T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection
ABSTRACT
INTERVIEWEE NAME: Charles Wood # 4700.0091
IDENTIFICATION: [1932 - ] Chaplain at St. Albans Episcopal Church
at LSU
INTERVIEWER: Karla Woggon
PROJECT: LSU History -- Religion Series
DATE: 2/10/92; 4/14/92; 4/22/92 FOCUS DATES: 1970s - 1990s
ABSTRACT:
Tape 114
family background; educational background; decision to become a
minister; student activism at LSU in the 1970s; reasons for
supporting student protestors; changing rules for women's
dormitories; relationship with administrators; change in university
organization; weekly meetings with other chaplains; role of campus
ministry; creation of faculty human development group in 1972;
relationship between the university and townspeople; chaplains'
role in shaping university policy; contrasts relationship of
pastors of different religions with that of students of different
religions; preachers at Free Speech Alley; cult activity at LSU;
university policy toward cults; Christ the King Church's fight to
hold onto parishioners; removal of Claretian order from Christ the
King; impact of Vietnam Moratorium (1969) on St. Albans; building
St. Albans (1929); diocesan support for St. Albans; ministering to
students of other faiths; work as counselor at the campus Mental
Health Center; Dean of Men Arden French; making career out of
service at St. Albans; relating to students; decline of
congregations of main stream churches; general clergy's view of
campus ministry; duties as pastor of St. Albans
Tape 161
day-to-day duties at St. Albans; reasons for entering the ministry;
change in focus at St. Albans from resident community to students;
make-up of congregation; conflict between faculty and townspeople;
Vietnam War Moratorium; appointment as chaplain; departure of his
predecessor Bill Pregnall; involvement in peace movement; CISBES
(Committee in Support of the People of El Salvador); Billy Graham
Crusade at LSU (1970); radicalism of English professor Herbert
Rothschild; support for student protestors; role as liaison between
the protestors and the university; Faculty Crisis Intervention
Group; streaking at LSU; townspeople's animosity toward students;
women's dorm walk out (Dec. 1970); Harambe and search for site for
black cultural center; Unification Church (Moonies) on campus;
Crossroad Movement of the Church of Christ and attempt to
infiltrate dormitories; cult recruiting techniques; Campus Crusade
for Christ; openness at St. Albans; relationship between St. Albans
and LSU; nature of Episcopal church; decline in congregation;
evangelicalism as a crusade
Tape 162
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Reddoch and women's dorm
walk out; Dean of Men Arden French and religious life on campus;
Margaret Jameson as Dean of Students; faculty advisor for Deeks;
attempts to soften emphasis on rules and regulations;
depersonalization of LSU in the late 1970s; conflict over open
housing and Citizens for Morality; decline in number of students
living on campus; counseling students at Mental Health Center
TAPES: T114, T161, T162 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 3.75 hours
# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 141
RESTRICTIONS: none