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JUN 3
1971
HARTFORD, CONN.
TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2
T-RINITY COLLEGE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
JUNE 1971
Graduates Honored
At Indoor Ceremony
..._ THE ' 145th COMMENCEMENT -Approximately 2600 people crowded the Ferris Athletic Center on May 30 to witness the awarding of 314 bachelors and 100 masters degrees. Rain forced the ceremonies inside for the first time since 1968.
Annual Givi-ng Tops Goal Nears $4oo,ooo With two weeks left before its official closing, the 1970-71 Annual Giving rogram has- topped its goal of $3.50,000 and is heading toward the $400,000 mark, according to Judson Rees, director of development. As of June 15, alumni, parents and friends of Trinity- including businesses and foundations-contributed a record $387,098, Rees reported. Last year at this time the Annual Giving total-with business and foundation donations included- was $267,127. The key to the p r ogram's extraordinary success, Rees .said, was the leadership shown by Trinity trustees- many of whom made generous contributions themselves- and the zeal shown by Trinity alumni and friends who
Barclay Shaw To Head Board An alumnus of the Class of 1935 and former president of the national Trinity College Alumni Association has been elected chairman of the Trinity College Board of Trustees. The new chairman, Barclay Shaw, will replace Lyman B. Brainerd who retired from the post effective May 29 . Brainerd had been chairman of the Board since 1968 and will still serve as a regular member of the 27-man governing body. Shaw, a 58-year-old tax lawyer from Chappagua, New York, has been a Trinity trustee since 1957, serving first as a representative of alumni, then as a life trustee elected by his fellow board members. A partner in the New York law firm of Townsend and Lewis, he served as president of the Alumni Association from 1956 to 1958 and won the Association's prestigious award, the Alumni Medal, in 1957. Brainerd, the president of the Hartford ·s team Boiler Inspection and Insurance (see SHAW, page 5)
- worked as volunteers during the campaign. The development director also cited alumni for going well over their quota of $ 2 00 ,000 . T o da t e alu mn-i have contributed $238,490-some $60,000 more than last year, he said . (See GIVING, page 4)
Faulkner
Polk
Four Trinity alumni, including one official alumni representative, have been elected to the Board of Trustees in the first trustee elections since the Board was reorganized last November. Three of the new trustees- Winthrop W. Faulkner, an architect from Washington, D. C.; William Polk, a teacher from Lawrenceville, N.J .; and William R. Peelle, a Hartford industrialist- were elected by Trinity trustees to fill board vacancies. They will serve terms of six, seven and eight years respectively. The fourth trustee- Martin D. Wood of Simsbury, Conn.- was elected in a heavy mail balloting of Trinity alumni held during May. He will replace Herbert R. Bland and serve a six-year term as an alumni trustee . Bland has been an alumni trustee since 1965 . The practice of electing trustees for given terms rather than "for life" was established by Trinity trustees last November. Trustees said they hoped the move would attract capable trustees who might not be .willing to commit
Spring showers ended . a three year streak of sunny commencements at Trinity this year and forced 313 bache-lor and 100 master degree candidates into the Ferris Athletic Center to receive their diplomas. The rains came shortly before bacc alaureate exercises early on graduation day and had parents and friends of graduates armed with umbrellas and raincoats long before they packed into the Ferris Center gymnasium for the afternoon ceremony. With no commencement speaker scheduled, the two hour ceremony proceeded quickly to the awarding of honorary degrees and the highlight of the afternoon-the presentation of diplomas. The commencement address was dropped by the College to shorten the ceremony while preserving the tradition of personally awarding degrees to each Trinity graduate. Not only were honorary degrees given to Connecticut's governor, Thomas J. Meskill., class of 1950, and Frank Stanton, the CBS president who has refused to release documents used in developing the controversial TV documentary, " Tile Selling of the Pentagon," but without a word of forewarning, President Lockwood took the podium from Lyman Brainerd, class
Peelle themselves to life terms and would at the same time insure that each generation of Trinity graduates - is adequately represented on the Board. Under the new plan, there will eventually be no life trustees on the 27-man Board. Instead , the Board will be composed of 12 "charter members" who will serve until retirement ; eight trustees elected for eight-year terms; six alumni trustees; and the president of the College. Traditionally, all Trinity trustees, except the College president, and those elected by the alumni, served life-long terms. Faulkner, a member of the Class of 1953, is a partner in Wilkes and Faulkner, an architectural firm which has been active in developing drug rehabilitation centers, neighborhood parks and cliild day care centers in the Washington, D.C. area. He has served as a class agent and is also an alumnus of the Landon School in Washington. Polk, a 31-year old alumnus of the
of 1930 and chairman of the trustees, and awarded the long-time Trinity supporter an honorary Doctor of Laws. "Four decades of distinguished service to Trinity College," Lockwood told the red-faced executive , "merit the recognition we accord you on this occasion ...You have brought calm and considerate judgment to the well-being. of Trinity." Brainerd, the president of Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · and a former recipient of the Eigenbrodt Trophy, has been a Trinity trustee since 1937 and chairman of the board since 1937 and chairman of the ·board since 1968. He is retiring as chairman this year, but will continue to serve as a Charter Trustee. Of all the dignitaries honored at the ceremony, Stanton was the one most enthusiastically received by members of the class of 1971. His citation was greeted with p ro1onged applause from the graduates and shouts ?f "bravo" from the bleachers which held their parents, relatives and friends . Brainerd praised Stanton for insisting on-"quality and excellence" in television programming and for personally making possible the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates. (see COMMENCEMENT, page 2)
Wood Class of 1962, is a religion teacher at the Lawrenceville School and one of the youngest trustees ever elected to the Trinity Board . He has served on the Human Relations Council in Lawrenceville and has been a member of the Trinity College Board of Fellows. Peelle, a vice-president of Arrow-Hart, Inc., was graduated from Trinity in 1944 and has served as vice president of the Alumni Association . He is director of the Greater Hartford Better Business Bureau and a forme!' chairman of Trinity's Alumni Fund. Wood , a 1942 Trinity alumnus, is second vice president of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and a retired colonel in the Air Force Reserves. He defeated Hartford City Councilman Dr. Allyn Martin '53 and Karl E. Scheibe '59, a psychology professor at Wesleyan University in a dose race for the alumni trustee position.
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COMMENCEMENT (from page 1) ·
H.ONORARY DEGREE REC~PIENTS-President Lockwood; Frank Stanton, .President, Columbia Broadcasting System (Doctor of Fme Arts); Edward Allen SUlsman, Hartford civic leader, philanthropist and industrialist (Doctor of Laws); Thomas J. Meskill '50, Gov~r?o.r of the State of ~onnectic~t. (Doct~r of Laws); Bradford Hastings, Rector of Christ Church, Greenwich, Connecticut (Doctor of DlVlmty ); Lyman B. Bramerd, retJrmg Chalfman of the Board of Trustees (Doctor of Laws).
He then went on to allude to Stanton's run-in with a House panel investigating the "Selling of the Pentagon." "Most recently," the board chairman said, "you have eloquently defended the right of a free press to investigate the operations of government, another illustration of your long-time support of the First Amendment." Also receiving honoary degrees at commencement were Edward Suisman, chairman of the board of Suisman and Blumenthal, Inc., of Hartford, and the Rev. Bradford Hastings, rector of Christ Church, Greenwich. · In a baccalaureate address earlier in the day, the Rev. Hastings had urged graduating seniors to be their "own person(s)" rather than institutionalized "company men" when they move into the diverse worlds of government, business and education. He said he had recently realized that, as a minister, he had become
Honorary ·D egree Citations Lyman B. Brainerd MR. BRAINERD, four decades of Distinguished service to Trinity College merit the recognition we accord you on this occasion. Upon your retirement as chairman of the Board of Trustees but not as an active member, we commend you for the leadership you have provided your College. Seldom do men devote such undivided attention and concern to the well-being of the institution from which they received their undergraduate education. You have long brought your calm and considerate judgment to the well-being of Trinity and neither paddle-tennis nor boating have diminished your enthusiasm for the College. As chief executive officer of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company and as a director of numerous corporations, you have exemplified the requisite sensitivity to the issues confronting American enterprise. As a member of the Trinity Board of Trustees for thirty-four years, you have demonstrated a passion for the progress of this institution which we hope all who graduate will display. Your patience and understanding have assured the College that measured response to contemporary challenges which alone permits combining excellence with change. Similarly your quiet attentiveness to Trinity's affairs has permitted you to respond with equanimity to both the early morning call - probably less disconcerting to you than to the caller- and your many and varied contributions to other institutions in Greater Hartford - we salute you, Lyman Bushnell Brainerd.
Bradford Hastings Although you have served many parishes and are now rector of the largest one in the Diocese of Connecticut, you are in your experience the least parochial of men. A New Yorker who spent his childhood among the Arapahoe
Indians in Wyoming, you received your Bachelor of Arts degree from Union College and your theological education in Virginia. Afger serving as vicar in Overland, Missouri, you became rector in Concord, Massauchusetts and then served two parishes in Minnesota. Your wide experience in the Church has prepared you well to be Rector of Christ Church Green.wich, where you have pursued you; interests in Christian education, liturgical renewal, and new ways of parish organization. As a member of the Executive Council of the Diocese and as vice-chairman of the Joint Commission on the Structure· of the Church, your wisdom and leadership have served the whole Church. The father of a Trinity graduate and of a son now at Union, we today contribute to unity among the three of you by making you a Trinity man as well. It is an honor to present to you a distinguished cleric in union with Trinity ... Bradford Hastings.
Thomas J. Meskill The first graduate of Trinity College to become Governor of our state, you have served Connecticut with conspicuous success since you took the degree of Bachelor of Science a relatively short time ago, in 1950. Six years as a lawyer and civic leader sharpened the skills, to which Trinity must certainly have contributed; and our neighbors in New Britain elected you mayor. Your youth and vigor and the esteem of your fellow citizens took you to Washington where you represented the Sixth District in the Congress for two terms. Now, as Governor of Connecticut, you face issues which tax the abilities, imagination, and energies of men who hold office in these difficult times. The task, among others, of matching worthwhile programs with available resources is a national problem and your determination to face it has been a dramatic example of your willingness to meet the respo!Jsibilities of your high position. In the world of politics, as elsewhere, public
reaction is rarely undivided. Your determination to serve in that most public and still most lonely of rail arenas merits this recognition by your Alma Mater. I present to you an alumnus of our College ... Thomas J. Meskill.
Frank Stanton Yourself a psychologist, you are perhaps better equipped than anyone here to explain the versatility of your extraordinary career. Yours has been the public and private life of the Universal Man, blending a rigorous scientific training with taste, discernment, and compassion. You have carried knowledge into fresh and imaginative fields and, most important of all, into action. A former chairman of the Center for AdvanGed Study in the Behavioral Sciences, you have also served the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and have been recognized for your e.ncouragement of American design. Your uncanny ability to bring coherence to diverse fields has made you effective in everything from a directorship of the New York Yankees to a trusteeship in the Rockefeller Foundation. As President of the Columbia Broadcasting System you have shown us the pertinence of your early research in aural and visual perception. To you goes the credit for making possible the Kennedy-Nixon Debates on television. Most recently you have eloquently defended the right of a free press to investigate the operations of government-another illustration of your long-time support of the First Amendment. Although you left the classroom several years ago, you are still the best of teachers in your insistence upon high qaulity and excellence in ·the most awesome new medium that serves our culture and is, indeed, a part of it. You have taught us the relevance of good learning and the ways it can be used to further human understanding. I have the honor to present a jack of all trades AND a master of all of them .. . Fraqk Stanton.
Edward A. Suisman
BRAINERD'S DAY-Trinity Trustee Lyman B. Brainerd, Class of 1930, (far left), shares a laugh. with David M. Hadlow, '25 shortly after receiving a surprise honorary degree at commencement. In the background are (from left), Mrs. Lyman Brainerd, Mrs. A. Henry Moses, wife of Trustee Henry Moses '28, and former Trinity President and Trustee G. Keith Funston '32.
Born and bred in Hartford, you have been a felicitous example of what happens when a man with a deep sense of obligation and responsibility becomes a leader in business and civic life. A graduate of Yale College in 1925, you have always retained a lively and active interest in higher education. You served as a trustee of the University of Connecticut under three governors. You were a found er of the University of Hartford and have been a member of the Yale Alumni Board. Your support of scholarships at Trinity and your invaluable counsel as a member of the Capitol Area Scholarship Committee at the College are instances of your concern for young people and of the imaginative generosity that makes it possible for many of them to continue their educations. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Hartford Hospital and of St. Francis Hospital and of the Greater Hartford Community Chest you have given countless hours to the betterment of your fellow citizens. Underlying this spirit of service has been a deep commitment to the spiritual riches of Judaism, which you have done much to preserve and extend through your support of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. I present to you a distinguished son of Hartford and now a son of Trinity ... Edward A. Suisman.
The Rev. Bradford Hastings delivers baccalaureate address. "ecclesiastically domesticated" and "just another piece of the institution." But young people with "special insight" have been trying to "break out of the shackles of our depersonalized life" and need not fall into the same rut, he said. "I hope you will press on with your concern for the person and your person, always bending and shaping the institutions and patterns of society," Rev. Hastings said. At the commencement exercise itself, Professor John Dando, marshal for the ceremony, provided light touches of humor as Trinity seniors filed up to the graduation platform to receive their degrees. The first came after Dando announced a senior "in absentia" only to watch, as he had in two earlier cases, the student walk in front of him to receive his degree . "Must be a ghost," Dando quipped into the microphone . Later, the veteran English professor and TV personality had to read three names in a row before finding a senior who was present to receive his degree. When he found one, he joked, "Glad you could make it, son." Then , as parents were eyeing a long-haired dog walking up the aisle ' toward the graduation platform, Dando announced: Norden Scott Gilbert and Jessica. And the long-time Trinity mascot pranced across the stage with her master. Moments later, Dando's mood changed and he read three times the name of Charles Z. Greenbaum, as a sign that his degree was being awarded posthumously. Greenbaum, a former physics major from Marblehead, Mass., died of cancer a week before graduation.
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The President's Charge
TOP HONORS- Lowen K. Hankin, valedictorian of Trinity's 1971 graduating class, with Trinity's first woman salutatorian, Laura Sohval. Hankin, an economics major will attend Yale Law School in the fall while Miss Sohval will pursue her study of French in Paris.
Hankin, Miss Sohval Head Class Two Others Receive Four Degrees Two young scholars who earned masters degrees in record-setting time, a precocious 21-year-old coed and a budding economist from Abington, Pa., were the center of attention as degrees were granted at Trinity's commencement exercises this spring. Lawrence L. Bruckner, 20, of Thomson, Ill., and David Sarasohn, 20, of North Bergen, N.J., were singled out by commencement marshal John Dando as they walked to the graduation platform to receive their bachelor's degree and then returned five minutes later to accept master's diplomas. Bruckner, a political science major who will attend Yale Law School next fall, received both degrees after only three years of college. His record-setting performance stemmed from studying summers, spending time at Trinity's Rome campus and studying on a world tour. Sarasohn received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in history after four years at Trinity. He expects to attend law or graduate school in September. The co-ed, Laura S. Sohval of New York City, did noi have to be singled out. She was the second student to mount the
graduation platform at commencement ceremonies and the first woman ever named salutatorian of a Trinity graduating class. A French major who transferred from Beaver College, Glenside, 'Pa., after her sophomore year, Miss Sohval will study at a number of Parisian universities under the auspices of New York University next ¡ fall. The budding economist honored at the ceremony is Lowen K. Hankin, valedictorian of the class of 1971. Hankin, a teaching assistant in economics during his senior year, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Pi Gamma Mu, social science honorary society. He plans to attend Yale Law School in September. Four other students, all engineering majors , received a bachelors degree at Trinity's commencement and a M.A. less than two weeks later at Rennselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy , N.Y. The students - David Agerton of Chatham, N.J. , Daniel Drury of Sheffield, Mass., Hugo Luke of Okinawa and AI Lem of London , England- earned the degrees in a five year engineering program worked out between Trinity and the RPI Graduate Center in Hartford.
FOUR DEGREES - David Sarasohn, a history major from North Bergen, N.J., and Lawrence Bruckner, a budding political scientist from Thomson, Ill., pose in cap and gown shortly after receiving dual degrees at Trinity's I 45th Commencement. Bruckner was awarded a bachelor and masters degree in political science after only three years at Trinity. Sarasohn earned a bachelor and masters in history in four years.
You who graduate today have seen a significant transformation in the colleges and universities of this country. In the minds of many the changes have not been wholly. satisfactory, either because they did not go far enough or because they went too far. In fact , none of us may be content with what has happened during these past four years, and yet all might agree that change was necessary. A former Columbia University president remarked that even in the Garden of Eden , Adam observed , "Eve, we are living in a period of transition." The crisis has been real; and, therefore, we have been living in a period of transition , wanting a new and better world but expecting the worst. Our only solace comes from realizing that we may have learned to accept the absence of tranquility. The process of change has not ended : it will not end. In education we must , sooner or later, regain a consensus about what is worthwhile . So as a nation we must recapture the latent faith in our institutions that, through them, we may fulfill our aspirations. That goal will require great imagination and great dedication on the part of all, but especially by you. The future alone will determine whether you have a better understanding of the world in which you live and whether you have sufficient vision and resilience of spirit to improve that world. What I cannot accept, and I hope you will not accept, is that the challenge is not worthy of the effort. I can understand the sense of futility which sometimes overwhelms our responses to today's problems. What was once an exhilarating attempt to engage people in a collaborative effort to resolve problems seems to have become all too frequently a debilitating defense of personal convenience punctuated by a study decline in the level of both behavior and discourse. We have had enough of pettiness to know its unnourishing results. Surely then, we must continue to assume that, through the application of all that we know, we can solve the crisis in a way that improves the prospects we hold. Aware as we are of our problems, we just cannot affort to turn away from democracy, from human sensitivity-from humanity itself. Therefore, my charge to you is simple: We- and particularly you who graduate today-must apply all the intelligence, fortitude, and love we can summon. Dag Hammerskjold phrased this thought poignantly: "Each of us must have the wilderness as his pillow and a star as his brother." Even though exhortation has an antique ring, now IS the time for us to recognize that, whatever our chosen profession, whatever our political persuasion, the challenges of our time require the use of our human intellect, our reason, and our compassion in behalf of mankind, not against mankind. To preserve democracy requires such resoluteness. I hope that you will never lose confidence in our ability to improve society to make democracy work. In that effort we wish you the good luck you deserve and the courage you Will need to make this world, not simply this nation, a better place in which to achieve the dignity of all mankind.
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Last Oaths Taken As AFROTC Ends Two Trinity seniors were commissioned second lieutenants in the Air Force Saturday May 29 in a final commissioning ceremony which ended an era of 23 years of Air Force ROTC on the campus. By mutual agreement last summer between the College and the Air Force the program is being terminated this month because of dwindling AFROTC enrollments on campus. Receiving their gold bars were Mark B. Macomber of Albany, N.Y. and William R. Fuller of Gales Ferry, Conn. Macomber also received the Lawrence G. Silver Memorial Award which annually has gone to the outstanding cadet and Fuller received a savings bond for exceptional academic achievement. Jonathan E. Miller of Wilmington, Del., was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps by Marine Capt. Clifford G. Blasi at the same ceremony. Miller completed the Corps' special off-campus program. Air Force Major Richard I. Brubaker, professor of aerospace studies, delivered the charge to the new air force officers and Trinity President Lockwood presented the commissions, all of which became effective following graduation from the College the next day. Air Force Capt. Lawrence D. Flynn administered the oath. The Air Force ROTC program was first established at Trinity in 1948. At the height of its enrollment in 1953 there were 533 students-or more than half of the undergraduate student body participating. For many years there was an annual review that was one of the spring highlights on the campus.
Air Force Lieutenants William Fuller (left) and Mark Macomber
Marine Lieutenant Jori Miller
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Letters To The Editor Thoughtful Advice I have just had the latest issue of the Trinity Reporter and, having read the editorial, want to write you my opinion of it. I enjoyed the quarterly Alumni Magazine but I must say I think that the new publication serves us better. As the editorial said, it carries a greater sense of immediacy and conveys a better sense of newsiness. I have .been thinking over a possibility that might have some merit. Would it make sense for a special, slick-paper "special" edition to be put out at reunion time. I see something that would carry articles by students,. staff and alumni, be well illustrated and carrying pieces not ·only of reunion interest but commenting on the role of the college as welL It would be expensive, of course, but perhaps a planned postcard mailing in advance to determine the number of buyers well in advance would indicate the feasibility of the scheme. In fact, an article on the current publication. might give you a good reading. ,, If the sale of such a publication was' predicated on a certain number of buyers at a certain price, it might well make an a t tra c t i ve arid even profitable supplement, once a year, to what is already a very good j ournal.. ~ · Donald Burke '36 Disturbed I was deeply disturbed recently to learn ' that Trinity College will most likely se.nd a boat to the Royal Henley Regetta this coming summer. While I rowed for four years at Trinity College and am a strong advocate 6f the sport, I feel that such a trip is ~an extravagant ~ waste of money . The cost of the trip alone will come close to the cost of putting someone through four years of college. All of us during the last few ·years have had our political consciousnesses raised a great deal. The waste of such a large amount of money in a time when so much is needed to rebuild our cities and give education to those that have not been able to afford it is truely disgusting. I feel this way regardless of where the money for the trip is coming from. Furthermore participation in the Henley event is participation in what is a very elitist affair. It always has been ~J li'cl<:o Kelley was not allowed t6 row . thme because he had once worked with his hands) and remains so though to a lesser extent. And finally participation in such
GIVIN·G (from page 1) ··More alumni are giving more than before," Rees said . Last year 2,0-89 alumni gave to the program. This year 2,339 contributed , he said . "This is very encouraging at a time when a lot of colleges are experiencing a drop in · alumni contributions." Parents of Trinity students also topped their · quota · and set a new record for c o n t r i b u t i on s, he said . ·p arents contributed .$79 ,698 or about $20,000 more than last year. The balance of the record annual giving funds came from three new categories of donors : Business and Industry , $53,174; F riends of Trinity, $12,658; and Foundations, $3,078 . Prior to this year, gifts from only alumni and parents were recorded as part of the formal Annual 9iving Program. Of the total 2,892 persons who contributed to the program, 350 gave between $I 50 and $999 and became members of the Anniversary Club while - another 7 I gave $ 1000 or over and were admitted to the Founders.Society .
an event marks a general trend toward more professional athletics at Trinity. Something that perhaps makes Trinity grads pleased, but which adds little value to the sport. The days of the boat house at Sol-!th - Windsor provided as much reward and enjoyment as those at the Bliss boat house and at Henley-on-the-Thames. Richard L. Tyner Brickbats! I know it's hard to please everyone; sometimes it's impossible to please anyone. That's why I'm patient with the Trinity Reporter: if I don't like it surely someone else does. But my patience is running thin. I find the Reporter intellectually vacant and thoroughly uninformative or- provocative. Rarely, if ever, do I hear from the students themselves about whateve(s on their minds~and they are the ''meat" of the college . Nor do I find articles that stimulate me to think about new directions for education or our culture. Nothing in the Reporter challenges me to think or indicates to me that the Trinity campus is alive a~d intellectually well. Instead I get a large scoop of dull gossip about obscure alumni, miscellaneous notes about . faculty appointments, and who's on the gridiron. Well enough, I suppose ~ for someone, There's a lot happening in our country that's exciting and important. I'd like to know how students are responding to these issues. They are, after all, rightly or wrongly , one of the most influential groups in our culture today . If the Tripod's reporting was at times partial at least it was lively. The Reporter is deadly dull. So I've got a couple of suggestions~respectfully submitted: How abour reprinting an occasional Tripod editorial (maybe even a controversial one)? Or reprinting some of the articles written by students about campus and national life? Or commissioning a student to "cover" some aspect -of campus life? I think that the Reporter could very well jraw more on the Tripod.:. As far as I'm concerned, wheri I stop hearing from the students, I stop hearing from Trinity. Scott M. Donahue '70 ~'
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c'{lr~an .Promoted To Full Professor Dr. Ward Curran '57 of West Hartford has been promoted to full professor of economics. Dr. Curran, who has been· on the faculty since 1960, is a specialist in corporation finance and price theory and the author .of the textbook "Principles of Financial Managemen t, " which underwent a second printing this year. Beginning July 1, Dr. Curran will begin a two-year appointment as Trinity's Di-rector of Institutional Planning in which he will work with others in projecting revenues and expenditures and analyze costs of existing and new programs for the College a~ it considers alternatives for the decade ahead. As a full professor beginning September l, he will continue to teach one course in his specialties while carrying out the new duties of financial planning. Dr. Curran, who was graduated from Trinity with honors in history, holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He has been the George M. Ferris Lecturer in Corporation Finance and Investments at the College since 1962.
TESTIMONIAL-Dr. Arthur H. Hughes, retiring after 36 years at Trinity, is shown with Mrs. Hughes and President Lockwood at a testimonial held in his honor at the Hartford Hilton, May 18. Some 200 colleagues and former students attended the gala affair ho~toring Dr. Hughes' long service as administrator and teacher. Among the many citations and tributes was an Alumni Medal of Excellence voted by the Board of Fellows. Dr. Hughes holds an earned master degree and an honorary degree from Trinity. He and Mrs. Hughes plan to reside in Ormond Beach, Florida.
CAMPUS NOTES
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EDWIN P. NYE, dean of the faculty, was University Research elected Chairman of Institute of Connecticut, Inc., (URIC) at a recent meeting of the Board of Directors. Nye, who is also Hallden Professor of Engineering, is a founding member of URIC and has served as secretary for the past two years. URIC, a nonprofit research institute associated with ten Connecticut universities and colleges, started operations in May 1966. Its goal is ·to engage in cooperative iJ?.ter-university research, development and educational activities in the interest of the community. URIC provides faculty consultants to business and industry and carries-out sponsored research and research service projects. Recently completed projects include preliminary child welfare services planning, development of a central technical referral system and development of a directory of research organizations in Connecticut.
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DEL A. SHILKRET '6l ,'director of Mather Campus Center, will become dean of student services. JOHN H. CASSfDY, associate dean for community life and ELLEN MULQUEEN, assistant director of Mather Campus Center, will become associate dean and assistant dean for student services, respectively:
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Mrs. PAULA ROBINS, director of career counseling, - acted as hostess for a luncheon meeting of placement directors of colleges and universities in Connecticut, held at the College in May . The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the possibility of forming an . organization which would facilitate -the exchange of ideas and information to improve the services offered to students.
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TERENCE D. LaNOUE, assistant professor of fine arts, will be guest lecturer in June at the Royal College of Art and Hornesy College of Art in London. LaNoue's recent one-man show at the Paley & Lowe Gallery in New York City received good critical reviews in leading art journals including "Art Eorum." One of his larger pieces called "Kawich Range" made of latex and wood was purchased by the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. and a second by the Roy M. Neuberger Museum of the State University of New York.
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FRANCIS J. EGAN, instructor of economics, gave a talk - recently on "The Economic Costs of Air Pollution" at the Louis · Calder Conservation and Ecology Study Center of Fordham University. He also recently participated in a panel session entitled "Environment: Responsibility and Quality"
(see CAMPUS NOTES, page 5)
TRINITY REPORTER
Vol. 2, No. 2
June 1971
Issued nine times a year in October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May', and June. Published by the Office of Public Information, Trinity College, Hartford , Conn. 06106. Second class postage paid ;1t Hartford, Connecticut. The REPORT ER is mailed to alumni, parents, faculty , staff and friends of Trinity. Copies are available to students. There is no charge. Letters fer publication must be no longer than 200 words ~nd signed. TI1e printing of any, 'tetter is at lh~ discretion of' the Editor and may be edited for brevity, not substance. Editor, L Barton Wilson '37; Associate Editor, R. Malcolm Salter; Assistant Editor, Milli Silvestri; Photographer, David R. Lowe; Alumni Secretary, John L. Hey!, '66.
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SHAW (from page I) Company, is entering his 35th year as a Trinity trustee , He is a Trinity alumnus of the Class of 1930. In 1967, Brainerd received the Eigenbrodt Trephy, the highest award the College bestows on an alumnus. This year the College awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for "four decades . of distinguished service to Trinity." Shaw's election as chairman of the Trinity board comes only six months after the trustees voted to eliminate life terms on the board and-set up instead a system of "charter" and "term" trustees. The plan is intended to make it easier for each generation of Trinity graduates to be represented on the board and to allow potential trustees to serve on the board without making a life-long commitment. When the plan is fully in effect, no trustee will be permitted to serve beyond retirement age and there will be eight trustees besides those elected by alumni who will serve limited terms of eight years each. Formerly, all trustees not
NEW Il',IITIATES - Eleven Trinity students, including three coeds, have been elected to the Trinity chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the second oldest in the state. Pictured with Trinity trustee Henry S. Beers, chairman of the Trinity Beta chapter, (far right) are (from left) William Granville, Laura Sohval, Norma Schreiber, Jacquelyn Vdlk, Noah Starkey, Kenneth Brownstein, Spencer Knapp, Louis Bi,-inyi, Gary Rosen, Thomas Wiswall, and Russell Kelley. All of the new members graduated this year except Miss Yolk who expects to finish work on her bachelor's degree (after only two years) in August.
TEGA Holds Lively Conference
Shaw . elected by the alumni·-serve life terms. Shaw' a former member of the Trinity Board of Fellows:· was chairman of Trinity's 1970-71 annual giving fund which brought over $350,000 to the College. Before becoming a trustee he served on a number of key alumni committees. A father of two children who received his law degree from Harvard Law School after leaving Trinity, Shaw has been active in New York politics, serving at various times as chairman of the Republican Town Committee and a member of the Westchester rounty Republican Committee.
CAMPUS NOTES (from p·.ge 4) held at the Connecticut Environmental Sciences Consultation Conference sponsored by the University Research Institute of Connecticut in Wallingford.
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MITCHEL N. PAPPAS, associate professor of fine arts, wa·s named Fine Arts Chairman for ·the Hartford Civic Arts; Festival held June 6-13 at Constitution Plaza sponsored by the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce.
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Two members of the faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor, effective in September. DAVID WINER, who li.as written extensively for the American Foundation for the Blind, and ROBERT D. SLAUGHTER, head coach of Trinity's swimming team since 1957, were raised from the rank of assistant professor. Winer, who came to Trinity in 1966, received his doctorate from the University of Connecticut. A member of both the American Psychological Association and the Americ_an Association for the Advancement of Science, he was awar ded a pre-doctoral fellowship by the National Institute of Mental Health in 1963 and has been a Research Associate at the Institute of Living in Hartford since 1965 . Slaughter, a · Springfield College graduate, began teaching at Trinity in 1953 and became head varsity swim coach four years later. He has coached two national champion swimmers- DAVID TYLER '43 and BILL BACON '68, both of West Hartford, and was named "Master Coach" by the College
Education has been oversold in this country. Industry has been forced to hire beyond the education level required for the job assigned. Once hired, these "over-educated" individuals become dissatisfied with the type of work for which they were employed. Liberal arts oriented institutions ought to own up to the fact that they' have always b.een involved in career training. The admission of this fact would encourage internships in industry, more-cooperative work-study programs such as those at Antioch and
Reporter Appointed News Bureau Head Paul J . Gallagher, an education writer for the Hartford Times, has been appointed Director of the News Bureau. He .succeeds Robert M. Salter, who has held the post since 1967.
''Northeastern, and other world-ofwork experiences for college age men and women.
These were some of the thoughts expressed at the Trinity Education Graduate Alumni Conference held May 15 at the College. The topic: "Graduate Education in the Independent ,College: What Does the Employment Market Want?'' -A--lively discuss~on surrounded the remarks of the three panelists: Dr. Robert P. Hopkins, consulting psychologist of Hopkins Associates; Dr. Robert McBaine, clinical psychologist and Swimming Coaches Association of America last manager of the Employment Opportunity March. Program for the Stanley Works in New *** THOMAS A. SMITH '44, vice president, has Britain; and Thomas H. Ski.rm, lecturer in been asked to serve on the National Scholarship education at Trinity and former director Selection Committee of UNICO, an of personnel for the Hartford Board of Italian-American civic organization, which conducts nation-wide programs of charitable, Education. civic and educational activities. "All people need goals," asserted Or. *** Hopkins, "even though the goals may ROBERT A. PEDEMONTI '60, associate change." What rriust be provided are all comptroller since 1968, has also been named the options available to them. This is the budget director of the College . As budget director, he will coordinate all budgetary task of schools and colleges. information and prepara_tion. Pedemonti, Phi Thomas Skirm declared that "a liberal Beta Kappa, received a masters degree in arts education is still the most viable Education this June from Trinity. preparation for teachers." A nation-wide ** * CONSTANCE E. WARE, assistant director of experience in teacher recruitment development, was honored recently at the convinced him that the graduate of a annual meeting of the Hartt Opera Guild. Mrs. liberal arts college is not a specialist, is Ware has completed a three-year term as not parochial, and has the interdisciplinary president of the 1300-member organization. She is also currently serving on the Voluntary approach that is needed today. Such a Action Task Force sponsored by the Greater teacher he found is more willing to go Hartford Chamber of Commerce and the anywhere and try almost any position Greater Hartford Community Chest. than is his counterpart from schools which do not emphasize a general *** education. Dr. CLARENCE H. BARBER, professor of music and coordinator of the Trinity-Hartt Questions for th~ panelists were raised Program in Music, gave a pre-opera lecture for by several Department of Education the Hartt Opera Theatre Guild in March alumni. Matt Sheriden, former president entitled "Puccini and his Music." The lecture and founder of the Trinity Graduate served as an introduction to the two Puccini operas produced at the end of April by the Student Association and now a holder of Hartt Opera - "Sister Angelica" and "Gianni three master's degrees, two from Tfinity, Schicchi." called for "an open admissions policy in indus try as well as in education, a ** * A new transitional German reader by Dr. policy," he said, "that .should include the DONALD D. HOOK, associate , professor of kinds of challenge which qualified people modern languages, and Gerhard F. Strasser, need and do not always find." formerly of the department, was published on May 1 by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., of 1 ohn LeConche, MA in education London. The book is for use in British· 1955, now with the Hartford School secondary modern schools and in elementary System praised the progress in secondary and intermediate college courses in the school programs that provide job Commonwealth and the U.S. orientation, asserting the world-of-work Hook has also recently completed his second book for Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., of New experience motivates stude'nts to do York, "Stimmen aus deutschen Landen," better in schools. co-authored with professor Lothar Kahn of Mrs. Dorothy Keleher, guidance Central Connecticut State College. A literary counselor in the Newington Schools, reader, "Stimmen" is slated to appear around (Sixth Year-1958) asked: "Who is going Christmas of this year.
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Gallagher: A 1966 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in philosophy, Gallagher taught school in Ravenna, Ohio, and later in Michawaka, Indiana, before joining the Times staff in _ January 1969. While at the Times he regularly covered the State Department of Education, the Hartford School Board, the Commission of Higher Education and the various colleges and umversities in the state. He also was a frequent visitor to the state legislature when it was in session. He was the author of a fou r-part series on the Clay Hill Middle School (Hartford) controversy and filed extensive articles on the Hartford teacher strike, campus disruptions and the Powder Ridge Rock festival. While at Notre Dame, he studied under a Bishop Fulton 1. Sheen Foundation Scholarship and . was a columnist for the Notre Dame Daily Observer, student newspaper. He has also don'e advance study in philosophy at the University of San Francisco and Notre Dame.
to break down and give credit for work experience? Parents don't want it. Students don't want it. Is Yale or Trinity going to change its image to become another Antioch or Northeastern?" At the luncheon meeting, TEGA honored the retiring Chairman of the .Department of Education, Professor Alexander A. Mackimmie , Jr. , Miss Mary Perretta, M.A. 1962, treasurer ofTEGA, read a scroll commending Professor Mackimmie's loyalty and services to TEGA and the College. President Joseph Dunn, MA 1957, then presented the retiring chairman with a gift from the group . More than 30 members attended the affair, including some from Massachusetts and New Jersey . Dr. Richard K. Morris is faculty. advisor to the organization.
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College Receives $2,ooo,ooo Bequest Trinity has received a bequest of over $2,000,000, the largest single bequest in the College's 148 years. _The bequest was left by Charles A. Lewis of the class of 1893, formerly of Ridgefield, Conn., who died in Atlantic City ipl957 at the age of 86. In announcing the large bequest, President Lockwood said: "By this magnificent gift to his Alma Mater, Mr. Lewis has made a lasting contribution to assist us in maintaining the high standards of education which he so cherished as a student some 80 years ago . "The College is deeply grateful for this generous gift which will become a living endowment in memory of his parents. This bequest is a splendid example of the kind of support and genuine conviction from alumni and friends which is so vitally necessary and upon which a distinguished private college so much depends to continue to make its contribu_tion to young men and women." At the time of his death, Mr. Lewis ief,t the income from his estate to his sister, Miss Annette Lewis of New York City, with the stipulation that upon her death the principal would come to Trinity. Miss Lewis died in April of this year. Mr. Lewis, who spent much of his life in farming and forestry in Ridgefield, Conn., spent his later years residing in Atlantic City and New York City. A graduate of St. Paul's School, Concord,
N.H., he attended Trinity, where he was captain of the track team and played football. He received a masters degree in forestry from Yale in 1908 and, during World War II, he served with the Plattsburg (NY) First Training Regiment. The estate, valued in excess of $2 million, will be established as an endowment fund in memory of the donor's parents, James Ivers Lewis and Susan Kidder Lewis, with the principal · used as general endowment. James Ivers Lewis was a graduate of Trinity , class of 1862, and served the college as a trustee from 1881 until his death ·in 1890. He was president of the Uncasville Cotton Manufacturing Plant in Montville, Conn. Charles Lewis, who inherited much of father's cotton buildings, invested in oil stock at the turn of the century and spent most of his life in farming and conservation. The Lewis bequest is the first received 15y the College in excess of $1 million. The previeus l<!rgest estate received by Trinity was that bequested to the College by Louis Downes in 1956 amounting to $915,000. The Downes Memorial Clock Tower and administration building was built with those funds along with the establishment of the Downes Endowment Fund which has been used to improve faculty salaries. Mr. Downes was the class of '88 and a trustee of the college from 1948 until 1953.
RECENT BEQUESTS AND MEMORIAL GIFTS Trinity acknowledges with a deep sense of loss the passing of alumni and other friends of the College. It seems appropriate to list the bequests aild memorial gifts which have been made to honor them. The College has been notified that the estate of Charles A. Lewis '93, who died in 1957, will now accrue to Trinity. This will total more than $2,000,000 for _general purpose endowment. See the separate article in this issue. Additional gifts have been received in memory of Norton Ives '16 bringing the total to more than $1 ,400. Gifts totalling $600 have been-received in memory of J. E. Griffith, Jr. '17. The Class of 1918 ,Scholarship Fund has received a gift of $2,856.25 in memory of Clarence E. Trevor, friend of the Class of 1918 . An additional amount of $2,674.68 has been received from the estate of RobertS. Lindsay '26 bringing the total bequest to $11,574.36. Gifts to the library book fund in memory of John F . Butler '33 are now in excess of $2,600. An additional amount of $128,870.62 has been received from the estate of Newton C. Brainard, Hon. '46 and '59, bringing the total bequest to $250,345.85, which was designated for retirement of indebtedness. A bequest of $5,000 has been received from the .estate of Edward M. Day for . the Watkinson LibrarY: In addition, gifts have been received in memory of the following alumni: Martin W. Clement '01, Hon. '51 Clinton J. Backus, Jr. '09 Raymond H. Bentley '13
RobertS. Morris '16, M.S. '17, Hon. '65 Jacob W. Edwards '59 Richard D. Vosler '67
A Magnificent Gift There are at least two very heartening things to be said about the bequest of two million dollars Trinity College has just received. One is primarily factual. Trinity President Lockwood has described the gift from the late Charles A. Lewis, Class of 1893, as "magnificent." And of course it truly is. It is the largest single bequest in the 148-year history of the college- more than twice the amount of the previous biggest estate. In addtion, it -comes at a· time when private colleges all over the country are feeling an acute financial pinch, making it all the more welcome at the college 'neath the elms. The second heartening point also finds its text in Mr. Lockwood's words : "Mr. Lewis has made a lasting contribution to assist us in maintaining the high standards of education which he so cherished as a student some 80 years ago ." One would like to suppose that all colleges and universities, private or public-supported, are striving to maintain high standards of education. Yet one wonders sometimes how well that
supposition or hope is being borne out. Not alone for want of money, either" Willy-nilly, in many cases education is being reduced to a quantitative rather than a_ qualitative · thing due to the inescapable need for mass production of college students. Then too, winds of change are blowing across college campuses in these turbulent - times. Innovations are being demanded-or offered, the value of which is untested, to put it mildly. Whole concepts of education are being redrafted, their validity still existing only in theory . . _ ·Thus it is most comforting to ' hear President Lockwood again speak of maintaining high standards. It is also comforting · that Mr. Lewis not only cherished them, but took such a munificent way of securing their continuance. The finest tribute, memorial and thanks to Mr. Lewis reside in Trinity's intention to push ever on for quality education. So, gratitude to all. Editorial The Hartford Courant
Carillon Concert Series Renewed Hundreds of Connecticut residents some armed with picnic baskets, others pushing baby buggies - will be co~ing t? sprawl on the Trinity campus agatn th1s summer as some of the nation's leading carillon players return to play the massive bells which stand 163 fee t above the College Chapel. The first carillon player will weave his way up the long, spiral staircase to the tower where the 30 gigantic bells are housed on June 23 , at 7 : 15 p.m. , beginning a series . of evening concerts which will be held every Wednesday for the entire summer. The practice of holding free summer carillon concerts began at Trinity in 1'950, some 18 years after the John Landon Plumb Memorial Carillon was cast in the College Chapel Tower, and has become a tradition cherished by residents
of the Greater Hartford area. Guest carillonneurs for 1971 will be: June 23, David M. Angelica '70, former master carillonneur, Trinity College; June 30, William R. Carlson '66, forme r master carillonneur, Trinity College; July 7, Dionisio Lind , St. Martin's Episcopal Church, New York City ; July 14, James R. Lawson, Riverside Church, New York City; July 21 , George F. Mair, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; July 28, Robert B. Grogan , The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C .; August - 4, Robert Lodine, St. Chrysostom 's Church, Chicago, Illinois; August 11, Donald L. Hand, former carillonneur, Duke University; August 18, The Rev. Ronald E. Haldeman, Manchester, Connecticut; August 25, Richard M. Watson, Stamford · · University, Birmingham, Alabama.
TRINITY STUDENTS CITED - Hartford Mayor George Athanson (far right) jokes with Trinity administrators after awarding .special public service citations to two Trinity students, Jean Miley '73 and Vic Haas '71 (third from left.) Both students worked part time at City Hall this year in connection with a course in urban studies and were cited by the Hartford City Council-for their efforts. With the students are (from left) Ivan Backer; special assistant for community affairs, and Edwin Nye, dean of the faculty. . -
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Connecticut Public Television M _o ving to N e_w Headquarters by Sue Conner CPTV Promotion Department (This summer Connecticut Public Television, a non-profit independent corporation, will take another big step in its continued rapid growth_of serving the state when it moves its headquarters and main studio from Boardman Hall to a new building located in 1% acres of land formerly part of the campus. The following story from CPTV relates the part Trinity- has played in the development of this corporation from an idea in 19 58 to a significant communications · medium which reaches thousands of school children daily with in-school programs and blankets most of the homes in the state through a network of four channels. Daily offerings literally run from A to Z in subject matter and include both locally produced progfcims and those emanating from the Public Broadcast Service, the nation's fourth network--Ed.). In 1967, the Connecticut General Assembly allocated funds for the construction of a new building to house Connecticut Public Television (CPTV). Land was needed and land was found; The Trustees of Trinity College offered to sell 1 ~ acres at the · edge of the campus ... for one dollar. This most recent event is an example of the strong relationship and spirit of cooperation that has existed between Trinity and CPTV since the inception of noncommercial television in Connecticut. During the 1950's, after the.FCC had allocated three educational_TV channels to Connecticut, a commission was appoinled to study the feasibility of the state · activating ETV. The project was found to be t66 cosrry : but th'e s1ate did agree to allow interested groups to apply for the ETV channels. In 1958, a committee of private citizens-undertook a nationwide study of
the educational television stations then in operation, and explored the possibil.ity of putting ETV on the air in Col)necticut. The result was the · formation in December 1959 of the Connecticut Educational Television Corporation. The new corporation opened negotiatons with a variety of organizations for _support and assistance. First among these was Trinity College which offered space on campus for offices and later for studios. The offer was gratefully accepted and Connecticut ETV Corp. amended its by-laws to state that two representatives of Trinity were to be appointed to its board of trustees by the College. · Over the years, these representatives have included Dr. Albert C. Jacobs, past president of the College; Thomas A. Smith '44 vice president; and the late ,_ RobertS. Morris '16.· The basement of the Library was an early home of Conn. ETV. In the summer of 1962, a small studio, control room and . offices were constructed there. In 1966, space in Boardman Hall was made available, and the production and programming departments of what is now C onnec ticu t Public Television still operate there. This summer CPTV will move its headquarters and the Channel 24 staff into new quarters located on New Britain Avenue. The new $1.2 million building, which wHI be dedicated sometime in the early fall, contains some 24,000 square feet and provides for a multi-set television studio as well as for office space for the corporation which operates four televi~ion chan~cls; 24-Hartford, 49-Bridgeport, 53-Norwich and 71 in · · New Haven. - -- _ Tfinity students have long been involved with the Connecticut Public J'elevision, even before it went on the air, working as part-time employees on
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construction and in production. Their dedication over the years is legendary. When CPTV covered the state political conventions after the close of the school year, one student part timer drove from Philadelphia to Hartford two weekends to continue his work· behind' the cameras. Two Trinity graduates who started with Connecticut Public Television when it was operating in the Library basement are Anders S. Yocom ''63 who is today program manager and Alfred Steel '64, now production manager ofCPTV. Producer Smokey Forester '69 and production assistant Jay Millard '70 and also producer John Cosgrove '66 began their careers as part-time workers. Many other student part timers have gone on t.o careers in communications. New this yeafis an internship program for academic credit awarded to Richard T. "'Maikovftz -,73 for the-" study of television production techniques. Professor John Dando of the Trinity English departme~t is faculty advisor for the internship.
Another benefit of the close ties between ,the two institutions has been the many cultural imd public affairs programs CPTV has produced with the cooperation .and support of the Trinity faculty . Trinity sports, such as soccer and lacrosse, have been televised and last year the Austin Arts Center was the stage for CPTV's Earth Day program. John Dando has hosted several programs, including the popular in-school series, "Variations on a Literary Theme." 'The CPTV coverage last year of election primaries which was acclaimed for excellence by the New York Times and the later coverage of election returns depended on the use of the Trinity computer center. Trinity student Marshall Kennard '72 programmed the computer to tally the votes. Dr. August Sapega directed the project. · Trinity _and C_Q_nn.es;ticut J>ublic Television continue · to strengthen 'the bonds between them, as CPTV faces its future in a new building that is, significantly, a part of the Trinity campus.
Student Finds Pqblic TV Internship Rewarding by RichardT. Markovitz '73 Alan N eigher of the Connecticut Consumer Association was in the Newsroom being interviewed by anchorman Pat Sheehan. Just, before the interview the floor manager informed me through the intercom that Pat was dumping a segment we had taped earlier that ni[;nt. One of the participants from a local bottle collector's exhibition had brought some of his interesting liquor bottles to the stuftio. But I could see that Pat wanted to keep Neigher on longer than we had planned so I told the tape engineer that he could take the tape down. At 10:58 the live interview was over and I thought Pat was going to close the show. Instead he read a piece of copy from the UPI wire and then went into the intra for the tape wnich was now back in the can, "Tonight Connecticut Newsroom looks at a new fad for collectors ... a· new sort of hobby." I spoke quickly into the intercom, "Tell him no, wave your hands, it's not up." The floor manager ran over to the camera arid signaled to Pat. In the control room the tape engineer jumped-he switched the machine back on and grabbed the tap.e. Pat had just read past the roll cue when he caught on and went into a stretch, "We'll have that tape for you shortly," a sign to me that he still wanted it and would have to know when it was ready. The tape was ready in about . twenty or thirty seconds and 1 called for it to roll right away. I told the floor manager to g~ve Pat five seconds so he would stop his introduction when the
tape was ready to show . Pat stopped his introduction just in time and I took the tape. "Newsroom" is not an ordinary news show when it comes to directing. It's f~ll of unexpected things which demand that the director be able to think on his feet. But it's also a good show from which to learn directing which is what I did during the past semester with Connecticut Public Television. When Pat was through with the script I would go over it with the floor manager and audio man to deuide where to seat the guests, when to bring thell! in, and how to utilize any visual
materials they might have brought along. As the director I was responsible for coordinating everything that got on the air-cameras, videotape, slides, and film. •· When the semester began in January ,'1 had experience as a cameraman and floor manager from working part-time for the station since my freshman year. A director, if he's going to be cool and consistent, must be thoroughly familiar with all of the components which make up the television program. The first part of the internship consisted of learning the operation of master control from where the station's broadcasts originate. After this I served as a video switcher for Alf
TRINITY MEN on Comiecticut Public Jelevision staff are from left: Richard Markovitz '73, Jay Millard '70, Andy Yocom '63, AI Steel '64 and John Cosgrove '66.
S tee! (Trinity '64), the product!on manager who is coordinating the internship in line with Trinity's Open Semester procedures. Aher four weeks of switching "Newsroom" and other shows as well as directing· a few interview segments, I was considered ready to direct the "Newsroom" almost by myself. For one more week Alf or another staff director stood behind me while ! sat at the switcher with the script and directed the ·show. Once the basic fear of directing was overcome, I began to concentrate on using the cameras more effectively. I tried 'to find news shots other than the established ones in addition to ~utting with- more impact. This was a good way to learn directing becaus~ the show offered so many different types of things to cover. There ' was a good combination of the scripted and unexpected- many times we found · that someone will appear on the show only a few minutes before air or else they just show up as Jimmy Breslin did when he spoke at Trinity . The Open Semester has enabled me to gain exposure to a care e r I am contemplating after college . The important thing to keep in mind is the exposure . I experienced a completely different type of pressure that would never be felt in a college atmosphere. In brief, _ because of the professional responsibility that rested on my sboulders this . past semester, I will welcome and appreciate returning to classes in the fall.
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Class Notes ENGAGEMENTS 1953 Edward A. Zito to Kathleen B. McDoJlald 1961 Paul J. Myerson, M. D. · to Sandra H. Hittleman 1967 Lynn M. Kirkby to Mary Ann Golden 1968 Joseph N. Russo, Ill to Susan M. Cassidy 1969 Ens. William F. Cordner, Jr. to Karyn R. Schumacher Leo Malek to Ann Huckle MatthewS . Simchak to JaneS. Flues Lawrence 0. Spaulding, Jr. to Charlsie A. Quisenberry 1970 Ernest J. Mattei to Michele Montaigne 1971 HenryS . Cohn to Linda J . Avseev MARRIAGES 1952 Gerald C. McLaughlin to Patricia A. Sears April 30 1963 Kenneth A. Southworth, lli to Constance Comstock May 15 1964 E. Michael Heid to Andrea Sayres April 3 1965 Leon G. Shilton to Robertamarie Kiley February 20 196 6 John H. Chotkowski to Agathe w-. Schamaun May IS 1967 Capt.' Robert H. Ratcliffe to Michelle Schaefer March 3 G. Theodore Ruckert to Karen Coleman November 14, 1970 J _ Richard Worth to Susan J. McCarthy April 24 , 1968 Philip W. Pennington to Katharine Saner May 29 1970 Michael A. Chamish to Karen Kristof May 2 Jeremiah Milbank, 111 to Elizabeth H. Griffis May 22 E. Scott Sutton to Leslie W. Parr '71 May 29 BIRTHS 1948 The Rev. and Mrs. WilliamS. Glazier, II John, March 13 1950 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Bennett, IV Matthew MacGeorge, March 25 1953 Mr. and Mrs. Alan E. Kurland Kimberly Anne, December 3, 1970 1958 Mr. and Mrs. David E. Renard Kenneth David, January 19 1961 Mr. and Mrs. William Kahl Karyn -. . Elizabeth, July 14, 1970 Mr. and Mrs. William P. Scully Gerald Watson, November 14, 1970 Dr. and Mrs. Edward B. Waxler Caroline Harkness, December 16, 1970 1962 Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich Charles Craven Pietsch, May 19 Mr. and Mrs. William M. Polk Elizabeth Gillian, May 12. . 1963 Mr. and Mrs. David C. Brackett David C., Jr., November 16, 1970 1964 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Martire Andrew Dominic, April15 Dr. and Mrs. Otto Zinser Kurt Michael, April10 1965 Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Edith Elisa, April 17 · Dr. and Mrs. R. David Beck Jennifer Noel, January 10 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Garson Thomas A., Jr., October 7-, 1970 1967 Capt and Mrs. Charles H. Heckscher, Jr. Lela Carson, April 29 1968 Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Moore Margaret Otheman, April 28 · 1969 Lt. and Mrs. RichardS. Grinnell Matthew Severance, May 1
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Clinton B. 1:. Brill RFD No. l Box 228D Tallahassee, l·'la. 32301
ST.AN LEEKE, HERB PRESSEY and HAM BARBER and their wives had a 1919 get-together at the Bath Club in St. Petersbur,g last March after which they adjourned to Ham s house for some convivality. Stan and Herb departed Florida's sunny clime for their native New England at the beginning of April and Ham followed at the end of that month. ED JESSEN died on March 25, 1971, in the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Ed was a retired vice president of the Mann-Kline Insurance Brokerage Company. He
had lived for years in Osterville where he was a member of the OsterVille Men's Club and of the Cummaquid Golf Club. He is survived by his wife Bernice Potter Jessen, and three sons, Jon of Ridgewood, N.J., Jerald of Woodbridge, N J ., and Lee of Greensboro, N.C., a daughter, Mrs. Linda Herandez of Cresskill, N.J., a sister Mrs. Clifford Payson of West Hartford, Conn., and two grandchildren. We extend our deep sympathy to these in their bereavement. IRV PARTRIDGE writes of the long cold winter in Wethersfield, Conn. In Tallahassee, we had no real killing freeze but a succession of cold spells every couple of weeks when the · temperature went below freezing for a fe~ hours in the early morning. Just enough to spoil the flowers. your SECRETARY received an alumni award for distinguished service from Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, Pa:
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Bert C. Gable Jr. 61 Clearfield Road Wethers~eld, Conn. 06109
Your SECRETARY had a very nice visit with ED CRAM in Florida, this winter. Eddie has a . condominium in Largo and appears to be in first class health - looking forward to the 5Oth Reunion. We were distressed to hear of the death of Howard Ortgies, who died of leukemia. We will miss him. Start making plans, now, for our 50th Reunion, next year. We want to make it a real one. James A. Calano 35 White Street Hartford, Conn. 06114 I thank all classmates who wrote me expressing sorrow over WALT CANNER'S passing. Everyone agrees that our class and the College has suffered a severe loss - a leader that will be most difficult to replace. Glad to hear that PAUL NORMAN is feeling fine and keeping busy every day. . The HAROLD SMITHS spend their winters in Seattle, Wash. where they can be near their son and family. That old football star, BOB HARTT, reports all well at 3963 Laguna Blanca Drive, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93105. . Even your SECRETARY is feeling the weight of advancing years. He is convalescing after undergoing -surgery at the Hartford Hospital in April. Progress is slow but in the meantime if any of you know of a good Scotch that will dissolve please Jet him know or, better still, send him a bottle.
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Thomas J . Quinn 364 Freeman St. _ Hartford, Conn. 06106
I received a note from LUTHER BROWNING in which he says that he and Mrs. Browning recently spent a weekend with ANDREW ONDERDONK '34 and had an opportunity to renew his memories of Trinity which Andy showed them in detail. Luther was very much impressed with all the new buildings and the delightful Alpha Delta House.
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Raymond A . Montgomery North Racebrook Road Woodbridge, Conn. 06525
NELS VALERIUS, Mrs. Valerius, RAY MONTGOMERY and Mrs. Montgomery took advantage of the good weather on April17 and went to the Connecticut Regatta Day on the Connecticut River to watch Trinity .out-row Coast Guard and Worcester Tech in the varsity and junior varsity races (and Worcester Tech in the freshman race) to win the eighth annu~1 Mason-Downs Cup . The day was successful all around and a good crowd was there. You 25'ers in and around Hartford should plan to take in these crew races next year; you'll enjoy them. And , oh yes, take a look on the Connecticut River in the fall to watch the Crews practice. Had a nice Jetter from P. OTIS ZWJSSLER who wants to be remembered to the Class. He has added his vote to others to have an interim
Reunion at the first home football game. He said he does not see how. the College will be able to handle the 1971 Reunion at the same time as Homecoming, when it had such a difficult t ime with the 1970 Reunion at just an opening game . ERWIN COOPER also wrote and stated he was in good health and looks forward to getting up to Trin in the fall . All the Class, I am sure, will be glad to know that DICK NOBLE, after a stay in the hospital, is back on the road to recovery , and is again looking forward to his spectator role at next fall's football games. JIM McNALLY is now living in Florida. He can be reached at 711 Ocean Summit Apt. , 4010 Galt Ocean Drive, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla . • 33308 . KEN SMITH writes more than anyone else in the class, and said he is "blue and gold hued" all over this spring due to meeting so many Trins in his travels around the Florida baseball training camps. So next year, Jim McNallv. don't be surprised to see "Kenny-the-Kid." Getting back to . a possible interim Reunion at the first home game in the fall let me hear how you guys feel about it. Editor's Note: Ray , your Secretary, was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Trinity Rowing at the annual banquet held May 10. Ray hasn't missed many races since crew started at Trinity ten years ago. ·
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N. Ross Parke 18 Van Buren Ave. West Hartford, Conn. 06107
It is always good to hear from you good Classmates - and thus we can keep one another up-to-date on where we Jive. It is good to know Dr. MARSHALL M. LIEBER can be reached by writing to 3 No. Nassua Ave., Margate, New Jersey 08402. I'll bet PETIE and Janet HOUQH would love to hear from classmates, and can be reached at The Whitehall Road, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Have you written in to say you will join us at Reunion ' Time next November? Please do write our good chairman, KEN STUER, Trinity Insurance Agency, 608 Petroleum Building, Houston, Texas 77002. Your SECRETARY is grateful to continue to help and be helped in the area of art with classes and exhibitions - and in completing a commission of portraying a view of the First Church of Christ Congregational, West Hartford, Connecticut.
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Winthrop H . Segur 34 Onlook Rd. Wethersfield, Conn. 06109
Our Alumni S;cretary JOHN HEYL informs us that we are scheduled to hold' our next reunion this fall along with 1926 so make your plans now to be on campus November 12, 13 and 14. We'll have a room and most likely a joint dinner Friday evening with our friends of '26. Your chairman, ANDY FORRESTER and your· SECRETARY have accepted the joint-chairmanship of this, our 44Y2 reunion. We'll keep you posted as plans develop and would appreciate any and all suggestions you would like to submit. Having reached my level of incompetence after 44 years, minus six days, at the same stand, your SECRETARY retires on July 1 to search for greener pastures. Future plans are most indefinite and will be played by ear. However, having reached a questiona~le plateau of sagacity I can but pass on the thought that "a sure way to success is to keep lowering your objectives!"
1971 C-lass Reunion Chairmen 1921 - Beaufort R. L. Newsom 1926- Kenneth W. Stuer and N. Ross Parke 1927- Winthrop H. Segur and Andrew H. Forrester Robert P. Waterman 1931 1941 - Raymond E. Thomsen and Louis E. Buck 1945- Andrew W. Milligan 1946- Charles S. Hazen 1947 - Thomas F . Egan 1956 - John H. Barter 1957 - H. Oyke N. Spear 1961 - Christopher P. Gilson
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Dr. Robert P. Waterman 148 Forest Lane Glastonbury, Conn. 060) 3
Dr. WILFRED J . SHEE HAN is retiring from his position as executive seeretary of the Connecticut Education Association. He has been employed by the association for more than 2 2 years. After exactly 13 years (19 5 8-1971) as special research assistant in the Governor's Office of Connecticut, GEORGE MACKIE is now a special assistant on the staff of the Connecticut Historical Commission, where he is working primarily on plans for Connecticut's observance of the forthcoming national bicentennial..
33 Associate Justice JOHN P. COTTER stated recently that he will recommend to Governor Meskill and the General Assembly that the Common Pleas Court be merged with the Superior Court.
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John A. Mason Trinity College Summit Street Hartford,Conn.06106
A note from JERRY ARNOLD says he had a most pleasant visit to Japan in April. Apparently inflation is not unknown there. While on a motor trip in Virginia last April, I talked with TOM CALLERY who lives at 1671 Berkeley -Ave., ' Petersburg, Va. 23803 and works as an auditor at Fort Lee there. Tom seemed well and sends greetings to '34. GEORGE CRITTENDEN has left Hartford ~nd may be addressed at 12167 Parkcliff Road, Strongsville, Ohio, 44136 . He is still with Pratt & Whitney in their Cleveland office. DURWARD GRAFE retired as principal of Thomas Jefferson School, New Britain, Conn., last February 28. His staff writes in part : "During his 16 years in New Britain, Mr. Grafe has truly served well the hundreds of children who have progressed ·through his school. A gentleman of unfailing good manners, he set his staff an example of great efficiency, yet he was aLways understanding of human error; he had a sympathetic ear for the problems of the classroom ; and his kindly sense of humor helped lighten many a day . He will be sorely · missed by us all. We wish him a happy and , rewarding-.retirement." - Congratulations, Durward! 1934 is proud of you! It was good to see BERT HOLLAND at Dr. Arthur H. Hughes' retirement dinner at the Hartford Hilton on May 18. Bert, now vice president at Wellesley College, is moving June 10 from Cambridge, Mass., to 83 Leighton Road, Wellesley, Mass. 02181. _ Your SECRETARY was honored last winter by Trinity College for 25 years of service. I come into the College four mornings a week, but plan to be at Henley to see Trin's fine crew row, and then, after a short tour, will go to West Chatham, Mass. BILL McCORMICK has sold his home in Washington, D.C. and has move d to 157 Greenfield Hill Road, Fairfield, Conn. ANDY ONDERDONK has been elected to the executive committee of the Church Club of Connecticut and also to the Church (Episcopal) Scholarship Society's board. Your Secretary has had several fine letters from TONY LOKOT, one of Rochester, N.Y.'s leading lawyers.
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Albert W. Baskerville 73 Birchwood Dr. Derry, N.H. 03038
Congratulations to JACK MAHER of Penn Central Transportation Company who has been appointed vice president-administration with responsibility for both labor relations and p~rsonnel development. Jack who had been vice president labor relations assumed his new post on April 1, 1971. He has been w_ith the Penn system since graduation. . JACK AMPORT who played alongside of Jack Maher for three years (including the un-un team) sent along a most informative post card. Jack clued in your correspondent that his two daughters are married, living in Connecticut and have a total of five children. His boy, John, IS attending The University of Connecticut. Seems like quite a Nutmeg flavor, particularly when Jack notes a summer address of 102 Harbor Avenue, Madison, Connecticut. 1936 DOLPH HOEHLING'S most re·c ent books received attention in the April 4 Book Review section of the New YorK: Times: "Great Ship Disasters" and "The Lef'ington Goes Down." Dolph's description is detailed but ve~y
PAGE-9 readable. Your SECRETARY has read several of Dolph's writings and found them fascinating. YIN TRIGG'S son, MICHAEL, a senior at Trinity, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mike has two majors - Biology and French. After practicing medicine for 30 years in Utica, N.Y., HARRY DAVIS has moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, where he will be working with the Manicopa County Health Department in the field of family medicine and taking care of the very poor Indians and Mexicans.
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James M. F. Weir · 27 Brook Road Wo<_>dbridge, Conn. 06525
We received a very. informative letter from PAT CULLENEY who is a present vice president of Tambyln & Brown Inc., a New York based fund-raising company. Pat has been wjth Tambyln & Brown for more than 20 years and is presently a consulting director for the Better Business Bureaus of the nation. Pa_t's family is growing. He now has three grandchildren, the last arriving in March of this year and, by the tone of his letter, he is a proud grandpa. We received news from BILL GRISWOLD who resides in Wethersfield. Bill has been active in the reserves for over 29 years, and recently upon his retirement he was awarded the Legion
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of Merit. His most recent assignment was Chief of Staff, 76TH Division, and they held a testimonial dinner in Bill's honor last April. His new address is: Mr. B. Eldridge Drury, Jr., 1286 Devon Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024.
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·Frank A. Kelly Jr. 21 Forest Dr. Newington, Conn. 06111
JQE CO~M!ER has been__appointed..regionaL vice president for the group department of the Travelers Insurance Company. Joe joined the Company in 1949 at Hartford, later served in New Yo.rk City and then Chicago, where in 1952 he was named assistant manager. In 1953 he was made manager, group pensions and in 1956 was named manager, fiel~L Since 1963 he has served as regional director at Detroit, where he lives with his wife and four children. DON DAY has been selectee! as one of seven Connecticut executives to serve with Chairman Edwin D. Etherington on the executive committee of the Governor's Committee on Services and Expenditures. Since Mr. Etherington is former President of Wesleyan and the Governor is Thomas Meskill, Trinity '50, the Commission can be commended as an example of collegiate ecumenism. It is designed to help State officials and employees explore ways to improve service~ and cut costs. Don will lead the group which will study Connecticut's educational system. ' DON WALSH, Connecticut Adjutant General, spoke at the annual scouter's dinner of Charter Oak Council, Boy Scouts of America, on "From Pearl Harbor to Powder Ridge." -Charlotte Curtis, the New York Times' correspondent on the social front, has brought us news of the first of our classmates (to my knowledge) to face the problems of retirement. ALVAN T. FULLER, JR . has retired from General Motors, and on the occasion his family presented him with a qushion which says "Retirement: Twice as Much Husband, Half as Much ~oney." But those of us who might be concerned that AI and Mrs. Fuller will be trudging from supermarket to supermarket to take advantage of the weekly specials can take heart from the headline of the story which read "Even by Palm Beach Standards, Their Home is a Showplace." They appear to be in high spirits and why not, if the article's description of their retirement home ("a $2 million contemporary palace") conforms to the Times' usual scrupulous standards of accuracy . While the house was under construction they camped out in a three bedroom beachhouse with a terrace, a deck overlooking the Atlantic, an oriental garden and a swimming grotto with a bridge. Not that retirement means idleness. While AI heads the Fuller Foundation and tends the family investments, Mrs. Fuller putters in her garden where, as she says "I plant and weed and I'm happier and closer to God." She states that they prefer to avoid the Palm Beach social whirl and confesses that "our idea of a good time is a glass of champagne together, and I play the piano and he sings."
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Martin D. Wood 19 Tootin Hill Road West Simsbury, Conn. 06092
Congratulations to BILL SMYTH who was elected to the 1971 Connecticut General Assembly from Stratford. KEN ALBRECHT has joined Larwin Multihousing Corp. of Beverly Hills, Calif. His title is Project Closing Coordinator. Good luck Ken. Change of address: Mr. Kenneth I. Albrecht, 4632 Natick Ave., Apt. 105, Sherman Oaks, Calif. 91403. FRANK F ASI is still the hard working mayor of Honolulu. He recently suggested limiting the number of automobiles on the Island of Oahu and polled the people to get their" reaction. Eighty-five percent of the respondents indicated a willingness to limit the cars. The Mayor is trying to get a one car one family situation by 1976.
John L. Bonee McCook, Kenyon and Bonee 50 State Street Hartford, Conn. 06103 RUSS HANMER has been promoted to assistant vice president in the ·Accounting Department at the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford. Russ has been head of the Accounting Department at
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Sonesta in Hartford on Sunday April 25, 1971. . DAVID A. TYLER, Jr. competed in the Master's national swimming championships in Texas. He won the 50, 100, and 400 freestyle in the 45-and-over age classification. He reports that it was fun and he hopes to go again next year.
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SPIRO PETERSON, Miami University professor and department chairman of English, is the new president of the College English Association of Ohio, elected at its recent annual meeting at Columbus, Ohio. He had been vice president of the Association during the past year. In the capacity of vice president, Professor Peterson was responsible for organizing the program for the annual meeting, April 16, 1971. The highly successful event featured Irving Howe as the main speaker and five panels with papers and discussion on the subject "The City and Literature." J. PAUL GOULET is an elementary school teacher presently pursuing a Master's Degree in guidance at Rivier College in Nashua, N.H. Paul and his wife Julie have 'two sons and two daughters - all four children attend the Villa Augustina Academy in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
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Connecticut Mutual since 1966 and has been with the Connecticut Mutual since his graduation from Trinity. He is a member of the executive committee of the Connecticut Institute for the Blind. Russ and his family live in Simsbury on Overlook Terrace. SOL BROMBERG's daughter, Cynthia, will enter the Class of 1975 at Trinity College in the fall of this year as an engineering student,. perhaps the first of her sex. Cynthia will graduate from .}Yilliam Hall High School in West Hartford in June and was accepted at Trinity on early ·decision. Sol's oldest .daughter, Fern, receives her master's degree this June from the University of Hartford and will be married two weeks thereafter. Fern teaches at the Huckleberry Hill School in Avon. Sol, a prominent Hartford attorney, has been engaged in the general practice of law in his native city for the past 20 years. AL EULIANO teaches English in the Hartford Public School system and is a part-time lecturer at the Greater Hartford Community College, lecturing in Italian and Modern American English for foreign students. AI and his wife Alberta and their family reside in Newington on Vivian Street. Your SECRETARY reports new addresses for classmates as follows: BILL HINSON, 818 North Shore Drive, St. Clair Shores, Michigan 48080; DWIGHT PAINE, 511 Velasquez Drive, Osprey, Florida 33559; SAM CORLISS, Bell Tavern Road, Downingtown, Pa. 19335; GERRY BARNABY, 2 Loudon Heights So., Loudonville, N.Y. 12211; EV GAMBLE, 12 Elliott Place, Clinton, N.Y. 13323; JOE MORRISSEY, 139 Heartwood Drive, Lansdale, Pa. 19446; CHARLIE RENSHAW, 2532 North 124th Street, Brookfield, Wisconsin 53005; JOHN RESONY, 17 Claybar Road, West Hartford, Conn. 06117; BOB TOMASSI, 8754 Nail Avenue, Overland Park, Kansas 66207. NICK MOTTO has been elected to his second term as a member of the House of Representatives in the Connecticut General Assembly. Nick represents the 3rd District of the City of Hartford, and teachers school in the Hartford Public School system. Nick and his wife Margaret and their two boys reside in Hartford at 16 Griswold Street. WALT HAJEK has moved to Houston, Texas, and reports that his oldest son is attending Trinity University at San Antonio, Texas. Walt is senior staff insurance representative for the Shell Oil Company. ED GILBERT is in the process of settling -his family in a new home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has taken over a new position as product manager for X-ray tubes for the Eimac Division of Varian Associates. Ed's daughter, Lynn, is a junior at UCLA and his son, David (Trinity '70), is about to return to his job at Liberty Mutual in Boston after completing reserve training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. MIKE KELLIN presented his father, Samuel Kellin, with the title of honorary president of Ararat Lodge in recognition of his 3 2 years of service to B'nai B'rith at the eleventh annual joint installation dinner of Ararat Lodge and Alenux Chapter of B'nai B'rith at the Hotel
Harry R. Gossling, M.D. 85 Jefferson Street Hartford, Conn. 06103
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WILLIAM V . SIELLER of Norfolk, Connecticut, is associate professor of English at Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted and chairman of the Modern Language Department. Professor Sieller had a volume of poetry, "Green Water for a Granite Valley," published in March of 1970. Bill also writes that he was guest reader at Trinity September 24, 1970 thanks to Mr. H.B. Collamore, Watkinson Library, Mrs. Clark and Mr. Engley. _~ ELLIOTT STEIN has been named dean 9f - the School of General Studies at Vernon Cotirt Junior College in Newport, R.I.
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Andrew W. Milligan 15 Winterset Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06117
ROBERT CROSS has moved to Sidney, Ohio to join Copeland Refrigeration Corp. as vice president of industrial relations. He resigned from General Electric to take this job after working there 24 years. Copeland is a manufacturer of compressors and condensers. His new address is 134 Terrace Drive, Sidney, Ohio. · '
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GARET W. SHEPHERD has given up urban living to re-open a general store in Tamworth, New Hampshire. ' ARTHUR L. .MILLER has become . an associate of Ferrero, Middlebroooks & Houston in Miami, Fla. Our thespian' JOHN FERRANTE, will be playing in a revival of "Knickerbocker Holiday" this summer with Burt Lancaster. Hope to see · you on Broadway this fall, John . 's peaking of fall, let us all keep in mind our 25th reunion in November when we will get together with '45 & '4 7 and have some sort of a wing-ding. Any ideas and suggestions gratefully accepted.
The Rev. Otis Charles Box 74 Washington, Connecticut 06793
ADAM LaZARRE is now assistant professor of theatre at the University of Connecticut's Hartford Branch. Before joining the UConn faculty in 1968, Adam was associated with a west coast talent agency as a television variety show manager. RICHARD MASTRONARDE has been
Charles I. Tenney, C.L.U. Charles I. Tenney & Associates 2 Byrn Mawr Ave. Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010
CHUCK OSBORN reports his address as Panorama Post, P.O. Box 352, Redmond, Washington 98052 Gll:IESTER J. LATER was nominated by Connecticut Governor Meskill (Class of 1950) to an eight year term on the Co'mmission for Higher Education.
J. William Vincent 80 Newport Ave. West Hartford, Conn. 06107
It was good to hear that my predecessor in this job, CHARLES S. HAZEN, was promoted to second vice president in the reinsurance department at the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Congratulations, Chuck.
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James R. Glassco Aetna Life & Casualty 151 Farmington Ave. Hartford, Conn. 06105
A. LEE WILLS has left the hotel field and is employed by Captain International, producers of electronic dispensers of foods and beverages for hotel guests. He is now living in Orlando, Fla., and has four children. EDWARD M. CARTER, who is currently vice president of corporate accounts with Travelers Insurance, has been elected president of the Hartt Opera-Theater Guild, Hartford.
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Douglas C. Lee 51 Wood Pond Rd. West Hartford, Conn. 06107
JACQUES HOPKINS celebrated his 40th birthday last summer by taking a 420 mik solo bicycle trip from his home in ProvidencL' to Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and back .as far as Hartford. The Hartford-Providence kg of the trip was completed by automobik. Jacques didn't say whether it w.as he or the bicyck that gave out short of home plate. One can only presume it was the latter. Jacques is still practicing law in Providence. vnd his \\'ife, Lorraine, is pursuing a career ,,·ith the Providence Journal. He also adds that lw is somewhat active in Rhode Island Democratic politics, currently heading up the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors as well as a !<1'. study commission.
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AL BOLINGER, who is rector at Grace Chun:h, Haddonfield, New Jersey, was recently appointed a canon of the Diocese of New Jersey by Bishop !:lanyard. ED MORRISEY (Lt. Colonel), who is currently commanding officer of the Air National Guard Non-Commissioned Officer Academy and Leadership School in Knoxville, Tennessee, took some time off late last year to attend a six week intensive course at the Air University at Maxwell Afl:l, Alabama. "PETE" SMITH rode shotgun for the El Camino L.P. Gas Special which raced in last August's C'lean Air Car Race from MIT to Cal Tech. "Pete" is product manager for Dancey Co. in Tampa, which markets a variety of clean air LP Gas carburetion equipment, and it was in this capacity that he participated in the "Great Race." GERRY McLOUGHLIN joined with three other lawyers in Match (one of whom is Bill Shaughnessy of the Class of '51) to form a new partnership - Skelly, Walsh, Shaughness}路 and Mcloughlin, which has offices at 36 Russ Street in Hartford. Best of luck in your new partnership, Gerry! BEN WILMOT writes from Alexandria, Virginia, where he is involved in the expansion of one hospital and the constructiorr of another. Ben has been serving as chief of pediatrics at Alexandria Hospital since January of 1970, and was also recently in a three-man group practice for pediatrics. Last summer the Wilmots took an extended camping trip heading up through the Finger Lakes, then up through Canada, swinging down to Indiana for a family wedding, and then back to Alexandria, where it took at least two more weeks for everyone to recuperate. JOHN MILLER, who, in addition to serving as a partner in the engineering fum of Close, Jensen and Miller, also acts as Republican Town Chairman in Wethersfield was named "Repu blican-Qf-the-year" in Wethersfield last February . It came as a complete surprise to John who served on the committee choosing the recipient of this award (which niceJy faked someone else for purposes of secrecy), and Representative Ruth Truex made the classic comment at the dinner presentation when she said "this is the first time John Miller didn't know what the Republicans were doing in Wethersfield." JOHN STEWART writes that his family recently moved to 34 Westcott Road in Princeton, N.J., from where John commutes daily to his work as chairman of the Department of Geology at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. FIN SCHAEF writes from New York City, where he is on a sabbatical leave from the Methodist' ministry for about a year. Fin is doing a lot of reading and writing and can be reached c/o Lipton, 250 W. 9lst St.. New York City. REUNION in 1972. It looks like it may be in the fall of 1972 and although it is a little early to make plans now, it certainly won't hurt. to think about it.
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Paui A. Mori"ll 508 Stra tficld Road Bridgeport, Conn. 06604.
TOM MICHIE ran last December for the Virginia House of Representatives, and won by one vote over his Republican opponent. Tom is a law partner in the Charlottesville firm of Taylor, Michie and Callaghan. Tom has four sons. JOHN PARKER is president of A.D.S. Corporation of Atlanta, Ga. John has six children. PHILIP LECRENIER has been elected chairman of pastor-parish relations of the North Canton (Conn.) United Methodist Church. RAY PARROTT is executive director ofthe Concord (Mass.) Youth Center. Ray was the guest speaker at a recent Rotary Club luncheon in Concord in which he outlined the accomplishments attained to date and development plans for the future of the Youth Center. TOM BARBER has been promoted to systems director at The Travelers Insurance Companies. Recent address changes: PETER WINSLOW, Southern Avenue, Essex, Mass. 01929; SHELDON SIDRANE, 1717 Dalton Rd., Palos Verdes Estates, Cal. 90274; DONALD PETIT, 11 Maiden Lane, Plainville, Conn. 06062; The Rev. PATTERSON KELLER, 901 Gerrans Ave., Cody, Wyo. 82414;KNUD WOODFORD, 75 Liberty St., Madison, Conn. 06443; DONALD CLARK, Hundred Acre Rd.,
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Theodore T. Tansi 45 Sunset Hill Road Simsbury, Connecticut 06070
Major SAM FOWLER, JR. has been decorated with the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in Thailand where he was a munitions officer. RICHARD H. SMITH has been promoted to lieutenant colonel and will be assigned to Clark AFB in the Philippine Islands. MICHAEL A. MORPHY has been named president of California Portland Cement Co., Los Angeles. The following address changes have been received: HALLECK A. BUTTS, Jr., 1300 Old Farm Rd., Charlotte, N.C. 28211; YALE M. GILFIX, 1 Glenbrook Rd., Wellesley Farms, Mass. 02181; FREDERICK L. GILSON, 89 Mansfield Ave., Darien, Conn. 06820; A. STUART HUNTER, 120 Summer St., Weston, Mass. 02193; DOUGLAS A. LOWELL, Stillson Hill, R.F.D. no. 2, New Milford, Conn. 06776; ALEXANDER A. MACKIMMIE, Ill, 1403 Lower Dr., Pullman, Wash. 99163; JAMES H. MITCHELL, Jr., One Lefrak .City Plaza, P.O. Box E, Flushing, N.Y. 11368; EDWARD J . PALMER, Jr., 3651 P.T.S., Columbus AFB, Miss. 39701; Lt. Col. FREDERICK R. POTTER, AFROTC Det. 940, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. 82070; Major RICHARD H. SMITH, 210 B Polaris, Sheppard AFB, Texas 76311; JOHN R. WOODBURY, 12430 Fairview, Blue Island, Ill. 60406.
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E. Wade Close Jr. 229 East Waldheim Pittsburgh, Pa. 15215
DAVID A. ROBERTS has been promoted to assistant manager of hot and cold rolled sheet sales for Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He will be leaving Cincinnati and moving to Bethlehem. The Rev. ROBERT W. GOLLEDGE was installed as Episcopal vicar of historic Old North Church in Boston. NAT REED has been appointed assistant secretary of the interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. LOUIS MAGELANER has been appointed second vice president in the underwriting division of the life, health, and financial services department at the Travelers Insurance 路 Companies.
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Edward A. Montgomery Jr. Backbone Road Sewickley Heights, Pa. 15143
MORGAN BRAINARD was elected vice president of the Charter Oak Council, Boy Scouts of America. ALFRED DEFALCO, former chief of urology at Denver General Hospital since 1969, has been appointed associate professor of urology in the University of Colorado School of Medicine. AI, after graduating from College, earned an MS in neurochemistry from the University of Rochester in 1958 and his MD cum laude from Rochester in 1962. His internship was at Massachusetts General Hospital 196 2-{) 3. In 196 3-{) 5 he was with the National Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, becoming deputy director for its Experimental Surgery Division in 1964. His residence in urological surgery was at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, 1965-1969, and he held a post-graduate clinical traineeship in pediatric urology at the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital Research Foundation in Melbourne, Australia, in 1967. DICK KRAMER is now living in Arlington, Massachusetts, and is working for Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as manager of contract manufacturing and quality .assurance. Dick had two children, ages 2 and 4. ED LUCAS is a major in the Air Force and is now stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, as the Senior Air Force Advisor to the Arkansas National Guard. DICK NISSI was elected to the executive board of the Nathan Hale Council, Boy Scouts of America. RON WARREN is now living in Hingham, Massachusetts and is vice president of a privately held real estate investment trust, Property Capital Trust. Ron and his wife have
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two children and were expecting a third in May. JOHN WILKINS has been named director of communications for the New York-based Crum and Forster Insurance Company, one of the nation's largest multiple-line insurance underwriting organizations. He will be responsible for advertising, public relations and sales promotion activities. He had been public information manager for Lone Star Cement Corporation in New York. John entered public relations work with Mutual of New York .and he has also worked in communications for for Lummus Company. John and his family live in Paramus, New Jersey, where he is involved in numerous community activities, including being a committeeman for the Paramus Troop of the Boy Scouts of America. America. HENRY WILLIAMS has been appointed manager of the central region for the Home Building Products Division of Owens-Corning Fiberglas. Hank will be located at Owens Chicago Branch with responsibility for other Home Products Branch Division with operations in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, St. Louis and Kansas City. Hank and his family are living in L;U<e Bluff, Illinois. RALPH BEREN is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts. DICK FLEMING was one of the few members of our class kind enough to write a letter explaining his current activities. Dick has been six years in pastorate work until he went back to school for specialization iil church music. Now with a Masters degree in Sacred Music frdm Southern Methodist University, he is in his third year as minister of music at Grace Church, United Methodist, in Des Moines. His work is chiefly that of choral conductor but he also plays the organ at many services and gives occasional recitals. This year Dick has been dean of the Central Iowa Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Their major choral work at the Grace Church this season was Beethoven's Mass in C Major which they did with full orchestra. FRANK FOLEY is executive vice president of the National Interiors (subsidiary of Kinney Services). BILL LAUFER is presently It. commander in the Navy and is one year away from retirement. Upon retirement he intends to live and work in the Far East. JERRY PAULEY has joined Kroehler Company. The following have changed their address: GERALD C. DANDROW, 35 Meandor Lane, Southington, Connecticut 06489; DANIEL A. DAVIS, Jr., P.O. Box 134, Saunderstown, R.I. 02874; Lt. WILLIAM H. LAUFER, Staff, Military Sealift Comd., ATL. 58th & First Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11250; WALFRID LUNDBORG, Jr., 205 West End Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10023; BARTON R. YOUNG, Routes 191 & 196, South Sterling, Pa. 18460.
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Douglas B. Raynard 45 Old Colony Road N. Stonington, Conn. 06359-
LEN WOLIN left the army after attaining the rank of major. He taught urology at the U. of Michigan for a year and is now in private practice with two other urologists in Ann Arbor.
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The Rev. Borden Painter l l 0 Ledgwood Road West Hartford, Conn. 06107
DICK HALL has been promoted to vice president of the London office of Chemical Bank's International Divisio_n. He will be responsible for business development for Chemical in the United Kingdom and various countries on the Continent. DIGGORY ROBERTSON has been promoted to the rank of captain in the Connecticut Army National Guard. He Jras been serving as full-time staff training assistant and part-time liaison officer with the 2d Battalion, 192d Artillery in Stamford. CARL LOEFFEL was recently elected an officer of Union Mutual Life Insurance Company in Portland, Maine. Carl is associate actuary for Union which he joined in 1968. ART POLSTEIN continues his flying career, now as a pilot for Mohawk Airlines. Art recently purchased a home in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
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Major RICHARD H. MOORE just fmished his second tour in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service. He is currently the regimental logistics officer of the lOth Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, F.M.F . Some new addresses are: ROGER ROWE, 21 Rio Vista Lane, Richmond, Virginia, 23226; FRED BERGLASS, 134 Mercer Ave., Hartsdale, New York, 10530; BILL NICKERSON, 305 Country Way, Scituate, Massachusetts, 02066; LARRY BOULDIN, 6000 Four Lakes Avenue, Lisle, Illinois, 60532. Your SECRETARY wishes you all a pleasant summer. I am off to Rome for six weeks to teach in Trinity's Rome Campus program. Arrivederci!
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Robert C'. Langen 2 Sachems Trail West Simsbury, Conn. 06092
Before reporting on the items which have accumulated over the past three months, I would like to urge all of you once again, to send me a couple of lines about where you are and what you are doing. Do it now, because you' surely won't do it next week. My wife and I spent a couple of days in Mexico City last February and had an opportunity to visit at some length with BARRY and Karen ROYDEN. Barry has had his tour extended for a third year as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy there. It was good to talk over old times and new experiences with him, and he and Karen simply could not have been more hospitable. BOB WRIGHT has been promoted to major in the U.S. Air Force and is chief of administration of the 15th Military Airlift Squadron, assigned at Norton AFB in California. BOB ADAMS reports that he has become executive director of Franklin Area Mental Health in Franklin County, Maine, and that they now live in Wilton, Maine. JIM TURMAN took a year off to get his masters degree in engineering at Drexel and is now with Harold Beck & Sons, Inc. of Newton, Pennsylvania. Beck is a small manufacturer of sophisticated process controls and instruments. I ran into Jim and Shirley at a Mount Holyoke College reunion in May. CHUCK MIDDLETON completed surgical residency at Hartford Hospital last summer and is now at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, S. Vietnam. He reports that BILL SACHS has begun a pediatrics practice in Westchester County, New York. JOE KEROES has returned to San Francisco where he is assistant chief of medicine and director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Childrens and Adult Medical Center. He and Josephine have two daughters. DAVE RUTHERFORD wrote a nice letter from Washington, D.C. where he is director of manpower and training for the Assodated General Contractors of America, a construction industry trade association. He and Joan live in Woodbridge, Virginia. Dave reports a recent visit from COURT FERGUSON who apparently left the advertising business because it gave him an ulcer in order, after five years as an Air Force navigator, to end up in the low pressure job of an air traffic controller in Miami. Court is still single and lives in Hialeah, Florida. BUD ANDERSON has started his own marketing consulting firm, Marketing Development, in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Del A. Shilkret 40 Meryl Road South Windsor, Conn. 06074
Not much in the way of notes to end the year. Hope we can do better in the future. Reminder- lOth Reunion in November. KERRY FITZPATRICK has been promoted to financial vice president, Median Mortgage Investors, Miami, Florida. He is also assistant financial vice president of First Mortgage Investors, the nation's oldest mortgage investment trust. BOB WOODWARD is sales manager with Decision Incorporated, a small computer peripheral manufacturer in Oakland, California. His new address is 2633'h Regent Street, Berkeley, Calif. 94704. Dr. CHARLIE GIANETTI writes from New York City (750 Park Avenue 10021). After
PAGE 11 finishing his hitch in Vietnam a couple of years ago, he was a resident at NYU. Since then he has gone to New York Medical College Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital and plans to go into plastic surgery. He was technical advisor for the Columbia Pictures production, To Find a Man. He and his wife are getting their apartment in shape. To clarify last month's notes on Dr. MIKE PERLMAN, I now have a news article from The Springfield Union. He is regional director of legal medicine for the State Department of Mental Health, in the four-county Western Massachusetts area. Mike will be responsible for developing psychiatric services for persons who get involved with the courts or jails. Services may range from examining a defendant's mental competency to stand trial, to providing psychiatric and mental services to persons already in jail. Captain GEORGE RUSTIGAN has received the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal at Da Nang A.B., Vietnam, for his outstanding professional skill and initiative while assigned at Ramey A.F.B., Puerto Rico. NEW ADDRESSES: Mr. DAN THURMAN, 6841 Gorsten St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19119; Mr. THOMAS SNYDER, Dreve de Capucins 66, Notre Dame au Bois, 1900 Overijse, BELGIUM. PETER KILBORN has just moved to Los Angeles where he is bureau chief for Business Week. Previously he has been in Providence, Paris, San Francisco, and New York. He reports that moving is tiring but well worth it for the job. RICHARD H. SCHNADIGS, attorney at law, Partner, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz. The Schnadigs "now have three sons: David (6), Eric (4), and Ian (2), all of whom are, of course, being groomed for a major in religion at Trinity." RICHARD R. STEBBINS Jr. is sales manager, with the J. P. Stevens Co. in New York. Dick and Pam welcomed a daughter, Hannah this past year. KERRY B. FITZPATRICK has been named financial vice president for Fidelity Mortgage Investors in Jacksonville, Fla. He will have responsibility for all financing of the trust. The Rev. E. WALTON ZELLEY, Jr. is rector, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Metuchen, N.J., and an S.T.M. candidate at the Philadelphia Divinity School.
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Caramines Norte 6206 Philippines
"Lt. PETER S. NEFrh-as been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a resupply mission into the special forces camp at Dak Seang, which had been under seige for over a month. He was married last June (1970) in Hawaii and will be an instructor pilot at Craig AFB in Selma. STEPHEN K. DORNE Writes that he now has an MBA from the Univ. of Chicago and is devoting full time to the First National Bank of Chicago where he is in the lending division with specialties in the electronic and aerospace industries. He is also playing squash regularly and lost a close match in the semi-finals of class C Illinois State Singles. KIM MILES is working in N.Y.C. for the Ford Foundation trying to make sense out of the process of education and as he says, "attempting to overcome the inhibiting process of (hi~) own." He reports that he has progressed from football to Yoga. DAVID LAURETTE is a Lt. (J.G.) in the Supply Corps USNR stationed at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. ROBERT PINE was discharged from the Army in June 1970 and is now getting a Masters of Science degree at Georgetown Univ. School of Foreign Service. While in the Army he spent 14 months in Cam Ranh Bay. HOWARD SHAFFER is now married to the former Marsha Klein of New Haven. He is at the San Antonio Medical School after a year in Mexico and reports that he is glad to be back in the U.S. He expects to graduate in two more years. BRUCE HARVEY finished a two-year stint in the Army M.P. Corps and is now a full-time radio engineer at WPBS-FM, the Philadelphia Bulletin station. He is also working toward an M.S. in Information Science at Drexel U. Lt. EMIL ANGELICA is now at Duluth International Airport, assigned to the Aerospace Defense Command. Lt. ERNEST WILLIAMS, Jr. is a member of the 71st Missle Warning Wing that has received the U.S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. He is a space systems officer and assigned to a unit of the wing at Fort Fisher Air Station, N.C.
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Fred A. Vyn Bushnell Plaza. Apt. 161路 Hartford. Conn. 06103
STEVE LUNDEEN writes "was it Mark Twain who once made the comment 'reports of my death have been exaggerated?" Steve reluctantly wishes to correct a recent Reporter news item, crediting him with a Ph.D. from
Harvard. He received a masters degree and is continuing towards that doctorate. EDWARD PARRACK was graduated from Columbia Business School with an MBA in January, 1971. Ted is currently with the Pittsburgh advertising fum, Ketchum, McLeod, and Grove. Ted and his wife Candy now live at 806 North Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, Penn. 15206. After spending a year enrolled in the graduate department of physiology at the University of Virginia, RICHARD WELTON entered St. Louis University School of Medicine last September. Richard's interest in physiology led him into a research project supervised jointly by the department of physiology and cardiology. The draft exacted its toll on Richard, giving him a commission as a second lieu tenant in the Medical Service Corps. Richard's fiance, Miss Deborah H. Ryan, is now completing a masters degree in French at Bryn Mawr: After marrying Miss Diane Spence last June in London, England, FRED UHLEIN entered Boston College Law School. Their address: 125 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, Mass. 02160. Army Staff Sergeant MICHAEL CLEARY recently received the Bronze Star Medal near Song Be, Vietnam. The Bronze Star recognizes acts of heroism performed in ground combat. Mike received the award while assigned as a platoon sergeant in Reconnaissance Platoon; Company E, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Reporting on military assignments are RICHARD GRINNEL, FRED STROOCK, JIM SCHUMAKER, and JOHN ORTOLAN!. First lieutenant Grinnel will be stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base as of September, 1971, flying the F-106 fighter plane. Pfc Stroock is stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, studying Vietnamese in preparation for an interrogation assignment in Southeast Asia. Jim Schumaker recently completed a one year Russian course at the Defense Language Institute, West Coast. He is now a member of the White House Communications Agency. John Ortolani is presently a computer programmer in the USAF, stationed at Langley Air Force Base. He and his wife Angelina live at 2111 East Pembroke Ave., Hampton Virginia. HARRISON DAVIS is an administrative assistant in a new furniture showroom in Memphis, Tennessee. SCOTT DUNCAN received a leave of absence from United Aircraft to complete his Army reserve active duty. Beginning in May, Scott will spend six weeks at the Ft. Dix Drill Instructor School. Prior to his stint with the service, Scott spent one year at the Hartford extension of R.P.I., obtaining a Master of Engineering Degree, and six months with Pratt & Whitney as a performance engineer. TIMOTHY HARWOOD was awarded the Bachelor of International Management degree at Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona.
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MICHAEL BUCHET has recently been released from four years service in the U.S.M.C., 13 months spent in Vietnam. He will return to Trinity as a sophomore this fall. CHARLES M. FOSS received an ensign's commission in February of this year from N.O.C.S., Newport, R.I. He will be a communications officer on the staff of Carrier Division 4, Norfolk, Va. Drafted from Georgetown Law School November, ERNEST J. MA TIEl was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for basic training. He is currently stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., working at the Infantry Center as a legal clerk. clerk. DAVID A. CLAYMAN has enrolled in a doctoral program in clinical psychology at the University of Vermont. He works as a research fellow in experiments concerning influences of alcohol on driving and as counselor at a local family service center. JUDY DWORIN, pausing from work and studies, visited Israel in March. During her visit she saw ROBERTA RUSSELL, who is studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and JAY BERNSTEIN '69. The Millrace Bookstore in Farmington, Conn., opened May 8 with JOHN CHAPIN and RYAN KUHN as c o-managers. DAVID GOLDBERG is working as a student counselor at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. Some time in the summer or fall he will start alternate service work as C.O. RODNEY HANWAY recently graduated from Iowa State University in urban planning. With his wife, Sharon, and son, Timothy, he is working as an associate planner with the Mantowoc County Planning Commission in Two Rivers, Wise. MAR TIN WILLIAMS is working for Harlech Television, Limited, Wales. He presently composes a news and current affairs program, shown nightly, and anticipates marriage in July. PETER ORGAIN is living in a tent in Norwich, Vermont doing architectural design work and carpentry. His new address is: Rural Route Box 170-B, Norwich, Vermont 05055.
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IN MEMORY JOHN WHITE WALKER, 1902 The Rev. John W. Walker died March 17 in Summerville, South Carolina, where he had made his home in recent years. He was 91. Mr. Walker was the founder of Meadowbrook School, Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania in 1919 and remained headmaster until1941. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, Mr. Walker received his B.A. in 1902, and his M.A . in 1905 from Trinity. In 1949 he received an S.T.D. from Berkeley Divinity School. In addition to being a headmaster, Mr. Walker was vicar of Huntingdon Valley Church in Meadowbrook from 1919 until 1954. He had previously served as a civilian chaplain at Fort Meade, Maryland, and as a missionary in South Dakota. LESTER ALLEN BOSWORTH, 1911 Lester A. Bosworth, 82, of Mansfield Depot, Connecticut, died May 21 at a local convalescent hospital. A life-long resident of the town, he was a retired industrial engineer for Cheney Brothers in Manchester, Connecticut. He received a bachelor of science degree from Trinity in 1911. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Charles Filip, and a sister, Miss Eva Bosworth, both of Mansfield Depot, and a brother, Everett Bosworth of Vernon, Connecticut. WAL.TER STUART MARSDEN,1913 Walter S. Marsden, 79, an insurance: underwriter and former city _ counselor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, died April 4 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. While at Trinity, Mr . Marsden was manager of the track team, editor-in-chief of the Ivy, and chairman of Senior Dramatics. He was also a member of l.K.A. fraternity. At one time he was associated with International Banking Corporation, and later with the Travelers Insurance Company. Since 1928 he had his own insurance agency in Pittsfield. He leaves his wife, the former Yvonne G. English; a stepson, E. Richard Carmel; and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Warren A. Vincent of Pittsfield.
Mr. Pellett was a member of the Class of 1926 at Trinity College and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He was also a member of Fidelity Lodge 134, AF and AM, of Fairfield. Besides his wife, Mrs. Dorothea Pierce Pellett of Fairfield, he leaves two sons, Milton F. Pellett, III of Greenfield, Massachusetts, and Rodman G. Pellett of Long Island, New York; two daughters, Mrs. William Watson of Fairfield and Mrs. Kenneth Sexton of East Hampton; two brothers, Percy Parker of 路East Hartford and Edward Parker of Farmington; three sisters, Mrs. Grace Jaques of Bloomfield, Mrs. Esther Isaacson of Mesa, Arizona, and Mrs. Mary Rice in Denmark; and 12 grandchildren. AMBROSE STEVENS HIGGINS, 1931 Ambrose S. Higgins, 63, a prominent Maine architect, died March 24 in a Bangor hospital following a brief illness. He was the senior partner in the architectural firm of Higgins; Webster, and Partners of Bangor at the time of his death. Just recently, he had been proposed to be a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. In January, he had been elected to the National Committee on Design of the A.l.A. and the Committee on Historic Resources. Among the buildings he designed were those at Dow Air Force Base, several hospitals, schools, dormitories and classrooms at the University of Maine and Maine Maritime Academy. He was also the architect for the new YMCA in Bangor. Always active in civic affairs, he was president of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, past president of the Bangor Chamber of Commerce and was the fust commander of the Penobscot Bay Power Squadron. He was also active in Boy Scouting and was on the Advisory Board 'of the Salvation Army. He was a member of the Bangor Rotary Club and St. John's Episcopal Church. During World War II, he was a captain in the Air Force at Westover Air Force Base and in Washington, D.C. He was born in Portland, February 1, 1908. He was graduated from Portland High School and Trinity College where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Medusa. He also holds an advanced degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Surviving are his wife, Eleanor Devine Higgins, Bangor; two daughters, Mrs. Timothy Sally Curtis, London, England, and Miss Judith Alice Higgins, Boston; a sister, Mrs. George Ellsworth, Mars Hill, Maine; a granddaughter, a niece and a nephew.
ROBERT PRESTON-WITHINGTON,1913 JAMES PATRiCK KEARNEY, 1931 Robert P. Withington died April 24 at路 his home in West Newton, Massachusetts. Mr. Withington attended Boston Latin School and was a member of the class of 1913 at Trinity. He received his B.A. in 1927. While at Trinity, he was manager of the football team and a member of Alpha Delta Phi. As an alumnus, Mr. Withington has been president of the Trinity Club of Boston, a class secretary, and chairman of the Nominating Committee. During World War I, he served as an ensign in the Naval Reserve on submarine patrol. 路In 1919, he became an officer of the National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier, Vermont, where he directed the Educational Training Program for the company's agents. Later he was a general manager of the District of Columbia agency. Besides his wife, the former Elizabeth Eddy, he leaves two sons, George Eddy Withington of West Newton, and Robert Preston Withington, Jr., of Plattsburg, New York. FREDERICK WILLIAM BOWDIDGE,1923 Frederick W. Bowdidge died May 25 at Menorah Medical Center in Kansas City. Mr. Bowdidge was manager of the jewlery department at Macy's in Kansas City for 20 years. He retired in 1964 and worked as a furniture salesman until 1967. Previously he had worked as an insurance salesman and was a manager of jewelry and furniture stores in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina . While in Kansas City, Mr. Bowdidge was a member of the City Philharmonic Chorus. He was also chairman of the deacon board at the Calvary Baptist Church, a Mason, and a former member of Kiwanis International. At Trinity, he was a member of Delta Phi fraternity, director of the Chapel Choir, quarterback on the football team, and pitcher on the baseball team. He received his B.S. in 1923. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Gladys S. Bowdidge ; a son, Dr. John S. Bowdidge of Springfield, Missouri ; a daughter, Mrs. Janet B. Drews of Falls Church, Virginia; a brother, Sidney A. Bowdidge of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and five grandchildren. MILTON F. PELLETT, 1926 Milton F. Pellett, 67, of Fairfield, Connecticut, formerly of Wethersfield, died April 30, at Laurel Heights Hospital, Shelton. Born in Hartford, he lived in the area many years before moving to Fairfield.
James P. Kearney, of Bradford, Vermont, died March 28. Mr. Kearney was graduated from the Kingswood School, West Hartford, in 1927 and from Trinity in 1931. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in philosophy. While at Trinity he was a member of the Sophomore Hop Committee and the Junior Prom Committee. At the time of his death he was working for the Vermont State Labor Department. ROBERT CLOUDMAN FARRAR, 1933 Robert C. Farrar died August 12, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland. A member of the Class of 1933, Mr. Farrar was in Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. At the time of his death he was in the sales division of A. Schrader's Son, Division of Scovill Manufacturing Co. JOHN ANTHONY TADSEN, 1970 John A. Tadsen, 22, of Springville, New York, was killed in an automobile accident April 27. A member of the Class of 1970, Mr. Tadsen transferred to Vassar in his J,unior year. While at Trinity, he was a member of Delta Phi fraternity, the intramural sports council, and was a Junior Advisor. He leaves his wife, the former Linda Heary , and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Tadsen of Lakewood, Ohio. WILLIAM CHRISTIAN STAUDT JR., 1972 William C. Staudt Jr., died May 14 when a car fell on him at an auto yard. Mr. Staudt was underneath a junked car removing parts when the jack slipped. Born in Englewood, New Jersey, he lived in East Granby, Connecticut for six years. He was graduated from East Granby High School as valedictorian in 1968 where he was a member of the band. He was also a member of the 1968 All-State Orchestra and several other musical organizations. He withdrew from Trinity in 1970 and was a junior at the Ut1ivcrsity of Connecticut at the time of the accident. While at Trinity, he was manager of the cross-country team, a member of the band and orchestra, and a Dean's List student. He leaves his parents, William and Elizabeth Staudt: a brother, Lawrence and a sister. Ruth. both at home: his grandparents. 1\lr. and ~Irs. William Staudt of Simsbury. Connecticut. and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Johnson of Jamesburg. New Jersey.
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Spring Sports Awards Made, Captains Elected
NEW ENGLAND CHAMPS -The varsity heavyweight crew, undefeated in the regular season and heading for Henley Royal Regatta are Coxswain Winthrop Redmond (kneeling) and, standing from left, (bow to stroke), Steve Lines, captain; Rob Lawrence; Rick Ricci; Doug Lake; Mal Poole; Jack Reale; Bob Benjamin and David Brown.
Crew Bound for Henley The varsity heavyweight crew, winner of the New England Championship , will again represent the United States in the Ladies Challenge Plate of the Henley Royal Regatta in England. Since Commencement , the Trin oarsmen have been working out twice a day on the Connecticut River in preparation for the Bantam's second assault on the Ladies Plate at the famed Henley Regatta which will be held this year from June 30 to July 3. The 1969 crew, the first Trinity eight to go to Henley, fought its way to the finals before losing to Nereus of Holland. A U.S. crew has never won the Ladies Challenge Plate, the second oldest cup in the Regatta having been added in 1845 the same year Washington College in; Connecticut changed its name to Trinity:The race is open only to college oarsmen but until 1967 it had been ·restricted to crews from the British Isles. Three members of the present crew went to Henley with the 1969 delegation. They are : Steve Lines, captain and bow oar of the 1971 eight; Jack Reale, No.6 oar and Robert Benjamin at No. 7 oar who rowed with the four with cox on the Thames two years ago . The 1971 crew finished its regular season undefeated as did the 1969 eight. The present crew won the New England Championship at the ·Rusty Callow by ou tracing 10 other crews and then, after a rugged semi-final race, placed fifth in the nationals at the Dad Vail in Philadelphia. Despite the fifth place finish the 197 .l
eight had rowed the final in 6:06, the first Trinity crew to speed down the Schuylkill in under 6 :10. "I consider this the fastest crew we have had here since I became coach," said Norm Gra( after the Dad Vail. It is also Trin's heaviest crew, averaging 191 pounds. To prove Coach Grafs confidence, the fighting 1971 Bantams rebounded from the Vail and on June 5 captured the Franklin Cup for senior eights at the American Henley held for the first time on Lake George. Now the varsity eight is retraining from the 2,000 meter pace to the mile and 550-yard course at Henley-on-Thames. The crew will depart from JFK International for London on June 21 with the nine varsity crew members and two spares, John Coyne of the JV eight and Frank Farwell of the varsity lightweights. . Others plan to join Coach Norm Graf and the 1971 delegation at Henley-on-Thames to cheer the Bantams on June 30 including the Rt. Rev. Walter H. Gray, the new president of the Friends of Trinity Rowing. The Friends are again helping to make the trip possible in addition to each oarsman who pays his own transportation and lodging with a British family near the race site. The 58'8", 230-pound "Winslow B. Ayer, '43" varsity shell, named for the second president of the Friends (1965) will be flown over on a cargo plane. On to England, and Good Luck Trinity!
The spring sports season was capped by the election of captains for 1972 and the awarding of top prizes in each varsity sport. William Foster, a junior from Auburn, N.Y. who played three positions on the baseball team was named the Dan Webster Most Valuable Player in baseball and won the Sweet Batting Trophy with an average of .367. The hard-hitting outfielder-second baseman also compiled a 3-4 record as a starting pitcher where his ERA was 3.88 after 50 innings. Trinity finished the season 6-10. In crew, a junior, Robert Lawrence of Westwood, Mass., was elected captain of the 1972 varsity eight. He is the No. 2 oar on the present varsity boat which won the New England Championship and competed in the American Henley June 5 on Lake George and will co'mpete in the Royal Henley Regatta in England June 30. . Jeff Parker of McLean, Va., the bow oarsman for the freshman eight, received the-David 0. Wicks Award for the first year man "who best exemplifies the spirit of the founders of the Trmity College Rowing Association;" Jeff Clark, a senior from Villanova, Pa., a stroke of the JV eight, received the Torch Award "for doing most to foster and perpetuate crew," while Doug Lake, a sophomore from Dedham, Mass., and a varsity oarsman, received the Hartford Barge Club Rowing Award "most improved rower trophy." A new award, "The Coaches Award," went to John Tyner, a senior from Alexandria, Va., and a lightweight crew member "for exhibiting exceptional merit." Outgoing crew captain, Steve Lines, presented his varsity letter and a silver oar to Fred Houghton, outgoing president of the Friends of Trinity Rowing. The lacrosse team, which compiled a 6-3 record has elected James Nelson of West Hartford, the team's leading scorer in 1971 with 29 points and Bill Fisher of Baltimore, a goalie, as co-captains. The two are nominees for regional and All-American honors. Matthew (Spike) Birmingham of South Norwalk, Conn., and William Prevost of Shrewsbury, N.J ., the outgoing co-captains shared the Boyer Most
ATHLETIC HONORS TO SENIORS-Basketball star Howard Greenblatt (left) of Hartford displays the Eastern Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete Award next to John Durland, winner of the coveted McCook Trophy. Greenblatt's award is given to the best scholar athlete in the New England area while the McCook Trophy goes to the Trinity senior who best symbolizes "distinction in athletics, diligence in training, manliness, courtesy and honor at all times." Valuable Lacrosse Player Award . Birmingham had 20 points this season while Prevost was the leader of defense . In golf, Jay Davis of Stony Brook, N.Y., and Walter Young of Akron, N.Y., were elected co-captains. The new co-captains each won three matches in the last four contests as the golf team finished strong winning three of its last four after losing its first 11 matches, to conclude 3-12. The Wyckoff Golf Award went to sophomore, David Heinlein of New London, Conn. In track, Thomas Buchenau of San Diego, Calif., was elected captain. The junior paced Trinity in the high hurdles and long jump. John Durland of Darien, Conn., won the Morris MVP Track Award for his consistent victories in the mile and two-mile outgoing captain Ralph Morini ...-'o f Mahopac, N.Y., a shot putter and hammer thrower, received the coaches special award. One of the individual highlights of the season came at the New Englands where freshman Ron Duckett of Philadelphia placed second in the 220 and third in the 100-yard dash. He set a Trinity record of :21.6 in the longer sprint. In all, counting qualifying heats he had to run seven sprints in one day . Junior Richard N . Palmer of Wethersfield has been reelected captain of the tennis team while junior Richard Palamar of Quogue, N.Y. won the Craig Most Improved Player Award.
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CREW SUPPORTER HONORED - Fred Houghton (right), outgoing president of Friends of Trinity, receives a letter sweater from Steve Lines (c.enter), captain of thi~ year's crew team. Lines, who earned the letter as ..a.. varsity rower, made. t_he presentation in appreciation of Houghton's efforts in boosting the crew a~ong Tr1mty alumni. Looking on is Bishop Walter H. Gray, Hon. '41, the new pres1dent of the Friends.
ALL FOR YOUTH - Athletic Director Karl Kurth (left) goes over plans for Trinity's participation again in the NCAA NatioJ1al Summer Youth Sports Program with Walter "Doc" Hurley, vice principal of Weaver High School and liaison officer of the program, and Ed Miller of the Trinity staff who is program coordinator. Approximately 300 boys and girls, selected from the inner city, will participate in sports instruction to be conducted mornings in the Ferris Athletic Center, July 6 through August 12. In addition, the College will again be an "extension" of the City of Hartford recreation program with supervised activities for youngsters conducted on a "walk in basis" as the Athletic Center was used last summer.