
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, April 6, 1991                   TAG: 9104060157
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

PEACE ACTIVIST TO TALK AT BLACKSBURG CHURCH

The Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin will speak to the community Sunday at Blacksburg Presbyterian Church at the 11 a.m. service and again at 7:30 p.m.

Coffin, a peace activist, was chaplain of Yale University 1957-1975. In 1977, he became senior pastor of New York's Riverside Church, where he founded its disarmament program.

He was the first president of the SANE/Freeze organization, from which he recently retired.

He worked with the CIA from 1950-1953. He was one of the first Freedom Riders arrested and jailed in Montgomery, Ala., for challenging racial segregation at bus stations.

In 1968, he was convicted along with Dr. Benjamin Spock and others for conspiring to aid draft resistance.

Coffin will speak on issues of peace and justice relevant to world events.

His visit is sponsored by the Shear Endowment for Peacemaking and Peace Education at the Blacksburg Church; the Peace, Justice, and Global Mission Committee of Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, and the Cooper House.

by CNB