The Reverend Dawn Sangrey began her ministry with the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades as of August
15, 2001.
Rev. Sangrey was educated at Harvard Divinity School and
trained for ministry in a college chaplaincy internship at Tufts
University in Medford, MA; in the psychiatric units of the Griffin
Hospital in Derby, CT; and as a ministerial intern at the First
Religious Society, a Unitarian Universalist congregation in
Carlisle, MA. She was ordained in June, 2001, in Carlisle.
Rev. Sangrey is a specialist in liturgy and worship and in
congregational growth and transition. During her tenure in
Carlisle, she helped establish a Worship Advisors group composed
of ministers and laity interested in more lay participation in the
worship life of the church.
She was also instrumental in the formation of the Transition
Working Group, a congregational task force called together to plan
for changes in ministerial leadership. Her ministry has also
emphasized life-span religious education, community building
within the congregation and in the larger community, Unitarian
Universalist history and polity, and spiritual direction.
Rev. Sangrey has come to professional ministry after careers
in education and in writing. She began her professional life as a
high-school English teacher in Westchester County, NY, and has
taught writing at Westchester Community College. She also worked
for more than twenty years as a freelance editor and writer. She
is the author of Wifestyles: Women Talk About Marriage (Delacorte
Press, 1983) and The Crime Victim's Book, with Morton Bard
(Brunner/Mazel, 1986).
Rev. Sangrey has lived with her husband, Paul Fargis, in
Bedford Hills, NY, for the past twenty-four years. Mr. Fargis is
president and publisher of the Stonesong Press, a book development
company in Manhattan. They have one son, Chris Fargis, who lives
in Astoria, NY, and works in the music business. Sangrey is also
stepmother to John and Alison Fargis, the children of her
husband's first marriage.
Rev. Sangrey enjoys hiking in Westchester, in Vermont, and in
the White Mountains of New Hampshire. For her graduation from
divinity school, her husband gave her a canoe, which she is
learning to paddle. She sings with the Master Singers of
Westchester, a community chorus which she helped to found twenty
years ago. She also gardens for pleasure, beginning to reclaim the
flowerbeds lost to the deer during her years of ministerial
training, and reads voraciously.
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