Huntsville UU Services
During the summer months of June, July, and August,
services are held only on the 2nd Sunday of each month.
Best wishes for a wonderful vacation to Frank and Alice Schulman, our minister and
his wife, who are off to their home in Rhode Island for the summer. Dr. Schulman will return to the pulpit for regular services
in September.
Sun. August 14: Speaking on "Let There Be Light: Creativity and Spirituality"
will be Melissa Morphew, PhD. Melissa is one of our own members. She is an assistant professor at SHSU and
a poet with a new book of poems titled Fathom coming out this spring. In her presentation, Melissa plans to explore
the relationship between creativity and spirituality.
Huntsville UU Women
Wed. Aug 3: The UU Women's Sharing Circle will meet at 10:00 a.m. at Carla McAdams's house
with lunch afterwards at Cloud Nine. After a short planning session for future programs, Gail Phillips will facilitate a program
on different personality types based on the book Please Understand Me by Keirsey and Bates. Each participant will
identify her own personality type from a short self-quiz profile, and a discussion of how different personality types affect
relationships will follow.
Wed. Aug 10: U-U women are invited to join the Red Hat Society luncheon at 11 a.m. at
Hyden's Seafood Restaurant in Conroe. They will meet to carpool at 10 a.m. from the parking area on the I-45 feeder
road just south of the Huntsville Memorial Hospital.
Meet Our New Members
Anne True and Rick Norman signed our membership book last June, and we are delighted to welcome them to the
Huntsville U-U Fellowship. They moved here last January from Monroe, Louisiana, after Norman was appointed chair of the
chemistry department at SHSU. Anne and Rick have three sons, the 7-year-old twins Payson and Elliot and 9-year-old Alex.
Although also a chemist, Anne presently finds herself more than busy being a stay-at-home Mom. Much of her energy at this
time is going into turning their Elkins Lake house into a home, and Ann also loves to read and looks forward to joining a book
club after the boys get started back to school.
Review of The Odyssey by Joan Stringer
Those of you who were unable to attend the production of The Odyssey at Sam Houston University
Theatre Center missed a great presentation. The large cast had obviously worked hard and the scenery was
clever. Best of all, we U-Us had a representative in the cast. Our very own Alex Norman, who is the eldest son
of Ann True and Rick Norman, played Antinious. Alex was able to portray his character with authority. He
swaggered and swung his sword as he spoke his lines flawlessly. Congratulations on a job well done, Alex!
A Note From Alice
Hi, Gail. We enjoyed the newsletter - good to keep up with what's going on. We are
loving every minute of being here, even though when we arrived our car battery was dead, two
smoke alarms wouldn't stop beeping, the basement is full of water, the washing machine and
coffeepot wouldn't work, and there was no hot water. Oh, well, what's all that compared to
those swans on the marsh and the lovely cool days? Frank and I plan to go to a different
Unitarian church each week, visiting with old friends there and getting a variety of services
to feed us. This week it was Providence, a gorgeous old church up on a hill, where the
coffee hour was outside. The first Sunday in August, I will go to Barnstable on Cape Cod to
participate in a service led by my dear old friend Jo, her regular once a month pagan service!
I'll have lots to tell you when I get back.
Alice states that she is also reading an interesting book which she would like to review for the Women's Sharing Circle in the
fall. Frank will be back with us on August 22.
From Ann Staples
As a member of the Gift Shop Committee for the Wynne Home, Ann has been asked
to look for volunteers who would be willing to work a 4-hour shift in the gift shop, which is expected to open this fall. If you
are interested, please call Ann at 295-3101. The best times to reach her are early morning or evening. (She does not have an
answering machine.)
Ann is an avid reader and has two books to recommend this month. They are
The Mold in Dr. Floreyıs Coat: The Story of the Penicillin by Eric Lax and Private Lives in Renaissance
Venice by Patricia F. Brown. Both books are available through inter-library loan.
From the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee
CALL FOR JUSTICE WEEKEND
September 24-26, 2005, all citizens, regardless of political, religious or cultural differences, are urged to speak out
against the United States government involvement in torture by gathering in Washington , D.C., for a series of educational
workshops, a panel discussion, a Citizens' Trial, and advocacy work with national leaders and representatives. "To eradicate
torture, we must insist upon the full application of our laws, and a full accounting of the truth." For more information visit
www.uusc.org/stoptorture.
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CHOOSE JUSTICE! A UUSC EXPERIENCE IN THE COFFEE LANDS
How does fair trade promote human rights? January 14-22, 2006, you are invited to join an intergenerational travel group to
Guatemala and meet the farmers who grow fair trade, the cooperative organizations that unite them, and the Guatemalan
activists and human rights organizations who support them.
You'll study the history, politics, and economic conditions of Guatemala. You'll learn about the impact of fair trade vs.
commercial trade on communities and families. You'll be visiting farming communities to experience the harvest and to spend
the night with a farming family.
For more information, contact justworks@uusa.org or call 800-388-3920.
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UUSC'S JUST WORKS WORKCAMP PROGRAM
Just Works workcamps are short-term projects that help volunteers examine and understand the root causes and
damaging effects of injustice. Since 1996 the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee has operated more than 40
workcamps across the United States.
Projects for 2006 are
Jan. 14-21 (intergenerational): A look at fair trade in the coffee industry in Guatemala.
April 17-21 (teen workcamp): UUSC Mohawk Workcamp in Fonda, NY.
July 8-15 (intergenerational): Freedom Summer 2006 - Tracing the civil rights journey of 1964 through Georgia and Alabama.
July 30-Aug 6 and Aug.6-13 (intergenerational, 16-up): UUSC Lakota Workcamp in South Dakota.
Latest updates, workcamp information, and a review of 2005 workcamps may be accessed at www.uusc.org.
Huntsville UU Newsletter Deadline: To submit news to the UU newsletter, e-mail Gail Phillips. Please have any news or announcements that you would like to have in this newsletter to the editor by the 20th of each month.
Annual Meeting
On May 1, 2005, we elected officers and approved appointments to various
positions listed below for the church year 2005-2006.
Officers
President: Carla McAdams
Co-Vice Pres./ Program Chairs: Scott and Anita Plummer
Treasurer: Lee Stringer
Secretary/Membership Chair: Joan Stringer
Immediate Past President: Karl Mahaffey
Appointed Positions
Organist: Dixon Lichtenauer
Keyboardist: Sylvia DeVoss
Co-Song Leaders: Melissa Templeton-Mahaffey, Beth Williamson, Dixon Lichtenauer
Co-Reading Leaders: Ann Staples, Richard Lane
Newsletter Editor: Gail Phillips
Order of Service Editor: Roberta Krock
Publicist: Stuart Williamson
Hospitality Coordinator: Pam Johnson
