ATTENDANCE at SUNDAY SERVICES -- T kkkkkkkkkkkHROOP CHURCH Note by David S. Lawyer (Dec. 2002): These are average figures for the years shown based on the attendance notebook in the church office files. This document covered attendance back to the 1930s. I didn't enter the data before 1960 and it seems that the averages were not readily available and would need to be calculated. The attendance prior to 1960 was nothing remarkable and likely roughly the same as 1960. On certain Sundays, such a Easter, the church was often nearly full (almost 300). This also happened when outstanding speakers spoke on Sunday such as Isaac Asimov (invited by Robt. Kaufman, minister). I think it's primarily adult attendance and doesn't include kids in the church school. The figures prior to 1990 are taken from the church records which were kept in the office. When the administrator cleaned out the old church files in the office, she refused to tell me what happened to these attendance records which makes me think that they were just thrown away In April 2011, John Hunnewell made two counts of attendance. When a semi-professional theater company put on a play, attendance was 28. At a regular sermon, attendance was 18. Since he probably counted himself and his wife when he shouldn't have (he seldom attends) his counts are likely too high. Thus a count of 20 has been reported in the table below. He told me that the official count counted everyone present in the building, including those not attending the service. In the 1980's I observed that the count didn't include such people. The more or less constant attendance prior to 1960 indicated lack of growth in a growing city and region and thus a steady decline relative to the population. After 1966, the decline accelerated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1960 160 1980 94 2000 1961 173 1981 82 2001 46 1962 148 1982 86 2002 1963 165 1983 2003 47 1964 177 1984 2004B 1965 182 1985 71 2005 1966 179 1986N 72 2006G 1967 170 1987 58 2007 1968 148 1988 63 2008 1969 148 1989 60 2009 1970 138 1990 2010R 1971 129 1991 2011 20 1972K 115 1992 1973 122 1993 1974 104 1994A 46 1975 87 1995 1976 84 1996S 1977 82 1997 1978 74 1998 1979 84 1999 K=Kaufmann start N=Naylor start B=Bodman start A=Allan start G=Grubbs start S=Sawyer start R=Rudisill start