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10/10/05

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST MINISTER TO SPEAK AT SLU

CANTON - The Reverend David Weissbard, founder of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at the Chautauqua Institute and of the Chautauqua Society for Peace and Justice, will give a talk titled "Ethics Without A Deity" on Monday, October 24, at 8 p.m. in Herring-Cole at St. Lawrence University. The event, part of the University's Sesquicentennial celebration, is open to the public, free of charge.

Weissbard, a 1962 graduate of St. Lawrence, is a native of Albany, New York, and senior minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockford, Illinois. He earned his Master of Divinity degree and certification in religious education from the former theological school at St. Lawrence, in 1965. After serving at churches in Dexter and Henderson, New York; Bedford, Massachusetts; and Fairfax, Virginia, he became the senior minister in Rockford, beginning in 1979.

Weissbard has been the producer of "Fusion," a weekly half-hour television program on WIFR in Rockford for 25 years. He has served on the Rockford Schools Religion Policy Committee and is president of the Northern Illinois Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Weissbard has served as vice president of the Central Midwest District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and as secretary of the Central Midwest District chapter of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers' Association. He received awards from the Unitarian Universalist Association for the outstanding sermon on Stewardship in 1999 and on Religious Education in 2000.

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The Unitarian Universalist Church Of Rockford