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...chapel is interdenominational, designed so that Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish services, each seating as many as 500, may be held simultaneously or thrown together in one big, 1,200-capacity. But the man behind it is the prison's senior Catholic chaplain, Father Carl J. Breitfeller...
...Chaplain Breitfeller says that everyone at Lorton worked on the project in one way or another from October 1956 to last week's dedication. His first recruit was one Farmer C. Thomas, doing a 17-year stretch for forging $100 bills, who had once taken a mail-order course in architectural engineering. When the priest asked him to design the chapel, Thomas, an atheist, protested that he had never been in a church in his life. Under Father Breitfeller's influence and instruction, he became a Catholic...
...punish him." Barnett, noting well what had happened in Alabama, assured Attorney General Kennedy that Mississippi would protect the students from violence. Kennedy was deciding to trust Barnett and withhold federal forces from Mississippi when he got word that still another integrated bus contingent, led by Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., was starting out for the South. Cracked Harvardman Kennedy: "Those people at Yale are sore at Harvard for taking over the country, and now they're trying to get back...
...William Sloane Coffin Jr., 36, last week became the first white Northerner to organize his own Freedom Ride. Brash, athletic Presbyterian Minister Bill Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, has never lacked for privileges of his own (his father was vice president of Manhattan's high-priced home furnishings store, W. & J. Sloane). He is married to the actress daughter of Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Coffin majored in government at Yale, served as a liaison officer with French and Russian troops during World War II, later worked as a Russian expert for the Central Intelligence Agency after studying divinity at Union...
Father of another senior, the Very Rev. Lawrence Rose, Dean of the General Theological Seminary of New York, will be Commencement Chaplain...