Edward “Ted” Cole Coolidge ’52

Edward “Ted” Cole Coolidge ’52 of Cromwell, Connecticut, passed away on April 5 at Middlesex Hospital. Ted was born on December 8, 1929, in Beverly, Massachusetts, and attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire; Dartmouth College; Union Theological Seminary in New York for a master’s in divinity; General Theological Seminary in N.Y.C.; and the Society of St. John the Evangelist spiritual director training program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Dartmouth Ted majored in philosophy and history. In 1952 he married Joy Searle, who predeceased him in 2018. Ted’s ordained ministerial roles were as minister in the First Presbyterian Church of Allegany, New York; deacon in the Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut; and priest in the Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut. He served as chaplain of the Gunnery School in Washington, Connecticut; associate rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Haven; rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Middle Haddam, Connecticut; director of program development with Community Action for Greater Middletown, member of the Middlesex area ministry team, and associate rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Middletown, Connecticut. From 1978 to 1998 he was a cofounder of Hie Hill Community in Westbrook, Connecticut. In 2008 Ted moved to Covenant Village of Cromwell, where he was occasionally involved in pastoral ministries. Ted is survived by son John and his wife, Maureen; son Peter and his wife, Sharon; daughter Karen and her husband, Robert; daughter Joan and her husband, Kurt; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.