Raible, Robert.

Robert Jules Raible (1899-1968) graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1921, Harvard Divinity School in 1925, and Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1929. In 1953, he received an honorary DD from Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, California. Ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1925, Raible served First Parish in Cambridge and All Souls in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He was also minister at the First Parish in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Most of his ministry was spent at the First Unitarian Church in Dallas, Texas. He was a prominent leader in the Dallas community, serving as president of the Dallas Mental Health Association and the Dallas Council of Human Relations. Rev. Raible wrote a leaflet titled The Elements of the Unitarian Religion, which was distributed nationally by the American Unitarian Association . In 1957, he preached a sermon on integration, titled Advice to the Dallas School Board, which received national media coverage.