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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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