Noon – Wednesday, September 23, 1857 – New York City: Jeremiah Lanphier waited in a small room on the third floor of the consistory building at the rear of the North Dutch Reform Church. The grand old church sat in the heart of the business district, just...
1904, Strasbourg, France: Albert Schweitzer, a 30-year-old Lutheran minister and theology professor at the University of Strasbourg, was paging through a Paris Missionary Society publication when he read an article by a doctor about the dire medical needs of people in...
Sunday, December 18, 1983 – Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Head Football Coach Lou Holtz had just returned from church when Athletic Director Franks Broyles called and asked him to come by his office. When Holtz arrived, Broyles got right to the point, “Lou, I want...
August 1969 – Concord, California: Hal Donaldson’s father, a young Assembly of God preacher, was killed in a head on collision by a drunken driver on the way home from church. His mother was also in the car and was seriously injured, leaving 12-year-old Hal, his...
February 20, 1962 – Cape Canaveral, Florida: Imagine being strapped into a small capsule atop a 75-foot Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Well aware that in the past, several previous launches had exploded on take-off, you trust that rocket engineers have the...
2009, The New York Times – 400 Most Influential New Yorkers List: Pete Hamill, the distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, made “The 400 Most Influential New Yorkers in the Past 400 Years” list. When an...
