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04/05/2026

04/03/2026

The KEY to heaven was hanging on the cross….

03/15/2026

Happy Birthday to all of our church family born in the month of March! Praying everyone is blessed with many more!!

03/03/2026

Are you wondering what's going on within the conference? Attend Group Meeting so you're 'In in the Know!'

02/23/2026

Haughton Chapel would like to thank everyone that joined us for our Black History Service! KUDOS to ALL THE EDUCATORS - they filled the entire service! ! 🙏🏾❤️👏🏾

02/10/2026

George Carruthers invented the ultraviolet electronographic telescope - the first (and still the only) astronomical instrument sent to the Moon. His invention was used during the first lunar walk of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.

He began his scientific endeavors early in life building his first telescope at the age of 10. He earned his Ph.D. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering at the University of Illinois in 1964 and began working at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. His telescope and image converter was used to identify molecular hydrogen in space. For the first time, scientists were able to examine the Earth's atmosphere for concentrations of pollutants, and see UV images of more than 550 stars, nebulae and galaxies. Carruthers was awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work on the project. In the 1980s, one of Carruthers' inventions captured an ultraviolet image of Halley's Comet. In 1991, he invented a camera that was used in the Space Shuttle Mission.

In 2003, Carruthers was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame for his work in science and engineering. He received a National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama in 2013.

Carruthers passed away on December 26, 2020, at a hospital in Washington.

02/06/2026

Florence Beatrice Smith Price became the first African-American female composer to have a composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra. Her classical piece, Symphony in E Minor, was performed by the Chicago Symphony of Orchestra in 1933. It was also performed at the Chicago World’s Fair as part of the Century of Progress Exhibition.

She composed more than 300 works in her lifetime, including chamber music, vocal compositions and songs for radio. Her style is a mix of classical European music and black spirituals and rhythms.

1953, a Chicago Elementary school took her name as a tribute to her legacy as a black composer. Manuscripts, books and other papers belonging to Price were discovered in an abandoned Illinois home in 2009, and those works were secured by the University of Arkansas. Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and No 2, contained within the findings, were recorded in Fayetteville. The BBC symphony orchestra performed one of her “lost” compositions in London in March 2018. She’s also been the subject of recent articles in the New York Times and the New Yorker. A documentary film about Price's life and music has aired on PBS affiliate stations as well as at film festivals in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

02/05/2026

Dr. Mark Dean, computer scientist & engineer, developed a number of landmark technologies for IBM, including the color PC monitor and the first gigahertz chip - a revolutionary piece of technology that is able to do a billion calculations a second. He holds three of the IBM’s original nine patents, in total, has more than 20 patents associated with his name. He also invented the Industry Standard Architecture system bus with engineer Dennis Moeller, allowing for computer plug-ins such as disk drives and printers.

02/04/2026

Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston’s 1986 study of sickle cell disease lead to a nationwide screening program to test newborns for immediate treatment. In 1990, Dr. Gaston became the first African American female director of the Bureau of Primary Health Care. Her focus was on improving health care services for poor and underserved families. She controlled a budget of $5 billion serving 12 million patients. When Dr. Gaston retired in 2001, her staff presented her with newly received data from prophylactic penicillin programs recently carried out in Africa, underscoring the worldwide impact of her work. She was also the second African American woman to serve as the Asst. Attorney General.

02/03/2026

Lusia Harris was the first & only woman ever to be drafted by an NBA team - The New Orleans Jazz; however, she didn’t try out for the team because she was pregnant at the time - 1977. She also scored the first points in women’s basketball history at the Olympics. Harris was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992 & later enshrined into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. She was the subject of a 2021 short film titled “The Queen of Basketball” that detailed her career. She passed on Jan. 18, 2022 @ the age of 66.

02/02/2026