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Mark, like many of Trudeau's regular characters, is a composite of several flesh-and-blood figures, including former Yale Activist Mark Zanger, now a staff writer for Boston's Real Paper. The Reverend Sloan is an amalgam of former Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and a onetime roommate who became a minister and lawyer. Trudeau created Nichole, his first strong female character, while he was seeing Annie Hurlbut, a Yalie who later moved on to study anthropology at the University of Illinois-but not before turning Trudeau on to feminism. Last summer Garry donated close...
Ensign Vernon Berg III, 24, is Navy all the way-son of a Navy chaplain, and a 1974 Annapolis graduate who once dated the daughter of the academy's former superintendent Vice Admiral William P. Mack. He is also an avowed bisexual fighting dismissal from the service for homosexual behavior. At his discharge hearing before a five-officer board last week in Norfolk, Admiral Mack was on hand to defend...
...discharge. Meanwhile, he read of the struggle by Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (TIME, June 9) to challenge the armed services' ban on homosexuals. Berg too decided to fight. He had the full support of his family, including his father, Commander Vernon Berg Jr., a Protestant chaplain at Great Lakes, Ill., Naval Training Center. Said Commander Berg: "Some people are born lefthanded and some righthanded. In our family we accept people as they...
...perplexity, Wittig demands, "How come, if the church proclaims we are all God's children, I am considered less?" Among the others ordained, one is a part-time prison minister in Rochester; two are professors at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass.; the Rev. Lee McGee is a chaplain at Washington's American University. Alison Cheek, of course, has her church work in Washington. But most of the others are working at secular jobs?because they cannot get anything else...
Somewhere between the two is the vision of the contemporary saint as a person of persistently heroic virtue and courage whose life is a model for others -a Mother Teresa, perhaps, or a Mahatma Gandhi. "A saint is someone by whom one lives," says the Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "someone who for us is a revelation of what life is all about...