Alvin John Cooper (1910-1978) was a United Church minister and administrator. He studied at the University of Manitoba (agriculture), St. Stephen's College, Alberta (theology), Union Theological Seminary, New York, and Columbia University, New York (education), earning the degrees B.S.A. and Ed.D. He served as Boys' Work Secretary in Alberta and as minister at St. Paul's United Church, Calgary, before being appointed to the staff of the Board of Christian Education in 1944. He was responsible for youth and young adult work, and chaired the planning committee for the "New Curriculum," completed in 1961.
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Fonds consists of student papers, 1941-1956; correspondence, 1958; journal, March-April, 1952.
This material forms part of the General Council program of the United Church of Canada Archive.
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