REPORTER WINTER 1983
National Alumni Association EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS President Senior Vice President Vice Presidents Alumni Fund Campus Activities Admissions Area Associations Public Relations Career Counseling Secretary-Treasurer
Robert N. Hunter '52, Glastonbury, Ct. Victor F. Keen '63, New York Robert C. Knox III '63, Ocean Beach, N.Y. Jeffrey J. Fox '67, Newington, Ct. James P. Whitters III '62, Boston Merrill A. Yavinsky '65, Washington, D.C. Wenda L. Harris '76, Boston Eugene Shen '76, New York Alfred Steel, Jr. '64, West Hartford
MEMBERS Joseph E. Colen, Jr. '61, Norristown, Pa. Megan]. O'Neill '73, New York Charles E. Gooley '75, Hartford James A. Finkelstein '74, Greenwich Susan Martin Haberlandt '71, West Hartford George P. Lynch, Jr. '61, Hartford B. Graeme Frazier III '57, Philadelphia Richard P. Morris '68, Philadelphia Term Expires 1983 Edward S. Ludorf '51, Hartford 1983 Donald J. Viering '42, Simsbury, Ct. Susan Martin Haberlandt '71, West Hartford 1985
Athletic Advisory Committee
Alumni Trustees
Karl E. Scheibe '59, Middletown, Ct. Edward A. Montgomery, Jr. '56, Pittsburgh Emily G. Holcombe '74, Hartford Marshall E. Blume '63, Villanova, Pa. Stanley J. Marcuss '63, Washington, D.C. Donald L. McLagan '64, Lexington, Ma. Nominating Committee
John C. Gunning '49, Hartford Wenda Harris '76, Boston Norman C. Kayser '57, Hartford Peter Lowenstein '58, Riverside, Ct. William Vibert '52, Granby, Ct.
Term Expires 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 Term Expires 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983
Letters
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Dear Sir: Concerning the article "Heroes and Villains" by Professor Frank G. Kirkpatrick, that appeared on pp . 22-26 of the Falll982 Trinity Reporter, were an all time Board of Beasts to be chosen, Adolph Hitler would be a member, and if the "monsters" selected were permitted to elect a chairman, Hitler would have to be their choice. By millions and millions and millions of innocent deaths and other gross crimes beyond belief, H itler is the most evil indi vidual in all history. He has no competition. According to' the New Testament, Jesus threw the money changers and dove dealers out of the Temple and overturned their tables and seats. And these were just money changers and fowl merchants. I wonder what Jesus would have done with Hitler? Concerning the very special case of Adolph Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's ethics, values, and actions were perfect. They couldn't have been more so. The only thing wrong regarding Bonhoeffer was that unfortunately his plot did not succeed. Very truly yours,
BOARD OF FELLOWS Mary Jo Keating '74, Wilmington, De. William Kirtz '61, Boston Carolyn A. Pelzel '74, Hampstead, N.H. Charles E. Todd '64, New Britain, Ct. Dana M. Faulkner '76, Glastonbury, Ct. George P. Lynch, Jr. '61, Hartford Karen Jeffers '76, New York Michael Zoob '58, Boston JoAnne A. Epps '73, Philadelphia Scott W. Reynolds '63, New York Ann Rohlen '71, Chicago Bernard F. Wilbur, Jr. '50, West Hartford
RobertS. Feinberg, '55
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D ear Editor: We were pleasantly surprised to see our picture on page 35 of the Falll982 issue of the Reporter included with the story on Homecoming. However, we were disappointed that you didn't identify us since we are both Trinity graduates. Pictured with us is our son David, at the time 8 months old, and a potential member of the class of 2004. Also with us, but not in camera range, was our other son Peter, 4, who might well be a member of the class of 2000. All four of us had a great day. Sincerely, Margie Bain Huoppi '74 Richard Huoppi '75
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Editor: William L. Churchill Associate Editor: Kathleen Frederick '71 Associate Editor: Roberta Jenckes Sports Editor: Douglas Mannen Publications Assistant: Kathleen Davidson Consulting Editor: J. Ronald Spencer '64
Frank M. Child Ill Professor of Biology
Gerald J. Hansen, Jr. '51 Director of Alumni & College Relations
Articles
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RAISING THE MARY ROSE
Associate Professor of English
by Barrie Andrian Burden '79 A firsthand report by an adventurous alumna on the recovery of a British battleship submerged since 1545.
George Malcolm-Smith '25
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Theodore T. Tansi '54 Susan E. Weisselberg '76
THE FACULTY COMMITTEE REPORT by William L. Churchill After a year of deliberation, a faculty committee recommends the phase-out of the fraternity system in three years.
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THENANDNOW by Roberta ]enckes An overview of secret sonenes, which have been part ofT rinity for 155 years.
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ABOLITION: TWO OPINIONS A faculty member and an undergraduate debate the fraternity question.
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ON OTHER CAMPUSES by Kathleen Frederick '71 The fraternity experience at Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams has produced three different solutions to the issue.
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Sports
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Class Notes
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In Memory
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Reunion Program
Photography by ]on Lester except as noted
Cover: Fish were the constant companions of divers working to recover the Mary Rose, a ship that sank off the coast of England in 1545. For an alumna's eyewitness account, see pages 8-15.
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Last spring the faculty voted to reinstate a formal method of recognizing students who have excelled in their studies. In February, 104 undergraduates were named to The Faculty Honors List for work completed the previous term. To be eligible for the Faculty Honors List in any semester, a student must: 1) achieve a semester grade point average of 10.0 (A-) wit h no letter grade lower than a B - ; (2) complete a minimum of four course credits for which letter grades are earned, in courses taught or supervised by Trinity faculty; and (3) h ave no "incompletes" for the semester under consideration. The Faculty Honors List will be determined at the end of every term and a notation entered on the permanent record card of each student. The Trinity News Bureau will send notice of the honor to students' h ome town newspapers.
MILD WINTER AIDS MATHER PROJECT Relatively mild winter weather has helped the Mather Hall renovation project to move forward smoothly, so that as of March 1, work was actually slightly ahead of schedule, according to RielS. Crandall, director of buildings an d grounds. Construction for the "new" Mather began in the closing weeks of 1982, and Crandall said that Connecticut's exceptionally warm December weather was a help because t he excavation effort was not hindered by frozen ground. In addition, the footings for the new sections of th e building are about 80 percent in place, the east side being completed. Some basement exterior walls have been poured, and the next steps in t he construction process call for the placement of steel structural frames for both additions and then the pouring of concrete floors around the steel. Noting that he expects the entire project to be completed in October, Crandall said that the kitchen in Mather and the Cave operation should
be fully operational by the time the students return in A ugust and that the Cave and the student dining hall will have at least as much seating as is available now. To date, business has gone on as usual in Mather, with the exception of the noise and unexpected disruptions caused by th e construction process. Students and other members of the campus community have learned new routes to get into Mather around the form idable excavations. One group of students seized upon the opportunity created by the construction project to show their artistry and inventiveness. Informed that they were free to decorate a temporary interior wall on the east side of the dining room, the artists
happily recreated the interior of the Makris Diner, an off-campus eating place on the Berlin turnpike popular with students because it is open 24 hours.
ANNUAL GIVING AT RECORD PACE A greatly expanded phonothon effort utilizing over 150 volunteers has resulted in a record-setting pace for the A lumni Fund this year. For the first time ever, Alumni Fund phonothons were held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Tampa, Chicago and Clevehmd in addition to the traditional fundraisers held on the east coast. "Thanks to our strong
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MATHER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT moves along: left, a bird's eye view of the very substantial excavations (when completed, the building will be extended about 35' to the east and 30' to the west); top, a re-creation of the interior of the Makris Diner, courtesy of student artists; and, in a mock groundbreaking ceremony, kazoo band entertained.
volunteer force," said Morris Lloyd, Jr. '60, Annual Fund chairman, "the Alumni Fund is over 60 percent of the $725,000 goal. We're relying on those alumni who have not yet made their 1982-83 contributions to send us over the top." The Parents Fund is also off to a record start. Sparked by a challenge grant from an anonymous parent, the fund is at 91 percent of its $110,000 goal. Par路 ents Fund Chairman, Lester Morse, Jr., feels that this year Trinity parents may well raise the largest amount in T rinity's history! Both the Friends ofTrinity and the
Business & Industry Funds are running substantially ahead of last year as well. According to Lloyd, "At the present rate the Annual Fund should exceed last year's record $1,019,551 mark. The . class agents, alumni and student volunteers, who worked so diligently, deserve full credit for the campaign's success."
ALUMNI DIRECTORY NEARS COMPLETION All telephone contact has been completed by Harris Publishing Company, publishers ofT rinity's official alumni directory. The purpose of the telephone
contact was to verify the information which the alumni provided on the directory questionnaires and the informa路 tion currently held in the alumni records. At the same time, the telephone representatives of the publishing company invited alumni to purchase personal copies of the directory. The directory is tentatively scheduled for release in June. Alumni who have not received their copy by August 1, or who are interested in ordering a copy and have not heard from the publisher, may contact Harris directly at the following address: Doreen Luff, Customer
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APPLICATIONS DROP FOR CLASS OF '87
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Trinity has experienced a nine percent drop in freshman class applications from last year, a pattern that appears to be common at the more selective private colleges in the Northeast; Yale is reporting a 10.9 percent drop; Wesleyan is down about 7.5 percent. To date, Trinity has received 2,922 applications for 450 places in the freshman class as opposed to 3,225 a year ago. According to Donald N. Dietrich, director of admissions, the application decline has been caused by a combination of economic factors and demography. The current recession has put the cost of aT rinity education beyond the reach of some families and has discouraged others from applying. There are also fewer 18-year-olds in the candidate pool this year because of declining birth rates that began in the late sixties. Despite the overall drop in applicants, there were some encouraging signs. The quality of the candidates appears to be "exceptional," according to Dietrich, and minority applicants are up by 30 over last year, which saw a three-fold increase in the number of minority students in the freshman class. Early decision candidates - those who have made Trinity their number one choice- are also up by more than 80 percent, indicating that Trinity may actually be increasingly attractive to many students despite fewer applications. Other characteristics of the applicant pool appear to be in line with those of previous years. About 70 percent come from five states - Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Over 40 percent of the candidates h ave indicated need for financial aid. The increase in minority applicants for the second year in a row was attributed, in part, to a successful minority admissions weekend in January that brought about 50 potential applicants
EDWARD R. IUTERI, JR. of West Haven, CT, center, is this year's recipient of the Faculty Scholar Prize at Trinity. Awarded by the faculty to the sophomore who has shown outstanding achievement and potential, as demonstrated by his or her academic work, the honor entitles the recipient to one free course at the College. Shown with Iuteri at the award presentation are Edward W. Sloan, professor of history and chairman of the Faculty Scholar Prize Committee, left, and President James F. English, Jr.
to the campus, some from as far away as Chicago. Participants were hosted by Trinity undergraduates, attended classes and wo rkshops, met with faculty and took part in various social and athletic activities.
COOPER RETIREMENT DINNER PLANNED All alumni are invited to attend a dinner on Tuesday, May 24, at the College in celebration of Prof. George B. Cooper's achievements in teaching and scholarship during his 42-year career at Trinity. Cooper, who is Northam professor of history and secretary of the College, will be retiring at the end of this academic year. Anyone wishing more information on tickets to the affair should contact Sarah Passell in the development office of the College, (203) 527-3 151, ext. 235.
Prof. George B. Cooper
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STUDENTS PROTEST FOR FACULTY MEMBER Responding to reports of a negative reappointment decision by the History Department, some 40 students staged a protest march and a two-hour sit-in in the office of Vice President Thomas Smith early in February. The subject of the controversy was Johnetta Richards, an assistant professor of history, who has taught at Trinity for the past four years and is being considered for reappointment. Professor Richards is currently the only black female on the Trinity faculty. At the outset of the sit-in, Russell Hall, president of the Trinity Coalition of Blacks (TCB), read a statement calling for Professor Richard's reappointment. Quoting "well-informed sources," the TCB statement attributed the History Department's negative decision on Professor Richards to her not being an active part of the predominantly white male social network of the department and not teaching traditional American history. In supporting Professor Richards, TCB noted "her unique way of looking at the content of her courses," and a "mode of instruction that sheds positive light on the significance of Africans in history." They also cited, "her function as a role model and advisor to black students, especially black women," as a "priceless" asset. After reading this statement, the student protestors announed their intention to stay in Smith's office until the allegations against Richards were either confirmed or denied. Professor Edward Sloan, chairman of the History Department, subsequently met with the protestors and reviewed the faculty evaluation process with the group. According to Sloan the department's evaluation of Richards will go next to the faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee for a final determination. After an hour-long discussion, which included talk about both the Richards' reappointment and other concerns about the limited minority presence at Trinity, the protestors ended their sitin. A silent march down the Long Walk and through the faculty and student
dining rooms concluded the demonstration of concern. Later in the day the Student Government Association (SGA) held an emergency session in the Cave to discuss the Richards case. With some 200 students on hand to hear the debate, the SGA representatives voted to support Richards' reappointment. A letter from the SGA to the Appointment and Promotions Committee, approved unanimously during the emergency meeting, called for: 1) a critical rev,iew of the History Department's recommendation on Richards; 2) her reappointment; and 3) some form of student representation to be introduced into the appointments and promotions procedures. At this writing the matter still rests with the Appointments and Promotions Committee; Richards is in Zimbabwe, where she is doing research supported by a junior faculty development grant.
SENIOR NAMED CONNECTICUT POET Edwin B. Lord, an English major from New York City, has been named a Connecticut Student Poet for 1983. He is one of five college students selected last fall in a state-wide competition, sponsored by the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. The students, all of whom attend college in Connecticut, will read their poetry at eleven campuses in the state this winter. Lord, a senior, is the President's Fellow in English, signifying his outstanding performance in the major. He has edited the Trinity Review, the literary magazine, and last year received second prize of the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prizes in Poetry. He has been active in theatre, both directing and performing, and was recently named to the Faculty Honors List. Lord is a member of Delta Psi fraternity.
Maine, Fifty Miles Inland by Ted Lord Here, in France, laughter from the outdoor cinema climbs over the balcony, the chimes of sunset at ten. When I'm in bed and motorbikes cut valleys up far hills my sister and her friend will be climbing, finding a table rock for a last look at the day over Lake Sebago . They'll talk about canoes, watch the sailboats nearly capsize, scream about campers who shortsheet their beds. Then they'll settle down to naming. The first pink is "Pepto-Bismal", the brown by the mountains "my mother's cedar chest". The long band of orange becomes "a bubblegum necklace", specks of yellow blink and fall as "first leaves" or "pulsars". Then colors slide over the rim of the world, their words catch on acres of blue. They rub their arms and a loon calls. I toss and think of my sister, the first star over America turning in.
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The campus marked its third annual Awareness Day in February- a day without classes when students, faculty and staff discussed political, social and campus issues. As described by the sponsoring Student Government Association, "Awareness Day is a time to be creative and to share your ideas about Trinity and what it stands for with others whom you may never have talked to before." The day began with an address by Hartford Deputy Mayor Rudolph P. Arnold, who asked students to "discover the other Hartford . .. the 25 percent that lives below the poverty Allison Dillon-Kimmerle level." Noting that students have more power than they realize, he urged them to get involved in major issues such as racism, sexism, ecological con- CAREER COUNSELING HEAD NAMED cerns and economic problems. Arnold was followed at the podium Allison Dillon-Kimmerle has been by James Reed, an Individualized appointed director of career counseling Degree Program student at Trinity. His remarks stressed the lack of minor- at Trinity, succeeding Dr. Christopher ity representation among students and J. Shinkman, who now heads the career counseling office at Stanford Unifaculty at Trinity, and pointed out versity. that college was a place for social deA graduate of Trinity College in velopment as well as academic growth . Washington, DC, Dillon-Kimmerle Following the opening addresses, holds a master's degree in American students and faculty broke into mornCivilization from Brown University. ing discussion groups that met in dorBefore accepting the position at Trinmitories and classrooms and focused ity, she was a member of the career on the rights and expectations of counseling staff at Marymount College members of the Trinity community. in T arrytown , NY. From 1977-81 she The afternoon was devoted to two was assistant director of career developseminar periods where small groups ment at Smith College. gathered to discuss a variety of topics As director of career cou nseling at including: affirmative action, nuclear Trinity, Dillon-Kimmerle will work at war, homophobia, alcohol use, instituincreasing the visibility of the office t ional racism, sexual harassment, reliwith students, so that they will be more gious intolerance, academic pressure, inclined to use it at all stages of their political action, the City of Hartford, career planning. She also hopes to inand fraternity-sorority questions. crease outreach to the students, with Several musical performances and more informational programs on varidiscussions were provided by Lares ous careers being given by the office. Tresjan, a migrant farm worker, workers' rights activist and songwriter. A ALUMNI ADMISSIONS multi-media presentation, "Who Slew WEEKEND SLATED the Dreamer," about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was also on the day's The College will h ost its annual program. three-day weekend for alumni sons and Co-chairmen for Awareness Day daughters on September 22, 23, and 24. were Anne Collins '83 and Chris Purpose of the weekend is to give proSullivan '83.
spective Trinity candidates an inside look at the College. Participants will have the chance to talk with admissions officers, attend classes, meet with faculty and take part in various student and dormitory act ivities. In addition to specific information on Trinity, general counseling on college admissions procedures will be offered. A mailing describing the weekend in more detail will be sent to all alumni this summer. Those wishing additional information should contact Gerald J. Hansen, Jr., director of alumni and college relations, who is in charge of the program.
CAMPUS CRIME SHOWS DECLINE Crime on the T rinity campus declined between July and December, 1982, for the third consecutive comparable period. According to Michael Schweighoffer, director of security, crime on campus was down 25 percent from the same period in 1981 and down 37 percent from 1980. Crimes against property decreased 21 percent , due principally to the drop in incidents of thefts from and of motor vehicles. Three cars were stolen from the campus between July and December, 1982 (two before school was in session) compared with none a year earlier. A slight increase (6 percent) of thefts from dormitory rooms was reported. C rimes against persons also showed a significant decline, falling by 50 percent. There were six robberies and assaults in the July-December 1982 period, down from twelve last year. Schweighoffer attributes the steady reduction in crime to an increase in the size of the security force, and the dedication of the officers, as well as the "cooperation of students, staff and faculty to decrease their vulnerability to crime." Y
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TRINITY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND Schedule of Events 1983 SATURDAY, MAY 21 4:00 to 5:30p.m.
Reception by the President and Faculty for members of the Class of 1983, their parents and guests - The Quad (Austin Arts Center in case of rain)
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Baccalaureate- The Quad (Ferris Athletic Center in case of rain) Commencement -The Quad (Ferris Athletic Center in case of rain)
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Marine archaeologists salvage a 16th~century British battleship. By Barrie Andrian Burden '79
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he climax of one of the world's most ambitious underwater archaeological operations occurred on October 11th, 1982 when the remains of an early 16th-century British battleship were successfully raised to the surface after more than 437 years on the ocean floor. The ship was the Mary Rose, the vice-flagship of King Henry The Eighth's fleet in 1545. In that year the French launched an attack against England's south coast, and at Portsmouth in particular. During the initial stages of this engagement, the veteran 700-ton Mary Rose, commanded by Vice Admiral Sir George Carew, suddenly heeled over and sank almost immediately, coming to rest on the starboard side. Few survived of the reputed 700 men on board, and it is said that King Henry witnessed the tragedy from Southsea Castle, only a mile away. In 1978, some four centuries after the Mary Rose went down, I was spending my junior year in London and learned that a small national charity, The Mary Rose Trust, was dedicated to the excavation, recovery and eventual display of the ship. What better way to com-
bine my major in history with my hobby of diving, a skill I had learned in my sophomore year at Trinity. So, I joined the diving team for the summer, an experience that began my passionate interest in the ship. A year later, after earning my Trinity degree, I came back to England and have continued serious work on the project ever since. Until recently, the remains of the Mary Rose lay between 15 and 25 meters beneath the surface, buried by layers of sand, mud, and modern oily deposits. The ship had sunk on its starboard side into soft sand, leaving only portions of the bow and stern-castles, and the whole port side exposed to tidal action. As the centuries passed, silts filled the wreck and the port side eroded away, collapsing both in and outboard. The remaining timbers and contents that were thrown against the starboard side were astonishingly wellpreserved due to the anaerobic atmosphere caused by rapid silting-over. That first summer of diving on the Mary Rose was fascinating, but equally confusing. I never saw more than
two or three meters of anything because of the murky water. Even when I could see the timbers in my small work area, I was at a loss to identify them. (Imagine working in a dark room where everything is heeled over at 60 ° and largely obscured from your vision!) By the end of the summer, however, I felt at home under such conditions, and had learned to interpret some structure and understand the significance of the sediments we were removing. Our archaeological methods were an underwater adaptation of those used on land. We used airlifts made from 4- and 6-inch diameter plastic drainpipes to remove the silts and clay instead of picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows. The airlift served as an underwater vacuum cleaner, powered by a compressor on the surface; by using our hands or trowels all the 'spoil' was sent up the pipe, carried away by the tides and deposited away from the wreck. I soon learned that the texture of the silts which had infiltrated the ship played a very important archaeological role. We were able to date artifacts by the layers in which they were found, just as land archaeologists may do. We cut sections of firm clay across the ship from port to starboard, a distance of 13-15 meters. By so
doing we defined the modern layers of black oily silts at seabed level, followed by the 19th to 17th century layers, consisting of rock-hard, shelly sediments and containing varied objects from wine bottles to clay pipes. It was under this layer that we determined the "Tudor" layers, characterized by smooth, firm, grey clay the texture of cream cheese. These were the fine silts which covered the contents of the Mary Rose soon after she sank, and which had compacted together over the centuries. By late 1980 our diving team and corps of volunteers were down to these prime Tudor levels throughout the ship. We had removed an overburden of the surmounting post-Tudor layers of as much as 3 to 5 meters! Our trenches or work areas became increasingly deeper, which shortened our dive time. (We followed Royal Naval dive tables, which outlined the amount of time one could spend at varying depths. For example, the shallow work areas in 1978 allowed us 96 minutes in a single dive; by May 1982 we were reduced to 46 minutes.) Also by this time I had become a supervisor of the many volunteers who came for short periods; I had also married one of the diving officers, David Burden. (See
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photo.) Through each diving season from March until as late as December we dived from the D.S.V. Sleipner, an old submarine salvage barge which was moored over the site. Our small, permanent team of twenty lived on board this vessel, working in shifts. As one of the four archaeological supervisors, my work area spanned from the bow to midships, some 18 x 15 x 2 to 6 meters. I shared this area with another supervisor, Adrian Barak. The other two supervisors, Chris Dobbs and Jon Adams, worked a similar area, but from midships to stern. Each of these areas was divided into 6 trenches as shown. (See photo 2.) We all supervised our own squads of about 10-15 volunteers a day (in summer), organizing their dive times and places of work, instructing them underwater in airlifting and excavation techniques, as well as drawing and surveying. We interpreted their "finds" and ensured that the divers noted the position of their discoveries with regard to fixed points within the ship. The contents of the ship are important because they represent a nearly complete picture ofTudor life at sea. We know what clothes the men wore for we have recovered many leather jerkins, shoes and boots. We've recovered many of their personal and domestic items including leather flasks and pewter plates, two huge cooking cauldrons from the 'galley' area, and the rope netting of a possible hammock. There are also many pieces of heavy armament - both bronze and iron guns - as well as the lighter hand weapons of the time. The finest artifact of all, of course, is the ship itself. The 1982 archaeological season differed from all those previous explorations because we worked day and night, and side-by-side with the salvage and recovery team. The latter group of divers, my husband included, had all worked as staff divers on t h e site before, but had obtained the necessary further professional training to enable them to do the preparatory work for raising the hull. By this time all the removable internal structure had been dismantled, a total of 33,000 timbers since 1979. All remaining artifacts had also been recovered, totalling approximately 17,000 items. We had spent nearly seven man-years on the seabed since that time. My own special project in that last season was the interpretation and dismantling of the ship's cooking area, or galley. This work entailed the removal of approximately 3,000 bricks, only half of which were still in situ. We now have a fair understanding of the design of the area, the details of which will be published in early 1984 in the archaeological volume for the Mary
Rose. The strategy for the lifting operation involved five
major phases. First, in June 1982 an air-filled, steel, lifting frame measuring 36 x 17 meters and fitted with four 10-meter legs was towed out to the site. Four 6-8 meterdeep holes had been dug outboard of the ship, one on each side of the bow, and one on each side of the stern. These holes marked the "foot positions" for the legs of the frame. The air in the tubes of the lifting frame was pumped out and it was lowered over the ship, resting about 2m above the tops of the timbers. The legs sat in their pre-excavated positions. Phase two involved the installation of wire cables connecting the hull to the lifting frame. While a team of Royal Engineers had been responsible for the frame, our own salvage and recovery team performed all tasks relating to the ship. Working in poor conditions and zero visibility the team drilled approximately 170 holes in the ship for the placement of ring bolts. The bolts clamped together the frames of the ship where the original 16th century iron bolts had disintegrated. All the new bolts were padded both inside and outside the ship. The internal padding posed no problems, but to fit the external pads the salvage team had to tunnel under the ship several times, using water jets to blast the sediments and airlifts to clear them. The tunnels also helped break the suction between the compacted clay and the hull. On completion of this task, steel wires- approximately 130 in all- were then connected from the eyes of the bolts to special attachments on the cross tubes of the lifting frame. These wires and bolts are visible on the photo of the ship rising. Phase three was a crucial stage in the operation. On October 1st the ship was 'jacked up' off the seabed by hydraulic jacks attached to the legs of the lifting frame. Shortly after midnight the Mary Rose made history again, just centimeters off the seabed, yet swinging gently in the tide! Phase four introduced the ship's cradle, a 150-ton steel device prefabricated to the exact contours of the ship based on our archaeological surveys. This cradle was towed out and positioned a few meters away from the port side of the wreck, awaiting the transfer of the ship into the cradle. The transfer was achieved by Tog Mora 100-meter-long crane-barge provided by Howard Doris Marine Services. The crane raised the Mary Rose off the seabed, but there was difficulty in positioning th e legs of the lifting frame into the receiving positions of the cradle; one of the forward legs bent during the process and had to be removed, replaced by heavy wires. The fifth and final phase was the climax of the operation. At 09:03 on October 11th the first timbers of the
SHIP'S BELL, (above) found under the sterncastle, has weathered its submersion well. The insignia at the top of the bell dates it and the Mary Rose to the year 1510.
ARTIFACTS RECOVERED from site (top right) give a fairly complete picture of Tudor life at sea. Shown are some of the leather flasks, ceramic containers and officers' pewter plates from the ship.
IMPRINT OF A SWORD (2nd from top) that fell out of an officer's chest remains in the clay on the sea bottom. The metal has oxidized, leaving behind a residue of tiny black granules.
COLLAPSED CHEST contains longbows (3rd from top) found on the main deck. All told, the divers recovered approximately 130 complete longbows.
ROPE NETTING (right) was wrapped around two logs when discovered. Marine experts theorize that it was probably part of a hammock used by crew members.
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Mary Rose greeted the public and our jubilant diving teams. After one heart-rending hitch of the lifting frame, which fell to within centimeters of the ship, the rest of the program followed smoothly. The ensemble of cradle, ship, and lifting frame were placed on a barge. Later that evening the Mary Rose, cheered by hundreds of well-wishers lining the shore, was towed back home through Portsmouth Harbour to the naval dockyard where she had been built in 1510. This was the third salvage operation performed on the Mary Rose and obviously the only successful one. Venetian divers had attempted to raise the ship on a tidal lift after the battle in 1545, but with no success. In fact, during the excavation we recovered heavy cable from _under the stern which the Venetians probably had slung under the hull. The Mary Rose then lay forgotten until the 19th century when pioneer salvage divers, John and Charles Deane, accidentally found some of the guns from the port side. Although they raised many objects they never managed to expose the wreck in its entirety. Once again the Mary Rose sank into oblivion and was not rediscovered untill967 by Alexander McKee, an amateur diver and historian. The story of the excavation begins then, but is far too long to incorporate here. Meanwhile, work continues on the Mary Rose and its collection, for a mass of material must be properly recorded. There are still problems to ponder about the history of the ship itself. For instance, no one is yet certain as to why the ship sank. Contemporary accounts by the French claim it was their gunfire which caused the tragedy. Fortunately for the British, there was no excavation evidence to substantiate this claim! The main reasons, based on British contemporary records, were probably a combination of handling and judgement errors, an over-confident crew, overloading the ship's complement by more than 200 extra men, and open gunports. But, why is this ship so important? The Mary Rose represented a technical improvement in the development of fighting ships. In 1509, Henry The Eighth embarked on an intensive modernization of the fleet, incorporating an up-to-date range of ordnance with a more stable warship. The Mary Rose was a prototype for this design, which she proved was successful, just one year after launching. Most contemporary illustrations and paintings depict Tudor hulks as fighting platforms, with guns high in the ship and grapnels ready to close with the enemy. They had rounded sterns and heavy overlapping or
'clinker' planking. The Mary Rose incorporated a modified structure with a wider range of armament. The former round stern was replaced with a squaretransomed design, into which two gunports for heavy guns were cut. More guns could be carried at the stern as a result. The clinker hull planking was replaced with flush edge-to-edge or carvel planking, so that gun ports could be cut far down in the hull and still be sealed properly. This innovation obvious! y meant the Mary Rose could carry more and heavier guns, positioned low in the ship for increased stability. It also meant that a wide variety of bronze muzzle-loading and wroughtiron breech-loading guns could be balanced through the waist and fighting castles of the ship. With improved ordnance longer range battles were possible, and the broadside attack really came into its own. Though the Mary Rose was a veteran ship of 35 years in 1545, her age had little to do with her sinking. She was obviously a solidly constructed vessel for the timbers to have survived so well over the centuries. There are still traces of the caulking covering the seams of the ship, and nearly all of the major oak frames are as sturdy as the day they were pegged and bolted together. Our own feeling of the worthiness of this ship was confirmed when the Mary Rose was first being raised. Hanging securely from the lifting frame, she actually floated in the cradle before being raised out of the water altogether. Furthermore, once lifted and free of the sea, water poured out of the gunports until the level was below the openings inside the ship. Not a single drop leaked through the planking, so we had to spend hours pumping out the remaining seawater! The hull is now resting in a drydock at Portsmouth's Naval Base. Its permanent home will be a Tudor Ship Museum, now being erected around the Mary Rose. Work on the ship will continue, meanwhile, as wereinstall the structure that was removed to facilitate the lift off the floor of the sea. While the hull gradually takes shape, the ship is being sprayed continuously with sea water to prevent the wood from drying out. Soon the sprays will be fresh water to begin leaching the salts from the saturated timbers. Later the sprays will incorporate chemicals to treat and preserve the frames. With hard work and a lot of luck, the Mary Rose will be on display to the public beginning in June of this year, given adequate funding. As the Mary Rose Trust is a charitable organization, it has largely depended on industry and personal donations fo~路 support. The British government has contributed small amounts, and
MARY ROSE breaks the surface supported by the cradle underneath. Cradle, ship and lifting frame were subsequently on a barge and towed back to the dockyard in Portsmouth where the ship was built originally in 1510. DRILLED some 170 holes in the ship (below left) to install ring bolts, replacing the original bolts, which had Despite long immersion, the oak beams remained in prime condition.
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DRAWING shows ship before divers dismantled internal structure and removed the artifacts.
Prince Charles has been an admirable benefactor. However, it is one thing to raise a ship, but quite another to conserve it. Fund-raising plays an important role and we are fortunate to have a supporting American-based organization. Those who may be interested in learning more about the Mary Rose, and supporting the project, can contact the Society for the Archaeological Study of the Mary Rose, Inc., 245 Park
Ave., New York, 10167. A lternatively, Trinity alumni can contact me directly through the Mary Rose Trust, Archaeology Department, 48 Warblington Street, Old Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. If any of you are planning a jaunt to Europe this year, I recommend that you stop off in Portsmouth to witness personally this piece of maritime history, a marine-archaeological triumph. â&#x20AC;˘
DIVING CREW meets Prince Charles, who has been a benefactor of the recovery and restoration of the Mary Rose. Crew members (1. tor.) are David Burden, Barrie Andrian Burden, Adrian Barak and Peter Dobbs. Standing behind Prince Charles is former King Constantine of Greece.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Spring Reunion June 9-12, 1983
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Thursday, June 9 - -- - - - -
ll arn- 8 prn
Registration & Room Assignment, Austin Arts Center, Widener Gallery
noon
Welcoming Reception/Luncheon at the Horne of President and Mrs. English (By reservation only)
1:30 prn
Campus Tour conducted by students, starting from the President's horne, following luncheon
3:30- 4:30 prn McCook Auditorium
Lecture: Continuing Educational Opportunities for Older Adults Michael Zoob '58, Vice President, Elderhostel, and J. Ronald Spencer '64, Assoc. Academic Dean An open discussion of adult education with an examination of Elderhostel and Trinity's successful VISTAS Program.
l 0:20-ll :30 am Mini-Course #I: Russia, Past and Present McCook Session #1: Russian History: Through the Eyes of Auditorium the Artist Professor James L. West, History Department Over the last century, Russian political and social history has been close ly mirrored by a creative elite. Thus, Russian art of the 19th and 20th centuries can be utilized by the historian to demonstrate the larger patterns of Russian history. 10:30 arn12:45 prn
Alumni/ae Golf Tournament, tee-off times Rockledge Country Club, 289 S. Main St., W . Hartford, with Golf Coach John Dunham Take New Britain Ave. West to S. Main St.; right on S. Main St . approx. 8/ 10 mile; Club on left
11:30 arn12:30 prn McCook Auditorium
Lecture: Passage to China, Spring 1983 Professor Michael E. Lestz '68, History Department Slides, lecture, and discussion of contemporary Chinese culture, society, and political life.
5 prn
Class of '33 Memorial Service, Chapel
5:30 prn
Half Century Club Reception (Classes '05-'36) Mather Campus Center
6:30 prn
Half Century Club Dinner (Classes '05-'36 ) Mather Campus Center
ll:45 arn12:15 prn
6- 8 prn
Reception/Buffet Supper (Classes '37-'82) Hamlin Dining Hall
Library Tour: A walk through Trinity's expanded facility with Peter J. Knapp '65, Reference Librarian
noon
9 prn
Movie- "Daddy Long Legs" with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, McCook Auditorium
Headquarters Open for Reunion Classes On the Quad
Pub open-Entertainment
noon!:30 prn
Buffet Lunch, Mather Campus Center
9:30 promidnight
l- 5 prn
Children's activities continued
I: 15- 2:25 prn McCook Auditorium
Mini-Course #1: Russia, Past and Present Session #2: The Soviet Union: Expansion, Stability, or Retreat? Professor Samuel D. Kossow '66, History Department A crucial question facing all of us in the next decade concerns the intentions and direction of Soviet policy. What can we learn from history about Soviet motivations and how they may shape Russia's response to the opportunities and perils of the '80s?
1:30- 4 prn
Round Robin Tennis Tournament, College courts
2:30- 4 prn
Trowbridge Memorial Pool open for alurnni/ae and families
2:30- 3:30 prn McCook Auditorium
Reunion Seminar #2: Information Revolution Professor David J. Ahlgren '64, Engineering Department, and Robert Lynn, Manager of IBM Information Syste ms and Communications Group A lecture discussing the impact of computers and communication technology in business and horne.
----Friday, June 10-- -- - - 8- 9:30 am
Breakfast, Mather Campus Center
9 arn- 8 prn
Registration & Room Assignment Austin Arts Center, Widener Gallery
9 am- noon
All-Sports Camp and activities for children Ferris Athletic Center
9 arn- 9:30 prn
Supervised Nursery Childcare for pre-schoolers Funston Hall, Ground Floor Lounge Campus Tour conducted by students, starting from the Chapel and including President's horne
9:15- 10:15 am McCook Auditorium
Reunion Seminar #1: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Woman's Point of View Professor Joan D. Hedrick, History Department Kitchens and Calvinism, dropped stitches and human depravity : A look at the world of Harriet Bee cher Stowe's fiction, with particular reference to the "woman's culture" from which she was writing.
(Friday continued)
(Saturday continued)
3:45- 4:45 pm McCook Auditorium
Lecture: My Four Decades at Trinity: A Personal View and Some History as Well Professor George B. Cooper, History Department, and Secretary of the College One of Trinity's most popular professors looks at Trinity over the past 42 years.
10:45- 11:30 am Austin Arts Center Goodwin Theatre
Trinity: Tradition and Innovation James F. English, Jr., Trinity's 16th President, will discuss the College's plans and prospects for the '80's, and will answer questions from the audience.
11:40 am
Alumni/ae Parade-Assemble on the Long Walk
5- 6 pm McCook Auditorium
Reunion Seminar #3: Fascism, Italian Style Professor Borden W. Painter, Jr. '58, History Department The fascinating story of how some of Benito Mussolini's personal papers ended up at Trinity College.
noon- 12:30 pm Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association: Ferris Athletic Greetings by President James F. English, Jr., and Center Unit A presentation of alumni/ae awards. 12:30 pm
Buffet Luncheon on the Quad
1:30- 4:30 pm
Supervised Nursery/Childcare for pre-schoolers
2- 3 pm McCook Auditorium
Mini Course #2: Life, Death and Nuclear War
6- 8 pm
Children's Cookout and Program on the Quad
6:30pm
Reception/New England Clambake Class tents on the Quad
8- 9 pm
Carillon Concert- Laura Dyson '84
8 pm
Children's Movie McCook Auditorium
9 pm-
midnight
Jazz Concert by "Funky Butt" (Pete Campbell '53) On the Quad
2:30- 4 pm
Round Robin Tennis Tournament continued College courts
9:30pm
Children return to dorms for evening
2:30- 4 pm
Trowbridge Memorial Pool open for alumni/ae and families
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Saturday, June 11 - -- - --
2:30- 4 pm
Reunion Track Meet for alumni/ae, spouses and children
8--9:30 am
Breakfast. Mather Campus Center
9 am- 6:30pm
Registration, Austin Arts Center, Widener Gallery
9- 10 am
Campus Tour conducted by students, starting from the Chapel and including President's home
9 am- 2:30pm
Trip to Mystic Aquarium for children- box lunch Leave from Ferris Athletic Center
9 am- 9:30pm
Supervised Nursery/Childcare for pre-schoolers
9:30-10:30 am McCook Auditorium
Session #1: Blast Effects of Nuclear Weapons
9:30- 10:30 am Life Sciences Center
Reunion Seminar #4: Finance and Investing Professor WardS. Curran '57, George M. Ferris, Professor in Corporation Finance and Investments, and Marshall E. Blume '63, Professor and Chairman of the Finance Dept., University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School A discussion of personal investment decisions in the coming decade and the effect of Reagan Economics on our lives.
Professor RichardT. Lee and Professor W. Miller Brown, Philosophy Department A discussion of the delivery systems, strategic concepts of defense and deterrents, and the prospects of arms limitations, including political and moral questions.
2:30- 4 pm
Alumni/ae Softball Game
3:15- 4:15 pm McCook Auditorium
Lecture: The Power of Patronage/ The Survival of Arts Virginia Fabbri Butera '73, formerly Assistant to the Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Guest Curator, National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery Who are the patrons of the Arts in modern America- government, corporations or individuals? Is American creativity a sound investment? A look at the past, a discussion about the future .
4 pm Chapel
Organ Recital by John Rose, College Organist, utilizing the new jubilee trumpet stop
4:30--5:30 pm McCook Auditorium
College Admissions Donald N. Dietrich, Director of Admissions, will be available to answer questions about the college admissions process today .
Mini-Course #2: Life, Death and Nuclear War Professor Richard T. Lee and Professor W. Miller Brown, Philosophy Department A discussion of the blast effects of nuclear bombs, including the probable medical and psychological consequences, and political and moral questions.
Session # 2: Defense and Deterrents
6 pm
Children's Dinner, Ogilby Hall
6:30pm
Class Receptions and Dinners Individual Class locations to be announced
7- 8:30 pm
Children's Entertainment: Pandemonium Puppets and Magician Barry Moran, Austin Arts Center, Goodwin Theatre
8:30-9 pm
Children return to dorms for evening
9:30 pm- 1 am
Entertainment: Concert by the Trinity student group, "After Dark", followed by dancing Mather Campus Center, Washington Room
----Sunday, June 12 - -- - -- 9 am- noon
Brunch, Mather Campus Center
11 am
Reunion Eucharist and Commemoration of Departed Alumni/ae, Chapel The Rt. Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley '48, Preacher. Coffee, Chapel Garden, following the memorial service
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Campus Notes
DEBORAH J. BERGSTRAND, assistant professor of mathematics, has published "New Uniqueness Proofs for the (5,8,24), (5,6, 12) and Related Steiner Systems" in The Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Vol. 33.
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Vernon D. Roosa Professor of applied science JOSEPH D. BRONZINO was recently elected vice president for technical activities of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. In December, he presented a talk on "Quantification of the Electroencephalogram (EEG)" at the Univer· sity of Connecticut. ~ W. MILLER BROWN, associate professor of philosophy, recently published "Review ofT. Martland, Religion as Art," in Western Human· ities Review.
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11o.. Professor of Fine Arts and Director ,.. of Studio Arts GEORGE CHAPLIN had a one-man exhibition at the Munson Gallery in New Haven, from March6-27. 11o.. EDMOND CHERBONNIER, pro,. fessor of religion, gave a lecture at the American Cathedral in Paris en· titled "Exploding the Myths of Joan of Arc." He recently was a member of a symposium at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York on "Heschel's Concept of Divine Pathos as a Tool for Interpreting the Bible." 11o.. Writer-in-Residence THALIA ,.. CHERONIS-SELZ conducted two seminars on her short stories at Mohegan Community College in Nor· wich. On the basis of her novel, A Wall of Light, she has been accepted as a client by Elaine Markson Literary Agency in New York City.
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WILLIAM L. CHURCHILL, director of public relations, gave a talk on "Special Events Management" at the District I & II Conference of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, held in Kiamesha Lake, NY. ~ Professor of Economics WARD S.
CURRAN has published an article entitled "Inflation and the Discount Rate in Estimating Damages in Torts" in the Connecticut Bar Journal. llo.. JUDY DWORIN, associate profes· ,.. sor of theatre and dance, was elected to the board of directors of the Committee on Research in Dance (CORD), a national organization to encourage and develop research in the dance field.
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Associate Professor of Engineering MARY ANNE EPSTEIN edited a symposium series volume "Nuclea· tion, Growth and Impurity Effec_ts in Crystallization Process Engineering" published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She is also coauthor of "Identification of Batch Crystallization Control Strategies Using Characteristic Curves" with C.-T. Chang, and "Observability and Controllability Considerations in Crystallization Process Design" with Reza Hashemi, both of which appear in this volume. ~
JOHN A. GETTlER, associate pro· fessor of religion, addressed the First Church of Christ Congregational in West Hartford on the "Book of Job" and the "Four Gospels." ~ Professor of Psychology KARL F . HABERLANDT read a paper entitled "Factors Influencing Word Reading Times" at the Psychonomic Society meeting held in Minneapolis. He also published a chapter on "Reader Expectations in Text Comprehen· sion" in Language and Comprehension. CHARLES R. HAMMOND, ~ adjunct professor of astronomy, presented two lectures at the Wethersfield Library on the Wethersfield Meteorites, which fell in April 1971 and November 1982. He also delivered a paper, "The Astronomy of Ancient Egypt," at the Children's Museum in Hartford. ~
Associate Professor of Chemistry JAMES K. HEEREN has been granted U .S. Patent No. 4357146 for his discovery of a synthetic motor fuel. 11o.. RONALD S. JENKINS, director-in,. residence, presented a lecture· performance on "Clowns in Asia & America: A Cross-Cultural Look at Laughter" at the NYU School of Arts. His article, "The Theater of the Deaf," appeared in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine in February.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology NANCY 0. KIRKLAND recently published "Profile of Women in the Society for Neurosciences" in the So· ciety for Neuroscience Newsletter. In December, she lectured on "The Role of the Nucleus Tractus Solitarius in Opiate Analgesia" at the University of Massachusetts department of biopsy· chology. At the Society for Neuroscience in Minneapolis she presented
' 'Women in Neuroscience: Emerging Trends." FRANK G . KIRKPATRICK, asso· ciate professor of religion, has created an adult curriculum for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut on "Nuclear Conflict and the Christian Faith." He was the keynote speaker at the annual John Macmurray Society meeting in Toronto.
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Associat-e Professor of English DIRK KUYK published Threads Cable-strong; William Faulkner's Go Down Moses with Bucknell Univer· sity Press. ~
EUGENE E. LEACH, associate professor of history and director of American studies, published a series of five articles in Current concerning the early history of educational radio. He also addressed a group at the Greater Hartford Community College on "The Science of Svengali: Applied Hypnotism in American Culture, 1890-1930." llo.. Assistant Professor of History ,.. MICHAEL E. LESTZ delivered a paper entitled "Chinese Perceptions ofltalian Fascism" at the Barbieri Center Conference on "Mussolini and Italian Fascism" held at Trinity in October.
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CHARLES W. LINDSEY, assistant professor of economics, has re· cently returned from a two-year leave of absence. In 1980-81, he was a visit· ing associate professor at the School of Economics at the University of the Philippines, where he did research on transnational corporations under a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, and served as a consultant to the Institute of Philippine Culture. During 1981-82, Lindsey was research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, where he con· tinued his work on foreign invest· ments. During his stay in Southeast Asia, Lindsey gave many seminars including one for Indonesian business executives. He published two articles, "Firm Size and Profit Rate in Philippine Manufacturing" in The Journal of Developing Areas 15 (April 1981) and "Lenin's Theory of Imperialism" in Review of Radical Political Economics 14 (Spring 1982), as well as several book reviews. ~
Associate Professor of Modern Languages KENNETH LLOYDJONES accepted an invitation to join Continued on page 34
The Fraternity Debate For the past year the campus has been engaged in a discussion about the role of fraternities and sororities at Trinity, and whether the Col, lege would be a better institution if the Greek,letter societies ceased to exist. In December, the faculty voted to phase out these organizations in three years. Among the students there appears to be no groundswell of opinion to do away with the fraternity system, which provides a good part of undergraduate social life. The future of fraternities and sororities is now in the hands of a trustee committee, scheduled to make recommendations to the entire Board by May 21st. To acquaint the alumni body with the issues at hand, the editors of the Reporter have prepared the following special section on the fraternity debate.
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Faculty Committee Deport Faculty votes phase-out of fraternities in three years. By William L. Churchill
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LAST DECEMBER, at the largest faculty meeting in recent memory, the Trinity faculty approved the following motion: "That the faculty recommend to the President that the fraternity system at Trinity be phased out over the next three years." The tally was 69 to 33 with one abstention. The vote came following a report by a Faculty Committee on the Fraternity System and Its Alternatives that had been deliberating for more than a year. Space limitations in the magazine make it impossible to carry the full Committee Report, a detailed, 24-page document. The Committee's procedures and findings, however, form the basis of the following discussion of the fraternity issue, and key sections of the report to the faculty appear in italics throughout the article. The precipitating event for the faculty review of fraternities was an alleged episode of group sex that took place in the Alpha Chi Rho house in the spring of 198L Now commonly known as the "Crow Incident," this occurrence produced an atmosphere of outrage on campus that led to the appointment of a faculty committee charged to look at the role of fraternities and to study the entire question without prejudice. While the Crow Incident was the trigger, it is fair to say that the gun had been loaded for some time. Ever since the College went coeducational in 1969, there have been periodic discussions about student behavior and how well the institution was meeting the changing needs of the student body. Though the focus of the Committee was on fraternal organizations, its concerns surely reflected an underlying disquietude about student life in general at the College. The fraternity committee was appointed by the faculty conference in the fall of 1981. Members were: Deborah Bergstrand, mathematics; Henry DePhillips, chemistry; George Higgins, psychology; Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, modern languages; Harold Martin, humanities; and Robert Stewart, mathematics; and Henry D'Auria, class of'83. The Committee represented a cross-section of disciplines; average age of the . members was 50; average time in college teaching was 20 years. During its deliberations the Committee met a total of
26 times. lt sat with College administrators, fraternity faculty advisors, with the chairman of the InterFraternity Council (IFC) and other appropriate individuals. It also held open meetings with both faculty and students and gathered data through three separate questionnaires. The Committee also had access to various reports and documents concerning the relationships between the College and the fraternities over the years. Among the questions investigated were: the historic role of fraternities at Trinity, distinctions between fraternity and non-fraternity members, relationships between the College and fraternities, and whether the fraternity system should be changed or replaced. When the Committee began its study there were six fraternities and two sororities at Trinity with an average age of slightly over 100 years. (A seventh fraternity, Delta Phi, was activated in May 1982.) All but one of these groups, Delta Kappa Epsilon, limited membership to either men or women. Though membership records were somewhat sketchy, it was estimated that for 1981-82 there were 201 men (24 percent of enrolled males) and 38 women (5 percent of enrolled females) in fraternities and sororities: a total of239 students or 15 percent of all students enrolled in the College. (For a more detailed look at the history of Greek-letter organizations, see the accompanying article on page 26.)
INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS Over the past twenty years the fraternity system at Trinity has experienced a mixed reception. In the early 1960's, fraternities were at their zenith with as many as 12 houses at one point along with the Brownell Club for independent students. Limited College facilities for feeding and housing students made Trinity substantially dependent on the fraternities for such services. The opening of Mather Hall in 1962 and subsequent dormitory construction made the College much less dependent on the fraternities. In the late sixties and early seventies, the political and social climate of the post-Vietnam period made fraternities less appealing for many undergraduates; by 1975 only six houses had survived. The Administration, for its part, was largely preoccupied with the transition to
coeducation, and the relationship between the houses and the College might best be described as "benign ignorance." In the late seventies, fraternities at Trinity and elsewhere experienced a resurgence and their increased visibility prompted Trinity President Theodore D. Lockwood to ask the Board of Fellows to review the relationships between the College and the fraternities. The Board of Fellows submitted a special report in May 1980, in direct response to the President's request . .. It begged the question of the existence of fraternities at Trinity, listing both as an assumption and as a conclusion that their net value was positive ... it did state that "there is, however, a growing perception in the non-fraternity segment of the community that the fraternities are, in fact, an obstacle to realization of the institutional objectives regarding minorities and women." Further, "the issues of membership, especially of women and minorities, are being avoided by some houses whose present membership does not reflect the makeup of the undergraduate body." The Fellows went on to recommend that future fraternity problems should be resolved through the InterFraternity Council and that the College should adopt a code of fraternity conduct addressing issues such as membership, rushing, hazing, conduct of social affairs, academic standards and regulations covering individuals in fraternities. Subsequently, such a code was established in 1981, clarifying the College's expectations of the Greek-letter organizations and bringing all fraternity properties under the jurisdiction of College regulations. Though the College had strengthened its hand, the Committee found little sign of compliance on the part of the fraternities. There is however, no evidence to date of a changed position, or even of recognition of need to consider a changed
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position on the part of the fraternities. For instance, the Statement (in the Student Handbook) specifically requires an annual report in June from each fraternity. The Committee asked permission to read the reports early in September, 1982, and learned that none had to that date been submitted. For its part, the Committee had d ifficulty eliciting information from the fraternities: only three of the six property-owning houses responded to the questionnaire about their operations. Based on the partial responses, the Committee constructed the following fraternity profile: Fraternities do not house any significant number of students; their board costs are roughly equivalent to on-campus board costs; the physical plants are owned by alumni corporations which support the fraternities as well, some more generously than others. In all three responding houses, beer is available to members at all times; the major activities of fraternities paid for by members are parties. The Committee made particular note of special housing arrangements by which the College granted preferential treatment to Delta Psi in Ogilby Hall and to Alpha Chi Rho in Northam 203. These agreements not only exclude women from these areas, but also result in an inequity between the number of students occupying these spaces and the number assigned to similar spaces elsewhere on campus. Such inequities appear to violate the "comparable quality" section of the Education Amendment of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to the Committee interpretation. Five faculty advisors to fraternities were also interviewed by the Committee. The following items represent a synopsis of their comments: â&#x20AC;˘ In matters of self-governance, the fraternities vary widely. Some are well organized and manage their affairs effectively; some are chaotic. The state of governance is seldom
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the result of the activity of the faculty advisor, sometimes the result of the work of one or more interested alumni, most often the result of internal leadership. â&#x20AC;˘ At present, the fraternities appear to be waiting out the current threat to their existence or structure, as they have done before, on the assumption that the flurry of attention will subside. Most of them are hostile to any kind of radical change in their role. â&#x20AC;˘ Though there is less community-wide cultural concern in fraternities than there was in the "sixties," cultural activity remains a regular part of some closed weekly meetings. â&#x20AC;˘ Three of the fraternities have the local option to become co-educational; three do not. There is no evidence that any of them except the one that is co-educational look with favor on becoming so.
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To study the effect of fraternities on various segments of the student body, the Committee administered oral questionnaires to sample groups of fraternity members, non-fraternity members and freshmen. Responses to the invitations to the interviews were varied: 85 percent of the fraternity sample showed up; 43 percent of the non-fraternity group appeared; only 2 of 49 freshmen responded. Conclusions from these interviews are as follows:
Nearly all fraternity members find fraternity life enjoyable and beneficial; what they claim to value most - close friendships - they believe is richly fostered by fraternities; non-fraternity men and women unanimously declared satisfaction with their independence from affiliation, split about evenly between regarding fraternities as "beneficial" and ''immaterial,'' and were equally divided about single-sex and coeducational fraternities. On only one matter ... did they give a sharp anti-fraternity response: 75 percent of the men and 70 percent of the women said that fraternities condone sexual harassment; the same percentage of women said that fraternities promote such harassment, but only 30 percent of the men thought so. To supplement these interviews, the Committee also met separately with a former Tripod editor, generally recognized as an outspoken critic of fraternities, and with the current president of the IFC, who spoke in favor of the organizations:
The critic argued that fraternities obstruct the important aims of a liberal education - helping students to grow intellectually, to develop creatively, and to learn sensitivity toward other human beings. Those obstructions she listed as: institutionalizing both friendship and rejection and institutionalizing, as well, a value-system and a world-view;
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creating in students a false sense of security; emphasizing a bonding which is neither desirable nor, in a small college, necessary; condoning or encouraging the abuse of alcohol, with resulting burdens on the abuser, friends, dorm-mates and resident advisers; depriving students of the opportunity to develop freely; and promoting sexist attitudes - acutal harassment of women and, more generally, distrust between men and women. The best solution to this undesirable condition, in this critic's view, would be outright abolition of fraternal organizations on campus, though their alteration to two-sex social groups would be ''a step in the right direction.'' The creation of alternatives to present social activities so largely dominated by fraternities would quickly occur if they were abolished, and in the critic's view a further bonus might result in the attraction of a more diversified student body to the College. The fraternity spokesman's argument mirrored in part the responses of fraternity men who had been individually interviewed by the Committee: that fraternities serve the important functions of sponsoring a vigorous social life, that they perform as part of that activity some valuable "cultural" services to the College as a whole, and that- most importantly - they create a sense of brotherhood among members and thereby provide a significant "bridging role" for students at a time in their lives when, since they are subject to many tensions and personal uncertainties, they can profit from a link to tradition and from the development of lifelong associations which reach across age differences. To achieve their purposes, the spokesman continued, fraternities really need both the principle of selectivity and the principle of secrecy because both are essential for the bonding function of brotherhood and neither can work properly if subjected to criteria imposed from outside the fraternity itself. The fraternity spokesman concluded by pointing out that the physical
location of chapter houses and therefore the ready identifiability of fraternity members unfairly subjected them to scrutiny and criticism not imposed on other students, and by indicating that whatever abuses actually do occur can readily be corrected and reduced in frequency by more vigorous action from administrative officers of the College." The Committee also talked with th e Dean of Students, who reported that the principal problem with fraternities was that these groups, on occasion, encouraged undesirable behavior that individuals would not ordinarily undertake on their own. A partial answer to the group disturbances, according to the dean, was
FACULTY RESPONSE
Only 24 percent of the faculty responded to the Committee questionnaire seeking information about facu lty-fraternity interaction and opinions about possible alterations in the fraternity system. W hile 77 percent of the respondents said faculty should be involved in the non-academic life of students, only 36 percent would be willing to serve on a committee to monitor changes in the current system. Fifty-four percent opined that fraternities should be abolished and replaced with another structure. The Committee also sat with Professor Samuel Kassow, a member of the history department and an alumnus of the College. As the individual who made the original motion in the faculty meeting that led to the creation of the Committee, his comments were of particular interest.
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better monitoring of fraternity activity by the Administration, and strengthening of the IFC. He also felt that fraternities should be non-exclusionary, nondiscriminatory and should put more energy into non-social community activities. He supported the fraternities' contention that they have a valuable role in alleviating feelings of insecurity among members by providing a sense of affiliation, but expressed concern about the negative effects on those who are refused membersh ip. Finally, he noted that in periods when the SGA is strong it has been able to provide appealing alternatives to fraternity social life.
In comparison with the years in which he was an undergraduate and a fraternity member (in an all-male college with enough fraternities so that anyone who wanted to join a fraternity could do so), he believes the current situation has seriously deteriorated, primarily because of a failure to change the social structure in the wake of co-education. Social life is now dominated by the minority who belong to fraternities. The future health of the College will require, in addition to a solution OJ the "fraternity problem," a different admissions policy, a changed curriculum and the raising of capital for expansion of living facilities. Dr. Kassow believes that the present problems of the College are compounded by the fact that fraternities made no change in their own structure after co-education. Further, the Trustees should be the agents of change, and the change at this time should be toward: (I) the development of alternative social facilities, (2) alteration in the membership policy of fraternities to admit women, and (3) possibly expansion of the number of fraternities. The ideal is a house system for the entire College. He thinks that abolition of fraternities at this time is neither possible nor desirable. (For another faculty viewpoint, see the article by Professor RichardT. Lee on page 30.)
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COMMITTEE FINDINGS
Having completed its research and compiled theresults of its interviews and questionnaires, the Committee acknowledged that the net result of its "hard look" to that point was somewhat inconclusive.路
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All in all the bulk of both the evidence we have uncovered and of the opinions we have received cannot basically be said to reflect a deeply rooted, all-College concern that the fraternity system is an issue of paramount importance. Whether this is interpreted as an indication of approval, tolerance, apathy, indifference or benign neglect, it is a fact ... Various individuals have strong views, but on balance, the community has not chosen to speak with one, unambiguous or firm voice, either for or against the fraternity system. Despite these indifferent results from its campus surveys, the Committee continued its deliberations with the firm belief that its charge was to make a recommendation in the best interest of the College. The Committee's eventual decision on the fraternity system grew out of basic issues. "First, there has come about a serious gap between the College's public posture and its private positions." Fraternities at Trinity enjoy a privileged status with regard to College regulations, which appear to ensure that the Greek-letter organizations are free to bypass the normal channels of accountability. For example, though the College explicitly condemns discrimination on the basis of sex, fraternities are excused from compliance with this basic principle. Similarly, fraternities are expected to meet certain minimal academic standards, yet the Committee found neither data on the scholastic performance of the organizations nor any plans to gather such information by the Administration. The faculty, for its part, has shown little long-term concern for fraternities despite its mandate to study them; an open meeting on fraternities to which the Committee invited the entire faculty yielded only 12 participants. ''Second . . . the presence of the fraternities has contributed to a measure of delinquency on the institution's part with regard to the provision of social facilities .'' Fraternity parties - large group functions featuring alcohol, loud music and noise - appear to be the institutional model for student social life. The main College social areas- the Pub and Hamlin Hall- encourage the same kinds of activities that tale place at a fraternity party on Saturday night. There are few small, comfortable spaces on campus open to the public and suitable for good conversation, small dinners or tranquil interchanges. In short, the College has come to depend too comfortably on the fraternities for some functions that are more properly the institution's responsibility. ''Third, by their nature the fraternities induce divisiveness within the College community." The Committee found that selection procedures inevitably foster an "us and them" mentality that gives
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unwarranted prestige to those who are "in" and some stigma for those who are "out." Furthermore, the fraternity system perpetuates the idea of success through acceptability, a concept that runs counter to the College's goals of greater diversity among students to eliminate prevailing social and racial stratification. The benefits of fraternity membership, according to the Committee, are overwhelmingly selfrewarding rather than of value to the community as a whole. While acknowledging that there were positive aspects to fraternity life- the escort system, community service, and charitable projects- the Committee still concluded that the system had influence far out of proportion to its size, and that its influence was basically negative. The Committee cited the fact that over the past 20 years the "problems" of fraternities have occupied an inordinate amount of faculty and administrative concern.
~ CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION After roughly a year of study and deliberation, the Committee concluded that Trinity would be a healthier place socially and intellectually if fraternities and sororities were abolished. Without denying the importance of traditions and the satisfactions of fraternity and sorority membership, the Committee found both factors outweighed by considerations of the community at large. Their conclusion to phase out the fraternity system is based on the following judgements:
1. Fundamental changes in the conditions of public and collegial life and, more specifically, in the character of the college population over recent decades have sharply diminished, if not entirely eliminated the utility of fraternities and have rendered the tradition which they represent both irrelevant and anachronistic; in short, no need exists for the continuance of the fraternity system. 2. The fraternity system is inherently divisive and therefore damaging to the social egalitarianism which is the bedrock of democratic polity.
3. Exclusionary practices based primarily or entirely on the principle of private and secret codes and agreements violate the spirit and purposes of an education designed to encourage the habit of open inquiry, the development of critical thinking and the broadening of cultural perspectives. 4. The social function now served by fraternities and sororities can and should be met by a variety of alternative activities open to all who wish to participate. Greater student creativity must be expected, and fostered, in this respect, and more tangible support, from both the Administration and the Faculty, should be forthcoming to encourage the SGA and all other student groups who show initiative in the search for alternatives.
SECONDARY RECOMMENDATION Though the Committee was unanimous in its decision to recommend abolishment of fraternities and sororities, the members recognized that other entities in the decision, i.e. the faculty as a whole or the trustees, might not reach a similar conclusion. With the conviction that the worst outcome would be the preservation of the status quo the Committee therefore added an alternate course of action to its report: - that full membership in all officially recognized organizations be open to all who qualify on the basis of criteria publicly advertised and officially endorsed; - that all officially recognized campus orgnizations be subject to annual (or biennial) review for renewal by a Faculty-Administration-Student Committee, the decision for continuance to be made on the basis of compliance with the regulations of the College and evidence of contribution to the general welfare of the college community; - that agreements now existing between the College and fraternal organizations regarding dormitory facilities be revised (a) to apply a uniform occupancy rate and (b) to open the east end of Ogilby Hall to occupancy on the basis of the college-wide lottery system or whatever system of room assignment may subsequently be devised for the general college population. - that the Administration now undertake to initiate a vigorous program which will encourage students all over the campus to take major responsibility for creating their own varied and flexible patterns of activities; funding to the end, and the provision and maintenance of space in each dormitory and in Mather Hall for small group social activities, should be a priority. â&#x20AC;˘
Since the facu lty vote on the Committee Report, discussion of the future of the fraternity system has been taken up by an ad hoc Trustee Committee, chaired by Karl E. Scheibe '59. Other members of the committee are: Leonard E. Greenberg '48; Emily G. Holcombe '74; Dora R. Lowenstein; William R. Peelle '44; Dr. George W. B. Starkey '39 and the Rt. Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley '48. Board Chairman Edward A. Montgomery '56 and President James F. English, Jr. serve as ex officio members. The Statement of Purpose, issued by the Trustee Committee early in February, appears in the box adjoining this article.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: Ad Hoc T rustee Committee to Study the Fraternity/Sorority System At its initial meeting on Saturday, January 29, the Ad Hoc Committee resolved to undertake its review of the future of the fraternity/ sorority system at Trinity in the context of a general consideration of the quality of undergraduate residential and social life at the College. We conceive our charge to consist not only in developing a recommendation on the future of fraternities and sororities at Trinity, but also in making q. series of suggestions designed to produce and enhance a lasting atmosphere of community purpose and mutual trust. Our Committee considers it to be essential that there be a sense of common purpose and enterprise for the various organizations and institutional entities that constitute the College community. At present, the nature of mutual obligation and accountability that exists between Greek letter societies and the College is not well defined or understood. The Committee takes the faculty recommendation on the fraternity/sorority system to bespeak a serious dissatisfaction with this state of affairs. While the Committee is in no position at present to support or not support the faculty's recommendation, we understand the dissatisfaction expressed by the faculty and take their position with utmost seriousness. We intend in the course of our deliberations to hear a variety of groups representing all of the College's constituencies. We suggest that all individuals or groups who wish to express their views to us do so in writing. Those who wish to meet personally with the Committee should address their request to Dr. Karl E. Scheibe, c/o Elizabeth R. Goldman, Office of the President, Trinity College. We will invite groups or individuals to appear before our Committee as time and circumstances permit. Our objective is to produce for the consideration and action of the Board of Trustees at its meeting on May 21, 1983 a series of recommendations dealing not only with the future of fraternities and sororities, but also on more general matters related to the quality of student residential and social life. We are determined that this effort be nondivisive, constructive, and respectful of the rights of all in the Trinity College community.â&#x20AC;˘
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Then and Now Secret societies have been part of Trinity since 1828. by Roberta Jenckes
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"THE TABLET WAS, of course, eminently correct when it described the fraternity system as a restraining force on the campus. Many of the most pleasant social functions were sponsored by the fraternities. The annual reunion dinners held during Commencement Week were eagerly looked forward to, and fraternity dances were high days in the College's social calendar. And during the rushing season the Freshman ate and drank 'at the expense of his new and strangely enthusiastic friends, until he grew fat and sleek as a lizard.' "But those not selected to membership in the enchanted circle could easily become bitter, and in some instances one not elected to a fraternity could remember the slight for the rest of his life. Many Freshmen must have been amazed at the workings of a system whereby, as the Tablet once described it, 'a man's whole future may depend upon the cut of his coat.' " from The History of Trinity College by Glenn Weaver
A reading of The History of Trinity College offers numerous fascinating glimpses, such as this one from around 1890, into more than 100 years oflife at Trinity. It also gives the reader a sense of history repeating itself. For, time and time again in the reading, it becomes apparent that the College, and the fraternities within the institution, continually experience cyclesgrowth, retrenchment, rebirth, retreat - and seek resolution to the problems evolving within each stage. Fraternities have been a presence at Trinity since the very earliest days of the College, their only precedents as social groups being the literary societies. Most American colleges in the early 19th century had at least one such group, and Trinity's first, the Athenaeum Society, was formed with the encouragement of Bishop Brownell in 1825, just two years after the College was founded. A rival group, the Parthenon Society, was formed in 1827. Membership in these societies was open, and most undergraduates tended to join one or the other. Soon, however, fraternities entered the Trinity scene; the earliest of these, Theta Beta Phi, was in existence at least as early as 1828. Three ~ther secret societiesI.K.A., Phi Kappa, and Black Book- were formed
over the next 14 years. The groups had literary as well as social aims, with some portion of each society meeting set aside for oratory and discussion. The fraternities were not large; Phi Kappa, for example, admitted an average of six students per year in the period 18351859. They were also not undemocratic; in the class of 1851 all but two of the 2 graduates were fraternity members. While the literary societies continued to be a presence at Trinity, during the 1850's student interest began to move more toward the fraternities. Traditionally more successful at cultivating student loyalty, the fraternities also focused on the fulfillment of undergraduates' emotional and social needs, rather than academic. The "literary" aspect of fraternities persisted, however; meetings were educational as well as social, and the fraternities took pride in promoting the academic accomplishments of their members, the numbers elected to class offices, and so forth. While the Civil War had a dampening effect on fraternity membership, the post-war period was a boom time for them. Rushing was conducted with renewed vigor, and fraternities at Trinity established permanent quarters off campus in which to hold their meetings. When Delta Psi had a chapter house built on Summit Street in 1878, the other fraternities soon followed with plans for their own houses. Fraternity men continued to live in the dormitories, however, with members traditionally occupying sections of certain dorms. Meanwhile, the College was in the midst of a growing period; with the arrival of President George W. Smith in 1883, the size of the student body had grown considerably, doubling during the first five years of his administration. As a consequence, a smaller percentage
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of the student body could be admitted into the fraternities, even though two new houses had joined the campus scene. Some discussion ensued in the student newspaper about "cliqueism" on campus. The student newspaper came to the defense of the fraternities, however, pointing out that cliques would develop in any community, and that the fraternities acted as a restraining influence on members through their sponsorship of social activities on campus. Moreover, it could be said that the fraternities were respectful of the rights of the "neutrals" and there was not an existing hierarchy of fraternity membership- i.e., no one house was considered more desirable because of its age or national reputation. And, of course, the fraternities sponsored many social activities on campus. In 1890, Alpha Delta Phi built a house on Vernon Street which had the facilities to feed and house six to eight students. This move was soon duplicated by the other fraternities and was applauded by President Smith because it helped to relieve some of the overcrowding in the dormitories resulting from the increased numbers in the student body. Also at about this time, a controversy which had arisen previously about the allocation of class offices among fraternity members resurfaced. This time the only remaining "local" fraternity at the College, LK.A., failed to have a member elected to a class office, apparently because the four Trinity fraternities with national affiliation had joined forces against I.K.A. It was a bitter quarrel with no satisfactory resolution for LK.A., since the other fraternities insisted the elections had been fair. Fraternity membership overall became a problem early in the 20th century in the same way that it had in the post-Civil War period. The College was growing rapidly but, as the student body grew in size, proportionately fewer men could join fraternities. Also, it was becoming apparent that the frat men came from the ranks of the boarding students, and not the town students. With the inauguration of President Remsen B. Ogilby in 1920 came renewed attention to the old questions of student life and the College's mission. Ogilby believed that Trinity should remain small in order to fulfill its mission of providing students with a broad,
liberal education. He wanted to keep the size of the College at about 250 students, and during the early years of his long tenure, this number did remain fairly constant. The number of day students at this time was about 100. Trinity alumni were not entirely supportive of the notion that the College remain small, and some alumni were concerned that there were not enough of the kinds of students they would like to see at Trinity, such as those who were traditionally fraternity members. Alumni of Delta Psi were the first to take action on this concern, calling a meeting in 1927 to work on the problems of the Trinity chapter - a chapter house in need of repair, falling membership, insufficient funds. The meeting resulted in a specific plan of action to raise funds, recruit students and conduct a study of the fraternity system at Trinity and of the chapter. The conclusions of the study were pessimistic: student morale was found to be low, and the future of the fraternity system questionable, as it was thought that the number of qualified men entering the College was too small to maintain the fraternities. The concerns of the Delta Psi alumni were echoed by other fraternities at the College, and soon all of them joined in an inter-fraternity committee. Ultimately, their recommendations to President Ogilby revolved around the College's regaining its national reputation by limiting the number of Hartford students to 20 percent of the entire student body, and by a more careful screening of the boarding students. The report also called for a more well-rounded athletic program and a modernization of the curriculum. An enrollment of 500 students, 125 of them from Hartford, was set as the ideal size for the College and in 1936 the goal was reached. The years of the thirties, so difficult for the country, were remarkable forT rinity in that other goals to which the IFC committee had alluded in its report were being met. Alumni, assisting the College by recruiting in the better preparatory schools in the East, were able to attract a larger number of these students to Trinity, and all areas of undergraduate life were improving: academic performance, social life, the fraternity system, the athletic program. It was an . exceptional period for the College, a calm before the storm of World War II. The war disrupted the lives of the students, the College and the fraternity system drastically, but the postwar period was another boom time for the fraternities. The College was again entering a growth period, and the fraternities could offer members, beyond the social advantages, room and board. The latter was always a big drawing card as the food offered at the fraternities was judged to be better than that served by the College. Each house had its own cook and took pride in the culinary offerings therein, often inviting faculty and other campus guests in for lunch or dinner. The Brownell Club became an alternative to the fraternities after its founding in 1949 as a social organization sponsoring athletic activities and other events for residential and day students. Although not all nonfraternity members joined the Brownell Club, it was a popular and well-established organization, remembered to have had 75-100 members yearly and a house for social purposes. Another non-fraternity alternative, The
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Independents, was organized in 1956, and provided social activities for all students. The fraternity system flourished at Trinity during the 1950's and 60's, when the College was still all-male and growing rapidly. Enrollment reached 1000 in the 1950's, and at one point there were as many as 12 fraternities in residence. A 1966 Board of Fellows report on the fraternity system noted that membership had increased substantially in relation to the total number of students' eligible to join fratern ities. For the years surveyed in the report, 1957-1966, fraternity membership ranged from 362 to 523, or 51-71% of upperclassmen. The report also noted that in 1957 the fraternities housed 138 students, while in 1966, they housed 66. With the College's rapid expansion, the fraternities' capacity for feeding and housing members became increasingly important, and one for which the College was somewhat dependent on the fraternities, although that dependency was somewhat lessened with the completion of Mather Hall in 1962. The fraternities very much dominated campus life during this period, particularly in terms of social activities and intramural sports, but their existence was accepted and indeed constituted a major aspect of collegiate life for some members. The fraternities were also very formally integrated into the College structure, so that there were strict regulations about the conduct of social events, chaperoning at parties, etc. But even with the 11 or 12 fraternities in residence during this period, there were inevitably students who did not become members, leading to disappointment
and for some the difficult experience of trying to carve out a social life outside of the fraternities . The 1966 Board of Fellows report, noting that, as the student body had grown more residential, the students' and fraternities' interest in one another had increased, recommended that several more fraternities be added in the coming years, in order to accommodate the numbers of students who would like to join. What appeared to be a smoothly running, well-oiled system of collegiate life was to be turned topsy-turvy in the late 1960's, and the fortunes of the fraternity system swung with it. The eleven fraternities of 1970 were reduced to six by 1975. An explanation for the decline seems to be that services and facilities for undergraduates had improved and provided alternatives to fraternity membership. Additionally, major ideological movements of the late 1960's and early 1970's- the anti-Vietnam War, civil rights, student rights, and various political candidates' causes - drew to them many students who would have in other times been active fraternity members. Fraternities became an irrelevancy, losing lustre when compared with the dramatic immediacy of student and national causes. At Trinity, for example, 150 students, or 14 percent of the total enrollment, participated in the muchpublicized 1968 administration building sit-in. Psychologist and educator Dr. Kenneth Keniston, observed after spending a week in residence at Trinity in 1968, that "one major dividing line at the College is the fraternity system ... at Trinity, as at most liberal arts colleges and private universities, the student mood
is such that fraternities are far le~s attractive to undergraduates than they were ten years ago. New student needs have emerged, which are not only social, but in a broad sense political and intellectual." A change in the attitude of students toward the fraternity system could be discerned in a study of the Trinity community done in the academic year 1971-72 by College Counselors Randolph Lee and George Higgins. In response to a question on the most important reason for not joining a fraternity, more than 38 percent of respondents who were non-fraternity members cited disagreement with the essential values of fraternity life. For those survey respondents who were fraternity members, "liking the people" was given as the most important reason for joining. In the late 1960's and early 1970's the attention of administrators at the College was turned toward the transition to a coeducational institution and to other major events of the period. Coeducation and the emergence
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onto the campus scene of women's groups was to have some impact on the fraternities, as did the change in the age of majority in the early 1970's, which made a substantial difference in the availability of alcohol. In 1968, in a revision of its regulations, the College omitted any reference to its authority over fraternities, placing them in the position of off-campus organizations and thereby beyond the jurisdiction of the regulations governing student life on campus. Beyond this change, however, certain understandings have continued to exist between the College and the fraternities: that members would be selected regardless of their race, color, creed, national or ethnic origins; that hazing would not be practiced; and that financial support would not be available from the College to existing organizations or to those establishing chapters at Trinity. During the mid-1970's, fraternities at Trinity and elsewhere experienced a revival of sorts, although the
1895
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current membership
dining room
members living in house
51 men
Yes, 35 on plan
10 29
Alpha Delta Phi
1877
46 men
Yes, 42 on plan
None; no living quarters
Delta Kappa Epsilon
1879
68: 34 men 34 women
Yes, 24 on plan
8
No
None; no house
No
None; no house
Delta Phi
May 1982
Kappa Kappa Gamma
December 1981
9 men
35 women
Pi Kappa Alpha
1953
22 men
Yes, 2
7
Psi Upsilon
1880*
32 men
Yes , 32
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St. Anthony Hall (Delta Psi)
1850
39 men
Yes, 37
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None; no house
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February 1981
39 women
*year in whi ch Beta Beta became a ch apter of Psi Upsilon. Beta Beta, or "Black Book" as it was also known, was founded at Trinity in 1842.
high fraternity memberships of the fifties and sixties have not since been duplicated. From a membership of 523 in 1966, for example, fraternity membership at the College today is at 341, or approximately 20 percent of the student body. While the fraternities themselves have comparable memberships to the chapters of the past, a number of fraternities did not return after exiting the campus scene in the 1960's. Today there are seven fraternities and two sororities at Trinity (see chart accompanying this article), the sororities having been founded in the last two years. The arrival of sororities on campus has been something of a surprise, although a 1968 Board of Fellows report on coeducation, written before the changeover, noted that "it would be impossible to foretell, but that some women might wish to found sororities." It's interesting that approximately twelve years passed from the time the first women arrived on campus to the founding of the first sorority, but the history of the fraternity system at Trinity has been characterized as much by surpri,se as predictability in its cycles. â&#x20AC;˘
BALLOON DERBY, sponsored by Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the 198Z Homecoming, raised funds for Hartford youth and the Juvenile Home.
The History of Trinity CoUege by Glenn Weaver, professor of history, was the prim ary source of information on the fraternities at Trinity through the 1930's. The history of more recent years was gleaned through the recollections of faculty members Gustave Andrian '40 , James Bradley '57, Borden Painter, Jr. '58, and Robert Stewart, and with administrators Thomas Smith '44 and David Winer; and through Board of Fellows reports on the fraternities, on the social life of the undergraduate at Trinity, and on coeducation; and through a study of the community ofT rinity College by the College Counselors.
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Abolition: Two Opinions A faculty member and a student present their views.
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Richard T. Lee
Alexander Banker
FRATERNITIES, AT THEIR BEST, exhibit values much like those found in families. In both one can find support, love, a place of retreat from the world and a certain acceptance that does not have to be earned or even deserved. Fraternities at their worst are more like street gangs,
AFTER SEEING MOVIES such as "Animal House," many people think they have an idea of what fraternities and sororities are all about. At best, they may conjure up images of meaningless secret rituals; at worst, visions of wild parties and general debauchery.
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or families gone bad. One finds in them a lack of commitment to a wider community, suspicion and mistrust of non-members, an acceptance of casual violence and a refusal to consider the possibility of change. The fraternities at Trinity are not at either extreme. Nevertheless, some recent actions by some fraternity members have pushed them, occasionally, pretty close to the street gang model. But even if these actions had not taken place and the fraternities were tolerably good families, there would still be no good reason for them to exist. Keep these facts in mind: Trinity (like virtually every other college) has severely limited human and financial resources for the work it has to do. Therefore, it must be very selective about the activities and programs that it will support or even tolerate, and under what conditions it will do so. Above all, Trinity as an institution has a special role to play in society. To understand this role one must remember that teachers instruct, but the college educates. It is the whole college that presents a model for a way of life. Hence all the components of the college, fraternities included, have to be appraised in terms of that model. If that model were essentially that of a family life, if the college were really trying to conduct itself as a large family enterprise, then "family values" would indeed be paramount. The college would succeed in its special work if it could inculcate the virtues of support, friendship and unearned acceptance. It would have endorsed, and perhaps even achieved, a certain goal of socialization. If this were the role of the college, then fraternities would have a place, and the college could devote time and scarce resources to reforming them and seeing that they were run properly in the future . But socialization is not the proper function of a college, and family virtues are not the reason for its being. A college's proper function is not to socialize its members, but to civilize them. One has to assume that people are properly socialized before they join the college. It must be assumed that the students are adults, even if one has to swallow hard to do it. To do less simply prolongs adolescence- and that is hardly a favor to the students. This does not mean that the college should be hostile or even indifferent to social organizations. What it should say to the students is this: the main task of the college is to perpetuate and extend the virtues of civilized life. You may socialize however you please, except that you must do so under a set of rules that the college judges to be compatible with, and supportive of, its main goal. That goal of the college depends on the fact that it belongs historically to that group of institutionsranging from ancient Greek academies to medieval monasteries to modern museums and even to political parties- whose function has been to turn men toward the civilizing practices of public life, and away from ex-
These stereotypes have been tossed around a lot at Trinity College this year. The debate over the worth of fraternities and sororities, in fact, has reached the point where the faculty has voted to abolish the fraternity system. The issue now rests with the Board ofTrustees. There is much about these organizations that has been overlooked. To many, especially those experiencing that fragile evolution from adolescence to adulthood, institutions such as fraternities and sororities can be very positive. They can help foster meaningful friendships, and give people a unique, truly special opportunity to share ideas and emotions with peers. Those who favor abolishment say that fraternities are divisive, sexist and elitist. I couldn't disagree more. Rather than divide the campus, they help bring it together. Through facilities they own and maintain, fraternities provide most ofT rinity's social life. They sponsor endowed lectures, faculty "fireside chats" and academic scholarships. The perception seems to be that when students join one of these organizations, they cross an invisible line that separates them from the rest of the college. Fraternity and sorority members are, in fact, among the most involved students in campus activities. They no more "leave" the college community when they join a frat than an athlete does when he joins the football team. The fraternity system is involved in such activities as Hartford's Big Brother-Big Sister program and aid for the elderly. It organizes blood drives for the Red Cross, and fund-raisers for multiple sclerosis. The list goes on, but the important point is that the fraternity system provides a structure by which such meaningful activities get accomplished. The accusation of sexism also holds little water. How can the fraternity system be called sexist if it does not discriminate on the basis of sex? Both men and women are welcome as members of the system. . Certainly, individual fraternities and sororities are single-sex and hence "discriminate." But single-sex institutions have as much right to exist as coeducational ones. What is wrong with providing a choice? If single-sex institutions are outdated, as has also been charged, why have the two sororities and one fraternity that have been formed in the past three years chosen to limit their membership to one sex? Why has only one fraternity chosen to go coeducational? The charge of elitism is a little tougher to respond to. Fraternities are elite, for the simple reason that there is just not enough room for everyone who would like to join. If the organizations were forced to accept anyone who expressed a casual desire to join, the benefits of belonging would greatly diminish. During my three years as a member of St. Anthony Hall (Delta Psi), I've seen people evolve from bundles of insecurity into people with self-confidence, direction and a healthy sense of what they can and can't do. I've seen egos felled and egos propped up. Being in a frater-
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elusive satisfaction with family and clan. Family virtues are not what have produced civilization. And, contrary to popular belief, it is not the family that is in danger of collapse today. It is civilization that is threatened by cynicism about public life, suspicion of science and technology and a very deep fear of the future. Families are far older than civilized society, and far less fragile. A college's special role is to act as a model and as an agent of civilized life. Its virtues are those of politics, of science, of artistic expression and, most of all, of reasonableness and clarity of thought. Fraternities are family creatures. They have no essential role to play in the college, even when they function as best they can. If they are strong - and in that strength run contrary to the central life of the college- then they divert student energies away from the very difficult task of preparing for civil life, and of finding one's place in that vastly complex web of belief and practice that is civilization. If they are weak, then they become abusive, and are condemned by simple morality. In either case fraternities as now constituted should be abolished.
nity has been like having 40 best friends who know me as well as I know myself. Sometimes better. My fraternity brothers have provided me with a group-sharing experience which has inculcated love, trust and a real sense of understanding for a diverse group of people. Perhaps the most important aspect of fraternities and sororities lies here, as an important complement to a liberal arts education. My fraternity has not stifled my growth; it has enhanced it. W h ile I would consider the abolishment of fraternities and sororities at Trinity to be an unpardonable suppression of individual and group freedom, I would more deeply regret the prospect that future generations might be dt;:nied what, to me, has been a wonderful experience. Alexander Banker of New York City is a senior American studies major at Trinity College and a member of the St. Anthony Hall fraternity.
These two opinion pieces originally appeared in The Hartford Courant and are reprinted by permission.
RichardT. Lee is professor of philosophy at Trinity College.
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On Other Campuses Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams try different tacks by Kathleen Frederick GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATIONS are part of the history of many formerly all-male, Eastern colleges. To provide perspective on the issue at Trinity, we have examined the situation at three colleges - Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams- schools which have traditions similar to Trinity's and which in recent years have adopted three different approaches to dealing with fraternities on their campuses.
AMHERST: Coeducation There are eight fraternities at Amherst College (down from thirteen in the 1960's), two of which are
nationally affiliated. A n umber of houses lost their national standing several years ago, when the College trustees mandated that the fraternities admit women, after informal pressure for them to do so was not uniformly successful. All of the houses belong to the College, which purchased them in the 1960's, when taxes and upkeep were making it impossible for the fraternities to meet their financial obligations. About 250 students, both men and women, live in the houses, and other students belong as social members. The fraternities are not equipped to serve as eating clubs, and most of Amherst's 1500 students have their meals in a central dining complex. There are no sororities at Amherst. In addition to the eight fraternities, student housing at Amherst consists of five former fraternity houses and sixteen dormitories. Resident counselors reside in each dorm and serve as advisers and activities coordinators for students in their respective areas. First-year students can live in freshmen dorms or with students from all
Chi Psi fraternity at Amherst.
four classes. Fraternities are permitted to rush students in the spring of their freshman year. According to Irwin Nussbaum, assistant dean of students, the frats "absolutely dominate the social life at Amherst," sponsoring most of the parties on campus. Efforts to encourage them to include community service and educational activities in their programming have largely gone unheeded. Their self-governing body, the Interfraternity Council is "very weak," Nussbaum says. He believes that the social dominance of the fraternities is a genuine problem, both for non-members, who feel left out of the system, and for members who would like to see other alternatives on campus. "The faculty has a poor view of the fraternities," he adds. The College has instituted several regulations regarding fraternity practices. Nussbaum believes that College ownership of the properties has given the administration considerable leverage in this regard. In addition to requiring the houses to go coed, Amherst guarantees that any student who goes through rush at four fraternities will be admitted to one. Any member who expresses interest in residing in his fraternity's house is assured of being able to live there for at least one semester. In the event of an incident at one of the fraternities which requires discipline, the campus judicial board has jurisdiction, just as they do elsewhere on campus. There is no student union building on campus, and Nussbaum thinks that the absence of such a facility contributes to the strength of the fraternity system. Whether a student center should be built is a question now under consideration at Amherst.
A number of the buildings are owned by the fraternities while others are the property of the university. There are no sororities at Wesleyan. The fraternities are self-governing, with the president of each house sitting on the Board of House Presidents, to which Michael Young, associate dean of the College and registrar, is advisor. Fraternity rushing still exists, but is rather informal and low-key. In the event of a situation at one of the frats which requires discipline, the Student Judicial System is responsible for determining if action should be taken. According to Edward Shanahan, dean of students at Wesleyan until last fall, "Fraternities fell on hard times about four years ago and since then have regained some ground, largely because of improvement in their behavior." He adds that during that period, many of the houses have been "spruced up," and there has been a decline in the destructive activity and negligence that had resulted in some of the houses being in poor shape. Shanahan says that there have been "occasional rallying calls" to disband fraternities, but no widespread movement to do so. "Fraternities have a fairly significant influence on social life, but they do not dominate campus social life," Young maintains. "The attitude of this campus would not permit that. There are too many other groups," Young says, including student government which is "very strong" at Wesleyan. Shanahan agrees that fraternities are only one of several social alternatives at Wesleyan, and points to a strong residential housing program as another. Residential advisers (all students) live in the dormitories, apartments, and other campus housing units and are responsible for setting up social activities, including parties, lectures, discussion groups and recitals. Funds for these activities were originally provided by the University, but are now made available through student government from the student activities fee. In addition to fraternities, Wesleyan has a number of special interest houses, including language houses, Ecology House, Volunteer Community Service House, Malcolm X House, Jewish House, and Feminist House where students live and organize cultural activities for both the residents and the community. There is no student union building at Wesleyan, though one is now under construction.
WESLEYAN: Laissez,faire At its height in the 1950's the fraternity system at Wesleyan University included twelve national and one local fraternity. Currently Wesleyan has six all-male fraternities with national affiliations and two coed houses, one of which is nationally affiliated. Two of the all-male houses took women for a period, and then returned to single-sex status. About 250 of Wesleyan's 2600 students belong to the eight houses, and about 185 of them live there. Students who are not members can opt to eat their meals at fraternities and this is an important source of additional income for some houses.
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In 1962, the trustees of Williams College voted that the school assume "complete responsibility for providing housing, eating and social accommodations for the entire student body in units owned and operated by the College." Since these functions had traditionally been provided for many students by fifteen , privatelyowned fraternities, the decision marked "the beginning of the end" of the fraternity system at Williams. The trustees' decision followed a six-month study by a committee composed of trustees, faculty, alutnni and students which had unanimously concluded that the fraternity system exercised a disproportionate role in campus life and militated against the educational purposes of the institution. Shortly after the vote, a College committee began work on establishing a new residential h ousing system which was inaugurated in 1963 and which persists, with some modifications, today. Between 1962 and 1968, nine of the fraternities discontinued operations while six chose to carry on as "purely fraternal groups," with their activities limited to chapter meetings. In 1968, the trustees requested that these six groups cease operations upon the graduation of current members. All but one of the fraternity houses were made available to the College; the other became Williamstown Town Hall. Some of the buildings were converted into student housing while others became academic centers or offices. In 1976, the Williams trustees reaffirmed their stand against fraternities in response to intervention by one national fraternity which had re-established ties on campus, and rumors that other secret groups were forming. The fraternity immediately disbanded and, according to Raym-o nd Boyer, director of public information at Williams, "There are no secret fr aternities at Williams and, if one were to surface, it would be dissolved by the College." The fraternities were replaced by a residential housing system for upperclass students. (Freshmen are
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housed together as they were before fraternities left the campus.) In mid-year, freshmen enter a housing lottery and by a "combination of choice and chance" are assigned to a house where they will reside for the next three years. The houses, which vary in architecture and ambience, accommodate forty to fifty students and are coeducational. The house system is the crux of social life at Williams, with houses spo~soring activities solo or in tandem. Students have their meals at one of three central dining rooms. Most of Williams 1950 undergraduates live on campus. Boyer says that the College has indications that "a significant number of students choose to come to Williams because it is known as a place that does not have a fraternity system." He points out that this fact is included in promotional material used by the Admissions Office. He describes the results of the decision to ban fraternities, in terms of alumni support, as "incredibly encouraging," noting that the Alumni Fund increased from $730,000 in 1970 to $1.74 million in 1980, with 62.5 percent participation, at the same time the College was raising $51 million in a capital campaign. â&#x20AC;˘
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the editorial board of The Comparatist, the official journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association. ~
CLYDE D. MCKEE, associate professor of political science, participated in a discussion workshop on "Performance Budgeting in State Government" sponsored by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. ~
Williamstown Town Hall was a former Williams College fraternity house before abolition of Greek-letter societies in 1968.
Associate Professor of Chemistry RALPH 0. MOYER has been elected chairman of the Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society.
11o.. JAMES L. POTTER, associate pro,.- fessor of English, organized and chaired a special session on "Film Criticism and Literary Criticism" at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA). ~ Associate Professor of Physics MARK P. SILVERMAN presented "Light Amplification by Reflection from an Inverted Medium," at the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers' annual meeting. His article, "The Vortex Tube: A Violation of the Second Law?," appeared in European Journal of Physics 3 (1982) Vol. 8. 11o.. JOHN SMITH, visiting artist-in,.- residence, has a sculpture exhi-
bition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield. ~
Artist-in-Residence ELIZABETH L. TRACY has exhibited her work this year at the Munson Gallery in New Haven, at the National Print Invitational at San Bernadino State College, and at the San Jose Museum of Art. One of her works was recently purchased for the permanent collection at the San Jose Museum. DIANA E. YIANNAKIS, assistant
~ professor of political science, had an article appear in the Journal of Politics entitled "House Members' Communication Styles: Newsletters and Press Releases."
WOMEN'S SWIMMING-===:==:==:= The 1982-83 season saw the women swimmers finish as Trinity's most successful team in a winter sports season that was filled with success. Coach Chet McPhee's squad roared through the regular season with an unblemished 10-0 record, the first ever undefeated swimming season at Trinity. In the process, 18 college records fell (leaving only 5 untouched) as the women beat such traditional powers as Southern Connecticut, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Tufts for the first time. Perhaps more impressive than the undefeated season is the fact that seven Trinity women have already qualified for national competition and an eighth is very
VERSATILE SWIMMER Dea Fredrick qualified for the nationals in nine events. She was one of seven Trinity women to compete in the nationals.
close. Whether ultimately seven or eight in number, it will be easily the largest contingent representing Trinity at a national swim meet. Lulu Cass and Laura Couch won All-American honors last year and have a chance of repeating. Transfer Dea Fredrick, a national Division II champion two years ago, has qualified in nfne events, and she will be in contention for the 50-yard freestyle championship. Debbie Cronin, Barbara Brennan, and Virginia Finn all have All-American aspirations as well. Rounding out the Trinity team at the nationals will be diver Mary Ellen Foy with Karen Hubbard
HISTORIC TROWBRIDGE POOL provides the backdrop for the start of this men's race. Trinity swimmers John Anderson and John Peabody are in lanes one and three, respectively.
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SKATING THE PUCK out of danger is sophomore Lou Shipley. Freshman goalie Vince Laurentino helps to sl-ow up the pursuit.
being only a fraction of a second away from the qualifying standard. Concerning the future of the women's program, one would have to say that the prospects look very good. Only two seniors, captain and inspirational leader Anne Ward and Cindy Brierley will be departing. In addition, two-time All-American Martha Belcher should be returning to the team after a year abroad. This, combined with coach McPhee's fast-growing reputation as a recruiter, should make Trinity a New England powerhouse and a possible challenger to unseat Williams as the dominant force in women's swimming.
MEN'S SWIMMING:::::::=:===:===:===:::= The Bantam swimmers started out with a thin team, lost captain Doug Gray (holder of four Trinity individual records) and standout distance swimmer Chris McCarthy, and still ended the season with a winning 6-5 record. Under the circumstances, coach Chet McPhee felt that the season was a success. Five Trinity swimmers - Rex Dyer, Tim Raftis, Chip Lake, John Harrington and Scott Keilty -will compete at the New England meet with Dyer h aving a good shot at coming away with all-New England honors. Keilty, a four-year letterman as a diver, will be greatly missed next year, but most of the rest of the team returns intact. With the continued improvement of young swimmers such as Greg Accetta, Bob Anderson, and Dave Mugford along with a strong freshman class, Coach McPhee feels that the Bantams could be a formidable foe for any of their opponents next year.
On the one hand, this hockey season would have to be considered a disappointment. The Bantams were on the verge of making the E.C.A.C. Division III playoffs but lost two close games down the stretch to Wesleyan and lana. For seniors T. R. Goodman, Mike McCarthy, Ander Wensberg, Glenn Scanlan, Kevin Slattery, Steve Solik and Brian Dorman, it was a tough way to go out despite outstanding personal accomplishments. Captains Goodman and McCarthy were the team's second and fourth leading scorers, respectively. Goodman's 31 points were a career high, while McCarthy's 23 points placed him amongst the leaders of New England defensemen. Wens berg, Scanlan, and Slattery, hard-checking defensemen all, helped to keep th e heat off of goaltender Solik. After taking last year off to concentrate on his studies, Solik returned to the form that made him the team's M.V.P. two years ago. Dorman, a captain for an astounding three years, sat out most of the season with an injury. He made it onto the ice for just one game but was able to make an important contribution in the Bantams' triumphant, season-ending 9-5 win over Connecticut College. On the other hand from the disappointment is the tremendous potential that this year revealed. Aside from the seven seniors, the Trinity team is almost wholly made up offreshmen and sophomores. Freshman wing Vern Mayer led the team in scoring with 32 points and proved himself a strong candidate for Rookie-of-the-Year honors. Classmates Richard Stetson and Tom Sheehy emerged as potent scoring threats in the latter half of the se.ason, and Vince Laurentino sh owed signs of being a top-notch goaltender for the next three years. What's more, Reed
Whitmore and William Slaney, also freshmen, were hurt for much of the year and never got a real chance to display the full capacities of their talents. Sophomores Barney Corning, Michael Sload and Chris Downs also played very well. Granted, the seniors will undoubtedly be missed, but with all the young talent that the Bantams have, head coach John Dunham can hardly wait for next year.
WOMEN'S SQUASH=.::::==:==:==:== The women's squash team continued its tradition of excellence under the tutelage of first-year coach Becky Chase. Finishing the regular season with a 9-3 record, the women netted fifth place at the Howe Cup, the equivalent of a national team championship. The fifth place finish, quite respectable in itself, is made even more impressive when the competition is considered. Trinity is the only small school among the nation's top five, and the Bantams are quite able to hold their own against the likes of Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Penn. Junior Nina Porter leads the Trinity contingent. She is currently the nation's second-ranked player, her only two losses coming at the hands of top-ranked Alicia McConnell of Penn. Sophomore Kat Castle is ranked eighth, and both she and Porter will attempt to repeat their All-American status at the Nationals. Castle and Porter will be joined at the Nationals by Trinity's number three and four players, Laura Higgs and Lea Spruance. Nancy Bogle, the team's only senior, was cited by coach Chase for her outstanding play at number six. According to Chase, Bogle played her best squash ever this year and provided the team with an excellent leader.
MEN'S SQUASH===:===:===:===:===:== The men's squash team finished the regular season with a record of 14-3 and a place among the nation's top five teams. This is even more impressive considering first-year coach David Miller and his team accomplished it all with a squad comprised entirely of freshmen and sophomores. The top three places were handled admirably by sophomores Bill Doyle and Mike Georgy, and freshman]. D. Cregan. Doyle was an All-American last year, and he stands a very good chance of garnering repeat honors at the national tournament this year. The top three players, joined by Sandy Monaghan, Doug Burbank, and Jerome Kapelus, will all compete at the Nationals as the Bantams will be shooting for a high ranking in the six-man team tournament. Highlights of the 1982-83 season included a pair of very close S-4 contests. In the first, Trinity fell to Ivy League power Yale, but came back later in the year to defeat Williams. Both matches were extremely exciting as the outcome came down to a single, final game in each match.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ===:===:===: Near the halfway point in the season, Karen Erlandson's women hoopsters had a 7-4 record and were in the midst of a three-game losing streak.
Prospects for a repeat of last year's NIAC championship did not look good at the time. The Bantams rebounded miraculously, however, and reeled off nine straight victories on their way to a record sixteen victories against only four losses. The win streak was gloriously culminated by a second consecutive NIAC tournament title. Trinity was led by sophomore captain Karen Rodgers. The aggressive point guard, a three-sport star at Trinity (also soccer and lacrosse), led the Bantams in scoring (14.6 PPG) and assists (5.2 APG) and was second in rebounding (6.2 RPG). The team's rebounding leader was Jeanne Monnes (9 .3 RPG) who came along nicely as the center after having sat out last year. She started out slowly but finished with a 10.8 points-pergame scoring average. Also scoring in double figures for th e well-balanced Bantams were junior Karen Orczyk (10.4 PPG) and freshman flash Sheila Andrus (11.4 PPG). Trinity has compiled a record of 31-10 over the past two years and they have done it primarily with young players. Only one senior, valuable third guard Terrie Johnson, will be lost to graduation. Moreover, the Bantams of 1983-84 will welcome back Chris Lofgren, last year's MVP, after a year abroad. In short, Trinity should be nothing less than awesome next year. HIGH-FLYING Sheila Andrus averaged more than 11 points per game as a freshman for Trinity's 16-4 women's basketball team. 37
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The Bantam basketballers finished the season with a fantastic 22-3 record, the most successful hoop season at Trinity since before World War II. During the course of the year, Coach Stan Ogrodnik's charges set a new record for points scored (1995), tied the record for consecutive wins (12), and were invited to E.C.A.C. Division III tournament for the second time in three years. All in all, one would have to say that 1982-83 was a near-complete success, especially when considering that most insiders looked upon this season as a building year at the outset. It was a building year because Trinity had lost four seniors - Carl Rapp, John Meaney, Jim Callahan and Roger Coutu- who had been standouts for four years. To be sure, Trinity had some talent returning with the likes of Dave Wynter, Jim Bates and Tom King, but the freshmen had yet to be seen and senior center Steve Bracken was still an unproven commodity. As it turned o ut, the veteran starters played even better than expected and freshman forward Ken Abere established himself as a strong contender for Rookie-ofthe-Year honors, but it was the emergence of Bracken that was the most pleasant surprise of the year. He proved to be a dominant defensive force in the middle of the Trinity zone as h e blocked an impressive 58 shots in 22 games. In addition, he was the Bantam's top rebounder, pulling down an average of 7. 5 boards a game. One of the most notable features of this year's team was its unselfish, team-oriented style of play. Despite breaking the season scoring record and averaging 79.8 points per game, the top scorer, Jim Bates, had an average of only 13.1 points per game. Two other Bantams, King (12.4) and Abere (12.4), averaged in double figures while Wynter and Bracken scored 9.9 and 9.0 points per game, respectively. Seniors Ron Carroll (3.9) and Pat Sclafani (3.1), junior Kerry Sullivan (3.5), and freshman Bill Pfohl (7 .4) provided ample support from the bench. Trinity will be saddened at the departure of the four seniors. They have been vital cogs in the ongoing success of Bantam basketball. Wynter, in particular, will be long remembered for his crowd-pleasing ballhandling skills and breakaway slam dunks. These seniors were instrumental in bringing to Trinity a 1982-83 season that, despite a disappointing season-ending loss to R.I. C. in the E.C.A.C. finals, was an overwhelming success. And with the return of talented players such as Bates, King and Abere, coach Ogrodnik and his team can look forward to the continuation of that successful trend.
SKI TEAM==:============== This year marked the fourth season of competition for the Trinity Alpine Ski Team. An entirely student run organization, the team competes in weekly meets in the New England Intercollegiate Ski Conference, facing teams from such schools as Brown, Amherst, Boston College, UMass, UConn, Army, and Plymouth State. Top skiers for the men were seniors Glenn Ratcliffe and
Todd Clark, while the women, in their first year of competition, were led down the slopes by T ricia Maxon and Leslie Pennington.
FENCING===::============== The men's fencing team, after a 4-8 regular season, tied for the New England championship on the basis of points but lost the title to Brandeis by two touches. Top men's fencers were Vladimir Dimanshteyn and Dan Schlenoff, both of whom won over 90 percent of their matches. For the women, 8-5 on the year, the top fencers were Cathy Wallert and Mei-wa Cheng. Both teams were captained by Ellery Brown. The fencing team is optimistic that next year will be even better as they have recruited the services of Uriah Jones, a very highly-respected coach.
WRESTLING-===:===:===:===:===:===::::= Fielding a full team for the first time in six years, Trinity's young matmen wrestled to a 1-8 record. Despite the record, however, the season was considered a success by coach Mike Parr. H e was pleased by both the Bantams' full contingent and the fact that nearly MR. EXCITEMENT! Dave Wynter shows one of the many ways that he thrilled Trinity fans over the past four years.
everyone who started the season finished it. Midseason attrition had been a major problem for Darr in recent years. In addition, almost all of the squad members were freshmen and sophomores, making future prospects seem bright indeed. On the mat, Trinity was led by a co-captain and three freshmen. Junior Mike Howe (142lbs.), rebounding from a series of injuries, won three of his last four matches to finish the season with a 4-5 record. in dual meets. Freshman Joe Adam (177 lbs.) h ad the team's best record with a 6-3 mark, followed by classmates Nick Veronis (134lbs.) and Will Thomas (190 lbs.), both of whom posted 4-5 records. Howe and Adam won places for Trinity at the New England tournament, taking fifth and fourth place respectively. Senior co-captain Sean Darby, hurt for most of the season, came back in the final meet and notched a victory. Although unable to compete, Darby provided inspiration and a voice of experience for the young Trinity grapplers.
INDOOR TRACK=========== T earns of both men and women competed for Trinity under coach Jim Foster this winter. Although still a
WOMEN'S SWIMMING (10-0) 84 Brandeis 101 Vassar 37 71 Bowdoin 95 Fairfield 45 88 Bates 69 HolyCross 58 75 Coast Guard 69 S.M.U. 35 75 Amherst 88 Mt. Holyoke 52 70 UHartford 81 Wesleyan 40 89 Wesleyan 90 sese 57 85 Bowdoin 65 Conn. College 42 66 R.I. College 77 Tufts 70 79 Amherst 70 MEN'S SQUASH (14-3) 9 Amherst MEN'S BASKETBALL (22-3) 0 Harvard 109 Newport 55 9 M.l.T. 64 Amherst 58 9 Dartmouth 53 101 Barrington 9 Rochester 109 Curry 64 4 Yale 55 Yale 84 9 Colby 51 Conn. College 50 9 Bowdoin 76 ECSC 48 9 Wesleyan 85 Williams 76 9 Colgate 104 Kings Point 69 8 Stony Brook 103 Worcester State 55 8 Franklin & 73 Wesleyan 47 Marshall 54 Coast Guard 42 9 George 80 Tufts 56 Washington 64 72 W.P.l. 5 Williams 92 M.l.T. 57 0 Princeton 74 Conn. College 47 7 Navy 9 Tufts Composite Varsity Winter Sports Record: 87 wins- 36 losses- 1 tie(. 706 winning percentage)
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club sport, indoor track appears to be a sport on the rise at Trinity. Co-captain Dam Rapini led the team with a first place finish in the shotput at the New England Division III championships. Steve Drew also placed for the Bantams, taking a fourth in the 60-yard high hurdles. Dave Barry, Trinity record holder in the 800 meters, was expected to do quite well but was unable to compete because of an injury. For the women, Elizabeth Amrien followed up an AllAmerican cross country season with an outstanding indoor season. Senior captain Wendy Kershner performed quite well in the high jump. A number of promising young women runners make the prospects for the outdoor season look very good.
BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME Five former Bantam basketball greats were inducted into the Trinity Basketball Hall of Fame in a ceremony held in early December of 1982. Francis Ferrucci, '37, John Barton, '56, Kenneth Lyons, '60, Joseph Hourihan, '66, and the late Donald Overbeck, '67, were cited for both their outstanding play and their contributions to the fine tradition of Bantam basketball. The quintet joins a group of thirteen previously honored with induction into the Hall. 35 ccsc WOMEN'S BASKETBALL 34 Wesleyan (16路4) 43 Babson 30 62 Elms 64 Bridgewater 50 74 Conn. College State 68 Coast Guard 59 65 W.P.I. 67 Mt. Holyoke 43 24 Amherst 82 74 Keene State 62 Clark 52 69 Wellesley 65 Coast Guard 52 ICE HOCKEY (10-11-1) 68 wcsc 71 3 UMass-Boston 54 W.P.I. 66 10 Suffolk 48 ECSC 70 6 N.H. College 69 Conn. College 59 3 Wesleyan 45 65 Wesleyan 6 Conn. College 86 Smith 79 3 Westfield State 64 Williams 55 6 Navy 60 Vassar 57 2 Navy 89 Amherst 51 3 Framingham 59 70 Wesleyan State 60 67 UHartford 8 St. Michael's 60 73 Colby-Sawyer 6 Amherst 66 Smith 52 0 New Haven 0 UConn WOMEN'S SQUASH (9-3) 3 Bentley 0 7 Dartmouth 11 Fairfield 3 UPenn 4 1 S.M.U. 0 7 Vassar 4 Assumption 3 Yale 4 11 Nichols 5 2 Princeton 5 Wesleyan 0 7 Smith 1 Iona 0 7 Bowdoin 3 A. I. C. 0 7 Wesleyan 路 9 Conn. College 0 7 Middlebury 2 5 Williams WRESTLING (1-7) 0 7 Amherst 8 WNEC 0 7 Brown 43 UHartford 8 Amherst MEN'S SWIMMING (6-5) 20 M.l.T. 37 61 Fairfield 6 W.P.l. 62 21 S.M.U. 16 Williams 65 Vassar 43 21 Wesleyan 48 Union 46 9 R.I. College
78 63 57 49 48 67 45 8 3 5(0T) 4 5(0T) 4 6 3 2 5 3 13 5 6 4 10 2 1 7 2 7 5
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Class Notes
Vital Statistics
ENGAGEMENTS
1981-1982 DIANA FURSE and WILLIAM FISKE DIANE NAPERT and DAVID HOWE 1982 ELIZABETH BROOK MESSIER and JOHNW. SCOTT
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1970 DAVID AGERTON and Mallory St. Clair Lawrence, .June 26, 1982 DAVID W. FENTRESS, JR. and Kate M. Sanford, September 11, 1982 1972 ROBERT A. LEGHORN and Dawn Richards, AApril18, 1981
MASTERS 1972 NEIL H. BOBROFF and Maureen Stewart 1973 KENT E. HOWARD and Jane Ann Testa PATTI E . MANTELL and Richard G. Broad
1982 PEGGY JACOBS and Robert J. Koury
WEDDINGS
1974 CAMERON A. THOMPSON and Ann Derry 1975 LINDA J. WYLAND and Charles W. Dronsfield 1976-1978 MARK HARRIS ECKMAN, M.D. and MARGARET A. FREDERICKSON
1940 RICHARD K. MORRIS and Alice Getchell Morgan, May 29, 1982
1977 BOB BROGADIR and Cindy Rose
1957 NATHANIEL ROBBINS and Marilyn Fallo Torrey, August 6, 1982
1978 KENNETH S. GROSSMAN and Ellen Beth Levy KAREN M. KELSEY and David F . Thomas 1980 JEAN LAMBERTSON and Eugene Nowak CHRISTOPHER SLOAN and Amanda Hardy 1980-1981 GRACE HARONIAN TROIANO
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1981 JOHN BRENNAN and Lisa B. Hines TERESA CANNA VACIOLO and Michael Butrymovich SARAH CARTER and VICTOR DUARTE MARYANNE DOBEK and Robert Krajcik
1963 PETER A. GIORGIO and Renita H. Griswold, November 6, 1982 1964 WILSON H. TAYLOR and Barbara B., April10, 1981 RICHARD BROWN and Patricia Campbell, June 19, 1982 1965 DAVID P. HORSTICK and Kay Ann Grabow, April17, 1982 1966 ANTHONY K. BAKER and Carol Oelsner, October 2, 1982 JOE HOURIHAN and Antoinette, December 10, 1982 1969 JAMES JONES and Victoria Messick, February 14, 1982
1973 DAVID HEINLEIN and JoAnn Sondheimer, May 25, 1980 ANTOINETTE L. LEONE and Lucio Ruzzier, December 11, 1982
1974 DEBORAH GOLDREYER and Russell B. Hamlin, September, 1981 GARY F. KINSELLA and Catherine Marston, August, 1982 EDWARD M. LEIGH and Rebecca Kapell, December 18, 1982 WILLIAM M. ORFITELLI and Karen Rae Berry, December 31, 1982 CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT and J. Lindsay Johnston, September 20, 1980 DAVID J . YERKES and Deborah Treichel, August 28, 1982 1974-1977 ISABEL LOCKWOOD BEERS and THOMPSON F. HASKINS, December 4, 1982 1975 JOHN ADAMEC and Cheryl Patricia Jones, April17, 1982 CLARKSON ADDIS III, and Kathleen Fendrich, May 15, 1982 AMY W. BERNARDIN and Mark R. Slomba, November 6, 1982 PATRICK D. CENTANNI and Ellen Essenfeld, August 14, 1982 DEAN HAMMER and Katy Despot, September 18, 1982 CRUGER JOHNSON and Ralph C. Phillips, Apri124, 1982 SHARO 1 J . LASKOWSKI and Joseph F. Jaja, June 5, 1982 1976 ELIZABETH BOLES and Eric Gutterson, December 12, 1982 JOHN P . CLIFFORD and Aelish Sullivan, June 5, 1982
JAMES GASCOIGNE and Christine Cowan , September 18, 1982 STEPHEN NORRIS and Mary Elizabeth Rasfeld, August 7, 1982 ROBERT PURCELL and Robin Randall, June, 1981 STEPHEN J . THOREN and Denise Socolosky, July 31, 1982 WAYNE P. SOKOLOSKY and Virginia L. Savastano, September 18, 1982 1977 NANCY J. BARBER and Kimber Aderman, November 6, 1982 BILL BOND and Elaine Russell, September 11, 1982 ERNEST R. BOURASSA and Judith T. Schofield, September 11, 1982 M. RAMSAY GROSS and John Cromwell Bell IV, October 2, 1982 THOMAS B. LINES and Debbie Millen, August 7, 1982 . GARY ZABEL and Ceres Stephanie Anastas, May 2, 1981 C. ROBERT ZELINGER and Naomi Young,August22, 1982 1978 ARTHUR CHAMPAGNE and Nancy Bierman, June, 1983 ELAINE FLEMING and Brian Remillard, July 31, 1982 KAREN KELSEY and David Thomas, November 20, 1982 PAMELA M. MORTON and John Whipple Barton, June 26, 1982 1978-1980 ALISON CARY and ROBERT T. ALMQUIST, September 13, 1982 1979 EDWARD P. ALMY and Maura Smith, July 10, 1982 DIANNE ROSENTRATER and Stephen G. Grubb, July 3, 1982 1980 JOHN CHANDLER and Pamela Macbean, September 25, 1982 DAVID EDELSO and Nancy Jane Rossman, August 15, 1982 ROBERT S. FERS, JR. and Anne M. Kearns. October 2, 1982 KENNETH P. GORZKOWSKI and Debra M. Brewer, May 22, 1982 JEREMY MORROW and Mary Essig, October9, 1982
1982 JOSEPH ADINOLFI and Judith Ann Popolizio, September 17, 1982 JENNIFER GLEDHILL and Timothy Crowley, September 30, 1982 ELIN KORSGREN and Peter J. Leonard, June 19, 1982 JOHN T. SHIRLEY and Doreen Vezina, July 24, 1982
MASTERS 1979 ANN M. TREGLIA and Richard D. Hess, May 29, 1982
BIRTHS
1955 Mr. and Mrs . Thomas R. Livingston, daughter, Marian, July 18, 1982 1962 Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hoffman, daughter, Alexandra McCollam, January 13, 1983 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Ken Aldrich, daughter, Mary Suzanne, November 16, 1982 1964 Mr. and Mrs. James Ratches, daughter, Zoe Edberg, February 7, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. James Twerdahl, son, Christopher, July 27, 1982 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sturrock, daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, December 2, 1981 1966 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Stavens, son, David Michael, August 1, 1982 Mr. and Mrs . Charles Weston, daughter, Daphne Alice, September 15, 1981 Mr. and Mrs . Brian W. Woodruff, son, Andrew Whitner, December 23, 1982 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Ach, daughter, Rachel Helen, June 8, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. R. Anderson Haynes, son, Morgan Strider, July 9, 1982 Rabbi and Mrs. Andrew Hillman, daughter, Lauren Brooke, May 21, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Keller, daughter, Sandra, September 21, 1981 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morris, Jr. , daughter, Jessie Caldwell, May 13, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. David L. Pollack, son, Richard Jacob, September 30, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Don Reder, son, Benjamin, May 13, 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Wright, son, Colin Michael, August 22, 1982 1970 Mr. and Mrs. William Durkee, son, WilliamV Mr . and Mrs. Richard Hoffman, daughter, Hillary Elizabeth, May 31, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. John A. MacDonald, daughter, Daisy Caroline, September 25, 1982 1971 Mr. and Mrs. David Covey, son, Gregory, August 26, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Greenblatt, daughter, Marcia, January 5, 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Philip T. Griffith, daughter, Julie Winburg, May 26, 1982
Mr. and Mrs. Gwazda (Deborah Endersby), son, Henry Elric, December 19, 1982 Dr. and Mrs. John J . Jehl, son, Scott Michael, August 10, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. John Tyner, daughter, Breton Sarah Tyner-Bryan, August 17, 1982 1971-1974 Mr . and Mrs. Michael L. Downs (Gail Burns), daughter, Courtney Mira, January 11, 1983 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gaines, daughter, Erin Desiree, January 20, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leghorn, son, Zachary James, March 1, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Minard III, daughter, Sara Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mixter, daughter, Whitney, August 8, 1982 Mr. and Mrs . John Orton, daughter, Elizabeth Fleming, May 8, 1982 Mr. and Mrs . Anthony Tranquillo, son, Michael, February 20, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Zachry III, son, "Billy," August 16, 1982 1973 Dr. and Mrs. Alan Dayno, son, Matthew Colin, March 30, 1980, son, Theodore Eric, November 9, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. David Heinlein, daughter, Jennifer Lee, June 11, 1982 Dr . and Mrs. Alan Henson, son, Christopher William, September 12, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Joel Ivers (Susan Brechlin), son, Scott Roger, October 10, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. James Kowalski, daughter, Rebecca Brewer, July 25, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Christian Lindgren, daughter, Elizabeth, September 3, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Saunders, daughter, Elizabeth Martha Wettemann and Jim Powers, son, Alan James Powers, October 6, 1982 1974 Mr. and Mrs. G. Michael Crakes (Deborah MacArthur), sons, Andrew David and Jeffrey Alan, May 12, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Barry M. O'Brien, daughter, Jacqueline Ann, January 9, 1983 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Warfel, daughter, Lindsey Anne, July 11, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Wright, daughter, Brierley Elizabeth, September 24, 1982
1975 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Burkett, son, Scott Leo, August 1, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Conway (Cynthia Rowley), daughter, Sarah Rowley, March 23, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Fisher, son, John (Justin) N. III, September 14, 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Iuliano (Karen Vater), daughter, Kristen Lee, September 17, 1982 Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. Leone, daughter, Lisa Marie, April29, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Levine, daughter, Lisa, June 8, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Jesse J. Morgan III, son, Jesse Johnson IV, November 26, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Rau (Barbara Judd), daughter, Alison Ashley, May 17, 1982 1975-1977 Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Perry (Libby Lancraft), daughter, Julie Anneke, March 26, 1982 1976 Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Dworkin (Linda Cherkas), son, Bension Yisrael, September 23, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hotes (Andrea Silver), son, Todd David, July 7, 1982
1977 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fidao, Jr., daughter, Laura Ann, July 23, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Filer, daughter, Alexis Mackenzie, March 3, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. John Griglun, son, James Robert, September 29, 1982 1977-1982 Mr. and Mrs. David Booth Beers III (Margaret Evans), daughter, Parker Lauren, December 12, 1982 1978 Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Perkins, Jr., son, Justin, May 16, 1982 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Leib Lurie (Barbara MaysLurie), daughter, Ellen Jennifer, August24, 1982
MASTERS 1974 Mr. and Mrs. Leis (Kathryn), daughter, Sarah Whitfield, September 21, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Wolfried Mielert (Anita Lund), son, Jonathan Wolfe, July 28, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. William Provost, son, Erik, October 22, 1980 1977 Mr. and Mrs. Becker (Sandra Hartwell), Charles Hartwell, August 14, 1982 Mr. and Mrs . Dennis Foley-Schain (Karen), son, Brendan Andrew, August 18, 1982 1979 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holland, daughter, Morgan Kirk, May 30, 1982
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Erhardt G. Schmitt 41 Mill Rock Rd. New Haven, CT 06511
I received a most interesting letter from the Director of Financial Aid, Anne M. Zartarian, about the beneficiaries of our "1916 Memorial Scholarship" for 1982. Here it is, in part: " It is my pleasure to notify you that the following students are recipients of the Class of 1916 Memorial Scholarship for 1982-83: Leigh-Ann Wilson '84, Longmeadow, MA Amy Snyder '84, Swampscott, MA Martin Hancock '85, Manchester, CT Frederick Andreoli '85, E. Hartford, CT. Their success at Trinity is tangible evidence that your generosity makes it possible for us to extend financial aid to highly qualified students unable to afford the full cost of a Trinity education. Without support such as yours, we would be severely limited in our ability to assist such students. In the years to come, gifts from private donors and foundations will become increasingly important as the Federal government reduces its role in the financing of higher education. "We are extremely grateful for your ongoing support and continued interest in students at Trinity." One of the girls, and one of the boys, so far, have written me as Class Secretary for 1916, very interesting letters about their activities and studies. Both students are deeply appreciative of "our" (1916) help, and say that they would be unable to continue at Trinity without "our" scholarship fund. I will be glad to forward copies of the letters to you if you let me know. I wish to express my deepest sympathy personally to BOB O'CONNOR in his great trouble due to his lost eyesight. I know you all feel as I do about it, so perhaps you will write him and Mary, who is caring for him so wonderfully. My own Carol is mending slowly from
her right hipbone fracture last April, and I fully expect to have her with me at the next Half-Century Club meeting in May '83. I hope all of you still on your feet will be there. It is certainly worth the effort. My grandson, Robert Schmitt, is now a "midshipman" at Annapolis, and already on the J.V. soccer team. My youngest son, PETER SCHMITT '60, is his father . I hope Trinity plays Navy someday in soccer. What do I do t hen?! That is all for now. Send some news to your old "scribe." Class Agent: James F. English, Jr.
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Melville E. Shulthiess Taunton Hill Rd. Newtown, CT 06470
May 1983 is fast approaching and will be the occasion of the sixty-fifth reunion of the Class of 1918. From what I can gather also the last formally recognized union of the Class by the College. This momentous occasion has given your SECRETARY cause to do a little reminiscing. The spring of 1917, our junior year, was the last our Class spent together. Things were not the same after our country entered World War I. Soon after afternoon classes were over, the bugle of MORT CREHORE '14 called us to drill almost as soon as the baseball, track, and tennis teams had started to practice. Spare time was taken by inquiries into the first officers' training camp at Plattsburg and other branches of the service. As I recall BRAD BOARDMAN was accepted and received a commission. In the fall of 1918 while at Camp Zachary Taylor I saw his name on the list of those who succumbed to the flu and went over to the camp newspaper and wrote an obituary for a fine man I had known from boyhood. The 1919 Ivy issued our senior year by the Class of 1919 showed more of our Class in the service than on the campus and most of the latter were in service by Commencement. All told, degrees were received by members of the Class over a period of four years: one in 1917, several in 1918, others in 1919 by returning servicemen, and several in 1920 by servicemen who had served abroad. It was with deep regret that we learned of the death of JOE BUFFINGTON. Joe had been afflicted by arthritis for several years. It was Joe who initiated our Class Memorial Scholarship Fund at a Class Reunion with a substantial initial contribution. A recent visit to the College office disclosed the fund now has in hand some $89,000 with at least $17,000 additional in promises. If any Class member hasn't cont ributed or would care to make an additional contribution now or through his will the College would welcome such a gift or bequest. In any event, give some thought to attending our Sixty-Fifth. See you there. Class Agent: Louisa Pinney Barber
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Clinton Brill Route 13, Box 227 Tallahassee, FL 32312
HARRY VALENTINE writes that he now has "61/s great-grandchildren." His new address is: 30 Avery Heights, Hartford, CT 06106. Class Agent: Harmon T. Barber
21 "PETE" RANSOM continues to live in Windsor since his retirement from Hamilton Standard. He has no particular news
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to report, but would like to hear from any fellow classmates. Class Agent: Arthur N. Matthews
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James A. Calano 35 White St. Hartford, CT 06114
Doc LUKE CELENTANO is still practicing medicine full time in New Haven. He is also a member of the New Haven Board of Health. IKE NEWELL works as a consultant in Chemical Engineering about two days a week. He winters in Key Colony Beach, FL. He is a consultant to Fisherman's Hospital located in Marathon, FL. I received a Christmas card from STAN MILLER in which he writes he's looking forward to our 60th reunion. If you have any comments on that score, please write us. I wonder where all those fellows acquire their pep! I wish they would let me in on the secret! Class Agent: Sereno B. Gammell
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Walter J. Riley 7 Pequot Trail Westport, CT 06880
Received holiday greetings from Betty and JIM BURR who are spending the winter at Winter Haven, FL. Jim tells me they had a great trip to China and Japan with the American Seniors International Golf team. Spent a week in Peking and a week at Hong Kong where they defeated the Hong Kong Seniors. Then Japan for two weeks' play at Kobe, where they won back the Seniors' trophy from the Japanese team. That's it, for, other than HERB NOBLE's contact as he keeps plugging for the Class participation in the Alumni Fund, I haven't heard anything from or about other class members on which toreport. Class Agent: Herbert J. Noble
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Winthrop H. Segur Park Ridge Apt. 516 1320 Berlin Tpke. Wethersfield, CT 06109
Mother Nature was real good to Trinity's football fans last fall providing excellent weather for our four home games. Your Chairman and SECRETARY enjoyed them from our 50-yard seats provided by the College. A new nattily dressed cheerleaders group added zest to the games. After searching the crowds looking for fellow classmates with no luck, ROGER HARTT and his lady dropped by to say "hello". So at least we saw one. Appreciation is due college radio 89.3 which enabled us to follow the away games during our 5-3 season and third win in a row over those guys down in Middletown. For a change, actually received a couple of interesting bits via U.S. Postal Service! BOB CONDIT writes that he still laments the loss of STAN BELL- his close friend and old AD buddy. Stan's widow, Ginny, writes that she is gradually adjusting after 52 years of marriage and may leave Rochester to go to Mt. Desert Island, Maine to be near her two daughters and their families. I'm sure we all wish her the very best in years to come. Class Agent: The Rev. Robert Y. Condit
29 MORRIS CUTLER writes of two family anniversaries. His daughter, Joyce, and
her husband celebrated their 20th anni路 versary and son Bill's daughter has been married three years. HANK FAIRCHILD reports that he is having a "wonderful time" since retirement. He enjoys golf, wood carving, pool and bridge. Class Agent: Morris J . Cutler, Esq.
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The Rev. Canon Francis Belden 411 Griffin Rd . South Windsor, CT 06074
HARRY WISE writes that he has retired from law practice. Class Agent: J. Ronald Regnier, Esq.
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Julius Smith, D.M.D. 242 Trumbull St. Hartford, CT 06103
"ROPE" SLATER sent a note that last year he had a get-together with CHIC MILLER, AL BREED, GEORGE MACKIE '31, and RALPH SLATER '35- all retired and living in Florida. The GRAINGERS keep in touch - all is well in Readsboro, VT. SPARKY ADAMS sent a note and WARREN DACEY opts for Dixieland Bands at Spring Reunions. CUSHMAN REYNOLDS has moved to 7415 Oak Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Class Agent: Richard C. Meloy
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Church of Waterbury. We of '34 seem to keep our fingers near but not in the till in an eleemosynary way. ANDY ONDERDONK also is Treasurer of the Trinity Church in Hartford . Had a nice visit with IKE ZLOCHIVER at a nearby convalescent home with fond memories of many chemistry classes together fifty years ago! Class Agent: John E. Kelly
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Albert W. Baskerville RD u7, Birchwood Dr. Derry, NH 03038
Hi, ho everyone! First a brief report on Homecoming. Saw a lot of friends but few from '35. Spotted SHED MCCOOK from a distance and enjoyed a leisurely chat with OLLIE JOHNSON. Ollie has had a couple of physical setbacks but is coming along and looks and acts well. Had a pleasant reunion with HARRY OLSON and lovely helpmate, Linnea. Meandering about at post-game cocktail party, ended with a technical discussion with JOHN ZIETLOW relative to an income tax question (your SECRETARY'S vast knowledge is derived from (1) preparing annual personal return, (2) working for IRS in personnel for about ten years, and (3) having a daughter and son-in-law currently working in IRS Appeals - and not with me. Thus I'm sure that I was a great help to John.) By the way John, "Good luck." GEORGE WALKER writes that he re-
grets the demise of the New London alumni group and would like to help revive it. . Your SECRETARY was at the Wesleyan game in frigid weather, but saw a most satisfying game. Trin's third straight win over Wesleyan. Saw many friends, but none from '35. BOB LAD's Christmas card enclosed a clipping from the Trenton Times with a picture of Hopewell , NJ Mayor BILL WALKER signing documents for American Education Week . Learned from a high school classmate that BOB FIELD while on a vacation in Florida with wife, Fannie, had visited him. A letter from HARRY OLSON with a generous check for the Warner Scholarship Fund also included the news that his daughter, Marilyn, was married last May to the Rev . Mark M. Beckwith of Morris路 town, NJ . I also received a letter from the Director of Financial Aid advising that Carol Baatz '83 of West Springfield, MA is again the recipient of the Class of 1935 Memorial William H. Warner Scholarship Fund for 1982-83. Your Secretary vainly wishes that his appeals for gifts for that fund were clear and poignant enough to boast even a modest success. With the small number the Class of '35 is not doing well. Our thanks to contributors TOM CONVEY '32, CLIFFORD NELSON and Dr. MICKEY KOBROSKY both of '37. Class Agent: Dr. Orson H. Hart
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33 GEORGE LACOSKE has been chosen by Mayor Dominello of Meriden to serve on the city's Heritage and Cultural Commission. Have you circled the dates of June 9-12 on your calendar? Those are the dates for our big 50th Reunion. The outstanding Half Century Club dinner honoring our class will be held on Thursday, June 9, and our class dinner will be held Saturday, June 11, at the home of President English . Be sure to make your reservation early we're looking for a big turnout from the Class of '33. Class Agent: Thomas S. Wadlow
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Charles A. Tucker 7 Wintergreen Lane West Hartford, CT 06117
At homecoming we saw Helen and CHUCK KINGSTON, JOHN KELLY, Edna and ARDEN SHAW, Irene and GUS UHLIG. Gus reported having lunch from time to time with BOB DAUT, BILL JACKSON, BOB SCHULTZ, IKE EIGENBAUER '35, BOB LAU '35, and I.H . (Sis) SAMPERS '35 - quite a noteworthy Trinity group. FRANK ROSTEK, one of our younger classmates, split and sawed about seven cords of wood last winter. Sure beats a health club. BILL HAR路 ING keeps very busy and among other activities is vice president of the Sea Pines Property Owners Association - a timeconsuming job. Betty Haring has recovered nicely from a recent set-to for which we are all grateful. Bill reports a delightful visit with Phyllis Mason and the Tuckers can report the same with enthusiasm. BEN SHENKER is Director of School Health in Middletown, which is his idea of retirement! CHARLIE SUTHERLAND reports a lawyer and a doctor as sons and though he is retired, is Secretary of the Kiwanis Club of Waterbury and Treasurer of the First Congregational
Endow? How?
Trin ity's en dowment is t he sum of many gifts, large and sm alL Frequently th ese gifts com e fro m the estates of alumni and other friends of the College. The do no rs, responsible and generous men and women, found great satisfaction in helping T rinity. A re you like them? Here are fo ur ways to plan now, and be remembered as a benefactor of your College. With a bequest in yo ur W ill. With a Life Income Plan. Wit h existi ng life insurance, real estate or other property you no longer need . W ith a new life insurance policy th at "creates an estate." For further information contact Alfred C. Burfeind '64, Associate Director of Development , (203) 5273151, ext. 236.
Headliner Robert D. O'Malley '38 has invented a device, the "Splitter's Aid," which relieves some of the drudgery ordinarily associated with wood splitting. The Holyoke, MA surgeon has also co-authored the book, Ski at any Age, and is an active hiker, swimmer, white-water canoer, H obie Cat sailor- and, of course, woodsplitter and skier.
36 BILL WINSHIP writes that he has re· tired from the Connecticut Labor Department. SAL PIACENTE is still practicing internal medicine on Asylum Street in Hartford . He is the senior physician in the medical department at St. Francis Hospital. Class Agent: Albert M. Dexter, Jr.
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L. Barton Wilson 31 Woodland St. Hartford, CT 06105
Your SECRETARY was y.our secretary a long time ago. So long ago, in fact, that even the Alumni Office has no record of when. If memory serves. GEORGE LEpAK followed and then, of course, there was BOB KELLEY who took over in 1962. For 20 years Bob reported the news of '37 with devotion and diligence and deserves the four-star award for his efforts. CLYDE CARTER, living in Santa Rosa, CA, reports he was ordained an elder in the Presbyterian Church of the Roses and elected president of the corporation and chairman of the finance committee. Class Agent: William G. Hull
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James M.F. Weir 27 Brook Rd. Woodbridge, CT 06525
A note from PRES BLAKE now retired from his Friendly Ice Cream Corp., and busy putting the finishing touches to a large addition he has built to his Longmeadow Shops. Some of the grandfathers have surfaced with this column. First from NOZZlE DIBATTISTA in Norwich who recently retired from his interior decorating business and sent us news of two grandchildren with whom he spends much time. PETE PETERSON enjoyed a banner year in 1982 with two new grandsons arriving to brighten the scene. Peter has two granddaughters in addition to the newly-born members of his family . We received word from ART SHERMAN that he is planning to "slow up not slow down" by stepping down as Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Lancaster, P A. Art, recovered from a bypass operation in May, felt that it was time to ease up a bit from a ministry which has often involved long days and strenuous activity in the work of his parish. Art, who was created an honorary canon of his diocese in 1978, is one of the founders of the School of Christian Stud ies and will continue to serve as dean of the school, leaving some time to travel, visit his children and endeavor to improve his golf game.
Keep your letters and cards coming. This is your reunion year and in six months we will all be gathering again at Trinity. Class Agent: Dr. Joseph G. Astman
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Edward C. Barrett 52 Sowams Rd. Barrington, RI 02806
Spotted on campus on Homecoming Day to cheer Trin on in its yearly battle with Amherst were JACK WILCOX, MIKE BASSFORD, VIC HAMILTON, and EDDIE MORRIS. FREDDIE HAIGHT continues to enjoy his retirement at Chestnut Hill in Litchfield, CT 06759. A note from MIKE BASSFORD, our Class Agent, tells me that the Class of '39 greatly improved its image and its participation in the Alumni Fund last year, and he is confident that we will do even better this year. Let's not let him down. Have you sent in your check yet? Class Agent: Ethan F. Bassford
40 ARVID ENGEL writes that he has been retired from the Aetna. DICK MORRIS , a Trinity professor of education, emeritus, reports that he spent two periods of the summer in J onesport, Maine where he enjoyed boating off .the coast. He was invited by the Royal Navy to England in the spring of '83 for the dedication of the raised RN -1, a Holland boat. Dick is biographer of John F. Holland, inventor of the submarine. BERN SOLYN retired from the Veterans Administration in May, 1982. DUNC YETMAN notes that his daughter, Charlotte, was resident scenic designer at Summerstage at Trinity. She designed sets for Otherwise Engaged and Gin Game. She is now at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as assistant scene designer. Class Agent: Walter E. Borin
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Frank A. Kelly, Jr. 21 Forest Dr. Newington , CT 06111
SETH HOLCOMBE reports that he is busy in civic affairs in the town of Granby, being active in the Republican Party and serving on the Zoning Board of Appeals. STAN ENO has been reclaiming part of his patriotic heritage, having been recently accepted as a member of the Gen. Daniel Humphrey Post No. 1 - Sons of the American Revolution and the Admiral Foote Camp No . 7 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. In the academic field he was elected to a third term on the All-College Senate, from Quinnipiac College. TED KNUREK recently enjoyed his
200th victory as a high school football coach, when Penney High School (Ea:St Hartford) defeated Simsbury, 24-6. Ted has also coached at Weaver High (Hartford) and Plainville High. It should be noted that when he came to Penney the team had won only one of its last 30 games. Among the mentors whom Ted credits for his success were Trinity's Dan Jessee, Ray Oosting and Ralph Erickson. Over more than four decades he still remembers a memorable chewing out from J essee when he made the mistake of looking over his shoulder during a goal line run in scrimmage. Ted looks back with satisfaction on his career. But he wishes today's scholastic coaches were a little more dedicated. "If you're not in love with coaching, you don't belong in it," says Ted. Class Agent: John T. Carpenter
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John L. Bonee 50 State St. Hartford, CT 06103
SAL CA RRABBA, one of Hartford's leading obstetrician-gynecologists, writes that his son, Angelo, joined him in his practice this past fall and that his son, Andrew, is in OB-Gyn residency at Rugters University in New Jersey. DREW BRINCKERHOFF phoned your SECRETARY recently from his CBS Ivory Tower in the heart of Manhattan to learn about our forthcoming 40th Reunion which he is planning to attend. Drew reports all is well with him, Barbara, and all the family. AL EULIANO, a teacher in the Hartford Education System at the Burns School, reports that he has been selected for the second year in succession as a consultant for the Connecticut Board of Education in the holistic assessment of 9th and lOth grade writing samples in conjunction with the statewide Basic Skills proficiency test which is administered yearly. Congratulations to AI. SAM CORLISS and your SECRETARY had a long visit at the Austin Arts Center cocktail party after the Amherst game at Homecoming, along with his wife Lorraine. Sam looks fine, much the same as he did when he was in residence at 114 Vernon Street.
44 LOCKWOOD DOTY II has been named executive vice president of Washington Broadcast News, Inc. He assumes this position with an extensive background in network news at the Mutual Broadcasting System and, prior to that, at NBC News. He has also had his own public relations and advertising firm. RICHARD HASTINGS, JR. is retiring as group vice president, hand tools, at the Stanley Works in New Britain. He began his career at Stanley in 1946. WILLIAM R. PEELLE has been elected to the Board of Directors of WPM, Inc. in Waterbury. In addition, former Gov. John Dempsey has announced the appointment of the Pace Consulting Group as fund-raising counsel for the Nautilus Memorial project in Groton. Bill will be heading the effort for Pace. Bill also serves on Trinity's Board of Trustees. JAMES STEVENSON recently retired from Emhart, although he will be working for them on a consultant basis. He has added three daughters-in-law to his family of four sons. He is also the proud grandfather offive. He reports that he is still re-
storing a house built in 1810, which he bought five years ago . Class Agent: William B. Starkey
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WILLIAM BLANCHFIELD sends word that twin granddaughters were born F ebruary 19, 1981 to daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Carpenter of West Hartford . Class Agent: Andrew W. Milligan
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J . William Vincent 80 Newport Ave. West Hartford, CT 06107
CHARLES HAZEN has been named assistant secretary and director of individual life and health underwriting at The Hartford Insurance Group. RICHARD KELLY retired from the City of Hartford where he was director of adult education. He now resides in Port St. Lucie, Florida at 1924 S.E. Felton Avenue. LEO ROSEN writes that his son, Matthew, has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology; daughter, Edith, was admitted to the bar in Georgia and Connecticut; and son, Bernard, is a senior at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Leo's wife, Jean, passed away in April, 1982. Class Agents: Charles S. Hazen Siegbert Kaufmann
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Paul J . Kingston Barbourtown Rd., RFD #1 Collinsville, CT 06022
BILL THOMSEN reports a "super year - enjoyed the children, grandchildren golf, fishing - and most of all, my wife, Joan." WILLIAM FLYNN has retired from his position as a salesman in Bethlehem Steel Corporation's New York sales offi ce. Class Agent: Merritt Johnquest
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Rt. Rev. E. Otis Charles 1349 3rd Ave. Salt Lake City, UT 84103
A November Hartford Courant article describes the success of Coleco Industries, Inc., of which LEONARD GREENBERG is chairman . Coleco, which manufactures home video game systems, saw its stock price increase 150 percent since August. MELVIN GREENBERG is an executive vice president with Colfax Industries, Inc. in Clifton, NJ . TREVOR LEWIS-JONES is now manager of publications and technical programs for his company. He reports the birth of a grandson, Michael S. LewisJones on May 12, 1982. BILL MINTURN writes about his August run around the Wonderland Trail on Mount Rainier. The distance is 93 miles and completely encircles Mount Rainier. Bill ran the trail in three days! An account of this adventure appears in The Road Racer, November, 1982. WALTER NEFF is the head of the math department at Rockville High School. His grandson, Hans, is now four years old. "MUN" PROC'fOR is "looking forward to observing yet another daughter's progress through Trinity (Ann '85)." His daughter, SUSAN '80, is now in graduate school studying biochemistry. Class Agent: HowardM. Werner, Esq.
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Headliner Joseph A. DeGrandi '49 received the Distinguished Alumnus Award at the Founders Day banquet of the George Washington University Law School. DeGrandi has held leadership positions in the Patent Section of the American Bar Association, the American Patent Law Association and the District of Columbia Bar. In addition, he has served as a presidential advisor, and on the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
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DAVID AUSTIN writes that the merger of CG and INA has resulted in his move to Philadelphia. He still retains his "old colonial home in rural Connecticut and commutes weekends." Canon ALLEN F. BRAY received an honorary D.D. from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Kentucky in May. He became the rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd of the Hills in Cave CreekCarefree, AZ in October. DAVID MAHONEY, JR. writes that two of his daughters were married this spring, and that a new granddaughter, Catherine, joined the family in July. His two homes are in Old Saybrook and Boynton Beach, FL. ROBERT SERNOFFSKY retired from the Hartford School System in June, 1981, where he had been a vice principal. He writes that he has five grandchildren and enjoys summers in Westbrook. Class Agent: Joseph A. DeGrandi, Esq.
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Robert Tansill 270 White Oak Ridge Rd. Short Hills, NJ 07078
A number of our class made it back for the Homecoming game - SCOTT BILLYOU, TIM EVERETT, HARRY KNAPP, FRANK SHERMAN, GUS STEW ART, R. BLUM, DAVE HADLOW, and DICK AVITABILE. GUS STEWART lives in Fitchburg, MA and is assistant director at the Center for Brain Injured Children. DICK AVITABILE came all the way from his home in Midland, MI where he works for Dow Chemical. He has two daughters at St. Mary's College in South Bend, IN and an 11 year old son. RALPH KESTENBAUM is a resident of Lausanne, Switzerland. He spends four days a week in London and is with Gerald Metals S.A. He was appointed to the British Delegation of the UNCTAD Conference (United Nations Commission for Trade and Development) in Geneva. Ralph spoke at a worldwide conference on aluminum in Monaco in September. His oldest son graduated from the London School of Economics and his second son is attending the University of London. His daughter finished University, got married and is working at the Royal Academy. His youngest son, 7, attends school in New York. FRED DICK sends word he is retired and lives in St. Petersburg, FL. ANDREW DELUCA retired from Pro-
52 ducts Design and Manufacturing Co. where he was purchasing and general manager and lives in Wethersfield. His son lives in Chicago and daughter in North Haven. Andy and wife travel and he advises he plans more golf. Better? He doesn't say. He enjoys wood carving and has taken educational courses. DAN LOHNES writes from Miami, FL that he teaches history at RansomEverglades School. I. CROMWELL and wife stopped by for a visit this past summer. JUSTIN MACCARONE is teaching English at Henry James Jr. H.S. in Simsbury. He moved from guidance counseling into the classroom. WENDELL STEPHENSON was in Athens, Greece in August for 10 days for the International Kidney Transplant Olympics for which he served in a staff capacity , representing the Kidney Foundation. ALLAN ZENOWITZ of Washington, D.C. has been named chief on the National Defense Executive Reserve . He will oversee the activities of 10,000 senior NDER members in 15 agencies and departments. SCOTT BILLYOU of Hartford is our new class agent. DAVID HAD LOW writes that he returned last July from Singapore after many years of overseas assignments. He has recently been elected group vice president of the Builders Products Division of Stanley Works in New Britain. BEN TORREY reports that all of his children are out of college and working. He expects the birth of his first grandchild. Class Agent: F. Scott Billyou
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We heard from my "old" fraternity brother and roommate, GRANT MCINTOSH, that he recently moved to a new address in Cooper City, FL and has a new job as general manager of Electro-Med Health Industries of Miami, FL. Mac has been retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Lt. Colonel since 1970. He also reports having five grandchildren. DR. JACK BOMBERGER, Episcopal Academy and Trinity classmate, wrote to tell us that he has moved to an apartment in Drexel Hill, P A and is still active in pediatrics, being chief of service in pediatrics at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill. BILL BUTLER recently moved his law office, Butler and Gersten, from downtown Hartford to 254 Prospect Ave. Rev. BOB DOING writes from Lehigh
Douglas C. Lee P.O. Box 5321 Modesto, CA 95352
One of my New Year's Resolutions is to try to write a better Class Notes for 1983. By making a few New Year's Resolutions yourself you could help make my job a lot easier and make this a more interesting write-up . First, please write legibly. I'm sure you're busy, but often the copies of the cards which you return to the College (that's what I get) are extremely difficult to decipher and translate. Contrary to a popular misconception, the M.D.s in our class are not the worst offenders. Second, try to send something along at least once a year. Births, deaths, marriages, divorces, new jobs, promotions, or moving from Connecticut to Madagascar are not the only newsworthy items. What's the most interesting thing you did in the past 12 months? What did you do on vacation? Did you get back to Trinity at any time during the year? What was your impression of the College today versus when we attended? Have you visited with any classmates, and if so, what news might you have to pass along? With that I'll put my soapbox away for at least another year. DAVE HATFIELD writes from Hyden, KY where he's just taken on the job of Director of Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., associated with the Mary Breckenridge Hospital in Hyden. Frontier Nursing Service serves persons in the middle of the Daniel Boone National Forest, including 5 outreach clinics in three counties, as well as a a school of nurse practitioners and midwifery. Considering the location (about 100 miles southeast of Lexington, and within spitting distance of Cumberland Gap) Dave's probably keeping an eagle eye out for any McCoys in the neighborhood. Good luck on the new job, Dave, and we hope you continue to be a straight shooter. DO 1 SCHLIER has moved to 7112 Edgefield Ct. , Matthews, NC 28110, where he is a quality control analyst with Kemper Insurance Co. Also in the insurance business, FRANK STONE, agency owner of Money Savings Ideas and Associates of West Hartford, reports that he is expanding into 5 new states. He also won a skiing trip to Colorado, and reports the birth of his first grandchild, Blake Whitfield, born on the 31st of May, 1982. Also in the new arrivals-to-be, JOE FESTA writes that he expects to become a grandfather in January of 1983 (plus or minus ... whatever that means, Joe). Joe is vice-president and general manager of Nustone Industries in North Haven, and is living in Cheshire. BOB GIRARD reports he's recently moved, and is now living in Farmington, CT 06032 at 24 Lakeshore Drive. Apt. B-1. Bob is managing the State of Connecticut's Workmen's Compensation Division, which is connected with the Attorney General's Office. He also reports his first grandchild, Brian Kilrain, who was presented with due fanfare v and excitement on December 5, 1981 by his daughter, Ann Kilrain . Class Agent: William M. Vi bert
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WIN FAULKNER had a feature article in the New York Times during August concerning how he converted a carriage 'house into a pool house in Washington. He also added a 10 x 50 foot pool 6 feet deep using a glass and metal greenhouse structure. DONALD BURNS, M.D. has moved to Wyomissing, PA where he continues his medical practice. RAY BRETO writes he has a new job working for General Instrument as Director, Advanced Development in Westwood, MA. WIN FAULKNER and your SECRETARY will be co-chairing our 30th reunion on Thursday, June 9th to Sunday, June 12th. We need committee members so write or call us. Class Agent: Elliott H. Valentine
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Theodore T. Tansi Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co. 1 American Row Hartford, CT 06103
ROBERT D'ABATE writes that his son, Glen, is enjoying his senior year at Trinity where he is president of the Outing Club. FRED MACCOLL is the founder of the Eastern College Hockey Newsletter. MICHAEL MORPHY will serve as a Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee commissioner for 1984 Olympic equestrian competition. He is president and chairman of the board of the California Portland Cement Company. PETER M. NORMAN is vice president and secretary of Ward, Dreshman and Reinhardt, Inc. in Worthington, OH. He writes that "WD&R is the oldest and most experienced firm in capital fund raising." He has been elected a managing partner ofthefirm. JA CK WEINBERG is vice president of the Lafayette Bank & Trust Company in Bridgeport. Class Agent: Alfred M.C. MacColl
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E. Wade Close, Jr. 96 West Waldheim Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15215
Many of our classmates have written to wish me well in my new position with Boyden Associates here in Pittsburgh. Boyden is a large national search firm so it may be there will be new opportunities to talk to some fellow '55ers. BOB WE LSH also is a recent addition to the search field joining the Boston office of Heidrick and Struggles. Bob had been president of L.C. Andrew, Inc., South Windham, Maine. Bob and Pam have 5 children. BOB LAIRD wrote from St. Louis where he is corporate personnel director for the Bank Building Corporation. Also in St. Louis is WARREN GELMAN who is president of Diversified Metals Corporation. Warren celebrated his 50th birthday in December '82 and was happily surprised by the attendance of RICHARD ZAMPIELLO who appeared out of nowhere (late as usual). LEE LAHEY has remained fairly stationary in the New York City area. After a start with Westinghouse and IBM in the 50's, Lee has now spent 25 years with Eastman Radio, Inc. and currently holds the position of senior vice president with ew York sales responsibility. Lee and his
wife of 11 years, Pat, enjoy their ten-yearold daughter, Megan. Lee also has three grown children from a previous marriage. JOHN P ALSHAW has Lee on his mailing list for research data that John generates for the media out of his Pebble Beach area office. Soft life! I spoke with DON PIERUCCI and DICK ROYSTON recently. Don is moving to Athens, OH but will still maintain an architectural consulting office in Pittsburgh. Dick has just moved into a new, large condominium in Atlanta with lots of special effects. This qualifies Dick's place to be on the class house tour list. ED ROSE is rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in McAllen, TX. Ed moved to McAllen this past July. JIM MAHER has a new assignment for Southern New England Telephone Company. Jim is a staff manager responsible for Network Training and Development. TOM LIVINGSTON is a vice president and underwriter for Brodie Insurance Agency in Spartanburg, SC. Tom has a ten-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter with Yvonne as they have created a "second family." Tom had four children from a previous marriage. After graduating from Trinity, Tom spent three years in the Navy, later joined Travelers who assigned him to Charlotte, NC. He has been in Spartanburg since 1978. Class Agent: Charles S. Gardner, III
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Bruce Macdonald 116 Weed St. New Canaan, CT 06840
The Class of '56 had a modest, but spirited turn-out for the Homecoming Amherst game last fall. BILL EASTBURN and his wife brought their massive rolling home to the south parking lot and hosted a half-time class cocktail party. Seen at the party were: JERRY PAULEY, CHARLIE STEHLE and his son, Causten, JOHN LIMPITLAW and his two Trinity daughters, and myself, with daughter Laura. It was a beautiful, crisp autumn day and while Trinity lost to Amherst, they played well. We recently learned that MARTY STEARNS has reached the high rungs of the corporate ladder. In August, Marty was elected a senior vice president of the Irving Trust Company, a major money center bank with assets in excess of $18 billion. He has specialized in international banking and today is the manager of the International Group Credit Office. JACK BARTON informed us, with pride, that he has a son. in the freshman class at Trinity: John Barton, Jr. TONY RICE is manager of production control for Hamilton Standard, Electronics, in Farmington. Class Agent: John D. Limpitlaw
AREA ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES HARTFORD- President, Donald B. Reder '69, Tel: (203) 233-4435 The monthly luncheons continue to be a great success. On November 24th, Frank Borges '74, a member of the City Council , gave a lively talk on "The City of Hartford: an Outlook on the Future." Sarah Glynn '82 hosted a successful holiday party at her home for recent Trinity graduates, Classes of '79-'82. The sixth annual winter cocktail party was held on February 23rd at the Stowe-Day House. The excellent turnout was treated to an interesting tour by Joe Van Why '50, director, The Stowe-Day Foundation. NEW YORK- President, Peter A. Hoffman '61, Tel: (212) 289-8982 On Thursday, December 2nd, the Club hosted a wine tasting party at the International Wine Center. The Seventh Regiment Armory was the setting for the annual dinner held on February 1st. The excellent turnout responded well to remarks by President James F. English, Jr. Entertainment was provided by the Trinity College Pipes. Peter Hoffman '61 was elected president. FAIRFIELD COUNTY- President, Frederick M. Tobin '57, Tel: (203) 324-6777 Carl and Genevieve Graf, parents of Christine '83 , and Elizabeth '81, hosted a very successful reception for President James F. English, Jr. on December 5th at their lovely home in Greenwich. NORTHEASTERN OHIO- President, Richard G. Mecaskey '51, Tel: (216) 371-3572 On December 23rd, the home of Alexander Kennedy '71 was the perfect setting for the annual Holiday party for prospective Trinity applicants, undergraduates, parents and alumni/ae. This yearly affair continues to be a very successful winter activity. PHILADELPHIA - President, Steven H. Berkowitz '65, Tel: (215) 576-1711 Guest speaker for the January lOth luncheon at the Racquet Club was Richard A. Doran, director of commerce for the City of Philadelphia. His interesting talk was well received. BOSTON- President, James P. Whitters III '62, Tel: (617) 426-4600 The monthly luncheons continue to be very successful. On January 26th, Dan Wakefield, well known author and writer, gave an interesting speech. Guest speaker at the February 24th luncheon was Brian Rosborough, President of EARTHWATCH. FUTURE MEETINGS April19 - New York Theater Party, "Elba" (for reservations please call Liz Carrigan, home tel: 772-3167, office tel: 425-8652) April 29 - Trinity Club of Hartford, Return of "The Button Down Sounds" May 10- Washington Annual Meeting, The Potomac School, 1301 Potomac School Road, McLean, Virginia May 17- Trinity Club of Hartford Annual Scholarship Lecture - Dr. George B. Cooper
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Paul A. Cataldo, Esq. c/o Bachner, Roche and Cataldo 55 West Central St., Box 267 Franklin, MA 02038
The last news flash concerning the 25th was received from Montgomery, AL, when word was received that DAVID MACISAAC arrived home from the Reunion in time to celebrate Christmas with his family. Word has been received from BOB DOUGLAS, V.P. for research and development, Emhart Glass Group, that he definitely has a handle on the Hartford area unemployment and his results will soon straighten out the national economy so that DON STOKES, V.P., Shearson American Express, can drive the stock market even higher. DON ELLWOOD writes that he is supervising principal in the Vernon public schools, and B.K. SLEATH is now a systems coordinator with Aetna Life and Casualty in Hartford. Both are in the Hartford area and enjoying life. All the way from Hawaii Prep Academy, we hear from DICK SOLMSSEN where he teaches, plays the guitar and basks in the sun. For those who are interested in real estate in Florida, BOB WORTHEY of J.B. Real Estate, Inc., Summerland Key, FL, suggests you give him a call for some great real estate investments. Also located in Florida is JIM MELROSE who is chief of medicine at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale where he specializes in internal medicine and gastroenterology. H. DYKE SPEAR, who exported Broadway's forbidden fruit " Oh, Calcutta" to the boondocks, appeared in the final show himself - but no one noticed thus bringing down the curtain on one of the longest tours in show business history. Dyke may be producing another show and is looking for classmates who are interested in a starring role. A Jetter from RON FOSTER indicates that for the first time since he entered the insurance and investment business several years ago, he has moved . His new address is: 23201 Mill Creek Road , Laguna Hills, CA 92653. FRED TOBIN writes from Darien that he has joined an adult basketball league where he has revived his old talents and is the highest scoring center in the league averaging 14.3 points per game. (Maybe Trinity will take him back as a post grad for next year's basketball season.) Finally, for all of us in need of help, our classmate, Dr. MYRON PISETSKY, is director of a group therapy training program at the Instiute of Living in Hartford. Your SECRETARY wishes all a Happy New Year and requests that you keep the information flowing and that you write to the Board of Trustees with your feelings concerning the maintenance of the fraternity system at Trinity. Class Agent: Frederick M. Tobin, Esq.
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The Rev. Dr. Borden W. Painter, Jr. 110 Ledgewood Rd. West Hartford, CT 06107
PETER GOODWIN is now director of public information in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His job includes editing the monthly Virgin Islands Education Review, an attractive and lively presentation of educational news in the islands. Arnong his latest endeavors, BILL CURTISS now serves on the Board of Directors of the Fairfield County Brokers Association and on the board of directors of the Connecticut Credit Union League. Plastic surgeon BOB OLIVER currently acts as a con-
sultant to the burn unit of the Children's Hospital in Birmingham, AL . REUNION is upon us. A good turnout is already assured. If you haven't signed up yet, do it now! Class Agent: Joseph J. Repole, Jr.
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Paul S. Campion 4 Red Oak Dr. Rye, NY 10580
ED ANDERSON writes that he was elected to the board of directors of the American Society for Industrial Security. Ed is corporate security director of Vidal Sassoon, Inc. in Los Angeles. GEORGE BACKMAN is currently associated with Young Home Improvement Company of Avon. ANDRE LAROCHELLE, a member of the Air Force Reserve, has served a year of active duty. He has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He is currently workmg toward an MBA at the Florida Institute of Technology. ALBERT SMITH II has moved to Otter Creek, ME where he has purchased the community general store. Since his job at the College of the Atlantic "keeps me plenty busy, the store will be operated by w1fe Peg and our children." Class Agent: William J. Schreiner
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Lloyd M. Costley, Esq. 1528 34th St., NW Washington, D.C. 20007
CHARLES BRIDLEY retired from the U.S. Air Force in February, 1982. His rank was lieutenant colonel. He is currently employed as chief, training development-RPV program at Lockheed in Sunnyvale, CA. WEYMOUTH EUSTIS writes that his daugher matriculated at Trinity this fall. CURTIS SCRIBNER has been named president of J.B. Brown & Sons, Maine's largest real estate holding company. After two 5th places at the YMCA National Masters Swim Meet, MICHAEL SIENKIEWICZ entered and finished the 1.5 mile Ocean City, NJ lifeguards ocean swim. He writes "It's different without a black line on the bottom and a wall every 24 yds." Class Agent: George P. Kroh
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Gordon P. Ramsey, Esq. Ramsey, Serino and Murray One Washington Mall Boston, MA 02108
WILLIAM SULLIVAN, formerly with the enforcement council of the Environmental Protection Agency, has joined with a former EPA colleague in the law firm, Sullivan & Broccoletti. Their practice is limited to representation before federal agencies. DICK GADD was "promoted to and declined full colonel! Opted for a business suit instead." He retired from the Air Force in August and is now director of business development for Vinnell Corp. of Oakton, VA. IAN RAWSON has joined Allegheny General Hospital as associate vice president for community health. He is responsible for analyzing community needs for health services and will develop hospital programs to address those needs. LEWIS FRUMKES has finished work on his first book, which he anticipates will be published in the fall. Class Agent: Thomas D. Reese, Jr.
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Dr. Francis J. Cummings 55 Chapin Rd. Barrington, RI 02806
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J. SNOWDEN STANLEY, JR. who is a partner in the firm Semmes, Bowen and Semmes of Baltimore, MD, has been named the 1982-83 chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Life Insurance Law. WILSON H. TAYLOR is now the executive vice president and chief financial officer of the CIGNA Corporation, based in New York City. His new home address is 11 Ironwood Lane, West Hartford. He was recently married to Barbara Taylor (see Marriages). Son Christopher is now 15, and daughter Sarah, 13. JIM TWERDAHL is now executive vice president and general manager of JBL, Inc. in Northridge, CA. His new address in Los Angeles is 214 South McCadden Place. He has been elected president of the Custom Automotive Sound Association and director of the Consumer Electronics Group . Class Agent: Francis B. Jacobs II
Headliners Marvin Peterson '60 has been elected president of the Association for Study of Higher Education, which is comp rised of 800-plus faculty and higher education researchers. He is co-publisher of a book en titled Improving Academic Management . Bruce T. Coleman '61 has been named president and a member of the board of d irectors of Informatics General Corporation of Woodland Hills, CA, a compa ny which develops and markets software products and information processing systems. Formerly executive vice president, Coleman will have all field operating un its reporting to him. Since joining the firm in 1978, he has brought several computer software and services operations to higher levels of profitability.
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Francis J. Cummings '62, head of the division of oncology and hemato logy at Roger Williams General H ospital in Providence, RI, h as coordinated the application of an implantable pump which delivers chemotherapy to patients with cancers in either the liver or head and neck regions. His particular interest in vo lves using the device in combination therapy. Use of the pump allows a higher concentration of medication to combat the cancer full-strength.
of our 20th reunion and SAM BAILEY's Class Agent, 1962 letter brought us up to date on many class friends . Congratulations are in order to LEDGE MITCHELL and his wife, Sandy, on the arriyal of their new boy, Benjamin, and to JIM FOX on his new appointment as an associate circuit judge in the Seventh Judicial Court in Illinois. Jim will move from being a public defender for the past 11 years to presiding over misdemeanor traffic and divorce cases. TOM JOHNSON, recently promoted to senior executive vice president at Chemical Bank in New York, was a guest on the "Good Morning America" show in August. And, of course, GEORGE WILL was seen several times as a commentator on news programs discussing the economy, the Congress and President Reagan. DICK CUNNEEN has recently retired after 20 years from the Air Force and is living in Danielson. ERNIE ANASTASIO has also moved to 5 Sayre Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540. I wish everyone a Happy New Year, good skiing and a great spring. Class Agent: Samuel Bailey IV, Esq.
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Timothy F. Lenicheck 25 Kidder Ave. Somerville, MA 02144
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Life & Casualty. JAMES GOODRIDGE is manager in project finance for United States Synthetic Fuels Corp. in Washington, D.C. CLINT JOHNSON retired from Xerox Corp. in 1980 and is now national accounts manager for Quantrex Corporation. His accounts include Monsanto Co., Aetna Life & Casualty, and Champion International Corp. G. CARROLL STRIBLING, JR. is vice president of Fordyce & Mayne, P .C. in St. Louis, MO. T.C. O'SULLIVAN is senior administrator at Sears Roebuck & Co. in Chicago, IL. Class Agent: Rev. Michael A. Schulenberg
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DAVID CARRAD has relocated his law practice to 222-C West Ninth Street Plaza in Wilmington, DE. He writes that he is serving a second year as chairman of the family law section of the Delaware State Bar Association. DAVID HORSTICK is a commodity broker with The Milwaukee Company. He was married in April, 1982 (see Marriages) . RALPH KATZ, D.M.D., is the new head of the department of restorative dentistry at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. DAVID RAWLINGS was promoted to vice president, engineering, at American Hydron, a division of NPO Optics, Inc. He writes that he "spent the last few weeks with an English first cousin" who had sailed his boat across the Atlantic! OUSMAN SALLAH, former ambassador from Gambia to the United States, will become Permanent Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and Head of the Diplomatic Service in Gambia. TOM SNEDEKER is vice president and sales director of the George Engine Co. in Harvey, LA. He is also attending Tulane Graduate School of Business. He writes that he is still on the New Orleans Symphony board, executive committee of the Cl)amber of Commerce, and board of the West Bank Petroleum Club. PETER STURROCK has "joined forces with another Trinity alum, BOB BRICKLEY '67," to form Manufacturers Financial Services in East Hartford. Bob is branch manager and Pete is agency manager. Both attended Penn Charter, also. DEAN WALLACE notes that he is "working hard for those candidates who support a genuine mutual, verifiable 'freeze' on nuclear arms.' '
Class Agent: F. Carl Schumacher, Jr.
Mr. Beverly Coiner 114 Cloverleaf San Antonio, TX 78209
RICHARD T. BROWN writes of a job change. He is now marketing manager for Grand Light and Supply. In addition, he notes that he is meeting with new pledges to reactivate Delta Phi on campus. DAVID A. HEMPHILL has been named regional marketing manager for Owens-Corning at the corporate headquarters in Toledo, OH. FRANK KIRKPATRICK published (with R. Nolan) Living Issues in Ethics, Wadsworth Press, 1982. JAMES A. RATCHES has been promoted to director, visionics division of Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory.
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A number of our classmates notified us of promotions and new positions during the past few months . DAVE TRACHTENBERG became a senior physician in the Permanente Medical Group. DE NNIS DIX was promoted to vice president of Municipal Finance of Connecticut National Bank (formerly Hartford National Bank) as of last July. We also hear from JON OCKO that he had a book come out last fall in the Harvard East Asian Monographs. Jon also tells us that his son, Peter, nine years old,
won first prize in a national poetry contest. Congratulations Peter and Jon. BRUCE STAVENS wrote to tell us that he received his Ph.D. in physiology and bio-physics and is planning to specialize in cardia-thoracic surgery. Bruce, who already has his M.D. , is a general surgery resident at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven. BOB STEPTO is still at Yale where he is an associate professor of English, and he was elected last spring to the Board of Trustees here at Trinity. We congratulate Bob and look forward to seeing him around campus more often. A little more distant from Trinity than Curt is CHARLIE WESTON who writes to tell us he moved to Austria from Belgium last year. Charlie works as manager of North Africa and the Middle East for Monsanto. We hear that BOB DUNN is now living in Santa Fe, NM where he is involved in the real estate business. PETER MELLON writes that he is now a programmer with AMRCP Corporation in Rio Rancho, NM. His new address is 4923 Palo Alto, SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108. HARWOOD LOOMIS writes that among the new things in his life at the moment are a wife, a house, a job, a car, and a boat! He is a project architect for Hoffman Associates in Hamden, after having worked as staff architect for the New Haven Housing Authority until last July. RAY EGAN and his family have moved back in to the states from Ottawa when Ray became executive vice president of Mead Johnson Company of Evansville, IL. The Egans are presently building a house in Evansville. Finally, JOE HOURIHAN was inducted into Trinity's Basketball Hall of Fame in ceremonies here at the College in early December. Joe is a lawyer in West Hartford. That covers the news we've received. Please do keep us posted on your comings and goings. Class Agent: Mason G. Ross
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Thomas L. Safran 2928 Roscomare Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90077
JESS BREWER writes that he is on sabbatical from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he is in the department of physics. The first half of his sabbatical was spent in Switzerland. January through June, Jess, wife Pat, and son Jed will be in Japan at the University of Tokyo, Meson Science Laboratory. DAVID GERBER is an associate professor at the Kent College of Law in Chicago. DANA STROUT is now assistant controller at Geosource in Houston, TX. Class Agent: Roger K. Derderian
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Joseph L. Reinhardt 1113 Dixon Blvd. Cocoa, FL 32922
We are fortunate to have LARRY ROBERTS and RICHARD MORRIS head up our 15th Reunion - they are planning on a record-breaking turnout. BARRY BEDRICK has been appointed the executive director of the Aspen Community School, Aspen, CO. He writes, "Please tell my friends that it's a tough place to live, but I'm somehow managing. As long as I've come this far, can Rocky Mountain hang gliding be very far away?" JOHN W. ROHFRITCH has been appointed regional vice president, field operations, in the individual financial ser-
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Headliners Charles R. Perrin '67 has been named president of the packaged foods division of Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. of Greenwich, CT. Richard M. Ratzan '67 has won first prize for an essay submitted to the American Federation for Clinical Research in a national competition seeking creative approaches to ethical problems encountered in human research. An emergency department physician at the John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, CT, Ratzan is an assistant professor of surgery and community medicine and health care at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. James A. Nathanson '68 has been selected as one of the Boston Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Leaders of 1982. Nathanson directs the Neuropharmacology Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an affiliate in the Department of Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. In support of Nathanson's nomination, a Yale University faculty member wrote that he knew of no "scientistphysician who has demonstrated more potential and at the same time has maintained such a high degree of humanity."
vices division of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. RALPH OSER recently organized, and was elected the first general counsel of, the Washington International Trade Association. WITA is a non-profit, Washington, D.C. corporation concerned with international trade matters. Class Agent: Joseph M. Perta
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Frederick A. Vyn 19 Shoreham Club Rd. Old Greenwich, CT 06870
JAY CAMPBELL was recently promoted to vice president for marketing at Crockett Welding Supply, Inc. in Columbia, SC. He writes that he always enjoys reading news of classmates. "BILL MASON- where are you?" As of July, 1982, Rabbi ANDREW HILLMAN assumed the pulpit of Temple Israel on Florida's "space coast" as its first full time rabbi . RICHARD HOFFMAN is a first year day student at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He writes that he is now a "part-time newsman at WILl, Willimantic (resigned as news director in August) .. . keeping my hand in ... " JAMES JONES is a financial consultant at First Meridian Financial Co. in Newport Beach, CA. PETER KELLER has been named vice president and managing principal of A.S . Hansen, Inc.'s New York office. He's looking for a home in Greenwich, and in the meantime is "doing the long commute from home in Lake Forest, IL." Dr. MICHAEL LOBERG has been named associate director of diagnostics research and development at Squibb Insti-
tute for Medical Research in New Brunswick, NJ. PAUL MCALOON is an attorney with Fuchsberg & Fuchsberg in New York City. JOHN ORTOLAN! was promoted to vice president for systems planning and development which is part of the data processing division of the Hartford National Bank. TED PARRACK's new position with Brown & Williamson Tobacco is that of vice president of international brand management. His company is based in Louisville, KY. ROBERT RETHY is an assistant professor of philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. He sends his "best to George Higgins, Steven Minot, and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy. " An article in the New York Times describes the work of JOHN RICE, publisher, editor, writer, photographer and circulation director of the New England Football Newsletter. In its four years of publication, the customer subscription list has grown from 99 to 862. DAVID SEIDEL has been appointed assistant treasurer in the Stamford corporate headquarters of Texasgulf. C. WENDELL TEWELL is the executive director of Morgan Grenfell, Inc. in New York City. He writes that he took the position with Morgan Grenfell this past May "to start their U.S.leasing activity." DOUGLAS WATTS was named president of Financial Concepts, Inc. of Natick, MA. As chief operating officer, he will be responsible for the operation of Financial Concepts, including sales, finance and administration . Class Agent: Russell E. Brooks
John L. Bonee III 50 State St. Hartford, CT 06103
DAVE AGERTON, employed by Shell Oil Company, was temporarily residing in Anchorage, AL with his wife, Mallory, a portrait artist from Houston, TX. Dave is assisting in the building of a drilling island in the Beaufort Sea. He and Mallory planned to return to Houston this past fall. Dave's Trinity roommate, JIM CORNWELL, ushered at his wedding last June. Dave's note reminded your SECRETARY that he thoroughly enjoyed hiking the foothills of the Great Denali in early August, 1981 at Mt. McKinley National Park. He also spent some time in Anchorage with friends . He found Alaska to be a fantastically beautiful and exciting adventure. The long days seemed to provide much needed extra time to enjoy the wilderness. ALEX BELIDA has written to us that he is covering East and West Germany and the U.S.S .R. as a Voice of America correspondent. He is Jiving in the Munich region of West Germany and has been promoted to Chief, European Bureau, VOA. Your SECRETARY wishes to mention that he never publishes anything in this Reporter without your prior approval, and you need not fear his ever forcing "scoops" from you when you see him. Connie Ware has written that BILL DURKEE and his wife, Maria, are the proud parents of William P. Durkee V. CHARLIE FOSS and his wife, Pamela, have become the parents of twin boys, Andrew MacLeish Foss and Peter Enloe Foss. Pamela has taken a leave of absence from her job as consultant in employee benefits with Johnson & Higgins of Connecticut, Inc. in Hartford and Charlie continues as associate counsel in The Travelers Insurance Company law department. They are living in Granby. THEODORE FORMICA is entering his third year as head of the middle school at the Birch Wathen School of New York, NY. He and his wife, Sheila, have recently moved from Old Greenwich to Bridgeport. ARTHUR GREENBLATT has been promoted to director, business division, of Mattatuck Community College, Waterbury. DICK HOFFMAN will be completing his doctorate in business at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN shortly. He wrot e to us last summer that he plans to begin a new job at the College of William and Mary School of Business Administration in Williamsburg, VA as an assistant professor of business administration. He and his wife, Karen, had their first child, a daughter, this past summer. JACK WILLIN has been promoted to the position of senior account consultant of the Experience Rating Department, Aetna Life and Casualty in Hartford. (Editor's Note: Perhaps modesty has prevented JOHN BONEE from relating that he has been selected by West Hartford's Town Council to be the town's corporation counsel. His new position has necessitated his resigning from the town school board, to which he had been elected just over a year ago.) Class Agent: Ernest J. Mattei, Esq.
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Susan Haberlandt 34 Cherryfield Dr. West Hartford, CT 06107
ROBERT AMIDON is case manager for Channeling Project in Portland, ME. MAURY BARTH, M.D. recently joined Pittsburgh Anesthesia Associates, Ltd. PAUL BASCH became a member of the board of directors of the Hartford Public Library.
Rev. STEVE CHARLESTON is now director of the Dakota Leadership Program working with the Sioux people of North and South Dakota. His son, Nicholas, is now3 . BRUCE COLMAN writes that he has left Friends of the Earth after three years as books manager and is now starting a new venture. He is involved with Public Interest Editorial Services, "a combination of free-lance editorial services, packaging, and consulting work," in Berkeley, CA. He is also reviewing books for the San Francisco Chronicle. BRUCE FOXLEY is now director of the New York testing center for Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, a nationwide educational, research and aptitude testing organization. HOWIE GREENBLATT was inducted into the Trinity Basketball Hall of Fame in December, 1981. STEPHEN JIANAKOPLOS has become a partner in the law firm of Doskocil and Pulos in St. Louis, MO. DAVID KEARNS received his J.D. degree from Franklin Pierce in Concord, NH,inMay. In an August issue of the New York Times, PHILIP KHOURY's article entitled, "Begin vs. Diplomacy," appeared. Philip is assistant professor of history at M.I.T. TED KOWALSKI has been promoted to assistant medical director at Pacific Telephone in Sacramento, CA. He has recently relocated to Concord, CA. JACQUES LAGASSE has been appointed assistant director of data center support, information services, in the resources and services division of CIGNA in Hartford. NICK MAKLARY "welcomes letters at 926 Larkin #lO, San Francisco, CA 94109, where his past as a Washington, D.C. spook and journalist is birthing an irreverent civil war screenplay: 'Street Hustler and Cabinet Officer ~ Lincoln Murder.' " ROBERT MULLER has relocated to Teaneck, NJ. MARVIN WHITE joined the suburban Philadelphia CPA firm of Goldstein and Company as a partner. He writes that his family totals five: "wife, Mary and daughters Bianca, Brigitte, and Brandyn." Class Agent: Thomas R. DiBenedetto
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G. Harvey Zendt 123 Upland Ter. BaJa Cynwyd, PA 19004
The Class of 1972 seems to have been very prolific during 1982, as a number of new babies have been reported. Along with starting a new job at Johnson and Higgins in Hartford, BILL ZACHRY has a new son named Billy. Down south, JOHN ORTON and his wife had a baby girl in May. Across the ocean in England, LARRY MINARD reports that he also became a father this past spring. ANDREW GAINES became a father for the fourth time earlier in 1982. He has recently moved to Omaha, NB, where he is working as an agent for State Farm Insurance Co. With four children he can use all the business he can get, so if you need insurance and live near Omaha, give him a call. Dr. LARRY K. GRAVES has been promoted to senior associate by Daniel H. Wagner, Associates, a Paoli, PA consulting firm in 路operations research and software development. Beginning a private civil engineering practice in New York City, ANTHONY TRANQUILLO is also looking for clients. He also joins the list of new fathers as of February, when a son, Michael, was born. Likewise, DAN MIXTER and wife, Charlene, added a second daughter to their family. She joins big sister, Alexis, 3 112.
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In the area of entertainment, DAVID ROBINSON reports that he is doing more solo work in western Massachusetts and recently reunited with Outerspace in Maine for a week of gigs. An equally entertaining job is enjoyed by DAVID PUMPHREY in New Orleans where he is auctioneering antiques at Morton's. Class Agent: Bayard R. Fiechter
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Lawrence M. Garber 3036 W. 22nd Ave. Denver, CO 80211
MIKE MITCHELL and MEGAN O'NEILL are co-chairmen for our lOth Reunion. It's hard to believe we will be celebrating our tenth Reunion in June! MIKE BATTLE has been appointed by Virginia's governor to serve on the Virginia Equal Employment Opportumty Committee. PAUL DUMONT is a senior forms analyst with Hartford's Aetna Life & Casualty. He writes that he is "active in 'power' volleyball leagues in the Hartford area." He plays in tournaments around New England from October to April. He also freelances as a D.J. in his spare time.
GEORGE GONYER is manager of treasury operations at Risdon Corporation in Naugatuck. DAVID HEINLEIN is an attorney with Rogin, Nassau, Caplan, Lassman & Hirtle in Hartford. JAMES KOWALSKI is rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hartford. He writes that his wife is a clinical instructor with UConn family medicine department. JOYCE KRINITSKY was elected to the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee from the 31st senatorial district in May. She is also active with the Connecticut State Federation of Teachers and serves as president of the Plymouth Federation of Teachers. • ' PATTI E. MANTELL is a teacher of history/psychology at the Watkinson School in Hartford. JONATHAN NEUNER has been promoted to assistant vice president in the electronic banking department at Hartford National Bank. NANCY J . SARUBBI is now with Connecticut Bank and Trust in Hartford. PATRICIA S. WEBSTER and husband EDWARD '74 are living in Philadelphia. He works for Honeywell, Inc. in Fort Washington, PA, where he is a program manager. Class Agent: Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., Esq.
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Jim Finkelstein 762 E. Fairview Ave. Annapolis, MD 21403
May celebrates the ninth year since our graduation. Can you believe it? It seems that the news keeps pouring in as much as when I wrote the first column for the Class of '74, September of 1974. Keep those cards and letters coming! GREG BARISON writes that after an exciting apprenticeship with the J . Albert Johnson - F. Lee Bailey team in Boston, he has opened his own private practice on Charles Street in The Hub, concentrating on criminal and civil trials. His wife, Celeste Krauss, M.D., is teaching at Harvard Med. Best of all, their son, Matthew, was born last August. Greg ran into a lot of Trinity friends at the Head of the Charles and recent Trinity Club of Boston events. JOYCE LAUGHLAN YELENAK notes that she and her husband, WILLIAM P. YELENAK '75 recently also had a baby boy. Joyce received her M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut in the spring of 1982 and is presently on a leave of absence from her position as a staff specialist with Southern New England Telephone Company. Bill is an attorney with Carmody & Torrance in Waterbury. MARGIE BAIN HUOPPI writes that she and RICH '75 are in their fifth year at the Pomfret School where they continue to enjoy boarding school life with two sons, three collies and a dorm full of eleven boys! While in Maine this summer, they ran into BONNIE ALEXANDRE EMMONS '75 and her husband, Jay, and a number of other Trinity grads. Margie also reports that CHARLIE PUTNAM left Pomfret this past summer after four years and is now teaching at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambrige, MA. He was married to Karen Kames in August, 1981. Charlie was recently honored in June by the varsity crew team at Pomfret for his four years of coaching when they donated the Charles W. Putnam Crew Award to the school. RICHARD "PANCHO" BRYAN, JR. notes that he has recently accepted a position as head of the Upper School at the Nichols School in Buffalo, NY . He writes that his wife Judy, two daughters (KC 3112, and Ginny 1 +)are doing well. JOYCE BABE and her husband are still living in West Germany and enjoying the many cultural and traveling opportunities. She notes that her work as a community social worker with the U.S Army· in Europe is still challenging and keeps her busy while her husband finishes his Ph.D. at German University. GLENN "OTTO" PREMINGER, senior resident in the division of urology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, was recently awarded the school's Nathan A. Womack Award. The award is presented each year to a resident in surgery who has demonstrated excellence in teaching, research and patient care. BARBARA ELLINGHAUS is a stockbroker with Bache in New Haven. DEBORAH GOLDREYER is a project architect for Fox & Fowle architects in New York City. ELIZABETH GRADY recently joined the law firm of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles as a commercial litigator. LINDA "PIXIE" HOLBROOK writes that in addition to running a volunteer adoption counseling service, she and her husband, John Rioux, a director of an alternative high school program, adopted their daughter, Candida, from El Salvador in mid-1981. DAVE YERKES is a senior accountant with Price Waterhouse in Stamford. He and his wife, Deborah (see Marriages) are residing in Hamden. AL LEVEILLE is in private practice as an opthalmologist, specializing in corneal
transplantation, myopia and cataract surgery, and contact lenses, in Beverly Hills. Al is also on the faculty of UCLA. His wife ANN (nee FEIN, Class of '75) is a clinical social worker at St. Francis Hospital. . TOM MCDONALD is an attorney w1th the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Oak Brook, IL. Tom is specializing in real estate investments. JEFF MORGAN recently joined a medium-sized law firm in downtown St. Louis. LISA CAROTHERS MORGAN has been a music therapist at St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis. Lisa started this program which is used on medical floors , intensive care, internal medicine and in assistance with childbirth. MARY "BETSY" PARKER is a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. Betsy hopes to complete her degree in piano performance this year. She recently saw BARBARA MCIVER '75, who is studying piano at Denton, TX. DAVE PARKER is a second vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City. ED and PAT (Class of '73) WEBSTER are living in Philadelphia, P A where Ed is a program manager for Honeywell, Inc. JOHN WARFEL reports that he is a regional manager and vice president of corporate banking for Coloma! Bank m Waterbury. John also reports a new addition to the family (see Births). CHRIS WRIGHT also has added to his family (see Births) and works to help sl:'pport his new daughter as an attorney w1th Post & Schell in Philadelphia, P A. JON EMERY continues as an attorney with Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell & Petty in New York City. DON HAWLEY is the president of Twain/Braxton International, an international strategJ.c management consulting firm which is an affiliate of Braxton Associates in Boston, MA. Rumor has it that HARRY HELLER is practicing medicine in New York City and raising quite a family. Also in New York City, we believe, is RICK HALL. ED HEIDERICH and DAVE BORNN have been on international assignments for their respective organizations. Rick, Ed and Dave- we'd like to hear from you. Finally, 'please note the new address on the top of this column. Your SECRETARY has been named vice president and manager of the Baltimore office for Meidinger, Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in human resource management. I will be temporarily (1830 months) relocating to the Baltimore/Washington area. Any Trinity alums in this area, please make yourselves known! Class Agent: Karen Tucker
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Gary Morgans 639 Independence Ave., SE Washington, D.C. 20003
JOHN ADAMEC and his wife are both employed by the Social Security Administration; John in Schenectady, and Cheryl in Troy, NY. CLARKSON "BRAD" ADDIS graduated from Wharton Business School in May with an M.B.A. in strategic planning. He is currently employed as a management consultant with the Hay Group in Chicago, IL. He writes that his wedding (see Weddings) was attended by ROY GRIMM, DOUG KUHN, and JOHN HOLLOWAY. BOB ANDRIAN is taking a leave of absence from teaching at Loomis Chaffee, to get an M.A. at Wesleyan. He is planning to go to China next summer, after wh1ch he will return to Loom1s. He 1s studymg Chinese in preparation for his. trip . Steven and JANET (PODELL) ANZOVIN write that in their spare time they "raise mongrels and edit a biographical reference book for St. Martin's Press."
Headliners Karen Tucker '74 was named a biographee of record in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in the East for 1981-82. She is also a nominee of Who's Who in Finance and Industry for 1983-84.
Geoffrey P. Bingham '76 is a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the University of Uppsala in Sweden doing dissertation research toward his doctorate in experimental psychology. Karl Haberlandt and William Mace ofT rinity's psychology department have worked closely with Bingham throughout his studies.
Nancy Hirschhorn '76 has been named agri cultural officer to Spain on the staff of the U.S. Argicultural Counselor in Madrid. Previously, Hirschhorn has worked as an international economist for the Department of Agriculture in the field of international trade policy, and as an agricultural marketing specialist dealing with export credits.
ROBIN BODELL is an officer at the First National Bank of Boston/National West Lending Division. She writes that she just returned from four months in Brussels, Belgium which was a "wonderful experience." She "just missed CHRIS MOONEY in London" but "saw PHILIPPE DELAPEROUSE , who has just moved to Boston." JANET DICKINSON is a resident in internal medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital in Bridgeport. KATHRYN FALK has a new job as law clerk at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI. She's "looking forward to getting out of school this May." JAY FISHER is a regional manager for New England Merchants Leasing in Boston. PETER GRAPE has just started a cardiology fellowship at West Roxbury V.A. Hospital in Boston, and has moved to Wellesley, MA. DEAN HAMMER writes that he is "currently awaiting appeal for P/z-5 year prison sentence for 'Plowshares 8' witness September 9, 1980." RICHARD HUOPPI has completed four summers of graduate study and will receive an M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan in the spring. JAMES KIRSCHNER graduated from Columbia Business School with an M.B.A. in August. In September he entered the advanced management training program at Macy's (New York division). He was "looking forward to the craziness of the holiday season!" C.A. CRUGER JOHNSON PHILLIPS is a social worker with the Glastonbury Youth & Family Resource Center. Dr. PHILIP LEONE is a dentist in Youngstown, OH. In May, CHARLES LEVINE was moved to brand manager of "Pampers", a month before his first child was born (see
Births). He notes that "this is a classic example of good planning and management!"
PETER LURIA is an attorney in West Hartford. NELSON I. PERRY has been promoted to plant manager at Winfield Brooks Co., Inc. in Woburn, MA. He and his wife, LIBBIE (LANCRAFT) '77, are parents of their second child (see Births). SARA SOUTHWORTH reports that she has "legally changed my name from Ti'Maun to Sara." She has been working in California as an assistant editor for Brooks-Cole Publishing, but has returned east. ELIZABETH TALBOT writes that she is a freelance fashion editor for the Northeast Magazine of the Hartford Courant. FRAN (CONGDON) and PETE TAUSSIG spent the last two years in Ithaca while Pete was earning his M.B.A. at Cornell. Fran was a special education teacher in the Ithaca schools. They drove through 25 states and provinces out west this summer then settled into their new house in Needham, MA. Pete is an investment analyst at Pru Capital in Cambridge. BOBBIE (BRUCKER) and STEVEN TRIGGS '76 have "set up shop in Orlando, FL and welcome friends who are Disney bodnd." Steve has taken a job as a TV reporter for Channel9. Class Agents: Bonnie Alexandre Emmons Jameson S. French
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Andrew Hobart Porter 401 East 80th St. Apartment 3K New ~ork, NY 10021
HAL SMULLEN, who is studying for an M.B.A. at UConn was appointed as-
sistant secretary at The Travelers in August, and still finds time to serve o? the advisory board of AIESEC at Tnmty. LOU PARZYCH also finds time for work as goalie coach for Trinity's soccer team when he's not serving as a semor analyst/programmer for Aetna Life & Casualty. In the legal field , MICHAEL O'HARE is a court advocate with the Connecticut Judicial Department in West Hartford (Superior Court - Juvenile), and JOHN CLIFFORD is a trial attorney for Gersten and Gersten in Hartford. John recently married Aelish Sullivan. Former class agent, KAREN JEFFERS , still with Levett, Rockwood and Sanders has moved to new offices in Westport. REBECCA DUNN has been promoted to loan officer with Barclay's American Business Credit, and she writes that husband, REYNOLDS ONDERDONK, has returned to school in computer programming. The "rehab" of their house in Hartford's west end should also be completed by now! Other Connecticut residents reporting in this quarter include RUSTY HICKS, who was ordained a Christian minister in New Haven on November 28; CLIFFORD JOHNSON, who is a senior auditor in the corporate audit department with Aetna Life & Casualty; SALVADOR SENA, who returns from the University of Texas where he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry; and ROXY MCKEE, who recently took an extended vacation from the state's Department of Transportation to visit her sister (DEANNE '81) in Osaka, Japan. WAYNE SOKOLOSKY was married in September (see Weddings), honeymooned in Bermuda and has transferred to the New Lond~n area where he is installment loan manager for' the New London region of First Bank. He was scheduled to recruit for First Bank at Trinity in the spring. From the midwest, news comes from RUTH V. WATTLEY, who completed her Ph.D., then post doctoral fellowship in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and MIT respectively, but i~ now a senior research chemist With Eli Lilly and Co. in Indianapolis, IN. BOB PURCELL, who finished an M.B.A. at the University of Virginia in 1981, now lives with wife, Robin, in Minneapolis, MN, where he works for General Mills. DAVID ROUNTREE is now an officer with First National Boston Financial Co. in Chicago where he has relocated from Boston. TOM SHULTZ is now a vice president at SHULTZ Chevrolet-BMW in Hanover, PA. STEVE NORRIS reports from Atlanta, GA that he married Mary Elizabeth Rasfelt (see Marriages), and BARBARA BRUCKER TRIGGS '75 writes that husband STEVE is a TV reporter for Channel 9 in Orlando, FL. At Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, PETER MORIN has been appointed assistant professor of biology. Peter had received his Ph.D. in zoology from Duke University in 1982. Other notes include word that SUSAN BOWMAN finished her master's at Rutgers, DONNA SCALA finished her second year of medical school and has run some marathons (but misses rowing), and that MIKE GILMAN is director of marketing financial products for Data Re路 sources, Inc. Finally, family notes: STEVE THOREN married -Denise Socolosky, and ANDREA (SILVER) and RICHARD HOTES report the birth of a son (see Births). Class Agents: Mrs. M. Carol Monaghan Veit Thomas P. Santopietro
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George Jensen 3 Langdon Sq., #2 Cambridge, MA 02138
CHARLES ALFANO's campaign for state senator from Newington was fea-
tured in an October issue of the Hartford Courant. Charlie is executive director of the Central Connecticut Chapter of the Leukemia Society. LLOYD FIDAO, JR. has a new job designing annual reports for a graphic arts studio in New York City. BILL BOND is a surgical resident at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, CA. He writes that he was " pleased to be able to operate on Brian Wanerman '85 in San Francisco," and wishes him a "speedy and full recovery!" HILLARY BERCOVICI will be ordained this year. GAIL BOGOSSIAN-ROY began her first year at UConn Law School this fall. An October issue of the Hartford Courant described the formation of an ecumenical community of young Christians in a former convent in Hartford's South Green neighborhood. One of the participants is the Rev. MARK HENRICKSON, an Episcopal priest who works as a chaplain at Hartford Hospital. ERIC LUSKIN has finished his master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Communications. KAREN MAPP received a promotion to manager of stock transfer in the Security Treasury Department at SNET Co. In May she received her 6th year advanced degree in counseling and marriage and family therapy. She holds a master's degree in counseling. HARRIET SMITH has moved to Chicago, IL, where Proctor & Gamble has transferred her to manage the accountants in one of their plants and work cost issues with the manufacturing organization. MARK PEARLIN is staff attorney at People's Bank in Bridgeport. PAUL WENDLER is now associated with Angenics, Inc. in Cambridge, MA. As part of his final year at the New England College of Optometry, GEORGE ADRIAN is doing a residency at YaleNew Haven Hospital. SUSAN BUDNICK is in her first year of law school at the University of Pennsylvania. ERNIE BOURASSA and Judy Schofield were married on Cape Cod in September, and now reside in Millis. GEORGE JENSEN and STEVE SHAPIRO '78 were ushers and other Trin attendees included JOHN GIANIS, STEVE WOLF, JOHN FLYNN '79, CALEB KOEPPEL '78 and JOHN SENDOR '78. Ernie is manager of finance for Community Care Systems, a health care holding company in Boston. MELANIE DURBAS is now assistant director of the data processing department for the Travelers Companies in Hartford. Melanie lives in Hartford and is working toward her M.B.A. degree at the Hartford Graduate Center. DANIEL FILER is a psychiatric aide at Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown and writes that he is considering graduate school for a doctorate in clinical psychology. MARK GERSZ opened his own office for the general practice of law in Branford this past summer. FRAN GRUBELICH writes from Dublin, Ireland that he is attending the Royal College of Surgeons and has acquired a liking for the local pubs. JOHN GIANIS and his wife Liz are now living in Cincinnati. John finished medical school in Guadalajara, Mexico last year and is now a medical resident at a Cincinnati hospital. Our New Yark correspondent informs me that BOB FRIEDMAN is practicing his legal and tax expertise with Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. One of Bob's fellow counselors, GIL CHILDERS, IS doing his best to take a bite out of crime as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn. MARK STERN reports that AL JULIANO is working as a commercial lend-
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ing officer for hi-tech companies at the National Bank of North America. Mark and AI work within several blocks of each other in the financial district. GEORGE JENSEN is working for Price Waterhouse in Boston and recently heard from Lt. DAVID JANCARSKI, USN. Dave is an F-14 pilot and is due to leave on the USS Kennedy in March '83. Dave also writes that he made his first hole-in-one on a Virginia Beach golf course this summer. NICK KATZ finished medical school last June and is now a medical resident at the Medical University of South Carolina. TOM LINES married Debbie Millen (see Marriages) and is now a group sales representative for the Hartford Insurance Group. Tom and Debbie are living in Windsor. For those whose vacation plans are still undecided for next summer we might have an alternative. Former Bantam crewer, JIM PLAGENHOEF, recently joined the crew of the Defender/Courageous Group which is involved in the trials for the 25th America's Cup Defense in Newport, RI. Jim is now a resident of Scarborough, ME , and was a crew member aboard the Nirvana which set a record in last year's NewportBermuda race. In Newport, stop at the Port O'Call marina on Bowens Wharf and you should catch him. MARK STRICKLAND received his master's degree from UConn in May and is now a psychiatric social worker at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in Montauk. Mark is living in New London. BOB O'LEARY was recently a guest on a popular Boston talk show, "The Sports Huddle." Marriage seems to be the dominant theme in this edition. Here are the final two. GARY ZABEL, a recent grad of UConn's School of Dental Medicine, married Ceres Stephanie Anastas (see Marriages) and they are living in Hartwick, NY. Gary is part of Northern Catskill Dental Associates. Finally, the Class thanks BARBARA HAYDEN LEWIS for her five years of service as our first class secretary/reporter. Note her successor's address above. Also note that contrary to what was reported in an earlier issue of the Reporter, I was not and am not planning to be engaged (hopefully the congratulatory phone calls will stop). Send news! Class Agents: Cynthia Mohr Andrew H. Friedman
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George L. Smith 50-B Pondview Rd. Rye, NY 10580
There is much to report in this issue. ART CHAMPAGNE received his Ph.D. from Yale last June and is now a research associate in the physics department at S.U.N.Y.-Stony Brook. CIONNA BUCKLEY is a senior auditor for McGraw-Hill in New York City. KATHY JABS has graduated from Columbia Medical School and will start a residency in pediatrics at Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, in July. PAMELA MORTON is also in the Big Apple planning to go into business weaving uniquely designed silk fabric. Pamela studied the art of silkweaving for six months in Japan. DAVID WEISENFELD is an associate attorney with Proskauer Rose Goetz and Mendelsohn in Manhattan. Finally, CAROLYN MEYER has been promoted to manager in the management information consulting division of Arthur Andersen's New York office. In Connecticut, RAYMOND SMIALOWSKI has been ordained into the
Roman Catholic priesthood in the Archdiocese of Hartford. MAGGIE O'CONNELL RATHIER and KEVIN QUINLAN are medical students at the University of Connecticut. Maggie is a first year student, while Kevin is in his third year. TOM LENAHAN is an assistant vice president of City Trust in Stratford. Tom also said that he ran into LAURA MOUNTCASTLE, who is in her first year at the Yale School of Management. ROBERT CLAFLIN is a practicing chiropractor in West Hartford. STEVE BERKOWITZ is studying at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. ED PETRY is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Penn State. MARGARET FREDERICKSON is living in Albany, NY. In Massachusetts, CHARLES PERKINS, JR. is practicing law as an associate attorney in the law offices of Daniel Blackman. FLOYD MONROE is working for Factory Mutual Engineering in Norwood. To the north, in Maine, LYNN COOK SHRYOCK is practicing law in Portland. Finally, out west, TARA HIMMELSTEIN is an assistant management supervisor with Bermudez & Associates, an advertising agency in Brentwood, CA . Just a reminder - our fifth reunion will take place June 9-12th. Hope to see all of you there. Class Agent: Nicholas D. Benson
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Barbara Karlen Blitstein 1671 Hampton Knoll Dr. Akron, OH 44313
BETTINA BERNSTEIN, a medical student at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, IA, writes that she is "doing osteopathic manipulatiGn on members of the Des Moines Ballet Company in my free time." MORRIS BOREA graduated from UConn Law School, passed the Connecticut Bar Exam and is assistant attorney general in the Attorney General's Office in Hartford. PETER BRONSKY was awarded first place in the presentation in basic science category of the dental student table clinic competition at the A.D .A. convention. He is a representative on research to the American Student Dental Association. ANDREW CASTELLE is an environmental consultant with Environmental Technology, Inc. in West Hartford. MICHAEL DALY is an attorney with Furey, Donovan and Heiman in Bristol. He received his J.D. degree from the school of law at Western New England College in Springfield, MA. JAIME FICKS attends the University of Connecticut School of Law in West Hartford. BRUCE KAY is a research assistant at Haskins Speech Laboratory in New Haven where he is studying motor skills in humans. He writes "two years to Ph.D.!" STEPHEN LATTANZIO received the J.D. degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center. Concord, NH, in May, 1982. KENT REILLY is assistant vice president in sales training for Consultative Resources Corp. in Darien. PETER ROSA is an associate with Gamm & Gamm Law Offices in Hamden. DIANNE ROSENTRATER GRUBB is a financial analyst with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY. BRUCE and NANCY (ALBIS) SHEA are now living in Newton, MA. Bruce is credit life specialist with Universal Underwriters Insurance in Framingham, MA. SUSAN TANANBAUM is in a doctoral program at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. When she wrote, she was finishing her course work and preparing for orals. Class Agent: Deborah Kunhardt
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Charle~ E. Tiernan III 7 Cypress Dr. Branford, CT 06405
Hello, again. I am happy to report more good news concerning members of our class. JOHN "J.C." CHANDLER bids "a hearty 'hello' to all '80s everywhere!" J .C. has found success in Houston as a technical marketing project coordinator with Cameron Iron Works, Inc. J.C . writes "during my initiation into the Houston scene I was aided by our fellow classmate, ALEX SHERWOOD, who is presently finishing up at the University of Texas Business School. It was through Alex that J .C. met Pamela Macbean. J.C. and Pam (Vassar '80) were married on September 25, 1982 in New Hampshire. Many of our classmates joined J.C. and Pam at their wedding including MIKE "ROCCO" SIRACO, MIKE "MAGIC" WELD, CLAUDE "SANGE" SANGIOLO, JAMES GARRAHAN, DAVE GATENBY, and MIKE MASCOLO. PETER "SLEEVES" GREENLEAF is also in Houston working as an international sales manager. A few of our classmates have gravitated to St. Louis. CHRIS HILLCOAT and SCOTT FRIEDMAN both attended Washington University School of Law. Scott writes "I will be starting my third year at Washington University School of Law, this fall, where I am senior editor of the Law Review. I enjoy St. Louis but miss my friends in the East." NANCY ANN CLAYTON works as a process engineer for the Ford Motor Co., St. Louis Assembly Plant. Many have remained in Connecticut. DAVID BROOKS is now teaching at the upper school of the Kingswood Oxford School. BOB FERS, who received a master's degree in May of 1982 in medical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently named president of Robert S. Fers, Inc. of North Haven. PETER QUINLAN, who lives in Cromwell, was recently promoted to associate engineer at Northeast Utilities. JEREMY MORROW is a field representative for General Motors Acceptance Corp. of North Haven. ROB SCHMID LEY has remained in Hartford and writes that he has nothing new to report. KENNETH GORZKOWSKI is a planning analyst in Hartford with Travelers Insurance of Hartford. JIM POST is attending the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, AZ. PAUL RASMUSSEN is a systems engineer with Management Science America of Atlanta. DAN SARGIS is an M.B.A. candidate at the Cornell School of Business and Public Administration. Dan writes "get together with JEFF LONG often." CHRISTOPHER SLOAN is in his first year of law school at Western New England Law School. SCOTT CRAIG graduated from the University of Chicago in March with an M.B.A. and began working for Florida Power and Light Co. as a financial analyst. In Boston, DAVID EDELSON is a senior dental student at Tufts University Dental School. SUSAN ANGELASTRO recently received a master's degree from Middlebury College and the University of Florence, Italy in Italian language and literature. LESLIE FINCH is in Alexandria, LA working as a creative movement teacher with the Arts-in-Education program of the Rapides Parish School Board and as a ballet instructor at the Cenlo Academy of Performing Arts. Thanks for writing. I look forward to hearing from the rest of the class. Please write if you get a chance. Good luck! Class Agent: David J_ Koeppel
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Alison Leigh Mountford 14 7 Green Hill Rd. Kinnelon, NJ 07405
"DUTCH" BARHYDT is a salesman with Scovill, Inc. in Watertown. TERESA CANNA VACIOLO is a programmer analyst at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford. SARAH CARTER is studying at Suffolk University Law School. CAROLYN F. HAMPTON is a credit analyst with Hartford National Bank. PETER HOOPS writes that he is currently applying to Jaw school. An October article in the Hartford Courant describes the participation of ALEX MAGOUN in the sixth 6.2 mile Hartford mini-marathon. Alex was the winner in a time of 31 minutes, 29 seconds. He is currently studying for a master's degree in England at the University of East Anglia, where he plans to continue his running. He notes that "American road racing is simple compared to the English version of the sport." MACAULEY NASH is assistant director of admissions at the Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY. He is also coaching the soccer team and writes that his job involves "lots of travel and demanding work." He taught at Salisbury summer school before going to Darrow. ANTHONY SHENTON was featured in a Hartford Advocate article which tells about his job advertising a deli located in the Hartford Civic Center. Tony wears a sandwich-board shaped like a sandwich and this unique publicity has proven most effective for the restaurant where he also works as a waiter. ROBERTA SZALA is a network analyst at CIGNA where she's worked for a year. Prior to that, she was employed by the central government in Denmark for a period after graduation. Class Agents: Richard P. Dahling Sibley Gillis
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Tom Hefferon 42 King St. Hartford, CT 06114
Greetings again to everyone in the Class of '82. It was great seeing each other at Homecoming - where was everybody else?? Let's get right down to the news. Now that I complained in the last column about the silence from the grad school front we've been flooded with reports to prove me wrong. UConn is, by far, the most popular choice this year - no less than six of our classmates are grinding away either here in Hartford or in Storrs. In UConn med are ANDY GOLDBERG, RICH BERNSTEIN, JOHN MEANEY, and JOLANTA STEC; at UConn law is KEN PAP A and in the master's in English program is LORI ARDOLINO. There are also quite a number of us in other graduate programs. There's MARK ITALIA, last seen at the Democratic Convention, who's now at UMass-Amherst for chemistry. Along the same lines is DAVE HOWE who's going for his master's in chemical engineering at Tufts in Medford, MA. (Dave also reports his engagement to DIANE NAPERT '81 - congrats!) Also up that way is LAURIE MONTANO who is pursuing her master's at the Boston University School of Social Work. Way out in the Midwest, MARY TOLAND labors at Michigan State for a degree in labor and industrial relations. Not to be outdone, our furthest report comes from BRENDAN MAGAURAN who is earning his medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. He's not alone overseas, however. Trinity has placed two classmates of ours in the Peace Corps: SARAH KINDER is in Sierra Leone and CLAUDIA HART is nearby (?) in Botswana. Halfway around
the world, now more than half done with her Watson Fellowship, is CONNIE SMITH in the wilds of Southeast Asia. Good to hear from you all . Getting very close to home, RHEA PINCUS reports that she has landed the development office internship on campus and is having a great time travelling around the country for her job. In and around Hartford, there is a lot of news. On the insurance racket, DAVE BROWN is a programmer for Aetna, MARCIA HELIN is an underwriter for Connecticut General and RAY TSUKROFF works downtown at Travelers. KAL CHATURVEDI is also in the immediate area, as a programmer for the Dexter Corporation in Windsor Locks. LISA D' ADDEO has taken a job with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and notes that she continues to be very active in a number of area singing groups and AL SUBBLOIE keeps himself busy with the rest of the Trin crew of '82 (SUE ENGDAHL, ANDREI POLUDNEWYCZ, and JOAN SINISGALLI) at Arthur Andersen in Hartford. Also in Connecticut, ROBER COUTU has found a job as a salesman in Avon for Jeannine Fund Raizing. ARMANDO PAOLINO managed the successful reelection campaign for state representative John Rowland. PATTY HOOPER was not so lucky, as she worked for the Rome for Governor campaign. Sikorsky Aircraft has landed two '82ers, JEFF BRODERSEN as a buyer and JOE ADINOLFI as an engineer. Finally, MATT MCLAUGHLIN has continued in his SAGA ways as a production supervisor for Frito-Lay in Dayville. There's still not much to report on from New York and Boston. MARGOT TAMONEY, who is a legal assistant in downtown Manhattan and ROB READING, who's with the accounting firm of C:oopers and Lybrand, are the only voices out of the Big Apple while I have no word from Boston!! The only word which I get from Massachusetts is from ELIN KORSGREN who is a trainee at Zayre's in Chicopee and who was married in July. Speaking of weddings, I have heard that three more of our classmates have been taken away- LINDA JOY RICH TALIAFERRO, TERESA FERRERO HANSEN, and JENNIFER GLEDHILL CROWLEY. Send me more . To wrap it up, KAREN PETERSEN is apparently alive and well and living in Canton, NY. She works in the development office at St. Lawrence College. STEPHANIE PAPPAS is employed at Abbot Labs in Virginia, PHIL PROPPER has enlisted in the army and is a second lieutenant in California, and CAROL RUMERY is with Girard Bank in Philadelphia. Details at eleven. I'm still in Hartford, though I've changed my job. By the time this reaches everyone I will be working up at the State Capitol as a clerk for the Public Health Committee. Well , that's about it. Keep those cards and letters coming - so we'll all know what' s going on. Take care. Class Agents: Patricia Hooper Steven A. Elmendorf
MASTERS 1939 DOROTHY L. QUIGLEY is presently serving as president of the New Britain Public Library Friends and of the Ladies Auxiliary of the New Britain Boys' Club. She also does volunteer work at the South Church and the Salvation Army in New Britain. 1947 ART SEBELIUS writes that he is "still traveling the world, searching genealogy records in Sweden, and visiting grandchildren in the Philippines, Canada, California, and Florida."
1950 JULIUS GLATER continues to teach, do research and write in the areas of applied chemistry and water desalination. He recently authored a chapter for an international treatise entitled "Principles of Desalination" which was published by the Academic Press. He has a new address: 3266 Purdue Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90066. Dr. JOHN J. REARDON has written a book entitled Peyton Ra,ndolph: 1721-1775 One Who Presided. It was published in November, 1982 by the Carolina Academic Press. 1952 LILLIAN S. ADAMS has a third book in preparation. She is serving the first of three years on the vestry of her church and continues as a volunteer teacher in grade two, one morning a week. 1953 Since receiving his master's degree from Trinity, Dr. FRANCIS D'AMATO has earned his Ph.D. , w1th highest honors, in American literature. He is currently professor of English at Manchester Community College. NELSON FARQUHAR was among the group of honorary members present at the Annual Conference of the Country Day School Headmasters' Association last June at Trinity. 1957 GABRIEL ALEXANDER is a corporate manager of economics for United Technologies in Hartford. He is currently living in New Canaan. GEORGE MURRAY was one of 35 persons selected throughout the U.S. by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to attend a short course on rural preservation in Cazenovia, NY. 1960 GRACE CARBONE retired in June from Rockville High School where she was head of the business education department. She now lives in Gardner, MA. BARBARA SWEENEY reports that she is "delighted to be teaching at Windsor High School again after 16 years. Best of all, I have two Latin classes this yearLatin has not been taught in Windsor since 1974!" 1961 Dr. BETTE J. DEL GIORNO is a science consultant with the Fairfield Public Schools. She is the principal author on Elementary Science Series to be published in Spring, 1983. BERNARD GILMAN, who is retired from Hartford's school system, writes that his wife, Eleanor, passed away in March, 1980. MAXINE SPITZLER reports that she played the piano and r~corder at a television filming by Hartford Heartbeat, a pioneer cable television station. 1962 MARY PERRETTA is a teacher in Hartford and lives in Wethersfield. 1964 PHYLLIS RULNICK is retiring to Florida and sends her new address: 7208 Pine Park Drive West, Lake Worth, FL 33463. 1966 RUTH ELLWOOD is a special education resource teacher at the Lake Street School in Vernon . BILL CONTROVILLAS, who is a counselor at Farmington High School, has been appointed consultant to the SAT Committee of the College Board. CURT TAPLEY started his own independent consulting firm in law office
management after nineteen years of internal consulting in law and local government. 1967 GERTRUDIS D. CAMINERO received the doctor of modern languages degree from Middlebury College in Vermont. Her expertise is in Spanish and French. 1968 MIMI KAUFMANN teaches Chinese cooking and lives in South Glastonbury. 1969 HENRY AGOSTINELLI was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit. JOHANNA CONANT is department head of word processing at the Computer Processing Institute in East Hartford. ANTHONY H. SHOOKUS participated in a 14-day canoe trip on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine in September. He writes that they "paddled approximately 125 miles." 1970 THEODORE S. FORMICA has a new address: 680 West Jackson Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604. ARTHUR P. GREENBLATT is director of the business division of Mattatuck Community College in Waterbury. CLYDE P. HENDERSON was promoted to residential sales manager for H. Pearce Co., Realtors, Shoreline and North Haven offices. He has also been awarded the certified real estate brokerage manager designation from the Realtors National Marketing Institute. 1971 JOAN BARBUTO is a medical reporter for Jackson Newspapers in New Haven. 1972 BOB BEAUDOIN is president of the Connecticut chapter of Quality Circles. He is also president of the Brass City Toastmasters, an organization for which he was appointed area governor. FRANCIS CROWLEY is coordinator of academic support at Eastern Connecticut State College in Willimantic. He reports a new address: 428 Mulberry Road, Mansfield Center, CT 06250. ROBERTA GORDENSTEIN is a resource teacher for bilingual gifted/talented children at the BarnardBrown School in Hartford. She spent the summer of 1982 in Brazil on Fulbright grant studying Portuguese. PETER LEBETKIN received his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Connecticut in May, 1982. CAROL WESTERMAN is a Spanish instructor at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb. She joined the faculty in January, 1982. 1973 GEORGE EARLY was named a contributing editor of Frontiers of Science magazine earlier this year. In October, 1982, he was elected president of the Connecticut Writers League, Inc. KARLA HAMMOND is executive staff administrator with the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation. MARYLAND LINCOLN was elected secretary of the Public Relations Society of America, Connecticut Valley Chapter. She served as publication director of The Connecticut Writer, a book of prose and poetry. NICK PANELLA has recently been appointed chief contracts administrator for environmental control systems at Hamilton Standard Division of United Technologies. 1974 SYD ELKIN is an attorney with Tap-
per, Tapper & Elkin. He was named cochairman of the 1983 U.S. Jaycee National Convention to be held in Hartford in June, 1983. He has also been named one of America's Outstanding Young Men of 1982. The Rev. STEPHEN H. KYRIACOU has been appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Boston for the Greek Orthodox Church. 1975 CAROLYN NALBANDIAN is teaching courses at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and Waterbury, in sociology of mental illness, social welfare, and social work. She is also in private practice in Farmington. 1977 KAREN FOLEY-SCHAIN writes "this year I graduated from Antioch, gave birth to a son, and moved into a new home." PATRICIA SULLIVAN is employed by the Manchester Board of Education. Her son, Timothy, is now four and daughter, Katherine, almost one. 1978 DAVID D. THAYER completed his doctoral work in philosophy at Penn State. He is currently professor of philosophy and director of worship at St. Joseph's College in Mountain View, CA. His new address is P.O. Box 7009, Mountain View, CA 94039. 1979 ANNE DICHELE is executive director of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce. ROBERT HOLLAND has had two short stories published in Northeast Magazine of the Hartford Courant. ANN TREGLIA-HESS is in her fourth and last year at UConn Law School. 1980 DAVID M. MCDONOUGH is manager of corporate strategic planning for Heublein, Inc. 1981 MARY LOU CASSOTTO is an English teacher at East Catholic High School in Manchester. JURATE VAITKUS is central office supervisor at the State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. She presented a paper entitled "The Emergence of Hate Groups and Processes for their Neutralization: The Connecticut Experience," at the annual meeting of the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies, Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia. MICHAEL WILKINSON writes that he and his wife are "buying our first house a little stone 'cottage' on five acres in Bolton. Am sporadically looking for a job commensurate to my education and skills." 1982 NANCY MYNOTT DAVIS writes that she is employed in public relations at Miss Porter's School in Farmington. PEGGY J . JACOBS is international banking officer at the Hartford National Bank. JOSEPH LEMBO has been elected to a one-year term as chairman of the Connecticut State Management Advisory Council. He has a new address: 302 Narrow Lane, Orange, CT 06477. KATHLEEN A. PLOURD is curator of collections at Glensheen, University of Minnesota. V-12 ROBERT JACKSON is retired from his full-time position with the Fairfield Board of Education. He now works part-time as sports information director with the Fairfield County Interscholastic AthlHic Conference.
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1935 CLARENCE WA'ITERS is keeping busy since his 1967 retirement from Trinity_ He writes that he had "a great year, beginning with the 80th birthday celebration - then the tour of the Southwest the recital on April30." He is planning recitals in Cleveland, Washington and Hartford for the coming season.
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WILLIAM BENFIELD PRESSEY, 1915 William B. Pressey of Hanover, NH died on December 25, 1982. He was 88. Born in Ashton, RI, he received his B.A. degree from Trinity in 1915 and his M.A. from Harvard in 1916. While at Trinity he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, manager of the Glee Club and baseball team, editor-in-chief of the Tripod and editor of the Ivy. He served as a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps during World War I. He began his teaching career at M.I.T. in 1916 as an instructor of English. In 1919 he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College, where he remained until his retirement in 1961. He chaired the English department from 1935 to 1938, and was named the Willard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus. In connection with a Film Studies Program which he chaired, the Irving Thalberg Library of the Motion Picture was established. It became the foremost library in the country at the time for the study of motion picture writing. He published alone or with others twenty-two textbooks, mainly in drama, and numerous articles. For twenty-six years he wrote the article on American and British Literature for The New International Year Book. During 1945-46 and 1961-62, he served as visiting master in English at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. He was a vestryman and lay reader at the Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover. He is survived by a son, James C. of Brooklyn, NY; a daughter, Jacqueline P. Heneage of Westport, CT; and a sister. HARRY SCHWOLSK;Y, 1917 Harry Schwolsky of Hartford, CT died on January 21, 1983. He was 88. Born in Hartford, he attended local schools and received his B.S. from Trinity in 1917. He graduated from Yale University Law School in 1922. He was an Army veteran of World War I and II. He was promoted to full colonel in 1945. In peacetime, he served for twelve years as commander of the Hartford Light Guard Co., part of the Connecticut National Guard. He was promoted to brigadier general by the Guard in 1954. He practiced law in Hartford for 34 years. He was a member of the Connecticut and Hartford County Bar Associations. From 1935 to 1937 he served as judge of the Hartford Police and Juvenile Courts. He was active in local politics. A former town chairman and secretary of the Hartford Republican Town Committee, he also served as a member of the Republican State Central Committee, and chairman of the Second Senatorial District. His many affiliations included the Greater Hartford Community Chest, Hartford Jewish Community Center, Y.M.C.A., Connecticut Probation and Patrol Association, Connecticut Prison Association, Cerebral Palsy Association, Emanuel Synagogue, and the Elks.
He leaves two brothers, Irving Schwolsky of Hartford; Judge George Schwolsky of West Hartford; a sister, MaryS. Lewis of West Hartford; and several nieces and nephews. ARTHUR WAYNE HOARD, 1921 Arthur W. Hoard of Uniontown, P A died on July 9, 1982. He was 80. Transferring from West Virginia University in his junior year, he received his B.S. degree from Trinity in 1921. While at Trinity he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and played varsity basketball. He was a retired life insurance agent for Metropolitan Life. _ He had been an elder and treasurer of the Trinity United Presbyterian Church of Uniontown and a member of the Masontown Lodge. He leaves his wife, Mary (Leech) Hoard. STEFAN FRANCIS MUZIO, 1932 Stefan F. Muzio of West Hartford, CT died on November 23, 1982. He was 73. Born in Hartford, he graduated from Suffield Preparatory School and attended St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, and Trinity College with the Class of 1932. He was a retired employee of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford. He was a former member of the Civil Air Patrol and the Governor's Horse Guard . He leaves two sisters, a niece, three grandnephews and two grandnieces. JOEL !JAMS BROOKE, 1937 Dr. Joel I. Brooke of Noroton, CT died on November 2, 1982. He was 67. Born in Manhattan, he entered Trinity from the Lenox School in Massachusetts. As an undergraduate he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Sophomore Dining Club, and Medusa. He was also president of the Jesters, business manager of the Ivy and advertising manager of the Tripod . Hereceived his B.A. degree in 1937 and in 1974 he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was a lieutenant in the Coast Guard during World War II. Upon graduation from Trinity, he taught at the Rectory School in Pomfret, CT. He then was on the sales staff of Crowell Publishing and served as advertising manager for the publishing firm, A.S. Barnes, and Co. Following 12 years with Elmo Roper, a public opinion and marketing research firm, he taught sociology at New York University. His many affiliations included serving as trustee and president of the Fund for Peace, president of the Darien-Mercara India Committee, president of the Darien Public Library, and charter member of ABC- A Better Chance. He leaves his wife, Avery Brooke of Noroton, CT; two daughters, Lucy A. Brooke and Sarah M. Brooke, both of Manhattan; a son, Witter F.; and a sister. PHILIP ANTHONY CAPOBIANCO, 1940 Philip A. Capobianco of Rocky Hill, CT died on November 2, 1982. He was 64. Born in Hartford, he attended area schools. He was on the baseball team at Trinity and received his B.S. degree in 1940. Before retirement he was an industrial insulation contractor in Hartford. An Army veteran of World War II, he served as a master sergeant with the Connecticut 43rd division for five years. He was a member of St. James Church in Rocky Hill. He is survived by his wife, Roselle (Vallario) Capobianco of Rocky Hill, CT; and a brother.
RODNEY DENNIS HALL, JR., 1941 Rodney D. Hall, Jr. died on December 3, 1982. He was 64. Born in Buffalo, NY, he was graduated from the Kent School in Kent, CT. A member of Delta Psi fraternity at Trinity, he received his B.S. degree in 1941. In World War II, he attained the rank of Captain in the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army. He had been in the purchasing department of U.S. Rubber, and sales manager of the yarn division of American Thread Company in ew York City. Prior to his retirement in 1974, he owned and operated the Mantoloking Real Estate Agency in Mantoloking, NJ. He was a member of the Bay Head Yacht Club, and the Mantoloking Yacht Club, where he served on the board of governors for many years. He is survived by his wife, Carol (Benedict) of Mantoloking, NJ; two daughters, Louise Allen of Boulder, CO; Judith Hall of Cottonwood, AZ; a brother; and two grandchildren. PAUL FRANCIS FASI, 1946 Paul F. Fasi of Walnut Creek, CA died on November 16, 1982. He was 58. Born in Hartford, he entered Trinity from Weaver High School. He had been employed as an underwriter by Aetna Life, Prudential, and U.S. Life insurance companies. He served with the Air Corps in World War II. He leaves his wife, Jean (Anderson) Fasi of Walnut Creek, CA; four sons, Paul Jr., of Honolulu, HA; Richard and Mark, both of California; and Douglas of Colorado; his mother, Josephine Fasi of Wethersfield; two brothers; two sisters; and several nieces and nephews. FRANCIS JOHN CONNOLLY, 1950 Francis John Connolly of Farmington, CT died on October 11, 1982. He was 55. Born in Hartford, he attended West Hartford schools and received his B.A. degree from Trinity in 1950. He was the office manager for A&J Auto Paint Company in Hartford. He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II. He is survived by his wife, Beverly (Jones) Connolly of Farmington, CT; a son, Robert, of Maine; and a daughter, Kim Connolly of Farmington. DONALD EDWARD ALLEN, 1951 Donald E. Allen of South Windsor, CT died on January 21, 1983. He was 53. Born in Hartford, he was educated in West Hartford schools. At Trinity he was a member of the Newman Club and played varsity soccer. He received his B.A. degree from Trinity in 1951 and an M.A. degree from St. Joseph College in 1970. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean conflict. He had been employed by Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. and Allstate Insurance Co. before becoming a special education teacher in South Windsor, CT in 1965. He leaves his wife, Adrienne (Hoffman) Allen of South Windsor, CT; two sons, Peter E. of Ellington; John D. of South Windsor; a daughter, Sharon A. Rouleau, of Mesa, AZ; his mother, Alice (Cody) Allen of West Hartford; and two brothers. BENJAMIN CHARLES BERNDT, 1980 Lt. Benjamin C. Berndt of Sacramento, CA died on December 16, 1982. He was
24. His death was the result of the crash of an Air Force B-52 bomber on which he was a member of the crew. Born in Norwalk, CT, he graduated from Fairfield College Preparatory School. At Trinity he was associate editor of the Fall Course Evaluation Book, participated in the Horizons lecture program, and helped with various Chapel activities, including the Lessons and Carols services. At the time of his death he was with the Air Force, stationed at Mather Air Force Base in California. He leaves his wife, Lisa (Rutherford) Berndt; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Berndt, Jr., of Norwalk, CT; and several brothers and sisters. A fund has been established at Trinity in his memory.
RICHARD MANNING WOOLLEY, V-12 Richard M. Woolley of Short Hills, NJ died on November 26, 1982. He and his wife, Susan, were killed in an automobile accident that day in Frankfort Township. He was 57. Born in Newark, NJ he attended Trinity as part of the V-12 program. He received a master's degree from Rutgers University in 1946. He had been an engineer for Aircon Co. in Murray Hill, NJ and for HoffmannLaRoche Corp. in Nutley, NJ. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Tau Beta Phi, a national honorary engineering society. He is survived by a son, Richard M., Jr.; two daughters, Deborah G. Woolley and Diana W. Tyrone; two sisters, and a granddaughter. LEO MICHAEL MCCRANN, M.A. 1939 Leo M. McCrann of Boynton Beach, FL died on October 22, 1982. Born in Leominster, MA, he came to Hartford in 1927 after graduating from Fitchburg State Teachers College. He received a B.S. degree from Boston University and an M.A. degree from Trinity in 1939. He was employed by the Hartford school system for several years, serving as assistant superintendent of schools from 1951 to 1962. Following retirement, he was a consultant to the Connecticut State Department of Education. He was affiliated with the Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Hartford which he served as president. He was also on the National Advisory Council. He was chairman of the Hartford Junior Red Cross, and director of the Red Cross International Study Center in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also the Connecticut director of the National Retired Teachers Association. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne (Simard) McCrann; three daughters, Brenda McCrann of Framingham, MA; Carol McShane of Lincoln, NE; Michele Mulhern of Fort Wayne, IN; a brother, two sisters, and ten grandchildren. LEONARD WOOD KEOUGH, M.A. 1966 Leonard W. Keough of West Hartford, CT died on January 13, 1983. He was 63. Born in Peekskill, NY, he graduated from Central Connecticut State College and received his M.A. degree from Trinity in 1966. An Air Force veteran, he served in World War II. He was employed by the West Hartford school system as a teacher of English, Speech and Drama until his retirement last June. He leaves his brother, Robert P. Keough, of Springfield, MA.
COMMEMORATING
"The building to be loved without reserve":
THE NEW TRINITY CHAPEL BOOK The beautiful commemorative volume, The Chapel of Trinity College, by Peter Grant '72, is now available from the Trinity Bookstore. Published for the Jubilee celebration marking the Chapel's 50th anniversary, this fully illustrated, 136-page book is a distinguished addition to any library and an ideal gift for an alumnus/ a or friend ofT rinity at Commencement time, Mother's or Father's Day, or any oth er special day. Written by a well-known Hartford architectural historian, the book exam ines the Chapel in architectural as well as historical terms. Special features include:
Choose from either the softcover edition featuring a four-color photograph of the unique carved frieze at $9.95, or the deluxe hardbound version embossed with the Rose Window design at $ 19.95 plus mailing.
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Over 60 photographs and illustrations from the College archives, including a fascinating series taken during the Chapel's construction;
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Striking four-color photographs of the building's beautiful highlights: the Te Deum and Rose Windows and carved bestiary animals;
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A complete description and iconography of the magnificent wood carvingspew and kneeler ends, bestiary, friezes and misericord seats - along with historical background about the concepts and the donors;
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A recoun~ing of the lofty ideals that inspired -the building, insights into the principal figures involved, and a look at the hopes and goals of the individuals responsible for its execution;
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Previously unpublished correspondence among the three leading figures whose vision made the Chapel a reality - Trinity President Remsen B. Ogilby; Donor William G. Mather; and Architect Philip H. Frohman; .
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A self-guided tour of the Chapel, complete with map, giving descriptions of the architectural highlights and details.
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Proceeds from the sale of the book will be used for Chapelrp.aintenance.
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