90 years Union SSM

  • Henry Sloane Coffin
    Yale alumnus Henry Sloane Coffin was president of Union Theological Seminary from 1926 to 1945. He was on the November 15, 1926 cover of Time Magazine. He was also the uncle of the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., the civil rights and antiwar activist who was Yale’s chaplain from 1958 to 1975.
  • Clarence Dickinson
    Clarence Dickinson taught both organ and composition, and published collections of music and textbooks, some with his wife. He was also organist at Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City for fifty years, and a prominent concert organist in the U.S. and Europe. Photo from the ISM archives
  • Helen A. Dickinson
    Helen Dickinson taught liturgy and used the slide collections of New York libraries and museums to make connections between liturgy and art and architecture. She was also the first woman to receive a Ph.D. (in philosophy) from Heidelberg University. Photo from the ISM archives