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minister is the Rev. Richard M. Stower. He was born in New York City
in 1946, raised in a Jewish (Reform) family and spent much of his childhood
in New Rochelle, NY. He graduated from George Washington University
in 1968 where he majored in history. After teaching a year in the South
Bronx, he returned to George Washington University and received a Master
of Arts degree in American and Modern European History.
In the 1960s he was active in both the civil rights and
the anti-Vietnam war movements. In high school he served on the Youth
Taskforce on the National Urban League. In 1990, he escorted two survivors
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a speaking tour of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire high schools.
Prior to entering the ministry Rev. Stower worked for the
federal government for fifteen years. He has served as president of
the local chapters of the American Federation of Government Employees
and the National Treasury Employees Union.
First Parish
Unitarian Universalist Church
330 First Parish Road
Scituate, Massachusetts 02066
781.545.3324
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1986 he entered Harvard Divinity School and received his M. Div degree
in 1990. He was ordained in his home church, First Parish, Concord, MA
and has served as minister of the Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
(Potter Place, NH) and the Keene (NH) Unitarian Universalist Church. He
has served on the board of directors of the Ballou Channing District of
the Unitarian Universalist Association and as President of the Ballou
Channing Chapter of the UU Ministers Association.
Currently, he is on the board
of directors of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry (Boston) and
on the steering committee of the Tuckerman Coalition.
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