Background
Leonard, Richard Davis was born on September 24, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Richard Hovey and Frances Jane (Davis) Leonard.
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Dick Leonard has been a liberal minister in the New York City area for fifty-four years. His ministry has included civil rights promotion, music, and the development of schools and camps. He has also found time to visit many countries with his wife, Polly, and to marry more than 3,000 couples in those years. In Ports of Call he has collected eleven of his sermons and seven other writings, all composed during his twenty-four years at the All Souls Church. The piece The Day the Russians Went Home, by the Reverend Bruce Clear, completes the story of the visit to the U.S. in 1990 by twelve Russian young people and their two adult chaperones. Dick describes his day of involvement with the Russians as "the day I will remember after I have forgotten all the others." "An exquisite collection of sermons and other writings, bound together not only by the wisdom, compassion and buoyant good humor of this author, but also-like stars marking destinations on a journey toward life's meaning-constituting nothing less than Richard Leonard's soul map. A truly lovely book."-Forrest Church
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In 1965 Rev. Martin Luther King appealed to clergy across the nation to come to Selma, Alabama, and join protestors in their struggle for voting rights. . Reverend Richard Leonard, age 37, was Minister of education at the Community Church of New York at the time he answered Dr. King's call. Leonard's journal, along with the recollections of others who shared the journey, presents Selma as a pivotal point in the advancement of civil rights.
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Leonard, Richard Davis was born on September 24, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Richard Hovey and Frances Jane (Davis) Leonard.
Bachelor, Yale College, 1949. Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1952.
Minister Bethany Congressional Church, East Rockaway, 1955—1959. Alum. affairs and development officer Walden School, New York City, 1968—1971. Minister education Community Church New York, 1959—1968.
Alum. affairs and development officer Horace Mann School, Bronx, 1971—1975. Minister Flatbush Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, 1968—1978. Alumn. affairs and development officer Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, New York City, 1975—1983.
Minister emeritus Unitarian Church All Souls, since 1979.
(Dick Leonard has been a liberal minister in the New York ...)
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Violinist Riverside Orchestra, New York City, 1972—1997. Member of Liberal Religious Educators Association, National Society Fund Raising Executives, Yale Band Alumni (president), Association Yale Alumni.
Married Barbara Louise Manzella, May 26, 1951 (divorced 1968). Children: Suzanne, Elizabeth. Married Anna Mary Barr, April 4, 1970.
Stepchildren: Helen Louise Mason, Kenneth Mason, Martha Mason.