1894 Pamphlets and Addresses, 1894-1897: “What Does It Mean To Be Religious, and What Is Religion?,” 1894; “Marriage and Its Ideals,” 1894; “What We Mean By Duty,” January 1895; “Don't,” 1895; Page 5 of 70

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“Never,” 1895; “Sayings from Mohammed,” 1895; “Sentences from the Brahman's,” 1895; “Sentences from ,” 1895; “Thoughts from the Chinese Sages, Confusius and ,” 1895; “What You Do in Becoming a Member of an Society,” 1895; “What an Ethical Society Is Not,” 1895; “What Is an Ethical Society,” 1895; “What To Believe,” 1895; “What To Remember,” 1895; “What To Think,” 1895; “Well Known or Important Passages from the Writings of Herbert Spencer,” no date; “Does Triumph in the End?, A Study of Shakespeare’s Lear,” December 1897 Pamphlets and Addresses by Walter Sheldon, 1898-1899: "The Songs of Nature, Audubon the Naturalist," 1898-1899; “Reasons for Hope and Cheer for Everybody,” 1899-1900; “A Summary of the More Recent Views Concerning the Bible I, II,” March-April, 1899; “Why Prosperity Does Not Always Bring ,” November 1899; “The Wage Earners' Self Culture Clubs of St. Louis,” March 1900; “The Belief in One God,” April 1901; “Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," November 1901; “The Marriage Problem of To-Day,” February-March, 1902; “What Makes Life Worth Living,” January 1903-1908 Pamphlets and Addresses of Walter Sheldon, 1903-1908: “The Story of Daniel” December 20, 1903; “Some Characteristic Selections from the Writings of ,” February 12, 1904; “What It Means to Work for a Cause,” December 1904; “A Graded Course of Moral Instruction for the Young,” April 1905; “What the Ethical Idealist Has to Fight For,” September 1905; “A Personal Request from Mr. Sheldon to the Members of the Ethical Society to Commemorate the Anniversary,” April 16, 1906; “Poem Read by Mr. Sheldon on the Closing Sunday of His 21st Year as Lecturer of the Ethical Society,” May 5, 1907; “Ethical Aspect of the Belief in Immortality,” April 1908 Lectures “The Bible”; “Garden of Eden”; “King David”; “Proverbs”; “Psalms”; “Samson”; “Use of the Bible for Ethical Purposes,” no date Biographies: “John Adams”; “Barney Barnato”; “Marie Bashkirtseff”; “Otto Von Bismarck”; “Napoleon Bonaparte”; “Charles Darwin”; “”; “Benjamin Franklin”; “Galileo,” no date Biographies: “Gladstone”; “David Harum”; “Oliver Wendell Holmes”; “Immanuel Kant”; “Sir Isaac Newton”; “Saint Paul”; “Spinoza”; “Alexander Von Humboldt” Biographies: “Von Moltke”; “George Washington”; “A Season's Lessons in Biographies Connected with some of the Rudiments in the Evolution of Ethical Theories,” no date “The Body, The Mind, The Intellect,” Parts 11-32, no date Children's Material: “The Flax”; “The Mountains and the Sea”; “The Oak Tree and the Ivy”; “The Teapot”; “Big Clock's ”; “The Glory of Prickly Bear”; “How Should We Supplement the Story of Jesus in Page 6 of 70

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the of the Young”; “Little Grains of Sand”; “Pear Tree,” no date Civil War: “Battles of the Civil War”; “The Fight for Missouri and the Opening Battles There,” no date “The Civilizations of and Venezuela”; “The British ”; “The ”; “Italy,” no date The Civilizations of Japan: “Japan and Russia”; “South America”; “The Story of the Struggle for in the History of the Human Race,” no date Eastern : “Brahmanism”; “Buddha and Buddhism”; “ and the Religion of China,” no date : “Ancient Egypt”; “Mohammed and Mohammedanism”; “Zoroaster,” no date

Box 2 Ethics for the Young, Sixth Series, “The Evolution of Belief Concerning the Deity,” no date; “The Advisability of Teaching Ethics in the Public Schools, Outline of Two Lectures Given at Des Moines on Teaching Ethics in Public Schools,” March 1904 Ethics and Liberal Religion: “Ethics of Communism and ”; “Ethics of Greece”; “God of the Bible Contrasted with the God of History”; “Moral Significance of the Design Argument in the Belief in a God”; “The New Liberalism in Religion”; “The Question of Cain: ‘Am I My Brother's Keeper?’”; “The Question of Pontius Pilate: ‘What Is Truth?’” no date Ethics Of Liberal Religion: “The Religion of ”; “The Religion of Today”; “The Self-Made Man”; “ and What There Is To I”; “The Study of Nature as an Influence on the Mind and Character”; “A Universal Interpretation of the Christmas Festival,” no date Ethics of Liberal Religion: “What Does It Mean to be Happy and What is a Happy Life?”; “What Is True Culture?”; “What Is the True Way To Keep Sunday?”; “Who Did Sin That This Man Was Born Blind?” no date Evolution: “The Evolution of Human Society”; “The Evolution of Justice”; “The Evolution of Life”; “The Evolution of Man”; “The Religion of Charles Darwin”; “The Theory Of Evolution—Herbert Spencer”; “A Tribute to Herbert Spencer,” no date Evolution of Religion: "The Bible Is Passing Out of Use..."; “Does It Make Any Difference What A Man , So Long As He Is Sincere?”; “The Evolution of Religion”; “The Greatest Sin In All the World,” no date Evolution of Religion: “How Can One Be Reverent Without Being Superstitious?”; “The Most Important Thing in All the World”; “Mythology Versus Philosophy in the ”; Page 7 of 70

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“Pessimism”; “What Is the Highest of All ?,” no date Evolution of Religious Beliefs: “The Beginnings of Religion”; “Evolution of Religious Beliefs” (incomplete); “The God of the Bible and the God of Natural Science”; “Religion In The Early World,” no date Greeks: “Aeschylus and the New ”; “Ancient Greece and the World of Homer”; “”; “Sophocles,” no date Literature: “Frances Bacon”; “Balzac, ‘Pere Goriot’”; “William Cullen Bryant”; “Bryant's ‘Thanatopsis’"; “Lord Bryon”; “Winston Churchill, ‘Crisis’”; “Dante's Conception of Sin And Its Punishment,” no date Literature: “Charles Dickens' ‘Bleak House’”; "David Copperfield"; "’The Old Curiosity Shop’ by Charles Dickens”; "’A Tale Of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens”; “The Religion Of George Eliot”; “The Views Of Life As Held by George Eliot”; “George Eliot's ‘Middle March’"; “Points to be Discussed in Reference to Felix Holt”; “Goethe, Trilby”; “Some Great Thoughts from Goethe”; “Goethe, 150th Anniversary”; “The Wisdom of Goethe”; “The Classic Poem, ‘The Elegy Written in a Country; Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray”; “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” no date Literature: “Victor Hugo's ‘Les Miserables’”; “Victor Hugo's ‘Notre Dame De Paris’”; “Quotations From ‘Life and Letters of Thomas H. Huxley’”; “The Plays of Ibsen”; “Omar Khayyam”; "’The White Man's Burden’ and ‘The Recessional’ by Kipling”; “James Russell Lowell Manner, Lord Chesterfield's Letters,” no date Literature: “’Paradise Lost’ by John Milton in Contrast with the ‘Divine Comedy’ by Dante”; “Friedrich Schiller,” no date Literature: “Anthony and Cleopatra”; “Shakespeare as a Religious Teacher”; "As You Like It"; “Cymbeline”; “Shakespeare's ‘Measure for Measure’”; “Merchant of Venice”; “Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’”; “The Play of ‘Othello’”; “Shakespeare's ‘Taming of the Shrew,’” no date Literature: “The Poetry of Tennyson”; “Tennyson's ‘Princess’ as a Problem Poem”; “Thackeray's ‘Vanity Fair’ and the ‘Vanity Fair’ of Real Life”; "’The Resurrection’ by Tolstoy”; “Quo Vadis,” no date Literature and Art: “Audubon the Naturalist, Songs of Nature”; “John Bunyan, What Can Be Learned from ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’”; “Hall Caine's Christian”; “George Eliot, Notes for a Talk on ‘Adam Bede’”; “What We Owe to the Late John Fiske”; “Hawthorne's ‘Scarlet Letter’; “Hawthorne's ‘Marble Faun’”; “Charles Kingsley, ‘Hypatia’”; “The Message of the Poetry of Longfellow,” no date “Love of One’s Country,” no date

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Miscellaneous: “Agnosticism; Angelus”; “The Art of Keeping Perpetually Young”; “Averbach, ‘On The Heights’”; “The Bible of Christian Science”; “Carlyle, Thoughts Upon ‘Sartor Resartus’”; “Childhood, Youth, Middle-Life and the Last Years: A Monologue”; “Children of the Ghetto”; “The Choice of Hercules”; “Contrast of the Views of Life as Held by Thackeray and Hawthorne (An Ethical Sermon)”; “Crime And What Is To Be Done About It,” no date Miscellaneous: “Definitions of Justice from Various Authors”; “Different Kinds of Heroes”; “Robert Elsmere”; “Essay on the Development of Christian ”; “Ethical Views of the Poet Goethe”; “Extracts from the lecture on ‘The Feeling Of Love’”; “First Year's Work of the Society”; “Alexander Hamilton”; “The Heart and How It Works,” no date Miscellaneous: “How Should We Deal with the God Idea in the Religious Education of Our Children”; “Influence of the Mind Over the Body”; Influence of Webster”; “The Inspiration That Comes from the Knowledge of Astronomy”; “Instinct and Habit”; “The Institution of the State”; “The Interest of Civilization In the Past and Future of Russia”; “The Jefferson Bible”; “Life and Work of the Teacher,” no date Miscellaneous: “Light of Asia, Edwin Arnold”; “Little Dorritt”; “London”; “Meaning of the Springtime Festival”; “Memorial Services”; “The Mind and What There Is in It”; “The Mississippi Valley”; “The Month of April and Its Meaning In Human Life”; “The Moral Significance of the Idea of Providence in the Belief in a God”; “The Mystery of Life,” no date Miscellaneous: “The New Testament from a Human Standpoint”; Notes; Notes for a Talk to the Students at Lebanon on the "Pleasures of the Intellectual Life"; Notes of a Lecture Given to the Pedagogical Society; “Our Country and Our Devotion to Our Country”; “The Outlook for Religion at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century”; “Plea for the Chinese,” no date Miscellaneous: “Points Concerning the ‘Ethik’ by Haoefeding”; “The Real Washington”; “The Religion of To-Day as Contrasted with that of Fifty Years Ago”; “Romola”; “Royce's ‘The World and the Individual’” (ten minute paper read at Professor Lovejoy's Philosophical Club, October 1902); “Schiller, Aesthetic Culture, Ninth Letter”; “Selections from the Ethics by Wundt”; “The Self or the Soul”; “Shakespeare's Hamlet”; “Silken Cord of Love,” no date Miscellaneous; “The Soul of Man in its Abnormal State”; “”; “Special Suggestions to Teachers Using These Lessons in ‘Duties Pertaining to One's Self’”; “Spinoza”; “The Teachings of Spinoza, Their Success and Failure as Illustrated in Auerbach's novel, ‘On The Heights’”; “A Study of the Heroes and Explorers of the Mississippi Page 9 of 70

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Valley”; “Suggested Answers to the List of Questions on ‘Henry Esmond’”; “Thanksgiving Day,” 1901; “Thirty Centuries of Human Progress”; “Thought and Where it Starts from”; “To Be a Man with Thy Might,” no date Miscellaneous: “To Have Lived in the Nineteenth Century”; “To What Extent is a Failure?”; “The Truth And Error in the Saying That Might Makes Right”; “Twelve Sayings from Amiel,” no date Miscellaneous: “What Can Be for the State a Religion for Everybody”; “What is ?”; “What Makes Life Worth Living?”; “What One Learns As One Gets Older”; “Why the American People Sympathize With Japan”; “Why the Sun Shines Alike Upon the Just and the Unjust”; “The Will and What it Can Do”; “Young Men and Their Interest in Art,” no date Philosophy: “Brahamanism”; “Buddhism”; “Cause of Causes of Panics and Hard Times”; “Concerning the Unsatisfactoriness of the Classification of Duties and Virtues in Many of the Modern Treatises on Ethics”; “Criterion of a Good Form of Government”; “Dante's Conception of Good Conduct and its Reward Compared with the Teachings of the Present Day”; “Ralph Waldo Emerson”; “Sentences from Emerson,” no date Philosophy: “Euripides and a Picture of Athens at the Close of its Renaissance”; “The Forerunner of the French Revolution Rousseau”; “Sentences from Huxley”; “Sentences From Locke”; “The Influence of James Russell Lowell”; “Sentences from Milton”; “Modern Skepticism - Is It Dangerous?”; “Sentences From Montaigne,” no date Philosophy: Notes for "The Americanism of Emerson and Whitman"; Notes for a Talk About Goethe; Notes for a Talk on Hawthorne; “Plato the Father of Philosophy”; “Plato, The Greatest of All the Philosophers”; “Plato's Republic”; “Preliminary Talks: Golden Age”; “Ideas of the Deity”; “Ages of History”; “Sacred Books”; “Proverbs,” no date Philosophy: “Seneca”; “Sentences from Rousseau”; “Sentences and Paragraphs from Jeremy Taylor and Sir Thomas Browne”; Sheldon's Study of Special Habits and Sheldon's Duties in the Home and Family; “ and Greek Culture in the Age of Pericle's; “The Work of Thomas Jefferson,” no date “A Plea on Behalf of Moral Training on the Public Schools,” no date “The Prophet Elijah,” no date : “The New Psychology,” no date Psychology of feelings: “Points of the Lesson”; “Dislike, Aversion, and Hate”; “Fear”; “The Feeling of Love”; no date Psychology of feelings: “Feelings about the Beautiful”; “Pleasure and Pain”; “Religious Feeling,” no date Quotations, no date Page 10 of 70

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Box 4 “Relation of Ethics to Science,” no date “Relationship between the Sexes,” no date “Religion of Marcus Aurelius”; “Napoleon Bonaparte”; “Giordano Bruno”; “Epictetus”; “Epicurus And The Epicureans”; “Ralph Waldo Emerson,” no date “Religion of Goethe”; “Hamlet”; “Nathaniel Hawthorne”; “Victor Hugo, As Suggested by ‘Les Miserables’” December 7, 1902; “Abraham Lincoln”; "Marcella"; “Rousseau”; “Socrates”; “Success and Failure of the Sermon on the Mount,” no date “Social And Economic Reform: The Columbian Anniversary”; “Contrasts Between Social Conditions and Social Reform Movements in England and the United States”; “Contrast Between the Social in Movement in England and the United States”; “Devotion to our Country”; “The Good Side to Prosperity”; “Life and the Struggle To-Day Compared With Life and the Struggle one Hundred Years Ago”; “Meaning and Significance of the Coal Strike”; “Quixotic Tendencies of the Nineteenth Century,” no date “Social and Economic Reform: Notes for a Talk on Criminology”; “The One Truth in All Social Theories”; “The Right And Wrong of an Income Tax”; “The Struggle Between Science and Religion”; “The Struggle One Hundred Years Ago; What Do We Mean By Success?,” no date “Social And Economic Reform: What Is Right Action?”; “What Is the True Love of Country?”; “What Would Be the Best Way to Improve the World?”; “What We Spend Our Money How Can We Do It At the Same Time In Such A Way As Best To Help Our Fellow Men?,” no date “Social Rights and Duties: Meaning and Ideal of Justice”; “Social Rights and Duties”; “The Wheel of Fortune or the Ties or Distinctions Made by Nature or Necessity,” no date “Socrates,” no date (incomplete) “Study of Habit,” 1902-1903; “Ambition”; “Power of Habit”; “Pride”; “Pursuit of Pleasure: When It Is Right and When It Is Wrong”; “Self-Control,” no date “World Affairs: Ethical Considerations in the Irish Home-Rule Question”; “The German Emperor's New Stop in the Social Problem”; “Outcome of the War with Spain,” no date Books An Ethical Sunday School, New York, 1900; Lessons in the Study of Habits, Chicago, 1903; A Study of the Divine Comedy of Dante, Philadelphia, 1905; Summer Greetings from Japan, privately printed, 1908; The Story of the Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Philadelphia, Page 11 of 70

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1909; Thoughts from the Writings of Walter L. Sheldon, selected by C.B., St. Louis, 1919 Percival Chubb Memorials Walter L. Sheldon, An Appreciation, by Professor Frank Tilly of , 1907; In Memorium, Pamphlet, June 5, 1907; Ethical Addresses, Vol. XV, No. 11, September 1907; Service of Walter L. Sheldon; Words Spoken at by Mr. Sheldon; Marriage ceremony by Mr. Sheldon; Ethical Addresses, Vol. XV, No. 2, October 1907; Walter L. Sheldon Memorial Addresses; Felix Adler: W.A. Brandenberger; William M. Salter: Fanny M. Bacon; John Lovejoy Elliott: George R. Dodson; Robert Moore: Samuel Sale; William Taussig: M. Anesaki; S. Burns Weston: M. Anesaki; Memorial Meeting, December 1907 Pamphlets and addresses “An Ethical Critique of , Theoretical and Practical”; “Ethical Societies and the Child”; “The Function of the Festival in School Life”; “A Gospel for Days of Doubt and Disillusion”; “The Larger Fellowship”; “The Mission of the Ethical Movement of the Child”; “Moral Instruction in Ethical Culture Schools” (Chapter XIV); “A Naming Service”; “Our Ethical : A Religion for the Unchurched”; “The Spirit of Ethical Fellowship”; “The Teaching of English in the Elementary and Secondary School,” no date “The Conservative and Liberal Aspects of Ethical Religion, December,” 1898; “Tolstoi's Resurrection,” June, 1903; “Parsifal and the Quest of the Holy Grail,” May 1904; “Our Mission and Opportunity,” January 1907; “Our Ultimate Faith and Alfred R. Wolff Memorial,” February 1909; “Forerunners of Our Faith: I - Thomas Carlyle and Ethical Conversion,” May, 1910; “Forerunners of Our Faith: II - Mathew Arnold and Ethical Clarification,” June 1910; “Dedication of the Meeting-House of the New York Society for Ethical Culture,” October 1910; “The Origin and Growth of the Ethical Movement,” October 1910; “The Re-Interpretation of Thanksgiving,” November 1910; “The Religion of Young America During the War - And After,” December 1918; “To the Members,” September 1918; “To the Members,” September 1919-1926 In Memoriam, John H. Gundlach, April 11, 1926; “After Forty Years,” 1926; Outline of the Course in Ethical and Religion Education Followed by the Children's Assembly of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1926; “To the Members,” September 1927; “To the Members,” September 1928; “To the Members,” September 1929; “The Festival: A Project in World Mindedness in School and Home,” Vol. XIV, No. 45, May 1930; “To the Members,” September 1930; “The Spirit of Thanksgiving, A Comment on the Sources and Conditions of Page 12 of 70

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Gratitude,” December 12, 1931; “After Thoughts, Some Harvestings from the Field of His During Twenty-two Years of Service in the Ethical Society of St. Louis,” 1932; “In Our Time - What We Found and What We Have Eighteenth Birthday Celebration Address,” April 28, 1940

Box 5 Lectures and writings "I Hope in These Days We Have Heard the Last of Conformity and Consistency...," no date; “: Some Reminiscences and Interpretations,” 1923; “Let There be Light, Words and Music,” by Percival Chubb, no date; “Literary Criticism, etc. Rough Book,” 1895; Notes for Address on the Genius of England, no date; Synopsis of Mr. Chubb's Address on "," no date; “Richard Wagner's Significance for the Culture and Religion of Today,” no date; S. Burns Western Memorial, July 1936 Child Study, 1916-1933 Memorials, 1912-1938 (4 folders) On the Religious Frontier, New York, 1931 Memorial Service in Honour of Mrs. Anna Hartshorne Sheldon Chubb, April 27, 1924 J. Hutton Hynd Addresses, 1936, 1948-1951 Radio talks, 1942-1953 (2 folders) Bylaws, Constitution and Statements of Purpose, 1883-1982 Annual Reports, 1887-1954 (4 folders) Correspondence 1887-1907 (18 folders)

Box 6 1908-1917 (20 folders)

Box 7 1918-1930 (19 folders)

Box 8 1930-1952, no date (8 folders) Membership Applications and subscriptions, 1896-1913 (13 folders)

Box 9 Applications and subscriptions, 1913-1916 (16 folders)

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Applications and subscriptions, 1917-1930 (12 folders) Membership lists, 1888-1937 (4 folders) Membership files, 1900-1980 (4 microfilm rolls)

Box 11 Greek Ethics Club, 1898-1900 Membership committee, 1914 Men’s Club, 1914 Men’s Discussion Group, 1902-1905 New members, 1951-1952 Political Science Club, 1893-1894 Young People’s Assembly, mailing and membership lists, 1912-1936, no date Women’s Auxiliary Committee, 1902-1904 Meeting Minutes Annual conventions, 1912-1916 Bylaws, 1925 Correspondence, 1915-1919 Boston, 1913-1916 Chicago, 1913-1916 Cincinnati, 1915 Financial, 1915-1917 Indianapolis, 1914 Literature, 1901-1925 Los Angeles, 1914-1916 Meeting minutes, 1914-1916 New York, 1914-1916 Philadelphia, 1914-1916 Washington, 1914-1916 Executive Committee 1904-1913 (5 folders)

Box 12 1914, 1924-1925 (2 folders) Other Groups Advisory and Planning Council, 1949-1950 American Ethical Union, 1907-1958 (4 folders) Boy Scout Troop 21, 1931-1936 Contemporary Literature Reading Circle, 1926-1927 Greek Ethics Club, 1911-1912 Literary Committee, 1932 Men’s Club, 1915-1917, 1930, 1932-1937 (3 folders) Musical Club, 1914-1919 St. Louis Community Forum and Peace Group, 1921-1937 St. Louis School of Social Economy, 1905-1931 Page 14 of 70

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Sunday Morning Assemblies, 1934 United Nations Discussion Group, 1947-1956 (2 folders) Women’s Auxiliary, 1925-1927 Self-Culture Hall Association Annual report, 1901 Budgets, 1893-1904 Bulletins, 1892-1904 Correspondence, 1903-1905 “The Technique of Self-Culture,” no date Young People’s Assembly Board meeting minutes, 1933-1941 Constitution and bylaws, no date Correspondence, 1919-1925, 1929, 1938-1942 (2 folders) Literature, 1912-1924 Papers, 1930-1931 Program for General Exercises, 1904-1905

Box 13 Programs, 1909-1935 Parent Teacher Association, 1925-1926 Youth encampment, 1948-1950 “YPA Yarns,” bulletins and programs, 1934-1942 Financial Ledgers Budgets, 1889-1928 Day book disbursements, 1911-1933 Financial ledger, 1921-1929 Chamber music concerts, financial ledger, 1934-1939 Financial ledger, 1937-1939 Sheldon Memorial Bids, 1910 Building fund, 1915-1916 Building plans, 1909-1910 Certificate of Title, 1923 Contracts and specifications, 1911-1912 (2 folders) Correspondence, 1912-1927 (2 folders) Dedication literature, 1912 Elevators, no date Financial records, 1911-1916 Insurance records, 1887-1922 Sheldon Library book lists, no date Lighting plan, 1912 Memorial Hall, 19th and Locust, Farewell, 1912 Newspaper clippings, 1909-1913 Penny Brigade, 1911 Page 15 of 70

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Statement of Progress and Prospects, 1911 Subscriber lists, 1909-1910 Windows, blueprints, and subscription list, no date Histories and Papers History project note cards by Robin Jones, no date “St. Louis: The Social Life of a Modern Metropolis,” by David Carpenter and Stuart Queen,” 1954

Box 14 The Philosophic Sources and Sanctions of the Founders of Ethical Culture,” by James F. Hornback, 1983 Microfilm copies of Newsletters, Bulletins, and Programs Newsletters, February 1, 1987 Publications (England), 1888-1938: “Special Report on Elementary Education in , Switzerland and France,” by Mathew Arnold, 1888; “Emerson,” by T.F. Husband, 1892; “Seed Time, The Organ of the New Fellowship,” 1893; “Democracy in Religion, Education, Art, Industry and Politics,” April 13, 1901; “The of the Past and the Church of the Future,” April 1903; “Ethics, An Organ of the Ethical Movement,” April 11, 1903; “Giordano Bruno,” by Maurice Adams, 1905; “The Ethical World,” June 15, 1911; “Nietzsche and Treitschke, the of Power in Modern Germany,” 1914; “Beauty or Goodness? - or Both?” by John Oakesmith, no date; “Why We Are At War,” by J. Ramsay MacDonald; “The Call of the To You,” by Frederick G. Gould, 1919; “Ethnical Religion,” by J.S. MacKenzie, March 10, 1920; “Religion: Past, Present and Future,” by W. Siddle and H. Snell, 1922; “The Moral Challenge to the Economic System,” by J.A. Hobson, 1933; “Distinctive Features of the Ethnical Movement,” by Alfred W. Martin, 1938; “The Moral Challenge to the Economic System,” by J.A. Hobson, 1933; “Distinctive Features of the Ethical Movement,” by Alfred W. Martin, 1938; “Labour Hymns for Labor Church Services,” no date; “Life in Utopia,” Old South Leaflet, no date; “The Land Question,” by Henry George, no date Program cards, 1894-1928 The Ethical Record, December 1899-November 1902 The Newsletter, August 1909-October 1914 News Letter (), 1912-1917 News Letter (Chicago), 1912-1918 News Letter (International), 1913, 1915 News Letter (Philadelphia), 1909-1918 News Letter (New York), 1912-1939 Sunday program, 1912-1956 Monthly bulletins, October 1914-1932 Publications (U.S., not published by Ethical Society), 1884-1935: “Burns and Religious Matters,” by Reverend Dr. W.C. Bitting, Pastor, Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, January 25, 1913; “Ethical or Mathew Arnold's Idea Page 16 of 70

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of God, A Discourse,” by John C. Learned, 1884; Westminster College News Letter, September 1914; Resolutions Adopted at a Mass Meeting of American Citizens at the Coliseum, St. Louis, Missouri, January 10, 1915; “America's Just Cause, A Reply to Pacifists,” by Horace Bridges, 1917; Westminster College Bulletins, January 1917, March 1917; “The Conscience of America Must Answer This Appeal!,” Fred Keller, Captain in the Lincoln Brigade Speech at the Sheldon Memorial, no date; St. Louis Women At Work, Volume 3, No. 5, December 1921; The Standard, Volume XII, No. 9, May 1926; “The Fascist Road to Ruin,” by George Seldes, 1935; “Right to the Use of the Earth,” by Herbert Spencer, no date; “Single Tax Catechism,” no date; “Single Tax, What It Is and Why We Urge It,” by Henry George Anniversary programs, 1916-1936 Twice-A-Year (Children’s Sunday Assembly), 1922-1926 Chamber music concert programs, 1930-1980 Bulletins, 1931-1952 News Notes, 1938-1961 Program cards, 1954-1956 Ethical Weekly, 1972, 1985-1986 Meeting notices and Sunday programs, 1922-1925

Box 15 Meeting notices, 1924-1930 (3 folders) Programs and newspaper clippings, 1930-1931 Convention publicity, 4th anniversary, October 9-11, 1931; 50th Anniversary, November 27-29, 1936

Box 16 Scrapbooks Programs and newspaper clippings scrapbook, 1931-1941 (10 folders)

Box 17 Programs and newspaper clippings scrapbook, 1941-1953 (13 folders)

Box 18 Programs and newspaper clippings scrapbook, 1953-1954 Newspaper clippings, 1954-1956 Programs and newspaper clippings, 1956-1957 Junior Sunday Assembly Annual register, 1923-1931 Announcements, 1923-1933 Programs and calendars, 1925-1926 “A Record, With a Forward Look,” 1935-1936 (includes programs, 1911-1931) Group activities, February 1934 (includes programs, 1911-1934) Page 17 of 70

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Mailings, 1943-1946 Enrollment book, 1910-1913 (microfilm) Programs and announcements, 1932-1942

Box 19 Annual meetings, 1910-1977 (12 folders)

Box 20 Annual meetings, 1978-2001 (7 folders) Executive Committee, meeting minutes, 1916-1923 Board of Trustees, meeting minutes, 1930-1962 (5 folders)

Box 21 Board of Trustees, meeting minutes, 1962-1985, 1996-1997, 1999-2003 (12 folders) Growth and Development Committee 1955-1964 (2 folders)

Box 22 Campaign for new site, 1958-1961 County Branch Committee, 1956 Parent Growth and Development Committee, 1955-1961 Building Design and Construction Committee 1958-1961 1959, 1964 1963-1965 Architect contract, 1960-1964 Architect search, 1959-1961 Correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports, 1958-1963 Finance Subcommittee, 1958-1963 Furnishings Committee, 1960-1964 (2 folders) Functional Requirements Committee, 1958-1963 Project Committee, 1961 Site Subcommittee, Enders nursery tract, 1957-1961 Ballot material and membership meetings, 1958-1961, 1963 Financial reports, 1962-1970 (2 folders) Progress reports, 1964

Box 23 Building information Acoustics, brackets, heating and air conditioning, intercom, landscaping, library, and parking, 1962-1965 Architectural materials, no date Architectural plans and drawings, 1963 Auditorium, no date Page 18 of 70

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Bids and estimates, 1961-1963 Contracts, 1963 Correspondence, 1961-1965 Décor, no date Design, 1962 Electrical, no date Foundation and plot plan, 1961 Functional Requirements Committee, 1958-1962 Furnishings, no date General contractor, 1963 Heating, air conditioning, duct work, and controls, 1963-1964 Kitchen and kitchenette, 1962 New site, 1961-1964 Purchasing, W. P. Kunderman, 1963 Sewers, shelves, sing and driveway lights, spray ponds, and windows, 1962-1965 Specifications and bids for construction of new building, 1958-1967 Sheldon Hall, Bookkeeping, correspondence and sale to St. Michael, 1974-1979 (2 folders) Correspondence regarding bookkeeping, 1971-1974 Finance, budgets and reports, 1972-1973

Box 24 Membership Prospective members, E-F, S, W 1950-1987 (4 folders) Jerome Nathanson 1941-1975 Public relations Radio addresses 1949-1968 1949-1956 (2 folders) Fan mail, 1950-1956 Radio talks, KADI-FM, 1965-1968 Correspondence and press releases, 1957-1960 Correspondence, press releases, and newspaper clippings, 1963-1970 (2 folders) Advertising proofs, correspondence, and press releases, 1970-1974 (2 folders) Advertising proofs, brochure, correspondence, press releases, and newspaper clippings, 1975-1982 (2 folders) Brochures, 1976-1986, no date Contact interview forms and meeting minutes, 1982-1983

Box 25 Correspondence, brochures, press releases, and newspaper clippings, 1983-1988 Newspaper clippings and press releases, 1991, 1993-1995 Correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1995-1997 Page 19 of 70

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Advertising proofs and newspaper clippings, 1997-1999 Press releases and newspaper clippings, 1998-1999 History committee A Community of Freethinkers: A History of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1886-1986 Chronology and outline, no date Pages 1-1288 (5 folders)

Box 26 Undated draft, pages 1-521, (3 folders) A Community of Freethinkers: A History of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Eras, pages 1-209, 1996, 1999 (1 floppy disk) (2 folders) Adult Education Committee Historical origins, 1985-1989 Agendas, correspondence, and meeting minutes, 1993-1999 Education Planning Committee, 1986 Education Steering Committee, 1987-1988 Finances Finance Committee, 1986, 1998-1999 Investment Committee, 1998 Stuckenberg Committee 1987, 1998 Correspondence, 1998 Ethical Society budget, 1998 Treasurer’s report and Finance Committee, 1998

Box 27 Loucks, Ted, 1998 Board of Trustees, 1995, 1998-1999 Newsletters, bulletins, and programs Publications, England, 1888-1938 Program cards, 1894-1928 (2 folders) The Ethical Record, 1899-1902 The Newsletter (St. Louis), 1909-1914 News Letter (Brooklyn), 1912-1917 News Letter (Chicago), 1912-1918 News Letter (International, Philadelphia, and New York), 1909-1918 Sunday morning programs, 1912-1956 (3 folders)

Box 28 Sunday morning programs, 1912-1957 (5 folders) Monthly bulletins, 1914-1932 (2 folders) Publications (United States, not published by Ethical Society), 1884-1935 Page 20 of 70

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Twice-A-Year and the Torchlight (Children’s Sunday Assembly), 1913-1930 Anniversary Programs, 1916-1936 News Notes, 1938-1961 (4 folders) Program cards, 1954-1956 Ideals at Work, News Notes, and Noosepaper, 1957-1959

Box 29 Ethical Weekly, 1971-2000 (12 folders)

Box 30 Cuts and graphics, 1963-1981 (2 folders) Brochure, History and Philosophy of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1973-1974 Ethical Voice; Thoughts and Deeds, 1989-1992, 1998 Marriages, Memorials, and Namings Book of Remembrance, 1925-1947 Namings, funerals, and memorials, 1954-1983 Marriages, 1955-1985 (8 folders)

Box 31 Marriages, 1986-2000 (10 folders) Photographs of unidentified marriages, no date Junior Sunday Assembly Essays and platforms (Includes memorials), 1928-1934, no date Felix Adler Memorial Day booklets and annual entertainment programs, 1924-1925, 1934 Chave plan for religious education, 1942-1943 Correspondence, 1952-1953 Paid bills and statements, 1939-1953 (2 folders) Desk reference Current program material, 1926-1943 For recurrent use (personnel and student lists), 1933-1943 Organizational Student lists, 1950-1951, no date

Box 32 Directors’ reports, 1913-1942 Financial reports, 1929-1942 Correspondence, cards, bulletins, announcements, and invitations to parents and Junior Sunday Assembly, 1915-1942 Formal calendars and announcements, 1909-1942 Minutes of Junior Sunday Assembly Teachers’ Council meetings (Includes Parents and Teachers Association notes), 1930-1934, 1943-1944 Attendance and membership lists, 1924-1931, 1952-1953 (2 folders) Page 21 of 70

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Educational Ideas Material for Groups I, II, and V, Fables and Legends, Here and Now Stories, and Famous Men and Women, 1947, no date Material for Group VI, “Living in Our City,” 1928, 1942, 1947 Material for Group VII, “The Book of Nature,” 1930-1931 Material for Group VIII, “Peoples of all Nations,” 1934-1944 Material for Group IX, Bible history and literature, no date Spring festivals, Easter, 1940-1943 Reference materials, 1936, no date Celebrations and special programs Christmas materials, 1939-1943 Dramatics, 1943-1945 (2 folders) The Adult Society, organizational matters, 1932-1943 Leaders Walter Sheldon, 1907-1918 Percival Chubb Addresses, 1915-1940 Pastoral correspondence, 1913-1927 War and politics, 1915-1917 James Hornback, 1962-1996 Sheldon Memorial 1985-1986 Building and grounds, 1943-1965

Box 33 Finances Treasurer’s reports, 1898-1916 Board of Trustees, 1887, 1897-1901 Public relations Newspaper clippings, 1982-1985 (2 folders) Annual celebrations and annual education work reports, 1896-1905 Other societies 1950-1951 1997-2001 Ethical Society, 1951-1981 (2 folders) Ethical Culture Society of Bergen, 1951-1983 Ethical Society of Boston, 1956-1979 Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 1947-1983 Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago, 1947-1995 (2 folders) Ethical Society of Cleveland, 1952-1976

Box 34 Membership Harold Hanke, 1952-2001 Page 22 of 70

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Jane Hanke, 1959-1995 Ludwig and Corrine Hammer, 1952-2013 (2 folders) Anna Hartshorne Sheldon Chubb, memorial, April 27, 1924 Edna Thomas Harter: Her Forebears, Descendants and Kin, by Genevieve Harter Nelson, 1962 Photographs Addition to northwest wing of Ethical Society building, 1999 American Ethical Union Address, Henry B. Herman, and Sheldon Hall, 1954, no date Ethical Society members and groups, 1931-1997, no date (2 folders) Ethical Society Sunday School 1st-12th grades, September 1983 1983-1993 1991-1992 1992-1993 1993-1994 1994-1995 1994-1998 1997-1998 (2 folders) 1998-1999

Box 35 1999-2000 Retreat, 1984 Sunday School memories, May 1999 Sunday School at Sheldon Memorial, October 1986 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Sunday, 1976 Youth conference, Buffalo, New York, 1988 Sheldon Memorial, 1912-1920 Platform addresses, events, memorials, and seminars (audio cassettes) December 2, 1973-September 16, 1984 The New Ethnicity, James F. Hornback, December 2, 1973; In Defense of the Genteel Tradition, James F. Hornback, March 10, 1974 “The Right to Life: Quality or Quantity,” James F. Hornback, February 10, 1974 Revival of Sin in Psychology, James F. Hornback, January 6, 1974; The Ethical Dimension of World Hunger, David Burgess, March 7, 1976 of Eleanor Chaudron and Walter Hoops, October 15, 1974 Ethics Here & Now, James F. Hornback, September 28, 1975 Human Freedom and New American Determinism, Khoren Arisian, October 5, 1975 Our Relation to Unitarians and Reform Jews, James F. Hornback, Page 23 of 70

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October 12, 1975 New Vitality in the United Nations, Leguey-Feilleux, October 26, 1975 Utopias, Lyman Sargent, November 23, 1975 If America had been a Church-State, James F. Hornback, January 11, 1976 Originality of the American Revolution, Alexander Niven, February 22, 1976; You are What You Do and More, New Ethics of the Workplace, James F. Hornback, November 7, 1976 Scapegoating and Collective Guilt, A Few Kind Words for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), March 21, 1976 Some Thoughts on the Bicentennial, Carey McWilliams, April 11, 1976 Limited Freedom is Rich Personhood, Hoagland, April 25, 1976 Walter Hoops, May 1, 1983 Interview with 9th grade class and Joy McConnell, Elsie Dewald, May 9, 1983 Introduction to Ethical Culture, September 16, 1984 Elsie Dewald, Mabel Jones, and Robin Jones, no date

January 2, 1983-May 17, 1987 Project Motivation, John Hoad, January 2, 1983 How Can We Tell What is Ethical? James F. Hornback, January 9, 1983 Tom Paine, Walter Hoops, January 30, 1983 Program on Abortion Rights, January 23, 1983 Why do Bad Things Happen? John Hoad, February 6, 1983 Panel: Ethical Society, What it Does: How it Operates, February 20, 1983 What’s Behind Prejudice? John Hoad, February 27, 1983 Gandhi: Making Truth Real, John Hoad, March 20, 1983 Toxic Wastes and the Environmental Protection Agency, Hugh Kaufman, March 27, 1983 Spring Festival, April 3, 1983 Women’s Anger/Men’s Hurt: Gathering Storm in Human Relations, K. Arisian, April 10, 1983 When Soul Needs Healing: Affirmations of Ethical Religion, Matthew Ies Spetter, April 17, 1983 Keeping Growing Edge on Life, John Hoad, April 24, 1983 When Love Begins to Knock at Doors, Betty Williams, May 8, 1983 Recognition Sunday, May 15, 1983 Family Dynamics, John Hoad, May 22, 1983 Ethics at Work, Members Speak, May 29, 1983 Protestant , Dorothy Barnhardt, July 17, 1983 Ethical Renascence, Getting Our Act Together, John Hoad, September 25, 1983 Page 24 of 70

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Memorial service for Clementine Linzee, October 9, 1983 U.S. Citizenship, John Hoad, October 9, 1983 Elders and Anecdotes, Jerred Metz, October 23, 1983 , John Anderson, October 2, 1983 The Skeptic, John Hoad, November 6, 1983 The Believer, John Hoad, November 27, 1983 The Rationalist, John Hoad, November 11, 1983 Members Speak on Ethical Topics of Today, May 26, 1985 Vedanta Approach to Religion and Ethics, Swami Parthasarathy, September 30, 1985 Recognition Sunday, Sunday School graduation, May 17, 1987

Box 36 January 1, 1984-January 6, 1985 Panel, in Animal Experimentation, Dr. D. Barnes and others, January 1, 1984 Social Identity and Humanist Vision, John Hoad, January 15, 1984 Addiction, Douglas Chaudron, January 29, 1984 Courage of Our Convictions, John Hoad, February 5, 1984 Musical Festival, Carl Smith: One + One=Three, February 12, 1984 Medean Protest, Reflection on Euripides, John Hoad, February 26, 1984 Gathering Inward, Stretching Outward, John Hoad, March 18, 1984 Making Ethical Decisions, William Caspary, March 25, 1984 Humor as Ethical Insight, John Hoad, April 1, 1984 The Holocaust, Harry Cargas, April 15, 1984 Spring Festival, Our Story of Creation, April 22, 1984 Memorial service, Ella Jens Boeschenstein, April 23, 1984 , John Hoad, April 29, 1984 Jesus in Humanist Perspective, John Hoad, May 1, 1984 ‘Object’ of Humanistic Ethics, James F. Hornback, May 6, 1984 Holistic , Head, Heart, and Hands, John Hoad, May 13, 1984 What Gives Life Meaning, S. Weidenheimer, W. Hoops, and Marion Andrew, May 27, 1984 Essentials of , Ronald Lind, KFUO, July 22, 1984 Roman Catholicism, What Direction? James F. Hitchcock, July 29, 1984 The Mormons, Continuing Revelation, Richard Oscarson, August 5, 1984 Christ of the Covenants: History Goal Realized, (Presbyterian), Dr. Palmer Robertson, August 12, 1984 Memorial service, Harold Bourgeois, September 29, 1984 Important Things in Life, John Hoad, September 30, 1984 Healthy and Toxic Personality, John Hoad, October 14, 1984 TV News and Show Business, Christine Craft, October 21, 1984 Page 25 of 70

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Ethics of Legislative Life, Bruce Jennings, October 28, 1984 What Difference Does it Make? George Beauchamp, November 11, 1984 A Small Step Forward (On the Right to Counsel), Anthony Lewis, November 12, 1984 Those Who Love Must Some Day Mourn, John Hoad, November 25, 1985 A Humanism Big Enough for Humanity, John Hoad, December 2, 1984 Justice and the Iliad of Homer, Frank Fowle III, December 9, 1984 Can We Change Ourselves for the Better? John Hoad, January 6, 1985

January 13, 1985-October 27, 1985 Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Culture, John Hoad, January 13, 1985 Gestalt Theory and Ethics, John Hoad, January 14, 1985 Playing with Words is Playing with Life, January 28, 1985 Memorial service, Doris Wheeler, February 3, 1985 Apartheid and Tragedy of South Africa, D. Woods, February 3, 1985 Quest for Ultimate Reality, John Hoad, February 10, 1985 Is Price Right?—Miller’s Play at REP, John Hoad, February 17, 1985 Awakening from our Sleep Walk, John Hoad, March 3, 1985 Awareness of Our Endangered World, Carol Perkins, March 10, 1985 Awareness of Margins, V. A. Harrison, March 23, 1985 Group Identity-Group Violence. Social Influence on Attitudes, Judith Espenschied, March 21, 1985 Memorial service, Richard J. Lennertson, April 6, 1985 Voices and Echoes, Julie Heifetz, April 14, 1985 Thoughts on Death and Life, Khoren Arisian, April 21, 1985 Quest for Ultimate Reality, John Hoad, April 28, 1985 (2 tapes) Memorial service, Alan Atkins, May 1, 1985 Four Horsemen of Existence, John Hoad, May 5, 1985 The Knot in the Apron String, Cele Cummiskey, May 12, 1985 Personal Constructs, John Hoad, May 19, 1985 William Potapohuk, National Institute of Peace, July 14, 1985 Ethics is about Conflict, John Hoad, September 22, 1985 Claiming Biblical Heritage for Humanism, John Hoad, October 6, 1985 Is American Character Ready for the Emerging Future? Douglas Heath, October 13, 1985 The Free Mind Through the Ages, John Hoad, October 27, 1985

November 3, 1985-May 25, 1986 Meaning that Motivates our , John Hoad, November 3, 1985 Can There be a Liberal Code of Ethics? John Hoad, November 10, 1985 Personal Ethics, John Hoad, November 17, 1985 Harvest Festival, November 24, 1985 Page 26 of 70

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Making Worry Work For Us, John Hoad, December 15, 1985 Putting Guilt in its Place, John Hoad, December 1, 1985 Drama, Black Woman and Kids Knocking at Door, January 19, 1986 Philosophical Implications of the Abortion Controversy, John Hoad, February 2, 1986 Humanist Perspectives on the Question of God, John Hoad, February 16, 1986 The Ethics of Conflict Management, Dr. James Laue, February 23, 1986 (2 tapes) Spiritual Ideal as Foundation of Community, John Hoad, March 2, 1986 Memorial service, Lela Lebow, March 4, 1986 The Art of Encouragement, Dr. Cameron Meredith, March 9, 1986 Spring Festival, Rebirth, March 30, 1986 Next Steps to Peace, Walter Hoffman, April 13, 1986 Drugs in the Workplace: Is Testing the Answer? Rick Foristel, April 20, 1986 World Views of Right-Wing Women in America, Rebecca Klatch, April 27, 1986 Ethical Aspects of Modern Marriage, John Hoad, April 6, 1986 100 Years of Promoting the Best, John Hoad and Jim O’Neal, May 4, 1986 (2 tapes) Celebration of Love, John Hoad, May 11, 1986 The Legacy of the Past, Members Speak, May 25, 1986 (2 copies)

June 29, 1986-February 21, 1987 Observations on the United Nations, Jean Robert Leguey-Feilleaux, June 29, 1986 The Debt Crisis: Fidel Castro as Statesman, Sister Mary Ann McGivern, July 6, 1986 The Importance of Credible Strategic Deterrence, George Sloan, July 13, 1986 Update on the National Institute for Peace, William Potapchuk, July 20, 1986 Three Russian Representatives from the Mississippi River Peace Cruise, August 3, 1986 Humanism and Science, John Hoad, September 28, 1986 The Future of Gender Politics, Rebecca Klatch, October 12, 1986 Ethics and Eating, John Hoad and Kyle Dennis, October 26, 1986 Voices form the Past: True Liberalism, John Hoad, November 2, 1986 Voices from the Past: Percival Chubb, John Hoad, November 9, 1986 Psychology and the Ethics of Success, John Hoad, January 4, 1987 Sex and General Semantics, John Hoad, January 11, 1987 Martin Luther King, Jr.: History Songs, Commentary, January 18, 1987 Memorial service for Elsie Dewald, February 1, 1987 Page 27 of 70

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Anger and Forgiveness, John Hoad, February 1, 1987 (2 tapes) Ethics symposium, (Bohman), February 21, 1987 (2 tapes)

Box 37 February 22, 1987-November 1, 1987 Autobiography as Philosophy, John Hoad and Robert Heck, February 22, 1987 The Making and Maintenance of the Modern Sex Ethic, John Hoad, March 1, 1987 Ruby and the Vietnam Veteran, John Hoad, March 8, 1987 A Humanist Looks at Prayer, Susan Bagot, March 15, 1987 Debriefing from a Past Religion, John Hoad, March 22, 1987 The Zoo and Endangered Species, Dr. Eric Miller, March 29, 1987 The New American Ethical Union, John Hoad, April 12, 1987 (2 tapes) Martha Stiehl, organ recital, April 12, 1987 The Price of Power, Seymour Hersh, April 26, 1987 Hear the Silence, Phyllis Frelich, May 3, 1987 Mother’s Day celebration, May 10, 1987 Tradition, We Share Tevye’s Dilemma, John Hoad, September 20, 1987 Getting our Act Together, John Hoad, September 27, 1987 Self-Actualization Through Social Involvement, John Hoad, October 11, 1987 How to Impact the Problem of Rape in the Community, Nancy Hightshoe, October 25, 1987 Ethical Critique of Everyday Propaganda, John Hoad, November 1, 1987

November 15, 1987-March 13, 1988 Psychological Health, John Hoad, November 15, 1987 Mark Twain Himself, Bill McLinn, November 22, 1987 Shattered Symbols, Kathi Foy, November 29, 1987 Good Town, Bad Town, Same Town, John Hoad, December 6, 1987 Life in the Theater, Lies and Truth, Fontaine Syer, December 13, 1987 Winter Festival, December 20, 1987 Job and Human , John Hoad, January 3, 1988 How Do I Know a Person is Right for Me? John Hoad, January 10, 1988 Civil Rights in America, Juan Williams, January 17, 1988 Moral Development: The Legacy of Lawrence Kohlberg, Joy McConnell, January 24, 1988 Communicating Under Pressure, Sherod Miller, January 31, 1988 General Macbeth and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North: A Study in “Power, John Hoad, February 7, 1988 Medical and Political Update on AIDS, Don Conner and Chris Edwards, February 14, 1988 Page 28 of 70

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Music Festival, February 21, 1988 The Use of Money as a Symbol of Personality, John Hoad, February 28, 1988 Has Anybody Had Any News of God Lately, John Hoad, March 6, 1988 Have Your Assumptions Been Checked Lately? John Hoad, March 13, 1988

Box 38 April 3, 1988-October 16, 1988 Spring Festival, April 3, 1988 Straight Talk About Gay Rights, John Hoad and Lind Petersen, April 10, 1988 Fiction as Ethical Crucible, Joy McConnell, April 17, 1988 We Shall Not Cease From Exploring (T.S. Elliot), Earl Holt III, May 1, 1988 Faces of Love, John Hoad, May 8, 1988 An Ethical Approach to the Trouble Spots of the World, John Hoad, May 15, 1988 Models for Living, John Hoad, May 22, 1988 Members Speak, May 29, 1988 Single Lifestyle: A Traditional Household, panel from singles group, July 3, 1988 Censorship in the Public Schools, Murray Underwood, July 10, 1988 Volga Peace Cruise, Patrick Coy, Mississippi Peace Cruise, July 24, 1988 Mock presidential debate, July 31, 1988 On the Cutting Edge of Ethics, John Hoad, September 18, 1988 Humanism: In Search of a Myth, John Hoad and Joy McConnell, September 25, 1988 Religious Liberty in Crisis, Edd Doerr, October 2, 1988 The Bible as a Pagan Classic, John Hoad, October 9, 1988 Ethical Culture Out on a Limb, Joy McConne, October 16, 1988

October 23, 1988-February 12, 1989 Coverage or Cover-up? Jeff Cohen, October 23, 1988 I Pledge Allegiance to American Liberalism and the Constitution for Which it Stands, John Hoad, October 30, 1988 Humanist of the Year: Hedy Epstein, November 5, 1988 Animal Rights, Dr. Tom Regan, November 6, 1988 Sex, Power, and the Media, Ann Simonton, November 13, 1988 Thanksgiving Festival, November 20, 1988 How to Deal with Difficult People, John Hoad, November 27, 1988 Resources to Live By, John Hoad, December 4, 1988 Eliciting the Best, Joy McConnell, December 11, 1988 Page 29 of 70

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Winter Festival, December 18, 1988 Starting the New Year with Benjamin Franklin, John Hoad, January 1, 1989 Philosophy for the Rough Places in Life, John Hoad, January 8, 1989 Applying King’s Legacy to Conflict on the West Bank, John Hoad, Jacqui Simms, and Rory Ellinger, January 15, 1989 New Perspectives on Abortion, John Hoad, January 22, 1989 The Land Ethic. Aldo Leopold’s Legacy, Kathi Foy, January 29, 1989 Bernard Shaw’s St. Joan, John Hoad, February 5, 1989 Music Festival, February 12, 1989

Box 39 February 26, 1989-July 30, 1989 The Importance of Vision, Joy McConnell, February 26, 1989 How to Get There and Back, John Hoad, March 5, 1989 The Ethics of Courage, Joe Chuman, March 12, 1989 Models of Identity: The Challenge of Humanism, John Hoad, \ March 19, 1989 Turnabout I, John Hoad; Turnabout II, Joy McConnell; Turnabout 3, Kathi Foy, March 26, 1989 Laughter Holding Both His Sides, John Hoad, April 2, 1989 The Call for Public Ethics, Ron Solomon, April 9, 1989 How to Make Sense of Changes in our Lives, Diane Schuch, April 16, 1989 Progress Toward and Peaceful and Ethical Planet, Benjamin Ferencz, April 23, 1989 Roots: The Legacy and It’s Implications for All Americans, William Haley, May 7, 1989 Traffic Signals on the Road of Love, John Hoad, May 14, 1989 The Moslem Response to the Salman Rushdie Affair, Peter Heath, June 25, 1989 Reproductive Rights and the Law, Susan Appleton, July 2, 1989 Is the U.S. A Christian Nation, Arthur Shaffer, July 9, 1989 AIDS Education: Amsterdam Compared with Missouri, Eugene Schwartz, July 16, 1989 Proposed Roads to Freedom, Walter Hoops, July 23, 1989 Building Institutions for the World Community, Ron Glossop, July 30, 1989

September 17, 1989-December 12, 1989 Meet the Ethical Society and Nick Pacino: Meeting of Minds, John Hoad, September 17, 1989 Helpful and Hurtful Ways of Coping, John Hoad, September 24, 1989 Our Ethnicity Within Our Humanity, John Hoad, October 1, 1989 Page 30 of 70

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Developmental Task of the Life Cycle, Ira Stamm, October 8, 1989 Peace through Justice, Don Johnson, October 15, 1989 Animal Rights in Environmental Perspective, Peter Wenz, October 22, 1989 Murray Underwood and John Hoad, KLOU/FM, November 5, 1989 Does Human Life Have Meaning? John Hoad, November 5, 1989 Humanist of the Year Award: American Civil Union, November 11, 1989 How Expectations Affect Relationships, Jane Matthews, November 12, 1989 Thanksgiving Festival, November 19, 1989 Keeping Love Alive, John Hoad, November 26, 1989 What’s After Death, John Hoad, December 3, 1989 Thru Stress to Success, John Hoad, December 10, 1989 Habits of the Ethical Heart, Joy McConnell, December 17, 1989 Winter Festival, December 12, 1989

January 7, 1990-April 22, 1990 Secular Search for a Spiritual Dimension, John Hoad, January 7, 1990 Tomorrow is Today, Pat Hoertdoerfer, January 14, 1990 Reproductive Rights, panel discussion, January 21, 1990 (3 tapes) Wrestling with Words, Kathleen Foy, January 28, 1990 Paradigms of Ethical Action I: They Shape Our Era, John Hoad, February 4, 1990 Festival of British Music, February 11, 1990 We Are One, Joy McConnell, February 18, 1990 and Fairness, John Hoad, February 25, 1990 , John Hoad, March 4, 1990 Harold Kushner’s God and the Search for a Modern , Joe Chuman, March 11, 1990 African American Humanism, William Jones, March 18, 1990 Male/Female Colleagueship, Pierce and Wagner, March 25, 1990 The Wisdom of April Fool’s Day, John Hoad, April 1, 1990 A Humanist Spiritual Journey, Kathleen Foy, April 8, 1990 Earth Day 1990, Joy McConnell, April 22, 1990

May 6, 1990-October 28, 1990 United Nations Perestroika, John Logue, May 6, 1990 Aspects of Love, John Hoad, May 13, 1990 Recognition Sunday, May 20, 1990 Members Speak, May 27, 1990 What are We Going to do About Violence? June 24, 1990 Apartheid in South Africa, Edwin Moholisa, July 1, 1990 Are Human Beings More Important than the Rest of Nature? Page 31 of 70

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Jan Lehocky, July 8, 1990 Elements of the Meaning of Life, Galen Pletcher, July 15, 1990 Why Does She Stay? Geri Redden, July 22, 1990 How Do We Know Chemicals are Safe? Bob Short, July 29, 1990 Memorial service, Bill Keck, July 29, 1990 Was Einstein Right? Clifford Wells, August 5, 1990 Woman, Fetus, Physician, Judge, William Holcomb, August 12, 1990 Ethical and Liberal Position, Hoad and Pacino, September 16, 1990 Beyond Prejudice, John Hoad, September 23, 1990 Working Ourselves to Life, Kathleen Foy, September 30, 1990 Language of Emotions, John Hoad, October 7, 1990 Everything We Know is Wrong, Ray Hartmann, October 14, 1990 Memorial service, Clayton Chism, October 14, 1990 What is our Legacy for Children? Phyllis Rozansky, October 21, 1990 Unequivocal Humanism, Roger Greely, October 28, 1990

Box 40 November 4, 1990-April 14, 1991 Jesus of Montreal, John Hoad, November 4, 1990 Ethics and Security, Robert Bowman, November 11, 1990 Friday Night Speaker: Marty Klein, November 16, 1990 The Destiny of Biology, Dr. Carol Cassell, November 18, 1990 Questions and Answers, John Hoad, November 25, 1990 Paul Robeson: Voice of a Rebel, John Hoad, December 2, 1990 Working with Emma Goldman, Kathleen Foy, December 16, 1990 We are the Dream, Al Eaton, January 13, 1991 The Abortion Debate, Michelman and Smith, January 20, 1991 Talk Back, January 20, 1991 Male/Female Polarities, John Hoad, January 27, 1991 Living the Passionate Life, Joy McConnell, February 3, 1991 Music Festival, February 10, 1991 Response to the Persian Gulf, St. Louis , February 13, 1991 Toward Independence, Max Starkoff, February 17, 1991 In the Country of Hearts, John Stone, February 24, 1991 Caring Relationship, Kathleen Foy, March 3, 1991 The Education Agenda, Robert Thompson, March 17, 1991 Spring Cleaning, Spring festival, March 31, 1991 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Joy McConnell, April 7, 1991 No Compromise on the Environment, Paul Watson, April 14, 1991

April 21, 1991-November 10, 1991 From Korea to the Persian Gulf, Robert Lasch, April 21, 1991 Gay is Better than Straight, Richard Kiniry, April 28, 1991 Cultivating Diversity, Kathleen Foy, May 5, 1991 Page 32 of 70

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Recognition Sunday, May 12, 1991 The United Nations’ Decade of International Law, May 19, 1991 Members Speak, Stephanie Dohner and Dennis Owsley Sunday Platform, June 9, 1991 Nuclear Power in Missouri, Krista Kotur, June 23, 1991 AIDS in Children and Mothers, Dr. Gregory Storch, June 30, 1991 The Magellan Mission to Venus, Raymond Arvidson, July 7, 1991 United States Problems, Canadian Solutions? Dr. James Kimmey, July 14, 1991 Words that Moved a Nation, Ethical Society members, July 28, 1991 Afflicting the Comforted, Joseph Hoffmann, August 4, 1991 A Sense of Humor, Kathleen Foy, August 11, 1991 Is an Ethical Society Possible? Joy McConnell, August 18, 1991 What Are We? The Tension of Diversity, John Hoad, September 15, 1991 Who Are We? John Hoad, September 22, 1991 Beyond Humanism, Bill Jones, September 29, 1991 Getting Past No…Conflict Resolution, John Hoad, October 20, 1991 And the Greatest of These…, Roger Greed, October 27, 1991 The Cutting Edge of a New Day, John Hoad, November 3, 1991 Emotion in Decision Making, Sidney Callahan, November 10, 1991

November 11, 1991-June 7, 1992 Intimacy: With Human Face, Dr. Howard Radest, November 11, 1991 Thanksgiving Festival, November 24, 1991 Religious Atheism, John Hoad, December 1, 1991 Memorial service, Mildred Smith, December 1, 1991 Political Ethics, John Kelly Horn, December 8, 1991 Living in the City of Man, Vincent Schoemehl, December 15, 1991 Good Cheer, December 20, 1991 Winter Festival, December 22, 1991 Why I Am No Longer a Humanist, January 5, 1992 Sex and Power, John Hoad, January 12, 1991 Fundamental Human Safeguards, John Hoad, January 19, 1992 Psychology of the Ethical Society, January 26, 1992 Walt Whitman, John Hoad, February 2, 1992 Music Festival, February 9, 1992 Racism, Reverend Leonetta Bugleisi, February 16, 1992 Member’s leadership panel talkback, February 23, 1992 The Theme of Leadership, members panel, February 23, 1992 Update on the Historical Jesus, John Hoad, March 1, 1992 Marriage of Religion and Psychology, Lois Kellerman, March 8, 1992 Personal Odyssey I, John Hoad, March 15, 1992 Personal Odyssey II, John Hoad, March 22, 1992 Page 33 of 70

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Growth and Expansion, members panel, March 29, 1992 Members panel, talkback, March 29, 1992 The Mystery of Muhammad, the Koran, and , John Hoad, April 5, 1992 The Story of Ethics, John Hoad, April 12, 1992 Spring Festival, April 19, 1992 Panel on money matters, John Hoad, April 26, 1992 Substituting the Force of Law for the Law of Force, John Anderson, May 3, 1992 Way Stations, John Hoad, May 10, 1992 Windows on the Psyche, John Hoad, May 17, 1992 Annual meeting, May 21, 1992 Graduation and citations, Joy McConnell, May 24, 1992 Members speak, May 31, 1992 Diderot and the Encyclopedia, Walter Hoops, June 7, 1992

Box 41 June 14, 1992-May 9, 1993 William Ernest Hocking, Robert Greenwell, June 14, 1992 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Barbara Elizabeth, July 5, 1992 Margaret Sanger, Stephanie Dohner, July 12, 1992 Hubert H. Harrison, Patrick Inniss, July 19, 1992 Portraits of American Women, Older Women’s League, July 26, 1992 Presenting Ethical Culture, Pat Esserman and John Hoad, September 20, 1992 What’s Wrong with Religion? John Hoad, September 27, 1992 Join Us for a Love Campaign, John Hoad, October 4, 1992 Race and Class, Dr. Larry Davis, October 11, 1992 Elections, Parties, and Voters, Mark Kornbluh, October 25, 1992 The Human as Political Animal, John Hoad, November 1, 1992 United States Policy in the Balkans, George Kenney, November 15, 1992 The Chain of Gratitude, Winter Festival, November 22, 1992 Master and Slave, Dr. William Caspary, November 29, 1992 Flashback to 1876: Felix Adler, John Hoad, December 6, 1992 Voice from the Past, Elliot Chubb, December 13, 1992 Winter Festival, December 20, 1992 The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches, 1968-1991, Robin Morgan, January 10, 1993 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, John Hoad and Kathi Foy, January 17, 1993 Why am I Unhappy? Robert Greenwell, January 24, 1993 The Changing Face of Sexual Ethics, John Hoad, January 31, 1993 Solving the Population Problem, Stephen Mumford, February 5, 1993 Page 34 of 70

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Music Festival, February 14, 1993 Sugar and Spice, John Hoad, February 21, 1993 Growing Up in a Violent Society, Dr. Diane Levine, February 28, 1993 Spiritual Resonances of Everyday Life, Khoren Arisian, March 7, 1993 The Non-Rational Mindset, Dennis Owsely, March 21, 1993 Emily Dickinson, John Hoad, March 28, 1993 Post-Traumatic Stress, John Hoad, April 4, 1993 Spring Festival, April 11, 1993 From Yale to Jail, David Dellinger, April 18, 1993 Reflections on the Family, Judith Espenschied, April 25, 1993 Living with the Uncertainty of Life, Jone Johnson, May 2, 1993 Inspiration, John Hoad, May 9, 1993

May 16, 1993-March 20, 1994 The Highway of Ethics, John Hoad, May 16, 1993 Mea Culpa, John Hoad, May 23, 1993 Members speak, May 30, 1993 Health Care for All, Gene Schwartz, July 11, 1993 Self-esteem and , Lenora Ho