UU Foremothers Remembered in UU World

Women and Religion committee members Lucile Shuck Longview (center left) and Rosemary Matson (right) meet with UUA trustees Theodore Machler and Nell McGlothlin in 1980. (UUA Archives) Ministerial Sisterhood UUThe Fall 2011 issue of UU World contains a letter from Rev Dr Linnea Pearson mentioning two of the foremothers of the Women and Religion Resolution, Lucile Longview and Rosemary Matson.

UU World's Summer 2011 issue has an article on the impact of women ministers in the UUA by Carolyn Owen-Towle. She mentions the Ministerial Sisterhood, a group that seems to have disappeared from view. A photo of their banner is at right.