Peanuts Cartoon in the Archives

Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. The Minutes of the Christian Education Committee include a panel from Peanuts laminated on cardboard. Charles Schulz (who died in February 2000) created the comic strip in 1952. Schulz was...

Lessons in Courage and Care from Minneapolis

By Ellie Simpson, Communications Contractor at HMC January 21-25, Ellie along with her spouse answered the call to go to Minneapolis at the invitation of MARCH (Multi-faith Action for Racial Justice and Healing), a national network of faith-based organizers.The group...

Paul A. Smith, Tuskegee Tenor, at HMC

Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. On Sunday, February 12, 1933, Paul A. Smith, an African American tenor from the Tuskegee Institute Choir, performed at the Huguenot Church. He sang “Swing Low, Swing Chariot,” “Nobody Knows...

James O. Rodgers: Sportsman and Broker

Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss.   James Otis Rodgers was born to James and Mary Parker Rodgers in Toledo, Ohio in 1874. After attending Andover prep, he enrolled at Yale, played left tackle for the Bulldogs, and was...

The Huguenot Church and Alcohol

Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. Like many churches, the Huguenot Church, founded in 1876, struggled over the issue of alcohol. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was organized at about that time to promote...