University at Albany, State University of New York Scholars Archive History Honors Program History 5-2017 Authority's Last Stand: Mainline Protestants, Catholics, and Albany’s Tumultuous Sixties Calley Quinn University at Albany, State University of New York,
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[email protected]. AUTHORITY’S LAST STAND: Mainline Protestants, Catholics, and Albany’s Tumultuous Sixties By: Calley Quinn Quinn 1 In 1970, a mainline Protestant in the Capital Area Council of Churches officially reached his breaking point. “Students in vast numbers have risen in rebellion against conventional American society,” Reverend Frank Snow stated to fellow Council members, “…. The crisis, as we all know from observation, if not from personal experience, is real.”1 Serving as head campus minister for the State University of New York at Albany, Snow could not handle counseling one more student concerned with the Vietnam War and conscription laws. He made it very clear in the Annual Report of the Capital Area Council of Churches that he was far from pleased with the current situation on campus.