{"id":4,"date":"2019-12-18T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:28:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Board of Directors of the Urantia Historical Society volunteer their time to this effort and have backgrounds in history, archiving, and digital technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recently formed Urantia Historical Society<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in November 2023, carries on the archival work of the Urantia Book Historical Society (UBHS) which began under the leadership&nbsp;of Victoria&nbsp;Clark in 2006. Their&nbsp;missions and operations remain the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<b>Board of Directors:<\/b><br>\nJacob Dix: president <br>\nBarbara Newsom: vice president <br>\nMaureen Amato Mayes: Secretary\/Treasurer  <br>\nMike Bain <br>\nCheryl Phillips <br>\nPaul Anderson <br>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Donate:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>All material and financial donations should be made to the&nbsp;<br><strong>Urantia Historical Society,<\/strong>&nbsp;a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><i>Acknowledgments<\/i><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are forever grateful to Victoria Clark, whose insight into the importance and value of oral history and historical records led to the creation of the Urantia Book Historical Society. Urantia Historical Society carries on the original mission of UBHS. We extend our gratitude to the many students of\u00a0<em>The Urantia Book<\/em>\u00a0who have generously donated their time and expertise, funding, resources, and records, who have cheerfully answered historical inquiries, and who have consented to oral history interviews. We wish to also extend our gratitude to the professional staff at PastPerfect for their technical support<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Directors of the Urantia Historical Society volunteer their time to this effort and have backgrounds in history, archiving, and digital technology. The recently formed Urantia Historical Society,&nbsp;a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in November 2023, carries on the archival work of the Urantia Book Historical Society (UBHS) which began under the leadership&nbsp;of Victoria&nbsp;Clark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8625,"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}