Rev. Martin Goslin, On TV In '60S

The Rev. Dr. Martin Goslin, Protestant participant in a Northwest interfaith television program in the 1960s and senior minister of Plymouth Congregational Church here from 1953 to 1962, has died in California. He was 83.

Rev. Goslin died Jan. 6 in Pomona Valley Hospital Center following heart surgery. Memorial services were held Jan. 15 in Claremont, Calif., where the Rev. Goslin had been living at Pilgrim Place, a retirement center for clergy. No local services are planned.

While serving in Seattle, Rev. Goslin participated in a television program with leaders of two other faiths, which reportedly was the first interfaith program in the United States.

"Challenge," the program that aired Sundays on KOMO-TV, featured Rev. Goslin, Rabbi Raphael Levine and the Rev. William Treacy, a Catholic priest.

In 1962, Rev. Goslin created a controversy when he denounced the visit to Seattle of Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, and Dr. Fred Schwarz, founder of the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade.

From Seattle, Rev. Goslin went to the First Congregational Church in Webster, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. After retirement, he lived in Seattle for a time before moving to California.

Jack Griswold, a Seattle friend who stayed in touch with Rev. Goslin, recalls him as a "very warm, caring and knowledgeable individual who was pleasant and challenging to be around."

Rev. Goslin is survived by his wife, Louise Goslin of

Claremont; three daughters, Judith Hall of Vancouver, B.C., Hilary Blake of Ithaca, N.Y., and Margot Walker of New Hampshire; and two sons, Matthew Goslin of Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and Jonathan Goslin of Seattle.

Remembrances are suggested to the Pilgrim Place Book of Remembrance, 660 Avery Road, Claremont, Calif., 91711.