8 May. Germans surrendered, leading to the end of World War II in Europe.
June. Rector P. E. Osgood preached his last sermon at Emmanuel.
15 July. The Rev. Dr. H. Robert Smith, formerly of Grace Church, Newton MA, accepted the position of Minister-in-Charge to serve until a new rector could be called.
6 & 9 August. US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japanese surrender a week later.
October. After many years in charge of our Church School, Elizabeth Varney departed, and Nancy Currier took over.
28 November. The vestry assigned the church’s reading rights at the Boston Athenæum to rector-elect, The Rev. Robert Gifford Metters. For more about his tenure, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
