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TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 7 NUMBER 3
TRINITY COLLEGE, CONNECTICUT
REUNION WEEKEND
Major Appointments Announced English Named Vice President James F. English, Jr., chairman of The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company, will become vice president for finance and planning at Trinity on July 1, 1977. English will remain as chairman of the board of directors at CBT. In addition to monitoring the endowment, English will direct longrange planning and oversee development operations. He will also serve as liaison with the Consortium on Financing Higher Education. Commenting on - the appointment, Dr. Lockwood said: "Mr. English will bring us valuable experience in supervising our investments and in our long-range financial planning at a time when colleges need to exercise imaginative and careful management of their resources. Trinity is particularly fortunate to have in this senior position a person so experienced in investments and finance and, through his voluntary participation in
College and The Loomis-Chaffee School. A director of numerous business corporations and charitable institutions in Connecticut, he has also served as a member of the Connecticut Commission for Higher Education, and has recently been appointed to the Council on Priorities and Planning at Yale University. English is a graduate of The Loomis School. In 1949, he received his B.A . from Yale University and then held a Mellon Exchange Scholarship to Cambridge University in England, where he received a Masters degree. In 1956, he completed his LL.B. at the University of Connecticut Law School. English first joined The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company in 1951 and rose to the position of vice president for the Investment Division in 1959. Appointed president in 1966, he became chief executive officer in 1969 and chairman at CBT in 1970. His father, the late James F. English '16, received the Honorary D.O. from Trinity in 1944. He was minister of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ.
"I knew it had to happen sooner or later and today was the day," said political science professor Sam Hendel. "A student of mine just introduced me to his father whom I taught at C.C.N.Y. about 24 years ago." Alumni arriving on Friday visited classes in session, lunched in the faculty dining room and later many attended one (or more) of the 11 class cocktail parties and other informal gatherings. In the evening, football coach Don Miller showed film clips'from previous schedules and presented his fearless forecast for the Amherst game. The Student Theatre Arts group presented a seldom-seen production of Machiavelli's "Mandragola," known to some as 'The Mandrake." Saturday, the pace quickened with nearly a dozen events scheduled for the morning alone. Among them: an art exhibit in the Austin Arts Center, a Phi Beta Kappa meeting, a fencing exhibition, a symposium during which six alumni faculty members discusse-d (with the audience joining in) how the way it was the interdisciplinary study now so necessary in liberal learning, permits a distinguished teacher like Professor Martin to offer courses outside the departmental frame . Thus, this appointment confirms the College's commitment to explore broadly the various academic fields represented in the Humanities."
Harold Martin to Dana Professorship
education, so sensitive to the problems facing independent colleges and universities." English is a trustee of Connecticut
Dr. Harold C. Martin, president of the American Academy in Rome, has been appointed Dana Professor of the Humanities . The newly created professorship will be interdisciplinary in nature. The appointment is effective September 1, 1977. Martin will teach during the spring semester at Williams College . According to President Lockwood, "Dr. Martin will be the first full-time professor at Trinity whose academic purview will include more than a single department. This concept, reinforcing
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The Way It Was Parking spaces were at a premium, the parties were numerous, the events were varied and plentiful, the decible level was higher, tailgate lunches abounded, and Trinity defeated Amherst before a capacity crowd on Jessee Field. That was the annual Reunion/Homecoming weekend beginning November 5 when the campus played host to more than 1,000 alumni and their families. Its theme: 'The Way It Was." Although one event followed hard upon the heels of another, there was plenty of time for relaxed reminiscing and throughout the weekend the campus was dotted with small clusters of graduates ge-tting to know each other all over again .
HIGH POINT OF HALF TIME at Amherst game was the diagonal descent of three parachutists trying to hit the target in front of the stands. This one made it; another came dose and a third nearly settled on the refreshment tent.
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compares with the way it is, an alumni rowing regatta, a talk by Connecticut's Commissioner of Education titled 'Who Runs the Schools?" a show-and-tell slide presentation of his Patagonia trip by President Lockwood, and a soccer game. In the afternoon, more than 6,000 watched the Bantams powerhouse their way to a 24-17 win against Amherst for a season mark of 6-1. Halftime as usual was capped by the precision formations and perfect pitch of the Kazoo Marching Band. As he has for some years, religion professor Frank Kirkpatrick provided distinctive game commentary. 'We have just received a partial score: Army, 5." An unexpected divertissement was the appearance of three parachutists plummeting toward the field in a valiant attempt to land on a small, circular target. One did, and the other two came respectably close. The game was followed by a reception in the Austin Arts Center and then dinner and dancing in the Mather Campus Center where the annual awards were presented (see photos on page 4) . Somehow, time was found to elect new officers of the National Alumni Association. Theya re: President, Bernard Wilber, Jr. '50; Senior Vice President, George Lynch '61; Vice President Alumni Fund, Thomas DePatie '52; Treasurer, John T. Fink '44. Elected to the Executive Committee were Th~.odore Tansi '54, Jeffry Fox '67, Richard Morris '68, Elaine Feldman '76, and Robert Andrian '75. Robert Chamberlain '55 was elected a Junior Fellow. Then, on Sunday morning, after religious services and the dedication of twin planting urns at the entrance to Downes Memorial, a gift of the Class of '13, it was suddenly over. That was the way it was. A limited number are awarded nationally each year. Dr. Ranbir Vohra, professor of political science was the first Dana Professor on the Trinity faculty to be honored under the grant. Martin, who served as president and chancellor of Union College and University from 1965 to 1974, is a nationally-known teacher, administrator and author. For fifteen years he was a lecturer in English and comparative literature, as well as director of general education, at Harvard University. He has received (Continued on page 6)
Dana Professorships are awarded under a grant supported by the Dana Foundation which recognizes outstanding professors by underwriting a portion of their salary.
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