Dear Friends at UUCM, Many of you know me and I’m quite happy to say that I know you. Many of you have joined the congregation since my departure and I am reaching out to you as something of a stranger. It’s not often that a minister emeritus is called out of the mothballs to...
(Nee: Charles Francis Ortman, Jr.) As told at Metro NY Unitarian Universalist Ministers’ Association Annual Chapter Meeting April 30, 2015 Toward the end of the 19th Century, my paternal great grandfather, Carl Ortman, came to this country from Darmstadt, Germany. He left home with his two brothers in order to avoid the draft of Kaiser...
