Background
Crompton, Arnold was born on December 19, 1914 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Came to the United States, 1923. Son of Harold and May Almyeria (Milward) Crompton.
(From dust jacket flap: Here is an exciting and important ...)
From dust jacket flap: Here is an exciting and important chapter in the history of liberal religion which has never before been told - the story of Unitarianism on the West Coast. Arnold Compton has devoted ten years of tireless research to the task of refining the essential metal from the "mountains of unmined gold" that Earl More Wilbur pointed out to him - crammed boxes, metal trunks, wooden crates in the basement of the Administration Building of the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley. In these containers were pounds and pounds of letters, sermons, pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, church bulletins, church records - all kinds of raw material pertaining to the Unitarian movement on the Pacific Coast. The raw ore had never been assayed. In this book are the first pure nuggets.
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Crompton, Arnold was born on December 19, 1914 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Came to the United States, 1923. Son of Harold and May Almyeria (Milward) Crompton.
Bachelor, Case Western Reserve University, 1936. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1939. Bachelor's Degree, Meadville Theological School, Chicago, 1939.
Doctor of Theology, Pacific School of Religion, 1956. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Meadville-Lombard Theological School, 1972. Doctor in Sacred Theology, Starr King School for the Ministry, 1998.
Minister, 1st Unitarian Church of Erie, Pennsylvania, 1939-1945;
minister, 1st Unitarian Church, Oakland, California, 1945-1982;
minister emeritus, 1st Unitarian Church of Erie, Oakland, California, 1982-1998;
lecturer church history, Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, California, 1953-1967;
director, Earl Morse Wilbur Library, Berkeley, 1961-1967;
tutor, Earl Morse Wilbur Library, Berkeley, 1990-1998;
adjunct professor of history, Union Institute, Cincinnati, 1993-1998;
scholar-on-line, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1996-1998. Anniversary lecturer Taegu (Republic of Korea) U., 1986. Wilbur Memorial lecturer on religion on Pacific Rim, Berkeley, 1990.
Lecturer Free Religious Association, Japan, 1992. Board directors, past president Oakland-Fukuoka Society, Oakland, 1975-1998. President Rossmoor Religious Council, Walnut Creek, California,1989-1998.
Minister Rossmoor Unitarian Universalist Society, Walnut Creek, 1993-1998.
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Lecturer Ebell Society, Oakland, 1982-1998. President International Institute of the East Bay, Oakland, 1981-1982, Rossmoor Activities Council, Walnut Creek, 1989-1998. Chairman Alameda County Crime Prevention Commission, California, 1978-1980.
Board directors English summer school Bir Zeit College, Jordan, 1963-1964, English Language Program-Komagane, Japan, 1967. Member Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (president Pacific Coast chapter 1970, special envoy to churches of Japan 1989), Rotary (president Rossmoor chapter 1986-1987), Masons (grand chaplain 1979-1980), Phi Alpha Theta (honorary), Phi Kappa Tau.