National Alumni Association EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS President Vice Presidents Alumni Fund Campus Activities Admissions Public Relations Career Counseling Secretary-Treasurer
William H. Schweitzer '66, Washington, D.C. Jason M. Elsas, Jr. '58, New York, NY Jeffrey J. Fox '67, Avon, CT Susan Martin Haberlandt '71 West Hartford, CT Wenda Harris Millard '76, New York, NY Robert E. Brickley '67, West Hartford, CT Alfred Steel, Jr. '64, West Hartford, CT
MEMBERS Elizabeth Kelly Droney '79, West Hartford, CT Thomas M. Chappell '66, Kennebunk, ME James A. Finkelstein '74, Solana Beach, CA DanielL. Korengold '73, Washington, DC David A. Raymond '63, South Windsor, CT Stanley A. Twardy, ]r. '73, Stamford, CT Anne Knutson Waugh '80, Brooklyn Heights, NY Victor F. Keen '63, New York, NY, Ex Officio
Athletic Advisory Committee Lawrence H. Roberts '68, Collinsville, CT Donald]. Viering '42, Simsbury, CT Susan Martin Haberlandt '71, West Hartford, CT Alumni Trustees Marshall E. Blume '63, Villanova, PA Stanley J. Marcuss '63, Washington, D.C. Donald L. McLagan '64, Sudbury, MA David R. Smith '52, Greenwich, CT Carolyn A. Pelzel '74, Hampstead, NH Arlene A. Forastiere '71, Ann Arbor, MI Nominating Committee John C. Gunning '49, West Hartford, CT Wenda Harris Millard '76, New York, NY Norman C. Kayser '57, West Hartford, CT Peter Lowenstein '58, Riverside, CT William Vi bert '52, Granby, CT
LETTERS Dear Editor: I want to give Al Dexter the credit he deserves in lashing the Class of '36 into a fury of participation during last year's alumni drive for funds. Ya' gotta get our Class Agent's name straight! So, let's make amends for the unfortunate typo (Winter '86, p.2) by changing "Dester'' (sic) to "Dexter" and explaining what he was "recognized" for, namely, the award for "Greatest Participation" in the College's 1984-5 Alumni Fund drive. Thanks. Jack Hanna '36 Dear Editor: In response to the letter by Jack S. White '40, in the Winter edition-inside cover, may I recommend it be posted on your bulletin board for "edification of your (Right) wing faculty and students" at T rinity. If, in fact, black-run African countries such as Rhodesia, Angola, and Ethiopia, are now disasters, after rule by their former "vastly superior whites,"
perhaps that might reflect inadequate preparation for and transmission of power. There may also continue to be socioeconomic influences calculated by whites to guarantee unrest. If, and/or, when Trinity divests its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa, the only "disgrace" would be having taken so long to protest their "stupid" Apartheid policy. Ralph F. Davis '53 Dear Editor: Enclosed, you will find a clipping from the Winter 1986 Reporter. The clipping, a photograph of the burning Wesleyan "W," is most offensive. The burning of a W does not suggest anything appropriate for the spirit of an intercollegiate football rivalry. Instead, it connotes images of violence and hatred. Even more distressing, however, is the thought that Trinity students would do such an act and that the College would condone it by publishing it as a highlight of the homecoming weekend. It reflects a most unfortunate shallowness of thought and lack of sensitivity which I hope is not representative of the entire College community. Michael Ziskind '84 路
Sports Update A lot has happened since the Reporter deadline and most of it has been good. Some further news can be found in the photo captions and the "Scoreboard." For the latest, read on. First, Leanne LeBrun did break the women's basketball scoring record. The freshman scored 370 points, a 19.5 per game average. Then, at the National Squash Championships, seniors, J.D. Cregan and Bill Villari were named All-American from the men's squad, and Sophie Porter and Ellie Pierce were so honored among the women. Meanwhile, at the National Wrestling Championships, senior Joe Adam came in sixth in the 177-pound division to become Trinity's first-ever All-American wrestler. Finally, on March 8, a red-letter day in Trinity sports history, the men's basketball and ice hockey squads won the ECAC Championships. The hoopsters won their third straight title and Coach Stan Ogrodnik his lOOth win (against just 25 losses) when they defeated Southern Maine 52-50 to finish 22-4. Ken Abere, the ECAC Player-of-the-Year, scored the final two of his team-high 20 points on a jump shot with 28 seconds remaining for the winning margin. His school record four-year point total rests at 1816. In the final seven seconds, he drew a charging foul and stole the ball to preserve the win, Trinity's 15th straight (a team record) and their 24th straight at Ferris. To reach the finals, T rinity defeated W.P.I. 82-65 and edged E.C.S.U. 61-60. Seniors Abere and Pfohl graduate, having won 87 of 102 games, 50 of 53 at home. Earlier that day, John Dunham's hockey troops won their first-ever ECAC Championship, dominating Curry 5-1. Senior Vern Meyer had three goals and an assist, Reed Whitmore had four assists. The Bantams finished with ten wins and a 22-5 record. They breezed through the playoffs, reaching the finals by smashing St. John's 7-1 behind Meyer's hat trick and assist, and destroying Connecticut College 9-4 as Meyer scored once and tallied five assists, three on goals by Whitmore. Meyer, named ECAC South Player-of-the-Year, was joined on the ECAC All-Star T earn by goaltender Art FitzGerald and defenseman Mike Solomita.
Trin!fYREPORTER Editor: William L. Churchill Associate Editor: Kathleen Frederick '71 Associate Editor: Roberta Jenckes Sports Editor: David G. Nagle '83 Staff Writer: Martha Davidson Publications Assistant: Kathleen Davidson Consulting Editor: J. Ronald Spencer '64
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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Frank M. Child Ill Professor of Biology
Gerald J. Hansen, Jr. '51 Director of Alumni & College Relations
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Professor of English
DEMYSTIFYING ADMISSIONS
Theodore T. Tansi '54
By Roberta Jenckes A talk with Trinity's admissions director sheds light on the process through which a new freshman class is chosen each year.
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A TIME FOR RECONCILIATION By The Rt. Rev. Desmond M. Tutu The stirring words of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate inspired and thrilled a crowd of 3,000 at Trinity in January.
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THE MADONNA OF 115TH STREET By Robert A. Orsi '7 5 In an article based on a new book, an alumnus provides an in-depth look at life in Italian Harlem in the early 1900's.
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THE HISTORY OF A HISTORY By Glenn Weaver Some 26 years ago Historian Glenn Weaver called on alumni to help write the College history. Now he's issuing the plea anew for Volume II.
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SPRING REUNION '86 Alumni returning to campus this June will enjoy a program of events that appeals to varied interests.
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A program designed to integrate faculty and graduate students into T rinity's residential life will begin next fall, with the introduction of a mentor system on campus. Endorsed by various College groups, including the alumni Board of Fellows, the plan will be undertaken in two residential zones: the South Campus complex and the adjacent Elton and Jones dormitories, which together house about 540 students. A team of seven mentors, led by members of the faculty and assisted by graduate or post-doctoral students residing in the dormitories, will be responsible for creating expanded intellectual and cultural activities in the two residential groupings. Mentors' roles will be as advisers and role models, rather than disciplinarians, according to Vice President Thomas A. Smith. Since relatively few faculty live in College housing or within walking distance of the campus, the new program will provide structured opportunities for students and faculty to interact in a non-academic setting. The mentors will work with the existing network of resident and program coordinators and assistants, undergraduates with special counseling and programming responsibilities in the dormitories. Graduate mentors will be available twenty hours a week for academic advising and to assist faculty mentors in planning activities for the residents in their zone. The mentor system is expected to become campus-wide in the next several years.
we're going to see some payoff," Stilley says. With the exception of one junior high school student, the group was composed of seniors from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Tennessee who either had applied for admission already or had been referred by their guidance counselors. For the students, one of the weekend's highlights was hearing South African Bishop Desmond Tutu speak at an academic convocation. Also, the visitors from large high schools were especially pleased that they had the chance to talk on a personal basis with Trinity faculty members during a Saturday morning brunch, Stilley notes. Alumni who participated in a panel discussion provided the students with another perspective on Trinity. Donald K. Jackson '83, Jamaal M. Kantey '82, Grace J. E. Morrell '79 and Vera L. T oro '79 described their experiences as minority students at Trinity and how their education had prepared them for life after college.
Other events included a talk on financial aid, sessions with senior interviewers and a bus tour of Hartford that concluded with a visit to the Italian pastry shops on Franklin Avenue. Trinity undergraduates Wayne Gill '87 and Eloise M. Nurse '87 helped out by lining up student hosts and organizing a dance and other social activities at the Umoja House for the visitors, Stilley says. Admissions has held similar programs twice in the past few years and intends to continue the program next year.
CONSORTIA AID CAREER PLANNING About 100 Trinity seniors devoted a few days over the semester break in January to the important task of exploring career options after graduation. The students traveled to New York and/ or Boston, where Trinity was participating in recruiting consortia, a new program whereby colleges arrange interviews for their students with
COLLEGE HOSTS MINORITY WEEKEND Thirty-nine minority high school students came from as far away as Illinois for a three-day sample of life at Trinity in mid-January. The minority weekend program was sponsored by the Admissions Office as a method of bolstering minority recruitment efforts. Students who were invited to participate said the weekend was enlightening and fun, according to Ramona F. Stilley, assistant to the director of admissions. "I think this year
CLASS IDENTITY PLAN moves ahead with the formation of a freshman class committee. One-tenth of the Class of '89 - 46 members - responded enthusiastically to the call.
Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk potential employers in major cities. In New York, Trinity, along with Middlebury, Connecticut College, Tufts and Stanford, had two days of interviews in one location for students with recruiters from 31 top companies. The Boston consortium included students from Trinity, Holy Cross, Bates and Bowdoin, and involved 11 companies. Students from each college interested in participating had submitted their resumes in advance to the companies, who pre-selected the candidates they wanted to see. The process was competitive: 114 Trinity students tried for interviews in New York, and 67 received at least one invitation to speak with a recruiter. Michael Kanef, an economics major from New City, NY, had six interviews in New York with banks and investment banking firms. "If I'd had to do this on my own, it probably would have involved six separate trips to the city. It would have been time-consuming and expensive ," Kanef said. He has already received two invitations for follow-up interviews. Molly Schnorr, a French major from Philadelphia, has already had a second contact with St. Martin's Press, and is hoping to h ear from Macy's. Director of Career Counseling Rozanne Burt points out that the consortium approach has advantages for both the colleges and the companies. Most of the firms that are invited to participate do not regularly recruit on the campuses of all the schools. "It is not realistic to assume that we can convince all these employers to visit our campuses," Burt explains. Thus, the consortia provide interviews for students with companies they might not otherwise get to see, and the contacts are made early in the recruiting season. "These were the first interviews for most people," Schnorr recalls. "It was great experience." The consortia approach allows the companies to pre-select candidates for interviews, and to "get the jump" on their competition for highly-qualified graduates. The arrangement is also a time and money-saver for the firms, who pay a modest fee for participating. This is the second year for the New York Recruiting Consortium, and the number of companies involved is nearly double last year's group. The
THREE NAMED FULL PROFESSORS
DR. WILLIAM De VRIES, first surgeon to implant an artificial heart, addressed 500 in February lecture.
program in Boston, and an upcoming consortium in Washington on March 24, are brand-new efforts. Kanef, who had his six interviews in one morning and afternoon, said, "It was n't the most relaxing day I've ever had. But it was worth it."
SENIORS ELECTED TO PHI BETA KAPPA Eight members of the Class of 1986 have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the scholastic honor society. The T rinity chapter, founded in 1845, is the eighth oldest in the United States. The new members are: Bruce Buttaro of East Granby, CT; David Fontaine of Bristol, CT; Sarah Giblin of Noank, CT; Marianne Ryan of Mineola, NY; Joseph Scorese of Saddle River, NJ; Christopher Scola of Glastonbury, CT; James Sickinger of West Simsbury, CT; and Samuel Slaymaker of Gap, PA. Additional elections will be held in March and May. About ten percent of the senior class will eventually be named to Phi Beta Kappa.
Three faculty members have been promoted to the rank of full professor, effective September 1, 1986. JOHN D. BREWER has been named professor of sociology. Brewer holds his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. A member of the faculty since 1972, he served as chairman of the sociology department from 1973-83. His major teaching interests are the sociology of formal organizations and small groups, social psychology and contemporary sociological theory. He is co-author of the forthcoming book, "Multimethod Social Research." WILLIAM M. MACE has been named professor of psychology. A graduate of Yale University, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He joined the faculty in 1971 and served as chairman of the psychology department from 1975-85. His areas of research and publication are in the field of ecological psychology with particular emphasis currently on color perception. RALPH 0. MOYER, JR. has been named professor of chemistry. A graduate of Southeastern Massachusetts University, he received his M.S. from the University of Toledo and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Moyer became a faculty member in 1969 and is currently serving as chairman of the chemistry department. His field of research and publication is in inorganic chemistry, with particular focus on bimetallic ternary hydride systems.
NEW ADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED Three people were appointed recently to continuing, full-time positions in the administration. MARY ELLEN HANLEY, registrar. Hanley comes to Trinity from the University of Massachusetts where she was information systems coordinator and earlier worked as acting undergraduate registrar, associate registrar and database project coordinator. She was college registrar at Bethany College in Lindsborg, KA. She has worked in computer systems analysis, project
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management and technical writing. She holds a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University and has done graduate work at the University of Massachusetts, Polytechnic Institute of New York and Creighton University. CHERYL IVES SMITH, director of institutional affairs. Smith previously worked in career counseling at Trinity from 1978-81. Since 1981, she has worked in personnel at Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company and was manager of personnel administration for Otis Elevator Company. Smith is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds M.A. degrees from Wesleyan University and Columbia University's Teachers College. She received a law degree from Western New England College and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1983. THOMAS G. MILLER, planned giving officer. He earned his B.A. from Windham College and has taken courses at University of Denver College of Law. He has worked as a consultant to John Brown Ltd. of Acton, MA, director of planned giving at University of Denver, associate director of planned giving and government programs at Wellesley College and director of alumni affairs and assistant to the president at Windham College.
TRINITY RECEIVES CORPORATE GRANTS Trinity has recently received two unrestricted grants from major corporations. Household International, Inc. of Prospect Heights, Illinois, awarded the College $20,000 under the corporation's Support of Higher Education Program. The gift, to be paid over four years, continues a series of annual grants which Trinity began receiving in 1980. Trinity was also one of 11 selective liberal arts colleges to receive a grant from the Atlantic Richfield Foundation of Los Angeles. The grant of $25,000 is the first unrestricted gift Trinity has been given by the foundation, which is sponsored by the Atlantic Richfield Company. The foundation also maintains a two-forone matching gift program, donating to colleges like Trinity twice the
ST. ANTHONY HALL, Delta Psi chapter house, was built in 1878. amount contributed by their employees. "The gifts that Trinity receives from corporations, both directly and through matching gift programs, are very important in the support of our academic program," commented President English.
ST. ANTHONY HALL BECOMES LANDMARK St. Anthony Hall, the chapter house of Delta Psi fraternity, has been declared a national landmark and listed
on the National Register of Historic Places. According to Mario Aguero '86, author of a recent history of St. Anthony Hall, it is the oldest fraternity house in the country still in use for its original purpose. St. Anthony Hall was constructed in 1878 at the cost of $28,000. It was donated by Robert Habersham Coleman, Class of 1877, a Pennsylvania industrialist and a member of Delta Psi. Though designed by J. Cleveland Cady, Class of 1860, of New York, the Hall bore a strong resemblance to the London residence of William Burges,
Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk the architect of Trinity's Long Walk buildings. Intended to blend in with the style of Trinity's new campus, then under construction, the fraternity house was, according to Trinity historian Dr. Glenn Weaver, "a radical departure from the customary 'tomb-like' structures of the secret societies on other campuses." As a national landmark, the building is protected from threat of demolition to make way for federal and state projects, and is eligible for grant assistance for restoration and rehabilitation.
BREWSTER GIFT TOTALS $100,000 Trinity has received a $100,000 unrestricted gift from the estate of the late Eleanor L. Brewster of Hartford. Miss Brewster, who passed away July 7,
1985, had provided the funds for Trinity in a charitable trust. A long-time friend ofTrinity College, she was the only daughter of the Rt. Rev. Chauncy Bunce Brewster, former Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. An author, Miss Brewster had written two books arguing that the Earl of Oxford had written Shakespeare's works. She was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, the Town and County Club, the Saturday Morning Club, and was a member of the board of the. Hartford Conservatory.
ALUMNI ADMISSIONS PROGRAM SET Sons and daughters of alumni/ ae are invited to sign up for the annual, threeday admissions weekend slated for Sep-
tember 19-21. The objective of the program is to acquaint high school seniors with the college admissions process and to enhance their chances of entering the college of their choice, whether or not they plan to attend Trinity. During the weekend participants will have opportunities to talk with admissions officers, attend classes and join with current undergraduates in dormitory life and various activities. There will also be a period set aside for general counseling on college admissions procedures. All alumni will receive a mailing this summer describing the weekend in more detail. Those wishing additional information should contact Gerald J. Hansen, Jr., director of alumni and college relations, who is organizing the program.
CELEBRATING HARTFORD: an appreciative audience of 300 attended the February concert of music from 1890 to 1920, offered in conjunction with the city's and the state's 350th anniversary. Many in the audience attended the reception following the concert in the Watkinson Library, where an exhibition of its diverse music holdings was on display.
Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Another Bus Poem I curl in a small circle of Greyhound reading light. Across the aisle, an orange pinpoint of light in so much darkness is an old woman dragging on her cigarette. I sat beside her when I got on. She didn't move her pocketbook. I took two seats across the aisle when the shaky man with the brown bag got off in New Britain. I try to read, but these things come to me, instead: Why do some people choose the back of the bus, but don't smoke? How many couples have kissed in the way-back seat, next to the bathroom? And what do they look like? A woman in blue jeans looks out her window. She's not wondering all as much as I am. She knows of someone to think about her dog, her boyfriend. 6
I count license plates from Texas and New Hampshire, then, bored with that game, I collect unlit letters of neon signs: BA UET IgetNQ. E MOTEL makes me think about emoting and motels.
SOPHOMORE Jill A. Mello of Fall River, MA was this year's recipient of the Faculty Scholar Prize in recognition of her outstanding academic work and scholarly potential. Here she is congratulated by Professor Edward W. Sloan, left, and President James F. English, Jr.
SENIOR TOURS POETRY CIRCUIT Meg E. Bishop, a senior English major, has been named a Connecticut Student Poet for 1986. She and three other college students were selected for the honor on the basis of a statewide competition sponsored by the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. These four student poets are reading their work at campuses around the state during the spring semester. Bishop wrote and served as editor for the "Trinity Review," the College literary magazine, was awarded the first prize of the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prizes in Poetry during her sophomore and junior years, and was a teaching assistant for an advanced literary writing course. "I write mostly about people I know," Bishop says. "One thing I learned this year is that a lot of what writing is about is empathizing with other people and seeing things from their points of view. The process for me is trying to understand what a person feels . If you can do that, you're bound to be able to write about something
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J in two new extended-payment/loan Meg E. Bishop that will communicate to other people. "I would like to write about more political things. I've tried to write about the nuclear threat - it's very hard to be political and artistic." Bishop, who completed requirements for her B.A. in December, plans to travel across the United States this spring. She intends to study creative writing at graduate school in the fall and plans to become a teacher.
programs. Connecticut's Family Education Loan Program, now in operation, makes available up to $10,000/year at 10.98% with 140 months to repay; call 800-358-3357 (in Connecticut) or 203522-0766 for more information and application forms. Next fall Trinity will also participate in the SHARE program, which promises a similar interest rate with more flexibility in repayment. More exact information is available from the Trinity financial aid office, 203-527-3151, X 365.
Demystifying Admissions The critical factors behind 'admit' and 'deny' are explored. By Roberta Jenckes
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on Dietrich has taken to hiding at social gatherings in his home town of Glastonbury, CT. Even he laughs as he relates this, for the behavior is highly idiosyncratic in Trinity's affable and outgoing admissions director. As director for four years ofTrinity's admissions effort and a nine-year veteran of the field, Dietrich is known for his upbeat, friendly manner and the tireless enthusiasm with which he "sells" Trinity College in an increasingly competitive atmosphere. The "hiding," it turns out, has to do with that effort. "There is a mystique about admissions work," Dietrich explains, "this mystery about how we decide who's selected. People are intrigued by it. When I go to parties in town and people learn what I do, that's all they want to talk about. They wonder, 'How do you choose? What is the difference between one applicant and the other? What are the most important factors?' " Dietrich says that these same questions and considerations are discussed frequently among his staff, particularly during the months from December to April, when they are reading applicant files and making admissions decisions. Even as they are making these decisions about the Class of '90, however, their recruitment efforts are beginning for the Class of '91. Throughout the year they are assisted by a support staff of seven, who handles the volumes of mail generated by some 11 ,500 inquiries annually, the scheduling of interviews, correspondence and telephone inquiries, and entering information about applicants into the computer. But, the real crunch period for the staff is in the months of February and March. By early March Dietrich and the five officers - Associate Directors Larry Dow and Reggie Kennedy, Assistant Directors Jane Reynolds and Martha Stassen, and Assistant to the Director Ramona Stilley - must have read and rated all 3400 applicant files, leaving three to four weeks for the "committee" evaluations. In committee they meet from 10:00 in the morning until late at night, five days a week, until the final admissions decisions have been made and some 1300 candidates have been admitted for the following fall. The number of admission offers extended is based on recent years' experience at the College showing that 1300 applicants must be offered admission to enroll the 460-odd in the class. How is the class selected? What is the process that leads up to those final decisions? First, early in the year's planning comes the development of a travel itinerary for the staff. A good chunk of time is spent each year in
travel around the country, visiting high schools, participating in college fairs, talking with school counselors about Trinity. Dietrich travels as the rest of the staff does, and, in fact, spends more time away from the office - about eight weeks - than most directors of admissions do. But, he is a great believer in the value of staff visits to the high schools. "There's a direct result between in-person recruiting and what we see in applications from the schools," Dietrich says. "If you're going to talk to students, you've got to get to the schools, talk to the counselors, make them know what you're about. "In June, after we admit this class, we'll sit down as a staff and decide where everybody is going. We have different territories that have been assigned and I try to let people go to the same places for a few years in a row, because they develop a relationship with the counselors. But, I think you need to change periodically so that the counselors can get to know the staff. "For instance, Washington is a week trip. Reggie Kennedy will go there, do a college fair and a week's worth of high school visits; the same thing in Baltimore," he says. "This year Ramona Stilley visited Illinois for 21/ 2 weeks. She's from there, she was an Illinois Scholar and she knows all about that program. And, we got more Illinois students in this year's freshman class, largely because of Ramona's influence. Another example: we never had any luck with Minnesota. Martha Stassen used to recruit out there, so when she joined the staff, I sent her back to Minnesota. There are three freshmen from Minnesota, which is three more than there were the year before." Some areas are on the admissions travel schedule every year, some are every other year, and some are tried on an experimental basis to see if they bring results. The staff members complete reports for each trip, and these are evaluated when the same areas are being considered the following year. Dietrich and the staff will review the applications received from the schools on that trip. If there haven't been any for two years, they may cancel that school and add another one in the area. On the other hand, cultivating a relationship with a new school is, in Dietrich's assessment, a three-year venture. "Let's say I wanted to start things in Kansas City," he explains. "I probably would call an alumnus and ask, 'now, which schools are the hot places?' I'd also look at the National Merit list to see which schools have semi-
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..... I chose Trinity because it was a small liberal arts college with a good study abroad program. I surprised myself by staying so close to home. Trinity has a good reputation; that was part of it. I met Ramona Stilley at a college fair at my school. After talking with her I de路 cided to come and look at the school. The people were so friendly, and I fell in love with the campus .
..... I wanted a relativery small school. I didn't want to be too far away from home. I liked the way it looked. It had a good reputation. The people here seemed like ones I would get along with well. I had heard it wasn't very competi路 tive among the students - you'd be more competitive with yourself than with others. My sister had suggested Trinity to me, and then my guidance counselor did. It just came up several times.
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finalists, and I'd schedule maybe two days' worth of visits at these schools. Initially my visit is going to be really laying the ground work- talking to counselors, bringing all of our publications, tal~ing about whom we compete with, the kinds of programs we have, the kinds of students we're interested in. If you get good counselors, they'll get kids out of class for you. If you do that, you're probably going to see results the next year. Now, if you can enroll a student, then you're golden. We've done that with a high school in Granite City, lllinois. We've had the valedictorian in the last three or four years from that school. Because of the lllinois Scholarship Program and because the most respected kids from that school have come here, everybody knows about Trinity." Dietrich says he doesn't have the staff to visit every high school, so that college fairs represent a good opportunity for the admissions staff members to meet with students from schools Trinity is not visiting. Even the high school visits can be "hit-or-miss propositions," in some cases. "Say that I'm visiting a high school at nine o'clock," Dietrich explains, "and there's a calculus test at 9:10. Well, the students I want to see are probably not going to be there to see me." Not all of the admissions staffs "road time" is devoted to school visits. Both Dietrich and Jane Reynolds have conducted essay workshops at high schools, offering students advice on what admissions officers are looking for in students' application essays. "The residual effect of that is very good," Dietrich says. "If I went to a school to see students interested in Trinity, I might see two or three kids. This way I see the entire senior class. I'm doing something that is helpful to them, but also they'll remember Trinity." Students who are seeking more information about Trinity are given an application request card, on which they can also request any of the College's recruitment publications in specific fields. A student interested in engineering will be sent a science and engineering bro-
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chure, as well as the College viewbook, and an application will go out when they are mailed for that class. When the application is sent, it is recorded in the computer and a file is made. Applications are numbered, so that, for instance, the first application for the Class of 1990 would be 9000001, and all of the documents in the application would have that number. In the packet are a personal application, request forms for transcripts, two teacher recommendations, counselor recommendations, sports and arts information cards, financial aid form and other documents. As information is received, it is placed into the student's file. The file becomes ready for reading when it has the personal application, two teacher recommendations, the SATs and English Composition achievement test scores, and the counselor recommendation. Each applicant's file is read by two admissions officers and Dietrich. The first reading is assigned alphabetically; the second, according to the staff member's geographic or school responsibility. Each reader uses a different color pen, and documents are placed in the folder in a specific sequence. There is the Admissions Testing Program report, with the scores of SATs and any other tests taken. The secondary school report is usually attached to the student's transcript. The student's counselor is asked to rate his or her academic promise, character and personal promise, and overall rating, on a scale of one to nine. The quality of the student's academic program is also rated by his or her school, on a scale of one to four. If the student had an interview at Trinity, a rating from that session will be given on the basis of academics, activities and personal qualities. The student's rank in class will also be noted. The first reader has the responsibility for recording these ratings for the next two readers, circling the student's highest SATs, evaluating the transcript and highlighting any grades or comments that are noteworthy. Advanced placement classes will be noted, as will weaker grades or courses like typing, which Trinity
.... I chose _Trinity for the small school atmosphere, because I came from a small prep school. I liked the urban location, yet it's still its own separate entity. I looked at all the NESCAC schools, and Trinity was academically stronger than most of the others. In terms of the schools I applied to, I stayed within a three-hour radius of home. I knew about Trinity through alumni of my school, and my college advisor stressed it. There are six of us freshmen from Deerfield, which is unusual. Small schools were making a comeback for our class .
..... I liked the campus better than other colleges. I liked the old dorms and also the open curriculum. I hadn't thought about my major, so I could get a liberal arts education. I knew about the College from my guidance counselor, who suggested Trinity.
Becky Holt, Ellsworth, ME
doesn't count. Comments about the student's essay will be highlighted, along with notes from the interview. Dietrich reads all the files, but usually does not read the two previous readers' evaluations before making his own. Number ratings from one to nine are assigned for academic, personal and activity categories by each staff reader, and that number rating is ultimately translated into a letter grade of A (admit), B (wait-list), or C (deny), with pluses and minuses. As the third reader, Dietrich will finalize a rating if he agrees with the initial two ratings. If he disagrees, he'll put a different rating on it, so that it will come back when the staff meets in committee. That final rating will be entered into the computer, and, as the reading process intensifies, a computer printout is read daily by Dietrich. The printout indicates the status of applicants, specifies numbers for public and independent schools, for minorities, for gender. The admissions yield is different for men and women, so Dietrich likes to be able to see a breakdown by sex. But, most importantly, the printout allows him to see whether he and the staff are on schedule in the reading process. Before the admissions staff goes into the committee phase, early in March, groups of applicants will be considered. If there are more than ten applicants from one school, then they'll be reviewed together. The admissions staff person responsible for that school will discuss each candidate with the school counselor, and then go over the group with Dietrich. When the staff meets in committee, the first group they will review will be candidates from Illinois who are applying for aid. A list ranking the candidates will be prepared for presentation to the Illinois Scholarship Board in mid-March. Next the committee will consider foreign students, because letters with admission decisions have to be mailed to them by April 1st, about a week earlier than the rest of the applicants. Then the committee will consider
]ames Dorman, Amherst, MA
groups of alumni children, minorities and athletes. After these major constituencies have been considered, the committee will see how many admits remain. "Then," Dietrich says, "we'll look at A - ratings and make decisions on those right away. Next we'll pull the files on any B + ratings that haven't been finalized. When we've reached the number of admits, we'll reconstruct our yield figures and make sure we're on target. Each of the staff is given one "memorial scholar" somebody who probably isn't going to get the support of everyone in committee, but about whom the staff member feels very strongly. If there are some students that we really want to admit, but we've run out of space - and that happens every year - we'll work toward developing a prime wait list, until we get about 50. Those are the first ones we'd admit if we go to the wait list. We'll look at the rest of the B ratings, and decide whether to wait-list or deny. For all intents and purposes, anyone with less than a B is going to be denied. Last year the applicant pool was so strong we were waitlisting kids with B + ranks. "I think the staff acts very responsibly in making admission decisions," Dietrich says, adding, "When we go into a vote, because there are five staff members, the vote comes out nicely. And usually before the vote there are about ten or 15 minutes of discussion. I'll write down what the vote was." What are the kinds of factors that would be persuasive for. a "yes" vote? Is there an "ideal" Trinity candidate? Dietrich thinks not. "I think if you're successful at trying to develop a diverse community, you won't have an ideal candidate," he says. "Intellectually we could have our ideal candidates, and, they are students who really question. There are very few of those kids around. The colleges have become so selective that there's a real pressure to get in the most prestigious colleges." The pressure to get in the most selective colleges manifests in different ways. Some admissions officers in re-
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It was partially due to the location and the size. You can do things in the city, with the Civic Center and shop· ping. And the size: it isn't too big. You can go on Twelve College Exchange or to the Rome campus. It's not too far away from home - I can visit my par· ents if I want to. It's a college, so the professors are more interested in the students than at a large university. And, Trinity is pretty well-known for job place· ment.
Lisa Abshire, Weston, CT
..... It was a small school with a good ac· ademic reputation. The professors were very accessible, and I liked the ease with which I could get involved in activities. When I came to visit Trinity, I was impressed with the willingness of faculty and administrators to help stu· dents during Open Period. Also, the fact that there was a Writing Center struck me, because I had had some trouble with writing in high school. That indi· cated to me that Trinity was here to help. The Twelve College Exchange, in· ternships, a very good abroad program all contradicted the idea that a small place wouldn't have opportunities.
Marcello Apolito, Montclair, NJ
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TRINITY'S ADMISSIONS STAFF~ from left are, Assistant to the Director Ramona Stilley, Assistant Directors Martha Stassen and Jane Reynolds, Associate Directors Larry Dow, Reggie Kennedy, and, center, Director Don Dietrich.
..,... I was looking at colleges that were small and had an open curriculum. Since I went to Glastonbury High School, I knew Don Dietrich through A.B.C. (A Better Chance). He introduced me to Trinity in the first place. Trinity was really my goal, because I visited so much. I went to Cinestudio and had met some people at the College. Being here gave me a good feeling. I love the place; the atmosphere is just me. And, Trinity gave me an excellent financial aid pack路 age . ...,._The main thing was that I wanted to go to school on the East Coast, and get a different experience. I was looking for a small liberal arts college, with a small class where you get involved, get to know the professors, get comfortable with the surroundings. And also one that had the highest academic standards. I had a list of what I wanted, and went through the college guides. I knew a sophomore here, came to see the Col路 lege and loved it.
Edward Osborne, Bronx, NY
cent years have commented on the discouraging lack of statement and verve in students' essays, as the writers worry about making any kind of statement that might be controversial. Reflecting on this judgment by his peers at other colleges, Dietrich is inclined to agree that the quality of the essays his staff sees is increasingly weaker every year. But, he says, Trinity's are good essay questions. "We're criticized sometimes, because they're tough. Our essays really make kids think," he says. "We subscribe to the common application, and frankly I don't like the common application's essay questions. They're so loosely worded the student can write about anything, a summer trip to Europe, for instance. And, those tend to be very boring. If you want good essays, you have to ask good questions. My idea of a good essay is one that tells me something about the writer that I didn't know in some other way before I started reading it." Some of the recent essay topics for Trinity applicants have been, "If you had to have an identifying maxim, what would it be and why?" and "What do you think has been the most important social or political movement of the 20th century, and do you share a personal identification with this cause?" The latter question was very seldom addressed when Dietrich first came to Trinity. But now, he says, there's a little more activism in the high schools, and students will write about the movement to feed the hungry, or anti-nuclear power, or abortion. "Sometimes students write things that none of us agrees with," Dietrich notes. "But, they defend their thoughts carefully, and you know that they're thinking about it. A couple of years ago we had a great question that was a John Dewey quote: 'It does not pay to tether one's thoughts to the post of use with too short a rope.' When we discussed that question as a staff, we knew that the response we wanted was why a liberal arts education would benefit the student. Very few kids picked that up. But what happened, interestingly enough, is
Sara Parachini, Piedmont, CA
that a number of them called and asked where we got the quote, who John Dewey was. Some of them didn't know what the word 'tether' meant, so they had to go to the dictionary and look that up. A couple of kids actually said they were interested in reading more of John Dewey. So, it did serve an educational purpose." In addition to evidence of intellectual curiosity, the admissions staff looks at the quality and rigor of the student's academic program, and for signs of success in the program. Then they look to see whether the SATs and achievement test corroborate that. "We hesitate to take kids who have really high SATs but who haven't done well in the classroom," Dietrich says. "To me, that's a real sign of laziness. The students who are good risks may have modest SATs, but have taken really strong academic programs, done very well and worked very hard. I would say of the 3400 applicants, probably 2500 of them could do the work here. It's usually the case that it's tougher to get into most selective colleges than it is to get out," he notes. The whole question of SATs and what they really mean is a troubling one to Dietrich. This year's freshman class posted combined average SAT scores of 1210, which were 50 points higher than those of the Class of '88 and the highest since 1971. The admissions office had had a five-year goal of improving SAT scores by 50 points to 1210, but, accomplishing that in one year, it now has been charged with increasing them to 1260 within five years. Dietrich feels that the goal of 1260 can't be met "without feeling the pinch in other areas," specifically, without affecting several of the constituency groups. "There's a much broader issue," he says, "and that is, do the scores mean anything? There was some increase nationally last year. A lot more students were taking coaching and were taking the test more times. Obviously if you take it four times, you can assume that your test scores are going to go up. There's talk at some colleges about averaging out the SATs, so that there
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.... I chose Trinity because of its location. It's close enough to home but far enough away to give me a sense that I'm on my own. I like the fact that we're in the city, for internships, and because I think it's an important fact of growing up. I think the socioeconomic education is important. And, I definitely want to study abroad. I knew about Trinity because it was my brother's first choice when he was applying to schools .
.... I had heard positive things about the academic reputation from my college counselor, and just generally. Trinity has a relatively urban location, which is ad路 vantageous, as opposed to a very rural location. I did visit the school during spring visitation days, and the atmosphere seemed to be positive. I had a good feeling about it, and I knew some students who were here. They all seemed to enjoy it very much.路 An older brother came here and enjoyed it.
Barbara Scudder, Fairfield, CT
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isn't a real incentive to keep taking them so that your scores go up. The impact of coaching has been quite real. One coaching service says quite frankly that they will guarantee that your SATs will go up by 150-200 points, or you get your money back. If they can make those assertions, there has to be something to that coaching method. We saw the impact of coaching last year. That's one of the reasons our SATs went up. We as a staff saw a noticeable increase in the November SATs over the earlier ones. As a gut reaction I think that is a response to coaching. "The trouble that I have with coaching is that it costs a lot of money. There's not a lot of pro bono time given, and, if it raises the SAT expectation and averages, what does that do to the public high school kid in a workingclass community who doesn't have the money to pay for coaching and is doing the SAT route the way it should be done? That student's SATs are going toremain the same and de facto are going to be perceived to be lower, because the averages have gone up. It's just not fair to them, and it perpetuates the criticisms of the kind of college environment where most of the students are wealth y and come from middle to upper-middleclass suburban America." Rank-in-class is becoming almost a meaningless statistic as well, according to Dietrich. He says that every year there has been an increase in the number of schools that stop ranking, so that this year a full33% of the freshmen came without ranking. More and more schools are ranking in deciles or quintiles, rather than in a specific number. And, Dietrich says, schools are eliminating actual rank because they feel that it encourages students to be a bit too competitive. "I would rather have a student who's ranked fourth in a class than first," Dietrich notes. "Oftentimes the student who's ranked fourth in a class will have more intellectual stimulation than one who's ranked first. They're bright kids who want to learn and who are really going to take some risks. A lot of times the vale-
Ford Peck, Dayton, OH
dictorians don't take any risks. They're going to play it safe so they can maintain that top position. "After the academic side, you look at other reasons to admit. You say, 'we're trying to build a community here, what do we need to keep this community going?' We look at the various constituencies at that point. If the student has a talent in art, music, drama, dance, or writing, and it's a corroborating talent - we know that because our art department has looked at the portfolio, for instance - that's going to make a difference. "Leadership positions are important. We look for students who are going to get involved in the life of the community. T hey're not going to come here and sit down in their dorms, do their work, go to the library and go back to their dorms. We look at commitment ... how involved the student has been in an activity. You always get those who are filling out a laundry list of activities. "Leadership capabilities are not always manifested in school activities. We look for kids who are very involved in church or temple youth groups, in leadership positions. Community involvement is very important. That's something that impresses us all a great deal. Kids who have a social conscience will be involved in the city and take advantage of it. "We're trying to build a class where everyone is different from each other. The sum of the parts equals a wellrounded class. We'd like to have different parts of the country and the world represented, as well as different academic aspirations and socio-economic backgrounds. The daughter of a corn farmer in Iowa is going to bring a very different perspective from someone who grew up on Park Avenue. When education really happens is when they start sharing ideas."
In the next issue, the admissions story continues, with a look at constituency groups, marketing and student search methods, and the colleges representing Trinity's "competition" in the marketplace for students.
Trintype Associate Professor of Economics Diane C. Zannoni drew up a budget and prepared complex financial pro· jections for Trinity's new daycare center, but her support for the fledgling organization didn't end there. She also tracked down a free refrig· erator, persuaded her father to paint a sign and made cookies for a fundraising bake sale. Zannoni's perpetual enthusiasm and efficiency are evident not only in her concern for social causes, but in her devotion to her research in Post Keynesian economics and teaching. The oldest of six children, she knew in the third grade that she wanted to become a teacher. Her mathematical skills and social con· sciousness led her into macroeconomics - a field sparsely populated by women. The first female economics graduate of Villanova University's school of liberal arts and sciences, she holds a Ph.D. in economics from State University of New York. "I went into macroeconomics because the issues that we deal with such as unemployment, inflation and income distribution tend to be people-related, policy issues - but we use mathematical techniques in ana· lyzing them," Zannoni explains. "It sounds cold when you're dealing with computers grinding out numbers. But just as in the general experiments in the sciences, there's a little art to it. You have to develop a real feeling for the issue you're dealing with and the parameters of that issue." Her scholarly research focuses on the role that money and uncertainty play in explaining why an advanced capitalist economy might not auto· matically rest at full employment. The Journal of Post Keynesian Eco· nomics published several articles she co-authored. A recent one described how an economy's money supply fluctuates in response to cor· porate and individual needs for funds, and discusses how this affects the economy's employment level. Currently, she is doing research about marginal productivity of labor. Zannoni teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics, econometrics, as well as seminars in forecasting, inflation and unemployment theory, the develop· ment of feminism and the new Amer· ican poor. "Getting students to see
Diane Zannoni assists students from econometrics in the computer lab. how things connect to build a whole is important, especially when you're working with abstract material," she says. "There are so many things you can make students enjoy if you work very carefully on assignments, create the right environment, and encour· age them. "The most important thing for me in my classes is not just what the stu· dents learn, because that's important obviously, but the joy they get in pushing themselves as hard as they can and the satisfaction they get as a result - because I think those are things that stay with you for a long time . ... The material kind of comes and goes." Outside the classroom, Zannoni continues to teach - organizing late night review sessions to help students prepare for exams, supervising honors theses, or discussing a student's personal and career concerns. Currently, Zannoni is working with Psychology Professor Charles B. Schultz to develop a thematic mi· nor in American social movements that would link courses and commu· nity internships. "I think there are students at Trinity who are looking for a way to give their lives meaning. It's different now from the sixties when there were a million ways to feel connected with the world.around you. I think this will give them that feeling," she says. Among her many campus activities, Zannoni is particularly proud of her work with the President's Coun· cil on Women, which established the daycare center, the women's center, and set up guidelines on hiring, sex· ual harassment and campus safety.
She also works on the Individualized Degree Program Committee, and chairs the Social Sciences Comput· ing Committee and the Faculty Financial Mfairs Committee. Several years ago, she helped produce an eco· nomic status report which is used during faculty salary discussions at Trinity, and led to her becoming a member of the National Economic Status Committee of the AAUP. At times, Zannoni is a spontaneous champion of causes. In Mather Campus Center she once posted copies of a student newspaper ad depicting a partially-clad woman with the message: "This is degrading to women." In retrospect, she says, "I knew it was a risk. It's as if I can't stop myself!" Still, she hopes her effort served as an object lesson to students. "If they see a faculty member that they re· spect in the classroom do that, then they might stop and say, 'Gee, she feels so strongly. Let me take a look at that issue.' They can see it's not such a hokey thing to do - and take a chance themselves.'' Zannoni observed by her parents' example how hard work and vision can have positive results. "We moved into a town and they didn't have a midget football team. My mother ac· tually organized one! The church didn't have a sign and my father, a sign painter, said 'I'll paint you a sign for free,' "she says. "I have this feel· ing that if you're here, you're here to make the world a little better. I have a view of what a better world would be - it's one where the human dignity of each person would be cher· ished - and I just move toward it.'' -Martha Davidson
A Time for Ueconciliation
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A Call for Peace, Justice and Togetherness By The Rt. Rev. Desmond M. Tutu
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a vecy gceat thcill, a vecy gceat honoc, a very great privilege to be able to name Trinity College as my College now. Thank you very much indeed for this recognition, which I accept as an honor in a representative capacity, because what you are saying is you want to recognize all those in our country who have striven and continue to strive for justice, for peace and for reconciliation. As you know the English language does have some very strange expressions. I said I'm greatly thrilled. I could have said it slightly differently except that it would be a bit odd given my complexion if I were to say that I was tickled pink. And, we did have a bit of trouble this morning trying to find a cap that would fit. I'm not quite certain what has happened to the size of my head with all the attention that has been given. But I hope that you will continue to pray for us as you have done, remembering that we are being used or ought to be used by God for the cause of justice, of peace and of reconciliation. So, I want to start by saying, thank you. I have been engaged in delivering speeches here, there and everywhere since coming to this country a week or so ago, and I have tended to become repetitive. I feel somewhat like the professor, with due apologies to this wonderful assemblage in front of me, who used to deliver a scintillating address. It was the same address, but not given at the same place. He went 'round delivering this lecture and one day he said to his driver, "I am getting a little bored listening to myself. I admit that it is a brilliant address, but I think it's a bit much." His driver said, "Well, actually I have listened to your address so often, I know it by heart, word perfect." They rehearsed and, yes, the driver did know the speech word perfect. So they agreed that they were going to swap places: the professor would become the driver and the driver would become professor. They also agreed that the speech would cover a specific time and nothing would be left over for questions. When the evening came the driverturned-professor delivered a magnificent address, erudite and with everything you could have hoped for. Unfortunately, he did leave a little time over for questions. As you know there are always those obstreperous people in the audience who want to trip up the speakers. This man got up and asked one of the most involved questions, to which the new professor replied, "What? Is that all? Even my driver at the back there can answer this question." I don't have a driver, but I do want to say thank you very much to all of you for the tremendous support that you have given and continue to give. I want to address NOBEL PEACE Laureate Desmond M. Tutu enters the Ferris Athletic Center, where he was honored as a "peacemaker in a polarized society." With him is Secretary of the Faculty Frank Kirkpatrick, left.
especially the student body in this matter. Last year, I visited a number of university campuses and was quite overwhelmed that in May, at a time when all students should have been concerned about good grades and good degrees, here were students protesting, demonstrating on behalf of the victims of apartheid. Now I don't want to suggest that degrees and good grades are things to be pooh-poohed. But, I was able to say to those students, you are helping us to recover a new faith in humanity because you are saying that there are things that are more important in life than good degrees. It has been students and others who have helped to transform the moral climate in this land. Thus, in 1985 what was utterly inconceivable took place: the U.S. Congress actually was debating the possibility of legislation regarding sanctions against South Africa. Because you cared, the hand of the president of this country was forced. He had to apply sanctions against South Africa very much against his will. For that commitment, that support for our struggle, I want to say thank you. Know that, at least in this regard, I speak on behalf of millions who would have wished to express their appreciation for what you are doing. A special thank you to this college which has made available a scholarship for our refugee fund that is being administered by the Phelps-Stokes Fund in New York. There are several thousands of young South Africans who left in 1976 and subsequently have not been able to return home. They ought to be prepared for the postliberation South Africa. Your college says it wants to be part of this great endeavor. For that, thank you. And thank you also that you are making available a scholarship for black South Africans who can leave and return to South Africa. Again you are saying, "We want to be part of this movement to prepare young South Africans for the day when their land will be free." Why should we execrate apartheid? Apartheid is the policy of the South Afric~n government which, amongst other things, says that what invests human beings with value is a biological attribute, really a biological irrelevance - the color of one's skin. Now you are amongst tho~e who would say that is utterly ridiculous, because' the color of one's skin, if you chose one color, is not a universal phenomenon. Consequently, we would be saying that there are some human beings who, lacking this particular attribute, therefore did not have a value that attaches to those who do have that particular attribute. You may recall that the great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, wrote a book in which he claimed that human personality was not a universal phenomenon. Consequently, slaves could be dealt with as if they were mere chattels because they were not persons.
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DESMOND MPILO TUTU Peacemaker in a polarized society, you have stirred the world's con, science through your struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. By your tireless Christian witness, you have shown us the nonviolent road to justice, peace, and rec9nciliation. You once aspired to a med, ical career, but your talents have found a higher calling in the healing of a nation. As the first black, Anglican dean and bishop of Johan, nesburg, you have nurtured and inspired the spirit of your people. Under your leadership the South African Council of Churches has become a courageous voice of protest against oppression. Your efforts on behalf of black South African refugees and students have sustained their hope for a peaceful and just future. Your belief that economic, no less than political, power can be harnessed to promote justice has brought a new dimension to the struggle for human rights. For your devout and dedicated service to the cause of racial equality and human dignity, I have the honor to confer on you, the Nobel peace laureate, the degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa.
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AN HONORARY DOCTOR of divinity degree was conferred upon Desmond M. Tutu, Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, by President James F. English, Jr., right, as Dean of the Faculty Borden W. Painter, Jr., left, assists.
A Time for Reconciliation (continued)
Now, apartheid in eaying that what gives value to you is this attribute, goes completely against the teachings of scripture; the teachings of our JudeaChristian faith. Because what invests you and me and all of us with this incredible thing - infinite worth - is that you and I are created in the image of God; that you and I are that incredible paradox, the finite made for the infinite; that nothing less than God is able to satisfy the deep yearnings of who we are. We have often tried to find satisfaction in things less than God and have almost always come a cropper. We are that paradox described in the words of Saint Augustine of Hippo, "Thou has made us for thyself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee." Only God can fill what has been called, this Godshaped space in us. What do you say to people back home, the victims of a system that I have characterized as being as vicious, as evil, as immoral, as un-Christian as Nazism ever was? You say to the victims, who may have been feeling thoroughly demoralized, "You know something, you are a God-carrier. You are God's viceroy. You are God's representative." That will turn out to be utterly subversive of any system of injustice and oppression. And when this old lady walks the dusty streets of Soweto, she is not known by her real name by her employers. They give her a name that they will think is easy to pronounce. They call her Annie. You say to her, "Mama," as you meet her on the street. They ask, "Who is that?" You say, "That's God's partner. That's a God-carrier. This is someone for whom we have to have the utmost reverence." Because in that lovely story of creation, out of this clod of earth a living being came about because God breathed into his nostrils and forever thereafter this creature, this fragile creature was invested with infinite worth. It is that apartheid says: you may be a Bishop, you may be a Nobel laureate, but in the land of your birth you cannot vote because you lack that extraordinary thing - a white skin. Apartheid says that we are made ultimately for separation, for alienation, for hostility and enmity. Now this is totally contrary to the teachings of our faith, of the scriptures. Because the scriptures say when God looked on Adam, who ought to have been quite happy in the seventh heaven of delight, as it were, in paradise, God said it is not good for man to be alone. God passed in procession before Adam the animals and said, "How about choosing a mate from one of these?" As each animal passed before Adam God says, "What about this one?" Adam says, "Nope, not on your life." Then God decides, ah yes, I know what I'm going to do. He puts Adam to sleep and out of his rib produces that delectable creature, Eve. When Adam awakes, he says, "Wow! This is just what the doctor ordered," saying in poetic language that we are made for
fellowship, we are made for togetherness, we are made for communion, we are made for friendship. In our languages we say a person is a person through other persons. We don't come fully formed into this world. We learn how to be human by associating with other humans. We learn how to think, how to walk, how to eat, how to be compassionate, how to be considerate, how to be courteous, how to be persons in this environment of the family, of this basic community. After all, how do you characterize the work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, if it is not to say it is he who came to effect reconciliation, atonement, at-one-ment. In Ephesians you recall how it says that it was God's intention to bring all things into unity in Christ, things in heaven and on earth - the whole universe fractured, dismembered. Christ himself speaking about his great work said, "I, ifl be lifted up will draw all to me." His arms outflung on the cross seem to be saying, "I wish to embrace you and you and you. Nay, I wish to embrace the whole of the universe and bring it into a unity so that we will have again that primordial harmony which was God's intention for his creation." So the end time, as described in the scriptures, is as the beginning time. The end time when animals and men and the whole of creation will be in a unity, in a harmony that at present sees us spend obscene amounts of money on instruments of death and destruction when just a fraction of that will enable God's children to be fed everywhere; God's children to be clothed; God's children to receive a clean supply of water; God's children to be educated. God says, "I have given to you this ministry of reconciliation. I send you out into the world to be fellow workers with me." Not to declare a peace, a peace where there is no peace, but to work for real reconciliation because you have worked for justice. Apartheid is evil without remainder, my dear friends, because it causes, has caused and continues to cause untold suffering to God's children just because they are black. It has destroyed stable black communities just to satisfy a racist ideology. And it has damned God's children, damned them as if they were rubbish, in povertystricken Bantustan resettlement camps. I tell this story - and will tell it until apartheid has ended 路_ the story of the visit I paid to one of these resettlement camps. I saw a little girl who lived with a widowed mother and a sister in one of these shacks. I asked her, "Does your mother get a grant or a pension?" She said, "No." "What do you do then for food?" "We borrow food." "Have you ever returned any food that you borrowed?"
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"We drink water to fill our stomachs in a land that is normally a net exporter of food."
"No." "What do you do when you cannot borrow food?" "We drink water to fill our stomachs." We drink water to fill our stomachs in a land that is normally a net exporter of food. Children suffer, my friends, needlessly. The perpetrators of apartheid didn't hear Immanuel Kant say, "A human being is never a means, a human being is always an end." You cannot manipulate and use human beings for whatever purpose. It is a scourge that needs to be removed from the face of the earth. God calls on you, enlists your support, to be fellow workers with him, to help to change the ugliness, the animosity, the hatred, the separation, the alienation. God says, "Please help me, help me. Let's change this, let's change this so that there can be more compassion, there can be more caring. Let's change this so that there
can be more joy and peace. Let's change this. Help me, help me so that there can be, there can be togetherness. For we will survive only together." God says to us, "We will be free. You will be free." We say, "Yes God," in the words of someone in this land whom we are commemorating at this time, "Yes, we have been to the mountain top; Yes, we have seen the promised land." Yes, we too will be able to exult and say, all of us, black and white in South Africa, as we stride forth into this great new land, into this great new society - this just, this democratic, this nonracial society- we will be able to exult and cry, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, free at last."•
The Rt. Rev. Desmond M . Tutu, Bishop of Johannesburg and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, appeared on the Trinity campus in January to talk to the College community and to receive an honorary degree. His address, delivered before an enthusiastic crowd of some 3,000, forms the basis for this article.
The Madonna of 115th Street By Robert A. Orsi '75
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religious procession: behind a statue of the Madonna of Mount Carmel, here represented as a full-bodied peasant woman, walk southern Italian men and women and their American-born or -raised children. The Madonna, whose jeweled gown is obscured by the dollar bills pinned to it by her faithful, rides high above the crowds on a cart pulled by young men in tuxedoes, who consider it an honor to have been chosen for this task. On the cart they are pulling sit little girls in white communion dresses. The procession is making its way through the dirty, crowded and dangerous streets of Italian Harlem, a working class neighborhood on the East River in northern Manhattan. Above the heads of the people the elevated trains rumble past, and fumes from the gas works on the river hang in the heavy and hot July air. In the crowds of people massed for blocks behind the statue, different people are doing different things. Some older women are walking with enormous tiered structures of candles on their heads; younger women walk next to them, holding on to white ribbons which extend out from the rings of candles. Men and women struggle beneath the weights of large wax candles which
they have had made in local shops: the greater the grace they have received from the Madonna, the heavier the candle they have bought to carry in the procession. Others walk barefoot on the scalding July streets, fulfilling vows they or their parents have made to the Madonna. In the rear of the procession are the penitents. Here women walk with their hair undone, and some men and women are on their hands and knees. The procession slowly makes its way back to the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on llSth Street, where the excitement and emotion of the day are most intense. Pilgrims from the neighborhood, from the other boroughs of the city, and from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, line up for blocks around the 'church waiting their turn to see the Madonna. Inside, other pilgrims lay down on the altar the burdens of wax they have carried through the streets of East Harlem. They make their request or say their thanks to the Madonna, take a scapular from one of the priests on the altar as a token of their participation in this festa, and then push their way back out onto the streets. In shadows and corners throughout the church, women hurriedly take off the new and good
LITTLE GIRLS of Italian Harlem lined up in their first communion dresses for the procession that was held each July. Photo 107/628c, Covello Collection, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
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This article is based on Robert Orsi's new book, THE MADONNA OF 115th STREET: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. Pub-
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lished in January by Yale University Press, this fascinating social and religious history is available for $29.95. By studying an annual festa in East Harlem, the author enlarges our understanding of popular religion, community formation and American Catholicism. Along with the religious ceremony, Orsi also describes vividly the complexities of life in Italian Harlem during the early twentieth century, and the conflicts between the Italian-born elders and their American-born children. Orsi is a 1975 graduate of Trinity where he majored in religion and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a doctorate from Yale, and the research for his dissertation formed the basis for his new book. Now an assistant professor of religious studies at Fordham University, Orsi is spending this academic year in Italy as a Fulbright . Lecturer in American Studies. While teaching at Universita Degli Studi di Roma, Facold di Magistero, he is also researching a second book on the cult of the saints in American Catholicism.
clothes they have bought for their children for this day, changing them into everday clothes. Then they make bundles of the new clothes and hand them to the priests on the altar. Elsewhere in the church other women (this ritual was never performed by men) crawl towards the Madonna on the front altar, licking the stones of the church floor as they go. In the streets around the church, the festa continues into the night. Under brightly-colored lights strung from fire escape to fire escape across the streets, sausage and peppers cook in great metal drums and nougat candy is piled high. Prizes are raffled off and people gamble in tents in which great spinning wheels have been set up. There is dancing in Jefferson Park across the street from the church. All through the night, friends and neighbors and family will visit each other in Harlem's tenements. With some changes that reflected a growing awareness of American ways (the ritual of licking the church floor, for example, was prohibited by the clergy sometime in the late 1920s), this is what the annual festa of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Italian Harlem has looked like for most of the hundred years of its life.
Harlem was not unique in having a festa: such celebrations were characteristic events in Italian American slums in the great years of Italian migration to the United States. These feste were an embarrassment to the American Catholic Church: once again, after years of protest to the contrary, Catholicism could be ridiculed as exotic and un-American by nativists. But there was little that could be done about the feste. The Italian American clergy relied on them as a way to get their people into church at least once a year, and they were an important source of income for these often-poor pastors. The feste were also rooted in a culture that was at once both deeply Catholic and profoundly anticlerical and anti-ecclesiastical; at the best of times, such celebrations existed in a complex and uneasy relationship with the institutional church, and it was never clear that repression would have been successful. So these feste, just tolerated in America, grew and developed: by the 1940s, some three hundred thousand people were coming to the annual celebrations in Harlem. Although not unique in the fact of its existence, the festa on llSth Street is one of the most important in American路Catholic history. It is one of the oldest: the first gathering took place in 1881. It quickly became one of the largest, attracting pilgrims from all over the United States. In 1905, the church on llSth Street was elevated by Rome to the status of a Marian sanctuary equal to those in Lourdes and Guadalupe, a papal acknowledgement of the fact that Italian Harlem had already become a popular American pilgrimage site. In celebration of this new status, a tiara was prepared for the Madonna made with gold donated by the people of Italian Harlem and set with papal gems. By the time the papal crown arrived in Harlem, the Madonna was being called by her people there "the Madonna of llSth Street," and she had become the focus not only of the private devotions of the men and women of Italian Harlem but of their public life as well. The southern Italians believed that in some special sense the Madonna had emigrated with them: through the doors of the church which were always kept open, they could see her, high above the altar, resident among them. The street in front of the church was thought to be holy, and during the annual celebration people often took their shoes off when they walked on it. Men who would never have been seen entering a church tipped their hats to her as they passed. Although there were many other churches in Italian Harlem, the church on llSth Street was where people wanted to be married, where they wanted their children baptized, and where they wanted funeral masses said for their family. When Italian Harlem became Spanish Harlem and younger Italian Americans moved out of the community after the Second World War in search of different lives for themselves, they came back to visit the Madonna in the old community, just as they visited their mothers and fathers who refused to leave the familiar world of Harlem. My study of this festa began with a desire and an intuition. I wanted to write a popular history of an Italian American community: "popular" meaning a history
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written from the perspective of the people of the community, about their concerns and values, hopes and understandings. I wanted to explore the possibility of writing "inner history." How did these men and women understand the world in very basic ways? What did they consider good and what bad? How did they experience suffering and pain? What did they tell their children about the world, and how much of this did their children believe? This kind of history obviously poses a number of immediate and vexing practical problems. History is so much an affair of the literate, by the literate and for the literate, that it would seem that the men and women of Italian Harlem, who came rarely to pens and pencils and who certainly did not leave behind themselves rich deposits of diaries and journals, are outside of history, beyond study. What are the sources for the study of popular values? What documents will tell a historian what a man or woman standing on the corner of 112th Street and 2nd Avenue in 1909 valued as good or condemned as bad? The people.of Italian Harlem were not silent however: they articulated themselves, forcefully, dramatically, and publicly (in a way accessible to historical study) during the annual celebration of the festa of the Madonna of 115th Street. My sense was that the festa was the key to the inner history of Italian Harlem. The festa, with its density and richness of symbol and gesture, was a text annually composed by a people in transition and their children, and what the historian of the inner life ofltalian Harlem had to do was to read the festa. There is an Italian expression, "hai detto niente," which means roughly, "Oh, is that all?" The richness and complexity of the festa widened, rather than narrowed, the gap between historian and subject, and posed serious and troubling epistemological (as well as political) questions. Consider just the popular idea that the Madonna was there on 115th Street. Did the people really believe that the Mother of God was there, in the church on 115th Street, and nowhere else? But what does "really" mean? Whose idea is that? "Really," of course, is the privileged question of modern Western elites, and to ask the immigrants to answer it is to force them into an alien world. The French philosopher Michel Foucault says that popular culture exists only in the act of its suppression; if we force the immigrants to answer our questions, aren't we committing another act of suppression and exclusion? But how can we avoid asking our questions if we want to understand the immigrants? Consider some of the examples from the description of the festa. What was the meaning of the act of changing a child's clothes, inside the temple, and within sight of the Madonna? Why did young women hold onto the ribbons extending out from the headpieces of the older women? Was there any significance to the gambling that took place during the festa, again in the presence of the Madonna? Why were certain women apparently compelled by the culture once a year to humiliate themselves by licking the floor before the Madonna's throne? And how do all these gestures and symbols cohere in a way that renders the popular worldview or cosmology of Italian Harlem accessible to historians? Anthropologists are familiar with these questions and
difficulties: Robin Horton has written that before an anthropologist dares attempt to say what a particular religious symbol or gesture of another culture "means," he or she must first immerse him- or herself in the everyday lives of the people, in their concerns and preoccupations. Again, however, the historian seems to be at a specia1 disadvantage: he or she cannot go into the field and live among the people whose culture he or she wants to make some effort at understanding. As I mentioned, Italian Harlem does not exist anymore, and although Italians still come back for the annual festa, the celebration is now largely a Haitian event, refracted through a completely different history, with its own concerns and needs. There are still some Italians living in Harlem; and I did go into the field among Italians who had lived there, although this raised questions of the distortions of memory and anger, the anger that most of Harlem's Italians feel at having been displaced from their community by the migration of Puerto Ri- . cans to the mainland in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Scholarship is always cumulative, and I was fortunate to have behind me the work of a scholar of singular dedication and passion. Leonard Covello was raised in Harlem, and after a brief and intriguing tour of duty in the American secret service during the First World War he returned to the community to live and teach, eventually founding and serving as principal of Italian Harlem's boys' high school, Benjamin Franklin. Covello was also an astute and indefatigable student of his people. Throughout his long career he interviewed the men and women of Italian Harlem and recorded their answers. His questions were comprehensive: he was interested in their religious beliefs, their sexual mores, the ways they raised their children, the things they valued, the moments that frightened or offended them. Covello eventually published his research in an important book on Italian American culture, The Social Backgrounds of the Italo-American Schoolchild, which is still in print. In the middle of my own work on Harlem, I discovered that the transcripts of Covello's interviews, notes he had taken during his research, and all the various artifacts and documents he had collected on Italian Harlem were part of the collection of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia. The sixty-six cartons of the Covello Papers made a reading of the festa of the Madonna of 115th Street at least possible. It is clear in the Covello Papers, for example, that young men in the community felt themselves bound to exercise a fierce vigilance over their sisters' sexual purity and honor. The successful defense of this honor was read by the neighborhood as an expression of a family's worth and integrity. Young men told stories about themselves in this regard, always emphasizing the power and uncontrollability of their emotions when confronted with even a hint of threat. One young man told Covello that when he saw his sister holding a boy's hand in Central Park he "went wild," pounced on the poor unsuspecting suitor, and bit his ear. Another young man sent his sister's boyfriend to the hospital in need of stitches after he had seen them kissing in the streets. Young women of the second and third generations bitterly resented this supervision, but they were bound by extremely strict codes and could do little
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by the sight of young men in tuxedoes (usually worn at weddings in the community) pulling the Madonna through the streets of Harlem on a cart on which girls in white dresses sat waving to the crowds? The young men called it a privilege to be so employed, and it was; but it was also a gesture of submission to the culture, which in the iconography of the community was represented by the Madonna. The little girls in white communion dresses articulated the quality which the young men were bound to defend in their sisters. Here we have to recall the dangers and arrogance of possession: this reading does not exhaust the meaning of the act of pulling the cart. No reading of a religious symbol is exhaustive. Such symbols are multivalent with rich and complicated histories, and religious symbols are approached by communities and by individuals through historically and personally specific processes of appropriation and understanding. The people of Harlem were reading their festa, or trying to, just as we are trying to. A study of Covello's papers makes possible the establishment of dynamic, mutually reflective interaction between culture and religious event. The people's lives are the essential context for the meaning of the festa, which in turn was an annual reflection of and comment on the culture. Establishing this relationship between culture and religious symbol/ritual makes possible some access into the inner history of this community without pens. It allows the people to articulate and comment on their world and its values as they submit to them. What the festa revealed about women in the culture was most complex and difficult. Italian Harlem was what another scholar, Miriam Cohen, has identified as a public patriarchy and a private matriarchy: the people claimed to be under the authority of the men in the community, but understood at the same time that in matters that counted real authority rested with women. Yet because of the public/private split here, women were compelled to exercise their power in indirect and clandestine ways, always carefully maintaining the important cultural fiction of male authority. This made female power in the community seem insidious and devious. With this dynamic in mind, return to and read the ritual of the women licking the floor of the church, in full sight of the community, and before the Madonna, a symbol of female power. We could go on here studying the ways in which the ritual reveals the culture to itself, giving it a divine sanction, and at the same time serves as a gloss on the culture, exposing inner complexities and ambiguities which the people themselves may have been only distantly aware of. The annual festa on 115th Street was Italian Harlem's sacred theater, the time when the culture revealed itself to itself (and to anyone who cared to watch) and reflected on itself. Again, the fit was not perfect, it was not just a matter of ritual= culture: the ritual also exposed the culture's anxieties and ambivalences, tensions and pain. Every year, the Italians of Harlem brought their culture-in-transition, in all its complexity, to their Madonna, and in the company of their fellows spoke their joys and sorrows to her, asking her blessing and company for another year. •
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WOMEN AND CHILDREN of East 114th Street waved from doors and windows as they celebrated their victory in a sanitation campaign. Photo 107/7llc, Covello Collection, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
about it. Yet the evidence is also unmistakable in Covello's interviews that the young men compelled to exercise this scrutiny were not too happy about it either. Young men were bound by this responsibility to the demands and priorities of their families, just at the time in their lives when they were as interested as their sisters were in putting some distance between themselves and their parents. Each time a young man attacked his sister's suitor, he was assenting to his family's understanding of his proper role and conduct. Young men were also the victims of this tradition: the young man who bit his sister's boyfriend's ear was likely to get his own ear bitten one day by his girlfriend's brother. Italian Harlem's young men, as Covello recorded their testimonies, dreaded their dates, frightened by the expectations and demands made by the culture on all these occasions, however innocent or trivial. There was no such a thing as "puppy love" in Italian Harlem: the first date was considered an expression of serious interest, and the second date was time for the announcement of engagement. What then was being articulated to the community
The History of a History
I COMMENCEMENT, 1962 took place 'neath the elms of the Long Walk, and pre-dated .;Coeducation by several years.
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In the winter issue of the Reporter, President English announced that Professor Glenn Weaver "has agreed to take up again the writing of the College's history." As he plunges into Volume II, we felt it would be enlightening for Professor Weaver to recall some of the processes and problems of writing his award-winning first volume: The History ofTrinity College. Our hope, of course, is that this reminiscence will encourage alumni/ae and friends of the College to participate in the creation of the second volume by sharing their source materials and experiences from the year~ of 1920 to 1981 . The Editor.
By Glenn Weaver or the last thirty years or so, I have been involved, off and on, with the history ofTrinity College. In fact, I initially sought an appointment here because I had been working on several projects of Connecticut history, particularly Connecticut trade and the history of the Episcopal church in the state. Trinity's proximity to The Connecticut Historical Society and the State Library made the possibility of a Trinity position especially attractive to someone in my field. I came to the campus in the summer of 1957 as an
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assistant professor of history with the understanding that one of my early responsibilities would be to undertake a full-scale history of the College. Although I was prepared to start work on this project immediately, the administration and the history department decided that I should take at least a year to "get the feel of the institution" before making the plunge. In the interim, I began reading college histories, which form a genre quite unlike any other. They are different because these writings are regarded primarily as public relations productions, so the author is in the somewhat uncomfortable position of having to write positively, while, at the same time, trying to maintain Olympian objectivity. I determined, therefore, to discover how others handled the problem, and, although I never kept an account, I must have read scores of college and university histories. Although some of these works were quickly-thrown-together jobs by emeriti, others were indeed classics of historical prose - especially Samuel Eliot Morison on Harvard, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker on Princeton, and George W. Pierson on Yale. In the fall of 1959, Trinity gave the signal to begin work on the college history. When President Jacobs de-
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dined making a formal announcement of the project, I should have realized that the history ofTrinity College ranked rather low on the institution's list of priorities. Nevertheless, I somehow mustered enough courage to prepare my own announcement for the March, 1960, issue of the Trinity College Alumni Magazine. The onepage article set forth my own ideas of what institutional history is all about. I also mentioned the basic difficulty in writing institutional history - the unavoidable subjectivity which comes "with the territory." Although I was certainly unaware that literally thousands of hours would be consumed in producing the history, I promised the alumni that I would write a book of which at least I could be proud. Alumni and faculty emeriti were 'appealed to in an effort to stimulate cooperation through interviews, memoirs, diaries, letters, pictures, scrapbooks, and whatever documents and artifacts might turn up as source material. In an effort to secure the broadest base of alumni support, I concluded the essay with the plea: "Now, before you forget it, write to me. Tell me what you have to contribute by way of source material, wish me well, and let's write a College History." The response was almost unbelievable. Scores of old grads - particularly among the "Immortals" - wrote lengthy memos detailing some of their own experiences at the College in years long gone by. Others sent scrapbooks - no fewer than a dozen - and at least one alumnus came forth with a collection of letters written both by and to him during his undergraduate days. Donald B. Engley, Trinity Librarian, was most helpful here, as he added these materials to the Trinity Collection in "the cage" of the Library. During the spring and summer of 1960, I had interviews both on campus and off- with such alumni as Frederick C. Hinkel, Robert B. O'Connor, Victor Morgan, Philip and Anson T. McCook, RobertS. Morris, and Dr. Jerome Webster. Also interviewed were former faculty and administrators including Arthur Adams, Odell Shepard, Edgar F. Waterman, Vernon Krieble, "Al" Picker, and Keith Funston. Meanwhile, a more conventional type of scholarly research was being carried out among the College records (especially the Trustees' Minutes, which existed in manuscript in the President's vault), The Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, New Yark Public Library, and the Sterling Library of Yale University. One of the most time consuming, albeit productive, chores was full perusal of every Hartford newspaper, of which at one point in the nineteenth century there were five. Nor could the periodical literatureespecially that of the religious press - be ignored. Fortunately, the College always provided the assistance of a "bursary boy" to make some of the more mechanical checkings. George Malcolm-Smith '25 once noted that there were 2,500 references in the "bibliography." What he really meant was that there were 2,500 footnotes or
separate items listed in the footnotes. I have never had enough courage to check his figures, but sometimes it seems that it could have been closer to 25,000. Not really! Many years ago, during my first year of serious graduate study in history, I asked my distinguished mentor, Lawrence Henry Gipson, when one should begin to write. Gipson quickly replied, certainly with tongue in cheek, that one might begin as soon as he has written his first note card. Perhaps fearing that a novice might take his words too seriously, Gipson added that it is
THE FAMOUS EISENHOWER GRIN was much in evi路 dence October 20, 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisen路 hower was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Trinity. With him here is Trinity President Albert C. Jacobs, right. More than 7 500 attended the convocation.
virtually impossible to ever give the last word on any given subject, but that if one waits forever to find the last fragment of information before one begins to write, the study will never be completed. Remembering this sound advice, I began to write short sections as the mood suited me, long before. I was willing to regard the research part of the project as completed. As chapter followed chapter, stenographic services were needed to transform my none-too-elegant handwriting to typescript. The College assigned one departmental secretary after another to the task, but each attempt resulted in failure - and not a few tears were shed by typists who were totally unnerved by the struggle with unintelligible handwriting. Finally, Mrs. Florence Morrow was able to complete the final manuscript by the summer of 1965. But even this was not as simple as it might seem, for the final draft was actually the third. At various times, and in several drafts, my academic colleagues, D.G. Brinton Thompson, Robert C. Black, III, and Stephen P. Hoffman, Jr., read long passages and made helpful suggestions. And there was the unfailing eye of John A. Mason, who could always correct a solecism or detect an embarrassing error of fact. Long before the final draft was completed, some thought was given as to who would publish the book. Wesleyan University Press expressed interest in at least seeing the manuscript, and I was approached by one of the Wesleyan editors asking me to convey this sentiment to the Trinity administration. President Jacobs was furious, insisting that Trinity alumni would never permit publication of our college history by the press of our arch-rival in intercollegiate football. His thinking then led him to suggest the Columbia University Press, but Columbia declined the offer without ever giving the manuscript a reading. My own preference would have been to have the College history published by a university press or even by a commerical press. Apart from any assumed prestige incidental to such an arrangement, there would have been the elaborate editorial services which both university and commercial presses supply. But to paraphrase the Words of a sixteenth-century New Yark statesman: Since we could not have that with which we would be content, we had to be content with that which we could have, and the final arrangement was not altogether bad. A legal fiction was created - the Trinity College Press - and thus the project was then moved at least a halfstep away from private publication. Kenneth C. Parker and L. Barton Wilson served the "Press" as editor and publisher, carrying out the tasks ordinarily performed by a publishing house. Illustrations were chosen with the assistance of Mrs. June Thomas, and Mrs. Margaret Zartarian prepared an excellent index. Connecticut Printers did an exceptionally fine job in printing. The History of Trinity College, Vol. I came off the press
in the spring of 1967. The reviewers were most kind, and nationwide attention was drawn to the history when, in 1968, it won the coveted "Award of Merit" from the American Association for State and Local History. The author received a two-sentence letter of thanks from the Trinity Trustees, but the oft-mentioned promotion was somehow soon forgotten. Even as the manuscript for Volume I was in preparation, the question was often raised as to when Volume II would appear and where the time-division between Volumes I and II would be made. Should Volume I carry the narrative down to the then present (1967) with a "thinning out" as the story went on? Or, should there be a "natural" break that would result in two volumes of approximately equal length? There was certainly no commitment on the part of the College to the author regarding Volume II, but it was assumed on both sides that Glenn Weaver would take up the task sometime in the future. Consensus among those consulted was that Volume I should carry the story through the administration of the Reverend Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby, and I, therefore, concluded Volume I with a chapter titled "The End of an Era." In the concluding paragraph of Volume I (p. 305), the Ogilby administration was described as "an 'Indian Summer' of the 'Old Trinity,' "a "comfortable" period in the institution's long and eventful life, and certainly one that could never be replicated. Even the most cursory study of Trinity since World War II will make clear that in the post-Ogilby years there would be a "new" Trinity. From the small-college ranks, Trinity would move into the ranks of those of medium size. The old Trinity, with its Episcopalian tradition, its provincial outlook, and its prep-school atmosphere, would give way to further secularization, a broader clientele, and a reputation as a first-~ate institution of higher learning. In the future there would be coeducation, student activism, and a pride in intellectual achievement which would hold a place equal to pride in athletics and social success. Contemporary history is, without doubt, the most difficult of all kinds of history to write, as history (always involving retrospect) must be clearly distinguished from "current events" or journalism. Hence, even the Ogilby years were treated lightly in Volume I. I had always thought that a twenty-year interval would be proper between the writing of Volume I and Volume II. I was delighted, therefore, when three years ago President James F. English, Jr., asked me to undertake the task. This, now, gets us back to where we were in 1960 when I challenged alumni and friends of Trinity to help with the College history. Once more I ask each reader to join me in the project. I wish I could be original here, but I can't, and once more I write: Before you forget it, write to me. Tell me what you have to contribute by way of source material, wish me well, and let's write a College History. Please! •
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SPRING REUNION ]une12-15, 198 LIM INARY ULE OF EVENTS
Road, Avon, with Golf Coach John Duny{a Map and directionslvai lable at Regi~;ration ' 11 am-12:00 Noon McCook Auditorium
11 am-8 pm
12:15 pm
1:45pm
w.~ICI:lmina
Reception/Luncheon at the Home • President and Mrs. Eng lish (By reservation
lking Tour of the Quadrangle and a discussion of the long term inf luence of the Surges-Kimball Plan Peter J. Knapp '65, Reference Librarian and College Archivist Leave from President 's home following luncheon
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Class of '36 Memorial Service. Chapel Half Century Club Reception (Classes '11 -'39) Mather Campus Center
Reception/Buffet Supper (Classes '40-'85) Hamlin Dining Hall
9 pm
Vintage Movie Seabury 9-17
9:30pmMidnight
Pub Open, Entertainment Cave and Patio, Mather Campus Center
Friday, June 13 8-9:30 am
Breakfast, Mather Campus Center
9 am-8 pm
Registration & Room Assignment Austin Arts Center
9 am-Noon
All-Sports Camp and activities for children Ferris Athletic Center
9 am-9:30pm
Supervised Nursery/Childcare for preschoolers Funston Hall, ground floor lounge
9-10 am
Campus Tour conducted by students, starting from Austin Arts Center
10:30 am-
Alumni/ae Golf Tournament Farmington Woods Country Club, W. Avon
12:45 pm
Professor Joan D. edrick, History Departm~nt As many women of her day did, Harriet Beecher Stowe engage m an informal ministry in vJhich she comforte the afflicted and counseled the troubled. Tp:s talk will explore the . / transforr;;ation of her private role . ·into a/ public challe~e to the rel igious and political · est~1shment. · /
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11:45 am12:15 pm /
y6rary Tour: A walk through expanded acility with Peter J. Knapp '65, Reference Librarian
Noon
Headquarters open for Reunion Classes On the Quad ;
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Noon-1 :;ab pm
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Buffet Lunch, Mather Campus Center
1-5 prh
Children's activities continued
1:30-2:30 pm McCook Auditorium
Reunion Seminar #1: Paris: A History in Architecture Professor A lden R. Gordon '69, Fine Arts Department Paris has been synonymous with refinement since ancient times. The French capital today reflects centuries of artistic leadership in its art collections, houses and palaces, gardens and urban plan. Frenchmen are fiercely proud of their national patrimony even as they are of their superiority in cuisine and couture. This illustrated tour will touch on the subleties of seeking out and appreciating the art in Paris.
Half Century Club Dinner (Classes '11-'39) Mather Campus Center 6-8 pm
Lecture: From Past . r to Prophet: The Ministw of Harriet Beecher towe , /
1:30-4 pm
Round Robin Tennis Tournament College courts
2:30-4 pm
Trowbridge Memorial Pool open for alumni/ae and families Ferris Athlet ic Center
2:30-3:30 pm
Tour of the Computer Center, Hallden Laboratory, with Professor August E. Sapega, Engineering Department, Coordinator Computer Services and Professor Diane C. Zannoni, Economics Department
2:45-4 pm McCook Auditorium
Mini-Course: Russia Past and Present Session #1: Russian History: Through the Eyes of the Artist, Poet and Writer Professor James L. West, History Department Over the last century, Russian political and social history has been closely mirrored by the creative elite. Thus, Russian artistic creations of the 19th and 20th centuries can be utilized by the historian to demonstrate the larger patterns of history.
Organ Recital by John Rose, College Organist, using the recently dedicated organ case designed by Charles L. Nazarian '73, a gift from the Stone Foundation in honor of Paul W. Adams '35.
Ferris Athletic Center Unit A
Greetings by President English, and presentation of alumni/ae awards.
12:30 pm
Buffet Luncheon on the Quad
5:00pm McCook Auditorium
The Challenge of College Admissions Donald N. Dietrich , Director of Admissions, will talk about the many factors that play a role in the admissions process.
2:30-3:30 pm McCook Auditorium
Reunion Seminar #3: Chemical Dependency as a Family Disease Professors George C. Higgins, Jr. and Randolph M. Lee '66, Psychology Department, College Counselors
6-8 pm
Children's Cookout and Program on the Quad
6pm
Reception/New England Clambake Class tents on the Quad
4:00pm Chapel
8 pm
Children's Movie Seabury 9-17
8:30-9 pm
Carillon Concert by College Carillonneur, Daniel K. Kehoe '78
9 pm-1 am
9:30pm
Jazz Concert by "Weeks Hornblowers" (Charlie Weeks '59) On the Quad
Contributions by Thomas M. Beers '66, Thomas M. Chappell '66, and The Rev. William J. Eakins '66 A discussion of chemical dependency as a disease that affects the sick person and his or her loved ones. The panel consists of experts in the field and alumni and family giving testimony of personal crisis. 2:30-4 pm
Round Robin Tennis Tournament continued College courts
2:30-4 pm
Trowbridge Memorial Pool open for alumni/ae and families Ferris Athletic Center
2:30-4 pm
Reunion Track Meet for alumni/ae, spouses and children, featuring the Fourth Annual Three Mile Mini-Marathon Jessee Field
2:30-4 pm
Alumni/ae Softball Game Softball Field
4-5:30 pm Austin Arts Center Goodwin Theatre
Performance: Musical Theatre and Trinity: The Past Decade Professor Gerald Moshell , Music Department, Director, Concert Choir
Children return to dorms for the evening
Saturday, June 14 8-9:30 am
Breakfast, Mather Campus Center
9 am-6:30pm
Registration Austin Arts Center
9 am-2:30pm
Trip to Mystic Aquarium for children-box lunch. Leave from Ferris Athletic Center
9 am-12 Midnight
Supervised Nursery/Childcare for preschoolers Funston Hall , ground floor lounge
9:30-10:30 am Life Sciences Center Boyer Auditorium
Reunion Seminar #2, The Economy and Investing-A Look Ahead to 2000 A.D. Professor Ward S. Curran '57, Economics Department, and Peter T. Kilborn '61, Correspondent, Washington Bureau , The New York Times
9:30-10:30 am McCook Auditorium
Musical-theatre alumni/ae from the past 10 years join Prof. Moshell for a vocal presentation both of numbers they sang while at Trinity and repertoire they're performing now (in show business careers as well as in "civilian " life). Also, current undergraduates will perform from Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddygore, a Music Department presentation of November 1985.
A discussion of general trends in the economy and strategies for investing.
6 pm
Children's Chicken Barbeque Cave, Mather Campus Center
Mini-Course: Russia Past and Present Session #2: The Changing of the Guard Professor Samuel D. Kassow, History Departmen! Will Gorbachev succeed in transforming the Soviet Union? Can pressures for reform overcome the innate conservatism of the Soviet system? This talk will examine the prospects for significant changes in the Soviet Union , and the futu re of Soviet-American relations.
7-7:45 pm
Children's Entertainment McCook Auditorium
7:45-9:30 pm
Children's Movie McCook Auditorium
8:30-10 pm
Movie for Teenagers Seabury 9-17
8:30-9 pm
Children return to dorms for evening
9 pm-1 am
Dance for alumni/ae with "The Royal Kings " Washington Room , Mather Campus Center
9:45-10:45 am
Campus Tour conducted by students, starting from Austin Arts Center
10:45-11:30 am Goodwin Theatre Austin Arts Center
1986: A Year of Decision President James F. English, Jr. will discuss recent and pending initiatives with particular attention to the curriculum and student life.
11 :40 am
The Annual Reunion Class Parade-Assemble on the Long Walk
Noon-12:30 pm
Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association:
Sunday, June 15 8-11 am
Brunch, Mather Campus Center
10 am
Reunion Eucharist and Commemoration of Departed Alumni/ae, Chapel Coffee, Chapel Garden, following the Memorial Service
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Sports MEN'S BASKETBALL.=========
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With a recent string of victories, the 'men's basketball team appears as though it will make a serious run at a third straight ECAC title. In the past week, the players have had "8" on their minds as they scored 88 in three straight games, running their winning streak to 8. Their record is now 15-4, including a perfect 9-0 mark at home which gives them 20 straight home wins. Ferris Athletic Center is becoming a "House of Horrors" for opponents; in the last four years the Bantams are 46-3 on their home floor; just one of the losses was to a Div. III team. Should his group be the 路 tournament's #1 seed, and get to play the post-season in front of their own raucous fans, Coach Stan Ogrodnik very well may have to make room for another ECAC Championship plaque in his office. The season began with five victories. One was a chance for senior All-American Ken Abere to impress his North Jersey fans as the Montville native led Trinity to an impressive 84-56 victory over Kean in Union over Thanksgiving Weekend. Three games later the 6'5" forward became Trinity's all-time leading scorer. His career total is now over 1600. The team then struggled through a six-game road trip, losing four, including two in four days to Wesleyan. The first came in the championship of the fourth annual Liberty Bank Classic Tournament; it was the first time Trinity did not win this event. Surprisingly, one game they did win in this stretch was at Yale. With beautiful execution of a slow-down tempo, Trinity outscored the Elis 16-2 in a 16-minute span, turning a 16-13 deficit late in the first half into a 29-18 lead with about 10 minutes to go. They then hung on for a 53-52 upset of their Division I rivals. After the second Wesleyan loss, the team returned home to the friendly confines of Ferris to get back on track against Coast Guard. Highlights of the streak include a 75-74 win at Tufts on the strength of Mike Donovan's jump shot at the buzzer after Trinity had trailed by 9 with under 3 minutes left. Clark University, ranked in the top 10 nationally, was upset to the delight of a huge home crowd. Led by Abere's season-high 29 points, the Bants burst out to a 13-1 lead and built that up to a 24-point margin en route to a 76-62 victory. Two days later another scoring outburst, this time a 141 spurt in the first 4 1/z minutes of overtime at Connecticut College, gave Trinity an 81-70 win as center Jon Moorhouse had a season-high 23 points. Aside from the play of the irreplaceable Abere, who is again averaging about 20 points and 7 rebounds per game, and the ever-improving 6'9" Moorhouse, who averages about 14 points and 9 rebounds, the deep roster leaves the Bantams with few holes. Senior forward
Bill Pfohl gets over 10 points and 5 rebounds each outing while the backcourt of Donovan and soph Tom FitzGerald puts in about 20 points. Donovan, a junior, runs the fastbreak to perfection while FitzGerald is deadly from 15 to 20 feet. Strength off the bench comes from 6'7" Tim Curtis while substitutes at guard include sophomore ball-handler Terry Blaney and the explosive freshman, Don Green. The second semester emergence of rookie Ted Lyon as an outside scoring threat has been tremendous. Injured in the pre-season, he is averaging about 6 points per game on 75% shooting in the new year. With three road games on the schedule and a Hartford re-match with Wesleyan before the play-offs, Trinity hopes the winning ways of late do not end until once again the nets can be cut down in Ferris.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL====== With little experience and less height, the young women's basketball team has nevertheless managed to keep fighting despite the mounting losses and their recent improved play is the result. Although their record is 3-12 with four games remaining, the Lady Bants have given Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Colby, Williams, and Tufts all they could handle. The Williams game went into overtime and the powerful Tufts squad escaped by one point. Captain Sis Van Cleve, the only senior, runs the team at point guard. A source of spirit and leadership, she has proven a good shooter, penetrator, passer, and one not afraid to fight for rebounds. She is averaging about 7 points and 5 rebounds per game but her best performances were in the wins over Brandeis (9 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 6 steals) and Wellesley (11 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists). Other starters include junior Sara Mayo who joined the team after a fall semester away and has shown the quick moves and jump shot of years past. She averages 11 points and 5 rebounds but had personal highs against Wellesley with 14 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals. Classmate Susan Babcock at 5'10" has contributed much as in the Wellesley game where she had 14 points and 8 rebounds, but has been hampered by injuries. Freshman Pat T affuri has shown potential as an inside threat with 8 points and rebounds per contest, highlighted by her 15-point, 15-rebound game at Brandeis. The brightest part of a long season has been freshman phenom Leanne LeBrun, a strong candidate for ECAC Rookie of the Year. A good player in the first 9 games, with a 14-point average, she has exploded of late, averaging 26 points in the last 6 games. Her season average
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WITH FOUR YEARS of hard work underneath the basket, as is seen here in Trinity's upset of Clark, Bill Pfohl has accumulated over路900 points and 500 rebounds. He is only the third player in Trinity history to accomplish this feat.
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of 18.5 and a point total of 279 put her on a pace to shatter the school records in those categories. Against Connecticut College, LeBrun scored a school record 36 points on a phenomenal evening of 15 for 21 shooting with outside bombs, turnaround jumpers in the lane, and baskets off rebounds. She leads the team with over 10 rebounds per game and twice grabbed 17. All this has been accomplished while the 5'8" player usually has been matched up against taller opponents.
ICE HOCKEY============== Defense comes first. That is Coach John Dunham's philosophy. If that is true then Trinity will finish first in the ECAC Championship Tournament in March. Finalists last year, the Bantams have the best defense in the 31-team league. Their games are more workmanlike and efficient than exciting, with scores like 6-1,4-2 and 5-3, but Trinity has built up a 12-1 record in the league and 15-4 overall. A big reason has been junior Art FitzGerald in goal. An ECAC first-team All-Star last year, he has given up just 2.25 goals in league games. The 4-0 shut-out of Framingham was the third of his career. The defensemen in front of him have had excellent years. Junior Mike Solomita teams with Bryant McBride, a sophomore who transferred from West Point this semester, and Coach Dunham has already called them "the best defensive pairing in Trinity history." Both are big and smart with great shots and they excel on the power play. Solomita has 4 goals and 12 assists while McBride has quickly totaled 4 and 5. The duo of freshman Rob
McCool and soph Bill Blank has played well and the third unit of junior Mike Doyle and soph Mike Anderson is not far behind. The goalie and defensemen are not the only ones playing defense. The forwards should receive much of the credit for keeping opponents' scores down. The best defensive forwards are junior center Frank Newark and senior wing Tom Sheehy. They usually match up against the opponents' top scoring threats. Trinity's scoring has been led by Captain Vern Meyer. The relentless right wing has 19 goals and 18 assists, is third in career points behind George Brickley '79 and Bob Plumb '80, and is within range of Brickley's record of 82 career assists. He is on the # 1 line with speedy soph Kevin Robinson (19, 9) and freshman center Trip Manley (8, 20), true stars of the future. Junior Reed Whitmore (12, 18) has missed some action due to mono but hopes to be back on the ice for the play-offs. H e had back-to-back hat tricks against WNEC and UConn. Others in the scoring brigade are sophs Bob Loeber (9, 18) and Matt Keator (3, 15), rookie stand-out Jay Williamson (9, 9), junior Pete Worthing (8, 7), Newark (7, 8) and senior Rich Stetson (8, 3). Forwards Dan Ward, a junior, and sophs Bill Kenney and Dave Provost have played well when called on. Highlights of the year so far include two victories over Amherst and a good showing in the Crusader Classic at Holy Cross. Against a pair of Division II teams, the Bantams gave the hosts a 7-5 scare before whipping Westfield for the second time. A strong Iona team was handled 6-1. A weak WNEC team provided the opportunity to break the school record for goals in a game with a 20-0 evening of fun for all. Reserves Mike Miele and Brett Wolman each scored their only two goals on
the year and back-up goaltenders Dave Murray and Hutch Robbins recorded the shut-out. The Bantams upset UConn on the road, 5-2, avenging an earlier loss. Robinson keyed the 5-3 victory at Bentley after trailing 2-0, and Loeber added a pair against Assumption, including the game-winner in a 4-3 overtime triumph. Four tough games will test Trinity before the playoffs - a chance for revenge with Connecticut College, the team that gave the Bantams their lone Division III loss, battles with play-off-bound St. John's and Suffolk, and one with Division II AIC.
MEN'S SWIMMING==:===:===:===:==== With one meet to go, the men's swim team is 7-2 and on the verge of equaling its best record ever, 1982's 8-2 campaign. This is quite a turnaround from the last three seasons, and can be attributed to a solid and balanced line-up of veterans and rookies, according to Coach Chet McPhee. Junior Jim Loughlin has not only remained a premier distance freestyler, but provides points in breast stroke, individual medley, and relays. Also, Coach McPhee cited Jim's leadership as captain as a key factor to the team's success, getting everyone to work long and hard, setting goals, and keeping morale high. Jim will be
joined at the New England Championships in March by two other veterans, senior butterfly specialist Phil Drinkhaus and sophomore backstroker Chris Robbins. Four other sophs have shown great improvement this year- diver Kirk Brett, freestyle sprinter Ian Feinhandler, breaststroker Mark Jamilkowski, and backstroker Mike Williams. Three new swimmers who have helped the Bantams in such big wins as the 54-41 win over WPI and the blowouts of SMU and Holy Cross were Nick Clifford, Ridge Cromwell, and Peter Ostrander. Clifford, sophomore rookie, and the two freshmen are freestylers while Ostrander has also been dominant ~n backstroke. The two freshmen have qualified for the New Englands.
WOMEN'S SWIMMING========== Led by three senior All-Americans, Barbie Brennan, Ginny Finn, and Karen Hubbard, the women defeated Amherst handily in their final meet to finish the season at 5-5. These three, the tri-captains, will lead a contingent of ten to the New Englands, with Finn at backstroke and Brennan and Hubbard swimming freestyle. The other senior, Peg Hargrave, will compete in breastroke in the New Englands with junior Themis Klarides. Sophomore Susan Deer consistently earned points wherever Coach McPhee placed her in the lineup - distance and sprint freestyle, breastroke, individual medley, and relays. Three other sophs have qualified: Katie Scanlon at backstroke, freestyler Jocelyn Roland, and Chever Voltmer in butterfly. Freshman sensation Amy Paulsen has already qualified for the Nationals in Canton, Ohio, in diving. She broke the T rinity record for most points awarded an optional dive with a score of 219.05 at Tufts. As happened last year, Coach McPhee is hopeful that Trinity's individual star performers will carry the team to a high ranking in the New Englands and avenge some of the dual meet losses.
WOMEN'S SQUASH============= It has been a very successful year for the women's squash team. With three expected victories to come, the team will finish at 9-2 in dual matches, having lost only to Harvard and Yale. In the highlight of the season, revenge was achieved over host Yale in the Howe Cup Tournament with a 4-3 win. That gave Trinity a three-way tie for first with the two Ivy powerhouses in that prestigious event. Spearheading the effort was sophomore Ellie Pierce at #2 who went 6-0 on the weekend and junior Erika LaCerda who was
5-1.
JUNIOR Erika LaCerda had an outstanding year for the women's squash team that tied for number one in the nation at the Howe Cup competition.
The only other veterans on the team are at #5 & 6, the co-captains, senior Claire Slaughter and junior Nat Perkins. Others on the team are newcomers and their success has been crucial, considering depth is more important than ever as line-ups were expanded from 7 to 9 players this year. Three freshmen, Louise McCarthy at #9, Lila Morris at #7, and Nan Campbell at #4 have all
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performed consistently and bode well for the future. Soph Julie Calhoun stepped up to varsity this year at #8 and held her own. Topping off the ladder at #1 has been junior Sophie Porter, a transfer from Princeton and sister of former Trinity star Nina Porter '84. Coach Wendy Bartlett is very pleased with how hard the team has worked and how they came together as a unit. She has high hopes for the National Championships in March, expecting Porter and Pierce to repeat as All-Americans and believing LaCerda, Campbell, and Slaughter will fare well.
MEN'S SQUASH==:==:==:==:==:===: Three recent 5-4 heartbreaking losses have put the men's squash team below .500 at 5-6 with two matches to go. After a good 3-1 start, Steve Heath's group has come up just short in matches that went down to the wire with Pennsylvania, Navy, and Franklin & Marshall, and will fall out of the top 5 in the nation for the first time since 1982. Trinity has been led by four seniors in the top five spots. Captain J.D. Cregan always drew large crowds with his skillful play at #1, and will attempt to regain his All-American status of 1983 at the Nationals in March. Bill Villari is finishing strongly at #2, coming off a 3-0 week against Williams, Navy, and F&M, playing the best squash of his career. Paul Stauffer holds the #3 spot and is known for his powerful shots while Jerome Kapelus plays #5 and has gone 8-3. Bruce Hauptfuhrer has had a good year at #4. The lanky sophomore has a 7-2 record so far. Rounding out the line-up are junior Tim Burbank, soph Nick Ritchie, and freshmen Chris Smith and Eric Shreyer.
WRESTLING==:==:==:==:==:==:===: With a line-up at just six wrestlers, Trinity has forfeited up to 24 points in every meet, making victory nearly impossible. With the regular season of twelve matches completed, the team's losing streak has hit 26, a school record for frustration, topping (so to speak) the men's cross-country team's total of 25 losses from 1969-72. Nevertheless, certain individuals have had strong seasons and are contenders for New England titles at the Championships which Trinity will soon host. Captain Joe Adam capped off an outstanding career with two strong wins in a three-way meet with Bowdoin and Rhode Island College, giving him a perfect 12-0 record on the year. The defending 177-pound New England Champion, Adam is a master of moves, balance, and quickness who remains confident in the face of adversity, defeating his Wesleyan opponent 6-4 after trailing 4-0. Fellow senior Nick Veronis had a much improved year with a 10-2 record at 150 pounds. Sophomore Mark Weiland placed 5th in the New Englands last year, and was 7-5 in the 158-pound division this season. A good third-period wrestler, Weiland showed this with a last-second victory on points against Coast Guard. The other competitors in Mike Darr's line-up were soph Eric Jacobson, and freshmen Matt Madaus and Matt Maginniss.
INDOOR TRACK=========== Indoor Track for men and women made a successful debut as an accredited varsity sport. The change in
status allows Trinity to compete in more meets and male qualifiers can now compete in the New England and National Championships. (There are now equivalent meets for women.) Coaches Jim Foster and Alex Magoun are pleased to report that the improved schedule has helped the program and positive results should be seen in the performances in the spring season. Seven men have qualified for the New Englands, including senior Co-Captains Brian Oakley and Femi Obi. Oakley is undefeated in Division III in the 3000 meters while Obi, junior Dave Banta and freshman Russell Alderson are top contenders in the 55-meter dash and the 440-yard race. Junior Greg Hill has had an outstanding winter in the high hurdles and in high jump where his leap of 6'5" just missed the school record. Classmate Paul Deslandes and soph Matt Donahue have shown potential in the 800 and 1000 meter runs. The women have also had several outstanding individual efforts. Senior Ann Malabre set a Trinity record with a 5:16.4 mile run. Classmate Alex Steinert pushed the 1500 meter record until she broke it with a 4:54.5 clocking. Sophomore Alex Michos lowered her own record in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of9.48. Junior Betsy McKay continued her outstanding work in the intermediate hurdles, and teamed with Malabre, Steinert, and Captain Wendy Pillsbury to form a top mile relay group.
SKI TEAM:================ It has been a great year for Coach Steve Berlack and the ski team. Having never finished anywhere but last in their eight-team league, Trinity has been the surprise team, passing Central Connecticut, Brown, and Amherst in the standings. UConn edged the Bantams on the final day of racing in the season for fourth place and a trip to the Eastern Championships with the league's Big Three - Boston College, UMass, and Plymouth State. The top performers have been freshman E.G. Woods, who is among the top 20 in slalom, sophomore Peter Weiss, Captain Max Smith, and fellow senior Gates Garrity who finished 6th in a recent Giant Slalom competition. Others of note are junior Jeff Moffat and Amy Loiacono, the lone female on the team.
FENCING================ Considering the team's inexperience and youth, Fencing Captain George Banta was not overly disappointed with the way the season turned out- a 1-7 record for the men and a 2-7 record for the women. Besides himself and fellow seniors John Gregg and Mei-Wa Cheng, the top fencer among the women, the squads were comprised of mostly freshmen. Both units defeated Fairfield while the women also notched a victory against Western Connecticut. There was a large turn-out of young fencers and with time, this group will improve. Sophs Jim O'Laughlin and Chris Harges will form the nucleus of next year's team.
MEN'S BASKETBALL (19-4) Nichols 91-61 Kean 84-56 Westfield St. 73-52 Amherst 71-68 Manhattanville 78-66 Coast Guard (01} 79-81 Yale 53-52 Williams 58-60 Conn. College 55-46 Wesleyan 53-58 Wesleyan 68-77 Coast Guard 75-57 Tufts 75-74 W.P.I. 77-70 Clark 76-62 Conn. College (01} 81-70 Brandeis 88-77 Bowdoin 88-74 Colby 88-66 Suffolk 84-54 Amherst 71-66 E. Nazarene 58-56 Wesleyan 78-58
MEN'S SWIMMING (8路2) S.M.U. 56-29 Union 58-35 Wesleyan 43-52 Brandeis 66-46 Fairfield 60-57 Conn. College 52-41 W.P.l. 54-41 HolyCross 73-38 Amherst 40-65 Clark 62-51
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (4-15) Mt.Holyoke 44-67 Yale 34-77 Brandeis 60-58 Simmons 57-42 Smith 48-49 Coast Guard 57-68 Clark 43-89 Wellesley 64-48 wcsu 40-63 Conn. College 56-83 Wesleyan 67-73 Bowdoin 59-64 Colby 52-70 Williams (01} 66-71 Tufts 56-57 Amherst 51-65 Wesleyan 67-65 Vassar 54-62 W.P.l. 52-59
MEN'S SQUASH (7-6) M.l.T. Harvard Amherst Wesleyan Yale Dartmouth Princeton Univ. Pennsylvania Williams Navy Franklin & Marshall
ICE HOCKEY (19-5) Colby 3-6 (01} 6-5 Nichols St. Michael's 12-2 Westfield St. 11-4 Amherst 6-1 Conn. College 4-5 Fairfield 9-4 HolyCross 5-7 Westfield St. 10-2 Univ. Connecticut 4-6 Iona 6-1 Framingham St. 4-0 Amherst 6-3 W.N.E.C. 20..0 Univ. Connecticut 5-2 Bentley 5-3 Army 2-6 Assumption (01} 4-3 Wesleyan 4-2 New Hampshire College 6-2 Conn. College 3-2 St.John's 6-1 Suffolk 7-2 A. I.C. 54
WOMEN'S SWIMMING (5-5) S.M.U. 63-41 Mt. Holyoke 64-76 Wesleyan 51-43 HolyCross 59-81 Fairfield 73-67 scsu 61-79 Clark 85-53 Conn. College 64-58 Tufts 55-86 Amherst 84-56
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9-0 1-8 8-1 7-2 2-7 7-2 0-9 4-5 5-4 4-5 4-5 7-2 8-1
WOMEN'S SQUASH (14-3) Harvard 0-9 Tufts 9-0 Yale 1-8 Univ. Pennsylvania 9-0 Smith 9-0 Wesleyan 9-0 Middlebury 7-0 Princeton 6-1 Brown 6-1 Dartmouth 6-1 Williams 7-0 Harvard 1-6 Yale 4-3 Williams 8-1 Amherst 8-1 Princeton 7-2 Brown 5-4 WRESTLING (0-12) W.P.l. 3-49 Amherst 10-33 Univ. Mass, Boston 24-30 M.l.T. 12-39 W.N.E.C. 18-42 Williams 21-24 Plymouth St. 12-45 Wesleyan 15-33 Springfield 9-43 Coast Guard 12-36 Rhode Island College 6-43 Bowdoin 14-22
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Vital Statistics
1974 BARBARA A. LUNDY and Closson L. Vaughan, May 4, 1985 AMY TENNEY and David Levere, September 29, 1985
ENGAGEMENTS
1975 JAMES FRENCH and Priscilla A. Stevens, May 18, 1985
1977 ANDREW A. TAMONEY and Susan E. Miraglia 1978 EDWARD D. PARDOE III and Helen S. Mahoney 1980 JOE KOSSOW and Lynne Becker ROBERT F. MYERS III and Frances Hathaway AMY POLAYES and Bruce Margolis STEVEN B. STUART and Andrea M. Hawkins 1980-1983 JOHN A. BEIR and DIANE E . RAPALUS 1982 STEVEN ANDSAGER and Trudy Lehman LORI ARDOLINO and Thomas Albino CHRISTINE H. PEISER and Robert P. Grosso MARY M. TOLAND and David C. Koehler ROBERT VEIDENHEIMER and Taylor Gibson 1983 LINDA L. SEUFERT and David Rice LAURA A. WILCOX and John Rokoszak 1983-1984 ELIZABETH AXELROD and MICHAEL SCHWEIGHOFFER 1985 JOSEPH E. AMAT and Patricia McMahon
WEDDINGS 1942 FOWLER F. WHITE and Carol Mays, August 17, 1985 1957 RICHARD C. BEHR and Joan H. Kops, June 15, 1985 JOHN M. DANIELS and Sheila Brady, June 22, 1985 1959 ANDRE R. LaROCHELLE and Barbara LaMonica, February 14, 1986 1964 J . HUNT BRASF.JELD and Julia H. Butler, May 4, 1985 1966 WILLIAM C. KUNKELMAN and Donna L. Morrow, October 28, 1984 1969 DAN M. BATTLES and Tracy Krupit, June 29, 1985 1972 J . BRUCE W. McWILLIAMS and Rosemary Grieve, July 14, 1984 1972 -M 1985 CHARLES J . YEAGER and SARA S. BUNNELL, October 12, 1985 1973 PETER GLEYSTEEN and Renate M. Craine, November 22, 1985 NATALIE K. KORSHENIUK and Lee D. Pollock, June 2, 1985
1976 . ABBIE COLLIER and Charles P. Floe, May 18, 1985 ROBERT COX and Susan Beal, August 17, 1985 SUSAN EGBERT and Anthony Gilroy, June9, 1984 1977 GALE P. SIMON and Peter R. Freed, November 11, 1984 1978 JOHN D. BRIGHAM and Leslie A. English, September 7, 1985 EDWARD A. HAWKINS and Katharine P. Stride, December 21, 1985 JAMES F. McNALLY, JR. and Joanne S. Hays, August 11, 1984 EDWARD S. PETRY, JR. and Joan G. St. Thomas, October 20, 1985 ROBERT F. PHELPS: JR. and Jody Brisky, October 6, 1984 1979 W. NATHANIEL MILLS and Elizabeth Cornwall, December 29, 1984 JAMES P. RICE and Brenda Kobelt, November 2, 1985 KARL-ERIK STERNLOF and Kerin 路 Woods, May 4, 1985 WILLIAM V. THOMSON, JR. and Kathleen C. Malley, November 9, 1985 1980 DANIEL R. GINTOWT and Cecilia Zaremba, August 24, 1985 JONATHAN OLEAR and Leslie Inrig, November 1, 1985 WERNER ROSSHIRT and Gail Caruso, June 22, 1985 JOHN C. SEABROOK and Anne L. Fra. zier, June 29, 1985 KARYN WEBB and Robert A. Gough, June 29, 1985 1981 LOUIS J . BROMBERG and Vivian Kuti, August 19, 1985 HOLLY DOREMUS and Gordon Anthon, October 12, 1985 CLIFTON P. GERALD and Vivian M. Preston, January 4, 1986 NANCY B. McCULLOCH and Richard D. Flanagan; February 1, 1986 MACAULEY B. NASH and Cathleen A. Hynes, June 15, 1985. 1982 JAMES S. BIRMINGHAM and LISA B. NOLEN, November 9, 1985 JOHN T. BRADY, JR. and Ellen G. Kelly, November 9, 1985 DAVID A. BURWELL and MELISSA PRINTON, June 22, 1985 MARGOT KEENE and Paul F. Kerns, Jr., August 3, 1985 SUSAN E . KELSEY and Michael J . Murray, September 28, 1985 PETER SMIALEK and Niomi Rameses, November 7, 1985 THOMAS W. TARCA and Sandra Senaldi, June 18, 1983 1982-1983 KHOOSHE ADIB-SAMII and ANDREW M. AI~N, June 8, 1985 1983 BERT BANTA and Darrell Chulay, December 28, 1985 RUTH DePHILLIPS and Marc S. LaLonde, December 31, 1984 BERNICE J. RIZK and Fouad Rizk, June 22, 1985
1984 KATHERINE AIKEN and,i;>ANIEL E . SULLIVAN, July 20, 1985 CAROLINE FISK and Michael Minor, October 12, 1985 JOYCE FRYKLUND and Eric Thormann, October 19, 1985 LEA SPRUANCE and Kenneth E. Beard, October 26, 1985 CORRECTION In the winter Reporter we incorrectly reported the marriage of Gale Simon '77 and Ross Lewin '77. The correct information appears in Weddings. Our apologies.
MASTERS 1977 CONCETTA T. SPAGNA and Edward Czaczkes, August 25, 1985
BIRTHS 1961 Mr. and Mrs: Warren Simmons, son, Tyler Maxwell, February 1, 1985 1962 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman, son, Charles Mason, September 25, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Dana Cleaves, daughter, Kate Alexandra, October 21, 1985 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Foster, son, Sam, October 13, 1985 1964 Mr. and Mrs. John Churchman, son, David Peter, July 31, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Donald McLagan, son, Christopher Richard, August 9, 1984; daughter, Marnie Elizabeth, May 29, 1985 1966 Mr. and Mrs. John Martineau, son, Charles Preston, July 4, 1985 1968 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Coyle, daughter, Christine Marie, October 23, 1985 1969 Mr. and Mrs. William Duane, daughter, Jessica, April30, 1985 1970 Mr. and Mrs. Harris Belinkie, daughter, Jena, December 23, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. David Carman, son, John Stephen, October 28, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Philip Davis, son, William Christopher Marshall, December 4, 1984 Dr. and Mrs. David Fentress, daughter, Kathleen Miles, November 13, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Weinstein, son, Zachary Noam, September 16, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. George Wheelwright, son, Lewis Matthiessen, November 16, 1985 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Larry Andriks, Jr. (Melissa M '74), son, Timothy Patrick, July 20, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Greg Shepard, son, Patrick, May 14,1985 Mr. and Mrs. John Stevenson, son, Jef- frey, September 14, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Sturgess, daughter, Cate, June 22, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. John Tyner, son, Daniel Richard Tyner-Bryan, June 27, 1985 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Hales, son, Peter Richard, October 24, 1985 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Baldwin, daughter, Allison Linneo Holm, August 24, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barnard (Susan Rogers), daughter, Lucy Prescott, August 29, 1985
1974 Elizabeth Barringer and John Clark, daughter, Mary Marselis Clark, June 1, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dack, daughter, Rachel Arielle, March 16, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. George Finkenstaedt, son, William Kenneth, December 16, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Freeman, son, Daniel Michael, October 15, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Elmars Kalve, daughter, Christina, August 31, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. West (Terrie Rouse), son, Malcolm Adam Rouse, October 12, 1985 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Graeme Beaton (Emily K.), son, Ezra Lee, August 30, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Calabro, son, Nathan, August 21, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Conway (Cynthia Rowley), daughter, Megan Casey, October 3, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gooley, son, Adam Charles, June 18, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Grape, son, Peter Ashton, Jr., December 3, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. David Kates (Ann Tulcin), son, Douglas, July 12, 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Levine, daughter, J enna Alexandra, May 5, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Lysaght (Linda Lorenson), daughter, Julia Christine, October 21, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Morgan, daughter, 路 Merideth Romney, December 3, 1984 1976 Mr. and Mrs. William Baker, son, James Martin, July 2, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Brown, daughter, Elizabeth Joy, December 14, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Goldstein (Diane Guinta), daughter, Julia Rose, October 4, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Lundberg (Alison Kaye), daughter, Nicole Whitney, September 16, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyers, daughter, Abigail Noble, August 2, 1985 1977 Mr. and Mrs. M. Ramsay Bell, daughter, Catherine Ramsay Reid, August 5, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Hillary Bercovici (Priscilla Williams), daughter, Caitlin Wigglesworth, July 19, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bradford (Anne Levine), son, Keith Leyfell, January 7, 1986 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elliott, son, Brenton David, November 5, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Gaffney (Lisa Hughes), daughter, Adrienne Elizabeth, October 29, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Hoult (Deborah Wilson), son, Timothy, May 12, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Clement Ogilby, daughter, Piper Richardson, December 17, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Alan Plough, son, Matthew H., July 16, 1985 1978 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Champagne, daughter, Sara, May 12, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. William Dow, daughter, Brooke, October 27, 1985 Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Quinlan, daughter, Maureen, July 31, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, daughter, Allison Marie, January 26, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas (Karen Kelsey), son, David F., Jr., September 28, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Whalen (Ann Thorne), son, Andrew Comstock, June 7, 1985 1979 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Childs, daughter, Tessa Leigh, September 15, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. William Egan, son, Andrew Robert, September 24, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Frese, Jr., son, Calvin W. III, September 8, 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg (Linda Popkin), son, Evan Jonathan, May 2, 1985
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1980 Lynn Hyatt and Harry Schaefer, daughter, Rebecca Leigh, November 5, 1985 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Leonard (Eiin Korsgren), son, James Theodore, October 20, 1985
Class • June 1986 Erhardt G. Schmitt 41 Mill Rock Rd. New Haven, CT 06511 Men of 1916: you remember Rudyard Kipling's great rallying song, ending "When Angel Gabriel Sounds the Last Rally?!" Well, your "Gabriel" is doing just that right now for the 70th Reunion of the once-great Class of 1916. I will write each one of you to try to attend the Half Century Club Dinner on Thursday, June 12, where I am told the College will roll out the red carpet for us (hopefully, the "Barrel" also). If you are not on your feet, maybe a grandson or daughter can appear in your place. P.S. Anyway, write us a letter about yourself which will be read to the Class and others. Class Agent: James F. English, Jr.
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Melville E . Shulthiess Taunton Hill Rd. Newtown, CT 06470
When I look back, one of the highlights of 1986 for me will be a recent hour spent with our valued Class Agent, Louisa Pinney Barber, at her home in Wethersfield. A friend drove me to Hartford, and we were fortunate to find Louisa at home. Louisa has not been in the best of health and has been unable to function as Class Agent for several years. I recently received the first batch of material for the 1986 Alumni Fund. Not too many members of '18 around to be on the mailing list. There is no mailing list for the 1918 Memorial Scholarship, which is still a little short of our objective of $100,000. I see by the paper that the basketball team is doing well again this year.
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James A. Calano 35 White St. Hartford, CT 06114
We are saddened by the loss of another classmate, namely, Maurice R. Cronan, who passed away December 30, 1985. We extend our deep condolences to his family. STAN MILLER and spouse, Alice, spent three weeks last June visiting Europe. Twelve days were spent cruising the Rhine River from Holland to Switzerland and back again, stopping off at different cities en route. They also took a trip to Bermuda the week before Christmas, where they enjoyed 75 degree weather. My grandson, Jimmy DiLorenzo '86, studied at King's College, University of London for his second semester of his junior year. He is the son of attorney TED DiLORENZO '50. His parents, along with his two sisters, visited him in London last May for two weeks. Jimmy is a member and past president of St. Elmo fraternity at the College. My granddaughter, Mary Jean Marvin, daughter of MATT MARVIN '55, passed the Maryland bar last May. She is associated with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. Now if you want to brag about your grandchildren or great-grandchildren, let us hear from you. You'll get equal time. Class Agent: Sereno B. Gammell
1986
I'm sure all of our out-of-town members remember the Hartford Courant. Well, the November 25, 1985 issue carried a piece· headlined "Couples Share Family Bond and 219 Years of Marriage," about a sister and three brothers gathered at the oldest brother's home to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary of the sister. And who should embellish the accompanying photo but Peg and HERB NOBLE, your Class Agent, enjoying their 54th year of marital happiness. Seems that Nibs is the kid brother of the three. Word was received that DICK FORD and his wife are now residing at "Duncaster," a new and excellent life care community in Bloomfield. Should any of you care to contact Dick, the address is Duncaster, 40 Loeffler Road, Bloomfield, CT 06002. Reunion's coming up, boys. It's our 60th. Hope to see you again. Class Agent: Herbert J. Noble
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Winthrop H. Segur Park Ridge, Apt. 516 1320 Berlin Tpke. Wethersfield, CT 06109
Checking with class chairman ANDY FORRESTER, I am told that recently he has been having slight problems with his knee action. Thankfully this is coming up now and not during the 1926-27 year which would have seriously affected his contributions to the football and track squads! Andy's charming wife, Annabell, recently received a note from JIM CAHILL's wife to the effect that she now has to drive the car for Jim. Guess that makes him a bona fide member of the 1927 OA (old age) CLUB. At least that is a high school sweetheart marriage that has withstood the pressures of time. The annual report issued by the College again shows the names of that small group of classmates who year after year give their bit to the Alumni Fund. While we may reasonably anticipate that their practice will continue, what with the increased goal for 1986-87 it would be great if some new names were added to the 1927 list of donors. As time marches on, it seems harder and harder to prepare a bit for Class Notes. Surely my hat is off to MEL SHULTHIESS '18 who, with but eight surviving class members, always manages to get his report in each and every quarter! Congratulations, Mel! Do you have any hints to pass on to other frustrated class secretaries? Class Agent: The Rev. Robert Y. Condit
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The Rev. Canon Francis Belden 411 Griffin Rd. South Windsor, CT 06074
It is late, JERRY HANSEN wants class notes for the Trinity Reporter and I have only the fact that when DAVE SLOSSBERG reported the birth of his great granddaughter, Sarah, he stated that he had eight grandchildren, also. That is good news; it speaks well for the future. Wish we had more news; grandchildren, too. Retirement brings changes, but not always in the manner expected. My own, ten years ago, brought a variety of freedom and opportunity. It means getting up before daylight, packing a bag of vestments, Prayer Book and sermon notes, and driving to a church that is without a rector or vicar; perhaps seven miles or over 120
miles round trip. In the past ten years there have been twenty-two such churches, maybe for only one Sunday or for almost a year. I say "no" more frequently now, but always with regret, because those people I meet are the "salt of the earth" and they seem to turn on the "light of the world." While retirement means taking longer to do less, it can be rich. Let us share your news! Class Agent: J. Ronald Regnier, Esq.
Reunion Class • June 1986
CHARLES "JAKE" JACOBSON writes that he celebrated his 75th birthday on Armistice Day and that his son, CHARLES "TED" JACOBSON '71, and daughter, SUSAN JACOBSON BLACK '74, were present. Class Agent: George A. Mackie
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Julius Smith, D.M.D. 142 Mohawk Dr. West Hartford, CT 06117
A note from HUGH CAMPBELL informs us that BILL GRAINGER and his wife, June, were in a serious accident on July 4, 1985. "June required surgery, but is doing well," he notes. Class Agent: Richard C. Meloy
orable Christmas Day spent as a child. Very moving, Linnea. Puhleeze, fellas! I'm looking for letters. Class Agent: Dr. Orson H. Hart
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3~ JACK HANNA writes that he still teaches a half load as a part-timer in the English department at the University of Southern Maine. He also serves as an interviewer and moderator for public service programs on local television. In between, he jogs, skates and skis when he's not babysitting for his granddaughter. BEHRENS ROSSBERG has joined the ranks of the retired. Class Agent: Albert M. Dexter, Jr.
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L. Barton Wilson 31 Woodland St. Hartford, CT 06105
BRUCE BROWN sends news of his family. His son, BRUCE, JR., graduated from Trinity in 1963. Both he and another son, Stephen, live in Oklahoma City, OK along with their six children - Bruce Sr.'s grandchildren. Class Agent: William G. Hull
James M. F . Weir 27 Brook Rd. Woodbridge, CT 06525
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GEORGE LACOSKE reports the birth of two new great-granddaughters, Jennifer and Kelly Lacoske. Congratulations! Class Agent: Thomas S. Wadlow
SPENCER KENNARD is enjoying being a year-round "Cape Codder." He has retired from teaching, but keeps busy with his hobby - marine paintings - and with his volunteer work with the Council on Aging, church and other local organizations. JIM KENNEY was elected to the Trinity Basketball Hall of Fame last December. ARTHUR KORET is on sabbatical leave in his 38th year as cantor of Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford. He plans to travel and study practices in other congregations. EDWARD SPRING's son, Colonel Sherwood Spring, U.S. Army, did the first construction in space aboard the shuttle Atlantis. This was the first stage in construction of a permanent space station. He has been an astronaut since 1980. Class Agent: Lewis M. Walker
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Charles A. Tucker 7 Wintergreen Lane West Hartford, CT 06117
BEN SHENKER is director of school health for Middletown, CT. He was greatly honored this past year by being given a testimonial and having a Ben Shenker Day declared by the mayor. Class Agent: John E. Kelly
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Albert W. Baskerville 16 Osprey Rd. Niantic, CT 06357
During the last three months your SECRETARY received a letter from DUANE FLAHERTY and a note from ORSON HART. How come so little? Obviously an epidemic of sprained writing hands! Duane, in his letter, outlined a description of his past woes that sounded bloodcurdling. Duane was able to take a trip in late summer. So things are looking up. On a more somber note: two '35ers recently died: GEORGE (CHAPPlE) WALKER and OLLIE JOHNSON. Each in his own way felt deeply about Trinity. We'll miss them. At a memorial service to· Ollie at the Trinity Chapel, a large number of business associates and friends honored his busy and distinguished career. After the service, I chatted at some length with HUGH CAMPBELL '32 (who had given one of the memorial addresses), FRED DUENNEBIER and TOM HAGARTY. In scanning a Hartford Courant, I noticed a letter from HARRY OLSON's bride, Linnea. It was an account of a mem-
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Edward C. Barrett 52 Sowams Rd. Barrington, RI 02806
MICKEY BUDIN reports that he became the proud grandfather of Mallory Ann Budin this past fall. Congratulations, Gramps! FREDDIE HAIGHT spent a few sick days in the Hartford Hospital back in October and recovered speedily, gazing out upon Trinity's towers. We've been wondering about the comings and goings of a lot of you '39ers, and we'd like to hear from you - not simply to pad this quarterly report - but to bring a little cheer into our declining years! It's a shot· in the arm just to read even the briefest item from Trin classmates. So, to take just a few names from the top of the roster and ask: whatever happened to DICK AMES, WARD BATES, ED BENNETT, BILL BLACK, BERNIE BORDEN, JOE BUTHS, BOB BUTLER, ART CAMPBELL, CHET COLLIER and ART
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Headliner Lee Dana Goodman '41 reports that his travels of late have been confined to Vermont's past and research for his just-published book, Vermont Saints & Sinners. The book is subtitled "An impressive assortment of geniuses, nincompoops, curmudgeons, scurvy knaves, and characters."
CUSHMAN? Do drop a line to your SECRETARY or to the alumni office. We'll be glad to hear from you - and from many others. Class Agent: Ethan F. Bassford
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CHICK KIRKBY has become a grandfather for the first time and, like all other new grandfathers, is enjoying the experience. RAY THOMSEN reminds us that the Class of '41 is well along in its plans for the 45th Reunion in 1986. Class Agent: John T. Carpenter
Dr. Richard K. Morris 153 Kelsey Hill Rd. Deep River, CT 06417
DR. JAMES F. JONES retired last October from a long and successful medical practice in eastern Connecticut. Jim, whom some of you knew as "Frank" during our college days, resides in the town of Brooklyn,CT. JACK RITTER is keeping busy teaching classes in the program called 55 Alive/Mature Driving and serves as assistant director for the Connecticut Chapter of AARP. Professors GUS ANDRIAN and Bob Battis (Economics) and their wives, PEGGY (M.A. '64) and Ruth, visited Alice and DICK MORRIS at their home in Deep River, CT, just before Bob left to teach a term at Trinity in Rome. The Class of '40 Memorial Scholarship Fund needs your support to reach the goal we set for ourselves for the big 50th Reunion in 1990. At that time, the interest on the principal will again be made available to help Trinity students financially. So, act now. Class Agent: Walter E. Borin
Reunion Class • June 1986 Frank A. Kelly, Jr. 21 Forest Dr. Newington, CT 06111 A recent listing of our classmates shows that 48 out of 119 are retired. The rest of us are still contributing to the GNP. We will have to list DOC LANE among the undecided. A recent card from him says "Retired from seafaring- I think!" TED RYDER, who has pursued what he describes as an "assorted" career as a bookseller, librarian and cartographic researcher in Washington, New York, Texas and Hartford recently reminisced, for the Hartford Courant, about the time when, as an emaciated boy of five, he entered Dr. Frederick Banting's experimental program for the treatment of diabetes. He was on the verge of death when his family heard reports about Dr. Banting's new method of treatment. Ted still remembers the date, July 10, 1922, on which he stopped dying. Insulin restored his body's ability to metabolize food and he could begin eating again. He has now taken it longer than any other human being. Although revisionist historians have expressed reservations about Banting's role as the sole discoverer of insulin, Ted remembers him with gratitude and affection.
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Martin D. Wood Nat. Rural Electric Coop. Assoc. 1800 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20036
FOWLER WHITE, who is emergency room physician at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, CT, and Carol Mays were married last August (see Weddings). The Class wishes you many years of happiness. HANK ROTHAUSER and wife Jessie spent three weeks touring Austria last summer. They lived in Baden, which is close to Vienna. They report it was delightful. AL BOWMAN retired from the University of Tennessee in September. Last June he attended three reunions to celebrate the upcoming retirement. One, of course, was Trinity's. Be sure to come back in '87 for our 45th! Your SECRETARY joined the ranks of retirees in January of '86. We have built a new home in the northern neck of Virginia - a peninsula between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. So far retirement seems like a vacation. Class Agent: Milford F. Rhines, Esq.
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John L. Bonee, Esq. One State St. Hartford, CT 06103
SAL CARRABBA, prominent Hartford, CT obstetrician and gynecologist, visited with your SECRETARY at the annual corporator's meeting of the St. Francis Hospital Association, and advises inter alia that his two sons, Angelo and Andrew, are in practice with him. Their medical organization is known as Carrabba OB-GYN Associates, Inc., at 701 Cottage Grove Road, Bloomfield, CT. GEORGE TRACY, a well-known and highly respected insurance agent for The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, reports that he and his wife, Elizabeth, have a new residence at 375 Fern Street in West Hartford, CT. Your SECRETARY takes pleasure in reporting the birth of a grandson, Ian Michael Arbues, son of his daughter, LISA '78, and her husband, Miguel Angel Arbues, on January 2, 1986, at Hartford Hospital. Lisa and Miguel are professors of Spanish at the University of Connecticut. Class Agent: Thomas V. W. Ashton
Lockwood R. Doty II 3603 Oval Dr. Alexandria, VA 22305
In July, 1984, LT. COL. ROBERT COOPER was selected for promotion to the grade of full colonel. In November, 1984, he pinned on his eagles and accepted the grade/rank of colonel. In March, 1985, he was selected to become hospital commander. He took this job at the U.S. Air Force Hospital at Loring Air Force Base in Maine in June, 1985, where he and his wife, Linda, presently reside on base. DON PAINE, retired from research at United Technologies in January, 1985, writes that he recommends retirement "very highly." His older daughter, Sue, a teacher, was married in July, 1985, to John Krinvak in Manchester, CT. HENRY TWITCHELL and his wife, Jean, are both retired. Their interests and activities include "handwork, grandchild raising, traveling in the U.S. and western Europe, and family genealogy." He writes that his son, David, and family are in Exeter, NH and his daughter, Ellen, and her husband live in Oakland, CA. EARL WILLIAMS has been doing interim work in parishes in Connecticut for the Diocese of Connecticut. Class Agent: Elliott K. Stein
1986 J. William Vincent 80 Newport Ave. West Hartford, CT 06107 On October 1, 1985, GEORGE STURGES retired as Connecticut's state veterinarian. Class Agents: Siegbert Kaufmann David J. Kazarian, Esq.
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Rt. Rev. E. Otis Charles 4 Berkeley St. Cambridge, MA 02138
BRAD COGSWELL writes that he had "35 good years at Monarch Life Insurance Co., but am enjoying retirement. My wife, Nancy, still continues in the real estate business in Springfield, MA, so I keep the 'home fires' burning." As a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court, SAMUEL GOLDSTEIN has been assigned to the housing court in Hartford and New Britain to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. KERON HORAN retired from General Electric Company in September, 1985. MUNRO PROCTOR writes that he has enjoyed watching his daughters' (SUSAN '80 and ANNIE '85) passages through Trinity. Extracurricularly, he is working with the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the parent organization, International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, which recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. PAUL ROEDEL is chairman of the Northeast Group at the Wiremold Co. in West Hartford. He writes that he is "happily enjoying my third new career and the opportunity to travel."
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Charles I. Tenney, CLU Charles I. Tenney & Assoc. 6 Bryn Mawr Ave. Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
BOB BOWDEN has retired from East Hartford public school system, but is still a state representative. 1985 was a big year for Bob. Daughter Janet was married August 24th and daughter Barbara, September 21st. No wonder he is still working! BOB SERNOFFSKY did not have such expenses when he retired as vice principal in the Hartford school system. He was able
to move to 4951 Fillinger Crescent, Naniamo, British Columbia. Naniamo is on Vancouver Island, and Bob says it is one of the most beautiful areas in the world with a temperate climate and great people. By the way, Bob was married April 16, 1983 to Louise O'Connor. Belated congratulations! Class Agent: Joseph A. DeGrandi, Esq.
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Robert Tansill 270 White Oak Ridge Rd. Short Hills, NJ 07078
A large contingent of classmates showed up at Homecoming on November 9. Those we saw and identified were HARRY KNAPP, BOB BLUM, HARRY ROWNEY, BOB BARROWS, DICK AVITABILE, TED DiLORENZO, STU HOLDEN, GUS STEWART, ROBERT HALL, JOE REKAS, SCOTT BILLYOU, JAY GEIGER, FRANK SHERMAN, FRANK PATTERSON, DAVE HADLOW, JIM VAN LOON, LOUIS BOURGEOIS and BOB TANSILL. PAUL RUTHMAN is professor of education at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. He now has two granddaughters. HENRY WELLINS, president of HGW Inc. in Needham, MA, became a grandfather on March 2, 1985. HARRY KNAPP spent a week last July in England walking in Dartmoor and plans to return next summer to the Cotswolds. BOB COHAN's daughter, Jan, was married onAugust25, 1985 to Dr. D. Bernard; she was the last of three daughters to be married. Bob took his seven-year-old grandson to visit Trinity - sign 'em up early. STU HOLDEN now has eight grandchildren. His youngest son, Jamie, and wife, Cheri, produced twin boys, Andrew Hanna and Gordon John. JUSTIN MACCARONE retired from the public school system in Simsbury in June, 1985 and is already working fulltime at Tech Careers Institute in Windsor, where he is Connecticut admissions representative for Connecticut high schools. JOE HEAP has a new job in marketing with Family Services of Southern New London County. ROGER LADD won re-election to the Hartford City Council of which he has been a member for many years. Class Agents: Scott Billyou John G. Grill, Jr.
Reunion Class • June 1986 Louis Raden General Tape & Supply, Inc. 7451 West 8-Mile Rd. Detroit, MI 48221 PHILIP NASH's son, MACAULEY '81, is presently head of admissions at the Fessenden School in West Newton, MA. JERRY HANSEN's daughter, Pam, will be married next October at Trinity. Class Agent: James B. Curtin, Esq.
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Douglas C. Lee P.O. Box 5321 Modesto, CA 95352
RICHARD McCREHAN writes that he is vice president/exploration for Pioneer Production Corp. in Amarillo, TX. THEODORE MOISE is a design engineering specialist for GTE Sylvania in Danvers, MA. He lives in West Boxford. DONALD RATHBONE is manager of CIGNA in Burlington, VT. Class Agent: William M. Vibert
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Paul A. Mortell 757B Quinnipiac La. Stratford, CT 06497
RALPH DAVIS, director of community development for the Community Renewal Team of Greater Hartford and vice president of the Bloomfield Library Board, writes that the "Trinity alumni recreation program is a lifesaver." He also sends news of his children. Daughter Karen is a senior at Boston University's school of communi· cations, and son Jim is out of flight school and is an instructor at Brainard Field. Science department head at Manchester High School, ERNEST LEWIS, is a Pimms Fellow - a U.T.C. Research Center fellow in the program to increase mastery of math and science for 1984-85. The program is held at Wesleyan. Class Agents: Dirck Barhydt Peter B. Clifford Sanford A. Dwight
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Theodore T. Tansi Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co. 1 American Row Hartford, CT 06103
PAUL NEAL is vice president/South America for Whitehall-Boyle International. He works in New York City. LOllS PIOTROWSKI, a science teacher at East Hampton High School, was presented with the Teacher of tlie Year Award in November. He is described by co-workers as "highly dedicated" and "a valuable asset to our school." Class Agent: Alfred M.C. MacColl
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E. Wade Close, Jr. 622 West Waldheim Rd. Pittsburgh, P A 15215
ROBERT WELSH has been elected to the board of directors of Heidrick and Struggles, an international executive search consulting firm. RICHARD ZAMPIELLO is president of
Plume and Atwood Brass Mill Division of Diversified Industries in Thomaston, CT, and group vice president of Diversified Industries, which is located in St. Louis, MO. Class Agents: David S. Dimling William F. LaPorte, Jr.
Class • June 1986 Bruce N. MacDonald 1116 Weed St. New Caanan, CT 06840 JOHN L. FOX is a physician practicing and teaching at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He reports that he is professor of neurosurgery, which sounds impressive, and probably is. PHILIP MORRIS has recently been named to the position of publisher at Hall's Magazine Reports in Greenwich, CT. He has a daughter at Trinity who is a senior. NED MONTGOMERY, chairman of the Mellon Bank (East) and vice chairman of the Mellon Bank Corporation, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. In March of this year, CHARLIE STEHLE will be defending his ranking as Number 2 in U.S. Squash Doubles (over 50 category). He placed second in the U.S. Nationals last year in St. Louis. Good luck, Charlie! KIM SHAW told me about his business - executive recruiting for hospitals and small corporations. His office is in Hingham, MA. He has a daughter at Hobart and a son at the University of Alaska. He also told me DON ANDERSON had moved to London as an officer of Citibank, there. JOHN RITTER and his wife, Edith, journey to Washington, D.C. frequently. Both of their daughters reside there. One is married to an Air Force officer and the other is on a Republican Congressman's staff. My wife, daughter and I rented a house in Scotland last summer for two excellent weeks of hiking, trout fishing, sightseeing and haggis. Class Agents: John D. Limpitlaw Bruce N. MacDonald
MORRIS LLOYD, JR. '60 is the new chief executive officer of The Philadelphia Contributionship, the oldest property insurance company in the United States. Lloyd, who continues as president and treasurer of the 233-year-old company, succeeds R. Stewart Rauch, who remains as chairman of the board. Lloyd joined The Contributionship in 1980 after serving as managing vice president of the Philadelphia office of Alexander & Alexander, Inc. The company was founded by Benjamin Franklin (shown in painting behind Lloyd). A trustee of Trinity since 1979, Lloyd is co-chairman of the upcoming capital campaign.
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Paul A. Cataldo, Esq. c/o Bachner, Roche & Cataldo 55 W. Central St., Box 267 Franklin, MA 02038
Word has it from Wall Street that the primary motivating factor in the recent success of high tech stocks is because " the street" received word that PAUL LINSCOTT is now president of Computer Partl:ters, a Massachusetts high tech company. We all remember Paul was particularly attracted to figures , and I am glad to hear of his success. WALT SHANNON, the proud father and possessor of three tuition bills (Pine Manor, Carnegie-Mellon and Trinity), is pleased with how well his daughter is doing at Trinity and has enjoyed meeting children of other alumni and classmates. He sends his best to all. If you think you sometimes get tongue tied, what about JACK DARCEY, chairman of the foreign language department at the West Hartford Public Schools, who teaches Spanish, French, Latin and Russian? He recently received an award for "Excellence in the Teaching of Culture." Now he's a knight who speaks four languages, and it all started at Trinity! Governor O'Neill of Connecticut made his · most impressive appointment since taking office by appointing our own DR. BERT SOLANO of West Hartford as a member of the State Board of Education which sets state policy for elementary and secondary schools. Connecticut is lucky to have Bert take time from his busy medical practice in New Britain to serve the people of Connecticut. Maybe now FRED TOBIN can retroactively receive his high school diploma through Bert's intercession. The most important news at this time relates to our 30th Reunion: CROSS OFF THE FOLLOWING DATES FOR OUR FANTASTIC 30TH June 11th through 14th, 1987. The Reunion Committee has been very active and can assure you, as of this time, that there will be better facilities in the College dormitories for us in June, 1987. We have a Reunion Committee member directly involved with the school in selecting the finest facilities, keeping in mind that our spouses will not want to relive the '50s, but enjoy the reunion with a modicum of comfort. In addition, there will be Hartford hotel space blocked off, and a free shuttle van provided for those who stay downtown and want transportation back and forth to the campus. In addition, there are lecture programs being established, and there will also be a lively discussion by a panel comprised of members of our Class with various backgrounds, Entertainment will include the usual clambake, Dixieland jazz, open bars, sit-down Class Dinner and the added attraction of string quartets and strolling minstrels. There will even be dancing for all members of the Class except DAVE MaciSAAC (per Judy Luke's request), and there will be swimming, tennis and golf arranged. One of the highlights will be the Class of '57 versus the Class of '62 in a softball game, and we have asked our conservative classmate DON STOKES to be in charge of that and to challenge GEORGE WILL '62 and his other classmates of '62. Our Class chairmen of the finance drive for our Class gift are NORMAN C. KAYSER, President, R.C. Knox & Co., Inc., 300 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103, telephones: (home) 203-521-4324, (office) 203-549-5010; and DAVID B. BEERS, Esq. Shea & Gardner, 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20036, (home) 202-829-1805, (office) 202-828-2000. Our goal for a Class gift is to establish a schol-· arship endowment fund, the interest of which will be used towards a scholarship, or scholarships, known as "The Class of
'57 Scholarship." This scholarship would give preference to descendants of members of the Class of' 57. There is a subcommittee consisting of BILL STOUT, BROOKS HARLOW and WARD CURRAN working out the specific details of the scholarship proposal which will be sent to all class members at a later date. We would ask each member of the Class to designate his generous contribution to the upcoming Capital Campaign at Trinity to be as a gift to the scholarship fund. You will be given details later, but we merely wanted to keep you abreast of everything at this time. Please send news and stay tuned for more information. Class Agent: Frederick M. Tobin, Esq.
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The Rev. Dr. Borden W. Painter, Jr. 110 Ledgewood Rd. West Hartford, CT 06107
Our tireless Class Agent JOE REPOLE once again bicycled from Boston to Providence in one day - a trip of 120 miles! Quite a feat for a man who recently became a grandfather to Kelly Ann Repole. WALT RUSSELL is district manager for Friendly Ice Cream Corporation in Wilbraham, MA. His daughter, Mary Beth, joined the ranks of registered nurses last summer, following in the footsteps of her mother, grandmother and aunt. DAVID WRIGHT now teaches English and social studies in the Hartford school system. GEORGE HAWLEY continues with IBM here in Hartford and writes that he is putting off marriage until he "grows up." But George, we'd all be bachelors if we had done the same! RIDGE SATTERTHWAITE is program developer for the Experiment in International Living. His territory is Central America and he has traveled to that area three times in the last year. Ridge says that the conditions there are not "quite as the press and Reagan make it out to be." Write him for details! You will read elsewhere in this issue of the January Convocation in honor of Bishop Desmond Tutu. I will only add that it was an extraordinary event for an extraordinary man, and one of the most memorable days in recent Trinity history. Class Agent: Joseph J. Repole, Jr.
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Paul S. Campion 4 Red Oak Dr. Rye, NY 10580
RICHARD NOLAN is co-author of the 8th edition of Living Issues in Phi losophy. The publication date was January, 1986. Class Agent: William J. Schreiner
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Robert T. Sweet 4934 Western Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20816
As we enter 1986, news items are beginning to arrive, and my U.S. Army training (many years ago) as a cryptanalyst should serve me well in deciphering handwriting which hasn't changed since our note-tak• ing days in Boardman Hall. B.C. RITER is still in the Boston area and now a vice president with the Patriot Bank. JOHN WILCOX serves as coordinator with the AIDS Project of New Haven. JOE ALBANO continues work in dance and choreography at his Hartford studio while enhancing his career by studying lighting and scenic design in New York City. Your SECRETARY received an an-
nouncement for a seminar and workshop on current developments in antitrust rules. One of the speakers was ERNIE HADDAD who is general counsel for Massachusetts General Hospital. In closing I would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. WIN FAULKNER '53 for hosting a very successful gathering of Trinity alumni at their Washington, D.C. home. BORDEN PAINTER '58 filled us in on happenings in Hartford, and I had a chance to talk to MAC COSTLEY along with many others from the '56-'60 era. Class Agent: Richard W. Stockton
PETER BRAINARD's son, Peter, Jr., has transferred to Trinity from UPenn; his son, Newton, is a freshman at the University of Vermont; and his daughter, Pamela, is a senior at Pomfret School. KENNETH FISH has been named first manager for the Rhode Island School Staff Institute, which funds in-service training for teachers and administrators throughout Rhode Island schools. DONALD McLAGAN is vice president and general manager for Lotus Develop¡ ment Corp. in Cambridge, MA. ROBERT RODNER who is chief of urology at Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, CT writes that his son, Seth, is a junior at Loomis Chaffee School and that Craig, age 11, is an "up-and-coming NBAguard." Class Agent: Kenneth R. Auerbach
Gordon P. Ramsey, Esq. Ramsey and Murray One Washington Mall Boston, MA 02108 ALAN MANDELL has been appointed to the accounting and review service committee of the American Institute of CPAs. This committee is the senior technical committee designated to establish procedures and standards of reporting by accountants for unaudited financial information of non-public entities. GIULIO PASSARELLI is the administrator of adult and youth programs for the New Haven Public Schools. Class Agent: DaleN. Peatman
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Francis J. Cummings, M.D. 55 Chapin Rd. Barrington, RI 02806
Items continue to come in from members of the Class of 1962. In November, ROLLIE JOHNSON became director of scouting for the New York Mets baseball team. He will have 21 full-time and 20 parttime scouts under his direction. His address is Shea Stadium, Flushing, NY, 11368. MASAO OKAZAKI was elected executive president of Dowa Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan. DANA CLEAVES has been reappointed for a second seven-year term as an administrative court judge in Portland, ME. LOU RENZA has been promoted to full professor of English at Dartmouth College. He has a new publication, A White Heron and the Question of Minor Literature, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Keep those cards and letters coming. Class Agent: Samuel Bailey IV, Esq.
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Timothy F. Lenicheck 25 Kidder Ave. Somerville, MA 02144
TIM LENICHECK is chairman of The Harbor Group, Inc. in Boston, MA. CARL LUNDBORG writes that his oldest daughter, Maja, entered Trinity in September. She is the third generation of his family to attend the College. Class Agent: Rev. Michael A. Schulenberg
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Keith S. Watson, Esq. 8520 River Rock Ter. Bethesda, MD 20034
ART BOBRUFF writes that his son, David, age 10, placed 11th in the country in his age group in the master ski racing program. There were over 100,000 junior skiers competing at 135 ski areas in 30 states.
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'Come Fly,' They Said- and He Did
Peter J. Knapp 20 Buena Vista Rd. West Hartford, CT 06107
Your SECRETARY enjoyed a visit recently from JON SIMONIAN, who was on campus to participate in a career workshop for students. Jon and Charlene are the proud parents of Jon David, Jr., born this past July 18. Despite his tender age, little Jon reportedly has proclaimed his intention to attend Trinity, to become an investment banker, and to smoke better cigars than his dad! A growing family also is the joy of the BILL GREGGs who write that their third child, Alexander, celebrated his second birthday last October. ANDREW SMITH reports that he is now rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Manchester, CT, thus joining the growing number of alumni clergy in the Hartford area. SAM COALE continues on the faculty of Wheaton College and notes that the University Press of Kentucky has just published his latest book, In Hawthorne's Shadow:AmericanRomancefromMelville to Mailer. His next book will be on Paul Theroux. Sam also chairs the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, and was included in the recent edition of Who 's Who in Education. In September, BOB HARTMAN competed in the Cape Code Endurance Triathlon, which consisted of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 miles of cycling, and a 26.2 mile run. Bob doesn't indicate the weather conditions, but I hope they were favorable! That's all for now, and remember to keep me posted on news of note.
Reunion Class • June 1986 Dr. Randolph M. Lee Office of Career Counseling Trinity College Hartford, CT 06106 As our 20th Reunion gets closer, I want, first of all, to encourage and cajole as many of you as possible to get to the campus this June. Let's really try and make it a good turnout. We haven't heard from DAN KRAUT in a long time, but he dropped us a note to say he is president of LCA, Inc. in Torrington. Congratulations, Dan! TOM GLENDINNING writes that he has now formed a new company, "WASTEK, A Corporation," to produce compost out of wood product company water, and to market it to the landscape and nursery industry. Tom and WASTEK are located in Pittsboro, NC. BOB COOLEY writes that he was recently promoted to executive vice president and manager of statewide operations for MTrust Corporation in Dallas, TX. How about dropping us a note between
Frederic Ludwig, Jr. '67 has a job that is unusual among Trinity alumni. He is the commanding officer of a Navy squadron of fighter jets which travel at twice the speed of sound. The 20-ton jets are also capable of landing within 300 feet from approach speeds exceeding 170 mph. Ludwig is in charge of Fighter Squadron 31, which employs the F-14 Tomcat aircraft and is based at the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach. A biology major at Trinity, Ludwig never dreamed he would someday be commanding officer of a squadron of fighter jets. "In college I was pre-med but during my senior year the medical schools I wanted didn't want me," he recalls. An Alpha Chi Rho fraternity brother, who was in the reserve aviation officer candidate program, got him interested in aviation. "One day he said to me, 'Wigs, you're a little wild and crazy, you should come fly.' That led me to talk to recruiters, and here I am!" The former lacrosse player and varsity swimmer says his most important job is taking care of the people who work for him. He likes to keep a relaxed atmosphere while making sure his men !mow what they can and cannot do with their aircraft. Ludwig loves his job and the Navy, and feels fortunate to be where he is, he says. Now that he has reached his goal of becoming a commanding officer, he says it's time to pursue another goal: getting command of an aircraft carrier. En route to that goal, he would like to return to fighter weapons school as its commanding officer and someday possibly become an admiral. "That seems far away but I'll keep shooting for it," he says. Ludwig's squadron is the Navy's second oldest fighter squadron and the fourth oldest operational squadron of any type. Among its many achievements is earning the 1979 Chief of Naval Operations safety award. Ludwig has made well over 900 carrier landings and has more than 5,000 flight hours. He flew more than 300 combat missions over Vietnam. He admits it hasn't always been easy. "When I first started, day landings were always challenging but never really scary," the 18-year sea service veteran says. "But I had never been so petrified of anything in my life as I was of night landing. You have to be prepared and keyed up and have the right frame of mind," Ludwig says, "because no two landings are the same. It's a very exhilarating and rewarding experience but it's something you can never become complacent about." Ludwig says he has no regrets choosing the Navy over a medical career. His family enjoys Navy benefits as he does. His wife, Nancee, and their 12-year-old son, Eric, met him in the Mediterranean during one deployment and they went skiing in Switzerland. He says he will definitely stay in the Navy 20 years and possibly longer. He's not attracted to civilian flying because it doesn't offer the challenges the Navy does. ''I'm staying because I love this kind of flying," he says. "I have an airplane I can make do anything I want and not worry about spilling someone's coffee."
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ages 10 to 18. Ben writes that he would "love to hear from Trinity family." BRUCE FOXLEY, employed by the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, Human Engineering Laboratory, spoke on "Aptitudes, Preparation for Careers, and Vocabulary" at Trinity on November 19th. PHILIP KHOURY has recently launched a new research project on "War and Society in the Twentieth Century Middle East," which is supported by a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Arms Control. He remains Class of 1922 associate professor of history at M.I. T. WILLIAM LaPLANTE is executive director of Media Alliance in Burlington, CT. JOHN STEVENSON is senior vice president at Actmedia, Inc. in Darien, CT. Class Agent: Theodore J. Kowalski, M.D.
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Dr. John R. Thibodeau '68 received national recognition for excellence in teaching the principles of psychoanalysis from the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at its national meeting in New York City in November, 1984. He has been promoted to associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the Albany Medical College.
now and reunion and letting us know what you are up to. Class Agents: William H. Schweitzer, Esq. Mason G. Ross
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Robert E. Brickley 20 Banbury Lane West Hartford, CT 06107
The news is a little thin following our three column edition last fall. KEVIN DALY writes that he has recently joined the national tour of the Broadway musical, 42nd Street. As Billy Lawlor, Kevin recreates the part Dick Powell played opposite Ruby Keeler in the movie version many years ago. Check the theater notes in your town - most major cities will be visited. Congratulations, Kevin! There is room for a personal note. This past summer I was pleasantly surprised by classmates BOB MOORE, TED HUTTON and JOHN HEVNER at my 40th birthday party in Beach Haven, NJ. Not surprisingly, these three members of the Class of '67 are doing just fine. TED HUTTON is president of a group of companies owned by Gulf and Western, Inc. and currently lives with his family in northern New Jersey. BOB MOORE is a partner in the law firm of Verrill and Dana in Portland, ME and, of course, resides with family there as well. JOHN "THE PEEMER" HEVNER is working with Provident National Corporation as an investment counselor and analyst in the qualified plans area of that company's business. John and Annie and their two children live in suburban Philadelphia. I can only scribe what you describe. Let us hear from you. Hope all is well. Class Agent: Roger K. Derderian
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Edward F. George, Jr. 19 Eastern Ave. Arlington, MA 02174
WILLIAM BARRANTE has been ap· pointed secretary of the Connecticut Bar Journal, the law review published by the Connecticut Bar Association. RICHARD HANSON is employed by Rocky Hill Landscape in Rocky Hill, CT. DAVID LAURETTI's law firm, Trumbull, Beck and Lauretti has merged with Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. BOB PRICE reports that he is still with the U.S. Department of Energy. In October, he presented a paper on "Supply Security in International Natural Gas Trade" at the 12th annual conference of the International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In November, he participated in a panel discussion on future trade in liquified natural gas at the GASTECH '85 conference in Nice, France. Class Agent: Richard P. Morris
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Frederick A. Vyn 112 Suffolk Crescent Brentwood, TN 37027
WILLIAM BEYER and his wife, Jill, have recently moved to Maryland with their family- Billy, Jr., 12, Geoffrey, 10, and Emily, 6. He is working at Children's Hospital National Medical Center as administrator/C.E.O. of the Center's new medical practice, which includes 140 physicians. ALDEN GORDON is tenured and has been promoted to associate professor at Trinity. He read a paper at the Colloque Versai!les held at the Chateau de Versailles in France in October. JEFFREY VOGELGESANG received his Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard. His special field is the New Testament and Christian origins. His thesis was "The Interpretation of Ezekiel in the Book of Revelation." Class Agent: W. Frederick Uehlein, Esq.
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John L. Bonee III, Esq. One State Street Hartford, CT 06103
JOSEPH BARKLEY III, a financial counselor with CIGNA Individual Financial Services' Cherry Hill, NJ office, has been awarded the master of science in financial services degree by the Graduate School of Financial Services of the American College in Bryn Mawr, PA. STEVE BROWN is vice president of Cornerstones in Brunswick, ME. DAVID FENTRESS is director of Psychiatric and Psychological Associates in New Bedford, MA. ROBERT KAYNOR is planning officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Planning Office. GEORGE WHEELWRIGHT has been promoted to senior associate at Jaret and Cohn Real Estate in Camden, ME.
Class • June 1986 Susan Haberlandt 34 Cherryfield Dr. West Hartford, CT 06107 The October 28 issue of the Hartford Courant profiled the community activist career of RON CRETARO. He has recently been elected president of the south end neighborhood group, Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART). BENJAMIN FOSTER is director of the Hartford Parks and Recreation Department's Anderson Community Center. He has designed a "user-friendly" microcomputer system for the department which is called REC-TREK. Hartford is the first city in the nation to have developed a computer for the use of its citizens to find out about recreational opportunities for youths
72 TOM BENSON is a technologist in nu· clear medicine at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. DANIEL GREEN opened his own law firm in Stratford, CT. One of OLIVIA HENRY's photographs
has been published in a book put out by the Corner Gallery in Manchester, NH. The book is New Hampshire Photographers: The Portrait and the Environment. RICHARD KLIBANER has moved his office to Cambridge, MA. PHILIP MANKER is president of PM Designs, Inc. in Boston. He designed a sign system for the University of Vermont, and is developing business in trade show and museum exhibits/corporate art. BRUCE McWILLIAMS is vice president of Space Plans, Inc. in New Canaan, CT. DANIEL MIXTER is vice president in sides/marketing for the Industrial Process Co. in Newington, CT. His company does posters, bumper strips, decals, etc. He writes, "Business is booming." Foreign Affairs Officer DANIE L RE IFSNYDER writes, "This has been my year of the Caribbean - participated in two international conferences - in Castries, St. Lucia in July and in Havana, Cuba in September. Was also elected president of my condo association in October. Differ· ent, but challenging." CANDEE TREADWAY has been appointed project director for New England USA's new international tourism marketing program. Class Agent: Harvey Dann IV
Area Association Activities BOSTON- President James P. Whitters III '62, (617) 426-4600 The Trinity Club of Boston continued its successful luncheon series with Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams, and Smith on January 30th at Joseph 's Aquarium Restaurant. Michael Deland, regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, was the gnest speaker. SAN DIEGO - Edgar Craig '34 hosted a reception on February lOth for alumni and parents at his delightful home in La Jolla. Alden Gordon '69, assistant professor of fine arts, gave a talk and slide presentation on "Rediscovering the Chateau and Gardens of the Palace of Versailles." LOS ANGELES - President Barnett Lipkind '62, (213) 587- 8888 The annual dinner was held February 12th at the Tiffany Room of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Guest speaker Alden Gordon '69, assistant professor of fine arts, was well-received by an enthusiastic group of parents and alumni. SAN FRANCISCO- President AnneS. Warner '79, (415) 921-4842 The Maxwell Galleries Ltd. was a perfect setting for guest speaker Alden Gordon '69, assistant professor of fine arts, on February 13th. His talk and slide presentation on "Rediscovering the Chateau and Gardens of the Palace of Versailles" was the highlight of the evening. BOSTON- President James P. Whitters III '62, (617) 426-4600 Historic Faneuil Hall was the scene of the Trinity Club of Boston's annual reception on February 27th. Nearly 200 alumni turned out to hear President James F. English, Jr., National Alumni Association Vice President Tom Chappell '66, and the Trinity Pipes. The reception, which was attended by many young alumni, served as the kickoff event for renewed alumni activities in the Boston area. NEW YORK- President Anne Knutson Waugh '80, (718) 624-5906 Over 150 New York alumni, many of them from the classes of 1980·85, gathered at the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center for the Trinity Club of New York's annual reception. The February 20th event included an address by President James F. English, Jr. and featured a performance by "After Dark," the College's male singing group. WASHINGTON- President Thomas D. Casey '80, (202) 657-3915 The Trinity Pipes were the guest entertainment at the Trinity Club of Washington's reception on February 21st. Many Washington-area alumni turned out at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church to hear the performance, which marked the second year in a row that the club sponsored such an event.
Headliner Charles Griswold '73 has had a book, Self-krwwledge in Plato's Phaedrus, accepted for publication. It is forthcoming at Yale University Press this fall. A tenured associate professor of philosophy at Howard University, he is an editor of the Iwiependent Journal ofPhilosophy. He has published numerous scholarly articles, lectured at universities around the country, and contributed to the editorial pages of newspapers, including the Washington Post.
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Kenneth M. Stone 2221 Empress Dr. St. Louis, MO 63136
In May, ARTHUR BALDWIN's wife, Mary, graduated from the University of Maine Law School. She passed the Maine bar exam in the summer. He writes that "she didn't have much of an opportunity to hang out her shingle, however, because Allison was born August 24th (see Births) and we moved to Massachusetts." BARBARA BROWN has been named public relations writer at Donahue, Inc. in Hartford. She is pursuing an M.B.A. degree at the University of Hartford and is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators and the Trinity Club of Hartford. FRED COURTNEY is a police officer for the City of Waltham in Massachusetts. PAUL DUMONT has been promoted to purchasing consultant at Aetna Life and Casualty in Hartford. KENNETH HARL, associate professor at Tulane's department of history, has moved to 7822 Pearl Street, New Orleans, LA 70118. ABBY HUNTOON recently received her master of fine arts degree from Boston University's program in artisanry. She is now working in clay and also has a job designing kitchens. She has moved to Portland, ME. The American College of Physicians announced that HERBERT KEATING of Wilmington, DE has been elected to fellowship in the 61,000-member national medical specialty society. He is a specialist in general internal medicine. NATALIE KORSHENIUK POLLOCK is vice president of the Pollock Company (retail development) in Hartford. JOSH KUPFERBERG has joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as assistant professor in the department of anesthesia. In that capacity he will be teaching medical students and residents while centering his research interests. PATTI MANTELL-BROAD writes that their "1904 house was recently shown on the Hartford Architecture Conservancy Tour, 'The Elizabeth Park Community."' She is currently teaching psychology at Simsbury High School. ARON PASTERNACK is a senior broker/energy at Alexander and Alexander, Inc. in New York City. He writes that he is "delighted about the new job, first wedding anniversary and still living in Brooklyn Heights." NICHOLAS READ is assistant counsel at the Bank of New England in Boston. STEPHANIE ROBINER has moved to Durham, CT. ANTOINETTE RUZZIER is currently serving as the treasurer of the young lawyers section of the Connecticut Bar Association. The November 11 edition of the Hartford Crrurant contained an article about STANLEY TWARDY and his new position as chief federal prosecutor for Con-
necticut. At the time of the article he was awaiting confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Class Agent: Quay Brown Sternburg
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James A. Finkelstein c/o The Wyatt Company 9339 Genessee Ave. Suite 300 San Diego, CA 92121
JOHN ALLEN writes that he "recently 'gave birth' to Allen Associates, a group of management psychologists who consult to business on the 'people side' of things." His business is located in Northboro, MA. WILLIAM GAMBLE is associated with Shaines and McEachern in Portsmouth, NH. CATHY GREEN is a partner in the law firm, Schapira and Green, in Manchester, NH. PIXIE HOLBROOK is educational consultant and co-director of "The Tutor Service," which matches trained tutors to students needing tutoring. EMILY HOLCOMBE is a first-year, master of divinity student at Yale. CURTIS JORDAN, head women's crew coach at Princeton, was selected 1984-85 Coach of the Year by the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges. His varsity squad was undefeated during the regular season and won the varsity eight title in the Eastern Sprints. ELMARS KALVE is a research analyst with Connecticut National Bank in Hartford. JAMES MORGAN is a fellow in digestive diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. His wife, BECKY STEIN MORGAN '75, is a law clerk for U.S. federal district court. DUNCAN SMITH is a consultant to Boston's Museum of Science. He recently organized a computer game of international negotiation between students in Boston and Geneva, Switzerland which was featured on NBC's "Today Show." 路 CHRISTINA VAN ITALLIE is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University Medical School. Class Agent: Karen Tucker
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Gary Morgans, Esq. Fed. Energy Regulatory Com. 325 N. Capitol St., NE Washington, D.C. 20426
Last summer ANDY ANDERSON coached two boats at the world rowing championships in Belgium. One finished second, and the other third, both winning medals. They were lightweight women's boats. Andy notes that he has been selected to coach the team again in 1986. BEN BREWSTER and his wife, SYLVIA, have moved to Portland, ME, having just opened a satellite office for Baldwin and Clarke, a financial consulting and investment company. He has been with the company for five years. Sylvia is "enjoying
her first year oflaw school" at the University of Maine School of Law. MARLENE CONNOR worked for several years as an editor for Simon and Schuster and Doubleday. Since then she has become an independent literary agent. She is the author of Woman's Day Chocolate Lover's Cookbook. She is writing a nonfiction book based on her senior thesis at Trinity. As an agent, her clients include the Simplicity Pattern Company and Isabel Sanford of "The Jeffersons." She writes that she is in touch with EDIE GREENE, who is doing "fabulously in her new house." FRANCIS DELANEY is president of West State Mechanical, Inc. in Torrington, CT. PHILIPPE de LAPEROUSE works for Ralston Purina Company in St. Louis, MO. Freelance writer MELISSA EVERETT has just published Bearing Witness, Building Bridges: Interviews with North Americans Living and Working in Nicaragua (New Society 1986). She will be spending a few months in the spring as writer-inresidence at Stony Point Conference Center in New York. ANN TULCIN KATES writes that she and her husband, Dave, are closely affiliated with Eagle High School in Greenwich, CT, where Dave works. Also there from Trinity are JANICE DICKENS and LEA SYLVESTRO. HOLLY LAURENT is a labor attorney with New England Telephone Company in Boston. LAURENCE LEVINE is a senior resident in urology at Harvard Medical School, Brigham Hospital in Boston.
DAVID ROUNTREE is institutional banking officer for the Bank of New England in Boston. HAROLD SMULLEN, JR. received his M.B.A. in finance from the University of Connecticut last May. WAYNE SOKOLOSKY has been promoted to vice president at Connecticut National Bank. He is manager of the bank's revolving credit collections and systems and is located in New Haven. CHARLES STEWART recently graduated from the University of Pittsburgh's E.M.B.A. program. It is a two-year course, and ten years of managerial experience are required before one can be accepted into the program. For the graduation ceremony, he wrote a poem with each stanza highlighting a different course - proving he's indeed a verse-a-tile person! From 1985-1986 SUSAN WEISSELBERG is serving as president of the board of directors of the Connecticut Women's Educational and Legal Fund. An omission from last quarter's notes was the birth of a daughter, Nickie, to Lance and ALISON KAYE LUNDBERG. Nickie and your SECRETARY's son, Andrew, have a blind date planned for reunion weekend this spring, and I hope everyone reading this can join us!
ELIZABETH ALLEN LYNCH is vice president for human resources at Bristol Hospital in Bristol, CT. 路
RAMSAY BELL is back at her law office after a maternity leave and continues to practice Jaw. She writes that "taking care of Katie Bell (born August '85) is a delightful additional career." HILLARY and CILLA WILLIAMS BERCOVICI are working as caretakers of Focus Christian Study Center on Martha's Vineyard. The November 9, 1985 edition of the Hartford Courant contained a column written by Tom Condon about TheHilllnk, Asylum Hill's biweekly neighborhood newspaper. BILL DOAK, the newspaper's editor and reporter, is described as an effective influence in the area. In spite of this, the paper is in financial difficulty, and is expected to cease publication. STEPHEN CORSO has opened an office for the practice of psychotherapy in Centerville, MA. DEBORAH WILSON HOULT returned to work at Perkin-Elmer when her son, Timothy, (see Births) was eight weeks old. She's with the technical training group, specializing in atomic spectroscopy. ROGER LaCHARITE has been promoted to manager of corporate trust operations at The First National Bank of Boston. TOM LINES is a sales representative for The Hartford Insurance Company and lives in South Windsor, CT. POLLY FREEMAN LYMAN has started her own free lance public relations business, working primarily with international organizations. LINDA MALLON has recently been named deputy director of New Hampshire's Office of Public Guardian, after serving there as a staff attorney for two years. MARTIN NWEEIA recently completed the Honolulu 100-mile century bike ride. He has started his own private dental office as an associate for a "prominent Honolulu dentist" and is loving Hawaii. He writes that "anyone who is out this way should drop me a line." CLEMENT OGILBY has had a chance to catch up on his reading and corresponding since he fractured his tibia in a 20-foot fall from his roof.
JAY MORGAN writes that he spent a week in Denmark with Lego Systems, a children's toy manufacturer. "They are a Connecticut firm. What nice fringe benefits!" he says. Jay is New England sales manager for St. Joe Container Company located in Chicopee, MA. He was a member of the first annual supplier conference. Class Agent: Benjamin Brewster
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A. Hobart Porter 10 West 66th St. New York, NY 10023 KIMBALL JONAS is now living and teaching college mathematics at Christopher Newport College in Newport News, VA. He writes that he saw LISA SCHWARTZ '80 the last time he was in Washington, D.C. MICHAEL O'BRIEN moved to London at the first of the year. He writes that he would welcome visitors. He had dinner with JIM GASCOIGNE in Cleveland while on a business trip. BOB PARZYCH is development superintendent at Aetna Life and Casualty in Middletown, CT. In November, ROBERT PETERSON was elected vice president/investment analysis 'of Mutual Benefit Financial Service Company, a securities broker/dealer. He had joined the firm in 1982 as controller/treasurer and most recently had been director of real estate structure and analysis. CARLA ROSATI is assistant director of development for Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, CT. An omission from last quarter's notes was the birth of a daughter, Nickie, to Lance and ALISON KAYE LUNDBERG. Nickie and your SECRETARY's son, Andrew, have a blind date planned for reunion weekend this spring and I hope everyone reading this can join us!
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ALAN PLOUGH writes that "work and baby" (see Births) "keep us on the go." His sister, FRANCIE '80, has moved to Denver, CO and is teaching there. His sister, CAROL '77, and brother-in-law, JON DOOLITTLE '76, are living in Farmington, CT. He notes that he has seen BARBARA HAYDEN LEWIS and DAVE '75, who live in Unionville, CT. "They are doing well,' ~ he writes. EDWARD RIVKIN has a new position in a new IBM independent business unit, marketing application software, overlaying traditional branch office, marketing personnel. He is located in Cherry Hill, NJ. JACK SANTOS has moved to Farmington, CT. He has been promoted to administrator in the employee benefits division at Aetna Life and Casualty in Middletown, CT. He writes that a new baby is expected in April. MICHAEL SIEGEL is looking forward to finishing his Ph.D. degree in computer science so that ''I can burn my degrees and import fruit." GALE SIMON works with ROSS LEWIN, who is also a deputy attorney general in Plainsboro, NJ. DAVID WOLF is coordinator of high school planning at Solomon Schechter Day School in Newton, MA. The school currently houses grades K-8, with the high school scheduled to open in September, 1988. Class Agent: Cynthia S. Mohr
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Gretchen A. Mathieu-Hansen 8800 Montgomery Ave. Wyndmoor, PA 19118
JIM ABRAMS is a supervisor for the Department of Mental Retardation inN ew Haven, CT, and is attending UConn Law School in the evenings. KEVIN BURSLEY, assistant actuary with The Travelers Insurance Company, has achieved the distinction of fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society. R. BRUCE CAMERON has been admitted to the New York Society of Security Analysts. ART CHAMPAGNE is assistant professor in the physics department at Princeto_n University. In October, ROBERT CLAFLIN gave a talk to the student trainers at Trinity concerning chiropractic and some common sports injuries. NANETTE HARVEY has moved to Storrs with her husband, Stan Hochberg, and 18-month-old son, Chad. She and her husband, both physicians, have joined the Mansfield Family Practice. DEBORAH JONES's paintings were on display at the BJorn and Dorn Gallery in New York City from December 4 to January 19. JORY LOCKWOOD is a math teacher with the alternative education program at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT. BEN MacDONALD earned his Ph.D. degree in political science at the University
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of Connecticut and is an officer of the Connecticut National Bank working in the international credit unit. His book, Trinidad and Tobago: Democracy and D&Velopment in the Caribbean, will be published soon. GARY MARKHOFF, who is a vice president with E. F. Hutton, writes that he raised $25,000 for the hunger project, in conjunction with running the New York City Marathon in October. He will be traveling with world runners to compete in the Moscow Marathon during the Goodwill Games this summer. His fundraising goal "is $100,000. JAMES McNALLY is an attorney with Johnson and Swanson in Austin, TX. EDWARD PETRY, JR. is working on 路his dissertation in philosophy from Penn State. He writes that he began teaching philosophy at Bentley College in January. KEVIN QUINLAN is a medical resident at LaGuardia Hospital in Forest Hills, NY. Class Agent: Constance Bienfait Steers
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Michael Tinati 153 E. 85th St., Apt. 2 New York, NY 10028
AARON BORKOWSKI was recently promoted to senior experimental engineer it Hamilton Standard in Windsor Locks, CT. He works on the shuttle spacesuit life support systems. He has also become involved in underwater suit testing to simulate work in zero gravity. ANDREW CASTELLE expects to receive his M.S. in environmental geochemistry this year and plans on pursuing his Ph.D. This March-April he will be going on a research cruise to Antarctica. He is a research assistant in the department of environmental science in Charlottesville, VA. KATHY CRAWFORD is treasurer of the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. DAVID FITZPATRICK has joined the law firm of Trager and Trager in Fairfield, CT. He writes that he wants to "thank Robie Shults for exposing his players to mayhem and danger to life and limb at the hands of alumni soccer players; and PEYTON FLEMING '78 and KEVIN MALONEY for their attendance. Why can't we do it every year? Can't the undergrads take it?" he asks. The New England Living section of the Hartford Courant's November 17, 1985 edition describes high school reunions at two local Hartford high schools. One was the lOth reunion of Bulkeley High School, organized by NINA FOURNIER, who had been editor of the high school newspaper. LINDA POPKIN GREENBERG works parttime as an accountant. KAREN EZEKIEL HANDMAKER is associate consultant with Touche Ross and Co. in Boston, MA. MARYANN JESIOLOWSKI HYSON passed the California Bar Exam in 1985. She has recently moved to California, where she is practicing law. SHIRLEY ROSS IRWIN was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1985. W. NATHANIEL MILLS writes that "having recently purchased a house, married, and advanced in my career, I find life becoming more manageable." His job, as national manager systems engineer for Avant Garde Computing in Mt . Laurel, NJ, has him traveling all across North America, "so perhaps I'll see some alumni at the ticket counter." In October, GRACE MORRELL began her job as the new advisor to black and Hispanic students at Trinity. The responsibilities of this 2-year-old job consist of helping black and Hispanic students cope with life at Trinity, as well as assisting the minority student organizations in budgeting and programming. KARL-ERIK STERNLOF is an attorney with Berdon, Young and Margolis in New Haven, CT. FRANCES THAYER and her husband,
Peter, expect their first baby' in May. Class Agent: Andrew M. Storch Michael Tinati
80 SUSAN ANGELASTRO is an underwriter in a group health at The Travelers. DAVID BROOKS, at the KingswoodOxford School in West Hartford, writes that "teaching is going welL I'm almost done with my M.A. in American Studies, also from Trinity." DAVID CLARK, JR. , personnel officer at the Equitable Bank in Baltimore, MD, recently received reassignment of duties. He retained management of college recruiting and added administration of the bank's management training programs. He is currently pursuing his master's degree in management at Johns Hopkins University. MARIAM. DaCOSTA is a resident in psychiatry at the UConn Health Center in Farmington, CT. BARBARA DIXON is sole proprietor of the property management firm, Property Profiles, in Windsor, CT. NICK DOWLING is an account manager with Daly and Wolcott, Inc. in Hartford. DANIEL GINTOWT is a legal associate with Scharoff, Smith, Murray and Nannini and is attending Western New England School of Law. KARYN WEBB GOUGH is with E. F. Hutton in Boston and lives in Wenham, MA. LUCRETIA HADDEN WEINER is a financial analyst with Chevron Corp. in San Francisco, CA. GRACE HARONIAN is a customer consultant with D.I.S.C. , a software supplier in Farmington, CT. She writes that she has a foster son and daughter, Angel Church and Conchita Pagan, respectively. MICHELLE HERRERA is a research chemist with DuPont - New Medical Products in North Billerica, MA. LYNN HYATT writes that she has quit working to take full-time care of her daughter, Rebecca (see Births). "A lot of work, but she's worth it," she says. She has seen Jamie, JOCELYN, and BERT ZUG '82. "Another beautiful family,'' she notes. WENDY JENNINGS HALL is a corporate sales representative for Sports, Etc. in New York City. DENISE JONES is a lending officer with Connecticut Bank and Trust in East Hartford, CT. RICHARD KATZMAN is practicing law in San Diego, CA. ALISON LEGGE MARTIN is working in the public relations department at Union Pacific in New York, NY. She has begun course work towards an M.B.A./M.A. in communications. In July, JAMIE McCAULEY's husband, Tom, started his radiology residency at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston,MA. NICK NOBLE's book, Brantwood, a history of Brantwood Camp in Peterborough, NH, has been published by the Stinehour Press in Vermont. JON OLEAR is unit supervisor at Allstate Insurance Company in Farmington, CT. AUDREY PATRONE PEARTREE has moved to Beaufort, SC. She writes that she is expecting her first child. JOANNA JANOSKA PETERKIN, who lives in England, is now a physician, specializing in oncology. WERNER ROSSHIRT is a fourth-year medical student at UConn School of Medicine. DANIEL SARGIS writes that he had a
"wonderful time with BOB ALMQUIST, MACEY RUSSELL, KEVIN HERN and CINDY JASON '83, at JEFF LONG's post-wedding reception in Wellesley, MA in October. I was looking for Macey's burger grill at The Head of The Charles!" he says. MICHAEL SCINTO has just bought his first home. "Happy with job and newly married life," he notes. STEPHEN SLADE was recently promoted to second vice president of North Star Reinsurance Corporation. He still lives in Rowayton, CT. CHRISTOPHER SLOAN is staff attorney with Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA. KATHRYN YOUNGDAHL is a writer/ producer with Showtime/The Movie Channel. She writes, "Have been to a couple of Trin weddings lately. BRUCE MITCHELL married Ellen, a fellow law grad. Both have moved to San Antonio. Trin folks JOE CAPASSO, ANITA SPIGULIS, JENNY SANDSON, ELENA HOVEY, JOE GIBLIN, BRIAN and Persheng LEE '79 were all there. Also attended BILL EPES '78 10/12 wedding to Ellynne Skove. Very beautiful!" Class Agents: Deborah Brown Murdock Nina W. McNeely Diefenbach
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SCOTT ABERY is a pilot with Delta Airlines. After working for a litigation firm in Philadelphia, ANDREA BALAS has moved to Memphis where she is an attorney with Fox, Simpson and Bennett. Her firm handles corporate matters for health care corporations, hospitals, and physicians, and she writes that she "loves practicing health care law." She does miss Philadelphia, though. LIVIA BENAVIDES is chief of the environmental protection agency for the government of Peru. She writes that she has moved back to "help my country pay back its loans." LIANE BERNARD is product manager for Decision Resources in Stamford. She is attending UConn's School of Business, part-time, and writes that JOHN O'CONNELL is in her management class. WENDY BIDDLEMAN has been promoted to manager in the consulting division of Arthur Andersen and Company. LOUIS BROMBERG is working in the same Hartford law firm as his father, SOLOMON BROMBERG '43. ALYSSA BUSHNELL is a software engineer with Gerber Scientific Instrument Company in South Windsor, CT. JAMES CORVINO is a salesman/micro computer software with Software Solutions, Inc. in Trumbull, CT. PETER HOOPS is in his second year of the J. D. program at New England School of Law in Boston, MA. DIANE NAPERT-HOWE has left Heublein for Loctite, Inc. in Newington where she is a staff accountant in the financial planning area. MARILYN MOORE HUTCHINS is a marine varnisher with Bass Harbor Marine in Bass Harbor, ME. ROBERT MALKIN is doing an internship in internal medicine at Boston's Veterans Administration Medical Center and will stay on for another two years to complete his training for internal medicine. GA YLENE McHALE has completed her M.B.A. at New Hampshire College Brunswick Center. She is now working in the purchasing department of Bath Iron Works in Bath, ME and travels extensively. She writes that she has bought a new house and is enjoying it.
MARY EIGLER MEGARGEE is a speech and hearing specialist with the Northford, CT public school system. FRANK NETCOH is senior underwriter in the national accounts group at The Travelers. He is studying for his M.B.A. part-time at the Hartford Graduate Center. MARTIN PARKES is staff writer with the Hartford Insurance Group. ROBERT PROCTOR has been promoted to senior software specialist with Digital Equipment Corp. in Bridgeport, CT. LEN SPAIN is an analytical engineer with Hamilton Standard in Farmington, CT. STEPHEN SPENCER has been promoted to assistant vice president in Connecticut National Bank's north commercial division. He lives in Colchester, CT. NELSON TONER has begun taking night classes toward his L.L.M. in tax law at Boston University. PATRICIA YOUNG is currently a graduate assistant in the communication department at the University of Hartford. Her master's degree emphasis is organizational communication. Class Agents: Richard P. Dahling Sibley Gillis
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Thomas Hefferon 5128 S. Hyde Park Blvd., D-1 Chicago, IL 60615
JOE ADINOLFI completed his master's degree in engineering from R.P .I.'s Hartford Graduate Center and is employed as an analytical engineer. LORI ARDOLINO is an English teacher at Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, CT. VICTORIA ARONOW is in her last year at Emory Law School in Atlanta, GA. MARY BADOYANNIS is an associate with William C. Bieluch, Jr., Esq. in Darien, CT.
SUSAN KELSEY has been promoted to computer analyst at Northeast Utilities. AMY KUNTZ is working towards her Ph.D. in Spanish at Brown University. She is also teaching language students at the undergraduate level and "enjoying every minute of it." ELIN KORSGREN LEONARD is a group manager for Zayre's in Nashua, NH. CAROL ANN MARTIN was featured in the November 1, 1985 issue of the Hartford Courant, which questioned 11 candidates running for the Hartford City Council. Candidate Martin's response was printed .. MELISSA PRINTON is the chef at Ta Delfinia Restaurant in Campbell, CA. She lives in San Jose. JENNIFER PROST is publicist for St. Martin's Press in New York City. ROBERTO ROBLES is executive assistant to Hartford's Mayor Thirman Milner. · He represented the United States at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in which 157 countries participated. ALICE HARLOW RONCONI is a marketing analyst with Mars Electronics. She will be returning to Italy at Easter to visit her husband's family. She writes that she sees JOHANNA PITOCHELLI, BLYTHE BACHMANN and JOHN ZIEDONIS often. JOAN SHRIVER is a sales engineer for Honeywell in Glastonbury, CT. RIMA SIROTA is in her second year at Harvard Law School. ANDREW STEPHENSON is associate in admissions/faculty, at the Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA. He writes that he is "enjoying the boarding school life and looking forward to a week of skiing in Vail in the spring." ALBERT SUBBLOIE, JR. is a partner in Information Management Associates in New Haven, CT. MARGOT TAMONEY is a training consultant with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Hartford. THOMAS TARCA is senior analyst with Arthur Andersen and Co. in Hartford. MARY TOLAND is human resources administrator with GTE Data Services in Tampa, FL. ROB VEIDENHEIMER is an M.B.A. student at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business Administration. MEGAN WHITE is finishing up her fourth year of medical school at Dartmouth. She will be married in May to Dr. C. Douglas Evans, who will be doing an ophthalmology residency in Syracuse, NY, where she will be starting a pediatric residency in June. RUSSELL WILLNER is studying for his M.B.A. at the University of Chicago. Class Agents: Patricia Hooper Steven A. Elmendorf
RICHARD BERNSTEIN is looking forward to graduation in May from UConn Medical School. CECILY BRODERICK is a student at Yale University Divinity School in New Haven, CT. DAVID BURWELL is a project engineer with United Technologies Corp. in San Jose, CA. He writes that he is taking a leave of absence from Princeton's graduate school (chemistry department), after finishing his M.A. LUCY COLE continues to work as an actress. From January to June, 1986, she will play the role of Maggie in "A Chorus Line" at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD. THOMAS CROWELL is a consultant with Data Resources, Inc. in Lexington, MA. He recently completed a two-month, 4270-mile, cross-country bike trip with RUSSELL WILLNER and DAVE GARLaura A. Wilcox TEN. 596 Navaho Trail Dr. KEVIN DOYLE is senior auditor with Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 Arthur Andersen and Co. in Boston, MA. BAILEY JOHNSTON FARRIN is a Greetings from Asbury Park. Life in Spanish teacher at Danbury Junior High T()xic Wasteland is as exciting as usual. School. For those of you who noticed that the last THERESA HANSEN writes that she is • report lacked the personal touch of married to a "newly-designated naval YOURS TRULY, I beg your pardon. It aviator, but he's Coast Guard, and bound seems that the alumni office is cracking for the Coast Guard Air Station in Brookdown on its reporting staff by strictly lyn, NY." sticking to its deadlines. I unfortunately CLAUDIA HART finished her Peace missed the last due date and took an inCorps duty in Botswana in December and complete so this is my make-up report. returned to the States. Here's some old but still good news about MARCIA HELIN is an underwriter at fellow classmates: I received a most interCIGNA Corp. and is attending Trinity's esting Jetter from DON JACKSON, who is master's program in economics. with the Peace Corps in the Philippines. DAVID HOWE has been promoted to Don has been there since September of supervisor in analytical methods at Mac1983 specializing in rural health and water Dermid, Inc. sanitation. Don writes that "my most MARGOT KEENE is a sales manager at memorable and instructive experiences are Filene's in Burlington, MA. not particularly job related, my interac-
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tions with individuals are perhaps more important and more lasting than a water pump ... " Following his Peace Corps stint, Don hopes to study international relations at the graduate level. As for new news, ANNE COLLINS has enrolled in the cooperative legal education program at Northeastern University School of Law. She will spend the next three years studying and working at a fulltime apprenticeship. FRANCIS STODOLINK has just completed the field artillery fire support course under the one station unit training program at Fort Sill, OK. According to TODD BEATI's information card, he will be retiring soon from his position as senior sales representative for West Point Pepperell. MICHAEL BANNETT is starting work for Chemical Bank's Latin American division. AMY CLYMER is an assistant buyer for G. Fox in Hartford. RAY DIANA is a second-year student at Ohio Northern Law School. KATHY GROFF teaches English parttime at the Ethel Walker School and writes that her second baby is due in June. Also working in and around Hartford are: MARLENE ARLING as an alcoholism counselor at the Regional Alcohol and Drug Abuse Resource Center in Hartford; TAMMY BANKS, soon to be married this June, as an associate at the writing center of Trinity College; LIZ AXELROD, soon to be married to MIKE SCHWEIGHOFFER '84 (see Engagements), as an associate editor in public relations at The Travelers Insurance Company; BRUNO JUGOVIC, as a project leader for Business Computer Systems, Inc. in Newington. Now, the last time I saw DON JOSLIN was when I ran into him in a restaurant in Hartford, but he didn't mention his fantastic job as a personal financial planner for IDS/American Express. It must be pretty vicarious living telling other people how to spend their fortunes! FERN VIDAL is a life and health agent for Massachusetts Mutual Life in Hartford; DIANE RAPAL US is now a private banking officer at CNB and will be married this August to JOHN BEIR '80 (see Engagements); BERNICE RIZK is a billing coordinator for General Data in Middlebury, CT and she attends the University of New Haven. She also was recently married to Fouad Rizk (see Weddings), and has managed to avoid the hassles of changing her name. (Very clever, Bernice.) Moving north to Massachusetts, GLEN D'ABATE is a program analyst for Meditech Co., sharing a house with JON SPROUL; MICHAEL McCARTHY is a press-legislative aide for the Massachusetts State Senate in Boston. LINDA SEUFERT has completed her graduate realtors course and has earned designation as a real estate associate with Sylvan Realty. She was also engaged to David Rice this past July (see Engagements). Best wishes to RUTH FLAHERTY on her recent engagement to Tom Beaton. Ruth continues to work in the Boston area, and I hear she is very happy! ELSPETH HOTCHKISS has made a move to the Big Apple where she is now an assistant project manager for Health Management Systems. CAROLE PELLETIER is now the assistant to the director at the Boston Redevelopment Authority following her graduation from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Carole now holds a master's degree in public policy. BRUCE ZAWODNIAK now attends the University of Connecticut School of Law; SARAH HEMINW AY is a graduate research assistant at the University of Connecticut; SCOTT KEILTY is a dental student at UConn Dental School; ROBERT SMITH is a first-year dental student at UConn Medical School; and JOE RA VALESE is a first-year med student at the Hahnemann University School of Medicine.
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RUTH DePHILLIPS LaLONDE was recently married (see Weddings) and is now living in Illinois; and a note from PHIL LOVEJOY says "have just returned from six months working for Richard Ellis Property Consultants in Sydney, Australia. Returned via Tahiti, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. I am now preparing myself for a career in architecture - hope to get some sort of job and take night courses in Boston." For those of you who noticed an excess of engagements and marriages in our Class in this column and in the announcements, I suppose I should note that I, too, am taking the proverbial "plunge" this summer. Unlike Bernice, I did not find someone with my name, but! was tired of being at the end of the alphabet anyway. So I am soon to be Laura Rokoszak (don't bother trying to pronounce it) and will be married this August. I am happy to say that SCOTT NESBITT famous for his dedication torecalling Buicks in Michigan will use another of his talents by singing at the wedding, and if she can pull vacation time, GINNY DODSON, presently residing in Missouri, will be there, too. By the time of the next Reporter, I hope to be teaching high school English again, and basking in the warmth of wedded bliss. Please keep those cards and letters coming in and let's try to help TODD BEAT! and ANNE GINSBURGH, as we try to repeat our title of Most Increased Donors in the annual alumni fund drive! Class Agents: AnneN. Ginsburgh Todd C. Beati
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Jane W. Melvin 251 Asylum St., #4W Hartford, CT 06105
A hearty thank you is in order for those of you who have sent cards and letters. Thanks in advance to my special correspondents for this issue. SUZANNE CHERNAU, SUE GREENE, and SARAH SHANLEY coauthored a wonderful semi-stream-of-consciousness Jetter one Sunday morning after brunch. Sue is working for Foreign Affairs magazine. Sarah works for an advertising agency and spends a good deal of time on her own writing (I hope I got that right!). Suzanne says she's happy. According to their Jetter, this is the latest on some other '84 types. JON GOODMAN is working as a staff writer for a paper in Maine. MICHELLE BURNHAM shares an apartment in Boston with JENNIFER RUDIN. Jennifer is working in the real estate realm in the Boston area. TRIP WElL can be found somewhere in the vicinity of San Francisco. After that, just ask anyone for directions. ANDY PAINE teaches math. NANCY EDSON can be found in Florence, Italy. IAN McFARLAND has just returned from that direction and has joined a group of financial analysts in Hartford. I'd like to ask BARBARA GUTTMAN about this monastery/tour group stuff ... blame the threesome above for that! According to this bunch of alumni cards, JOHN KALISHMAN, who recently passed the CPA exam and is an accountant for Arthur Andersen in Hartford, claims the world series was fixed. I, on the other hand, think the playoffs (and maybe the whole season, judging by the teams that made it to the end) were fixed! Also working as accountants in Hartford after finishing a master's program are: CHRIS STAN SON at Peat, Marwick and Mitchell; CHRIS MINARD at Arthur Andersen; and JANICE ANDERSON at Coopers and Lybrand. BOB MUCCILLI continues his interest in politics. He's getting involved in local politics in the Nashville area, the home of Vanderbilt Law School. Bob is in his sec-
ond year there. Hey, CHRIS MESSER, were you really heading south from the Dallas airport? SUZANNE CHALPIN and MYRIAM HERNANDEZ attend NYU Law School. ANNE MAHONEY, ROSEMARY MACCARONE '85, and DAVID HILL are at UConnLaw. And finally (by the way, I probably should have issued a disclaimer for myself at the beginning of all this, but I guess it's too late), "A. MARC ACKERMAN's name is not Marc!" The three "assistant correspondents" would love to hear from WENDY PERKINS, RANDY NARGI, RANDI BORT, LAURA RAMSEY, SUSAN LEWIS, BOB SANSONET!l'I, CYNTHIA BRYANT, GILLIAN MAGEE, and JIM KOLOWICH. I ran into ART RICE as I was attempting to parallel park my car in Hartford. I made it on the first try; good thing because I wanted to impress Mr. Rice! He's anational accounts executive with Boston Financial and Equity Corporation. He travels in style all over the country. Thanks for the letter, LEA (SPRUANCE) BEARD. She's happily married in Florida, but contemplating a career change. CHIP FARNHAM is in customer service/sales with Imtra Corporation in Med路 ford, MA. LAURA DYSON has what sounds like an exciting new job with the National Center for Tax Education and Research. She is a program director, and she'll be traveling to conferences for business professionals all over the U.S. and in Europe. MIKE HAVARD still works for the Bank of Boston Corp. He's a "cash management specialist" - I wish I needed his help! CATHY (VILLANO) BEREY has been promoted to an assistant buyer for G. Fox. She and DAVE BEREY '83 were married last May. Also in Hartford, you can find LAURA SCHILD. She works at Hartford Hospital and is moving towards a career in hospital administration. ANDREW LIEBERMAN is an account executive with Decker Guertin Cheyne at Cityplace. JANE DORFMAN is a legal assistant in the corporate department at Day, Berry and Howard. "COLONEL" McKEE completed a 1112 year sales training program in Boston. He's relocated to Hartford as an area salesman for Carter Rice Paper Co. BOB LeCOURS works as the assistant football coach for American International College in Springfield, MA. CAROLINE FISK married Michael Minor in October (see Weddings). She's now working for CIGNA. And finally, completing the ranks of the Hartford group is KAREN WEBBER. She's been pursuing musical interests and wants to become a cantor. Among the ranks of '84 in graduate/ professional schools are: DEBBY VINNICK, Jefferson Medical College; CHRIS PAPPAS, Ph.D. program in biomedical sciences, UConn Health Center; JOYCE MECARTNEY, Central Connecticut State; KURT BERKY, Columbia Dental School; JIM ERMILIO, American Law School (he'll be working this summer at Bingham, Dana and Gould in Boston); and KATHY (AIKEl\') SULLIVAN, philosophy department, Boston College. KATHY AIKEN and DAN SULLIVAN were married in July (see Weddings). Congratulations! KEVIN O'CONNOR works as an assistant to the minority leader for the state senate in Connecticut (I guess we're friendly adversaries, since I'm in the majority caucus office ... ). He plans on Jaw school in the fall. MATT GOLDING and NEIL SCHNEI路 DER hosted a New Year's Eve party. The Class of '84, as I understand it, had a good showing. LATE ENTRY ...
DAVE HILL recently won first prize in the World Wrestling Federation's "Captain Lou Albano Look Alike Contest." Dave is living in Hartford with BRIAN DRISCOLL, RICHARD OLLAR!, DON BISSON, and KEVIN O'CONNOR. Brian is working as an underwriter at Aetna and Rich is presently serving as an account administrator for IBM. They are both having great fun watching "Laverne and Shirley" re-runs and exercising in their aerobic dance class. Donald "Felix" Bisson is working for Pratt and Whitney and will be attending Columbia Business School this fall. Keep sending letters and postcards it's great to hear from all of you. Class Agents: Todd R. Knutson David R. Lenahan Jane W. Melvin
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MARC PINTO, my European connection, writes that he's "avoiding bombs and cruise ships and watching the government fall" in Rome and working for a U.N. agency which funds Third World development projects. He's living with his "wife," MARTHA ERSKINE, (the only way a man and a woman can share an apartment in Italy), who is employed by the physics department of the University of Rome. Making "Three's Company" is DAPHNE VANDENHOECK, who just finished her stint as assistant director of the Trinity Elderhostel Program in Rome. All three are making a plea for mail which can be sent to the Barbieri Center address. LAURIE LYTE reports that she's busy with UTEL in London and working on extending her six-month work permit. A lengthy letter from KIM JOHNSTON revealed many interesting insights into the life of a Peace Corps volunteer. She is working to promote better nutrition in Ecuador, as well as aiding the doctors of the local center. Her most exciting experience was helping to deliver a baby. Please note her new address (she'd love more mail): c/o Cuerpo de Paz, Casilla 1460, Otavalo, Imbabura, Ecuador, S.A. JOE SHIELD and I spent a fun-filled weekend chez LAUREN HARGRAVES and MARK CHABOT (pronounced "Chabo," silent "t"). PEYSON POTTER met us for the day and gave us the lowdown on estate sales, her present occupation. MATT LEES was up from Georgia and presented us all with Georgia Tech Hoop shirts. In one short weekend I received quite an update on the NYC crowd: LISA BROWN is an assistant account executive with Ted Bates. SUSAN CLARK is working in the advertising department at Fairfield Publications and attending Columbia University. DANIELLE D'ANGELO is at KCS&A (p.r. firm) as an assistant account executive. ROBERTA GLASER has finally decided to unpack her suitcases and settle down. This spring, she'll be working at Arthur Andersen after completing their training program. I ran into KATHY KLEIN at Grand Central Station and she informed me that she'll be moving into Chemical Bank's commodities division. ANNE PATTERSON is working at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and living with LYNN DAY and CATHY LEWIS. KIM RAFTIS and LOUISA WRIGHT can be found from 9 to 5 (and often later) at Shearson Lehman Brothers. CHRIS CASKIN and SCOTT SENNETT have moved out to the "burbs" (Westchester County) and reportedly have a house full of chairs. Chris and MIKE
TIGHE recently made a jaunt to Boston where they debated everything, leaving JON MILLER to act as mediator. I just watched! MIKE ELWOOD is a budget analyst for Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City. In and around the Boston area: RICK CLEARY is living in Newton and working as a marketing representative for Xerox in Lexington. SUE PASIEKA is a marketing assistant for the Harvard Medical School Health Letter. KAREN RODGERS has moved from beautiful Somerville to Chestnut Hill. She continues to enjoy her work at C.L.A.S.S. in Andover. JOE SHIELD is gainfully employed; by day he works in the marketing department for Colorado Prime and by night he is a fitness instructor at "Fitness First" in Arlington. He lives in Brookline. Don't worry- he's not interested in becoming the next Hulk Hogan. He's already met with the Patriots (and, boy, could they use him after that Superbowl!). By the time you read this, he'll probably have already signed with another team. PHIL CARNEY has really been in the doghouse - I mean boathouse - all winter. He successfully completed his first term as Trinity's assistant crew coach and has mastered the art of boat repair. He's looking forward to an excellent spring season. LAURA CONTICELLO is an electronic systems engineer at Chandler Evans Corp. in West Hartford, CT. CHRIS ELLIOTT, a graduate student in biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, writes that he is having a great time at school and keeping very active musically with the trombone. He "misses Trinity, though." GREG DAVIS is in the Hartford area working as a coordinator for The Bridge of Educational Resources, Inc. and was involved with the production "Looking In, Teen/Family Life" Education Theatre. CHRISTINA GONZALEZ is working for the Office of Legislative Management in Hartford. STEVE KISH sent me an amusing update on him and his roommates. Most of it made the winter issue, but what I left out was his involvement in yet another singing group - "The Spare Parts." His roommate, IRIC REX, is employed at the architectural firm of Jeter, Cook and Jepson. SONIA PLUMB is working at the Hartford Stage Company. THERESA ZIOBRO is a telemarketing sales representative for American Airlines in Hartford. ANDY CARLSON is the "Casual Male... " Actually, he's their public relations coordinator and hoping that he and retail get along in Massachusetts. VICKIE COX writes that she is a case worker for The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. She's also been helping out with our yearbook along with Editor LEE COFFIN, Assistant Editor CATHY WALLERT, and staff members STEVE KISH, CAROL SZYMANSKI and HOWARD SADINSKY. Lee sent many of you a letter relaying the progress of the Ivy. It looks as if it'll be hot off the press in May and everyone can look forward to receiving a copy. Make sure Lee has your updated address (send it to his attention at the alumni office) so you may receive this epic work! TRACY MASTRO is working at the Hudson Valley Blood Services in Ossining, NY, and will soon begin work on her master's in health administration. RICK HA YBER is a unit supervisor for The Travelers in Albany and living with his sophomore-year-roommate, KEN DO ROSH OW. MICHELE SENSALE is working as an editorial assistant for the Yale University Press in New Haven. SCOTT SAGRAVES delivered his first baby while on the job as an E.M.T. for the
New Britain Emergency Medical Services. DON MORAN is a sales rep for Beatrice Foods in West Orange, NJ. LAURA DENETTE is studying at UConn for her degree in molecular and cell biology. TISH BARROLL is a sales trainee for the Georgia Pacific Corp. in Darien and living in Stamford. DAVE BARRY is still on the run - as East Catholic High's head track coach in Manchester. MARK LEE and TONY SCHWARTZ are both enjoying the challenge of law school at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Two more of our classmates have entered the teaching field. NORMAN PRICE is teaching biology at Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, MA. RACHEL CLEMENT is working with a 4th grade class at the John E . Fiske School in Wellesley, MA. LARRY PASSARELLI is living in Lafayette, NJ and attending the University of Maryland's Dental School. ROSEMARY MACCARONE is attending UConn Law School. MICHAEL JACOBSON is a foreign fisheries observer for the National Marine Fisheries Service. He's based in Seattle, WA and will be spending a few months in the Bering Sea on a Korean fishing vessel. JOHN PICONE is an ensign at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, FL where he is going through flight training. CHRIS HOGAN and BARCLAY HANSEN are working as entrepreneurs (I hear that's an interesting line of work!) and have created " Doneright Services," offering a full range of services to Cape Cod homeowners. STEVE MUSICANT sent me a witty letter telling me how bills breed in his mailbox. He's coaching women's crew at Temple University and also finding time to be a commercial casualty underwriter for The Hartford in Cherry Hill, NJ. Moving on to Pennsylvania ... WADE BENNETT is in Malvern working as an associate programmer. REID WAGNER is a field rep for The Travelers in Philly. JOHN WORTHINGTON is employed by Jackson Ventures International in Baltimore, MD. CYNDY MOYLE is an analyst for the U.S. Federal Government, as is JOHN KOCHNOWICZ. Johnny K. asked me to relay this message: "Can anyone find JIM McALOON? Last I heard he was in Mexico looking for Jose. Is he allright? Is he in love, or just afraid?" JOHN CARTER writes "San Diego, here I come!" He's recently been commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve and will be serving a 30-month tour aboard the USS Vancouver. Due to a printing error, MATT MOORE's paragraph was left incomplete. He's part owner/producer of Skyline Films in Chicago. A clarification is in order for EILEEN DURKIN as well. She's a teacher for Worcester, MA Headstart Program. As for me, my work as a media assistant is going well and I've assumed quite a bit more responsibility since my first days on the job, including keeping the books for all of the magazines and newspapers in which my firm places advertisements. (Little do they know I still count on my fingers and never took accounting! The blessings of a liberal arts degree! Just kidding!) Thanks for all of the letters which keep me laughing as well as informed. For those of you we haven't heard from - please fill out one of the cards in this journal, send it in, and you'll find your way into one of these columns. Last, but certainly not least, I'd like to inform you that our Class has been challenged by the Class of 1984 as to who can set the most impressive record regarding gifts to the Alumni Fund. You've probably been contacted by one of our assistant class
agents and remember: we set a record our senior year and we can do it again! And quoting JANE MELVIN, "I think we have to show them who's best!" Class Agents: Lulu Cass Camille Guthrie Stephen Norton Howard Sadinsky
MASTERS 1937 HOWARD GOODY writes that the first of his four grandchildren was married in September and that he is now eligible to become a great-grandfather. " Where has the time gone?" he asks.
1956 ALICE TEMPLETON, librarian at Touche Ross and Co. in Hartford, has moved to 37 Race Brook Road in West Hartford.
1958 LOIS DWYER, an English teacher at Crosby High School in Waterbury, CT, has a new part-time job as a real estate broker. Her three children are presently attending college.
1960 DONALD MACKAY is vice president of industrial relations for Kwikset, a division of Emhart in Irvine, CA.
1961 BETTE DEL GIORNO, a science consultant with the Fairfield Public Schools, has co-authored a new publication, Unlocking Life Science Skills. MAXINE SPITZLER notes that she is "an entrepreneur" with the Fuller Brush Company.
1963 JOHN PARDY has been elected to a fiveyear term on the Board of Trustees of Hartford College for Women.
Headliners Sandra Biloon M'71 has been chosen as president-elect of the International Personnel Management Association, an organization of some 5,500 local, state, national and foreign personnel professionals in the U.S. This is the second national office for Biloon, who is a past president of the National Association of State Personnel Executives. Connecticut's director of personnel and labor relations, she has he~ed the state's personnel operations since 1976. Mallory Mercaldi M'75 was named Greater Hartford Woman Entrepreneur for 1985 by the Association of Entrepreneurial Women for her "success as an entrepreneur, her creativity in developing her business and her contribution to other women business owners." Her firm writes newsletters, real estate development brochures, business proposals, product literature, private-placement memorandums, histories, annual reports, and, on a limited basis, advertising copy for other businesses and organizations.
produced at Company One in Hartford in the fall. SHIRLEY SPAETH is employed by United Technologies Corp. and lives in Tequesta, FL.
1970 RICHARD MIHM is an advisory systems programmer with Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company in Hartford.
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DON BURNESS has had 6th book published: WANASEMA: Conversations with African Writers.
GERALDINE PELEGANO is supervisor of language arts in grades K-8 in Bristol, CT. HOWARD WHITNEY is director of adult services for the Lawrence, MA Public Library.
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PAUL BOCCACCIO teaches in Windsor, CT. GLEN LAWRENCE is manager of research with Skiaky Bros., Inc. in Chicago, IL. DONA PAWLOSKI GINTY has been promoted to associate professor of English at Mattatuck Community College in Waterbury, CT.
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ROBERTA GORDENSTEIN writes that her son, Scott Blanksteen, who is a senior at Hall High School in West Hartford, has been named a national merit semi-finalist. MARY ANN JUREK is office manager for the Greater Meriden Chamber of Commerce. JUDITH SLISZ is founder of Communications Resources, a marketing communications consulting firm, in Cheshire, CT.
ELAINE BUCKLEY is a realtor with Botti Real Estate in Derby, CT.
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1968 At Hartford Seminary's recent annual meeting, ROBERT DARLING was installed as a new member of the board of trustees. MIMI KAUFMANN writes that she teaches Chinese cooking in her home. She also sends news of her children. Her daughter, SUZANNE '74, is married and living outside of San Francisco where she is employed as a systems analyst. Her son, John, is an electrical engineer. He holds a Ph.D. degree and is doing research in satellite communication. PETER TOMA is head of the social studies department at Crosby High School in Waterbury, CT.
1969 JOLENE GOLDENTHAL's play, Mequasset by the Sea, was presented in October at the Ensemble Studio Theatre inN ew York. Another play, Georgie, Goodbye, was
In September, HAROLD BEAUPRE will be chairman of the social studies department of the new Central High School in Springfield, MA. MARYLAND LINCOLN has been elected president-elect of the Connecticut Valley Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for 1986.
1974 SYDNEY ELKIN, a partner in the law firm of Farrelly, Tapper and Elkin, has been appointed to fill a vacancy as an assistant corporation counsel in West Hartford.
DAVID McCREESH is president of the Greater Hartford Catholic Education Association. CORNELIUS O'LEARY is serving as minority leader in the Connecticut State Senate. He is assistant counsel at Connecticut Bank and Trust.
1977 JOAN DELPHIA is currently on childrearing leave from teaching in Newington. Her daughter, Alexandra, is 1, and her son, Christopher, is 5.
1980 DAVID McDONOUGH is vice president for product development at Heublein, Inc. in Farmington, CT.
1981 CONSTANCE ALOISE is a teacher in Farmington, CT. GLADYS MACDONOUGH is director of the Houghton Library at the Renbrook School in West Hartford, CT. She was the principal research assistant for the Great River exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum. JURATE VAITKUS was recently appointed assistant director of the Connecticut State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.
1982 BARBARA BOLTON, director of cardiovascular services for Middlesex Cardiovascular Center in Middletown, CT, appeared in the first edition of Who's Who in American Nursing. MICHAEL FARREN has a new job as deputy under secretary at the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C.
1984 INA COOPER's daughter, Lisa, is a senior at Trinity. STEPHEN RASCHER is a teacher in Manchester, CT and has moved to Bolton.
1975 WILSON FAUDE, director of the Old State House in Hartford, was featured in an article in the November 20th edition of the Hartford Courant. During the six months he has held his current position, he has been responsible for cutting costs and revitalizing programming.
1985 CONSTANCE AUGSBURGER is an associate with McEleney and McGrail, Attorneys at Law in Hartford. GARY CRAFT is a financial analyst/ management trainee at CIGNA in Philadelphia, P A.
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G. PETER O'NEILL is headmaster at Wooster School in Danbury, CT. In November, LESLIE WRIGHT was re-elected to the Newington Town Council for a second term. She is the first Republican woman to be elected and re-elected to the Council since Newington changed its form of government in the '60s. She works as director of public affairs and communication for Planned Parenthood of Connecticut. SARA BUNNELL YEAGER is a social studies teacher at the Acton-Boxboro High School in Acton, MA. 楼-12 In September, ROBERT JACKSON retired from his position as director of athletics at the Andrew Warde High School in Fairfield, CT. DR. RICHARD OTIS, director of anatomical pathology at Hartford Hospital, will retire in March.
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LISPENARD BACHE PHISTER, 1920 Lispenard B. Phister of Newburyport, MA died on November 24, 1985. He was89. Born in Chicago, IL, he graduated from University High School there. In 1920, he received his B.A. degree from Trinity where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He received his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1924. He was a pilot in the Army Air Corps in France from 1917 to 1919, and won the French government's Brevit Aviateur Militaire medal in 1919. He had been a senior partner in the Boston law firm of Phister, Ramsey and Carlton. A former lieutenant colonel in the Massachusetts State Guard, he was a town counsel in Newbury for 14 years, chairman of the Civil Defense there from 1940 to 1948, and president of the Massachusetts City Solicitors and Town Counsels Association in the 1940s. Recipient of a number of other honors, he was also awarded a Trinity College alumni citation in 1955 and the Alumni Medal for Excellence in 1973. In addition, he had been a trustee at the College. He was one of five members of a special committee of the Boston Bar Association named in 1934 to consider that organization's future. He was a member of the committee that purchased and restored the association's headquarters in Boston. He had also been chairman of its committee for reception to Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court. Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1924, he was a secretary and later chairman of the committee on grievances. He was a founder and first president of the Big Brother Association of Boston, trustee of Governor Dummer Academy and Anna Jacques Hospital, counselor for the Gore Place Society and the Nichols House Museum, and a former director of the Old Newbury Historical Society. He had been a treasurer of the Republican Club of Massachusetts and a member of the Newbury Town Committee. He had also been a delegate and guest at state and national Republican conventions since 1948. He was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, the St. Botolph Club, Union Boat Club, the Military Order of World Wars and the oldest member of the Oldtown Country Club in Newbury. A former member of the vestry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, he was active locally and nationally on many church committees and organizations. He leaves his wife, Eunice Jameson Fox Phister, of Newburyport; and a stepson.
He rose to become president, supervising MAURICE R. CRONAN, 1923 the rapid growth of the company. Among his many civic activities, he Maurice R. Cronan of Wethersfield, CT served as president of the World Affairs died on December 30, 1985. Center from 1976-1984, bringing many naHe attended Trinity with the Class of tional and international leaders to the 1923 and was a graduate of Catholic UniHartford area through the Executive versity in Washington, D.C. Forum. He joined the writing staff of the Cout路He was also a director of the Phoenix ant in 1923 and was night city editor for 路 Fund, the Bushnell Park Foundation, the several years. Mark Twain Memorial and the University In 1951, he was appointed to the editoof Connecticut Foundation. rial department, where he wrote editorials In 1970, he was named the recipient of for several years. In 1957, he was named Trinity's Alumni Medal for Excellence. A the first editor of Courant Affairs, a publoyal alumnus, he was past president of lication for Courant employees. He retired both the Trinity Club of Hartford and the in 1968. Board of Fellows. He also served on the Metropolitan DisAlong with his wife, Garnette, he estabtrict Commission many years. and was a lished a trust fund for the encouragement member of the Church of the Good Shepof learning that is administered by the herd. Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. His He leaves his wife, Dorothy Sawyer belief was that education is the foundation Cronan, of Wethersfield, CT; a daughter, for a person's life. Sheila Danielli, of Rome, Italy; and two grandchildren. He was a former treasurer of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of the YMCA of Hartford. He served on the chamber's membership committee and was one of its Hartford AmbasEDWARD PATRICK DELANEY, 1927 sadors, serving to promote the Hartford Edward P. Delaney of Kensington, CT area to business leaders at home and died on December 17, 1985. He was 82. abroad. He was a corporator of both HartBorn in New Britain, CT, he graduated ford Hospital and St. Francis Hospital and from New Britain High School. He atMedical Center. He served as an elector of tended Trinity with the Class of 1927. the Wadsworth Atheneum, and received a He was a participant in the Kensington Hartford Courant outstanding citizen of Fire District, serving on committees to exthe year award. tend the water service, and to study conIn addition, he served on the Connectisolidation with the town service. cut Citizens for Judicial Modernization. He He also served on two government comwas a member of several clubs, including mittees to study the feasibility of changing the Old Guard, Tunxis Club, Dauntless to a council form of government in Berlin. Club, 20th Century Club, Hartford Club of He was a charter member of the Berlin Printinghouse Craftsmen, the University Kiwanis Club. Club of Hartford, the Rotary Club of HartHe leaves his wife, Blanche Johnson Deford and the Hartford Golf Club. laney, of Kensington, CT; and a daughter, He leaves his wife, Garnette T. Johnson, Christine Guenther, of Meriden, CT. of West Hartford, CT; two daughters, Judith Busch, of West Hartford, CT, and Karen Johnson, of Neuchatel, Switzerland; a brother; a sister; and five grandCHARLES LLOYD TOWNE , 1934 children. Charles L. Towne of West Hartford, CT died on December 22, 1985. He was 73. He graduated from Wethersfield High JAMES STEWART MARKS OGILVY, School before coming to Trinity, where he 1936 attended with the Class of 1934. J. Stewart M. Ogilvy of New Orleans, He started as a reporter for the HartLA died on December 21, 1985. He was ford Courant in 1930. He went on to serve 71. as the night city editor, city editor, assisBorn in Winnipeg, Canada, he gradutant managing editor and associate editor ated from the Kent School. At Trinity, he in charge of the newspaper' s editorial and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraterop-ed pages. nity and the Sierra Club. He received his After his retirement in 1977, he taught B.S. degree in 1936. journalism at the University of ConnectiUpon graduation, he was an assistant cut and compiled a collection of card files for one year in the English and fine arts and daily journals based on stories pubdepartment at the College. lished in the paper. He later donated these From 1937-1942, he worked as salesman to the University of Connecticut. and then copywriter for the New York His writing assignments took him to Times. He then was employed for four France, Iceland and Puerto Rico. During years in advertising copywriting. SubseWorld War II, he wrote and produced a quently, he was managing editor and busi62-week series of radio programs for the ness manager of Work Government News. Connecticut War Council. In 1952, he joined Time, Inc. where he He served as director of the Symphony worked on several publications, including Society of Greater Hartford and was a Fortune and Architectural Forum. He left member of the Connecticut Opera Associthe company in 1970 and was among the ation and the Urban League of Hartford. organizers of the Sierra Club's Atlantic He held posts with the Greater Hartford Chapter and one of the incorporators of YMCA and the American Red Cross. Friends of the Earth, an international enHe leaves his wife, Gina Coltri Towne, vironmental organization with chapters in of West Hartford, CT; and a daughter, Pa25 countries. tricia Hoffman, of New Jersey. A loyal Trinity alumnus, he served on the Alumni Association's nominating committee, as a junior fellow, as president of the New York Alumni Association, class OLIVER FREDERICK JOHNSON, 1935 agent, on the Alumni Council, and the EnOliver F. Johnson of West Hartford, CT dowment Committee. He was awarded the died on December 25, 1985. He was 72. Alumni Medal for Excellence in 1963. Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from He leaves his wife, Avis Reynick Ogilvy, Hartford Public High School before atof New Orleans, LA. tending Trinity, where he received his B.S. degree in 1935. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. DUDLEY JEWELL CLAPP, JR. , 1938 In the 1940s, he joined the Bond Press Inc., a small commercial printing company Dudley J. Clapp, Jr. of McLean, VA died founded by his father in the early 1900s. on November 2, 1985. He was 69.
Born in Bloomfield, CT, he graduated from Wethersfield High School. In 1938 he received his B.A. degree from Trinity, where he was a member of the Commons Club, Athenaeum, soccer team, and Pi Gamma Mu fraternity. He received his LL.B. degree from Yale in 1941 and his LL.M. degree from New York University in 1948. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Pacific theater. He had served as counsel to the Military Sealift command headquartered in Washington, D.C. Before his retirement he was special counsel to the Washington office of the New York law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft. He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in McLean. He had served as senior warden of Theodore Roosevelt Masonic Lodge No. 44 in Washington and as captain of the Arab Patrol of the Kena Temple of the Shrine Temple and he was a member of the Scottish Rite. He leaves his wife, Audrey Prindle Clapp, of McLean; three sons, Dudley III, of St. Petersburg, FL, Roger and Bradford , both of Reston, VA; a daughter, Dr. Deborah Clapp, of Arlington, VA; a brother; a sister; and two grandchildren. THADDEUS FRANK JESIONOWSKI, 1941 Thaddeus F. Jesionowski of Rotterdam, NY died on February 21, 1982. He was 62. Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Hartford High School before attending Trinity, where he received his B.S. degree in 1941. At the time of his death, he was employed as a tool manufacturer by the Ideal Tool and Die Company of Schenectady, NY. He leaves a son, Richard, of Schenectady, NY; and a brother. MARK HALL RHODES, 1946 Mark H. Rhodes of Colebrook, MA died on June 25, 1985. He was 61. Born in Atlanta, GA, he graduated from Georgia Military Academy there. At Trinity, which he attended with the Class of 1946, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. An Army veteran of World War II, he was president of the M.M. Rhodes Company, Inc. in Avon, CT. The company, founded by his father in 1936, manufactures coin switches, timers, and parking meters. He moved to Colebrook 11 years ago from Sandisfield, MA where he had lived since 1958. He continued to maintain a vacation home in the latter town. His affiliations included memberships in the Sandisfield American Legion Post 456, the Sandisfield Rod and Gun Club, and the Northwestern Connecticut Sportsman Association. Surviving are his wife, June Ehrardt Rhodes, of Colebrook and Sandisfield, MA; three sons, Mark, of Albuquerque, NM, Thomas, of West Hartford, CT, and Carl, of Manchester, CT; a brother; and two grandchildren. KARL WELLINGTON BRADLEY, 1947 Karl W. Bradley of Hermitage, PA died on April 5, 1985. He was 63. Born in New York, NY, he graduated from White Plains High School in White Plains, NY. He received his B.A. degree from Trinity in 1947 and his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1960. He was a veteran of World War II, having served as a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy in the South Pacific. From 1948 to 1953, he was a social case worker with the Detroit Department of Public Welfare. Subsequently, he worked
as probation officer in Wayne County and as executive director of the Pontiac Area United Fund. For 14 years he was executive director of the United Way in Mercer County in Pennsylvania. He was active in many organizations including the Sons of the American Revolution and the Shanango Valley Chamber of Commerce. He was a member and formerly on the board of directors of the Mercer County Historical Society, and a former member of the Central States Archeological Society. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Sharon, and former elder in First Presbyterian Church in Crown Point. Surviving are his wife, Alice Danielson Bradley, of Hermitage; a daughter, Julie, of Hermitage; two sons, Clark, of State College, P A, and Eric, of San Diego, CA; and a sister. BELDIN WILLIAM TRACY, M.A. 1947 Beldin W. Tracy of Marshfield, ME died on September 5, 1985. He was 82. Born in Littleton, ME, he graduated from Ricker Classica Institute, Farmington State Normal School, and Boston University. He received his M.A. degree from Trinity in 1947. Since his retirement from the New Britain, CT School Department, where he taught for 35 years, he had made his home in Marshfield. He was a member and past master of Howard Masonic Lodge No. 19. He also belonged to Washington Chapter No. 16 and Council St. Croix No. 11, the Eastern Star, Machias Chapter No. 83. He leaves his wife, Jean Chilles Tracy, of Marshfield; two daughters, Elizabeth Massicotte, of Lubec, ME, and Sara Metzidakis, of St. Louis, MO; eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. HORACE VICTOR CORDY, 1951 Horace V. Cordy of Harwich, MA died on April16, 1985. He was 68. Born in Manchester, CT, he graduated from Manchester High School. He attended Trinity with the Class of 1951, and received his B.S. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1952. From 1941 to 1945 he served in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of captain. For many years he worked as assistant superintendent of highways and bridges in Darien, CT, and, subsequently, as assistant manager for the village of Scarsdale, NY. He was a past president of the Municipal Administrators Association of Westchester County in New York and a member of the Society of Professional Engineers and the National Waterworks Association. He leaves his wife, Annaray Connell Cordy of Harwich; two sons, Robert, of Medford, MA, and Stephen, of Irvington, NY; a daughter, Christine Flanagan, of Wellesley, MA; a brother; and three grandchildren. JOHN FRANCIS KEARNS, JR., 1951 John F. Kearns, Jr. of West Hartford, CT died on November 22, 1985. He was 55. Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Hall High School in West Hartford before attending Trinity, where he received his B.A. degree in 1951. He subsequently graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law. He served as an ensign with the Coast Guard from 1951 to 1953. In 1957, he began the practice of law, opening his own practice known as Kearns and Kearns, in 1964. He was the chief prosecutor for West Hartford Superior Court, G.A. 16, a member of the Church of St. Helena, West Hartford, and the Knights of Columbus.
He leaves his wife, Fayne Anderson Kearns, of West Hartford; three sons, John Ill, Andrew, and Christopher, all of West Hartford; two daughters, Kerry Kurry, of Windsor, CT, and Allison, of West Hartford; and two sisters.
as a district manager of NYNEX Corp. in New York City where he had been employed for more than twelve years. He is survived by his parents, Virginia McGoldrick of Albuquerque, NM, and Clarence La Salle; and a brother, Peter.
JAMES VINCENT PICKETT, 1951 James V. Pickett of Middlebury, CT died on November 18, 1985. He was 58. Born in Waterbury, CT, he attended Crosby High School there, and graduated from Cheshire Academy before attending Trinity, where he received his B.A. degree in 1951. At Trinity he was a member of the football and baseball teams and the Varsity Club. A U.S. Army veteran ofthe Korean War, he began work in 1954 as production planner at Timex in Waterbury, CT. At the time of his death, he was export manager. He officiated for state prep school football leagues and coached Little League baseball in Middlebury. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Pinter Pickett, of Middlebury; a daughter, Sharon, of Scarborough, NY; a brother; and two sisters.
KATHRYN CONSTANCE HAVENS, M.A. 1950 Kathryn C. Havens of West Hartford, CT died on January 7, 1986. She was 81. Born in Hartford, CT, she received her B.S. degree from St. Joseph College and her M.A. degree from Trinity in 1950. She taught for many years in the Hartford public school system, last serving as principal of the Kinsella School. She was a past president of the Hartford County Retired Teachers Association and had been a member of the Wampanoag Country Club for many years. Surviving are two nephews, Bernard J. Havens, Jr. of Hartford and Atty. John F. Havens of West Hartford; a niece, Patricia Brett of West Hartford; and a sister-inlaw, Jane P. Havens.
RICHARD STANLEY ENBURG, 1953 Richard S. Enburg of Lake Oswego, OR died on January 31, 1984. He was 52. Born in Rock Island, IL, he graduated from Rock Island High School. In 1953, he received his B.S. degree from Trinity. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Connecticut. He served with the U.S. Army in Korea. He had been director of the Washington State University Computer Center before assuming his position as assistant for academic computing planning at Portland State University in Washington. He is survived by his wife, Marjory Enburg, of Lake Oswego; a daughter, Terry, of Lake Oswego; and a brother.
BRUCE EDWARD TALBERT, 1970 Bruce E. Talbert of Chatham, NJ died on December 18, 1985. He was 37. Born in Flushing, NY, he graduated from the Morristown School before attending Trinity where he received his B.A. degree in 1973. In 1977, he graduated from Theological Seminary of Drew University in Madison, NJ. He was a pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in North Plainfield, NJ from 1983 to 1985, and was assistant to the pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Jersey City before coming to Chatham. He played the piano and organized the Dixieland Jazz Easter Vigil at the Chatham United Methodist Church. It was there he led musicians and choir in performing the tunes of Duke Ellington, as well as some of his own ecumenical jazz compositions. He was the local pastor of the Northern New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, and was a pastoral counselor for Clergy Consultants, a group affiliated with the conference. He taught Bible studies to adults at the Chatham United Methodist Church, and served as a chaplain of the Lutheran Home of Jersey City and at Morristown Memorial Hospital. He was also a chaplain counselor at the Morris County jail. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Talbert of Diamond Bar, CA; and a sister, Marcia, of Manhattan Beach, CA. RICHARD MICHAELIS LASALLE, 1973 Richard M. LaSalle of Brooklyn, NY died on January 1, 1986. He was 33. Born in Sante Fe, NM, he received his B.A. degree from Trinity in 1973. At the time of his death he was employed
FLORENCE GLEDHILL GREENE, M.A. 1966 Florence G. Green of West Hartford, CT died on December 14, 1985. She was 83. Born in Rumford, RI, she graduated from Wheaton College. In 1966, she received her M.A. degree from Trinity. She taught at Kent Place School in Summit, NJ, and became head of the lower school there, before moving to West Hartford in 1930. She began teaching kindergarten at the newly-organized Tunxis School on Albany Avenue in West Hartford. In midyear she became headmistress and was to serve through 37 years of the schooJ's growth. The school was renamed The Junior School after relocating to Trout Brook Drive. In 1955, the school outgrew its quarters once more and moved to the mountainside estate of Frederick B. Rentschler and路took its current name of Renbrook. Greene retired from Renbrook School in 1967 and served as acting headmistress of the Westminster School from 1968 to 1971. Her work was recognized by the University of Hartford, which awarded her its Distinguished Service Medal in education in 1979. Surviving are three sons, Richard, of New York, Ainsworth, of Norfolk, CT, and Bancroft, of South Carolina; and eight grandchildren. ROBERT ANDERSON MAGOWAN, HON. 1969 Robert A. Magowan of Oakland, CA died on December 17, 1985. He was 82. Born in Chester, P A, he graduated from the Kent School and Harvard University. He received his honorary degree from Trinity in 1969. He served with the Navy as an air combat intelligence officer in World War II. He began his career with R.H. Macy and Co. and, in 1934, he became a vice president of N.W. Ayer and Company, an advertising agency. For seventeen years, he was employed with the brokerage house that became Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. In 1955, he went to Safeway Stores, Inc. as chairman and chief executive. He served on the boards of several other concerns and as chairman of the Charles E. Merrill Trust, which gave away $100 million over a 25-year period. In 1971, he retired as the chairman of Safeway, but remained as chairman of the executive committee until he relinquished the post in 1979. He leaves his wife, Doris Magowan, of Oakland, CA; and five sons, Peter, Robin, Merrill, Stephen and Mark.
IRVING SPENCER COOPER, HON. 1974 Irving S. Cooper of Naples, FL died on October 30, 1985. He was 63. Born in Atlantic City, NJ, he received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from George Washington University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. In 1974 he received the Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Trinity. He served an internship in the U.S. Naval Hospital from 1945 to 1946, and was a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1946 to 1948. He was a surgical fellow at the Mayo Clinic from 1948 until1951, when he joined the faculty at the New York University Medical School and the surgical staff at St. Barnabas. In addition, he was research professor of neuroanatomy at New York Medical College. Through a surgical procedure developed in the early 1950s, he helped restore the muscular functions of thousands of victims of Parkinson's disease. Later he developed other surgical techniques which treated several types of neurological disorders and the brain damage suffered by victims of stroke. In 1973 he developed the "pacemaker" brain implant. Recipient of nearly 30 awards from institutions around the world, Dr. Cooper was listed by Life Magazine in 1962 as one of the 100 most important young men in the U.S., by New York Magazine in 1973 as one of the 100 greatest people in New York, and again in 1974 as one of the world's six greatest doctors. A member of 37 professional and social organizations, he wrote or co-authored more than 175 articles in professional journals in the U.S. and abroad. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Eleanor Cooper, of Naples; his wife, Sissel, of Naples; five sons, Douglas, Daniel, Davis, Erik and Charles; and a daughter, Lisa. LAURENCE D. LAFORE Laurence D. Lafore, instructor in history at Trinity from 1940 to 1943, died in Iowa City, lA on 'November 24, 1985. He was 68. At the time of his death, he was professor of history at the University of Iowa. He graduated from Swarthmore in 1938, took his advanced degrees at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy, and joined the fourman department of history and political science at Trinity in the autumn of 1940. His brilliant lectures earned him in 1942 the designation "most popular professor" in a poll conducted by the Ivy. Lafore went on to London in early 1943 and was transferred to Paris as press attache in 1945. In 1946, he returned to Swarthmore and reached the rank of full professor in 1957. In 1969, he became professor at Iowa. In 1965, The Long Fuse, his book on the origins of the First World War, won wide acclaim and is still regarded as the best one-volume account of the diplomatic backgrounds of the conflict. He wrote several novels as well as books on architecture and Philadelphia social life. His best novel (1962) was Learner's Permit, a satirical comedy about a small college that many identified as Trinity. Lafore conflated many personalities and events remembered from his Trinity days and, of course, denied, in an elaborate disclaimer in the dedication to Professor Emeritus George Cooper, that it had anything to do with a real place. But the physical description of the campus and several composite characters convinced many that "Acropolis College" was actually inspired by Trinity. Lafore lectured twice in the 1960s at Trinity; his last appearance on campus was in May, 1983 when he spoke at Professor Cooper's retirement dinner. Professor Lafore is survived by a brother, former U.S. Congressman John A. Lafore, of Villanova, PA.
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TRINITY ALUMNI COLLEGE
At Trinity's first Alumni College, faculty experts on the Soviet Union from a variety of disciplines will explore with you the historical and cultural continuities which link the U.S.S.R. to its past, and the political, economic and social conditions which shape its present and future. You will be immersed in Russian and Soviet history and culture through a combination of seminars, panel discussions, films, art exhibits and entertainment, as well as treated to traditional cuisine at a Russian banquet.
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