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	Gallery - The Rev. Chad Varah
		A few years later, Chad Varah began his more famous venture when he set up the "Samaritans", the first telephone help line for those in social and psychological need, which since then has had followers the world over.
		Born in 1911, Chad Varah was ordained as Anglican clergyman in 1936.
		In a recent BBC radio interview, Varah described how this event changed his life: he resolved from that moment to put an end to the general tabu on public discussion about sexuality and bodily functions, and so work towards a world where such a thing could never happen.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/7187/Varah.html (315 words)

	Chad Varah
		Chad wanted to help because one day he was doing a funeral for a girl who had committed suicide because she was having her monthly period and she thought it was a disease.
		Varah was closely associated with the founding of the comic The Eagle in 1950, working as a scriptwriter for it and sister publication Girl, as well as "Scientific and Astronautical Consultant" (as Varah put it) to Dan Dare.
		Varah became rector of the church of St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London, serving from 1953 until 2003, when he retired at the age of 92.
	www.1bx.com /en/Chad_Varah.htm (289 words)

	Rev Dr Chad Varah \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Varah was delighted when, in 2006, his eldest son, the late Michael Varah, was appointed to sit on the organisation's newly created board of trustees.
		Varah founded the Samaritans in the church vestry on November 2 1953 and continued to run the organisation from the crypt, where the first volunteers were based.
		Varah's battle for well-informed sex education continued into his eighties: in 1992 he founded, and from 1999 was secretary of, MAGMOG (Men against Genital Mutilation of Girls), going into the homes of immigrants from East Africa to convince them of the pointless cruelty of the practice.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,2208160,00.html (1698 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Obituary: The Reverend Chad Varah
		Born in Barton-upon-Humber, where his father was the vicar at St Chad's, the local Anglican church, Chad Varah was educated at Oxford before, he said, being "press-ganged" into the life of a priest.
		Standing in at the funeral of a 14-year-old girl, he asked the undertaker why the girl was being buried in unconsecrated ground, and was told she had killed herself because she had mistaken menstruation for a serious disease.
		Chad Varah always insisted that it should not be a religious organisation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3169124.stm (583 words)

	The Rev Chad Varah - Independent Online Edition > Obituaries
		Chad Varah was one of those people inspired by a sudden brainwave from which developed an international organisation of almost breathtaking simplicity.
		Edward Chad Varah was born in 1911, at Barton-upon-Humber.
		Varah was made an Honorary Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1975 (and a Senior Prebendary in 1997) and an Honorary Fellow of Keble College in 1981.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article3146430.ece (983 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Varah was born in the village of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, eldest of nine children of the vicar at the local Anglican church of St Chad's.
		He was survived by four of his children, his son Michael Varah having died earlier in 2007.
		Varah began to understand the problems facing the suicidal when he was taking a funeral as an assistant curate in 1935, his first church service, at St Peter-in-Eastgate church in Lincoln, for a fourteen year old girl who committed suicide because she had begun to menstruate and feared that she had a sexually transmitted disease.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Chad_Varah (949 words)

	St Stephen Walbrook :: Samaritans
		Chad began to understand that the action of speaking to someone they did not know, who would simply listen to what they had to say, could be beneficial for people in distress.
		Chad said, "It was a straightforward matter of observation that the proportion of the callers I actually interviewed diminished, the ones I did see were easier to help because of the time they had spent with a volunteer...
		In February 1954, Chad officially handed over the task of supporting the callers to the volunteers and Samaritans, based on the principles that it is today was born.
	www.ststephenwalbrook.net /samaritans.htm (834 words)

	Chad Varah at AllExperts
		Edward Chad Varah, CH, CBE (born November 12, 1911) is a British Anglican priest, best known as the founder of The Samaritans (now known just as "Samaritans") in 1953, the world's first crisis hotline organisation, offering non-religious telephone counselling to those contemplating suicide.
		Varah was closely associated with the founding of the comic The Eagle in 1950, working as a scriptwriter for it and sister publication Girl, as well as "Scientific and Astronautical Consultant" (as Varah put it) to Dan Dare.
		Varah became rector of the church of St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London, serving from 1953 until 2003, when he retired at the age of 92.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/chad_varah.htm (253 words)

	Chad Varah
		Edward Chad Varah, CH, CBE, (born November 12, 1911) is a British priest.
		He served as rector of the church of St Stephen, Wallbrook in the City of London from 1953-2003, retiring at the age of 92.
		Varah was closely associated with the founding of the comic The Eagle in 1950.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/c/ch/chad_varah.html (93 words)

	Chad \| World Technorati
		Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans has died at the age of 95 - see BBC report.
		Chad’s desk hours 5/21 - 5/27 While students and faculty are always welcome to to stop by anytime with questions, there are times when I might not be available.
		Chad’s interior minister has accused three Spanish flight crew members of being accomplices in the plan to abduct more than 100 children from Darfur.
	world.technorati.ro /chad (328 words)

	Varah (Edward) Chad - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Varah_(Edward)_Chad.html (181 words)

	Keyword Search - VirtualTourist.com
		The area around Lake Chad and N'djamena is in the centre of the country, which has a Sahelian blend of scrub and desert.
		Chad is a very poor country, in fact one of the poorest in Africa.
		Chad's church was originally built as a Romanesque rotunda more than 1000 years ago when Shrewsbury was a young city.
	members.virtualtourist.com /vt/ks/?m=0&s=Chad (804 words)

	Varah, Chad
		The eldest of nine children of an Anglican Church minister, Edward Chad Varah was born on November 12, 1911, in the small town of Barton upon Humber, County of Lincolnshire, England.
		In the culturally repressive atmosphere of the United Kingdom in the 1930s, Varah recognized the extent to which confusion and ignorance about many social issues, several still shrouded in taboo, contributed to the despair that often led to suicide.
		He officiated at the funeral of a thirteen-year-old girl who was so confused and isolated that she believed that the onset of menstruation was the sign of a mortal illness that would lead to a slow and painful death; the terrified girl killed herself.
	www.deathreference.com /Sy-Vi/Varah-Chad.html (596 words)

	Anecdotage.Com - Thousands of true funny stories about famous people. Anecdotes from Gates to Yeats
		One day Chad Varah, having decided to create a telephone counselling service (The Samaritans) in the crypt of the church of St. Stephen Walbrook in London, set out to secure a simple, easily-remembered number.
		As the church was located in the "Mansion House" area of London, the number would have to be assigned the prefix MAN. Varah settled upon MAN-9000.
		In need of a telephone to call the Post Office (to see whether the number was available), Varah was pleased to find an ancient telephone in the corner of the church's dusty crypt.
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=3152 (212 words)

	Ship of Fools: The Mystery Worshipper
		The church was also the birthplace of Samaritans, launched in 1953 by the Revd Chad Varah, Rector of St Stephens up until his retirement in 2003.
		Varah had long felt the need for a counselling service that people in distress could turn to.
		After officiating at the funeral of a 14 year old girl who had committed suicide (having begun her periods but not understanding what was happening to her body and having no one to turn to for advice), Varah knew that the time had come to take action.
	shipoffools.com /Mystery/2007/1428.html (1046 words)

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	Raven Sound
		The Samaritans was founded by Rev. Chad Varah in 1953, in East London, when as a priest, he had to hold a funeral service for a teenage girl.
		Chad decided to improve sex education for young people, he also decided to do something about people who were in despair or suicidal and in November 1953, the first telephone help line was opened, on Mansion House 9000.
		Chad realised that most people did not need to see him, they were finding the support they needed from his helpers, so he was able to hand it over to the volunteers, ordinary people chosen for their ability to listen and befriend.
	www.ravensoundradio.co.uk /page3bk.html (320 words)

	This is Bradford \| CommuniGate \| How did it all start?
		Samaritans was started in 1953 in London by a young vicar called Chad Varah (below) who worked in the city parish of St Stephen, Walbrook in the City.
		Through his work in a number of different parishes in the city he had seen the range and extent of the distress experienced by people everywhere, every day.
		Chad said, "It was a straightforward matter of observation that the proportion of the callers I actually interviewed diminished, the ones I did see were easier to help because of the time they had spent with a volunteerEventually I was seeing only about one in eight of those who came."
	www.communigate.co.uk /brad/bradfordsamaritans/page6.phtml (833 words)

	EKD: Protestant Church in Germany - - Telephone counselling service congress in Lindau
		The Anglican priest, Chad Varah (London), who became well-known for this form of aid, recognised that the telephone was the correct medium for this situation back in the 1940’s.
		It became clear in Lindau, that world-wide, the same problems concern the callers: in first place everywhere, were conflicts with partners or the family, followed by psychological disturbances.
		The intention to commit suicide, which caused the London priest Chad Varah to build up his organisation, only involves two per cent of callers in Germany.
	www.ekd.de /bulletin/1997/2464.html (501 words)

	Whistle Stopper Political Forums
		Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, dies at 95
		Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, has died in hospital aged 95.
		The Prince of Wales, a patron of the charity, led the tributes last night, describing Dr Varah as "an utterly remarkable man" whose dedication had saved countless lives.
	www.whistlestopper.com (216 words)

	Hull Local Holiday Season A Friend Indeed by Cilla
		Chad Varah was a busy man. In fact, he considered himself the busiest man in the Church.
		Chad was not only the Vicar of St Paul's Clapham Junction and the Chaplain of St John's Hospital Battersea, his 'other' job (the one that earned his living) was Staff Scriptwriter / Visualiser for Eagle and Girl cartoon magazines and Scientific and Astronautical Consultant to Dan Dare!
		Chad was invitied to apply for a ministry at St Stephen Walbrook, in the heart of the City of London.
	www.thisisull.com /samaritans/afriendneed.html (961 words)

	Samaritans - Would you like to know more? > History > How it started (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This page contains an article written by Chad Varah, the founder of The Samaritans, describing the origins and beginnings of the organisation.
		Chad certainly kept to his word and continued to organise befriending all over the world.
		In 1974 Chad founded Befrienders International (now Befrienders Worldwide), the worldwide body of Samaritans branches, to complement the, by then, 160 Branches in the UK and Ireland, with 18,022 volunteers.
	www.samaritans.org.uk /know/about/about_letter.shtm (1071 words)

	Pride of Britain Awards - The Winners - 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		THE Reverend Chad Varah was a newly-ordained vicar working in London's East End when the story of a young girl's suicide moved him to set up a telephone helpline for people who had lost all hope.
		Last year Dr Varah, 88, rector of St Stephen's Church, Walbrook, in the City of London, celebrated 60 years since his ordination.
		He says: "I made my debut in the ministry by burying a 14-year-old girl who had killed herself when her periods started, thinking she was ill. Then I read that there were three suicides a day in Greater London and I realised there ought to be an emergency number for suicidal people.
	www.prideofbritain.com /winners/2000/tm_headline=lifetime-achievement-award---chad-varah&method=full&objectid=15947192&siteid=111217-name_page.html (303 words)

	The Samaritans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The coroner, at her inquest suggested that she might not have done this desperate act if someone had been around who would have listened to her troubles.
		Chad Varah decided to use his London church and a telephone to listen to people who were in despair.
		He put a small advertisement in the local paper and in the first week he had 27 calls.
	www.frtommylane.com /stories/helping_others/samaritans.htm (197 words)

	Volunteer organization - prevent suicide - staff crisis phone lines, listening, consoling and giving hope to those in ...
		Speaking engagements are tailored to different groups; the presentations address listening skills, all aspects of depression and suicide, including warning signs, and ways to provide help and possibly avert tragedies.
		The organization was founded in London in 1953 by an Anglican clergyman, Chad Varah.
		Chad Varah told her that in order to understand and write clearly about the group, she would have to join and become a Samaritan herself.
	www.capesamaritans.org /about_volunteers.html (428 words)

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