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William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience
By Warren Goldstein
Yale University Press, pages, $30
It would be an understatement to say that as an undergraduate I was not much of a churchgoer. My parents weren’t either, but they had insisted on a certain amount of exposure to the church. When I left home, however, I turned away from the pinched preachments of the organized religion I had known.
So it was a revelation of sorts when, prodded by a roommate who was the son of a preacher, I staggered out of bed of a Sunday to go hear Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. in the pulpit. The chapel at Yale University was a big, Baroque affair with a pipe organ that seemed ready to burst the wall of the building and would fill one’s soul with its power. And here was a preacher with charisma, with persuasiveness, with humor, with a doctrine larger than the organized tenets of one denomination or another. His finely worked aphorisms made his message stick in the young minds in the congregation. His big, baritone voice led the vigorous singing of the great Christian hymns. Moreover, his gorgeous blond wife, the daughter of piano virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein, was usually in the chapel as well, usually in sunglasses, providing a counterpoint of adolescent desire to the inspiration o
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Commencement Records include commencement ceremony invitations, programs, scripts, and transcriptions of speeches given. Each year, a commencement guest speaker is invited to deliver words of wisdom and inspiration to the graduating senior students; correspondence with prospective guest speakers and the speaker's biographical information and or curriculum vitae may be in this record series. Also of note are sheet music and lyrics for a Nightingale commencement song. Invitations include the date of commencement, with later invitations also including the location and enclosing admission ticket(s). Programs typically are dated and set forth the order of events for the commencement ceremony, songs to be sung (which may include lyrics and/or music notation), names of speakers, and names of the graduates. Ceremony scripts are used by the head of school for speaking cues to conduct the commencement ceremony. Scripts may include names of award recipients, the following year's Council and student leadership representatives, names of speakers, and other ceremony details.
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