Institutional Committee 2025 Annual Meeting
November 15 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
CS Committee for Institutional Work in the State of Washington invites you to their 2025 Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 15, 2025, 10:00am-12:00pm.
Please join us this year! We will be presenting the Effulgence Foundation’s Julian Alco film. The Julian Alco Story is wonderfully refreshing for current workers, and a true inspiration for institutional work.
Hosted at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bothell: 18301 102nd Ave NE, Bothell, WA 98011
This meeting will be in person with a Zoom option*. Afterwards a replay will be available on our website CSCIWA.org
*Zoom attendees will not be able to view the film online. For Zoom attendees, Effulgence Foundation will share the written articles so all attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Julian Alco’s tremendous work.
A Brief Summary of Julian Alco’s life
• Introduced to Christian Science by his mother / both had been members of the Jewish faith
• Studied with Sue Ella Bradshaw in 1914, a pupil of Mary Baker Eddy
• Joined San Francisco CS Church in 1914 / appointed CS Chaplain at San Quentin in 1916
• CS Journal listed Practitioner / Healer in 1922 at 40 years old
• Appointed Director, CA State Board of Prisons by Governor Friend W. Richardson in 1924
• Became temporary Warden of San Quentin Prison after a kidnapping and breakout in 1935
• Started lecturing around the world on prison reform in 1943
• Last CS Journal listing as Practitioner in January 1953
Additional Resources
Summary of Alco’s work – excerpted from a longer paper by Andrea Jenks McCormick, CS presented at the NY State Committee’s Annual Meeting in Nov 2015
CS Monitor “California Builds Highways to Rebuild Men” July 30, 1937