Celebrating 80 Years of Unity in Hawai'i

A 23-page booklet entitled Celebrating 80 Years of Unity in Hawai'i (published in 2017) describes the history of the Unity Church in Hawaii.

http://www.unityhawaii.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Unity-Hawaii-History-Booklet-80th-Ann.pdf

Included in this narrative is the Windward Unity Church, a branch created around 1982. The monograph goes into great detail concerning various ministers and interim ministers and the dates of their service. But one name is conspicuously missing from the record-- Chuck Spezzano. He is not mentioned at all.

Spezzano appears to have served as an interim minister at Windward Unity from late 1983 to at least mid-1984.

During the 1980s he also advertised himself as a "psychologist" and even a "leading-edge psychologist" holding expensive workshops in "transformational psychology."

 Honolulu Star Bulletin, Nov. 10, 1983

Needless to say, these were lies. Lies that persist to this day. Chuck Spezzano has never been a licensed "psychologist" and his Ph.D. was not accredited by the APA. Faculty members in higher education are fired for padding their credentials the same way Spezzano has done. I have seen it happen several times.

Here's a link to several news clips from Spezzano's Windward Unity Church era:

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2017/10/honolulu-advertising-clips-from-1980s.html

The late 1970s/early 1980s is a most curious and entertaining period of time for Spezzano watchers. It would be interesting to know if Chuck's omission from the Unity history was simply an oversight or by design?

It appears Lency was somehow connected with the Unity Church in Hawaii before Chuck arrived, perhaps as a co-founder and volunteer with the HUGS program working with disabled children and their families. The history booklet does not mention Lency or HUGS, but it does say the Church hosted A Course in Miracles study group although no dates are supplied. It is possible Lency was already familiar with ACIM before Chuck moved to Oahu.