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Alice Harrison

Alice Harrison
Alice Mildred Harrison (July 27, 1906-June 13, 1989), a religious educator, was a pioneering leader and organizer of youth programming and activities for the Universalist Church of America, the Council of Liberal Churches, and the Unitarian Universalist Association. She became an expert on working with young people of Junior High School age.

Alice, and her twin sister Elsie, were born in South Manchester, Connecticut. Her father, Henry W. Harrison, came from Ireland and her mother, Clara Halleher, from Germany. Alice attended public schools and received her religious instruction from the local Congregational church. Wishing to work in the field of religious education, she attended Boston University, where in 1931 she received the degree of Bachelor of Religious Education. Her first professional position was as Director of Religious Education for women and girls at the Eliot Congregational Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1931-35.

Between 1936 and 1945 Harrison was the first woman Religious Education Director at the First Universalist Church of Lynn, Massachusetts. The minister during her tenure was William Wallace Rose, a popular preacher and advocate of Christian Universalism. They became warm friends. She organized the entire Church School program on a departmental basis and rejuvenated the curriculum and teaching of its young people. The church's historian, Walter R. Henshaw, declared that she "imparted to teachers and pupils her enthusiasm and vibrant spirit." When she left her position she said: "No other has ever reached my heart and soul as this Church has, and I am proud now to call it my Church not because I have worked here but because I belong here."

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