| 1953 The Westminster Session adopts new rules to provide for 25 elders and 42 deacons. The Book of Order specified that any male member was eligible to be elected as an elder or deacon. Since The Book of Order did not restrict women from serving on a church’s nominating committee, the elders elected two women to the committee. |
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| 1954 The Westminster Session votes to welcome African Americans who want to worship with the congregation, as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the case of Brown v. Education of Topeka. |
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 | July 1954 Westminster purchases the Gray property behind church and holds Sunday School classes in the house on the property. |
 | March 13, 1955 The Harwell Chapel is dedicated. |
| 1958 Thomas H. Webber, Jr. becomes Westminster’s first Minister of Music. |
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 | November 16, 1958 Dedication of Westminster’s pipe organ. Organist Thomas H. Webber, Jr. designed Westminster’s new pipe organ which was installed in 1958. Webber, regarded as one of the top ten organists in the U.S., was also a noted designer. Webber was Westminster’s first minister of music. The Memorial Fund for the new organ was begun in 1950. |
| 1960 The children’s education building is completed and dedicated (currently the building behind the sanctuary and parallel to the parlor). |
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| May 13, 1962 The church library is dedicated with Janie Alford, teacher of the Lydian Bible Class, serving as its first volunteer librarian. |
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 | 1966-1972 Daniel Patrick McGeachy, III, pastor |
| 1968 Martha Overholser is elected as Westminster’s first woman elder. |
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| 1968 The Westminster Individualized Teaching Center is organized to serve children with learning disabilities (renamed Westminster School and accredited school for students from kindergarten through 8th grade by 1978). |
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| March 1970 Pansy Duke becomes Westminster’s first Director of Youth Ministries. |