After my dad got his BD from BBDS in 1945-6 (the actual awarding of the degree was postponed pending payment of library fines), and married my mom (1946), they moved to the Boston area, where he got a job as youth pastor at FBC Malden, where he was supervised by Rev. Hillyer Stratton for a year or so. During the same year he completed his STM at Newton (later part of Andover-Newton, which now I believe has been sort of folded into Yale). They moved back to the Puget Sound area and he had two brief pastorates (Grace Baptist, Tacoma, and Calvary Baptist (now Wedgwood Community Church), Seattle. By 1952 he had had enough of pastoring and moved on to his great calling, campus ministry, at the University of Washington, where he served as the minister at the Baptist/Disciples Student Center which morphed into Koinonia Center (forerunner of the later Covenant House). He gave enormous credit for his lack of total failure in church pastoring and his great success in campus ministry to the guidance he received from Dr. Stratton.
Hillyer Stratton in 1938