Kenneth Clark Hawkes (1913-2009) was born in Portland, Maine. While training for the Universalist ministry in the 1930s, he served as acting pastor of the Prides' Corner Union Church of Westbrook and the Universalist Church of Scarborough and South Buxton. In 1937 he accepted a call to the First Universalist Larger Parish of Canton and Livermore, Maine, where he was ordained as a Universalist minister in 1938. From 1939-1944 he was minister of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville, Maine, where he worked with the students of Colby College; served on the Waterville Council of Churches; and was president of the Waterville Ministers Union. He served as the superintendent of the Universalist Church of Maine from 1942-1950, and moved to Massachusetts in 1950 to serve as minister for the Universalist Church in North Attleboro. In 1953, he took a position as minister at the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Lawrence. In 1960 he returned to Maine, and again served as superintendent of the Universalist Church of Maine, as well as superintendent of the Universalist Churches of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec, Canada. Following the merger of the Unitarian and Universalist churches in 1961, Hawkes became the Executive Secretary of the UUA Northeast District, a post he held until 1967, when he took over as minister for the First Church in Leominster, Massachusetts, where he remained until his retirement in 1975. Throughout his life, Hawkes was involved in social issues, including actively opposing McCarthyism in the 1950s, and marching for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.
From the guide to the Papers, 1933-2009., (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School)
