1972November

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Mr. Peter J. Knapp 20 Buena Vista Rd. West Hartford, Conn.

VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2

TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

06107

NOVEMBER, 1972

$475,ooo is Goal for Anniversary Drive An annual giving goal of $475,000 has been set for the anniversary year 1972-73, according to Judson M. Rees, Director of Development. The goal is some $35,000 over the amount contributed in last year's successful drive. Contributions to the annual giving campaign will go towards balancing the College's operating budget, which is nearly $8.5 million for 1972-73. President Lockwood, in a message announcing the campaign, observed that the College's I 50th anniversary year is a milestone which "provides the opportunity for alumni, parents, and friends to honor the College by contributing more generously than ever before so that Trinity may become an even more effective force for learning." He said he hopes that those who have not contributed in recent years will respond on this occasion. Photo at left shows the laying of the cornerstone of the Chapel, June 15, 1930; at right is the same scene today.

Chapel Marks 40th Year The College observed the 40th anniversary of tne Consecration~of the Trinity College Chapel on October 22, with a special Vespers service which included two musical selections by the Concert Choir. Members of both the Trinity and the Hartford communities filled the

Chapel for the service. The choir, accompanied b}" organ and orchestra, sang "0 Clap Your Hands," by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Schubert's Mass in G. The annual series of Carillon Recitals - the 23rd season this year - was also specially designated as

an anniversary event. The actual dare of the Consecration was Jiine 18, 1932. The College also noted with sorrow the tragic death of Philip Frohman, principal architect of the Chapel, on Oct. 30, as the result of an automo-bile accident last August (obituary, page 4).

'Placement Offi"ce,' 25 Years Old, Turns More and More to Counseling The Trinity College Office of Career Counseling - the old "Placement Office" - observed its 25th anniversary on campus this year reflecting more and more its emphasis on counseling. The office was established in March of 1947 as one of the first of its kind at a small college. Normal enrollment for Trinity at the time was 525 men , and the duties of the first director were " career counseling with the undergraduates, and placement work for students and alumni." That first director was John F. Butler '3 3, who held the job for 23 years until his death in October of 1970. What made him perhaps unique among his contemporaries was his insistence that "I do not place ; the students place themselves." While other institutions concentrated on providing an employment agency for their students ("the marketing of our product, men and women," was the way one Eastern college president put it), Butler was developing a counseling service which covered the student's entire undergraduate career. Freshmen took aptitude tests and discussed the results with Butler; sophomores and juniors met with him for informal talks about careers; seniors also discussed their plans with Butler, who arranged for interviews with potential

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employers or helped with plans for graduate school. As it does today, the office also served as a clearing house for part-time and summer jobs. The philosophy which guided the Placement Office for so many years may have been well capsulized by the editors of the 1957 Ivy , who dedicated the yearbook to Butler with these words: " ... He convinces us all very early that he places no one, that we place ourselves. He contributes, certainly more than he

knows or would admit, to endowing our search for a vocation with richer meaning; he arms us, and he does not have a classroom in which to do so, with canons of judgment that spring from his own strong belief in true individualism and a deep personality." While Butler would frequently intercede in behalf of a student, he never saw himself so much as an "agent for the employee" (as one placement officers group understood its role) as he saw himself a counselor. In the late 60s the name of the office changed to "Office of Career Planning," and finally, in 1970, to "Office of Career Counseling" - the same words which appeared in the job description back in 194 7. Butler's successor, Mrs. Paula I. Robbins, believes the emphasis on counseling over placement is justified by current trends in student attitudes, by the employment situation in general, and by the broad nature of a liberal arts education. Trinity students, Mrs. Robbins has observed, tend to fall into one of three general categories: those who have specialized career goals and intend to go to graduate school or to professional school in law, medicine or some other (continued on page 3)

Breakdown of the various goals are: Alumni Fund , $275,000 ($248,944 contributed last year); Parents Fund $95,000 ($88,099 last year); Business and Industry Associates, $65,000 ($60,714) : fuiends Fund, $30,000 ($2l,964 last year), and Foundations, $10,000 (18,700 last year). A total of $440,421 was contributed last year. Gifts of $1 ,000 or more will qualify the donor for membership in the Founders Society; a gift from $150 up to $1 ,000 qualifies for membership in the Anniversary Club. Members of the Alumni Fund Steering Committee are: Martin D. Wood '42, national chairman; James R. Glassco Jr. 'SO, vice chairman; Brenton W. Harries '50, distinguished gifts chairman; Donald J. Viering '42, leadership gifts chairman ; George H.M. Rountree Jr. '40,. Arthur H. Tildesley ' 53 and Warren L. Linberg Jr. '63, special gifts chairmen; S. Anders Yocom Jr. '63, promotion chairman ; Samuel W. P. McGill '51, class agent chairman; Bernard F. Wilbur Jr. 'SO, participation and telethon chairman, and John Whalen M. S. '66, masters degree chairman. Members of the Parents Fund Steering Committee are: Bruce N. Bensley, Morristown, N . J. , national chairman; Rudolph M. Montgelas, Darien, Conn., vice chairman; C. Barse Haff Jr., Rye, N.Y., special gifts chairman; Frank K. Griesinger, Gates Mills, Ohio, past parent chairman; Ralph J. Taussig, Philadelphia, Pa., Class of 1973 chairman; Pamela S. Crandall, Westerly, R.I., Class of 1974 chairman; John N. Fisher, Weston, Mass., Class of 1975 chairman, and Robert A. Lawrence, Westwood, Mass., Class of 1976 chairman. John T. Wilcox '39 is chairman of the Business and Industry Associates; J . Ronald Regnier ' 30 is chairman of the Friends of Trinity Fund. It is hoped that a successful completion of the drive can be announced on May 16 , the lSOth anniversary date of the signing of Trinity's charter.


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