Peter Morales
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Peter Morales (20th Century)
The following is an extensive biography published in 2009 by the Peter Morales for UUA President:
At the Unitarian General Assembly in 2009, he addressed the group and told of his hopes:
Although born in San Antonio, Texas, one of six children of Pedro and Oralia López, he lost his father when young and he, his sister Dehlia, and their mother lived frugally. He won a scholarship to Raymond College at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and upon graduation was awarded a prize for being the outstanding student in the social sciences.
Morales married fellow student Phyllis Morales at the Unitarian Church in Stockton, although neither was a Unitarian. During the Vietnam War, he obtained a draft deferment for three years by teaching elementary school. When the deferment was ended and he was against the reasons for the war, he moved with his wife to Canada, settling in Revelstoke, British Columbia, where he worked at a lumber mill, became a reporter, and fathered a son, Miguel. When the war ended, he won a fellowship to study American Studies at the University of Kansas, and he won a Fulbright lectureship to Spain. There, he and his family lived in Asturias where he lectured at the University of Oviedo. When his son Miguel developed cancer, the family returned to the States where he was successfully treated. In 1983, a daughter - Marcela - was born. For a time, he opened a newspaper in southern Oregon, became a Unitarian in Eugene, became a minister after studying at the Starr King seminary, and was called to preach at a Denver suburb, Golden, Colorado.
Son Miguel is in the Physics Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Daughter Marcela graduated from Carleton College in 2006 and works for the Denver Public Library.
The Moraleses reside in Golden, Colorado, where he is pastor of the Jefferson Unitarian Church.
