Backstage: Douglas Coffin ’76
QTell me about yourself.
AI went to Yale and was class of ’76. I ended up going there in part because my uncle was the Yale Chaplain, Rev. William Sloane Coffin ’49. I took too little advantage of all that Yale had to offer. I didn’t hear my uncle preach nearly as much as I should have. I dropped out of Yale my junior year and got involved in a food co-op in New Haven. We took over a grocery store and did a full range of foods. It was just fascinating to learn about food at a time when so many different foods were coming to the country. We were getting a lot of Italian and French...
