BUS-RIDING CHAPLAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300020007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 1, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Bus-Riding ~ha.plain
W i11 iam. ~ ~.~~~,.~.Q~f
seek the easy path. Yestox~day
he went more than half-way
to meet adversity himself.
Leaving, for the moment,
his pleasant job as
oii.,~t'a1a >;Inlyersity a.n xs
IN his sermon last Sunday
the Rev. William Sloane;
Coffin Jr. said a Christl~h
must expect adversity aztd,not
Man iuw ii~uae u~ticn, ~Aa
in the the I~Tew Haven
elms, NIr. Coffim
CPYRGHT
Ieng~ing racia segreg''~bi~in
the south.
"I'm not surprised," an old?
friend said. "Bill Coffin
believes you've gat to be
rugged and determined and
expect to take hard knocks iP
you're going to do a Chris-
served as a lia' ~n New _-Haven two weeks j
-~ ? '' ,
first with the~~'h ' my ago dlr. Coffin was intro- 1
a,`ftt4'?'a34 y~'tirl~?V0`ar'2T'? VVftH " duced as _: the man of whom
p. ,
Mass., and at Yale, where he Min's. way of speaking his
majored in government. In t11Xnd _
'~ 1943 he joined t$e Army and '"At the`Lons Club Iuncheon ~
Mr Coffin studied at Phil-, _ n the~~iamst ict, Are
li s Academy Andover i~: 'e "~o .~ustrate Mr.
?ident of the trustees of the ~ rew..
Metropolitan Museum of Art? r5. -Coffin, incidentally, is
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Sloane, Inc., the Fifth Ave e , my,~a'n~ two son`s,
nue furniture store, and pies ._ ' eXander Sloane and David
.
eventually to mollgw," one ye,i~,~ ~~ r
critic said with a touch of i~!~g,.:an Ru~,S~~?~l- ~,f ,a r
acid, But even these critics He was grad- II
see in the chaplain a man of _,. ua a Toni Vale Divinity
talent and eenrgy. School in 1956 and was or-
Pianist and Athlete dained in the Presbyterian
Mr. Coffin is a skillful ministry..
pianist, a vigorous athlete and For a year he went back
an enthusiastic gardener. He to~;Andover as chaplain, and.
is fluent in French and Rus ~ dt ~?as there that he preached
ian~ ha,~v tlae Army ~ las~~,Sunday's sermon. After. a
nd..~e ~Cen?r , :Intelligence year as chaplain li ~s~,
Agen and ~ler led Colle a Mr.o~in:wen ack
n " ~Pratxon. Crossroads" o_ a e"`as university. chap-
team to. Africa. ~ir~? 'There he is known as
He and a group of fifteen the ~lsthletic-looking, colle-
American students, with ,,_., giate fellow :who rides a
African students helping;. `motoiscooter around the cam-
built acommunity center,.in pus, duffing on an aluminum-
Mamou, atown in the upland steY'nmed pipe.
~ rain forest of Guinea. One day, In .the house wifh the big
~ the group had had a - backyard .at the corner of
~ and-a-half, chat,wt7? , i~1~ Wall .' nd,Temple Streets in
S' ~ou~e, with 1VIr. ~oi`fin New`~aven are Mrs. Coffin,
in erpre~ing into French. a farmer actress :and dancer
Mr: "Coffin was born on. Wlncf ~;a~peared , on Broadway
July 3, .1924. ]ills father wits "as'rank in `.`The-.
e o
o an o y g
"We expect him
and brash
faculty members consider ~yIr. `,7`alent and energy
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i to Yale and was graduated Billy Graham in the family."
1 in 1949. "My answer to that," Mr.
He studied divinity at the Coffin responded, "was to say
' Union Theological Seminary -Well, I'm not sure I want
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