"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." --Benjamin Franklin

Huntsville UU Services
Services are held on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month at 10:30 a.m. in the Laura Chapel of Huntsville Memorial Hospital. Visitors are always welcome. For more information, call 295-3170.

Please come at 10:00 for coffee and conversation before the service. Coffee will not be served after the service. Post-service conversation will continue over lunch.

Sun. January 13: Our guest speaker will be Laura Thresher Johnston of Coldspring, Texas. Her talk will be entitled "The Apostle Mark and his Introduction of the Christian Religion to the World."

On Dec. 17, 2005 Laura, at age 90, became the oldest SHSU student to receive a degree. She earned a Master of Arts in history; four years previously, she had earned a bachelors degree at SHSU in Spanish. Of herself she writes "I was born in Boston, Mass, September 3, 1915. My father died when I was less than two years old. Mother placed me in an Orphan's Home. My father's sister, who had to bring my father up when his mother died, took me home and brought me up. She was 50 at the time and I was referred to as "Hell on Wheels" -–I have no idea what that means.

I graduated from Fall River High School in 1933 in June and entered Nurses Training in the New England Hospital for Women and children in Roxbury, Mass (it is no longer in existence). I married in 1935 to A William Johnston, but the marriage ended after about 15 years. I had three daughters, Jean, Jeanette and Jannelle. My oldest daughter just celebrated her 70th birthday and thought that was just fine. After my daughters were grown, I started traveling around the country - and it is a beautiful place. Beauty abounds!!! Decided I would like to learn Spanish when I was 75 at SHSU and then became interested in History: BA Spanish 2001; MA History 2005. So much fun!"

Sun. January 27: Rev. Capo's service is entitled Spiritual Empowerment. He writes, "Power is a word that is emotionally charged. I have heard UU youth groups talk about youth empowerment. I have been reading lately books on how to empower yourself in the work place. Some people see power as a way of getting their needs met; while others define empowerment as how assertive or aggressive one is in relationships. Is there another way to view empowerment? Is there some spiritual sense of empowerment?"