Richard T. Nolan
Miscellaneous Documents

Behind the Scenes (2007)

Newspaper Clippings [See also index www.nolan-pingpank.com/bob_rich.]

• "Nolan Evaluates Chapel" (Trinity Tripod, 1959) - During the final semester of my senior year, I was asked by the Tripod staff to write this analysis. As president of the Canterbury Club, I had chaired it dissolution, because the then Chaplain with whom there was great dissatisfaction was trying to run it as his nonintellectual campus tool. See pages 212-213 in Peter J. Knapp's Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: A History (Trinity College, 2000).
• "Waltham Youth Enters Seminary ..." (Waltham News Tribune, 1959)
• "Valley Hospital Sets School for Chaplains" (Hartford Courant, 1962)
• "Rev. Nolan Ordained At Christ Church" (Waltham News Tribune, 1963)
• "Religious Course Set for the Branch" (Waterbury Republican, about 1967)
• "Rev. Nolan Receives Hartford Appointment" (Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 1967)

• "Bristol Cleric Warns About 'Doing Good'" (Bristol Press, 1968)

• "Bristol Resident Editor of Essays On Deaconate" (sic) (The Bristol Press, 1968)

• "Diaconate Is Subject ......." (Hartford Courant, 1968)

• "Former Chaplain At Academy ......" (The Cheshire Herald, 1968)

• "...... Named Assistant Dean ..... " (Cheshire Herald, 1968)

• "Rev. Nolan, Waltham Native ....." (Waltham News Tribune, 1968)

• "Pastor Teaches Nuns About Religion" (Hartford Courant, 1969)

• "Student Centered: An Interpretation" (college newspaper "The Arrow" - 1969)

• "Protestant Minister Is Ecumenical Teacher" (The Catholic Transcript - Hartford Archdiocese, 1969)

• "Five Named To Posts At College" (Waterbury Republican, 1969)

• "Drug Store Looted" (Hartford Courant, 1970)

• "Principles Of Protest" (The Arrow - college newspaper, 1970)

• "College Offering New Course" (Hartford Courant, 1971)

• "Theology School Opens" (Hartford Courant, 1971)

• "Waltham-Born Cleric Named to Two Posts" (Waltham News Tribune, 1971)

• ".... lecture on Hinduism" (Hartford Courant, 1972)

• " ... Honored by N.Y.U." (The Bristol Press, 1973)

• "Episcopal Priest to Give Lecture ......" (probably New Britain Herald, 1973 or 1974)

• TV Guide page - 1974 (representative of several TV Guide listings of the "Sounding Board" call-in TV shows of those years; no clippings available for other regional TV and radio programs - hosted and interviewed - during the same period of time)

• Litchfield Commencement Address (Hartford Courant, 1975)

• "Yale Fellow" (Hartford Courant, 1975)

• "Honor Society To Induct ...." (Hartford Courant, 1976)

• A Warming Glow From Rome" (Hartford Courant, 1978)
• "Birth's Morality Splits Clergymen" (Hartford Courant, 1978)
• "Church Membership" (The Catholic Transcript, Hartford, 1978)

• "Litchfield Priest Says ...." (Hartford Courant, 1978)

• ".... Offensive Charismatics, Born-Agains" (Hartford Courant, 1978)

• "When Success Is Stifled" (Hartford Courant, 1983)

• "Eating Away at Royalties" (Hartford Courant, 1983)

• ".... Seeking Teacher's Royalties" (Hartford Courant, 1983)

• "Litchfield Institute Formed" (Litchfield County Times, 1984)

• "Litchfield Institute Plans ....." (The Litchfield Enquirer, 1984)

• "Professor Takes Credit ..." (Hartford Courant, 1984)

• "Scholar's View" (Bristol Press, 1985)

• "Litchfield Parish To Note 190 Years ......" (Waterbury Republican, 1986)

• "Innovative Pastor To Leave ..." (Waterbury Republican, 1988)

• "When Does Life Begin?" (Sun-Sentinel, 1989)

• "Clergy Malpractice and the Diaconate" (Episcopal Life, 1989)

• "Cathedral Gains New Honorary Canons" (The Good News - Episcopal Diocese of CT, Dec./91-Jan./92 issue)

• "Euthanasia Inevitable ...." (Miami Herald, 1991)

• Caught by Photographer at the Yale Co-Op (New Haven Register, 1991) - Approaching retirement in a year, I used a 1/2 "personal day" for an excused absence from a dreadful faculty meeting to visit New Haven, an hour's drive from home. In addition to browsing at the Yale Divinity bookstore, I had lunch and concluded the pleasant visit with some shopping at the Yale Co-Op, where I bought a suit jacket. During the process, a photographer and the manager showed up and asked if a picture could be taken for a newspaper article. I was glad that I was using an excused absence (to which I was entitled without explanation); my department chairman lived in New Haven and would surely see the picture in the Sunday edition - though he never mentioned it!

• "Religions Hedge Their Bets" (Hartford Courant, 1992)

• "Freedom of Choices" (Hartford Courant, 1993)

• "Killing In God's Name" (Palm Beach Post, 1994)

• Visions of the Apocalypse (Hartford Courant, 1994)

• "Hope - And Danger - Of Promise Keepers" (Palm Beach Post, 1995)

• "Where You Find The Faith" (Palm Beach Post, 1996)

• Several Letters to the Editor (Palm Beach Post, 1995-2002)

• "Cardinal Misses the Point" (Palm Beach Post, 2002)

• "Obstinacy, Not Stupidity, Is Believers' Achilles Heel" (Palm Beach Post, 2002)

• "Not Even Combat Pay Could Entice Ex-Teachers" (Palm Beach Post, 2002)

• "The Church's Changing Seasons" (Anglican Digest, 2000)

• “Church Opens Its Arms to Gay” (Palm Beach Post, 2002)

• "Gay Issues Challenge Churches ..... " (Sun-Sentinel, 2003)

• “We Are Not An ‘Issue’ ...” (The Net, 2003)
• “BBC Visits Palm Beach Integrity .....” (Independent Community News, 2004)
• “After 49 ½ Years .....” (Sun Sentinel, 2005)
• “Memories, Celebration Mingle ....” (Palm Beach Post, 2005)
• “Integrity Fellowship ...” (Sun Sentinel, 2005)

• "West Palm Starts Domestic Registry" (Palm Beach Post, 2005)

• "Gay Priest Weighs In" (The Weekly News, 2005)

• "Christians Aim to Break the 'Da Vinci Code'" (Palm Beach Post, 2006)

• Comment on the Need for Greater Anglican Clarity (Episcopal Life Online, 2008)

Supportive Letters

• Tabor Academy (1954) - The Tabor summer session was required as an orientation to the one-year (1954-55) postgraduate study program at Tabor. A course in German along with recreational electives filled the calendar, e.g., swimming, sailing (earned certification in sailing the small sailboats), weekend cruise on the "Tabor Boy" (92' schooner), the crafts shop, etc. It was in the crafts program that the prize-winning pectoral cross was completed (referred to in the letter). Other Tabor photos are at www.philosophy-religion.org/nolan/tabor.htm.

• Tabor Academy (fall '54 term)

• Tabor Academy (1955)

• Trinity College Library Associates (1957)

• Trinity College Senate (1958)

• Cathedral Choir School (1962)

• Cheshire Academy (1966)

• Cheshire Academy (1967)

• St. John's Episcopal Church, New City, NY (1963)

• Tabor Academy (1963)

• Archdeacon George O. Ekwall (1965)

• New York University (1965)

• Reference Letters with RTN Placement File (1967)

• Hartford Seminary (1968)

• Hartford Seminary (1969)

• Hartford Seminary (1971)

• Harvard (1976) - Regrettably, despite my college president's full support for a sabbatical to develop a medical ethics course at Harvard, the Board of Trustees turned it down, because "nurses and the public do not need such studies; only doctors need them." My comment that the Board was suffering from "cranial rectal inversion" made it to the newspapers! :-) I have apparently trashed the various newspaper articles criticizing the Board. In any case, about 1978 I spent a full semester's sabbatical at Yale Medical and Divinity Schools and brought back to the college a well-prepared course suitable for the nursing curriculum and as an elective for other students. The St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing required it, too. The course was always fully registered and often had two sections offered per semester. I received a wonderful letter from a student (the State Chairman-M.D. of the CT Pro-Life organization) praising the course for its fair, even-handed presentation of various views on each topic.

• Wadsworth Letter regarding the Special Leather Bound Copy of Living Issues in Philosophy (1986)

• WATR Radio (1986)

• Waterbury Hospital Health Center (1986)

• Saint Paul's Parish, Bantam, CT (1988)

• Yale University (1989)

• Yale University (Kelsey, 1989)

• Board of Trustees - Connecticut (1992)

• From the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop (1995)

• St. Andrew's Church (2003)

• St. Andrew's Church (2003)

• Trinity College Dean Frank G. Kirkpatrick (2005)

Links

• "A Part-time Vicar" from Saint Paul’s Church, Bantam, Connecticut – The First Two Hundred Years 1797-1997

• "A Delicate Matter"

• Parade Photos (IntegrityPalmBeach.org, 2005)
• Theistic Philosophers

Odds and Ends

• Archbishop of Canterbury's letter (1961) and his official signature "Geoffrey Cantuar" in my Prayer Book. - In 1952, while in high school, I attended the opening service of the Episcopal Church’s triennial General Convention held that year in Boston and a related service held at the historic Old North Church. At the latter, I prayed from the Book of Common Prayer given to me by my parents five years earlier! The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, was on hand as a welcome and beloved visitor. After the Service, he took a moment to sign a 15-year-old boy’s Prayer Book, a custom for some of us!
       In 1960 Dr. Fisher met the Roman Pope, an event that touched me deeply, because Dad was Roman Catholic. I wrote a letter of gratitude to the Archbishop for his ecumenical gesture.
       By 2008 I set aside my former interests in “the great cause of bringing the Church of Rome and the Anglican Church into an alliance of unity, truth and concord.” I see no realistic method(s) by which that can be done.
• Senator Ribicoff and Single Citizens' Taxes (1969)
• Coach Dick Nolan (1978)
• Invocation & Benediction, Litchfield High School, CT (1984)
• Religious Declaration On Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing (2000)
• Wadsworth CD of Philosophy Textbook plus Oxford Transition Letter (2001)
• A Review of "A Concise Introduction to Islam" (2002)
• An Open Letter Regarding the Meeting of the Primates called by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Oct. 9, 2003)
• An Open Letter Concerning Religion and Science (2004/5)
• Survey Comment to Hartford Seminary (2006)
• Faith Leaders Condemn Repressive Nigerian Legislation (February 27, 2007)
• Thoughtful Acknowledgements and Inclusions
  • 1974 Homosexuality and Counseling, Jones
  • 1988 Western Civilizations, Lerner, et al
  • 1997 Stealing Jesus, Bawer
  • 2001 The Ethics of Community, Kirkpatrick
  • 2005 A Church At War (paperback edition), Bates
  • 2008 The Episcopal Church In Crisis, Kirkpatrick
• An Open Letter to Religious Leaders On Marriage Equality (2008)
• A Statement of Opposition to Amendment 2 (2008)

Annual Reports to the Bishop of Connecticut

• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007 - Addendum