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Reverend Canon Dr. Alan Condie Tull, former College Chaplain and member of the faculty in the Religion Department, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 4 in his native Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 76. Dr. Tull had been suffering from cancer for months.

Tull became a member of the Trinity community in 1964 after being named a fellow and tutor and a candidate for the Th.D. degree at the General Theological Seminary in Utah.

Tull spent his undergraduate years at Stanford University and received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Episcopal Missionary District in Utah.

He was appointed an instructor of religion, teaching church history and ethics at Trinity. The next year, Tull was named Chaplain and became Assistant Professor in 1968.

The Trinity community was notified of Tull's passing in a campus-wide e-mail issued by College President James F. Jones, Jr. and current College Chaplain Reverend Alison Read.

Tull served Trinity for 26 years before retiring to serve as Episcopal Chaplain at Brigham Young University and was later named canon theologian for the Epsicopal diocese of Utah.

After he retired, Tull was forever remembered in the Chapel when his collegues commissioned a stonecarving in his likeness.

"Remembered with affection for his wit and sense of adventure in retirement, we are grateful today for this playful and lasting remembrance of our former Chaplain," Jones remarked in his e-mail.

"Chaplain Tull is most vividly remembered for his activism during the civil rights and Vietnam eras.  During his tenure, Chaplain Tull oversaw many projects in the Chapel - the organ, organ case and music gallery, addition of bells to the carillon, stained glass windows on the North Porch, memorial garden, sedilia, entryway, gates to the Friendship Chapel, and others," said Jones.

He is survived by his brother Darrell "Joe" (Gloria); nephew Kevin; niece Tiffany; two grandnieces; and one grandnephew.

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