Story by The Rev. Edward S. Lowrey,
Th. M. '62

Submitted on 4 November 2009

Remembering Huron - Pranks!

In the late 1950's William Coleman was "Principal" at Huron College. He lived in one of the downstairs apartments with his wife and family. Principal Coleman, who everyone loved, had, for his private transportation, a late model Volkswagen, black in colour. One morning, as the College community gathered for the mid-week Eucharist in the lovely Chapel, what was behind the communion but Dr. Coleman's Volkswagen. How did it get there? Who knows.

One day in the late 1950's, we awoke to find the flag of the Irish Republican Army flying from the very top of the Chapel steeple. The only way it could have gotten there was for some brave soul to have climbed the steeple! One student was a staunch Irishman, and might have known something about it.