A UUSC Timeline
UUSC through the years
1939
Rev. Waitstill and Martha Sharp travel to Czechoslovakia under sponsorship
of the American Unitarian Association to help refugees escape Nazi persecution.
1940
The Unitarian Service Committee is officially established.
Martha Sharp arranges for passage of 29 children and 10 adults on a rescue
mission from Europe.
War Years
The Unitarian Service Committee offices in Lisbon, Marseille, Geneva and
Paris provide refugee assistance, medical care, clothing and other services.
1945
The Universalist Service Committee is established.
1946
Medical missions are sent to Poland and Czechoslovakia to update medical
practices in countries isolated during the war, and the Universalist Service
Committee provides food and clothing relief in the Netherlands.
1947
The Texas Migrant Workers Project begins.
1949
The Universalist Service Committee runs volunteer service projects
in U.S. state hospitals
1951
A medical mission is sent to Israel and Iran.
1954
In Gallup, New Mexico, the Navajo Community Center project offers social
services and education.
A social work education program is established in Korea.
1955
An innovative teacher education program is developed in Cambodia.
The Columbia Heights Boys Club in Washington, D.C. offers integrated classes,
social services and recreational activities.
1956
Relief work, lasting through the 1960s, begins in Vienna on behalf of
Hungarian refugees.
1958
A health and community development project under Dr. Ben Nzeribe is established
in Awo Omamma, Nigeria.
1960
Aid is given to Hospital Amazonica "Albert Schweitzer" in Peru.
The Universalist Service Committee provides flood relief in the Philippines.
Desegregation projects are undertaken in Atlanta, Georgia and Jacksonville,
Florida.
1962
Social work education programs start in Jamaica.
1963
The Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees are merged.
1965
Advanced nursing training in Turkey begins.
1966
UUSC offers maternal and child health as well as family planning in Haiti.
A community development project is begun with the Passamaquoddy Indians
in Princeton, Maine.
1970
A community health program in Togo begins.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center and El Centro Chicano in Houston,
Texas offer legal, educational and community services.
