John Cannon

The Reverend John D. Cannon UTS 1959 was the last chaplain to occupy the Episcopalian royal peculiar of the Columbia University Chaplaincy. Cannon was perhaps the most radical University Chaplain at Columbia, founding the Postcrypt Coffeehouse, protested the Vietnam War and racial inequality, assisted in the founding of the Student Homophile League (now the Columbia Queer Alliance), and eventually recommended the abolition of the University Chaplaincy and the University's relationship with the Episcopal Church.