Sage Chapel records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 39-2-1300

Scope and content

Sermons, programs, posters, and correspondence concerning speakers invited to preach in Sage Chapel at Cornell. Programs in the collection are mainly for religious services, but also include some concert programs. The collection also includes a typewritten history of the Sage Chapel Choir by Donald R.M. Paterson (16 pages). Speakers who gave sermons include Lee E. Snook, Daniel Berrigan, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard D. Bausman, Rosemary Ruether, Carl Sagan, John A. Taylor, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Dick Gregory, Frank H.T. Rhodes, William Sloane Coffin, Robert Nelson West, and others. Includes full text of several sermons given during the 1986-1987 academic year.

Dates

1875, 1904-1987-(bulk 1969-1980).
1904 - 1987
Majority of material found within 1969 - 1980

Creator

Cornell United Religious Work (Organization)
Bausman, Richard D. (Person)
Berrigan, Daniel. (Person)
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006. (Person)
Gregory, Dick. (Person)
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth. (Person)
Paterson, Donald R. M. (Person)
Reuther, Rosemary. (Person)
Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor. (Person)
Snook, Lee E., 1930-2021 (Person)
Taylor, John A. (John Albert), 1931-2011 (Person)
West, Robert Nelson. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

As a nonsectarian institution, Cornell University invites clergy and lay people of a variety of religious faiths to speak at religious services or other programs on campus, often at Sage Chapel.