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!P.nity Vol. 18, No.3 (ISSN 01643983) Summer 1988 Editor: William L. Churchill

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Frank M. Child III Professor of Biology

DirkKuyk Professor of English

Gerald]. Hansen, Jr. '51 Director of Alumni & College Relations

Theodore T. Tansi '54 Susan E. Weisselberg '76

Associate Editor: RobertaJenckes M '87 NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Sports Editor: Timothy M. Curtis '86 Staff Writers: Martha Davidson, Elizabeth Natale

Executive Committee

Publications Assistant: Kathleen Davidson Consulting Editor: J. Ronald Spencer '64

President

Robert E. Brickley '6 7 West Hartford, CT

Photographer: Jon Lester

Vice Presidents Alumni Fund

Stephen H. Lockton '62 Greenwich, CT

ARTICLES

INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES

By Roberta Jenckes

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New England's textile mills become the subject of a fascinating photographic study by this year's salutatorian.

SNCC REMINISCENCES

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Raindrops fail to dampen the spirit of Trinity's 162d Commencement ceremony honoring 486 graduating seniors.

TA'ZIYEH

By Mmtha Davidson

Jane W . Melvin '84 Hartford, CT

Area Associations

Thomas D. Casey '80 Washington, D.C.

Nominating Committee

David A. Raymond '63 South Windsor, CT

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A campus conference on the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) prompts reflections by two activists of the era: Ralph Allen '64 and conference organizer John Chatfield '64. '

COMMENCEMENT 1988

By Elizabeth Natale

Admissions

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Members Allen B. Cooper '66 Michael B. Masius '63 San Francisco, CA Hartford, CT Karen A. Jeffers '76 Eugene M. Russell '80 Westport, CT Boston, MA Robert E. Kehoe '69 J effrey H. Seibert '79 Chicago, IL Baltimore, MD Daniel L. Korengold '73 Stanley A. Twardy, Jr. '73 Washington, D.C. Stamford, CT Michael Maginniss '89 Pamela W. Von Seldeneck '85 Senior C lass President Philadelphia, P A Dorothy McAdoo MacColl '74 Alden R. Gordon '69 Haverford, P A Faculty Representative

A conference and arts festival bring scholars and the public to campus for a five- day exploration oflranian culture.

DEPARTMENTS

Along the Walk Books Sports President's Message Class Notes In Memory COVER: tenement porches qf Holyoke, Mass., circa 1880s, now demolished. See "Industrial Landscapes," page 11.

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Board of Fellows Bernard F. Wilbur, Jr. 'SO West Hartford, CT Norman C. Kayser '57 West Hartford, CT Victor F. Keen '63 New York, NY Robert Epstein '74 Cambridge, MA Andrew H. Walsh '79 Hartford, CT Margaret-Mary V. Preston '79 Baltimore, MD

Edward H. Y eterian '70 Waterville, ME Susan E. Weisselberg '76 New Haven, CT Stephen P.Joncs '63 Hartford, CT Charles H. McGill '63 Minneapolis, MN William H. Schweitzer '66 Alexandria, VA

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Freshmen Set Records For Numbers, Diversity ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Since the College launched an all-out effort to increase the diversity of the student body two years ago, there has been a 235 percent increase in the enrollment ofblack, Hispanic and Asian freshmen.

In 1986, the entering freshman class had 39 minority students; in 1987, the figure had climbed to 76; and this fall, the number is up to 92. Thirty- one members of the Class of 1992 are black; 19 are Hispanic; 41 are Asian; and one is native American.

"The biggest success we've had this year has been admission of minority

students. We've never had 92 in the freshman class before. We've never even come close," says Donald N. Dietrich, director of admissions. "It's been a total College commitment. It was clearly our number one priority and the efforts we made have paid of£ Seventeen percent of the Classes of'91 and '92 are minorities. These two years combined should make the College's efforts much more successful in the future. Once you establish a stronger minority presence on campus, it makes it easier."

In addition to having the largest number of minority students, the Class of'92 may turn out to be the College's largest class on record. According to figures available in late May, 558 students - 313 men and 245 women -

had accepted the College's offer of admission. Based on past experience, 15 or 20 of these students will probably decide over the summer to go elsewhere.

However, even a class numbering around 540 will be quite a bit larger than the 490 member class originally anticipated, Dietrich says. By way of explanation, he repeats what a high school guidance counselor told him: "You're hot this year. People are talking about Trinity."

The admission staffs efforts to attract more Hartford residents also met with success: 16 will attend as freshmen in contrast to two years ago when four entered. Out 'o f those 16, 12 are from public high schools, three are Capital Area Corporate Scholars, two are high

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KATE HOPKINS '90 orients prospective freshman and their parents to the resources and equipment available in the College's computing center. The group was among a large number attending the admissions office's annual V.I.P. Days for accepted members of the Class of'92.

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The number of incoming freshmen who were accepted during two rounds of early decision increased from 81 last year to 103 this year.

Overall, the number of applications received was 3,445, slightly lower than last year's figure of3,466.

Applicants who were accepted but chose to go elsewhere went to the College's traditional competitors which are some of the most selective institutions in the country. Among these were Tufts, Brown, Colgate, Princeton, Wesleyan, Penn, Vassar, Williams, Yale and Holy Cross.

Faculty Appointed to Named Chairs •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

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RETIREES and 25-year veterans were honored at a reception in May. In front (I. to r.) are Albert C. Graham, Sr., security; George C. Higgins, Jr., professor of psychology; Theresa Gleason, secretary; and Edward Bobko, Scovill professor of chemistry. At rear are: Henry A. DePhillips, Jr., Krieble professor of chemistry; Edward W. Sloan Ill, Northam professor of history; Thomas A. Smith, vice president; and Dr. Mark W. Izard, college physician. Graham, Gleason, Bobko and Smith are retiring.

school valedictorians and one is a salutatorian.

The Class of '92 is outstanding and interesting, Dietrich says. "There are a lot of students who are really excellent in what they do; individuals with real talents," he says.

In profile the members of the Class of '92 look like this: They come from 3 7 states as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 13 foreign countries. States that are the largest suppliers of students followed the traditional pattern: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The number of freshmen from California almost doubled

from 12 to 22 while the number from Florida declined from eight to two.

Academically, they are on practically an even footing with last year's freshman class. Their combined Scholastic Aptitude Tests scores averaged the same as last year: 1180 (570 verbal, 610 math). Scores on the English composition Achievement Tests declined slightly from 570 to 560.

Public school graduates make up 47 percent (down one percent from last year); independent school graduates, 45 percent (up one percent); and parochial school graduates, eight percent (up one percent). Fifty-nine class members are children of alumni.

Two appointments to new endowed professorial chairs in fine arts and English have resulted from gifts to The Campaign for Trinity.

Professor George E. Chaplin, director of the studio arts program at Trinity, has been named the first Charles S. Nutt Professor ofFine Arts.

Paul Lauter, who is currently a professor of humanities in American studies at the State University ofNew York/ College at 0 ld Westbury, has been appointed the first Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English.

These appointments, approved by the Board of Trustees in March, will be effective Sept. 1, 1988.

The Nutt Professorship is part of a ·$2.5 million gift made to The Campaign for Trinity by Roy Nutt '53, a trustee of the College and founder of Computer Sciences Corporation, and his wife Ruth. The fine arts professorship is named in honor of Mr. Nutt's father, the late Charles S. Nutt.

The Campaign for Trinity, a threeyear, $42 million fund-raising effort announced in September 1986, has netted more than $35.3 million in gifts and pledges to date.

To mark the inauguration of the Nutt Professorship, a retrospective exhibition of Chaplin's paintings and pastels will be displayed in the Widener Gallery of Austin Arts Center during the month of September.

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Chaplin, who holds an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, came to Trinity in 1972 and created the current curriculum in studio arts. His pastels were exhibited in embassies around the world through the U .S. Department of State's traveling Art in Embassies Program during the 1970s and 1980s.

Some of Chaplin's artworks, gifts of the Class of 1981, are on permanent display in the Trinity Library.

Chaplin's art dealer is the Munson Gallery in New Haven, Conn., where his work has been displayed in one-man shows and group exhibitions. Last summer, he had a one-man exhibition at the Pump House Gallery in Bushnell Park in Hartford.

Lauter will hold a new named professorship established in honor of the late Allan K. Smith '11, an attorney from West Hartford, CT who died in 1985, and his widow, Gwendolyn Miles Smith. Smith bequeathed $4 million to Trinity for the enhancement of the Eng-

lish department. A $2 million gift made during Smith's lifetime went towards the establishment ofTrinity's Writing Center and the partial funding of another endowed chair: the Allan K. Smith Professorship ofLanguage and Literature. Through Smith's bequest, funding for this professorship has been completed and that position will be filled during the next academic year.

Lauter, who holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, has revised the American canon ofliterature to call attention to writers from minority groups who were previously excluded. He is director of the Project of Reconstructing American Literature.

Lauter is coordinating editor of the forthcoming book, A Reconstructed Anthology if American Literature and coauthor of The Politics if Literature: An Anti-Text in Criticism. His articles and reviews have been published in The New Republic, The Nation, and The Chronicle if Higher Education.

S~ENT GOVERNMENT OFFICERS. Matthew Maginniss '89 of Mystic, CT, nght, was elected president of the Student Government Association for the 1988- 89 academic year and Sara Moorin '90 ofFairfield, CT, left, was elected SGA vice president in the April election. Maginniss intends to work on maintaining diversity in the student body and to find solutions for alcohol-related problems on campus. Among Moorin's goals are increasing SGA's visibility on campus and extending library hours.

Media Feature Trinity Expert On Vodun Religion ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sticking pins in dolls and turning people into zombies may help sell tickets at the movie theater box office, but these practices are not part of the fastgrowing religion of vodun, says Leslie G. Desmangles, associate professor of religion and director ofTrinity's area studies program.

Since the release of the movie "The Serpent and the Rainbow" last fall, Desmangles' broad knowledge of vodun or "voodoo," as it is commonly known - was in great demand. Desmangles was a leading critic of the film, making appearances on the nationally syndicated Phil Donahue Show; on the National Public Radio news program "All Things Considered"; on public radio station WFCR-FM in Amherst MA; on a talk show on WATR-AM in Waterbury, CT; and on Hartford stations WFSB-TV and WPOP-AM. He also was interviewed by numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Palm Beach Post, Science, and The Hariford Courant's Northeast Magazine.

Desmangles, a native of Haiti, has done more than 15 years of field research on vodun. He says "The Serpent and the Rainbow" presents an incorrect portrait of the vodun religion and helps perpetuate the stereotype ofblacks and Haitians as wild and animalistic.

"In the late 19th century, there were a number ofbooks published that described voodoo as pretty close to savagery, with human sacrifices and cruelty to animals," says Desmangles. During the U.S. Marine occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1930, another flurry of books appeared, he says; and they, too, painted a portrait of a savage, primitive, and exotic people.

"The amount of material decreased until this movie came out," says Desmangles. "It has taken us back to the 19th century."

The movie, complete with snakes crawling out of a zombie's mouth, is based on a book written in 1985 by ethnobotanist Wade Davis. Davis, who conducted research in Haiti for his

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ALONGTHEWALK Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard University, claims to have discovered a pharmacological explanation for zombies.

Desmangles is one of a number of scientists and anthropologists critical of Davis' claims.

Administrative Appointments Made •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

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A number of administrative appointments were made recently.

Pieter]. Crusan '71 was named director of alumni ail.d development information systems. Crusan received his B.S. in engineering and an M .A. in education fr:om Trinity in 1975. Before assuming his current position, he was the College's director of administration data systems. Earlier, he had been employed at The Travelers Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and Quodata Corp., all in Hartford, CT. Shirley B. DeLong was appointed corporate and foundation officer for The Campaign for Trinity. Prior to corning to Trinity, she had worked at Connecticut Public Broadcasting since 1976, most recently as program marketing account manager. Previously, she held positions 'there as development officer and director of volunteers. DeLong holds a B.A. from Smith College. She serves on the board of trustees ofHartford Camerata Conservatory. juliana Garro '86 was appointed an assistant director of annual giving in development. Previously, Garro was a case underwriter in the group pension division at CIGNA Corporation in Hartford, CT. During her undergraduate career at Trinity, she was a President's Fellow in history, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa scholastic honor society and worked as assistant to the internship coordinator. She earned her B .A. with honors in history. Herresponsibilities include alumni fund phonothons, and managing volunteers and solicitations in the classes of the 1940s and 1980s.

Margaret M. Murray was appointed a researcher for The Campaign for Trinity. H~r previous experience included working as development resources officer at WETA, a PBS affiliate in Wash-

ington, D.C.; consultant for ?evelopment for the Planetary Society m Pasadena, CA; senior research associate at the University of Southern California; and researcher/writer in the de~elopment office at the University of Chicago. Murray earned a B.A. with honors from Trent University in Ontario, Canada. She studied on the graduate level at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

David A. Robbins, professor of mathematics and chairman of the mathem atics department, has been named to a halftime appointment as special assistant to the President for institutional plarming, effective Sept. 1. The creation of this new position is a result of the reorganization which followed the retirement of Vice President Thomas A. Smith '44.

Robbins will be responsible for maintaining the College's long-range plan and its strategic data book. He will serve as chairperson of the Strategic Planning Group. In addition, he will study and analyze specific areas of College operations. Robbins has been a member of the Trinity faculty since 1972. A graduate ofDartmouth College, he holds a Ph.D . from Duke University and has published many articles on the subject of functional analysis. He was awarded an American Council of Education Fellowship for 1987-88.

New administrative members of the business office are Gertrude M. Burke, student accounts administrator; Marilyn Davis, loans and grants accountant; and Teresa Ward, assistant budget director.

Other new administrators are joanne V. Akeroyd, library cataloguer, and john R. Lucker, assistant director of administrative data systems in the computing center.

Philip Duffy has been promoted to director of the audio visual department.

Watson Fellow Heads Overseas ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sara R. Lawson '88 ofRehoboth, Mass., has been named a Thomas].

Watson Fellow for 1988-89.

Lawson, who entered Trinity after her junior year of high school, is one of

ISAAC ASIMOV, science fiction writer, spoke to an overflow Washington Room audience.

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SINGERS Liesl Odenweller '88 and Michael Garver '89 (left) perform in Gilbert and Sullivan's Iola11the, directed by Professor Gerald Moshell.

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TORY residents (above) received an autographed poster from Garry Trudeau, author of the comic strip for which the residence hall is named. At left are some of the 36 student exhibits in the first annual symposium ofTrinity undergraduate research in the sciences.

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75 graduating seniors from across the nation to win a Watson Fellowship for independent foreign research and travel.

1bis year, 192 graduating seniors from 48 small private colleges and universities were nominated for Fellowships by their institutions.

As a Watson Fellow, Lawson will receive a $13,000 grant toward her research expenses. She plans to examine the approaches of various social agencies that work in developing countries, investigating, for example, how they make decisions about the introduction of new methods and new values into existing cultures. Currently, she expects to spend three months in each of three countries: Ecuador, where she will study the Peace Corps; Thailand, where she will research the Overseas Mission Fellowship; and Botswana, where she will examine International Voluntary Services. For the final three months of her Fellowship, she intends to volunteer for community development work with Operation Crossroads Africa.

Lawson is a 1984 graduate of St. Mary Academy Bayview in Riverside, R.I. She was a member of the Trinity crew team and the Delta Delta Delta sorority and was awarded Faculty Honors in her junior and senior years.

The Watson Fellowships have been awarded annually since 1969 by the Thomas]. Watson Foundation. Since the program started, 1,375 Fellowships totaling $12,088,634 have been awarded.

Luce Scholar Nominees Sought ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• In the fall of 1988, the College will nominate two seniors or recent graduates to the Luce Scholars Program, which annually places fifteen outstanding young Americans in internships in various East and Southeast Asian nations. Eligible alumni/ae interested in competing for one of the Trinity nominations should contact Associate Academic Dean]. Ronald Spencer no later than September 15.

Established by the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., ofNew York City in 1974, the program seeks nominees with out-

Outstanding Teacher Honored

BY ROBERTA]ENCKES

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rom the first class I took with her I knew she was concerned on a human level with the study of economics.

She approaches the topics in terms of how they affect people and is very intere-sted in equity issues - who has what - as well as poverty and inflation and unemployment."

Tom Dunn '86, now a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Northw,estern University, was recalling admiringly the inspired teaching of his former adviser and mentor, Associate Professor ofEconomics Diane C. Zannoni.

Currently the acting dean of students, Zannoni was awarded the Brownell Prize in Teaching at Commencement. Created through the gift of an alumnus, the award recognizes a senior faculty member for excellence in teaching. Zannoni's selection was hailed approvingly by students and colleagues alike.

"She's a superb teacher to whom the students respond very well," said Robert C. Stewart, Charles A. Dana Professor of Mathematics and first recipient of the prize, which is awarded every two years. "The students say, 'you want to work hard for her, and you find out that hard work pays off in what you learn.'

"Everything she does she does well. She's a great teacher, a great adviser. She pays close attention to her students. She knows who they are and how they're doing.''

Stewart, who served on the committee of faculty, deans and students charged with selection of the Brownell Prize recipient, said it was "gratifYing and edifYing" to read the many tributes and recommendations written for Trinity faculty. "It is difficult to single out one person," he said. Alumni, students, faculty and administrators were invited earlier this year to nominate in writing faculty of the rank of professor or associate professor who had taught at the College for at least ten years. The prize carries with it an award of .$2,500 for each of two years.

In making the presentation at Commencement, Jan K. Cohn, dean of the faculty, cited Zannoni's "intellectual rigor, human sensitivity, and warm humor" and pointed to her leadership in activities ranging from writing across the curriculum to Trinity's day care center. "She has taught widely in her own field and," Cohn said, "admirably, well beyond her own field, in courses that encourage students to examine the profound issues of race, gender, and class in our society.''

A native of Magnolia, New Jersey, Zannoni was educated in parochial schools, including undergraduate years at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., and Villanova_ University. She recalls a nun who was her high school English teacher as the role model who inspired her to pursue a career in teaching. "I watched the way she did things and her joy at seeing you learn," says Zannoni, who still nourishes a love of literature. "She would have us so involved and doing things that we would never think of ourselves as normally doing. We did a lot of collaborative work, which is something that I try very hard to have my students do. Because, when you're working as a group, you have to convince others of what you believe. I think you learn to deal with the conflict.''

Zannoni first became acquainted with economics in an introductory, two-semester course taught by reputedly "the toughest teacher" at Villanova. "I took it for a challenge," she says. "I loved it. It was quantitative, but at the same time it dealt with issues that I thought were important, real-world problems. Especially in macroeconomics, I just found the questions being asked fascinating: what determines unemployment, what are the causes of inflation. The nature of 'macro' is to unsettle, to create controversy, to cause economists to think and rethink questions. There are so many different ways to approach answering a question, and each one can be defended. You had to decide on an explanation that fit with your world view, the other things in your life that you were trying to figure out. The Keynesian view ties in with my interest in rights for women, affirmative action, and other causes that I think are important. There might have to be government intervention to achieve those results.''

At the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she earned her Ph.D., she became a proponent of the school of Post Keynesianism, a perspective which re-evaluates the beliefs ascribed to economist John Maynard Keynes by the Keynesians. She lee-

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ECONOMIST Diane Zannoni was presented with the Brownell Prize

by Dean of the Faculty Jan Cohn.

Zannoni was escorted by the prize's first recipient, Professor Robert Stewart.

tured at Stony Brook, tutored students with reading and writing problems, and taught police officers working toward degrees in criminal justice before joining the Trinity faculty in 1975. She has published widely, particularly in the journal if Post Keynesian Economics, on research that is always collaborative and often cross-disciplinary. Her current research on the work of scholars in income distribution involves study of the philosopher John Rawls and will be conducted, in part, at Cambridge University next spring.

At Trinity, her teaching specialties are macroeconomics and econometrics, but she has also taught freshman and senior seminars focusing on poverty and inequality. In the late 1970s, shortly after arriving at the College, she created and taught a freshman seminar in women's studies. As the first woman to graduate as an economics major in arts and sciences at Villanova, she had been keenly aware of her non-traditional status.

"When I came to Trinity and there were women in my classes, I felt a responsibility to help insure that they had equal access to everything and could take full advantage of the community. It wasn't just working to get a women's center, the President's Special Council on Women, or women's studies, but also working with the students to prepare them for the choices they would need to make and giving them a sense of pride in women's history, women's struggles and their accomplishments."

Recently the economist has been engaged with faculty from other fields in creating one of the new interdisciplinary minors in progressive American social movements. She

has also been sharing with other faculty her techniques to incorporate writing as a learning device in her macroeconomics classes.

Mter attending conferences on writing and cognitive development, she added intensive writing assignments and exercises using a computer model to help students relate classroom theories and current data from their research with government documents. "The students answer in essay form such questions as 'What would have happened to unemployment if the money supply had been expanded by 10% during the Great Depression?' They learn that there is more than one way to make sense of the workings of the macroeconomy and that their opinions must be grounded in sound theoretical framework and their arguments thought through. It's important for students to know that if they push themselves, they can do something they might not have ever thought they could have enjoyed doing.

"Different people are at different levels.

For some students it might be that all they can gain from the course is the knowledge that they can tackle something difficult and abstract. Or, that it can be fun to learn about an entirely new subject. Some might find that their writing skill or quantitative skill has improved most."

A new visual teaching aid which she and economist Edward McKenna developed for statistics or econometrics courses helps students understand the overall coherence of the problems. "You teach the students one basic framework and build on that. If students think every day is a new topic, after a while they're overwhelmed."

There are other ways this consummate

teacher has sought to ease the burdens associated with learning for her students. "She's known for her handouts," recalls Tom Dunn. "Every ?tudent gets well over 100 handouts from a course with her. For each class she prepared notes of what she was talking about that day. This freed you to understand what she was saying in class at the moment.

"She presented topics very enthusiastically.

One class exercise was a murder mystery, where an economist is killed and the suspects represent different schools of thought in economics. You solved the mystery by applying the knowledge you had of the various economic perspectives. She put things in a new light every time she did something."

Peter Nolan '81 , an associate in corporate finance at Bankers Trust Corp., recalled that Zannoni "filled all the roles of teacher, adviser, friend" at different times. "When I needed her economics knowledge, she provided that. When I needed the advice of someone who had my best interests at heart, she had that, too."

Lee Coffin '85, a history major and now assistant director of alumni relations at Trinity, remembers Zannoni's energetic presence at study sessions for macroeconomics. "She would stay for hours, till ten o'clock at night, until you understood the problem sets she was doing.

"Her view of the College is more thanjust the classroom. She tackles the problems that need to be addressed, whether it's sexism or raising money for the day care center." And, notes this former Ivy editor, "she's the kind of person who would always want to buy a yearbook."

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standing academic records, superior leadership skills, and strong motivation and potential for accomplishment in their chosen career field. Only American citizens who will not have reached their 30th birthday by September 1, 1989 are eligible.

The goal of the Luce Scholars Program is to provide an introduction to Asia to individuals with little or no knowledge of the region. Therefore, persons who majored in Asian Studies or took more than a handful of Asiarelated courses are ineligible, as are those who have studied an Asian language, lived or travelled extensively in the region, or professed a career interest in Asian affairs.

Trinity is one of 66 colleges and universities entitled to name Luce Scholar candidates. The program is extremely competitive, and the College's selection committee will nominate orJy those seniors or recent graduates who, in its judgment, have exceptionally strong academic and personal qualifications and outstanding career prospects.

vidual gifts between $5,000 and $25,000. Laboratory, and Jackson Hall, is in the Campaigns will be launched in the fall design development phase. Noted archiin Minneapolis, Seattle, St. Louis, tect Cesar Pelli is working with a comCleveland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cinmittee of faculty and administrators to cinnati, Detroit, Denver and Texas. refine plans for the building, which will Progress is already evident on campus house the departments of engineerillg in several initiatives funded by The and computer science, mathematics, the Campaign, Duffy said. Planning is well Aetna Life & Casualty Mathematics under way for a new academic building, Center, and the Computing Center.

Construction may begin in the spring of as well as for the creation of an Alumni/ Faculty House through remodelling of 1989.

Ann Beha Associates of Boston is the the existing building at 123 Vernon architect for the Alumni/FacultyHouse.

Street. Renovation of the Ferris Athletic The house at 123 Vernon Street, which Center, including the creation of a new is next to the President's house, will be women's locker room, is also in progrenovated and expanded, to create the ress. New faculty positions have been new facility for alumni and faculty, filled, thanks to endowments funded which will have space for meetings, through The Campaign; foundation dining, and overnight accommodations. gifts are helping to implement th~ College's new curriculum; and financial aid Professor George E. Chaplin has been appointed the first Charles S. Nutt Proresources have been increased. fessor of Fine Arts, a new named proThe new academic building, to be lofessorship created through a gift of cated at the south end of the quadrangle Trustee Roy Nutt '53 and Ruth Nutt to bordered by the Albert C. Jacobs Life The Campaign for Trinity. Paul Lauter Sciences Center, Hallden Engineering

Campaign's Progress Now Evident on Campus

GIFTS BY SOURCE

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• With a full year remaining before The Campaign for Trinity ends in June, 1989, the $42-million, three-year effort has exceeded $36.2 million, or 86 percent of its goal.

According to Laurence S. Duffy, director ofThe Campaign, responses to the drive have been exceeding expectations. Approximately 50 percent of the total raised to date has come from alumni and another 25 percent from other individuals, including widows of alumni, friends of the College, and parents. More than $1 million in corporate matching gifts - the result of gifts from alumni and other individuals - has been credited to The Campaign. Support from corporations and foundations has also been strong.

West Coast area campaigns were begun this spring in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, while new East Coast area efforts were begun in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The area campaigns, conducted by local alumni and parents, are concentrating on indi-

May 20, 1988 THE CAMPAIGN FOR TRINITY Raised to Date

Percent of$ Raised

$18,108,044

50%

Foundations

4,940,282

14%

Friends

3,677,719

10%

Corporations

3,290,172

9%

Widows of Alumni

2,409,716

7%

Honoraries

1,196,596

3%

Parents

1,151,707

3%

Matching Gifts

1,178,054

3%

288,377

1%

Alumni

Organizations

TOTAL

$36,240,667

100%

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(See separate story.)

Financial aid, a $6-million component ofThe Campaign, has been bolstered by gifts from many including George Ferris '16, the George I. Alden Trust, Connecticut National Bank, Dexter Corporation, Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Jacobson, Jr. '31, Bertram R. Schader '56, George A. Kellner '64, and Mr. and Mrs. Dong Suh, parents ofEugene W. Suh '89.

The Campaign's third and final year will be launched with a special convocation on Friday, October 28 on U.S.Soviet relations, with the Honorable Arthur A. Hartman, former U .S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, as a principal speaker. The convocation will focus attention on the academic strengths of the College, which The Campaign for Trinity seeks to reinforce.

Graduate Study Fellowships Awarded ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Three members of the Class of '88 have been awarded fellowships from Trinity College for full-time graduate study: Karen M . Albano of Agawam, MA received the Mary A. Terry Fellowship, which provides a stipend of$1,800 a year for each of two years of graduate study in the arts or sciences. An English major, she consistently earned faculty honors during her undergraduate career and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa scholastic honor society. Her numerous awards included the National Collegiate English Award, the Academic AllAmerican Award and the John Dando Prize. She intends to study English literature on the graduate level.

Jill A. Mello of Taunton, MA was awarded the H. E. Russell Fellowship, which carries a stipend of$1,800 annually for two years of graduate study in a non-professional field. A chemistry major, she won the Faculty Scholar Prize as a sophomore and was named the Vemon K. Krieble Scholar as a senior. She was the 1988 recipient ofThe Connecticut Valley Section of the

A One-Day Convocation on U.S.-Soviet Relations Friday, October 28, 1988 at Trinity College

For more information, call: Donna Byrnes Convocation Coordinator (203) 527-3151, ext. 531

American Chemical Society Award and The Class of 1922 Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian of the Class of 1988. She plans to study for a doctorate in chemistry at Columbia University.

Joyce M. Scales of Southington, CT has received theW. H. Russell Fellowship which provides a stipend of $800 annually for two years of graduate study in any field. Scales majored in religion, studying for her degree through the Individualized Degree Program. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she was the 1988 recipient of the AbrahamJoshua Heschel Prize. An ordained vocational deacon in the Episcopal Church, Scales has been accepted at Yale Divinity School.

Gifts Support Faculty Research, Financial Aid ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The financial aid program and faculty research will benefit from recent gifts.

The College received a $125,000 gift for financial aid from The Thomas and Charlotte Valentine Taylor Educational Foundation. The funds will provide assistance to qualified students from independent or parochial schools.

Financial aid also was beneficiary of a $100,000 gift from the Surdna Foundation. The gift will increase the size of the existing Surdna Foundation Scholarship Fund, enabling the College to offer aid

Fund, enabling the College to offer aid to more students.

A gift of$15,000 to financial aid at Trinity was made by The James M. Johnston Trust for Charitable and Educational Purposes.

The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year grant of$100,000 to Philip S. Brown, Jr., lecturer in mathematics. Brown's research is in the area of cloud microphysics and the numerical modeling of atmospheric systems.

He is studying the interaction of cloud droplets and the dynamics of clouds in hopes of improving weather prediction.

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded summer stipends of$3,500 each to Samuel D. Kassow, professor ofhistory, and Roger A. Zapata, assistant professor in modem languages. As part ofhis research on the interwar years in Warsaw, Kassow will go to New York City to examine the archives o( the Bund, the Jewish socialist party in Poland. Zapata will spend a month in Peru studying the conquest of South America by the Spaniards as chronicled by 17th-century authors Guaman Poma, Tito Cusi, and Joan Santa Cruz Pachacuti Y amqui.

Two assistant professors ofhistory received $3,000 grants-in-aid for summer research from the American Council ofLeamed Societies. Susan D. Pennybacker is conducting research in England for a book on the London County Council, which was established in 1889 to set social and cultural policy.

Julia M. Smith will examine 9th- and 1Oth-century manuscripts in France and Italy. Assistant Professor John H. Chatfield, also ofhistory, received a $6,690 grant from The Connecticut Humanities· Council to organize a conference this past spring on the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee.

A $25,000 grant from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation will be used toward the purchase of a super-conducting Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. The National Science Foundation has already committed $50,000 toward the purchase, provided that Trinity raises $150,000 in matching funds.

The College also received a $10,000 gift from the Heublein Medical Foundation for the biology department.

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SELF IMAGERY: Creating Your Own Good Health Emmett E. Miller, M.D. '63 Celestial Arts (Berkeley, Calif), 1986, $7.95 paperback, 274 pages.

Self Imagery offers readers techniques they can learn which will enable them to build upon their inborn capacity to attain and maintain good health. After nearly two decades of medical practice, Dr. Miller has modified clinical hypnosis, relaxation methods, and imagery approaches into the comprehensive systems of "Selective Awareness."

Through case examples, the practice of selective awareness is brought to bear upon the common disorders of headaches, asthma, gastrointestinal tract problems, muscle spasms and other psychosomatic disorders. The book guides the reader through a.progressive series of relaxation and visualization exerases.

Physician, mathematician, musician and poet, Dr. Miller has won international acclaim as a pioneer in humanistic psychology and the emerging "New Medicine." Currently residing in the Stanford, Calif area, he practices his subspecialty of psychophysiological medicine, advocating the use of self care approaches to create balance and health among the individual's mental, physical, emotional and spiritual selves.

VIOLENT DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES: An Epidemiologic Study ofSuicide, Homicide, and Accidents Paul C. Holinger '68, M.D., M.P.H. The Guilford Press (New York), 1987, 274 pages.

A psychiatrist who also has master's degrees in divinity and public health, Dr. Holinger makes extensive use of epidemiologic studies in this book, to reach conclusions from data in these studies about incidences and causes of accidental death, suicide and homicide.

In his role as practicing clinician, he is confronted frequently by problems of suicide and self-destructiveness. As eli-

nician and researcher, he calls attention to the big picture by presenting the longitudinal trends of the incidence of violent deaths in this country.

In this book, Dr. Holinger emphasizes the need for improved efforts in intervention and prevention. A section on studies of the relationship between population shifts and violent death rates offers the potential of a predictive model, thus showing the relevance of the epidemiologic studies.

Dr. Holinger is currently associate professor of psychiatry, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL.

THE CLOSEST POSSIDLE UNION joanna Scott '83 Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1988, 290 pages, $17.95.

Last year's publication of Fading, My Parmacheene Belle marked Joanna Scott's debut as a novelist to wide critical acclaim. The book was called "a memorable first novel" by The New Yorker and Scott a writer whose "unusual imagination promises a rich future of writing"

by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times.

While in that first novel Scott effortlessly adopted the voice of a contemporary septuagenarian, in The Closest Possible Union she speaks equally effectively through a 14-year-old boy in the mid-19th century. Signed aboard his father's ship as captain's apprentice,

young Tom records the voyage of the Charles Beauchamp as she sets sail for Africa ostensibly as a whaler, picks up a cargo of slaves and heads home. En route, he comes to know his fellow shipmates: the captain, a volcanic martinet; the shadowy sailor who seems to be the captain's favorite; and the moralizing missionary who preaches to jungle plants.

John Hawkes said of the book: "a fabulous, harrowing tale in the purest American tradition of Melville and Poe . .. I read this novel with the greatest pleasure and admiration." Publishers Weekly adds, "Scott is a writer with an exceptional narrative talent that belies her youth."

Scott has taught creative writing at Brown University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Maryland, where she is currently assistant professor ofEnglish.

ON THE WAY Minerva Heller Neiditz, edited by Merrill Leffler Paper Moon Press (Washington, D.C.), 1988.

This is the first volume of poetry by Neiditz, who was a lecturer in English at Trinity in the mid-1970s, teaching Shakespeare, Homer and expository writing. She writes in her introduction to the book, "I connect in poetry that which cannot be connected in life .. .

Mostly poetry allows me to sing from the heart, head and viscera."

INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES

BY ROBERTA ]ENCKES NANCY ALBERT had an obsession. The salutatorian of the Class of '88 was fascinated with New England's vanishing textile mills. For 1 several years the interest took over her life. On weekends, during vacations, and even weekdays when she had a chance, she would take off in search of a mill town and factory that she hadn't seen before. She'd go with a friend or her husband or son, or sometimes she'd take her dog if it seemed like a good idea. Always she took her camera. She never quite knew what she would do with all her photographs, the physical record ofher work, and, in some cases, the only evidence that the buildings themselves existed.

Luckily for Albert, a solution came with her enrollment in 1984 in the Individualized Degree Program, the College's undergraduate degee program for non-traditional students. The program requires that all of its students complete an IDP project, a cross-disciGRANITE buildings on the Lamprey River, Newmarket, N.H.

plinary, focused study. Albert's photographs, along with her exhaustive research and documentation on New England textile mills, became her IDP project.

She received an A + for it.

Albert had been interested in photography in her first college experience in the 1960s, when she studied fine arts at the Hartford Art School (now a part of the University ofHartford). Her father does free-lance photography and had given her instruction in basic photographic techniques and darkroom practices. Albert liked photography and would have pursued it in college, if courses had been offered. But, they weren't, and she "got married, had a child, did all of those things first." She began a decade-long study of textiles and became a tapestry weaver, running a shop with a partner in Northhampton, Mass.

"Because I was working on textiles, I wanted to find out as much as I could about the background of textile production," Albert recalls. "I started reading everything I could find, and one of the books was a history of the New England industry.

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PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY over railroad tracks in Holyoke, Mass., left, is now a stairway to nowhere; and, right, the factory foundations in Rockdale, Penn. are circa the 1830s.

"I was thinking about going back to my photography. I set up a darkroom, and I was looking for something to photograph. I thought about the mills that I'd read about in this book. I decided to use this as a guidebook to see if I could find some of these factories and actually photograph them."

After a tentative first venture to Grosvenordale and Willimantic in eastern Connecticut, Albert's obsession began, along with her search for more information. She began her research in libraries, locating a government survey from the early 1970s on New England textile mills and a historic and engineering record survey done by the state ofRhode Island. Other than Rhode Island and certain areas of Massachusetts, like the city of Lowell, she found that the textile mills' history was very poorly documented.

Some of the history vanished during the course of her project. More than once, she returned to a town to find that a building she had photographed was gone. In some cases, the buildings were in obscure rural areas, so her photographs may be the only recent record of the buildings. She made a trip to Holyoke, Mass., the town where she was born, and photographed the remains of old mills still smoldering after a huge fire. "It's very, very sad," she says. "What was a nice self-contained community is like a ghost town - vast areas

where there's just nothing."

The emotional pull Albert feels for the places she has discovered in a seven-year search is obvious, both in her photographs and in the way she speaks of them.

"They're really well-built brick buildings," she says, with motherly pride. "In any kind of favorable circumstances, they could be reused - as craft centers, shopping areas, condominiums, elderly housing. In some cases, I did return to places and see a vast improvement - buildings that had been worked on and restored.

"These are historic sites, just like Indian burial grounds. There's so much machinery there for anybody interested in the history of technology - looms and spinningjennies and all the gears and the canal system. Historians could just go and do a dig basically."

Albert knows all about historical digging. When she started her study in 1981, her goal was to "document and label and record every town, every mill I could find." Then, while she was taking classes at Trinity and completing the requirements for her American studies major, the photographs were moved to a back burner.

"That was good, because it was a way of filling in a lot of aspects of the subject, like the labor and the people and immigration. Also, I took some architecture

PALMER BRO'IHERS Cotton Mill in Montville, Conn., right, was built in 1866; and, below, ornamental bracket adorns the old railroad station in Thomaston, Conn.

classes, which helped in terms of understanding what I was photographing," she says. Once she completed the requirements and her American studies thesis, on the town of North Grosvenordale, Conn., she returned to the project.

It was then a matter of putting it all together, refining what she had and working on the printing, the documentation and background information. She also had to decide how the project was to be organized. Her adviser, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts John Boyer, suggested that she make the quality of the photographs the determining factor. Culling through her many photographs for the best ones, she thought about categories into which they fell.

"The first one was water power/' she says, "because that is the whole reason for the building of the mills.

And, I had a lot of photos of the looms along the water, because it's a picturesque and romantic scene.

"Then, the tower. The towers were important because they had the bells, and the bells would call people to work in the days before clocks. The towers were symbols of authority, and in some ways the early mill structures were linked to meeting houses or churches.

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CLOCK TOWERS, such as this one of the Linwood Mill in Whitinsville, Mass., built in 1870, were symbols of authority.

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ploited by industry.

RUINhs phohto-th grap s, sue as e remains of a gear system from an 1830s mill in Carolina, R.I. ' t op, sh ow w h a t was.

Center, an omamental gate of the Lyman Mill in Chicopee, Mass., circa 1841, and below, Nancy Albert ,88 .

"Housing was another, because I was interested in the housing. Then, we ended up with what I call the ruins, which are some of my favorites . I thought they were some of my strongest photographs because they showed what was, and what's gone."

Albert's feelings of nostalgia are tempered by a realism about mill life "I think some of these buildings are b eauti.fiu 1, w hich rna . k es me 1ee c: 1 amb" IV alent. I k now th at . · h 1 b people worked hornble, long days m t ese p aces, ut some of the settings are very beautiful - the stone mills in Rhode Island, the brick mills, and Harrisville, New Hampshire, a preserved town, which is gorp · d · · geous. ainters come an paint It. "But, the mills were where most people in this country began, as immigrants. There weren't any jobs, other than being servants, and most people didn't want to give up their freedom to do that. And the wages were much better, working in the mills. A lot of people worked all their lives and didn't really get anywhere.

They struggled and made themselves a life, and it wasn't easy.

"But, I don't think it was all negative. There was a sense of community. In a lot of these towns, especially where the mills were family:..owned, the housing that was provided by the company was above average, even model housing. Most of the people who began this way did go on, their children did become educated and they were able to buy a house. It was a starting point in American society."

Befitting the period, all of Albert's photography in the project was executed in black and white. "I really respect black and white photography," she says. "I've done a lot of study of photographers, particularly the documentary photographers of the 1930s, like Walker Evans, whom I really respect and am inspired by.

"In terms of my eye, it seems that black and white expresses what I want to do. I like patterns and texture.

Nancy Albert's photoWith black and white you're not distracted. It is more graphs will be on exhibit stark. in the foyer gallery of the Elihu Burritt Library at "There is a social value to this," says Albert of the Central Connecticut State photographs and documents in her project, which will University through July 29. The hours are: Mon- be kept, along with her thesis, in Trinity's Watkinson day-Thursday, 8 a.m.-9 Library for use by future historians. "Things change so p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-4 quickly, and also you can read and read about a subject, p.m.; and Saturday, 9 but sometimes a photograph brings it all together in a a.m.-4p.m. stronger way."

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n April the College hosted a three-day conference on the history and activities if the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). One if the most succesiful and boldest organizations if the civil rights movement if the early 1960s, the studentrun SNCC made great strides in its dforts, particularly in registering black voters in rural strongholds if the deep South.

The conference at Trinity reunited more than 120 former SNCC workers and leaders.

Its organizer was Assistant Prifessor if History john Chatfield '64, who had taken a year's leave as an undergraduate to work in the SNCC campaigns in Southwest Georgia. Chatfield had been inspired to join the iffort by, among other things, the example if his good friend Ralph Allen '64, who had also lift Trinity to work in SNCC~ Following in the retrospective mood if the conference, The Reporter editors asked Chatfield and Allen, now an English teacher at Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania, to rfjlect on their experiences in the movement and the forces which led them into their engagement with history.

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wo summers ago, Trinity asked me if I would de,, sign an IDP study unit on a new civil rights documentary, "Eyes on the Prize." Although I convinced myself, and Trinity, that I couldn't do it at the time because I was in the final stages of my dissertation and I was no longer teaching modern American history, in fact I was turning away from recollections which filled me with pain and regret.

For when I thought of my experience in the early . civil rights movement - the excitement, the laughter, the music, the enervating fear - I thought of accounts unsettled, mysteries unresolved, friendships severed, and feelings of serenity, even momentary ecstasy, now lost beyond recovery. I thought of what Willa Cather called "the incommunicable past." What a strong attachment I once felt for the South - and not only for the people, both black and white, whom I met there.

As a sojourner I felt a native's love for the flat, fertile land, the sweltering heat, the crickets after nightfall, the cotton bolls and the dust rising as the tractors moved ceaselessly across the parched fields. In Mississippi in 1969, while I was conducting research on the movement in Claiborne County, I travelled often to a deserted spot on the great river where General Grant's army had landed in 1863 before the battle ofJackson

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and the long siege ofVicksburg. Behind me stretched the thick forests and fields, and at my feet the river moved in a torrent. Standing alone in the merciless heat, watching the river tear at its crumbling banks, I imagined I could feel the combined weight of nature and history. Not surprisingly, this was a sentiment I had first experienced when I was a field worker for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the Georgia blackbelt in 1962 and 1963. But, who among us has not felt the lure of a foreign land, and the natural harmony which quiets, if only for a moment, the tumult of the heart?

These memories began returning when, in January my wife, Barbara, and I settled down expectantly to watch the award winning "Eyes on the Prize." The few minutes we saw on the Albany Movement together with the stunning documentary footage on events ranging from the Emmet Till murder case to the Selma crisis of 1965 - set in motion a train of thoughts which finally resulted in the Trinity SNCC conference held this year. To explain the impact of "Eyes on the Prize," I must describe what brought me to southwest Georgia in September of 1962 and what I saw when I got there.

Despite the requirements of my profession, I am sus-

THE REV. CHARLES SHERROD, right, field director ofSNCC's Southwest Georgia Project, talks with prospective voters.

picious of"explanations" and supremely conscious of the Jesuitical cunning of memory. My life is pervaded by an intellectual tension - a sense of paradox and ambiguity in human affairs - which is perhaps more congenial to the novelist than to the historian. In this respect it reveals a certain continuity: in my first two years at Trinity (from 1960 through 1962), despite a growing fascination with history and contemporary society, I read almost nothing except novels, short stories, and poetry. I "devoured" (as we said) works by Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner, the war trilogy ofJean Paul Sartre, and the noyels, plays and essays of Albert Camus. I had begun to discover literature as a high school student, but at Trinity I owed a good deal to the advice of friends. Ron Spencer '64 (now associate academic dean at the College) recommended Dylan Thomas and the literary essays ofT.S. Eliot, and showed me my first copy of the New York Times Book Review. I had never seen the New York Times Book Review} nor did I imagine that anywhere in the world there were publications devoted entirely to essays on books. I can still remember being transfixed by the Old English heading, and by the neat, spare ribbon of words- a kind of martial procession - which

seemed to embody the high culture I was seeking.

A seminal event occurred sometime during the spring semester of my freshman year. I had just written a book report for English 101 on Andre Malraux's Man}s Fate} a novel of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s that had been recommended to me by one of my newfound friends . Soon after I finished the assignment, George Will '62 (I had first met the Pulitzer Prizewinning commentator when he was a Tripod staffer) burst into our room and launched a passionate discourse on the book. I can remember nothing that he said, only that I sat in silence as he cited passages I had ignored, themes I had not explored, characters I had misinterpreted. With his brilliance, his intensity, and his razor-sharp speech, Will had already become a figure within our little circle. But, this performance was more than I had bargained for. In my profound embarrassment, I could not bring myself to admit that I had just finished the book. Instead, I vowed to read it as soon as possible. I have always felt that this second reading of Man}s Fate was the beginning of my mature intellectual life, and the essential preparation for the novels of Feodor Dostoyevsky - especially The Brothers Karamazov and The Possessed - which cast a spell over me during

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The aroused Negro students of the South, said Will in a front路 page article in the Tripod, were instructing us in the meaning of American citizenship.

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this harvest season of youth. In Dostoyevsky, of course, I discovered an author more attuned than Malraux to the inner turmoil of the personality, to the problem of evil, to the hidden springs of ideological commitments. Dostoyevsky struck me with the force of revelation.

I cannot remember clearly how or when the civil rights movement began to impinge upon the consciousness of our little band of comrades. When I entered college I had never read a daily newspaper, nor do I recall watching the evening news. I had no interest in politics. I had attended a Methodist military academy in northern Virginia, where I was immersed in music, sports, studies, friendships, and the erotic longings of adolescence. I was proud of having attained the rank of Executive Officer of the Band Company and fancied myself a kind of Mr. B.oberts figure. I have no recollection of reading about the sit-in movement which swept the cities of the South in the winter and spring of 1960. Nor do I recall the Freedom Rides of April and May, 1961. Yet somehow, by the autumn of that year, the black student movement of the South had become the focal point of much of my youthful passiOn. George Will had a good deal to do with this. As Tripod editor in the spring semester of 1961, he sought to fix the moral and political compass of undergraduate life. To those of us who knew and admired him, he was already the exemplar of the committed intellectual - the engage- of whom we had read in the novels of Camus, Sartre, and Malraux. I thought of him as one of my teachers, and when he made assignments I tried faithfully to complete them: Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days if Hitler; Jules Roy's The War in Algeria; Albert Camus's Resistance, Rebellion and Death; and Murray Kempton's Part if Our Time.

As Tripod editor and as a columnist during his senior year, George Will levelled withering blasts against a host ofheavily entrenched foes: the House OnAmerican Activities Committee and the clamorous legions of the Neanderthal right; a foreign policy driven by a purblind anti-communism which enlisted cruel and corrupt dictators as friends of freedom; a student body immunized against political understanding and commitments; and a fraternity system which enthroned the most sordid and vapid features of undergraduate life- political indifference, anti-intellectualism, male depravity, and, not least, white supremacy and antiSemitism.

Will's indictment of the fraternity system was relentless and sweeping. But he and his allies called for reform rathern than abolition - most importantly, the rescinding of exclusionary clauses in national charters which barred the admission of black or Jewish students; and, as a last resort, the severance of formal ties with the national organization. Thus it was that "local autonomy" became the rallying cry of the reform party - and this at a time when the black student movement of the South was besieging the bastions of caste segregation and discrimination. There can be little doubt that the southern movement provided an inspirational example to the campus reformers. Many of the dissidents saw themselves (however dimly) as partners in a national enterprise to renew the spirit ofliberalism at home and abroad. The newspapers were now full of reports from the South: mass marches and prayer vigils had virtually paralyzed the city of Albany, Georgia; high school students had organized demonstrations in McComb, Mississippi; sit-ins continued in the upper and lower South; and voter registration drives had been launched in some of the most refractory counties Continued on p. 20

SNCC CONFERENCE: AN ABSOLUTION

BY RALPH

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hen I left the civil rights movement in the summer of 1964, I felt as if I were betraying half my life, perhaps the better half. The noble poor of Southwest Georgia, cohorts in SNCC, the woman I'd wanted to marry, my hopes for racial equality, much of my belief in the freedom and goodness ofhuman nature - all these drained away. One night in the desert of guilt that remained, I dreamt I saw a black man lynched and stood by watching.

A year later I was learning to bury that sort of pain in irony. I married a white wife and took a teaching job in a predominantly white school. Hence, it was with considerable apprehension that I waded into Trinity's retrospective conference on SNCC. Would my old friends recognize their betrayer? All those heady ideals we'd lived by, what would they look like now? Could this whiteness that I have become still croak a freedom song?

It depended on Sherrod. One of the early members ofSNCC, the Rev. Charles Sherrod had conceived the idea of running an integrated voter registration project in Southwest Georgia. In June, 1962, I wandered into the SNCC office he had set up in Albany. I'd driven a truck filled with books for an Alabama college to Atlanta, and there gotten the chance to go to Albany.

It was the summer after my sophmore year at Trinity. High on existentialism, I was looking for an adventurous alternative to another summer ofbuilding a bank roll.

Those were the days of the Albany Movement.

Hundreds ofblacks had filled city jails in support of Albany State College students arrested for sitting in.

Dr. King had been to town, and local black leaders had presented desegregation demands to the City Council.

Behind all the commotion, however, its inspiration and guide, was the gentle, determined Charles Sherrod.

"When you leave the bus station," said SNCC Executive Secretary Jim Forman in Atlanta, 'just head for the black section and ask for Sherrod."

The only unseasoned white man involved in that first summer of voter registration activity, I thought I could do anything. Sherrod was afraid for me. It was dangerous enough for integrated pairs of women or pairs ofblacks to go traipsing around the rural counties, but a black man and a white walking down a small town Georgia street on equal terms was a direct assault on segregation. "You don't understand," he'd say to me when I pestered him. "Them boys out there'll kill you." But he believed in integration, and he knew that crimes against whites get more publicity than crimes

RALPl'I ALLEN, right, at Trinity, and, above, as panelist in discussion on race relations at Germantown Academy.

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------------------------~ against blacks. We needed publicity. It gave us protection, helped raise funds and put pressure on Washington to pass a Voting Rights Act. Eventually, Sherrod had to let me go.

He took me out to Terrell County the first time himself. As we walked up the main street ofDawson together, it looked like a showdown scene from a Western movie. People hustled off the street, closed Continued on p. 21

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of the rural black belt. The aroused Negro students of the South, said Will in a front-page article in the Tripod, were instructing us in the meaning of American citizenship.

My own education was beginning to imperil my studies. I could not understand freshman mathematics, and I shamefully neglected biology and German. Most of my reading- it now included the essays ofJames Baldwin, Louis Lomax's Revolt in the South and John Bartlow Martin's The Deep South Says Never- was unassigned, and I devoted several hours a week to the Tripod. Early in my sophomore year, my fellow journalist Ron Spencer and I travelled to Wesleyan to hear a speech by Marion Wright, a former sit-in leader who was then a student at the Yale Law School. I was stunned recently when Spencer, now a colleague in the history department, told me that Martin Luther King had also spoken at Wesleyan that night. I have no . recollection ofhearing King, perhaps because I was transfixed by the flowing words of this diminutive and impassioned black woman who seemed to embody the humane and gentle spirit of the movement. After she spoke, there was long and deafening applause, and I joined a crowd at the base of the platform. Beside me stood a robust young man - probably a Wesleyan student- dressed in soft cotton khakis and an athlete's shirt. His face was taut with emotion, and he ran his hand along the nape ofhis neck and through his boyish hair. We both stared up at the lovely, animated countenance of Marion Wright, now lost in conversation with her rapt auditors. I held my reporter's pad and my Scripta pen. With my silent and nameless companion, I felt a kind of exultation. This was an emotion I was to feel again when, at a conference at Sarah Lawrence College, Imet Charles McDew, slow-talking and sardonic, a native of Massillon, Ohio, who was chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and a veteran of bone-chilling campaigns in McComb and Baton Rouge. The people I had read about in the columns ofJames Wechsler and Murray Kempton, as well as the New York Times dispatches of Homer Bigart and Claude Sitton, had now become flesh. They had begun to give a new purpose to life, and a new meaning to America.

At the end of the 'spring semester, 1962, I received word that I had failed geology. I had tried to mobilize for the exam, learning among other things that barchans were crescent-shaped sand dunes formed by the wind in the deserts ofNorth Africa. But, the mountain of detail- one might say, the sedimentary layers of detail- paralyzed me at this criticaljuncture. Under the College regulations, I could not enter my junior year until I had passed the required courses. I entered

--~---------------------My life is pervaded by an intellectual tension a sense of paradox and ambiguity in human af路 fairs - which is perhaps more congenial to the novelist than to the historian.

-----------------------~ the Harvard summer school to complete a semester of mathematics and science. I expected to continue the two courses somewhere during the year and return to Trinity in the fall of 1963.

At Harvard I quickly began to behave like a lapsed alcoholic. I tried unsuccessfully to enroll as an auditor in "a writing course taught by John Updike. I attended lectures in twentieth-century poetry. I formed close friendships with a number of women students. I discovered that the mathematics course was over my head, and I only attended a single lecture. In zoology, I peered through the microscope but left blank spaces in my laboratory manual.

As the summer wore on, I retreated into my dormitory room, where I finally pored through The Brothers Karamazov and other works, both fiction and nonfiction, which I do not now remember. I followed the civil rights news, especially the reports from Albany, Georgia, where the movement once again heated up during the summer months. I spent an hour each day with the Times, looked at a number of political journals, and browsed in the Harvard Coop. At one point I answered a want ad for a truck driver and considered taking an apartment in Cambridge. When William Faulkner died during the summer, I fashioned that I was in mourning and waited expectantly for the commemorative issue of the Saturday Review, devoted entirely to the Mississippi writer. I read and re-read the Nobel Prize Address. But 1 was at loose ends, and even the oracles could not tell me how to fulfill my curricular requirements. Ralph Allen, a roommate and intimate friend, lived in nearby Melrose. I never tried to contact him. I did not want to see my Trinity comrades at this time.

Sometime in the middle of August, I came into the bustling dining hall with my copy of the New York Times. In the center of the front page was a dispatch by Claude Sitton bearing the dateline of a Georgia hamlet called Sasser, about twenty miles from Albany. In the article, Sitton described, with a keen sense of earthy detail and the contours of colloquial speech, a voter registration meeting in a black country church that had been interrupted by the county sheriff, a band of armed Continued on p. 22

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shop doors, or just stopped to stare. At the courthouse, we went in and walked up to the half-open Dutch door of the Voter Registrar's office, and Sherrod asked about the hours. "We don't have any hours for the likes of you," said a woman behind a desk. She got up and closed the top half of the door. A moment later the sheriff and the chief of police strolled out of an office across the hall and arrested us for vagrancy.

Later that summer, Sherrod an4 I were sharing a room at a home in Albany one night. We'd just put out the light and were talking in the dark. "You know, you're the first white friend I've ever had," said Sherrod. "I've known white guys, and I've worked with 'em, but you're the first one I've felt I could trust."

So it W4S Sherrod I had to find at the Trinity conference. Ifhe could forgive me, I could forgive myself I scanned the crowd gathering in the Washington Room for the first panel discussion. At length I found him talking with some of the old Southwest Georgia crew.

I touched him on the shoulqer, and he turned. "Ralph!" he said, beaming as he shifted a notebook to take my hand. "My buddy Ralph! fJow you doin', boy?" Nothing had changed. Oh, we were both a little heavier around the jowls, but the friendship was still solid. It was the beginning of a long weekend of absolution.

Amazed, I found myself remembered not as one who had left the struggle, but as one who had joined.

The sense of absolution was not only mine. Others felt they had betrayed or been betrayed by the movement. Even Sherrod, still in Albany, spoke apologetically about having to earn enough money to put his kids through college. Among those who were in SNCC during its difficult later years, there were old wounds among blacks, who felt they had been abandoned by the white liberal establishment, and among whites, who had found themselves increasingly less welcome and finally forced out by SNCC. But as the complex factors that had caused those wounds and the powerful vision that had inspired SNCC's successes were explored by panelists, a healing took place. Even the headstrong, eruptive Stokely Carmichael, now Kwarni Toure, seemed forgivable.

All of us at the conference learned things that were deeply moving. In the summer of '63 I was arrested with two other SNCC voter registration workers in Americus, Ga. After fifty days in jail, I left Georgia to go back to school. One of the people who took over for us in Americus, Bob Mants, was on a panel. He told how, before he had left for school a year later, Sherrod had asked him to write a report on what had been accomplished. Though he'd tried hard to think of some concrete successes, for a long time he couldn't.

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erai law b t grand and trial . . o h selected Without ~.ne~ ~ust be On this his . JscrJmmation. court reverse~r;~ predi~at~, the a white civil .~ ~onvlCtlon of R<llph w All ng ts worker M . en of M , . ass., sentenced elrose, Imprisonment last ~ two years ecember in Americus G Allen w~s ~· . of white men ~~Vlcted by a jury sault With intent charge of as. gaged in Ne ro o murder. Ention work, A~l voter registra. during a m en was arrested with hurling :r~~ttland char~ed man. eat a polleeIn reversing th ~he appeals court e . convicti?n, JU~ge erred in refus~Jd the tnal RALPH W. ALLEN evJdence on the co smg .t? admit inatio seJieucdtion of jurie.s :~~~t~oonunatnd~defencfan~o~~e notyt accord to any ge Rob ·t y. h · h · pe of jur t Judges H E erN. Hh. Hall, With w lc the law entitles him ,1 o ert L · · • Jc ols and R b · . . Russell concurri o • Allen, 22 is - . . :~ the opinion that "an~g, wrotel ity College' and a. se;wr at Trina.t results in the consi t system and studying t~s oth .working ech?n of jurors from s ent sel- mer. He wa ere this sumportwn only of th . a gr~up or/· scence fro .s o.n. leave of abfor service-rathe os~h available •to do civil ~ [nmty last year those available wit~out ad~ f~om :gia. He i/~Jats ~ork in Geor.Jscnm- in the fall. nnmg to marry

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WHILE WORKING for SNCC in Georgia, Allen was arrested and charged with attempting to incite a riot. He spent 50 days in jail before his conviction was overturned.

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deputies, and a silent but menacing phalanx of white citizens. The meeting was being conducted by the Reverend Charles Sherrod, a young Baptist minister from Virginia and the field director of the Southwest Georgia Project of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The Southwest Georgia Project, initially confined to Albany, was then entering its second year.

In the early summer of 1962, the SNCC field workers - black and white students, many from the North - had entered Terrell and Lee counties, two rural strongholds near the city, to begin the slow work of organizing. The Sasser meeting was one of the first fruits of this hazardous enterprise.

In the Harvard dining hall, amid the clatter of dishes and the high-pitched banter of the young, I read Claude Sitton's Sasser report. Suddenly the words began to swim before my eyes. Deep in the article, Sitton recorded the names and hometowns of the SNCC workers and recounted an attack made upon them by a hot-tempered, pistol-packing Sasser policeman earlier in the week. One of the workers was Ralph Allen, whom I had supposed was filling potholes with a summer construction crew in Melrose, Massachusetts. It turned out that Ralph had been enlisted by the Northern Student Movement to deliver a vanload of used books toY ale University, from which point they would be carried to their final destination, a struggling black college in Birmingham, Alabama. When Ralph arrived in New Haven, the other drivers had not appeared, and he was persuaded to make the long journey to the South. Swept along by the stream of events, Ralphjoined the tiny band ofSNCC workers in southwest Georgia and helped inaugurate the voter registration drive in the heavily black counties adjoining Albany.

Dizzy with emotion, I hurried from the dining hall to my dormitory chamber. I cannot remember the exact course of events. The decision to go South, however, came quickly. Within days I had returned home to pack my trunk. My dear inother, disheartened and exasperated by my academic failures, tried to steer me into another channel. But my compass was fixed, and she knew it. I had already phoned the Atlanta SNCC office, and had spoken to Ralph in Albany. I contracted to drive a family car to Camden, South Carolina (I was provided with AAA maps and a generous allowance, rather like Lenin being delivered to Petrograd by the Germans in 1917). I deposited the car and caught a bus to Atlanta, where I awoke a SNCC staffer with a 2:00 a.m. phone call. I walked the streets of the city till morning, when I appeared at the SNCC headquarters to meet the office staff and receive bus fare to Albany.

My nerves were fairly ablaze with excitement and

-------------------------What a strong attachment I once felt for the South - and not only for the people, both black and white, whom I met there.

-----------------------~ expectation. On the bus, I drank in the countryside and listened to the soft, melodious speech of my fellow passengers. So this was the South - the South of Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, ofHuey Long and Pitchfork Ben Tillman, ofJoe Christmas, Flem Snopes, Quentin Compson, John Sartoris, the South of Lucas Beauchamp and Dilsey. It was not mere politics or principle that had brought me here. It was, rather, my seething energy, my shameful failures, my impatient search for philosophical order, my spells of confusion and doubt, .my ardent friendships, my dazzling and unsettling initiation into the wider world. I am suspicious of explanations. But I will hazard that I was brought to Georgia by my college days.

Within a week, following a veritable torrent of experiences, I preached to a small group ofblack Georgians about the character of Alyosha Karamazov. I remember none of my words, only the exultation I felt during this fleeting moment of emotional and philosophical clarity. â&#x20AC;˘

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"But there was this little girl," he said, "twelve years old, named Sandra Gail Russell, that I used to drive home from meetings because she lived way across town. As I was leaving Americus, the bus went by the Martin Theatre on a corner. Even though it was after the Civil Rights Act of'64, here's these black people climbing up the stairs outside the building to go sit in the peanut gallery. But as that bus comes 'round the corner, I see that little girl, Sandra Gail Russell, pick up her ticket at the window. She's holding her little brother, about six years old, by the hand, and the two of them walk in the front door."

Having served SNCC only in Southwest Georgia, I had little awareness of what went on in other parts of the South. Mants had also worked with Stokely Carmichael in Lownes County, Alabama, where whites were particularly desperate, because blacks made up three-fourths of the county's population. "We were down at the school one day handing out leaflets," said Mants. "Most of the kids were scared of us, but this one little boy kep' beckin' for us to give him some more leaflets. Well," Mants paused and looked at the panelist on his right, Mayor John Jackson of Whitehall, the Lownes County seat, "that little boy was Johnny Jackson.

"Pretty soon the police showed up, and we thought we were gone. But for the first and only time, Stokely used his head. We had a car that had this short-wave radio in it. Stokely, he goes over to the car and makes like he's tellin' somebody what's happenin'. We were way out of range of anybody that could hear, but it gave those police enough to think about so they didn't arrest us. The next day we came back to that school and them kids just poured out to meet us. They knew we were bad.)) c Mants had other tales to tell. He recalled our daily life in Southwest Georgia. "It was a proving ground," he said. ''You learned how to survive on nuthin'.

Every day Sherrod would have these prayer breakfasts.

You'd get a glass ofjuice, a cinnamon bun, and a bowl of ravioli. Someone up North had sent down all this ravioli. It was the first time I ever came acrost ravioli.

And before you could eat anything, you had to stand there and sing 'Let us Break Bread Together.' Sometimes we got so low on cash we had to pick cucumbers. One day a farmer named James Mays come by and told us he had a couple hogs that got loose running wild on his place. He said if we could catch 'em, we could have 'em. I wanna tell you them hogs didn't stand a chance. They were good days, though. We had camaraderie and reverence and commitment."

They were days that changed all of us as well as the face of the nation irrevocably. For those who stayed in

I found myself remembered not as one who had left the struggle, but as one who had joined.

-----------------------~ the South, like Mants and Sherrod, the movement has become woven into their daily lives. Mants is finishing up a stint as a Lownes County Commissioner so tha~ he'll have time to help Mayor Jackson draw business to the area. Sherrod, a.City Commissioner in Albany, has recently come under attack by a City Hall made desperate by its dwindling white majority on the Commission. When they accused him of pilfering public funds, he was required by state law either to resign or to undergo a lengthy investigation by a state committee. The investigators exonerated him, but in the meantime, his investment counselling business has suffered.

For us white folks who left the So:uth, the movement has become a personal affair. In 1969 when my wife and I were considering buying a house, I actually said to her, "Wait a minute, what about property values? This is a duplex, and there's blacks in the other half" She put her hands on her hips and looked me in the eye. "What the hell were you doing in Southwest Georgia then?" she said. We still live in the house. â&#x20AC;˘

COMMENCEMENT 1988

BY ELIZABETH NATALE

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ood wishes and raindrops showered the graduates at Trinity's 162nd Commencement on Sunday, May 22.

Shortly after the afternoon ceremony started, so did the rain. Claps of thunder blended with rounds of applause, and umbrellas sprouted throughout the ranks of well-wishers and graduates assembled on the Quadrangle. Starting as a sprinkle during the awarding ofhonorary degrees, the precipitation became more serious during the Commencement address by Andrew Aitken Rooney, best known for his cutting commentary on the CBS television series "60 Minutes."

"If there's anything I like better than speaking at a commencement, it's speaking in the rain," said the CBS news correspondent, writer-producer, and author.

Rooney, who was awarded an honorary doctor ofletters degree, told the graduating class that the United States needs a "brand-new, 1988-style George Washington: a hero for our times." He

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went on to cite 10 areas that he believes could use some attention from the 486 bachelor's degree and 29 master's degree recipients.

"We're short of people who know how to do anything," said Rooney in outlining a need for scientists and technologists. "The service industry in America is now bigger than the manufacturing segment, and something is wrong with that. It's like a restaurant that has a great staff of waiters, but no one in the kitchen to cook. We need chefs; we don't need waiters."

Rooney also suggested that the graduates consider careers in such areas as politics, education, foreign affairs, and the environment. He said the country also could use a good economist.

"Capitalism has gone berserk in America," Rooney said. "It isn't working. There are too many rich people and too many poor people. You don't have to be a communist to think that.

"If you want to do something for your world, work out an economic system that will solve the world's woes:

eliminate poverty, hunger, and homelessness," he added. "That should keep you busy until you're 30!"

The final item on Rooney's list was the one that troubles him most, he said, and that is people's inability to face the truth.

"People prefer hopes, dreams, lies, myths or silence, but they avoid the truth like a hole in the road," Rooney said. "Unless the facts happen to coincide with what they already believe, they don't want to hear the facts.

There's evidence of people's preference for avoiding the truth everywhere you look. It's why astrology is so popular in newspapers in this country - and in other places in this country, as well."

Rooney's message was familiar to the graduates, who had listened to a sermon by the Most Rev. Edmond Lee Browning at a baccalaureate service earlier in the day. Browning, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, told the students that people are reluctant to admit their failings, preferring to blame colleges or high schools or rock music or television,

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"anybody but ourselves."

"Unable, in this way, to own up to our portion of the responsibility for the selfishness of our world, we are unable to do much to change it," Browning said. "This is a great truth: .. . you can't change anything in this world, large or small, unless you can first tell the truth about it."

To illustrate his point, Browning pointed to apartheid in South Africa and to the book Cry, the Beloved Country written by Alan Paton 40 years ago. As a white, South African, it was not in Paton's best interest to write about the injustice of apartheid, Browning said; but he did, and his actions demonstrate that it is possible to step out of a system and examine it from that perspective.

"We may be products of our world, and our world may well determine in a pervasive way how we look at things, but we can transcend that if we want . to," Browning said. "The worst legacy any generation leaves another is the discouraged resignation that says 'That's just the way the world works .... ' The

TOUCHDOWN! Sara Lawson rushes to the football field to meet her fumily before Commencement. The helicopter flight allowed the Lawsons to see Sara's father and sister receive degrees from Providence (RI) College that morning.

UNDER COVER of boxes that once contained diplomas, security staff members Biagio Rucci and Elizabeth Johnson stay dry while watching the crowd.

PHOTOS BY DOUGLAS PENHALL

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best legacy is the witp_ess of people who refuse to accept the unacceptable, who refuse the comfortable lies that permit the unacceptable to continue."

Browning received an honorary doctor of divinity degree during the ceremony. Honorary degrees also were awarded to David Allan Bromley, Henry Ford II Professor and director of the A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale University: doctor of science; Genevieve Harlow Goodwin, friend of the arts: doctor of arts; Eugene M. Lang, industrialist and founding sponsor of the "I Have a Dream" Education Program: doctor of laws; and Sonia Sanchez, Presidential Fellow and professor ofEnglish at Temple University: doctor ofletters.

In addition, Thomas Aloysius Smith '44, vice president ofTrinity, was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters. Smith recently retired from the College after 35 years of service. Isabelle Spotswood Cox English was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts for her

service as first lady ofTrinity.

Elizabeth Elliott Hardman of McLean, VA, and John Choon-Hyuk Lee, of Oak Brook, IL, presented the class gift: a star magnolia tree that has been planted outside the new residence hall on Vernon Street and a contribution to the Senior Class Scholarship Endowment Fund. Following that presentation, Class President Bryant S. McBride of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, bid farewell to his classmates and expressed appreciation to the College.

"Trinity, thank you for the opportunities you have provided us; you will not be forgotten," said McBride, who transferred to Trinity from West Point.

"Imagine that: a school that provides us with a superior education, great athletics, a fine tradition, and they don't even make us march!"

President James F. English, Jr. also addressed the graduates, reminding them that their Trinity education is just the beginning of a lifetime oflearning.

"The job ahead is nothing less than to help create a better way of life for your- . selves and for everyone: healthy, orderly, and fair," English said. "Your new degree will get you started, but try to join the company of those who continue to learn and grow and serve. That life-long commitment will be the finest product of your Trinity education."

With the awarding of the bachelor's and master's degrees, the rain became heavier; but it did little to dampen the spirits of the graduates. Some members of the audience took shelter under trees; others headed for the Chapel or for doorways on the Long Walk. Undaunted by the storm were the family photographers, who flocked to the platform to capture the moment.

"If you live to be 100, there aren't many days you will remember better than this graduating day at Trinity," Rooney said during his address. Thanks to Mother Nature, that will be especially true for the Class of 1988.

TAKING NOTE oflast-minute preparations for the afternoon ceremony is CBS news correspondent Andy Rooney, who delivered the Commencement address.

SUNNY SMILES, such as that worn by the Most Rev. Edmond L. Browning before receiving his honorary degree, made up for the gray skies.

QUOTING his mother, Class President Bryant S. McBride told fellow graduates " 'there is nothing in this world you can't do if you really want to.' "

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THE DISTINGUISHED GROUP ofhonorary degree recipients poses for the camera with President James F. English Jr. and Edward A. Montgomery Jr., chairman of the trustees. In the photo are (standing I. tor.): Andrew A. Rooney, Eugene M. Lang, Edmond L. Browning, Sonia Sanchez, English, Isabelle Spotswood Cox English, David Allan Bromley, Thomas Aloysius Smith, and Montgomery. Seated is Genevieve Harlow Goodwin.

THE TOP TRIO in the Class of1988 was led by valedictorian Jill Ann Mello (center) ofTaunton, MA. The two salutatorians - Nancy Ottmann Albert (left) ofHarwinton, CT, and Pamela Nomura Boulton of Chester, CT - completed their degrees through Trinity's Individualized Degree Program.

SPECIAL TRIBUTE was paid to two members of the Trinity family, who received honorary degrees. At right, trustee Chairman Montgomery (left) chuckles as he reads the citation for Thomas Smith. Above, Isabelle English waits with Professor Thomas Baird (left) and President English.

JOINING theTriD!ly family are (clockwise &om the top): TQdd, Hansen, who is greeted by his father, alurimi director Gerald Jr. '51, and brothers Barclay '84 . (left) and Gerald lll '78; lliane llePatie,. who stands with her rn father an<l fonner trustee~ Thomas â&#x20AC;˘s2; and Lisa Nigro.

Campus conference and arts festival explore Iranian politics and culture.

BY MARTHA DAVIDSON

n stage, a dervish sang while whirling for 10 minutes straight around a pot ofblazing fire . . . Iranian scholars who had not conversed in years came together on common ground and talked . . . Lamb brochettes and stuffed grape leaves were on the menu at a Middle Easternstyle banquet ...

Instances like these made up Ta'ziyeh) a conference and arts festival designed for both scholars and the general public that was held at Trinity this spring. For five days, in-depth attention was focused on the ancient and often misunderstood Middle Eastern culture of Iran the disciplines ofliterature, drama,.religion, political science and art history. ''It satisfied my dream model for education," said C. Riggio, a Trinity professor ofEnglish who was the project's director. "I realized, as I watched it happen throughout the weekend, that I was looking at all different kinds of people sharing in an educational effort. There was a tremendous good will on the part of the participants to make it succeed. It really was a community wide event."

Scholarly and general conferences (which ran concurrently) focused on an exploration of differences between two opposing sects oflslam, Shi'ism and Sunnism. "Americans are relatively untutored in the distinctions within Islam, especially the schism between Shi'ism and Sunnism," Riggio said. "Understanding Shi'ism in the broader framework oflslam can help explain the war between Iraq and Iran, the riots in Mecca and many of the developments in the Lebanese conflict."

Conference topics included political and religious issues in Shi'ism and Sunnism, women in contemporary Iran, drama and culture in Iran, and Western perceptions of Iran. Arts events included dramatic and musical performances, an exhibition of cultural artifacts, films and a slide show.

The conference portion attracted 300 people: stu-

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ARTWORK from a Ta'ziyeh festival booklet: An Iranian painting circa 1840 depicts the standard bearers in a Moharram procession. (James L. Merrick Album, courtesy of Jon Thompson, London, England)

dents, scholars, teachers and private citizens. One participant called it a "grand triumph" and another said "somehow it should be reproduced throughout the United States- all sectors of American society would greatly benefit from such exposure."

"Without any doubt this was one of the very best, if not the best conference, that I have attended in the past 16 years of teaching and research," wrote Farhad Kazemi, chairman ofNew York University's department of politics, in a letter to Riggio after the event. "The scholarly level and range of presentations, the cultural events, and the organizational aspects were all extraordinary. It is truly remarkable that you were able to organize this potentially controversial conference and keep it wholly and completely within scholarly and academic bounds."

Nine hundred people attended six performances of Moses and the Wandering Dervish, the first production of traditional Persian passion drama in the United States and the first English production anywhere. Moses is based on the Persian tradition known as ta'ziyeh, spectacular musical dramas which form part of the annual Shi'ite ritual of mourning during the festival of Muharramn.

Moses was directed by Mohammad B. Ghaffari, an Iranian director/actor living in exile in this country who was a visiting lecturer at Trinity in 1987- 88. In the past, Ghaffari had directed ta'ziyeh plays at the Shiraz Festival of Arts and in Tehran, Iran, where he was affiliated with the Center for Traditional Performances. "Although the roots of the play (at Trinity) are nourished by its own culture, it is different from the original, a new experience, a work worth doing, but not the dead imitation of the once lively shabih, (Sufi play)," Ghaffari explained.

Originally planned for late night performances by torchlight in Funston Courtyard, bad weather forced the production indoors to Austin Arts Center's Goodwin Theatre where audiences sat crosslegged on the bare stage, watching the meeting between Moses and a shepherd. Moses was played by Bruce Butler, an American, and the dervish (a Moslem dedicated to poverty and chastity whose whirling is a religious act) was portrayed by Korean-dance baritone Du-Yee Chang. Silent tableaux depicting visions ofheaven and hell were played by Hartford elementary school children and Trinity undergraduates. A trio of musicians used wind, string and percussion instruments in a score composed by Steve Gorn.

Two evening concerts in Hamlin Hall that featured the oldest forms of instruments in the traditional Persian ensemble were met with packed houses and standing ovations. Dariush Dolat-shahi performed on the setar, a four-stringed, pear-shaped instrument made of mulberry wood. The second concert, Traditional Music cif Iran: The Art cif Improvisation, featured Mohammed

KOREAN-DANCE baritone Du-Yee Chang plays the dervish in a production of Moses and the Wandering Dervish, performed April 28-May 1 at Austin Arts Center.

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ter for Near Eastern Studies at New York University.

These educators also participated in three, day-long designed to increase understanding of the Cf1SLS"">Q.(Iae:n Middle East and completed projects on their own students about Shi'ite Islam conference was held at the Hart"""--"""~'-'""'-'L of the project.

provided in part by grants "!ao.o~al Endowment for the Connecticut Humanities ~+~-V~~"'"~·•'A~,... C. and Ann T. snrlrlort of the play; as well "The most exciting 't know how you document it, was that together who have not communicated in years uv\-<1\U:,~:: of the volatile issues involved. These are the '-'"''"'""''•" sible for most of the Middle b4S(~m'-edlJCaltJ.on m project co-director this country,'' said Naomi and Trinity faculty grants . "They came to the most incredible Trinity and reconnected. It spirit." • MOHAMMAD B. GHAFFARI, right, directs students during a rehearsal of Moses and the Wandering Dervish, a centerpiece of the Ta'ziyeh festival this spring.

Reza Lotfi, who sang and played the tar, a six-stringed member of the lute family. He was accompanied by Al Fatemi on the tonbak, a percussion instrument.

Numerous ta'ziyeh objects and artifacts, shown collectively for the first time, were displayed in Widener Gallery ..The exhibition was divided into three types of Persian cultural performances; processions, narratives and plays. Among the artifacts, many from private collections, were tapestries, shawls, a banner, tile paintings, a helmet and shield, bronze pigeons used on standards in processions, chains, decorated padlocks and numerous photographs. Samuel R. Peterson of Seymour, CT was the curator.

So effective was a slide show accompanying the exhibition that several schools have requested copies of it for eductional use. The only American copy of Le Lion de Dieu, a film obtained from France specifically for Ta'ziyeh and originally scheduled for only two showings, wound up being shown repeatedly throughout the festival.

Before the Ta'ziyeh conference and festival, 16 Conne\ticut teachers completed a grad1:1ate-level course titled Iran: Past and Present that was taught by Peter Chelkowski, a professor at the Hagop Kevorkian Cen-

PETER CHELKOWSKI taught a semesterlong course titled Iran: Past and Present.

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Freslunan attack John Francini unleashes a shot in Trinity's 12-9 victory over Connecticut College.

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Before the 1988 outdoor track and field season began, Trinity Head Coach Jim Foster believed his team was going to be "surprisingly successful." Although Trinity had won three New England Small College Athletic Conference championships during the 1980s, the team had not won the title since the 1985 season. So, when the team finished the regular season with an 8-2 mark, and then outdistanced the rest of the field at the 1988 NESCAC championships, the phrase "surprisingly successful" was indeed appropriate.

The secret to Trinity's success was depth and experience. Two factors were lacking in 1987 when Trinity placed seventh at the NESCAC's. The difference this year turned out to be the addition of some strong freshmen in the field events and the emergence of the upper classmen in the track events.

Trinity opened the season at a multiteam event at Westfield St. Although Trinity was narrowly outscored by Westfield St. 81- 79, the Bantams point total defeated Coast Guard, Middlebury, and Williams by wide margins.

The Bantams next scored an impressive 98-56 victory over Wesleyan. Senior Co-Captains Craig Gemmell and Matt Donahue led the Trinity charge with first-place honors in the 800 meters and 1,500 meters, respectively. They were supported by junior Scott Isaac's firstplace finishes in the 200 and 400 meters.

Seniors Tony Luciano and Ross Burdick teamed with Isaac to give Trinity a clean sweep of the 400-ineter event.

The Bantams followed up the victory over Wesleyan with a tri-meet against Williams and Connecticut College. The competition proved slight as the Bantams rolled to 107 points on the day to just 44 for Williams and 42 for Connecticut College. It was a strong day for the wdghtmen. FreshmanJ.B. Wells was one ofTrinity's top point getters with firsts in the shot put and the discus.

Senior John Haviland bested his nearest competitor in the hammer throw by twenty feet with a throw of 132'7".

Trinity also dominated the javelin as Jeff Buzzi '90 and Robert Conklin '91 took

first and second. In the final meet of the season Trinity took on strong teams from Coast Guard, Tufts, and W.P.I. Trinity won six of the eleven events on the day, led by Gemmell who outdistanced the pack in both the 800 and 1,500 meters. That performance was enough to defeat Coast Guard and Tufts, but homestanding W.P. I. outpointed the Bantams 75-51.

At the NESCAC championships, everything fell into place as each athlete performed to his potential. Winning the title exemplified Trinity's overall depth and talent. The Bantams scored in sixteen of the twenty events to overcome second-place Bates by a 116 to 100 margin. Isaac, who emerged as the Bantams' top sprinter during the regular season, was in top form at the NESCAC's. He won the 200 and 400 meters, and ran legs in both the 4 X 100 and 4 X 400 meter relays to- finish second in the MVP balloting. Geminell was outstanding in the distance events, capturing the 5,000 meters and placing second in the 1,500. In the pole vault, senior Rich Skubish took first place honors clearing the bar at 13 feet even.

Freshman George Logan also had a strong day in the high jump and triple jump. He had a second place showing in the highjump with a leap of6'5", and then turned in a 42'9" triple jump to claim third place in that event. Even with these efforts, the outcome wasn't decided until the 4 X 400 meter relays were completed. When it was all over, the team of Rod Moore '88, Russ Alderson '89, Peter Ostrander '89, and Isaac finished with a time of3:23.40 to gain second place and clinch the championship.

The 1988 NESCAC championship title proved to be a fitting tribute to a host of seniors who were a part of the 1985 championship as freshmen. They started as champions and finished as champions.

Women's Track (6-2) The women's track and field team finished the 1988 season with a fine 6-2 ledger, marking the fourth consecutive winning season for the team and Head Coach Jim Foster. Following the regular season, the Lady Bants placed a respectable sixth at the NESCAC championships. The only blemishes on the Trinity record came against a powerful Williams team that pinned two

close losses on Trinity by scores of 105-102 and 75-55.

Trinity got out of the starting blocks quickly by defeating Westfield St. 10219, Coast Guard 102- 20, and Middlebury 102- 18 at the Westfield St. meet.

Although Trinity lost to Williams that day, the women picked up enough momentum to defeat Wesleyan in their next meet 78-66. Trinity was led by senior Co-captains Lucia Dow and Karen Sonnone. Dow took second in the 100- meter dash with a time of13.7, and then put on her weight shoes and captured third place with a toss of7.73 meters in the shot put. Sonnone, meanwhile, set a new school record in the hammer throw at 101 '8". In the distance events, senior Shana Pyun came through with a first-place showing in the 800 meters, while junior Gail Wehrli won the 3,000 meter.

Next, Trinity took on Connecticut College and rival Williams in a tri-meet.

Senior Leisl Griffith and junior Kay McGowan dominated the sprint events with first and third place finishes in the 100-meter dash, respectively. In the field events, Jen VanCampen took second in the shot put with a heave of 29'10", and freshman Chris Lindsay threw the javelin 89' 6" for first place.

Trinity's point total of 55 was enough to beat Connecticut College, but Williams proved too strong, defeating Trinity 75- 55.

The final meet of the year proved to be one ofTrinity's best. The Lady Bantams hosted W.P.I. and came away with a convincing 79-6 victory. In the sprints, McGowan was in top form with victories in both the 100- meter and 220-yard dashes. Junior Pat Taffuri ran a season best 1:00.4 to claim firstplace honors in the 400 meters. Taffuri also won the triple jump with a leap of 9.57 meters. Pyun and sophomore Brooke Raymond dominated the 800 meters, finishing first and second, respectively. In the distance events, Gail Wehrli had a strong day winning both the 1,500 and the 3,000. The top performance on the day, however, went to Sonnone who bettered her own school record in the hammer throw with a toss of113'7".

At the NESCAC championships, Trinity finished sixth in a field of eleven teams. Wehrli finished second in the 3,000 meters, but the big winners on the day proved to be Trinity's 4 X 100 relay team. The team of Alex Michos

'88, Dow, Taffuri, and McGowan blistered the track and easily took first place with a time of 51:4 7 seconds.

Baseball (12-14) The Trinity baseball team made great strides this past season, flirting with a .500 record before finishing with a 12- 14 mark. Head Coach Robie Shults was pleased considering the fact that the Bantams finished 7-14 the previous year, and lost their top pitcher Ed Butler '87 and top hitter Murphy Vandervelde '87 to graduation.

The Trinity nine began the season in Florida, and the sunshine and warm weather proved to the Bantams' liking.

Trinity jumped out to a 6- 2 record, the best start for a Trinity baseball team since the 1957 squad led by George Case '57 and Roger LeClerc '60 went 7-2 at the start of the season. The key to the Bants' early success was the strong pitching ofjunior trio Dave Fed.:. erman, Paul Stanton, and Dave Port. In the first eight games, they combined for a 5- 0 record and a 1.26 earned run average. In addition to the stingy pitching, Trinity displayed some offensive firepower. Led by the hot bats of senior Frank Bonomo and juniors Matt Miller and Jay Williamson, the Bantams took a double dipper from Williams by scores of 10- 7md 12-2, and then sandwiched wins over Southern Maine 9- 3 and Colby .11-10 around a 4- 7 loss to Hillsdale College.

The Colby game, in particular, was indicative of the Bantams' never-say-die attitude. Trinity faced a 7- 4 deficit with two on and two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. Sophomore right fielder J.P. Marra stepped to the plate and hit an inside the park home run to send the game into extra innings.

Things looked bleak for the Bantams again in the tenth, however, when Colby came up with three runs to go ahead 10- 7. Down but not out, Dave Starensier '88 led off the bottom of the tenth with a double to start another Trinity rally. After a walk to Bonomo and a run scoring single by Keith Lonergan '88, Miller hit a two-run double to knot the game at 10- 10. Two more walks loaded the bases for Marra, who promptly delivered again with a run scoring single to give Trinity an emotional 11-10 victory.

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Lisa Banks '90 prepares to throw out a Williams' base runner. Banks batted .396 and had a team high 28 RBI's.

Florida for the rest of the season. The Bantams came back north facing a very difficult schedule, and ultimately struggled to a 6-12 record that included five one-run losses. Even though wins were hard to come by, Trinity continued to play hard and came up with some outstanding individual and team efforts.

Dave Port held Wesleyan to one run on five hits and Miller hit a two-run double in a 2- 1 victory over the Cardinals.

Captain Jay Williamson almost single handedly beat Springfield with four hits, two doubles, and three RBis in an 8-5 w in. And finally, in the biggest win of the year, Trinity defeated national power Eastern Connecticut 3-2 behind the six-hit pitching of Port and a tworun home run by Keith Lonergan.

Williamson led Trinity in hitting with a .344 average and five home runs. He was nominated for All-New England honors as was Miller who batted .301 with 21 RBis and Port who finished with a 6- 2 record and an outstanding 2.67 earned run average. Coach Shults will lose only Bonomo to graduation.

His .319 bat and sure-handed glove at second base will be missed, but the Bantams have the makings of an exceptional team in the future.

Softball (13-4) Last year, the Trinity women's softball team breezed to an 11- 1 record and a relatively easy 7-2 victory over

Wheaton in the Northeast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship game. The 1988 season, however, proved to be more difficult as Trinity opponents sought to knock off the reigning champions in every game.

Trinity finished the regular season with a 13- 4 record and made a valiant effort to win second straight N.I.A.C. championship, but came up on the short end of a 10- 9 score against Tufts. Trinity forced the game into extra innings when junior Kathy Ennis scored from third on a passed ball to tie the game at eight all.

Tufts, however, put together two hits and two walks to take a 10-8 lead in the top of the eighth inning. Trinity narrowed the gap to 10- 9 when junior Karyn Farquhar singled and scored on an error, but with the bases loaded and two out, Ennis' line drive was flagged down by the left fielder to close out the game.

A loss in the championship game, however, cannot dampen an outstanding season that saw the Lady Bantams overcome adversity, injuries, and strong competition to earn a third straight N.I.A.C. playoffberth. Trinity opened the season with a double header against New England power Wheaton. The Lady Bantams behind the pitching of junior Leanne LeBrun and the hitting of senior Lisa Lake took the first game 6-0, but in a sign of things to come, a fired-up Wheaton came back to take the nightcap by the convincing margin of 9 to 1. A 3 7- 1 trouncing of Connecticut College was followed by a heartbreaking 5- 3 loss to eventual N.I.A.C. champion Tufts. Trinity led 3- 2 going into the final frame, but the Jumbos came up with 3 runs to beat the Lady Bants.

Mter four games and a 2- 2 record, Trinity had already lost more games than it had during the entire 1987 season. Undaunted, the Lady Bants regrouped and went on to win eleven of their final thirteen games. The offense reignited when Ennis came back from an injury and batted .333 in the lead- off spot. Meanwhile, the middle ofTrinity's line-up led by LeBrun, Lake, Farquhar, and Lisa Banks '90 started to drive in runs by the bunches. Trinity took a double header from Wesleyan by scores of 12- 0 and 27- 2, and followed that with a 2- 1 victory over Bates.

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In the first round of the playoffs, Trinity defeated Bates 7- 2 behind the two-hit pitching of LeBrun and hitting ofBanks who went 2 for 4 with 3 RBis. Although Trinity lost in the championship, Coach Miller is confident Trinity will challenge again in 1989. Trinity will have to do without the services of seniors Maria Ollari and Lisa Lake. Ollari has been the Captain of the team the past two seasons and a stalwart at the plate and at second base.

Lake meanwhile ranks as the top hitter in Trinity history after finishing the season with a .4 75 batting average.

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After losing' his top three attackmen and top six scorers from the 1987 team, Trinity lacrosse coach Mike Darr had some indication that the Bantams would have a difficult time finding the goal during the 1988 season. Predictably, a lack of scoring punch proved to be the Bantams' downfall as they finished with a 3- 8 record. Although it doesn't show up in the final record, Coach Darr was able to utilize his younger pl;1yers and by the end of the season, improved individual and team play was c;vident.

Trinity started the season strongly, winning its first two games in convincing fashion. The Bantams traveled to Florida to begin this season, and defeated Union 9- 5. After playing to a 4-4 halftime tie, Trinity outscored the Dutchmen 5-1 in the second half to win going away. Sophomore attackman Malcolm Miller scored 2 goals and 3 assists, while freshman attack John Francirri added 2 goals and an assist in his first varsity game. On defense, Trinity was paced by the tandem of senior Cocaptains Ian Beck and Dixon W axter. In the net, freshman Mark Tenerowicz stepped up to assume the goaltender position and was impressive against Union with 14 saves. Trinity's confidence and strong play followed them north. In the home opener against Connecticut College, it took freshman Francini less than

Co-captain Diane Christie '88 pressures the Connecticut College goaltender.

two minutes to assume the team scoring lead. He put Trinity up 2-0 and then added 2 more goals and 3 assists to lead the Bants to a 12- 9 victory. Although Francini went on to finish the season with a team leading 25 goals arid 14 assists, his anonymity in New England lacrosse circles was lost after the Connecticut College game.

From that point on the Trinity scoring attack suffered through a six-game scoring drought that saw the Bantams score no more than six goals in any one game. During that time, however, Trinity's younger players were developing rapidly and as their confidence grew, the team improved. Patience and perseverance finally paid off with a satisfYing 11-9 victory over New Haven.

Miller led the offense with 2 goals and 3 assists, while senior Rob Chace came through with 2 goals and an assist. Junior defenseman Rob McCool's skilled stick-work kept the New Haven attack offbalance throughout the game and enabled goalie Tenerowicz to make 11 easy saves in the net. In the next game, Trinity played Westfield St. even for sixty minutes only to lose 14-13 in overtime. Francini scored 5 goals and 2 assists for the Bantams, but it was Westfield's depth and experience that eventually made the difference. In the season finale, the Bantams took on highly ranked Bowdoin and had the Polar Bears on the ropes before succumbing by an 11-8 score.

Coach Darr will lose seniors Joe Madeira, Rob Chace, Ian Loring, Dixon W axter, Ian Beck, and Jim Stanley to , graduation, but with a wealth of young talent returnirlg, the Bantams should field a strong t~am during the 1989 season.

Women's Lacrosse (8-3) In 1987, the women's lacrosse team finished with an undefeated 10-0 record and its fourth Northeast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship in six years. Coach Robin Sheppard, however, lost no less than ten seniors from that team, and faced the difficult task of rebuilding the team for the 1988 season.

With only holdovers Ellie Pierce, Jen Brewster, Alyssa Kolowrat, Laura von Seldeneck, and Captain Diane Christie returning, many believed Trinity faced an uphill battle this year. Sheppard, however, did not amiss a 99-27-5 career record without knowing how to mold young players into confident collegiate athletes. The team eventually finished with an impressive 8-3 record and earned a berth to the playoffs for the seventh consecutive year.

The first game against Middlebury was indicative of the season that confronted the team. With Brewster, Pierce, and Kolowrat - three of the top six scorers in 1987 - returning to the attack, Sheppard knew Trinity would have a potent offense. The defense, on the other hand, had just one senior in von Seldeneck. Against Middlebury, these factors came into play as the Lady Bants simply outscored their opponents 18-15. The game was tied 10-10 at halftime, but Kolowrat, who scored 6 goals and 4 assists, led a second-half surge that propelled Trinity to victory.

The win marked another milestone in Coach Sheppard's career as she won her 1OOth game. Although the win over Middlebury gave Trinity some much needed confidence, the Lady Bantams still struggled in the early going. Mter a

lackluster 11-10 win over Connecticut College, Tufts got the better ofTrinity by a 15-5 score. Undaunted, Trinity regrouped and went on to win six of its next seven games. Included in that total were big wins over Wesleyan 19-13, Mt. Holyok~ 22-5, Smith 12- 10, Springfield 13- 4, Amherst 19- 7, and Holy Cross 23-5 . During that stretch, Ellie Pierce became Trinity's all-time leader in career goals, assists, and points, while Kolowrat broke the single game scoring mark with 9 goals and 5 assists against Amherst.

The tremendous play of the Lady Bantams down the stretch was rewarded with a berth to the E.C.A.C. championship tournament. Trinity was seeded third behind Tufts and Williams and drew Williams in the first round.

The Ephmen had defeated Trinity earlier by a slim 11-10 margin and the Lady Bants wanted to pay them back.

Mter fifty minutes of superb, back and forth action, the game ended in a dead tie at nine all. In the first of the two mandatory overtime periods, Trinity scored to go up 10- 9, but Williams came back in the second to score two goals and claim an 11-10 victory, ending the Bantams' title hopes.

Golf (0-7) The springtime sun didn't shine on the Trinity golf team this past season as the Bantams finished with a disappointing 0- 7 record. Trinity opened the season against a very strong W.P.I. team.

The Engineers from Worcester combined for an outstanding score of 416, while the Bantams had to use all of 450 strokes. In a tri-match with Wesleyan and Quinnipiac, Trinity made a strong effort only to come up on the short end of the stick. Led by junior Captain Andy Skolnick, Trinity made a late charge on the final nine, but still lost by just 3 strokes to Quinnipiac and 23 strokes to Wesleyan. Losses to Tufts and Holy Cross were followed by the closest match of the year versus Union.

The Bantams had the Dutchmen on the ropes, but could not keep them there in a narrow 467-469loss.

The most consistent Bantam golfers were Skolnick, freshman David Ells, and sophomores Ivan Heller, and Don Chassee. Coach Charlie Kohn, however, also received dedicated play from freshman David Ferris, sophomores

Woody Shipley and Andy Jen, ahd junior Ray Crosby. With eight solid players returning, Coach Kohn hopes to turn things around next year.

Men's Tennis (2-7)

pressive 4- 3 record at number four.

Trinity's top winner and team MVP was Chris Pouncey who had a 5-2 mark at number five. Gabriel rounded out the top six, and as a sophomore will be sure to move up the ladder next year.

Coach Cooke will have to part with seniors Rich Fogarty, Martin, Petricoff, and Van't Hof, but with a solid underclass led by Johnson, Barlow, and Pouncey, the Bantams are sure to improve in the future.

After an 0-5 start, the men's tennis team demonstrated its. determination and desire by winning two of its final four matches. Although the Bantams struggled in the won-lost column, Head Crew Coach Sasha Cooke was pleased with the team's overall progress. With four of The Trinity crew team surpassed all the top six players returning, Coach expectations during the regular season Cooke should have ai} improved, veteran team next year. and at the Dad Vail national championStaunch competition and disappointship in Philadelphia. The varsity lightweights finished the regular season with ing losses dominated the first half of the an undefeated 7-0 record, while the season. Following a 6- 3 loss to the heavyweights had an impressive 6- 1 University of Connecticut in the season ' mark. The varsity women, meanwhile, opener, Trinity suffered two heartfinished in the middle of the pack with a breaking defeats to the University of Hartford 5- 4 and Amherst 5-4. Against 5-3 record, but went on to capture a medal at the Dad Vail. In a field of Amherst, Trinity trailed 4-2 going into the doubles competition. Doubles was ninety-five other competing schools at Trinity's strong suit throughout the sea- the Dad Vail, Trinity was just ~me of son, and the tandems ofBryanJohnson three schools to place a boat in all three '89 and Dave Van't Hof'88 along with of the varsity finals. It was the underdog Jamie Gabriel '90 and Chris Pouncey varsity women that went on to win a medal for the second straight year with '90 quickly tied the match at 4-4. The match came down to the final contest of a second-place showing in the finals. the day which proved to be a three-setThe varsity heavies, powered by ter with two tie-breakers. Eventually, senior Co-captains Art Muldoon and Sandy Thomas, had an outstanding seathe Amherst team defeated the Trinity son. What the team lacked in size, it combo of Andrew Petricoff and Peter made up for with strength and endurBarlow in what Coach Cooke termed as "the most exciting tennis I've ever ance. The boat opened the season with seen." After losses to M.I.T. 7- 2 and six straight victories before losing to Williams in the season finale. Highlights Tufts 6-3, the Trinity netmen gained on the season included victories over their first victory with a 6-0 whitewashing of rival Wesleyan. In the final rivals Coast Guard, Georgetown, and ' match of the season, the Bantams scored Wesleyan.

In the Dad Vail competition, Trinity a satisfying 6- 3 win over Holy Cross.

Bryan Johnson got Trinity going with a advanced to the semifinals by winning victory at number one. Other winners their heat over Georgetown. In the on the day included Van't Hof at numsemis, the Bantams rowed a "delightful race," according to Head Coach Burt ber three, Gabriel at number four, and Apfelbaum, taking second behind pesenior Amani Martin at number five. It was the doubles team ofBarlow and rennial-power Temple. Trinity's time Gabriel, however, that clinched the seaof 5:45 semifinals also bested Williams' clocking of5:53, avenging to some deson-ending victory for the Bants. gree the Bants' lone loss in the regular There was strong competition within the ladder throughout the season and season. In the finals, Coach Apfelbuam Coach Cooke moved players in and out explained that "Florida Institute of of the lineup. Johnson was consistently Technology and Temple were clearly the fastest boats, and Trinity never got the top player for the Bantams at number one. Captain Andrew Petricoff was into the race." Trinity finished a disappointing sixth, but that could not the team's emotional leader at number two. Peter Barlow held down the third dampen a successful season and a bright slot, while V an't Hof compiled an imfuture.

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The lightweights had experience on their side with seniors Tim Connor, Mike Rorick, Jay Blum, Eric Beatty, and Charles V alentincic tugging the oars for Coach Apfelbaum. The Bantams were consistently ranked in the top five nationally, and demonstrated their prowess with victories over Coast Guard, Tufts, Georgetown, and Wesley an. In Philadelphia, the Bantams recorded the fastest time of the day while winning their first-round heat. They were equally impressive in winning their semi- final over Coast Guard and Western Ontario. Those two wins, however, took a toll on the Trinity oarsmen, and they slipped to fifth place in the finals.

After a 2-2 start at the beginning of the season, no one expected the varsity women to win three straight and then capture second place at the Dad Vail.

Strengthened by the fine rowing of Cocaptains Jennifer James and Elizabeth O'Brien and the diligent efforts of women's coach Stacey Apfelbaum, the women's eight regained its form after a slow start to record consecutive victories over Wesleyan, Connecticut College, and Ithaca. One of the many highlights on the season was the victory over Wesleyan. Trinity not only knocked a 10-0 Wesleyan tearri from the ranks of the unbeaten, but the victory gave the Bantams a clean sweep of the varsity competition on the day.

At the Vail, Trinity started in lackluster fashion with a second-place finish in their opening heat. True to form, however, the Lady Bants followed that cold performance with a blistering semi-final run. The University of Minnesota quickly took charge in the finals with Navy second and Trinity a dose third.

Navy led Trinity over virtually the entire course, but the Lady Bants made a late surge to catch and then pass the midshipmen with their final two strokes.

1988 marked the third time in five years that the Trinity crew team has reached the national finals in all three varsity events. This achievement is a fitting tribute to the long, hard hours put in by the team and Coaches Burt and Stacey Apfelbaum.

SPRING SCOREBOARD BASEBALL (12- 14) Atnherst Kalamazoo Blackburn Williams Williams Southern ME. Hillsdale Colby Wesleyan Coast Guard Coast Guard Williams Wesleyan Wesleyan W.P.I. Atnherst Tufts Tufts A. I. C. Springfield Nichols Nichols Eastern Conn.

Colby Bowdoin Bowdoin

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SOFTBALL (13-4) Wheaton Wheaton Conn. College Tufts Wesleyan Wesleyan Bates Coast Guard Clark Clark Wesleyan Williams Williams Mt. Holyoke Smith Bates* Tufts**

6-0 1- 9 37- 1 3-5 12-0 27-2 2- 1 9-4 3- 2 6-9 22-9 11-0 12-2 10-0 4-0 7-2 9-10

W-TRACK (6-2) Westfield Coast Guard Middlebury Williams Wesleyan Williams Conn. College W.P.I.

102- 19 102-20 102- 18 102-105 78-66 55-75 55-50 79-6

M-TRACK (8-2) Westfield Coast Guard

79- 81 79-64

79- 28 79-40 98- 56 107-44 107-42 51-38 51-41 51-76

Middlebury Williams Wesleyan Williams Conn. College Coast Guard Tufts W.P.I.

M-LACROSSE (3-8) Union 9- 5 Conn. College 12- 9 Tufts 5- 8 Springfield 5-17 M.I.T. 6-10 Atnherst 4- 9 Williams 4-12 Wesleyan 5- 6 New Haven 11-9 Westfield St. (OT)13-14 Bowdoin 8-11 W-LACROSSE (8-3) Middlebury Conn. College Tufts Wesleyan Mt. Holyoke Smith Springfield Williams Atnherst Holy Cross Williams@

18-15 11-10 5- 15 19-13 22-5 12- 10 13- 4 10-11 19- 7 23-5 (OT)10-11

GOLF (0-7) W.P.I. Wesleyan Quinnipiac Tufts HolyCross Union Williams

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MEN'S TENNIS (2-7) UCONN UHartford Atnherst M .I.T. Tufts Wesleyan Williams Conn. College Holy Cross

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NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

PRESIDENT'S REPORT

Theodore Levitt in his book, The Marketing Imagination, says that in order to be successful today you have to be perceived as being better or different, hopefully both. Indeed, heightened competition, both domestic and international, inundates all endeavors today.

Trinity College is not insulated from the heightening of competition when it comes to educating the youth of America. In fact, the year 1987- 88 from a college admissions standpoint was deemed by many to be one of the most competitive years in the history of the process. Obviously, the continuing journey to make Trinity a better place goes on, and may be more important now than ever before.

will be furthered markedly by talented Trinity graduates nationwide supporting the admissions process in meaningful fashion.

Issues currently before the Executive Committee of the National Alumni Association include the following:

1. The Alumni Fund is having another banner year.

We continue to monitor performance and offer ways in which we can support the continued healthy development of the Alumni Fund.

I am forever impressed by the positive comments I receive from outsiders when the subject of Trinity comes up. Typically the observations are general: "It's a great place," or, "What a wonderful school."

When you actually try to pinpoint why, it's difficult to answer. In fact, the true fabric at Trinity College is made up of many good things: faculty, students, administration, athletics, social contributions to the surrounding community, and yes, alumni. You and I have a vital role in Trinity's image as well. If the result is the measure, then quality graduates, i.e., alumni, are the final result of all Trinity labors upon which the institution will be ultimately judged.

2. Nominating procedures for Alumni Trustee and new members of the Executive Committee have been restructured and redefined. Presentation of the new procedure for Alumni Trustee was presented to the Board of Trustees ou May 21st.

In July David Borus will join the College .as its Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid. This will be the first time a full Dean has held responsibility for both Admissions and Financial Aid. This will also be the first time Trinity's head of admissions has been invited to attend Trustee meetings. Indeed the quality ofTrinity's future graduates will depend primarily upon the quality of its admissions process. It is for this reason that the National Alumni Association next year, in support of David Borus, will make development of our alumni admissions support process its highest priority. A network of dedicated alumni throughout the country - properly prepared and supported to communicate Trinity's message to prospective freshman - is vital to the continuing success of our adrrusslons progam.

4. Work has already begun on the upcoming Leadership Conference. Tentative dates are October 7- 8.

More on this later.

If, as many believe, admissions at Trinity is becoming more of a marketing assignment, then our effectiveness in being perceived as being "better or .different"

3. Significant progress has been made in the finalization of plans for the Alumni/FacultyHouse. Substantial financial support has already been secured, and it appears that the House is on its way to becoming a firm reality for all of us.

As I close out my first of two years as President of the National Alumni Association, it is clear to me that one of our key functions is to serve as a positive instrument for the College as it strives to remain among the nation's top quality institutions. We have a check and balance function too: we need to speak up on issues when called to do so.

Let me hear from you. Your comments and questions are welcome. Thanks for listening.

RoBERT E. BrucKLEY

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CLASS NOTES

1976 Beckwith B. and TERESA BLAKE MILLER, son, Charles Andrew, June 21, 1987 PAUL and Janet SACHS, daughter, Rachel Vanessa (Rachel Zahava), January 10, 1988 1978 Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD GOSS, son, Geoffrey, December 13, 19.87 1979 Jeffrey and VIVIAN APT DISBROW, son, Brian Rex, March 14, 1988

VITAL STATISTICS ENGAGEMENTS 1978 GEOFFREY P. LEONARD and Sandy S. Simmons 1981 CYNTHIA D. BLAKELEY and Allen E. Tuilos 1982 DIANE P. BELTZ and Bruce M. Jacobson ROBERT P. LEAVIT'.I,' and Donna Fisher 1983 DAVID E. WALKER and LisaJ. Amoroso 1984-1985 W. TOWNSEND ZIEBOLD, JR., and JULIE B. BREENE 1986 SAMUEL D. DAUME, JR. and CATHERINE C. FLYNN 1986-1987 ALEXANDRA T. STEINERT and SCOTT C. EVOY

1980 MICHELLE HERRERA and Charles Foster, September 12,1987 1981 PAUL F. ROMANO and Elisabeth C. Warner, December 26, 1987 STEPHEN M. SPENCER and Anna Maria LaMonika, August 23, 1987 1982 JAMES H. CALLAHAN III and Patricia A. Mayo, January 4, 1988 LUCIDA J. DIMARIA and Michael A. DeLorenzo, December 12, 1987 DANA GIDDINGS and PaulS. Haught, October 23, 1987 MARCIA J. HELIN and Thomas A. McDermott, Jr., May 7, 1988

1957 MICHAEL A. LEVIN >and Regina Boone 1968 PAUL H. JONES and Margaret E. Goodrum, May 7, 1988 1971 LOUISE B. RISKIN and Eugene F. Messinger, April30, 1988 1975 JAMES G. KIRSCHNER and Janet S. Sumers, November 8, 1987 1977 JEANNE L. HOM and Vincent P. Tong, September 6, 1987 1979 GARY SAVADOVE and Meredith Mon· talbi:mo, October, 1987

1981 PETER J. and Teresa COUGHLAN, son, David, May 23, 1987 David and MARIAN DAVIS PIERCE, son, Daniel John, January 31, 1988 1981-1982 PETER and ~HARON SAUL BAIN, daughter, Willoughby English, December 15, 1987 1985 Mr. Conticello and LAURA ALDERSON CONTICELLO, son, Ryan~ June 12, 1987

1983 THOMAS G. LEE and Anna T. Petite, February 20, 1988 1984 REBECCA TEXTER and Joseph Arlan" skas, June 4, 1988 1985 MARY C. REILLY and Anson B. Mooney, May 7, 1988 1986 CLINT CHAMBERLIN and Donna Lantendresse, December 26, 1987

BIR1HS WEDDINGS

1980 David C. and DAPHNE FULLERTON CHURBUCK, daughter, Alexandra Rutherford, March 10, 1988 Andrew and BETTY WALLACE• CORTY, son, Robert Wallace, DecemberS, 1987 ·

1965 Mr. and Mrs. DAN C. SWANDER, son, David Lawrence, April 8, 1988 1970 HUGO J. and Shih-Mei LUKE, son, Andrew Shane, March 19, 1988 1972 - M.A. 1985 CHARLES J. and SARA BUNNELL YEAGER, son, Robert Martin, February 27, 1988 1973 Joel and SUSAN BRECHLIN IVERS, da!Jghter, Allison Hope, December 31, 1987 Mr. and .Mrs. STERLING S. REESE, son, Sterling Yancy, January 14, 1988 1975 Ian Reid and WENDY R. WHEELER, daughter, Emily Claire Reid, January 26, 1988

The April 13 edition of The Hartford Courant featured a full-page article titled "Extraordinary People . . . 1988 Leaders in Voluntarism." The article stated, ''For most of his 90 years, MEL TITLE has been extending a hand to others. As a lad during the depression of 1907, he used to hand out food from the rear of his father's clothing store. The good works he has performed over the decades span diverse spheres. He was founding president of the Hartford Jewish Community Center and president of Trinity College's board of fellows and the Hartford Jewish Federation. He has been on the boards of the YMCA, United Way, Fairfield Hospital, and Jewish Welfare Board. For nearly 60 years he has·served on the Mount Sinai Hospital Bo&rd. Mel has left an enduring imprint on the community through his voluntarism." Congratulations, Mel! Your Ahna Mater salutes you.

Class Agent: Louisa Pinney Barber

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James A. Calano 35 White St. Hartford, CT 06114

I had a pleasant phone conversation with CONNIE GESNER on April 9 and learned that he was the voluntary chaplain of the Dow-Rummel Village in Sioux Falls, SD, a community of retirees. The good bishop has always been generous with his services. Claudia was making

preparations for a two-week trip to France with Dr. and Mrs. Turner of Longmeadow, MA. You will recall that the Gesners resided several years in Longmeadow before returning to Sioux Falls. Claudia is a fluent conversationalist in the French language.

On April 8 I attended a concert of singing groups at Mather Hall sponsored by the Trinity Club of Hartford. Participants were the Williams Octet, the Shwiffs of Connecticut College, the Spare Parts (unaffiliated) and the Trinity Pipes, now integrated by coeds who looked pretty cute to me! All performed excellently but give me back that splendid chapel quartet of FREDDY BOWDIDGE, SYD and ERNIE CULLUM and PAUL PARSONS '18, a member of the faculty. When they sang "Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost," the heavens resounded with their beautiful blend of rich baritone and sweet tenor voices.

Class Agent: Sereno B. Gammell

Winthrop H. Segur Park Ridge, Apt. 516 1320 Berlin Tpke.

Wethersfield, CT 06109 It is with the most profound regret that I have to pass on to you that we have lost another member of our 1927 Class.

FRANK BLOODGOOD passei! on last month after a long bout wiph health problems (see In MIWWI'y). Only the loving care of his wife and family eased him into his final rest. Suffice it to state that we'll miss him but retain memories of him as we tender condolences to his family.

ROGER HARTT advises he received a nice note from Priscilla, wife of the REV. BOB CONDIT, now at Kalker Road, Ticonderoga, NY 12883, to the effect that Bob wanted to pass on to Roger thanks for taking over the Class Agent!s job.

Things in general are not. too good with Bob, but Priscilla seems to be in good control and I'm sure we all hope that everything works out okay.

So for now let's turn to something a little brighter. Finally spring has arrived in Connecticut and the East Coast. Perhaps you are standing in a lush green fairway wondering if a six iron is enough to get to the green, or would a five be better. Perhaps the five wood you purchased last year would be the answer if only you could keep it straight. Whatever your decision, we hope it works out . as well as your previous decision to send at least a little bit of something to the Alumni Fund prior to June 30 so Roger can attain his goal of 100 percent participation of the 1927 Class.

Class Agent: Roger Hartt

Julius Smith, D.M.D. 142 Mohawk Dr. West Hartford, CT 06117 YOUR SECRETARY and Lillian just returned from wintering in FlQrida. No Trinity news there so we returned to the College and found no 1932 news there either.

Hartford is booming, Trinity is blooming - please write.

Class Agent: Nathaniel Abbott

We extend our sympathy to the family of JACK SHARKEY who died on March 6 (see In Memory).

Class Agent: Thomas S. Wadlow Charles A. Tucker, M.D. 7 Wintergreen Ln. West Hartford, CT 06117 ED CRAIG plans to return to Trinity with his wife, Jane, to attend the graduation of his granddaughter. She is the fifth member of Ed's family covering three generations, and the first female.

She is graduating with honors. Congratulations to all are certainly in order.

GRAHAM DAY and his wife, Katie, enjoyed a month-and-a-half of Florida weather at Vero Beach during February and March. They took part in a "minireunion" at the home of BILL BAUER '37 along with Betsy and BRYANT GREEN. DOUGLAS GLADWIN lives in retirement in Park Rapids, MN where the "temperature warms up to zero degrees F . by noontime." This past winter was especially cold. During one spell of 43 days the temperatw·e was below zero at night on 22 occasions, reaching as low as - 30 degrees. Doug keeps fit by taking brisk two-mile walks daily which is in keeping with his being a former distance runner on Trin's track team.

DONALD DUMONT, after a long and distinguished career with the foreign service of the State Department, enjoys retirement with his wife, Marie, in their beautiful home on the lie de Goree located off the coast of French West Africa. One of three sons, Patrick, is managing director for Nestle in Zimbabwe. Another, Phillippe, who is a lawyer, is affiliated with an agro-chemical firm in France. And a third, Cedric, an infectious disease specialist, recently became the Peace Corps physician for Senegal and other neighboring republics.

We received a "thank you" by way of a very interesting letter from the recipient of the 1934 scholarship fund, Ms. Michelle Monti '89. If she is a fair sample of the type of student that Trinity is enrolling, the prospect for continued excellence on the hill is assured.

JOHN KELLY is a continuing source of Class information and YOUR CORRESPONDENT wishes that there were many more like him. We welcome any and all news.

We note with sadness the passing of DOUG GAY, majority owner ofWLEXTV in Lexington, KN. Doug was a loyal Trinity alumnus.

Class Agent: John E. Kelly

William H. Walker 97 West Broad St. Hopewell, NJ 08525 ORSON HART reports that he is retired (or largely so) and is just taking it easy in New Canaan, CT. He promises to report promptly on anything interesting that happens to him.

BOB RODNEY writes that his family is running in cycles for three genera-

tions. Bob, now retired, completed 40 years ofteaching at various colleges and universities; his son, ROB '62, has been teaching history for 15 years at Westminster School in Simsbury, where he recently won a distinguished teacher award; and a grandson, DAVID '85, begins teaching physics at a California prep school. Trinity facu1ty must have been a seductive influence! Bob's working on the completion of a fourth study of Mark Twain and beginning another book have kind of removed him from vacations, particu1arly in the East and Hartford.

DONALD G. HURD died on October 28, 1987 at his home in Whittier, CA at the age of 75 (see In Memory). He had lived in Whittier since 1953 and for many years had been owner of Hw-d' s Custom Framing. He is survived by his wife, Jessica; a son, Peter, of Newark, CA; and five grandchildren. A daughter, Nancy, preceded him in death. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Jessica and her family.

Class Agent: John J. Maher

Robert M. Christensen 66 Centerwood Rd. Newington, CT 06111 Wow! Did I have a response to my appeal for news from you fellows! It may take a few issues to cover it all, so please be patient with me.

BOB McKEE reports success on his program, started at age 70, to retire after another five years. It all started three years ago. His industrial real estate brokerage activity from Pasadena, CA, has enabled him to stick to his plan, and still allow him and the Mrs. to enjoy cruises to the Baltic, trips to Leningrad, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, Hawaii, and a few Mexican and Canadian ports. Remember Bob's propensity for music? He has two daughters who are accomplished singers. One is married to a broker and has homes in Hartford and London; the other, to a physicist at Texas Instruments, living in Dallas. That is a nice success story.

J.C. HUREWITZ (M.A. 1937 and Ph.D. 1950, Columbia), Jay to his mates at Trinity, but JC to some, completed research, via a Ford Foundation grant, at the Public Record Office, London, for a book on British and French withdrawal from the Middle East and North Africa; he also lectured in Egypt under USIS auspices on current crises in the region.

Jay retired in 1985 as professor of government and director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia U., having spent his professional career specializing in Middle East studies and policy, and having published numerous books and articles on that area of the world and on U.S. foreign policy. In retirement, his hobbies include research and writing, organizing international conferences and seminars, overseas travel, serving as consultant to government and others, and even weekending in Westport, CT, which is home beach. Maybe that is the nicest hobby of all.

DOLPH HOEHLING writes that HANK LITTELL dropped in one night in March, and he looked much like he did "when Prexy Ogilby handed him that rolled up piece of paper." Dolph is still in the book selling business, as he puts it.

He is probably the most prolific book publisher in our Class, though Jay -par-

agraph above - sounds like a possible rival. Dolph has at least 22 to his credit, mostly about the sea and many about war. His first, The Last Days of the Lusitania (World War I, if you do notrecall), was in print for some 25 years, and has been translated into some five foreign languages. Dolph was editor, Congressional Service, in 1936. Not sw-e whether he still holds that position, but he is now proud to have two new contracts for books. One is on the Civil War at sea, and will feature some strange happenings; "the other - would you believe it - first person, yow-s truly, on my misbegotten career in the Navy, WW II, of course." The subject will be the Merchant Marine, because Dolph was gunnery officer on merchant ships.

We hear from ROGER MOTTEN that his wife, Marjorie, died in 1986. He married his second wife, Doris, on February 6, 1988, and they reside at 1471 Baton Drive, Deltona, FL. And from GATCH GEARE, a note that he and his bride of 49 years, having moved from the mountains of western Maryland to the shores of the Chesa· peake, are building their dream house on Gibson Island, where they have given up sailing their ketch in favor of a trawler.

As Gatch says, "Old sailers never die they just trawl away."

Class Agent: John G. Hanna Michael J. Scenti · 225Amherst Wethersfield, CT 06109 I received a letter from JOE GRECO saying that he was sorry to have missed our reunion. He was caring for his wife, Geraldine, who passed away last October in a nursing home after a very long illness. Joe and Geraldine were at Hickam Field, December 7, 1941, where Joe was stationed as a fighter pilot, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field. Geraldine's illness was due in large measw-e to the horrors she endured that day and for the ensuing 30 days. She was the sister of the late JAMES BROUGHEL. I sincerely hope that you will make every effort to attend Half Century Club Dinner on June 9.

Class Agent: William G. Hull

James M.F. Weir 27 Brook Rd. Woodbridge, CT 06525 In March The REV. CANON ARTHUR M. SHERMAN, Dean of the School of Christian Studies in Lancaster, PA, presented the Duane Moyer Lecture on "Pastoral Care and Healing" at the Evangelical School of Theology in Myerstown, P A. Class Agent: Lewis M. Walker

Edward C. Barrett 52 Sowams Rd. Barrington, RI 02806 Our hearty congratu1ations and good wishes to GEORGE SMITH as he celebrates two memorable anniversaries 45 years in the service of his church and

45 years of wedded bliss.

Class Agent: Ethan F. Bassford

Dr. Richard K. Morris 214 Kelsey Hill Rd. Deep River, CT 06417 The Class of 1940 has lost its chief spokesman, its steward, its mentor, its most enthusiastic supporter, and the College has lost one of its most faithfu1 alumni with the passing of HERBERT R. BLAND (see In Memory). There can be no replacement, no substitute, no match for the role Herb played among us. His gentle gruffness, his humor, his generosity, and above all, his courage, are a legacy we will not forget. His wish should be our command: that we stay ever closer together. It is appropriate that we name brave Dottie Bland an honm·ary member of the Class of 1940.

Attending the memorial service for Herb, held at St. John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford, CT on 16 April 1988, were the following members of the Class: DR. GUSTAVE ANDRIAN, THOMAS McLAUGHLIN, DR. RICHARD K. MORRIS and STEPHEN M. RILEY, ESQ., and their wives, Peggy, Doris, Alice and Irene, respectively.

AL HOPKINS and his wife, Jean, among Herb Bland's closest friends, happened to be on vacation at the "villa" in the Carolinas and could not be reached in time for them to attend the memorial service in West Hartford.

Emeritus professor Gus Andrian and his wife, PEGGY (M.A. '66) spent two weeks in Florida last spring.

Steve Riley has made a remarkable recover~ from recent heart bypass surgery.

Dick Morris reports his near completion of a biography of Captain ADRIAN K. LANE '41.

Class Agent: Stephen Riley, Esq.

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Frank A. Kelly, Jr. 21 Forest Dr. Newington, CT 06111

JOHN CARPENTER, described by the Burlington (VT) Free Press as "the man who set the pace for bank marketing in northern New England," retired in late December from Chittenden Trust Company after 20 years' service. He was guest of honor at a gigantic retirement party featuring tributes from his many admirers, who included Governor Kunin. In his response John said that from now on it wou1d be ''golf, tennis and such a thing as doing nothing." One of the guests expressed the consensus of those present (as well as John's classmates not present) when he said, "I bet he doesn't have any enemies in the world."

DON DAY wrote from Vero Beach, FL where he and Tay have been spending the winter. He expressed disappointment that none of his classmates volunteered any information in response to the letter he sent out as Class Agent.

I share his disappointment, since the silence of most of our classmates suggests that they would have found their true vocations in a Trappist monastery. But his letter had one pleasant resu1t: a visit from DON WALSH, who lives in Melbourne, FL. Don has had his share of troubles in a long struggle against throat

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cancer. Happily, all has been well for the past five years and he has been able to enjoy an active retirement, much of it on the golf course.

Other classmates enjoying the good life at Vero Beach include LOU BUCK and BILL OLIVER. Don has played bridge with GENE HUNGERFORD and his wife. Gene is professor emeritus of nuclear engineering, Purdue University.

The Days plan to leave Florida on May 1 to return to Connecticut. Their sense of timing with respect to weather would appear to be excellent.

PAUL HOYLEN writes from Deming, NM: "Am enjoying the 'Golden Retirement Years.' Manage to keep quite busy with very part-time work. Also play trumpet in a brass group. It is fun. We like living in Deming with its ideal climate and relaxed attitude. Not too far from West Coast. Sometimes miss Connecticut."

We have recently lost another classmate: JOE CLAPIS, who had retired as chief statistician for the Connecticut De· partment of Mental Health (see In Memory). Our sympathy goes out to his wife, Margaret, and to his eight children.

Class Agent: Donald J. Day

John R. Barber 4316 Chambers Lake Dr. Lacey, WA 98503

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JOHN CHURCHILL, M.D., who seems to be not quite retired in Johnson City, TN, writes "I think I am sorry I bought the Alumni Directory . . . because of a goof they made re my company to which I responded as follows: 'My company you cite as Poxipest what· ever that is. It should have been Toxi Test which clearly implies tests for poisons. It is plain to see you don't know the difference between T and P. A pox and also the plague (pest) on youl' " Heck, John, why not take the hint and become an exterminator. The bugs down in those hills don't know about malpractice insurance. (By the way, John was my Jarvis roommate freshman year.

Glad to see his sense of humor has lasted - he volunteered permission to quote thisl) .

Hams of note: I've had some nice chats on the amateur radio with two classmates: DON VINCENT, a retired life insurance vice president (INA of Phila· delphia, now part of CIGNA) lives in his native area of New Hartford, NY; also rusticates in season at his Adirondack retreat. He's married, with a son and daughter, and two grandchildren. My wife, Ruth, also a "ham," and I hope to see the Vincents in September at the hobby's national convention in Portland, OR. KEN ALBRECHT's youthful voice came through loud and clear from · Broaddus in east Texas. The energetic Ken was lying low at home for a day or two awaiting some elective surgery. He's usually on the job doing hospital administration in San Augustine, TX. Ken and Beverly sold out of the innkeeper business in 1986 and have moved from Kansas back to their favorite piney woods country. All this ongoing activity hasn't stopped him from acquiring three daughters, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren] Are there any challengers to this record?

During our "ragchews" Ken spoke of his enjoyable visit to Mayor FRANK F ASI in Honolulu a few years back. We note from the media that Frank is still shaking things up in the Islands; lately his concern has been with excessive buyup of Hawaiian property by foreigners . I wish Frank good luck on that.

BILL MIDDLEBROOK has moved to balmy Naples, FL. However, Bill and Marilyn may still be found in the summer months at their Lake Winnipesaukee home in Moultonboro, NH. FRANC LADNER, a longtime Cape Codder, reports from Orleans, MA that he and Liz have three daughters and five grandkids, with only one daughter having escaped west to live in California.

Franc, a hobbyist/dealer in antique toys, lends his erudition as a volunteer at the local library, and furnishes his business acumen (free?) at book sales.

Again, fellows, YOUR CLASS SECRETARY would welcome news of your activities or lack of same. Please write before I have to call!

Class Agent: Charles F. Johnson II

John L. Bonee, Esq. One State St. Hartford, CT 06103 The 45th Reunion efforts produced some inter.esting correspondence from various classmates, some of which YOUR SECRETARY thinks you will find of interest.

The REV. JARVIS BROWN, who has been supervisor of Advocacy Section/ Aging for the Los Angeles County Department Commission and Senior Citizens Services, writes as follows: "We're getting excited. You've been around for 40 years. For us it's a first. The Reunion.

They say, 'You can't go back.' I look forward to trying. I have great memories of Trinity. It was a formative period, a spe· cia! time. I've learned and experienced a lot of things since, but Trinity was a base foundation that didn't crack. 'A Trinity man is at his best under stress and strain.' I'm sure you've traversed a few stress experiences and made it well. Am I having fun now! Retirement/reception in 23 days. My boss doesn't have a successor for me yet so we agreed that I'd train him and act as his consultant for these next three weeks. Already he's getting assignments he can't handle yet and is coming begging saying 'Jarvis, would you please do this one immediately. It's an emergency.' I've been worki!)g steadily for 53 years (since doorto-door SatEvePost sales for a nickel and delivering groceries on a bike and every summer of school at work) and am ecstatic about being able to say 'Tetelestai' (it is finished) shortly. Tomorrow we have a dozen problems to face but the stress is off. My Korean worker can't be there for the Forum Luncheon for 250 people who are coming, some of whom are Japanese, some Korean, Vietnamese, Samoan, Chinese. He's 73 and has a noncancellable doctor's appointment. But he's arranged to have translators in three different language groups to substitute.

My other workers will welcome Poles, Russians, Armenians, Latinos. The cultures I'll miss here in largely homogeneous Fullerton. On the bus home tonight, though, (I take the AMTRAK to and

from work daily and ride a bus the last two miles home) I noticed that directions are in three languages now: two being Spanish and Vietnamese. They call nearby Garden Grove 'Little Saigon,' near where Schuller's Crystal Cathedral is."

DICK COBB, who continues to be active as a manufacturer's representative, writes to me from San Francisco as follows: ''Been living in San Francisco with wife Barbara since the Korean Conflict.

Had been C.O. of a Coast Guard cutter in Long Beach, CA and returned to inactive status. Made the choice not to return to Boston, but to live in my wife's hometown, San Francisco. Was thinking retirement, but having the best of two worlds as a manufacturer's representative - was asked to stay another two years. One of our lines, Watts Mfg. Co., is owned by TIM HORNE '59. Had a 30foot ketch on San Francisco Bay for twenty years. Sold it and play lots of golf instead. Found it cheaper and easier to handle. We have a Presidio Golf Course that provides plenty of exercise when you walk 18 holes. We take two vacations each year - one to Hawaii and the other to the East Coast to visit some of our kids - Toronto, Canada and Boston, MA. Have been Class Agent (1939) for our group at Tabor Academy, so make the scene about every other year. Now, putting together a 50th Reunion for our old crew in Henley, England July 1, 1989.

We fly over and spend time at the Henley Regatta - another week in London- then home on the QEII. We won in 1939! Well, John, please give my best to our classmates and maybe we can make it for the 50th.''

MarkW.Levy 290 North Quaker Ln. West Hartford, CT 06119 CHARLES WALKER regrets to say that he lost his son, Wade, restaurateur extraordinaire, of Willimantic, CT, to cancer in November 1987 at the age of 37. His restaurant, C.W. Walker's, continues under the able direction of his widow, Lisa Dumas Walker. Wade is also survived by a son, Charles Wade Walker IV, who is 11.

Class Agents: Siegbert Kaufmann Andrew W. Milligan David J. Kazarian, Esq. Irving J. Poliner Charles I. Tenney, CLU Charles I. Tenney & Assoc.

6 Bryn Mawr Ave. Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 YOUR SECRETARY is a director of the Navy League and recently flew back by chopper from the U.S.S. Independence on their aircraft trials.

In March ALBERT KING was accepted as an associate of the Society of St. Francis (Episcopal).

Class Agent: Joseph A. DeGrandi, Esq.

Robert Tansill 270 White Oak Ridge Rd. Short Hills, NJ 07078 FRANK PATTERSON, with Cross and Brown for 31 years, is now manag· ing 660 Madison, 640 and 552 Fifth Avenue for Metropolitan Life which owns these buildings in New York City.

FRANCIS AUSTIN of Wethersfield recently attended a management training academy for executives of Civitan International in Birmingham, AL. He is governer-elect of the New England district. Civitan works with the mentally retarded and physically handicapped.

Conversations with Edward Albee is the title of a new book edited by Philip C. Kolin in which ED mentions Trinity a good number of times in the interviews when asked about his education.

JOHN BLAKE retired last June after 37 years with Travelers, and Phoenix: Insurance Company, which they bought in 1968. John is in the process of selling his condo and buying an R.V. to travel the country and look for a place to settle down. John will get in touch with classmates along the way and expects to return for our 40th Reunion in 1990.

Class Agent: John G. Grill, Jr.

F. Bruce Hinkel 15 Woodcrest Dr. New Providence, NJ 07974 JOHN F. KLINGLER, an English teacher at Simsbury High School, is one of 18 Connecticut school teachers who have received the "excellence in teaching" award this year from the Connecticut Alumni Association. Congratulations, John, on your achievement.

ROBERT H. WILSON, JR. has retired and is living in Sun City, AZ. I am very light on cards and letters this trip. I know that there is interesting news out there so send in all your items to JERRY HANSEN's Alumni and College Relations Office - don't delay.

Class Agents: James B. Curtin, Esq. David F. Edwards

Douglas C. Lee Box3809 Visalia, CA 93278

A February 8, 1988 article in The Hartford Courant described the unique organization of Resource Investors Management Co. of Avon, CT. Instead of a chief executive office or president, the company is managed by five partners, one of whom is JOHN B. PARSONS. Class Agents: William M. Vibert Nicholas J. Christakos Anthony W. Angelastro

Paul A. Mortell 757B Quinnipiac Ln. Stratford, CT 06497 ROBERT SMITH has been promoted to executive vice president of the Chase

WOOD had a rare treat, he was invited onto a modern, in-service, atomic submarine, the USS St. Louis. He is evidently one of the few civilians ever to do this.

Class Agents: Richard S. Stanson Peter C. Luquer

Headliner John B. Wynne '52 has been elected president of the Leukemia Society of America's national board of trustees. Wynne, who is senior vice president and corporate secretary of Chemical New York Corporation and Chemical Bank, has served as a member of the Society's board of trustees since 1980. The Leukemia Society of America is a national voluntary health agency funded by public contribution and dedicated to finding the causes and eventual cures for leukemia and related diseases.

Richard S. Stanson '56 was awarded the 1987 Roy C. Seeley Award by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), Southern California Chapters.

Stanson is senior vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles office ofLandauer Associates, Inc.; and a 29-year veteran of the commercial real estate profession. The annual award is presented to an outstanding member of SIOR who has "maintained high standards of professionalism, demonstrated honesty and integrity, and commanded the respect ofhis peers."

Bank of Florida and is working in St. Petersburg.

WIN and Jean FAULKNER spent a few days at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort on Longboat Key, FL in March.

Called my wife, Peg, and they were able to get together for dinner. See you all at our 35th Reunion in June.

Class Agents: Peter B. Clifford, D.D.S. Joseph B. Wollenberger, Esq.

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Theodore T. Tansi Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co. 1 American Row Hartford, CT 06103

MORTON WEBBER writes news of his daughters. KAREN '.85 is a secondyear cantorial student at Hebrew Union College in New York, and Loren is a second-year student at Western New England Law School in Springfield, MA. Class Agent: Dwight A. Mayer

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E. Wade Close, Jr. 622 West Waldheim Rd. Pittsburgh, P A 15215 ROBERT DONAHUE, who is retired,

notes that his new position is "beach bum trainee." He lives in So. Padre Island, TX. Class Agents: William F. LaPorte, Jr. David Dimling Bruce N. Macdonald 1116 Weed St. New Canaan, CT 06840 At the Homecoming weekend last November I talked at length with JERRY PAULEY who told me not only about his family (daughter Lynn working for a newspaper in Hyannis, David at pharmacy college, and Kim an executive recruiter in Philadelphia) but how impressed he was with the Alumni College at Trinity last June. It lasted for a week and his course discussed world war and its effect on history.

RON WARREN informed me that he has a daughter recently graduated from Duke, and BILL DAKIN, that his son, David, is getting married in California in April. Bill continues as controller of Neico/Avco, and was recently made a partner in the parent firm .

SKIP BEARDSELL's son, Mark, is in the Marine Corps like his father was once, and his daughter, Ellen, is in the Peace Corps in Kenya.

Finally, we were told that GORDY

Paul A. Cataldo, Esq. c/o Bachner, Roche & Cataldo 55 W. Central St., Box 267 Franklin, MA 02038 My absence from the spring RepO'rter does not mean that I have passed away, neglected my duties as Secretary or abdicated my position to left-wing liberals.

The absence of my class notes was intentionally designed to give WARD CURRAN sufficient space to express his views and have his picture included in the feature article, "Experts Evaluate Economy." I hope you all read it, and also noticed the attractive assistant profes;;or of economics who appeared on the same panel with Ward. Imagine how popular economics w6uld have been in the eady 50's had she been a member of the faculty then.

I received a call from PAUL RUSSO wanting to know if I were alive, as he read no notes. It's nice to know that you will be missed after the grim reaper has taken his toll.

MALCOLM MacDONALD controls the Southern Free Press in Tuscaloosa, AL and intends to be more active in the alumni activities (and the alumni fund) once his tuition bills at Emory Law School, and Yale are finished in the near future. Good luck, Mal! Please keep it a secret since I do not want him to know the extent of his involvement in our next reunion yet, but DUNCAN BENNETT promises to be retired by that time and dedicate full time to a reunion extravaganza the likes of which good old Trin. Coil. Sane. has never seen. Please don't let anyone ex路 cept WALT SHANNON know that I used the language on the old College seal as they may not let my son, Joe, graduate this路 May if they find out. I can't imagine where the time has gone, but my son, Joe, graduates this May with a great bunch of young people a lot like the people I graduated with 31 years ago.

Very little has been heard about many of our classmates, so they must be in one of the following categories: 1) inactive 2) shy 3) out of ink 4) dead 5) in hiding 6) afraid they are going to be hit up again for another contribution.

Please write and send me something interesting. At this point, I'd take almost any information from anyone, as my imagination along with the rest of my anatomy is suffering from atrophy.

PAUL MARION, our former Class Secretary, understands exactly what I am talking about.

RON LaBELLA had such a great time, he's come east twice since, and had mini路 reunions with some of his old Sigma Nu pals. Ron brought his wife back for a joyous weekend at the Chapel Hotel. in Hartford, She had never been to Hartford with Ron and after her weekend she understood why.

HUGH McCRACKEN wrote to me about the Troy State University basketball team and how they were going to win the National Championship in

Springfield, MA and hoped I would be in attendance. As director of alumni affairs at Troy State, he spoke too soon.

I have a little quiz game to play with our classmates and can promise that a generous prize will be awarded to those sending in the appropriate answers to me no later than June 1, 1988. The questions are: 1. Who was the director of the food services for Hamlin Dining Hall in 1953, where did he live and who occupies those facilities now?

2. Where was the on-campus dry cleaning and laundry facility located, and what is there now?

Please send your notarized answers to your Class Secretary, on or before June 1, 1988, to be eligible for the grand prizes.

Speaking of grand prizes, DEWIE TAYLOR writes from Atlanta, GA that any U.P.S. package you send within 24 hours of the date of this report will be delivered free.

As Bugs Bunny once said, "That's all folks."

Class Agents: Frederick M. Tobin, Esq. Richard L. Behr

The Rev. Dr. Borden W. Painter, Jr. 110 Ledgewood Rd. West Hartford, CT 06107 PETER LOWENSTEIN has forsaken wotking in the Big Apple to accept a position as vice president, secretary and general counsel of Service Corporation, a Stamford-based company engaged in contract food service. Write to Peter if you experience problems at the vending machines.

I write in the lull of pre-Reunion days.

My next effort will no doubt bring a torrent of post-Reunion news.

See you there!

Reunion Gift Co-Chairmen: Joseph J. Repole, Jr. Raymond Joslin

Paul S. Campion 4Red0akDr. Rye, NY 10580 Talked with some of our midwestern classmates last month and the heartland of America is doing just fine!

Cute story from Merle and DAVE BURLEIGH - A little over three years ago they came home one day and both of them had quit their respective jobs but had not told each other! Now Merle is doing public relations work on the local level (West Chicago)- runs open houses and writes newsletters for smaller corporations who just don't have the staff to do it themselves. Dave "heads up" Burleigh's Touch, which is a home/business improvement concern that works with corporations on maintenance and repair or with realtors who require "fixit-up" and clean-up for those houses for sale or rent.

From St. Louis, BILL "TONY" CROWELL relates how his wife, Karina, arranged a surprise 50th birthday party and two of the "surprises" were DIXON HARRIS of Colorado Springs,

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that one six-year term vacancy will exist after May 1989 on the Board of Trustees of Trinity College, caused by the.expiration on that date of the term of David R. Smith '52, who is not eligible for immediate re-election. The vacancy will be filled by vote of the alumni.

PRESENT ALUMNI TRUSTEES AND YEAR TERM EXPIRES

David R. Smith '52, Business 1989 Carolyn A. Pelzel '74, Fundraising 1990 Arlene M. Forastiere '71, Medicine 1991 George E. Andrews '66, Education 1992 Michael Zoob '58, Education 1993 Joanne A. Epps '73, Education and Law 1994

To the Alumni of Trinity College

Every alumnus/a is entitled to suggest candidates to the Nominating Committee, over his or her signature, for the vacancy.

THE COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE ALUMNI TRUSTEES

David A. Raymond '63., Chairman Wenda Harris Millard '76 William Vibert '52

To fill the six-year term, the Nominating Committee will meet numerous.times and will spend many hours evaluating possible candidates. The criteria to be applied will include character, ability, civic and professional achievement, loyalty to the College as demonstrated through contnbutions of time, energy and financial support, as well as reputation among the alumni body. Graduating class and geographic diversity will also be considered. The composition of the present Board of Trustees, as well as the qualifications

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Suggested candidates for nomination should be addressed to: The Nominating Committee of the National Alumni Association, Trinity College, Alumni Office, 79 Vernon Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106. All letters should be received on or before September 15, 1988. Please use the suggestion form below.

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Headliner E. Thayer Bigelow,Jr. '65 has been appointed president of Home Box Office, Inc., a wholly owned subsidairy of Time Inc. A graduate of the University of Virginia Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Bigelow joined Time Inc. in 196 7.

He was named president of American Television and Communications Corporation, another Time subsidiary, last fall.

who is regional' vice president for Sierra Capital Financial Co; ana CHARLIE WEEKS of Prescottr Ball and Burben in Chicago (once a bond specialist, always a bond ~pecialist!). By the by, Charlie's daughter, Anne, will be a member of Trinity's Class of 1992.

Getting back, to the party, everyone remarked how pleasant it was that no one had aged a bit and everyone looked the same as they did "on the hill."

Bill is now manager of product planning and marketing for Professional Services ... one of the companies with · the information group at McDonnell Douglas providing data processing selvices t<;> the commercial marketplace.

An article in the February UHartford: CO'Urant describes a pulpit exchange between the REV. C. JON WIDING, ree;tor of Christ Church Episcopal in Avon, and the REV. JIM KOWALSKI '73 of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hartford. An object of the exchange is to bring down the social barriers between the suburbs and the city.

JOE WASSONG sends news of himselrandhisfamily. Inthefallo£1987 Joe was re-elected to a six-year term on the Thomaston Board of Finance. He also chairs the town's Zoning Board of Appeals and serves on the 'I:dwn H;lll/Opera House Building C6mmittee. He is president of the Adult Doubles Tennis League in town and continues to serve on the Democratic Town Committee. He is completing his 20th year as a professor of history at Mattatuck Community College. His wife, Shirley, works as a dental assistant, is vice-chairman of the Parish Council, and serves on the board of directors of the Visiting Nurse Association. They hope to make their sixth trip to Europe next year to see some of Joe's cousins in Alsace, whom they visited in 1~84. Their oldest child, Joe IV, a Fordham graduate, is married, working for the Boston Herald, and beginning an M.L.S. program at Simmons. Second son, John, is studying at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University' in Daytona Beach and expects to receive his B.S. on August 20, his parents' 28th wedding anniversary. His youngest, Jean, is a sophomore at College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, NY. Class Agent: William J. Schreiner

Robert'.(. Sweet 4'93il Western Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20816 NED CHALKER attended the recent lunch for Dean Winer, sponsored by the Trinity Alumni Club of Washington.

Ned's looking forward to the warm weather and a new bo<tting season.

Those alumni living in the Berlin[New Britain, CT area may note an interesting Victorian barn depicted on the cover of Southern New England's new te1ephone directory. This interesting structure is on the property of JOHN WILCOX, and dates back to the turn of the century.

Class Agents: Robe;rt G. Johnson · Richard W. Stockton BillKirtz 26WymanSt. Waban, MA 02168 A thin mail pouch' makes for dull reading,· so send in your news. If there is lione, make it up!

JEFF WILLIAMS' . widow, Beth, works in the admissions office at Milton Apademy, where my youngest, Jl'i.ke Hooker, will be a sophomore in the fall.

She reports that Jeff, Jt:;. will be. going into his senior year at Lake F,orest College, where, of course, he encountered admissions director, SPIKE GUMMERE. The Williams' daughter, Holly, will be starting her junior year at Milton while their youngest son starts his senior year at the Dublin(NH) School.

A newsy note from JOHN KORETZ reports that daughter Le&lre (21) is <t sophomore at Northern Colorado University, and son Jim (24) is a graduate of Ithaca Collegj'lliving and working in St. Louis. John is partner-in-charge of informa,tion technology at Coopers & Lybrand, "inv6lved in helping compa.nies avoid computer abuse." The long-time Winnetka, IL resident is active in Trinity affairs as a member of the executive committee of the Chicago Alumni Association and with his inv6lvement with the Illinois Scholarship Program. He and wife, Carol, have a home .In Scottsdale, AZ to which they repair for winter*golf.

Class Agents: Dale N. Peatman Peter Kreisel

The Rev. Arthur F. "S.kip" McNulty, Jr. Calvary Church 315 Shady Ave. Pittsburgh, P A 15206 RODNEY D. DAY ill has been named president of the New York Division of Johnson & Higgins, the interna,tional insurance brokerage and human resource consulting firm. "Rod Day has distinguished himself by developing a remarkable esprit de corps that is invaluable during this difficult period for the insurance industry," said David A. Olsen, preside11t and chief executive officer of Johnson & Higgins, in announcing Day's appointment April 5. "He has brought a 'can-do' attitude and a spirit of innovatiDn to our oldest and largest office as its managing director. This promotion recognizes his status as head of our largest operation and is the first time we have conferre<L such a title on the manager of the New York office." Day is a senior vice .President of the parent• corporation and a member or' its bdard of directors..Established in New York City in 1845, Johnson & Higgins is the largest privately held firm of its kind in the world.

Class Agents: Thomas E. Bu:ndy, Jr. Judson M. Robert · Keith S. Wat.son, Esq. 8520 River Rock Ter. Bethesda, MD 20034 DANIEL A. SAKLAD is executive, vice president of Norwest and president over all banking activities iiLMinnesota and Wisconsin. He writes that one son is a freshman at Brown and another son ;is a junior at·Waslt}ngton University in St. L6Uis. Class Agent: Kenneth R. Auerbach

child. We'll share the glad tidings in the nextRqJorter.

That's all for now, and remember to keep me posted on your news.

Class Agents: Philip S. Parsons, Esq. Richard Roth Thomas S. Hart 20 Kenwood St. Boston, MA 02124 The March 1 issue of the Dallas Morning News describes the career of ROBERT BAKER who is senior vice president-operations at American Airlines, Inc. He is "one of the most experienced managers in the industry, having held posts in the marketing, freight and computer automation divisions" before taking on the operations department in 1985, A March 5 New York Times article announces the inauguration of THOMAS GTJI;OT'tA as Nassau Connty executive.

He was sworn in by his father, Frank Gulotta, a retired State Supreme Court Justice.

JOHN HEYL has left Bowdoin College to become vice president for resources development at the National Trust fot Historic :Preservation in Washington, D.C. ANTHONY K. BAKER, ROLAND 0.

DENOIE, and THOMAS S. GULOTTA, county executive of Nassau County, Long Island, NY, presided over a ribboncutting ceremony at the grand opening on January 27 of the Yellow Rose Deep Pit Bar B Que restaurant · owned by Baker and DeNQie in Freeport, NY. Class Agent: William H. Schweitzer, Es.9.

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Peter J. Knapp • 20 Buena Vista Rd. We~>.!:' Hartford, CT 06107

. Robert E. Bclckley 20 Banbury Ln. .West Hartford, CT 06107.

±'lothing like a little writer's cramp to initiate a call for my succes.sor as our Class Secretary. Don't run away"so fast! · THAYER BIGELOW has been ele<:ted This is really a relatively easy undertakvice president of the alumni association ing for anyone who has any fun at all of the Darden School of Business Admin- with the written word. It's fun to bear from all 9f you periodically, and it's alistration of<the University of Virginia.

Thayer has been on the Dard~n alumni ways nice to h';'tve your wife think you association board since 1933. As noted were so ;popular at Trinity because so in the previous RqJorter, Thayer is now many know your n;:tme at reunion time. president of Time Inc.'s American Tele.- . Any takers? We. only need one. Let me vision and Communication Corporation hear .from you, in Englewood, CO.. (liiditor's · note: BILL BLOCK writes that he was reThayer as$Umed a new posititYn which cently named president! ol Toledo Blade was announced after the Glass Notes were Company. I think that's a newspaper, written. SeeHeadUner alw'l{e,) .but. then I dq, 'remember the leather Wo:td has \lMtf received that CHED jacket and boots, so I'm not totally sure.

MARKDVICH has joined Bank of BosCongratulations, Bill. ton Connecticut, Waterbury, as vice PHIL MAYER writes us from Morpresident-corporate banking. gantown, WV where he now serves as JIM ROO.SEVELT dropped us a line associate professor of orthopedics at to share the news that he has been ap- West Virginia University. Hey Phil, I pointed vice president and assistant gen- haveU:.t been able to get my driver back eral counsel of TRW Inc. in Cleveland, to parall~ on the backswing. Any sugOH. Jim rep6rts that he <tnd his family gestions? have taken up cross-country skiing.

MARK SHAPIRO, ESQ. has been ap· DAN SWANDER sends more infor- pointed assistant district attorney of mation about his firm, Swander, Pace & Bernalillo County in Albuquerque, NM. Company of San Francisco. If offers I he<tr that's rough country out there. management consulting services to food, ROBIN TASSINARI sent me a very food service and consumer products .nice note quite a while back that I know businesses. As of Januarjt, Dan had a I neglected to recognize. You remember staff of six and says he's. really having a Robin. He's the guy with all the kids and Daddy Warbucks' retinue to boot. Robball.

As of this writing YOUR SECRE- in's brood includes: Kate, 15; Sam, 13; TARY and his wife, ANNE M.A. '76, are Ben, 11; Meg, 9; Jessica, 6; Oliver, 5; and awaiting the imminent arrival of our first Cynthia, 2. Thanks to .Robin for keeping

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AREA ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES BALTIMORE- President Jeffrey H. Seibert '79, Tel: (301) 243-8563 The Trinity Club of Baltimore sponsored its first "New England Small College Alumni Happy Hour" on March 2. Held at Fat Tuesday's in Baltimore's "Marketplace," the gathering attracted llO alumni from Trinity, Amherst, Bowdoin, Mt. Holyoke, Colby, Middlebury, Wesleyan, and Williams. David Clark '80 and Sibley Gillis '81, event organizers, report that the event was a big success, and plans are underway for other such joint events.

BOSTON - President Thomas R. DiBenedetto '71, Tel: (617) 581-5627 Boston alumni gathered at the Women's City Club of Boston on February 23 for the Club's annual dinner. Over 75 alumni turned out to hear guest speaker Richard Gaines '66, editor of the Boston Phoenix and author of the book, Dukakis and the Reform Impulse. Gaines discussed the presidential candidacy of Governor Michael Dukakis.

On April19, a capacity crowd attended a performance of the smash musical, "Les Miserables,'' at the Shubert Theatre.

Ernie Haddad '60, Boston's vice president for admissions, coordinated another productive alumni admissions effort this year, which was capped off by a reception for accepted applicants on April 26 at the Pillar House in Newton. Featuring Admissions Director Don Dietrich, the reception attracted nearly 100 applicants and their parents, as well as 25 alumni admissions volunteers.

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CHICAGO - President Robert E. Kehoe, Jr. '69, Tel: (312) 251-9164 The Trinity Club of Chicago sponsored its annual spring reception on March 25 at the University Club. Thirty alumni and guests gathered for the event, which featured President James F. English, Jr. and Connie Ware, vice president for development. The Club also sponsored a reception for Chicago-area guidance counselors on March 24.

CLEVELAND- President Richard G. Mecaskey '51, Tel: (216) 371-3572 Alumni Director Jerry Hansen '51 visited northeastern Ohio on April26 for Cleveland's annual meeting and dinner. Held at the Intown Club, the reception was a great way for area alumni to catch up on events at the College.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY- President Fred Tobin '57, Tel: (203) 655-8482 The Trinity Club of Fairfield County continued its work with the alumni admissions support program by sponsoring a reception

in touch.

One thing you don't want to do is neglect CHARLIE KURZ. So even if this is repetitious, Charlie writes that he was appointed a director of the Philadelphia Port Corporation and appointed to the finance committee of the American Steamship Owners' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association in New York.

Charlie has been a director of this organization for 10 years. How's that Charlie? Up to your standard?

If this is indeed my last breath as YOUR CLASS SECRETARY, I sure want to put in a plug for our 25th Reunion. We have an exceptional slate of Class officers, and I'm told time and time

again by our Alumni relations and development people that the Class of '67 is indeed one of the finest graduating classes at Trinity in the last 30 years. I agree, and am proud to be a part of it all.

Class Agent: Bradford L. Moses

Frederick A. Vyn 1031 Bay Rd. Hamilton, MA 01936 DAVID POLLACK, ESQ., a partner in the Philadelphia firm of Rosenwald, Pollack and Grunfield, recently assumed the chairmanship of the real property

for area guidance counselors on February 3. The Club followed up this effort with a reception for accepted candidates on April 25. Assistant Director of Admissions Mary Whalen and a panel of six Trinity students attended the event.

FLORIDA - Alumni across the State of Florida gathered at receptions in March as Alumni Director Jerry Hansen '51 made his annual visit accompanied by Bill Peelle '44, secretary of the Board of Trustees, and Tom Miller, director of planned giving.

Events held in Naples, Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, and Miami Beach each attracted good turn-outs of south Florida alumni, and there was much interest in starting up alumni clubs in those cities.

HARTFORD -President Michael B. Masius '63, Tel: (203) 5234080 Hartford has enjoyed a particularly active spring, and has sponsored a wide range of events for area alumni. The Club held its annual winter cocktail party on February 25 at the Wadsworth Atheneum. An impressive turnout of 134 alumni and their guests gathered for a private viewing of the museum's American drawings and watercolors exhibit.

Hartford's fifth annual Buttondown Sounds concert, held on April 8 in the Washington Room, was another huge success. A crowd of 400 listened to collegiate singing groups from Williams and Conn College, as well as our own Trinity Pipes. The Mark Twain House in Hartford was the scene of the Club's first wine tasting party on May 12. Event coordinator Mary Ann Corderman Hardy '84 and 61 other alumni attended the tasting.

In addition to these events, tbe Club also continued its successful downtown luncheon series. Dr. Diana Evans of the Political Science Department spoke on the 1988 presidential election at the March 17 luncheon, while Dr. Joseph Bronzino of the Engineering Department talked about biomedical technology at the Club's June 1 meeting.

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LOS ANGELES - President Barnett Lipkind '62, Tel: (213) 733-7914 Los Angeles welcomed President James F. English, Jr. and The Campaign for Trinity to Southern California with a reception on March 1 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Area Campaign Chairwoman Jane Gutman '73 coordinated the event.

NEW YORK- Event Chairman Nancy L. Katz '84, Tel: (212) 348-0314 The Trinity Club of New York, under the guidance of Nancy Katz '84, sponsored several events this spring, including the Club's annual dinner at the Time-Life Building on March 9.

section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Class Agent: Nathaniel Prentice

John L. Bonee III, Esq. One State St. Hartford, CT 06103 YOUR SECRETARY won his first Nastar Gold Medal this March at Steamboat Springs, CO! The great conditions and weather must have given me a bit of a push. I have skied a number of times in Colorado and Utah, but this was a first at Steamboat Springs. I really enjoyed

the informality and down-home atmos路 phere of the place, in addition to the truly great skiing.

GRANT BRANSTATOR has written your Secretary from Boulder, CO that he and his family have just returned from a seven-month stay in the Netherlands.

While on sabbatical leave from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, he was a visiting scientist at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute where he investigated physical processes that influence climate.

While in Chicago, ERNIE MATTEI met with AL FARNELL to discuss strategy for improving the Class's donation to the alumni fund. They were able

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Seventy-five alumni gathered to hear Dean of the Faculty Jan Cohn speak on the College's new curriculum.

Together with Tufts' New York alumni club, Trinity's New Yorkers also sponsored two forums. Trinity trustee Gail Winslow, vice chairman of the Washington-based Ferris Corp., discussed "Financial Success After the Crash" on January 2&. On April 7, the two groups sponsored a political symposium entitled "Issues in the 1988New York Presidential Primary." Representative<3 of the Bush,'Dukakis, Gore, Jackson, and Gepha;fdt campaigns participated in the forum.

PHILADELPHIA- President David V. Peake '66, Tel: (215) 836-2745 The Trinity Club of Philadelphia continued its successful luncheon series with two meetings. Michael J. Beautyman '69 was the guest speaker at the February 11 meeting. A partner at Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Beautyman spoke on the crisis in the health care industry. On May 4, Bayard Fiechter '72, president of the Winchester Group, discussed personal financial planning. Alex Monaghan '78 was luncheon chairman for both events.

The Club also sponsored a reception at the Mellon Bank Founder's Suite on May 9 ..Hosted by Ned Montgomery '56, chairman of the Board of Trustees, the event featured Trustees Brent Harries '50 and Mickey Lloyd '60, co-chairmen of The Campaign for Trinity.

SAN DIEGO- Steven Smith '58 and the San Diego Area Com: mittee of The Campaign for Trinity sponsored a capital cam- . paign kick-off reception on March 3 at the San DiegoYacht Glab.

SAN FRANCISCO- President Eugenia E. Erskine '81, Tel; {415) 346-6553 The Trinity Club of San Francisco kicked off The Campaign for Trinity on the West Coast with a gala reception on February 29 at the Duquette Pavilion of St. Francis. Co-hosted by Carrington Clark '60 and Eugenia Erskine '81, the event feat1).l'ed President James F; English, Jr. Bay Area alymni. also attended a performa!fCe of "Golden Boy" at the American Conse;rvatory'Theater on April 28.

WASHINGTON- ,President Robert T. Sweet '60, Tel: (301} 229...,0493 Washington alumni, taking a breather !rom the 1988 election, recently Bponsored lun~heons featuring Dean of Students David Winer and former National Alumni Association President Bill Schweitzer '66. Dean Winer spoke on student life at Trinity, while Bill's impromptu ta1k highlighted the plans for the College's new Alunmi-Faculty House. The Club also sponsored a spring cocktail part:y at the Old Ebbitt Grill on May 5.

t o do thifl while enjoying a wonderful dinner at Spiaggia's in downtown Chi<:ago. Ernie also had an opportunity to spend a delightful time with JACK REALE '71 at the annual Trinity Leadership Conference. Jack had made the trip from Atlanta, leaving a very busy law practice in order to attend.

CARLO FORZA:NI has enjoyed work· ing on a new addition on his house in the Litchfield area in Connecticut. He and his wife, Karen, have felt the need for more space jn connection with raising their three daughters, Francesca, Chris· tina and Elena. Carlo's busy law practice has taken its toll on his chicken farming endeavors, hQwever. As of our last dis-

cussion, the last one was in the freezer.

I hope it was good!

JOHN WILI.:IAM PYE, bibliophile., bas decided to move from the rE)1atively intellectual atmospliere of the Boston environs to the commercial frenzy of the Big Apple, as of February 15, 1988. He has rented a larg-e two-bedroom apartment in Queens and he welcomes his friends to stay when they visit New York.

After five years at Bromer Booksellers, he decided to run the autograph and manuscript gallery of Kenneth W. Rendell in mid-town Manhattan. Before leaving Massachusett;:;, he sold his Ticknor and Fields Collection of rare books to the University of North Carolina at

Herman L. Asamow, '72 received the Burlington Northern Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award during the 86th commencement exercises at the University of Portlanq in Oregon on May 1. He was cited for his "unusual effort devoted to ensuring tHe quality of students' classroom learning experiences, m high scholarly standards and highly favorable evaluations by students of hi.tn ern Languages and as chairman and his· courses." Asarnow has o(the curriculum committee of been at the Up.iversity of Port- the acadenli.c senate. He holds a land since 197.9 where he has Ph.D. in English and America11 'Served. as chairman'of the De- literature from the University . partmev,t of English and Mod- o{Denver.

initiated by an Avon, CT church. As part Chapel ' HilL In addition, in connection of the program, the Rev. C. JON WIDwith the sale, he published .James T. Fields- Literary Publishw on Novetn' ING '59, rector of ChristChurch in Avon, ber ll, l987 and delivered a lecturE), on . ·and the Rev. J1M KOWALSKI of the the subject at Tri,nity to the Library As· Church of Good Shepherd in Hartford, sociates. · switched pulpits on February l4.

BILL THOMPSON has decided to join JOSEPH McCABE has joined Con· necticut National Bank as vice president Milliman & Robertson, Tnc. as a consult~ ing actuary in the firm's Hartford office. in the trust inves.t ment research department.

Bill lives with his family in West llitri:BARBARA RUBENSOHN is a partford. He has !fad more than 1'7 years of ner at A & R Associates in New York actuarial and insur~ce industry experiCity. ence, concentrating on the health area ANTOINETTE .LEONE RUZZIER particularly in individual medical and has left cor.Qorate life and is a partner in disability income coverages and alternative health care arrangements. He' is a ' the newly~formep partnership Df Ward, Sevarino & Ruzzier in West Hartford. fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a memher of the American Academy of Reunion Gift Actuaries. In addition, he and YOUR Co-Chairmen: Dan,iel Korengold SECRETARY have enjoyed many md~ H. Jane Gutman ments discussing the intricacies of West Hartforq politics when your secretary walked around the voting districts in James A. Finkelstein times past. c/o The Wyatt Company Class Agents: Alan S. Farnell, Esq. 9339 Genessee Ave., ' Ernest J. Mattei, Esq. Suite300 · San Diego, CA 92121 In aJanuaryl8 article in TkeHartfrmlr Courant, FRANCISCO BORGES, Connecticut state treasurer, describes the effect that tbeRev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights-movement of the National General Insurance Company 1960i! had on his life. announces the election of BYRON W. CATHERlNE HARRIS has bE;come SMITH to vice president and actuary vice president and manager of the rewhere he will manage the pricing anq search department ' editorial group at product deve1opment department.

Df:lan Witter Reynolds, Inc..inNew York ROGER· WERNER, JR. has bE)en City. named executive vice president of the In May, ROBERT STARKEY had a ABC Television Network Group. He will one-day show and sale of his paintings be responsible for the East and West and pastels at Purnell School in Potters· Coast business affair£ departments. viii~, NJ. Class Agents: Harvey Dann IV Class Agent: Stacie Benes William A. Fisher III

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Kenneth M. Stone 2221 Empress Dr. St. Louis, MO 63136 A February 11 edition of The H a,rtford Courant describes an outreach program

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Louise H. Fisher '73, director of special educational programs, was awarded the'1987MarciaA. Savage Award from Hartford College for Women. The award is based on extraordinary personal achievement and/or outstanding service to Hartford College for · Women. Fisher is a 1969 alumna of Hartfod College for Women and a n1er:;_ber of that college's board of trustees. In her administrative robat Trinity, Fisher supervises the Individualized Degree I?rogram, oversees the admission of all special students, ana is responsible for the Office of Gran~ nate and Summer Study, fue

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want to keep in touch with all our classmates *and alumni friends. ~o, if you have £hanged your address, let · us know in the space below. A special plea to the class of 1987 - where are you?

years, S'ELBOURNE BROWN has venCharles P. Stewart III tured out onto his own. Sel has started R.D.#2 his own writing/consulting business, BarronRd. ' WORD SOURCE, in Wethersfield, CT. Ligonier, P A 15658 Se!'s services include newsletters, brochures, proposals, reports, and business Your notes are thin communication consultation. So, in Your excuses lame Hartford, if you want to say it well, .see Let's pointthe finger Sel. You are to blame.

Had you ordered a copy of the reCEmtly-published Trinity College Alumni Perhaps you've had triplets, Directory, you would know that TONY Bought a 90-footboat, PICCIRILLO now works for US West in Or married a Martian Denver, CO. Only by reading this colJust drop us a note. umn, however, cnuld you learn that So rummage your brain Tony, MAR.G IE JOHNSON-ORRICK Put down some verbiage '76, JACK ORRICK '76, and I recently Stick it in a letter got together at the pizza joint reputedly And add .enough postage. frequented bY Ollie North (not a classmate). Tony is pretty high up at US West, but if you live in Denver and have trouSUSAN GRIER PHILLIPS has a ble wjth your phon(), I'll bet you can still "New Job!" -health promotions assiscall Tony. tant at Calvert Memorfal Hospital in RAND FOREMAN-BERGMAN sends Prince Frederick, MD. Susan fives in greetings from her home in Edison, NJ. nearby Huntin gtown, MD. Rand writes that she now. has.two chil"ROBERT COLE was recently ap-' dr\'m, Shira (four) and Devra (two).·Rand pointed by the Yale University School of tells me that her husband, Arnie, who is Medicine to the position of administrator assistant -vice president and counsel to of the'Connecticut MentaJ Health Center the Continental Corporation, attended in New Haven. The Center, which doep Georgetown Law with me, but unfortunately our paths appaJ;ently never 1esearch, teaching, and direct servi<;e, is a c6operative endeavor of the State of crossed (it is a big school).

Connecticut and Yale University.

From th.e bottom of my. desk drawer Charles Andrew Miller, second son to rises an old note from BILL YElTERESA, BLAKE MILLER, was Horn LENAK. Bill is a partner With the Waon June 21, '1987'(.see Births). Tl!e Miller *terbru:y law firm of Carmo~y and family -shoves off fnr London, England Torranc(). Bill and his wife, JOYQE a;t the *end *of the ' summer for Terry's LAlJGHLAN YELEN{lli '74, have been husband's baJlking .career. renovating a 2.50-y.ear-old bquse in Class Agents: Daniel'!V. J,.incoln: Southington where General Rochatn· Rusty Hicks beau and his troops camped aurlng the 00 Revofution. w WENDY W?EEbER ·is ip the computer biz. Wendy is vice president for • Mary Desmond Pinkowish sale& support at' Prime Computer iu Na101 Ellwood Ave. tick, M.A. Wendy and her.'htJ.sband, Ian Motint Vernop, NY 10552 Reid, have a fiva-month-old daughter, Emily. I'lfbet Wendy is very busy. * ANTHONY C1€(;fo.&LIONE is a disJIM KIRSCHNER writes that he !illd trict manag'Elr .for General Electric. and, Janet Su,mer~ got married last Novemhas relocated his family from Connectiber (see Weddings) . Ji]Jl is usually very cut to Manlius, NY. good abqut keeping us posted ·as to his · VALERIE McKEE WiLLEY was activities, but this time Jim didn't menamong the top six producers for Merrill ti6n where he's working, what be's ·Lynch Realty in greater {Iartford . . doing, or say anything about anything Class Agents: Mary Stodolink Cheyne other than the main event. I am afraid Dejrdre O'Brien P•h elan Jim is in love.

SCOTT HAYIM recentl:y obtaffied a change o;j' venue' and opened a couple of Gr . eteh~n A. Mathieurug store& in the Boca Raton, FL area. .

Hansen His stores are called Absolutely Rugs.

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Scott, -his wife, Melanie, and cbildien Flourtown, PA 19031 Brian, Ohloe and Sam are now all s~ttled , in. Any Trinity graduates in the area who DEHORAH SIKKEL AuBERT, want their floors to look nice should see writes, "I've' returned to th'l Hartford Scott: area after a summer in Europe, northCLAY DEBEVOISE celebrated his ern Africa, and tne coast of Maine. I've lOth year as a freelance photographer started a sales and market Clevelopment this spring. Clay Jives in West Hartfo~:d. job with a new office furnishings dealership, the Office Pavilion, with a ConnectY:OUR SECRE'I'ARY cnntinues to icut- and western Massachusetts protect the publicinterest.at the Federal Energy Regulatory Com!llission, keepterritory. All alumni contacts and reing your electric rates just and reasonnewals will be warmly welcomed!" al:He. My wife, Roseann; daughter, MAGGIE O'CONNELL RATHIER, a Katherine (two-and-one-half); and I live resident in internal medicine at the in Arlington, VA. UConn Health Center, has moved into Despite the undoubtedly awesome acher nev,:: home in Farmington. She note;; cmnplishments of the Class of 1975, the that she visited with Cindy: and MIKE ~ news has slowed down a bit. Amuse your COHEN in Orlando in November. She is classmates with yoru: comings and "looking forward to Reunion." goings. Write the Alumni Office.

Reunion Gift Class Agents: Benjamin 'Brewster Co-Chairmen: George Smith, Esq. Ellen Weiss, Esq. Caleb D. Koeppel 4

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JUDITH AMBROSE 'SO and Duncan Ewald wer~ married on December 12, 1987. Trinity ahmmi/ae attending were: (first row, seated) Brooke Mooney '81, groom, bride, Debbie White '80; (second row, standing) Rick Sager '79, Kip Howard '85, Tom Casey '80, Deb Telischak '84, Jay Olson '80, Suzanne Herr Olson '80, Craig Asche '81 and Vivian D'Amato Asche '79.

Jon H. Zonderman 15RubyRd. West Haven, CT 06516 MORRIS BOREA hasjoil;tedthe Hartford law firm of Greene & Bloom and is head of the litigation department; He writes that he has a very active trial practice in the state and federal courts.

SARAH WRIGHT NEAL writes Of her August 1987 wedding to David Ditchborn Neal. Following the wedding in Connecticut, they had a "lovely trip to Cape Breton Island and a reception given

by David's parents in Rosseau, Ontario." They have settled in the Boston area where she is teaching Latin at St. Sebastian's CountryDay School.

GARY SAV ADOVE sends news: "C~anged jobs in September '87; company was sold . . . in July; got married" (see Weddings) and ''moved from Syracuse in October; sold house and bought a. new one and took a honeymoon s,<:>me' where in between. Other than that ... not much new."

Class Agents: Andrew M. Storch Michael Tinati

Carol Ann Goldberg 31568 W. Agoura ,Rd., #6 Westlake Village, CA 91361 MICHELLE HERRERA-FOSTER is a research chemist at DuPont MedicaL Products inN orth Billerica, MA. She was married last September (see Weddings), and she and her husband have bought a house in Beverly, MA. CAROL GOLDBERG, recently elected

Class Secretary, welcomes news of her classmates.

Class Agents: Nina W. MeNeely Diefenbach Beth Isham Nichols Melinda M.· oore Crop. sey 70 Clairmont St. · Longmeadow, MA 01106 I apologize to all of you who may have written to me directly and not seen your news published in the Reporter. I hope this issue will bring everything up to date!

MARILYN MOORE HUTCHINS writes that she is living the "rural" lifestyle in Southwest Harboi-, ME, where she is employed by Bass Harbor, ME, where she is employed by Bass Harbor Marine as a "rigger," responsible for chartering and storage of a fleet of sailing yachts. She is also remodeling an old home andJearning the trades of carpenter and electrician along the way. She writes that other Trinity alumni in the area include KATE CRAWFORD and BETHANY HANSON. ED HING-GDON is "alive and unstable" and living in Manhattan, working as an advertising photographer with his fiance, Janine Norton. Ed writes thaf STEPHEN SPENCER, married in Au- ' gust 1987 at Trinity Chapel to Anna LaMonica (sew Wedd,ings), lives and works in the Hartford area. ROBERT POLLIEN and his ·wife, Amy, are in Portland, ME where Rob is soon to be a famous painter and farmer. And, BRAD, PHILLIPS has returned from a tour of duty with the U.S. Army and is "living in Rochester, NY with his HarleyDavidson motorcycle."

SIBLEY GILLIS graduated from Wharton Business School last spring and is living and working in Baltimore as an assistant vice president for First National Bank of Maryland.

CARL SCHIESSL was elected to and has been serving as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives since November 1986. He also is practicing law in Hartford with the firm of Copp, Berall & Hempstead.

KATHERINE BOOZ was married in September in Yvoire, France. She and her husband, Bob Ward, having recently • graduated from Yale Law School, were both awarded Fulbright Scholarships and are now continuing their studie,S in Indonesia.

PE'rER COUGHLAN writes that he and his wife, Teresa, had a son, David, born on May 23, 1987 (see Births)! Peter is presently a student attending B.U.'s Ed.M. program in TESOL. CYNTHIA BLAKELY . is doing her doctoral work at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She's doing an integrative Ph.D. program in psychology and theology.

PETER BAIN and his wife, SHARON SAUL '82, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Willoughby English Bain, born December 15, 1987 (see Births). Peter and Sharon returned fr.om Hong Kong in August of 1987 and Peter is now working for Merrill Lynch inN ew York in mergers and acquisitions.

PI~Jase write!! I'd love to have the next issueincltlde a report on all of us.

Chtss Agents: Sibley Gillis Dede Seeber Boyd Michael D. Reiner

working with Fred C. Hart Associates as an environmental toxicologist.

PARSONS WITBECK, whom I am grateful to for much of the news reported here, is still with Harvard, working as assistant director of the annual fund, jetsetting around the country ra.'ising money. She has just bought a condo in Cambridge. She says she ran into CAROL PASSARELLI in Bloomingdale's. Carol is working for a graphics design firm in Boston, CHRIS ;LEARY is engaged to Margot Murray and plans a fall wedding .

JIM B1SHOP will he working in his father's firm in New York this summer.

I hear through the grapevine that HENRY CROPSEY and his wife, MELINDA MOORE CROPSEY '81, are expecting a baby sometime in 1988.

ANDY STEPHENSON is still at Cushing Academy serving as assistant director of admissions.

BEN BARON is working at the Harvard Business School admissions office .

JAMIE and LISA NOLEN BIRMINGHAM have recently bought a house in Natick, MA. And last, but not least, JOE REINEMAN is living in NYQ and working for AT&T. If any of the above .is out of date (I hope not) or missing something, you're welcome and encouraged to drop me a line. Aren't any of you out there feeling envious about not being mentioned here?

Let's hope so. I hope this summer finds you all happy and healthy. Until next time ...

Class Agents: Patricia Hooper · Andrew W. Stephenson Wilfred J. Talbot

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Sarah Glynn Peters 3912 Golf Village Loop #1 Lakeland, FL 33809 Greetings from sunny Fklrida! My husband, Tim, and J have moved yet again.

We 'finally had it. with New England's cold weather and high cost of living and decided to fly south. You can now send those multitudes of cards and letters to the address above. I'm now working at Marriott Orlando World Center, hoping to get into convention services soon.

We're talking parties on a- large scale now.

CARL RAPP wrote a nice note saying that he had moved from London to West Germany in December. He's ' still with The Norton Co., currently as a project manager, living in Bonn. l;:Ie's also begun his master's in inte;rnational relations. He. ran into some fellow grads in England last fall - CHUCK WELSH who is finishing a semester oflaw school and PETER MARTIN who, as was reported earlier, is a sales manager with Gallo.

MARCIA HELIN writes with lots. of news. She's got a new place in Meriden, CT, is a district manager for CIGNA Corp. and, best of all, is erigaged to be married to Thomas McDer111ott on May 7, 1988 (see Weddings)! Welcome to the happy ranks, Marcia! Anpther newlywed is DANA GIDDINGS who married Paul Haught on October 23, 1987 (see Weddings). Dana is currently working in Richmond, VA as an assistant visitor services manager at the Science Museum of Virginia.

NANCY DANN is in New York City

Laur . a Wilcox Rokoszak 25 Blauvelt Ave. Ramsey, NJ 07446 Well, with any twist of fate, this will probably be my last Trinity report. After five years of attempting to keep track of all. of you, I •am willing to turn this job over to s-omeone else for the next five years. By t he time you read this, we will all have reconvened for our Reunion, r~miniscing, recollecting, rehashing old stories, recreating sporting events on the Quad, and remembering all the wonderful times of our "youth."

In this rather brief report, once again I have discovered that many of you are saving reports of yourself for the Reunion rather than sending them in prior' to our return. In news from the Alumni Office, it seems that OREN MILLER is now attending St. .Louis University School of Medicine; DAVID P. BEREY is now an assistant vice president with Bank of Boston in Connecticut; and JOHN D. LEMONICK has switched law firms and is now at Marshall, Dennehy, Warner, Colemen and Goggin in Philadelphia. John specializes in medical malpractice insurance, defense, and product liability.

AMY BENNETT is now the assistant hiring director at Dechert, Price and Rhoads in Philadelphia; and JOHN MUSERLIAN is a financial analyst with the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI. He graduated from Wharton with an M.B.A. and is working in car product development - at Ford. ALLEN LEPORE is a microelectronics engineer

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with Siemens Research and Technology Labs in Princeton, NJ. He finished his Ph.D. research at Cornell with the "somewhat unexpected result of the world's fastest transistor. Meanwhile I am working on thesis writing, starting work at Siemens, finalizing the move to P rinceton and losing my sanity ."

SARAH KOEPPEL has passed the bar and now works at McGraw Hill in New York in the real estate division. And BERT BANTA sends word that he is alive and well, working as president of Cee-Jay Research and Sales, Inc., an automotive supply company. His wife, Darrel,.is pregnant with their first child due in June. They are living in Pasadena and most recently went on safari in Africa last summer.

In preparing for the Reunion, I have had some terrific phone conversations with people. ANN BROWN is doing very well in her theater career in New York.

While there have been some ups and downs, a terrific review in The New York Times last January has really put her in the spotlight of new performers. She appeared on a radio program with the producer of that show, ALEX BANKER, and they spoke fondly of life at Trinity and life in the Big Apple. Ann is getting married this fall and she sounds absolutely ecstatic. I also spoke to PATTY PADDOCK who is also living in the City.

She told me that she, LOUISE BOND, and ALEXANDRA ZOLAN are all alive and well and loving their careers and life in New York (and the tri-state area).

Finally, I received a lovely letter from BETH PRUETT who is enjoying her career in interior office design in Boston.

She has run into a number of our classmates, including TODD BEATI while shopping. Apparently Beth's office and home are near a great shopping area

whi(:h is terrific for conscientious consumers!

And so now, I sign off; possibly for the last time. It's eerie not knowing whether or not this is my final report -sort of like Dan Rather after the George Bush interview. But I have enjoyed the time, the news, the deadlines, (yes, even the deadlines) and the opportunity for contact with so many of you. And may the next reporter have as much fun ... and please let him or her be blessed with a rapier wit lest our reports become mundane over the next five years. Thank you all for your continuous input!!

Reunion Gift Co-Chairmen: Amy Jo Bennett AnneN. Ginsburgh Bruce Silvers

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PENNY PERKINS wrote me a letter.

She wants me to ask CARRIE DUBROW if she ever thinks of the Macy's interview. Penny gets the award for this issue's special correspondent.

Penny reports that LAURA GILL has returned to the United States after traveling abroad for a year. She has "about 7,000" pictures of her trip, which included stints hitchhiking in Portugal, teaching English in Portugal, and working in Israel.

RANDI STEMPLER manages an art gallery in Boston. Penny also is flourishing in the art world in a unique way.

After finishing her master's in English at SUNY Albany, she is working at the Museum of Modern Art where she researches and writes federal grant pro-

VANITY PLATES IN 1WO STATES- Peter A. Stinson '84 displays both his old TRIN '84 Virginia license plate and his new TRIN '84 Pennsylvania plate. Stinson is a member of the resident English faculty at Wyoming Seminary, an independent secondary school in Kingston, PA, where he also serves as technical director of the campus's performing arts center. Pennsylvania's TRIN '84 can be seen on the streets of Kingston and the surrounding Wyoming Valley. Virginia's TRIN '84 has been retired to hang on a closet door.

posals for exhibition and program support. She'd be happy to "provide entrance to any art-loving alums, as long as they can cope with the firm modernist tradition and the high PIB (People in Black) factor."

Finally, from the desk of Ms. Perkins, EVA GOLDFARB was married last September to Robert Maskin. According to Penny, Eva is attending UPenn's graduate program in human sexuality.

Dr. Ruth, watch out.

I had a long chat with KATHY CARUSO a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the Alumni Office can't print other-thanwedding pictures because Kathy had a party. In attendance were TOM MALONEY, GREG NORSIGIAN, JOHNHENRY STEELE '85, CARL ROSEN, and MICHELE SENSALE '85. STEVE LEWIS '86 and Ennio Galliani were there too. The most important thing was the red sweater sported by WOODY PALMA. Everybody else wore grass skirts and zinc oxide.

MARION CORD ERMAN HARDY has been p1·omoted to investment officer in Connecticut National Bank's Investment and Funds Management Division, where she is a portfolio management representative .• ANN E. MAHONEY has relocated to Colorado Springs. She's an attorney with the U.S. Army, after passing the Connecticut bar in July. Army attorneys are called "judge advocates" and not only is Anne one of these, but she's also a first lieutenant (something I could never spell, nor probably ever be). Anne had a visit from MARIANNE BIZEK while she was attending the Judge Advocate Basic Course in Charlottesville. They went to the Federalist Society annual seminar at UVA. Since Anne sent her address, I'll print it- 1425 Alvardo Place, Colorado Springs, CO 80910. LIZ BRENNAN is requested to send her address (Liz, you can write me, too!).

LAURA LEDBETTER is pursuing her doctorate of psychology in the clinical psychology program at the University of Hartford.

AMY SNYDER is engaged to Adam Forman. After a December wedding, Amy plans to relocate to Philadelphia.

I chatted with NED IDE a while back.

He and BECKY SMITH were married on February 6. Ned reports he's becoming increasingly close-minded and tends toward sweeping generalizations. I don't believe it. He's also coaching football and lacrosse, and teaching. When asked to make a fashion observation, Ned said he, Becky, and their wedding guests ("some people were there") wore traditional wedding wear.

Ned said he saw BILL STRIDE. STEVE SHARON got married. CHIP FARNHAM works for Avon Boats in Rhode Island and, according toNed once again, Chip "feels that it was an injustice that I got married before he." DAN FLYNN has also been sighted.

BOB MUCCILLI, where are you?

MICHELLE PARSONS, ever the diplomat, is alive and well and living in Hartford. She's going into the nursing program at St. Francis Hospital in the fall. Michelle, BEV RAV ALESE and I had the opportunity to hear the Trinity Pipes at this spring's Buttondown Sounds.

CYNTHIA HUNTER lives in California and is going into the movie business

- the production side.

KIRSTEN HERTZ moved to Boston.

DALE SIND ELL still lives in Madrid.

She's fine, according to the grapevine.

The hot dog business is fine, although I'm putting things on hold for a while to go back to school. I'll be living in Hartford (at the address above) and communting to Yale for my master's at the School of Organization and Management.

Write with news. Or call. Or send smoke signals, postcards, homing pigeons ...

Class Agents: Todd M. Knutson David R. Lenahan Ja:te W. Melvin Lori Davis Shield 104 High St., Apt. 2 Charlestown, MA 02129· Greetings from the Alumni Office, LEE COFFIN reporting again. (That's supposed to sound like Dan Rather's opening for the CBS Evening News ...)

Where is LORIDAVIS, you ask? Well, as I write this, our beloved Class Secretary is preparing for her pending nuptials to JOE SHIELD, and understandably, certain last minute details of that extravaganza pre-empted her class report.

Well anyway, I'm still here at Trinity so it's pretty easy for me to fill in now and then. So let's get on with this already ...

The Class file shows that LESLIE COHN is now a fifth and sixth grade teacher at Graland Country Day School in Denver. She writes that she's having a great time in Colorado (... "a Rocky Mountain high," maybe? ... ) but she'll be returning to Boston soon, and will be married in October. STEVE DREW reports that he's a territory manager for Johnson & Johnson, and lives in Liverpool, New York. He says, "new job, new city, new life ... but does anybody from the Class of '85 live near Syracuse?" If anyone fits that description, give Steve a call.

NINA HOQUE is counting down the days till graduation from the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. After grad· uation, she will start at a law firm in Toronto but she "may go spastic and do a master's of law degree in London, New York, or Washington." Some people just don't know when to quit.

CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT is now working for American Standards Biosciences as a biomedical engineer in Reading, P A. He says he just started the job and has become active in several musical organizations and raquetball clubs.

Former SGA honcho STEVE NORTON has relocated to ... Washington (surprise!) in pursuit of life, liberty, and a career in politics. He is currently interning for a congressman from Illinois, I believe.

In Boston, NORM PRICE is still teaching biology at Governor Dummer Academy, while !RIC REX is attending Harvard's Graduate School of Design and "enjoying the torture," as he puts it. MIKE DUFFY is also in Boston, working for the Massachusetts Republican Party (I know, another major shock.

So, we're all pretty consistent.) Mike has forsaken his native Florida for the land

of Dukakis, and I hear he's contemplating a run for the Massachusetts State House in 1990. A Boston Republican ... isn't'that an oxymoron?

JEFF PILGRIM has been named the 1987 "Coach of the Year" at the Peddie School in Hightstown, MA. Jeff led Peddie'sgirls' soccer team to the state finals last fall. In a feature in the Hightstown Times, Jeff says that he was supposed to coach boys' JV, but the girls' varsity coach left unexpectedly. He says it was "a bit of a shock" to be offered the head coaching job but he said, "Yeah, sure, I'Ll try it." What a guy. Obviously, Jeff's been up to the challenge.

• PAM VON SELDENECK has. relocated to Philadelphia, where she is now a researcher for Diversified Search, Inc., a head-hunting firm. She likes it.

THERESA ZIOBRO crashed the Class of '91 tent at Trinity's Spring Weekend in J\.pril, feigning ner way in as a freshman, of all things! As freshman class adviser, I was wise to her disguise, but I let her stay. Theresa is now an assistant teachet at Oak Hill School in Hartford, .a school for multiple-handicapped kids. She is also in the teacher certification program at Central Connecticut 'State. She V{I'ites: "And who says fate doesn''t have · a sense of humor? I'm out 'in the reaL world' for three years now only to drop out and return to 'the sophomore slums' and life as a poverty-stricken student living on a part-time salary. Ya gotta love it." Sophomore Blums? Does that mean she'l:l crashing in 111 Crescent? Does that mean she's dating a ... gasp . .. sophomore? And l thought her freshml}n 'masquerade was bad. Hmmm.

Well, that's it for the "official" file, but I think I have some other tidbits from my travels around alumniland. As you may or may ;not already know, we have lost MIYUKI KANEKO from the ranks of the Trinity administration. She has abandoned us for the fame and glory of Yale, where she is assistant director for special events for the Yale Development Office. However~ Miyuki does still have some loyalty to Trinity, and she has joined STEVE NORTON, LULU (who now goes by "Liz' ') CASS, and HOWARD SADINSKY as uur Class Agents.

CAl'H.Y WALLERT called in from Chelmsford, MA~ Where she is working for Digital Computers and taking courses at Harvard for her certificate in com-< puter scienc.,. She tells me that CARY ALLEN and his new w:ife are e;xpeeting their first baby in June. .Congratulations, Cary.

There' are no babies in LOY SHIPLEY's future (or are there?) but he will be heading for Boston this fall to attend the Harvard School of Business.

I read in The Harif!Yrd Courant recently that JOHN BONELLI will be an alternate delegati' for Jesse Jackson at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta this summer. He'll be a membiir of the Connecticut delegation. Let us know how that goes, John.

On a recent trip to Chicago, I finally saw RON PR)JETT, who is alive and well in the Windy City. Ron's working for American International 'Life Insurance. and was recently promoted to a riational marketing positioll that will take him to New York. He fed me what he alleges to be "the best ribs in Chicago" (they were good . . not to spoil his secret, but you can get them at a i>lace called the Twin ¥

Anchors, somewhere in a pretty yuppifiedareaoftown ... see Ron for details).

Ron says that NANCY SCHNEIDER is doing well, and is still pursuing her M.D. at Northwestern.

A reception for accepted candidates f-or the Class of 1992 (!!)from BostOn yielded several '85ers, JIM McALOON, RICK CLEARY, and DOUG BURBANK, all members of the Trinity Club of Boston's alumni admissions committee, were there, doing their best to woo these unsuspecting }cids to Tpnity. The. last f heard, 'Jim was trying to convince' ones< close-cropped applicant to pick, Trinity over the Naval Academy (Sorry, JOHNs CARTER and PICONE). I think Trinity gothim. . w KATHI O'CONNOR nabbed me to d6~ .another alumni phonot1ion in March (it's hard to escape when you work here) and it wasn't so oad. Our Class is still right on top of the Alumni Fund, and my calls yielded aome interesting stuff. AN:NETTE BOELHOlJWER.BURGER and hubby, ALEC, are doing well in Boston. • Both expect to iinish their respective graduate programs this spring, and then take a first anntversay cruise. Annette professes that married life is . "just grel+t."

1 found VICKIE COX in Providene~, working on her master's in psychology at the University of Rhode Island. Vickie was quick to deduce the natur,e of my call. .The conversation went something like this: Lee- "Hi Vickie, it's Lee." A s).ight pause. Vic.- "Are you calling for' money?" Pretty sharp, hUh? Anyway, Viekie is. great, although she says her student-sized wallet is begin;ning to become a drag.

PHIL CARNEY is now th~ head crew· coach at Wesleyan (what's that old line about that's. all right, that'.s okay .. > you're gon.na work for us 'some day?)> Phil, ' what are y.ou doing to us?! He's enjoying things at Wesleyl}n, and he professes to feel no guilt about from whence his pay check come§.

TONY CONSTANZO was the" last <n ame on my phonothon list. Tony is li:ving at home .1n Orlord, MA, before completing an M.B.A. degree at Suffolk. He reports that long-time ;roommate CRAIG TATERONIS ill finishingUJYat Yale Law School and is looking for attorney-type jobs in.Was~hinist;on. · JOHN 'MOLNER has disappem;d, and has foresworn me from reporting on his whereabouts.

CHRIS DQYLE hasn't disappeared, but wishes he could. (Just kidding, Chris.)

He. was at Trinity this spring recruiting for National Westminster Bank. Career· counseling thought he looked<like a recruiter, although we haven't discetned yet whether that's a good or bad thing. I guess it's how you look atit: , That's all there is from Vernon Street this quarter. Ha,ve a great summer and hit the beache~?. For those of you in California, remember tliat those of us back East have to take it When it comest Once again, I pass the Class word :Processor back to Lori, but I'm ready if you · need me. Bye. Class Agents: Elizabeth G. Cass Miyuki Kaneko Stephen J. Norton Howard Jay Sadinsky

Regina J. Bishop 4 Kimball Circle Westfield, NJ 07090 My oldest brother, DONALD '67 who lives in Taiwan, tells me he enjoys reading my Reporter articles- so, if you all don't mind, I'd like to<say "hello!" to him. . .. and now on to the news ...

Back in January, JE.ROME KAPELUS,. as he was on his way to a ''big squash tourney" at the Harvard Club, wrote me w:ith his recent life sto;ry: After a three-month world excursion with BEN .RHODES to Europe, Israel, and South Africa, where they occasionally met up with JUSTIN LILLEY, Jerome began a career in lending at National Westminster Bank in New York. Jerome also reports that his buddy, ERIK SMITII, is a legislative aide in Washington, D.C: Erik is hoping to get into a position in internabional trade.

The big news from Pennsyl;vania these days is that GINNY FINN is working£or The Hartford in the Philadelphia office.

She is also the head girls' swimming coach at the Main Lin() Y in Ardmore, PA. ALEX STEINERT writes that she wus recently engaged to SCOTT EVOY •'87 (see Engagements), Alex is presently attending Yale Divinity SchooL .Yet another classmate down the road to wedded bliss, CLAIRE SLAUGH. TER (CLAIRE JOYCE, by now) was married in Jacksonville, FL in April. As ' ·reported last quarter, Claire is a marketing rep for IBM. The grapevine has it that ERIC STEPPER is a salesman for Sonitrol Security Systems, based in Cambridge, MA. More word-of-mouth: MARK MENENDEZ is studying architecture at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh.

Thanks to my secret sources for these scoops!

AILEEN DOHERTY tells me·she has a new job working in the advertising department at Revion. Aileen and JOSLIN HUBBARD are living in the· up-andcoming Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn.

Joslin was recently promoted to programmer analyst at Me)'ri!i Lynch.

Aileen asked me to mention that KIM CROWLEY and KAREN RESONY are < two of the best hostesses on the ·east coast. ln Boston, STEVE IDRSHBERG has been hitting the books at Boston University in their medical program.

Also in Bearrtown, EMILY GINSBURG has a new position .in the educar tion an.d community arts department at the MaBsachusetts Council for Arts and Humanities. m , " Class V.P. MARGARET FIGUE.ROA wrote me from Vienna where she spendi;ng a seme,ster studying German and history at. the University of Vienna.

She also assists a professor there with two classes. I hope she's had time for sightseeing! Margaret has plans for grad schoD} in t4e faH ... .keep us informed as to where, Fig! · GREG CARTER wr.i tes·that he is pursuing his master's in sport psychology at the University of Virginia.

Trinity econ9mics pro;fessors: Applaud yourselves. MARY WROBLESKI will be graduating summa ~um laude from the ;M.B.A./finance program at R.P.I. She was offered a part-time assistant profes-

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sorship at R.P .I./The Hartford Graduate Center. Don't ask me how she does it, but she also teaches fifth-year French and tutors economics at Loomis Chaffee.

She's active in the Greater Hartford Jaycees and is in charge .of celebrity transportat1on for the 1988 Sammy Davis, Jr. Greater Hartford Open. f): ere's a pat on the back from me ... I'm impressed!

MARIANNE RYAN sends. news that she will be entering Yale Law School in the fall. Congrats!

LESLIE LUC.t\.S has a new job - she is working in children's publishing at Putnam and Grosset in New York City.

Sl;l,~ Was recently promoted to the position of assistant marketing services manager.

MIMI GATCHELL recently surfaced in New York City. She and HOLLY DECKER conference-called me one day - it was pretty exciting! Mimi is a group tour coordinator for Academic Arrangements .1\broad.

As for me (and the rest: of you, I assume) , .. life remains the same. So long until next quarter!

Class Agents: Olive L. Cobb William Markowitz Elizabeth B. Peishoff

Ellen Garrity 3800 Canterbury Rd. Baltimore, MD 21218 Welcome back to the Reporter! Yes, we've managed to track you down even though you never returned your alumni update card or bothered to inform the College of your latest move and/or ca.- . reer change. Keep in mind that my spies lurk everywhere. You may try to avoid them.but we will find out where you are and what you are doing. You cannot hide!

When you read this it will be July. I'm trying to think summery thQughts but as I write this(it's the middle of April) the weather is ;far from summerlike. We haven't had much of a spring here. ActuaUy it seems more like winter than spring, And I have a cold. Even when tlie weathel' is ·not particularly springlike the start of the baf%ebal~ season usually reminds.me that summer is on its way. But this year is different. The 1988 basebalL season has not been good to those of us in Baltimore. To date rrly beloved Orioles have yet to win a game. No wonder it doesn't seem like spring! I hope that by the time you read thit; in July the Orioles will have managed to win a few games. I don't think I have to worry about the weather warming up!

This quarter's column is relatively short. Surely you are all relieved to hear that after the previous two monstrosities. I've also changed the format; this time it'-s arranged alphabetically (more or less) instead of geographically. What do you think of that? Other formats that I considered included birthdays, f-avorite drinks, zodiac signs, and zip codes, but I opted for an alphabetical format as it wl}S the easiest to do.

Onto Class news ...

Starting out with news from Down Under . .. SCOTT AKERS is a telemarketing manger for RNR, a direct marketing firm in New South Wales, Australia.

BILL BITTERLI tells me that ''nothing thrilling" has happenea to him lately.

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He still works for Conning and Company in Hartford.

Class President MISSY BRONZINO plans to begin studying toward her master's degree this fall. Missy has been accepted into the University of Vermont's program in college student personnel/ higher education administration. She will also be a hall adviser assistant there for the next two years. Missy returned to Trinity in February to judge the 1988 Mr. Student Body Contest with MARK CASP ARINO. Mark crowned the new Mr. Student Body, JEFF KRIEBEL '88.

Missy sends more news of other '87ers: LIZ KRIKORIAN will return to school this fall. Liz expects to receive her teacher certification that will enable her to teach elementary school. MICHAEL SOLOMITA is waiting to hear from several graduate programs in clinical engineering. At present he is working at Hartford Hospital. Mike helped the Trinity hockey team to yet another successful season. GREG RICHARDSON is teaching at the Fessenden School in West Newton, MA. CLINT ANGEL is teaching third and fourth grade outside Atlantic City, NJ. DAVE McCLUSKEY is working for The Travelers Insurance Company. He lives in Providence, RI. MARION HAMBLETT is living in Simsbury, CT and works for CIGNA in Bloomfield. MELISSA FARLEY is keeping busy these days ... not only is she working at the Connecticut State Capitol, but also for The Hartfor-d Courant. SHARON LARSON SCHMIDT and her husband, Greg, recently returned from a business trip to St. Croix. TYLER VARTENIGIAN continues to work for Aetna Life and Casualty but he has been transferred to the Pittsburgh office of Aetna. JON POTTER has been working for and organizing events for the mentally and physically retarded of New York State. TOM REGAN is working for the Coro Foundation in New York.

He has been working on the Paul Simon Presidential Campaign in Connecticut.

PATTY CHEN is teaching English in Taiwan. She recently visited the Phillipines and decided to extend her tour of the Far East. JENNIFER NAHAS has left the March of Dimes and is presently working for the mayor of Boston.

NANCY GOLDING still finds time to take a spring break in Florida with friends from G. Fox. CALEB BROOKS has moved to San Francisco. He is working in a bookstore there.

PUTNAM COES is working on George Bush's presidential campaign in Connecticut.

LISA CORRIN works for the Cambridge Co-Op, a daycare center in the Boston area. She also has an internship at a magazine (at least that's what I think my handwriting says!).

JOHN DALSHEIM is a sugar trader for Shearson-Lehman-Hutton in New York City. What a sweet job ...

ANISHA DAYAL continues to keep me informed of '87 news in the Boston area. She tells me that GEOFF JUDGE still works for Digital Equipment and that BARRY FREEDMAN finished his first year of law school at Boston University and expects to work for a Boston law firm over the summer. Anisha ran into AURA DESCHAMPS when she was visiting the Boston area. Anisha saw ELLEN ANDERSON in New York City.

All are doing fine, according to Anisha.

JOHN DeCESARE is a computer design engineer at GTech, the world leader of on-line lottery systems. The lottery terminals in Connecticut and Washington, D.C. are designed by GTech. John writes, "Unfortunately I can no longer play but. don't ask for the numbers (even I don't know)." He lives in Warwick, RI. STEPHANIE DECKER has taken off to Paris. Before her departure, Stephanie told me that ANITA WALIA is terrorizing New York City. Anita lives with LYNNE SAWYER and still works for Bloomingdale's. Stephanie saw DAVID RUBINGER at the Baja Club in New York City. David continues to work for McGraw Hill.

DIANE DEROS completed her first year of law school at the University of Maryland. Diane plans to keep herself quite busy this summer. Not only is she a law clerk at a downtown Baltimore firm, but she also is the recipient of the Asper Fellowship at the Departments of Justice/Immigration and Naturalization Services.

JEFF DURMER has moved from New Jersey to Jacksonville, FL. He is a high school and junior high school science teacher. He is also head crew coach ... but Jeff forgot to say where he is teaching and coaching!

SCOTT EVOY is engaged to ALEX STEINERT '86 (see Engagements). Scott is a research analyst in New Haven.

RUSTY FEARING lives with DAVID BLATTNER in the Boston area. Rusty works for the Bank of New England.

JOANNE GALLO sent me an update of her life in Japan (or, as she calls it, the land of the rising yen). Joanne is teaching English in Japan. She writes, "Japan continues to fascinate me." She hopes to see everyone at Homecoming this fall upon her return to the United States.

WENDY GOODRICH is a shareholder rep at the X Scudder Fund in Boston.

Wendy tells me that she often sees FRED PARSON '85.

JAMIE HARPER spent the first part of his summer teaching a summer course at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, NY. Jamie was invited to design an art history course for seventh to 12th graders enrolled in the summer program. Jamie entitled liis course "Art Hysteria: Out and About in the Art World." Jamie expects to spend the rest of his summer in Boston.

BILL HATCH sends news from the land of spuds ... Bill left London in February and, after traveling cross country, he settled in Ketchum, ID. He is an ad salesman and creative consultant for the Idaho Mountain Express.

JOANNE JACOBSON is promotion director of professional publications at Bob Adams Inc. in Boston. Joanne lives with KATIE TOPPER in Brookline, MA. Katie just landed a job as a sales associate with Kidder Peabody in Boston.

Katie ran into DAVE STEDT and CHRIS LARSIN in Boston. Both Dave and Chris traveled through Europe this past fall. Dave traveled with WILL PICULLEL; Chris traveled with BILL EASTBURN. JOHN KAIL is a group representative with the Prudential Insurance Company in New York City.

I got a postcard from JULIE KIM in March. She went to Rio de Janeiro on her vacation. Julie enjoyed "the fun, the

sun, and hot night life of Rio. It's Vl~ld here." Julie still works for Bank of New England and lives with MARIA RODRIGUEZ in Newton Centre, MA. DEBBIE LIANG really is in Taiwan now. She is teaching English in Taipei and traveling throughout the Orient.

BILL MANGER is taking courses at New York University toward his real estate license. Despite academic responsibilities, Bill has found time to travel to Mexico and Ireland, go skiing, and write to YOUR FAITHFUL SECRETARY. PHOEBE McBRIDE spent six months as an acting apprentice at the Cleveland Playhouse, the oldest repertory company in the country. Phoebe writes that "I have learned a great deal working in professional theater and I am glad to have this opportunity." Phoebe looks forward to returning east for the summer.

BETSY McKAY has spent the summer at a program for teaching in North Carolina. She will return to Worcester Academy in the fall and continue to teach French and coach soccer.

LISA McNAMARA is assistant director for the Courageous Sailing Center.

ED MEYERCORD works for Mademoiselle magazine and also lives in New York City.

ISABELLE PARSONS left Trinity's office of residential services in June. She plans to spend the summer in Maine before moving to New York City this fall Isabelle tells me that anyone with jobhunting hints should get in touch with her.

ANNE PERCY was appointed public relations account executive at Maher/ Boston, Inc. Anne will work on agency promotion and several accounts including Coleman Hunting and Shooting Sports Group and Classic Doubles International. Before joining Maher/Boston, Anne was special events coordinator at the Hartford Downtown Council.

SOPHIE PORTER left Boston and has returned home to Wilmington.

MARC RASHBA writes: "It seems as though a couple of members of the Sigma Nu fraternity are living in the Los Angeles area. JOHN DUGGAN is at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu. RAY FALTINSKY, who will be entering Yale in the fall, is presently living in Hollywood, just hanging out. JIM MURPHY is working for a law firm in downtown Los Angeles. As for myself, I am working for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. After just recently finishing postproduction work on 'Empire of the Sun' and 'Batteries Not Included,' I have begun pre-production on the last of the Indiana Jones movies."

SKIPPY REDMON has left Ralph Lauren/Polo and is now working for Seventeen magazine.

VI.CTOR RHEE works for Keefe, Bruyette, and Woods in New York City.

Victor works in the bank watch department. I understand that he also did some modeling on the West Coast in April.

CHIP RHODES works for a news路 ' paper in New London, CT. 路 .

ERIC SCHEYER is a research analyst with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York City.

TED SHANNON is a sales representative with Conte! Computer Systems in Bedford, NH. JOHN THEODORACOPULOS has distinguished himself as the first mem-

ber of our Class quoted in The New York Times. He was quoted on December 27, 1987.

JIM TOMLINSON can also be found in New York City. He is working for Banker's Trust.

DEBBIE WHITE is director of public relations for Community Assistance for the Retarded and Handicapped (CARR), a non-profit organization in Castro Valley, CA which serves the mentally retarded, elderly, and convalescent hospitals. "I just really love my job," Debbie says. Debbie tells me that her wedding plans for her September 17 wedding to Gary S. Spenik U.S.C.G. are coming along. "It will be a very Trinity wedding," she says. Debbie also tells me that LISA HOWELL moved to Colorado this summer.

HOPE WILLIAMS left Washington, D.C. in early March and spent six weeks traveling cross country. Hope saw BETSY JONES in Chicago, MP STEVENS and ANNE SCRIBNER in Colorado, Bill Hatch in Ketchum, ID and Debbie Liang in San Francisco.

ALEX WOODFORD works for the New Jersey State Council for the Arts.

And now a few words from our sponsor, the Alumni Office ...

TOM SWIERS has finished the 1987 Ivy. It is scheduled to be shipped in June.

The Ivy will be shipped to whatever address the College has on file for you. So, if you've moved and haven't informed the College of your whereabouts please let the Alumni Office or your class secretary know where you are.

Some further information on Classmates: LISA CADETTE notes that she just started work in the Harvard development office. She is living with ERICA LEWIS and GINNY VOGEL in Cambridge and "loving it."

ART FITZGERALD is studying for his J.D. degree at Suffolk University Law School.

Having sold the D & D Package Store, TOM REILEY is back in the retail liquor business at Riley's Liquor Store in Vernon, CT. GINNY ROWAN writes that she is living in New York City and working at Morgan Stanley as a sellside assistant in the mergers and acquisitions department. She sends news of several classmates. She saw Chris Larsin and Bill Eastburn the night before they were headed for four months of European vacationing. She says ANN COLEMAN worked for NBC news this summer and is getting together a tape for TV reporting. MARO GYFTOPOULOS is teaching upper level French in Andover, NH at Proctor Academy. LANCE BABBIT is in his first year at Fordham Law in New York City and J.P. BRUYNES is at Vanderbilt Law in Tennessee. GREG MARIO is selling medical supplies outside of Boston.

In the fall DAN TIGHE was honored as the New England College Athletic Conference/Bank of Boston Male Athlete of the Year for Division III. EILEEN VARGAS is working toward her master's degree in French at Boston College and notes, "Boston is definitely the place to be!"

Some geographic trivia about our Class. What follows is the number of '87ers residing in each of the following metropolitan areas/regions/states.

Thanks to those of you who let the Col-. lege know where you are.

Hartford- 105, New York City- 92, Boston/Worcester - 87, Washington 19, Abroad- 16, Fairfield County13, New Haven- 10, Los Angeles- 7, Baltimore - 6, New London - 6, Chicago - 5, Providence - 5, San Francisco - 4, Philadelphia - 4, Cleveland- 3, Denver- 3, North Carolina - 2, Atlanta - 2, Pittsburgh - 2, Seattle - 1, Assorted boondocks - 71.

Anyone interested in assisting LEE COFFIN '85 with young alumni activities in Boston, Chicago, Washington or Los Angeles should get in touch with him at the College alumni office.

If you've moved to a new city or are planning such a move and ro路e in need of a roommate and/or apartment, don't forget about YARN (Young Alumni Roommate Network). You can find out more about YARN from Lee Coffin, too.

Have a good summer!

And last but not least, write to your secretary.

Class Agents: Laura E. Danford John Doggett Isabelle C. Parsons Masters

1962 Since 1984 CLARENCE GAY has been retired from teaching at Hartford's Institute of Living High School. Since then he has traveled in many areas of the world including a recent trip to Finnish Lapland. He is currently planning a tour of Israel and Egypt.

1969 On March 9 RET. COLONEL ANTHONY H. SHOOKUS was inducted into the United States Army Field Artillery OCS Hall of Fame. He traveled out to Fort Sill, OK for the induction ceremony. "They revived the horse-drawn artillery for the ceremony and treated me like a VIP," he said.

1974 GUNNAR OVERSTROM has been named a corporator at Hartford Hospital.

1981 GREGORY ZIEMAK, assistant chief of the Connecticut State Lottery, has been awarded the Homer Babbidge Fellowship for the 1987-1988 academic year. The Fellowship, offered each year by the Hartford Graduate Center to the State of Connecticut, is for a one-year program culminating in a master of science degree in management.

HONORARII 1967 On April 19, VERNON DAVIS ROOSA was honored at Stanadyne Inc. in Windsor, CT for designing a diesel fuel injection pump which has been recognized as having revolutionized diesel power. The pump has been designated a National Engineering Landmark.

1986 STEPHEN JOEL TRACHTENBERG has been named president of George Washington University and will assume his new position on August 1.

In Memory

JOSEPH ANTHONY RACIOPPI B.A. 1917, M.A. 1920, D.D. 1957 The Rev. Joseph A. Racioppi of Bridgeport, CT die!l on January 30, 1988.

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Born in New York, NY, he graduated from the Ethical Culture School there and attended the College of the City of New York before matriculating at Trinity where was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

He was also vice president of the debating association, chairman of the YMCA social services committee, active in senior dramatics, and recipient of the Greek Prize. He delivered the Class Day and Commencement orations. He received his B.A. degree in 1917 and his M.A. degree in 1920, both from Trinity. In 1920 he received his B.D. degree from General Theological Seminary. He also studied abroad at the Waldensian Theological Seminary and at the Reale Instituto di Studi Superior de Firenze. Trinity awarded him the honorary doctor of divinity degree in 1957. He was a member of the medical corps in Wo~ld War I. After his ordination, he served in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1921.

He organized and built St. Michael's Mission. In 1930 he became rector of Trinity Church in Bridgeport, retiring in 1968.

He held several elective offices in the .diocese of Connecticut, including membership in the executive council; deputy to the provincial synod, cathedral chapter; president of the standing committee, archdeacon of Fairfield. He was a member and served as an officer in many community organizations including Family Society, Mental Hygiene Society, Community Chest, Red Cross, Boys' Club, University Club of Bridgeport, Fairfield Beach Club and the Fairfield County Hunt Club.

Among his survivors are a son, Trubee G. '51, of Wayne, NJ; a daughter, Anita R. Craven, of Wayland, MA; and five grandchildren, including Trubee G., Jr. '84.

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CLINTON BOWEN FISK BRILL, 1919 C.B. Fisk Brill of Tallahassee, FL died on February 9, 1988. He was 94.

Born in Mt. Union, P A, he graduated from Danville High School in Danville, P A before attending Bloomsburg State Teachers College. In 1922 he received his B.S. degree from Trinity where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He subsequently attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

During World War II he managed construction projects in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. He was discharged with the rank of colonel.

From 1957 to 1960, he was chairman of the New York Thruway Authority and also served in a broader capacity overseeing state construction projects for Governors W. Averell Harriman and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Before and after his state service he established, alone or with partners, architectural and engi-

neering companies that engaged in a variety of design work on public and private projects, including the Triborough Bridge, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and Idlewild Airport, now Kennedy International Airport.

A loyal Trinity alumnus, he had served as secretary of his Clas!;; for many years.

In addition, he was a member of the nominating committee of the National Alumni Association and the advisory committee of the Albany Alumni Association.

He leaves his wife, Elizabeth Klapp Brill, of Tallahassee, FL; a stepdaughter, Margaret Olwell, of Sausalito, CA; a stepson, Oliver Scholle, of Hillsborough, CA; six step-grandchildren; and one stepgreat-grandchild.

ARTHUR BUDDENBERG CONRAD, 1924 Arthur B. Conrad of New Port Richey, FL died on March 2, 1988. He was 93.

Born in Elizabeth, NJ, he graduated from Battin High School in that city before attending Trinity where he received his B.S. degree in 1924. Subsequently, he received his M.A. degree from Columbia University. He also attended the Graduate School of Education at Yale University.

He had served as an administrative assistant to the president of the University of Hartford.

He was charter president of Charter : Oak Kiwanis Club and a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management.

He leaves his wife, Katherine Meagher Conrad, of New Port Richey, FL; and a sister, Mrs. Carlton Garey, of Paoli, PA.

9., MOSES DAVID LISCHNER, 1925 Moses D. Ljschner of Bloomfield, CT died on March 8, 1988. He was 84.

Born in London, England, he graduated from Hartford Public High School in Hartford, CT before attending Trinity where he was a member of the Glee Club, Senate, and the basketball team. He received his B.S. degree from Trinity in 1926 and his M.D. degree from Yale University in 1930.

He subsequently interned at Grace Hospital in New Havan, CT and did his residency at New York Foundling Hospital in New York City. In 1935 he began his private pediatric practice in Hartford, retiring in 1978.

He was a member of the city, county and state medical ' societies, the American Medical Association, and.the Hezekiah Beardsley Pediatric Society, as well as Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford.

Surviving are his wife, Freda Levy Lischner, of Bloomfield, CT; a son, Dr. Mark Lischner; two grandchildren; and a sister.

NICHOLAS WILLIAM MANOCCHIO, 1926 Nicholas W. Manocchio of Unionville, CT died on January 31, 1988. He was 83.

Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Collegiate Preparatory School in New Haven, CT, before attending Trinity where he was production manager of the Jesters, a member of the junior ban-

quet committee, the junior prom committee, the Ivy board, and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He received his B.A. degree from Trinity in 1927.

Upon graduation he became a stockbroker at Paine Webber in Hartford. He subsequently joined Allen, Russell and Allen Inc. as an insurance agent and later became affiliated with Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. He qualified for numerous Million Dollar Round Table awards.

Before World War II he was a member of the unit that became known as the Governor's Horse Guard in Hartford. He served in Europe with the Army during the War and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel with decorations.

In 1941 he was president of the Community Chest in Hartford. He was involved with the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and was a member of the vestry of St. John's Church in West Hartford, and the University Club.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth Covert Manocchio, of Unionville, CT; two daughters, Jan Hickcox, of West Hartford, CT, and Jean Barton, of Avon, CT; and two grandchildren.

KENNETH WILLARD STUER, 1926 Kenneth W. Stuer of Houston, TX died on March 4, 1988. He was 82.

Born in Lawrence, MA, he graduated from Edward F. Searles High School in Methuen, MA before attending Trinity where he was a member of the football team and vice president of the sophomore class. In 1925 he received his B.A. degree with honors from Trinity.

He was an executive with Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Aetna Insurance Company and American International Insurance Group, specializing in ocean marine insurance. In 1957 he joined Langham, Langston and Dyer in Houston, TX. In 1962 he formed his own insurance .company which he continued to .operate until1978. From 1978 to 1988 he served as one of the founders and secretarytreasurer of Conessa, a Peruvian shipping company; the Saudi Arabian Construction and Industrial Complex; and, most recently, Corsair Aircraft Sales, Inc., of Houston.

He had been a founder of, and twice served as warden at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Houston; for most of its existence he was also the chief lay reader.

He was a member of Arabia Temple, various Scottish Rite bodies and the Wall Street Club. He was a charter member of the Houston World Trade Association, and president of the Texas International Trade Association at the time of San Antonio's Hemisfair when that organization had its highest membership enrollment.

Among his survivors are his wife, Sandra Reynolds Stuer, of Cypress, TX; a daughter, Charlotte Gregoire; and two sons, Kenneth, Jr. '54, and Eric; and eight grandchildren.

FRANK PERCY BLOODGOOD, JR., 1927 Frank P. Bloodgood, Jr. ofWestHartford, CT died on March 14, 1988. He was 82.

Born in New York, NY, he graduated

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from Trinity School in that city before attending Trinity with the Class of 1927.

At Trinity he. was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the basketball and baseball teams. He subsequently attended Columbia University.

He had been employed as an investment broker until his retirement.

A longtime active member of St. James Episcopal Church in West Hartford, CT, he had served as senior warden there.

He was pre-deceased by a son, Frank P. '50. He is survived by his wife, Bernice Carter Bloodgood, of West Hartford, CT; a so;n, John H. Bloodgood '54, M.A. '63, of West Hartford, CT; a stepdaughter, Carolyn R. Roberts, of Manhattan Beach, CA; and six grandchildren.

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WI{JLIAM FREDERICK EVEN, 1928 William F. Even of Watch Hill, RI died on March 18, 1988. He was 83.

Born ·in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Hartford Public High School before attending Trinity where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the track team, and the football team which he captained his senior year. He was also president of his sophomore class, and president of both the student body and the Senate in 19.28. He was appointed to deliver the valedictory address at Commencement, and he also served as Class Day statistician. He received his B.S. degree in 1928.

He worked for Southern New England Telephone for 32 years until his retirement in 1960 when he moved to Watch Hill,RI. He is survived by' his wife, Catherine Lehmann Even, of Watch Hill, RI; two daughters, Nancy Reindel, of San Diego, CA, and Jean Chichester, of New Britain, CT; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

WILLIAM FRANKLIN JUDGE, 1928 William F. Judge of Campton, NH died on December 3, 1987. He was 81.

Born in Lynn, MA, he graduated from Holderness School in Plymouth, NH before attending Trinity. He :received his B.A. d¢gree in 1935.

He received his M.A. degree from the University of Michigan in 1937 and also did graduate work at Boston and Harvard universities. He subsequently studied at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, MA, and was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood. He served as a D.S. Navy chaplain in World War II. From 1929 to 19.31 he taught at Bancroft School in Worcester, MA and at Holderness School from 1931-1944. He was chaplain and teacher at Manlius School in Manlius, NY from 1947-1953.

In 1953 he returned to Holderness as chaplain and teacher of Latin and Greek, and as a coach of basketball, football and track. He retired in 1969. · He served as summer vicar of the chapel at Bretton Woods, NH for 20 years. He also served as vicar for the Church of the Holy Spirit in Plymouth, NH. He was chairman of the Thornton Conservation Committee, a member of the American Classical League and a past member ofthe Naval Reserve. He served in missions at the Thornton School for 12 years beginning in 1933.

Surviving are his wife, Ella Butland Judge, of Campton, NH, and a sister.

NORMAND WILFRED DES CHAMPS, 1930 Normand W. Des Champs of Tucson, AZ died on February 7, 1988. He was 80.

Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Hartford Public High School be~ fore attending College of the Holy Cross.

He subsequently transferred to Trinity where he was a member of Delta Phi fraternity. He received his B..A. degree in 1930.

He served in the Navy as division beach communication officer at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and in 1943 he was in the Naval Reserve.

In 1947 he established an office as a public accountant and tax consultant in La Jolla, CA. He retired and moved to Tucson, AZ in 1986.

An avid sailor, he had been a member of Mission Bay Yacht Club for 30 years.

He also belonged to the La Jolla Rotary Club. · · Surviving are his son, Bruce, of Tucson, AZ; a daughter, Marcia Robinson, of La Jolla, CA; seven grandchildren; and two sisters.

EUGENE ADDISON DURAND, 1931 Eugene A. Durand of Dewey, AZ.died on March 27, 1988. He was 78.

Born in Pompton Lakes, NJ, he graduated from Trinity School in New York, NY before attending Trinity where he was co-captain of the football team, and a member of the Sophomore Dining Club, the Senate and SigmaNu fraternity. He received his B.A. degree in 1931.

Upon graduation he worked for many years for the New York consulting firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis for which he traveled extensively to supervise proje.cts in Pakistan and Spain, among other places.

He was awarded the Purple Heart during World War II when he was a sergeant with the Tenth Mountain Division in Italy.

He is survived by his wife, Helen Durand, of Dewey, AZ. ALLEN SCOTT MEIER, B.S. 1932, M.S.1933 Allen S. Meier of Hamden, CT died on Aprilll, 1988. He was 77.

Born .in Windsor, CT, he graduated from Windsor High School before attending Trinity where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity ; the footba1!, basketball and baseball teams; the Senate; and Medusa. He was captain of the foot~ ball team ih 1931. He received his B.S. degree in 1932 and his M.S. degree in 1933, both from Trinity.

He served in the U.S. Coast ArtilleryJ the Signal Corps, the Army Air Corps, and was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve.

In 1973 he 'retired from Sargent and Company, a lock manufacturing firm in New Haven, CT. He had been employed therefor 27 years, attaining the position of vice president and manager of product development.

He leaves a brother, Harry F. Meier, of Kalamazoo, MI. CHARLES AUGUSTUS PRATT, JR., 1933 Charles A. Pratt, Jr. of Dunedin, FL died on February 7, 1988. He was 82.

Born in New Bedford, MA, he graduated fr.om the Loomis School in Windsor, CT before attending Trinity where he received his B.S. degree in 1933. He also attended Harvard University, Class of 1928, and William and Mary College.

He was on the faculty of the Loomis School, now known as Loomis Chaffee School, as coach, mathematics teacher and dean of students from 1929 until his retirement in 1970.

He had also served as director of the Harvard Alumni Association Board, and alumni secretary for the Loomis Alumni Association.

Surviving are his wife, Sylvia Gorton Pratt, of Dunedin, FL; two sons, Philip G., of Lawrenceville, NJ, and Charles A. III, of Dunedin, FL; a brother; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

at Fort Monroe, VA. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major.

He became a mortgage officer and assistant to the vice president at Empire City Savings Bank and, at the time of his retirement in 1979, was vice president of Heritage Bank North in Morristown, NJ. He was a member of Jepthah Lodge, F. & A.M., Rockaway, and O.D.E. St. Arnaud Commandry, Morristown, of which he was past commander. He was a former president of the Morris County Heart Association.

Surviving are his wife, Kaylen Forbes Ayres, of Denville, NJ; a daughter, Margaret of Randolph Township, NJ; a brother; and two grandchildren.

DONALD GRAHAM HURD, 1935 Donald G. Hurd of Whittier, CA died on October 26, 198'7. He was 75~ Born in Woburn, MA, he graduated from Central High School in Springfiela, MA before attending Trinity where he was a member of the Athenaeum, the Jesters and the Commons Club, and on the board of the Tripod and the l1Y!J. He received his B.A. degree in 1936.

Before moving to California in 1953 he worked at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for ten years. In California he became the proprietor of Custom Picture Framing, which he managed 20 years before .retiring in 1978.

He is survived by his wife, Jessica F. Thompson Hurd, of Whittier, CA; a son, Peter, of Newark, CA; and five grandchildren.

JAMES JACK SHARKEY, 1933 J. Jack Sharkey of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY died on March G, 1988. He was 78.

Born in Newark, NJ, he graduated from Columbia High School in Maple' wood, NJ, before attending Trinity where he was a . member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He•received his B.A. degree in 1933 from Trinity, and his B.D. degree from Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, MAin 1936.

He served .as rector at St. Paul's Church in Englewood, NJ from 1936 to 1939, and at Sts. James and Luke Church in Glastonbury, CT from 1940-194.3.

During World War U, he was a chaplain in.the Naval Reserve aboard the USS Honolulu in the South Pacific. He attained the rank' of lieutenant comWALLACE BOYD HOUSTON, 1936 mander and received a Bronze Star and Wallace B. Houston of Lititz, P A died a Purple Heart. From 1948 to 1954 he on March 12, 1987. He was 75. served in the Naval Reserve in the BorJ! in. Philadelphia, P A, he graduUnited States. ated from Valley Forge Military AcadHe was rector at St. Thomas Church emy in Wayne, PA before attending in Bethel, CT from 191.[5 to 1950 and at Trinity with the Class of 1936. He subZion Church in Wappingers Falls, NY sequently attended Philadelphia Divinfrom 1950-1959. From 1959 to 1975 he , ity School. was rector at St. Paul's Church on the During World War II he served "-'ith HilLin Ossining, NY where he had been the Merchant Marine. He was associated rector emeritus since 1975. with the Good Samaritan Church in PaHe had served as assisting priest at St. oli, PA and retired in 1977. He then beMark's Episcopal Church in Yonkers, NY came assistant to the rector of St. John's since 1980. He was an honorary canon at Episcopal Church in Lancaster, PA. Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-auAn Eagle Scout, he was a cha~rter Prince, Haiti where he raised money to member of Paoli Troop 1 and helped orhelp build several churches and clinics. ganize Troop 82 in Downingtown. He .

A member ofvarious diocesan commit" was past president of the Downingtown tees, he served as secretary of the DiocLions Club and of the Downingtown Hisesan Convention of New York from1975 torical Society. to 1977.

Surviving are his wife, Cirace Walton Surviving are two sisters, Mary Pratt, Houston; of Lititz, PA; a son, John W., of Thomaston, ME, and Joan Parsil,wof of Lititz, P A; a grandson; three brothBeach Haven, NJ. ers; and a sister.

DANIEL MIDDLETON AYRES, 1935 Daniel M. Ayres of Denville, NJ died on February 23, 1983. He was 68.

Born in New York, NY, he graduated from Trinity School in that city before attending Trinity with the Class of 1935.

He was a member of Delta Phi fraternity. In 1936 he graduated from New York State Maritime College.

He subsequently was employed by Empire State Savings Bank in New York City before entering the Army in 1941.

He served as unit commander at various anti-aircraft training centers throughout the U.S.A. and for two years was on the faculty of the Coast Artillery School

WILLYS RICHARD PETERSON 1938, M.A. 1950 Willys R. Peterson of West Hartford, CT died on February 12, 1988. He was 72.

Borq in Hartford, GT, he graduated from Weaver High School before attending Trinity where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity; the track team, and Pi Gamma Mu honorary society. Hereceived his B.A. degree in 1938 and his M.A. degree in 1950, both from Trinity; in 1951 he received his M.A. degree from Yale University.

A Navy veteran of World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater. He retired

from the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1975 as a commander.

He had been a training supervisor at Hamilton Standard Division of United Technologies until his retirement in 1977.

He was a member of the Farmington Valley Stamp Club and attended the F lagg Road United Church of Christ in West Hartford.

Surviving are his wife, Eleanor Brink Peterson, of West Hartford, CT; a son, W. Richard, of E ssex, CT; a daughter, Hollis A. Lorch, of West Hartford, CT; and five grandchildren.

HERBERT REMINGTON BLAND, 1940 Herbert R. Bland of Meredith, NH died on April12, 1988. He was 69.

Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Hall High School in West Hartford before attending Trinity where he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and business manager of the College newspaper. He received his B.S. degree in 1940.

From 1941 to 1945 he served with the U.S . Army Air Corps in the South Pacific. At the time of his release from active duty he was a first lieutenant.

He worked at Aetna Casualty and Surety Company in Hartford from 1946 to 1952. In 1952 he was employed at R.C. Knox and Company Insurance Agency where he became managing partner in 1954 and president and treasurer in 1979. He retired in 1983.

Among his many affiliations were memberships in the Greater Hartford Community Chest Drive, where he was chairman of the Individual Subscriber Section; the Greater Hartford YMCA, which he served as president; the Casualty and Surety Association of Connecticut, which he served as president; the Connecticut Association of Independent Insurance Agents, which he served as president; St. John's Church, where he served on the vestry and as senior warden; the Republican Party, where he was on t he Health and Welfare Subcommittee, and the State Progress Committee.

A loyal Trinity alumnus, he served as a class agent, on the Junior Board of Fellows, as alumni trustee, vice chairman and chairman of the Alumni Fund, and vice president of the Alumni Association. In 1958 he received the Trinity Club of Hartford Outstanding Alumnus Award, and in 1965, the Trinity College Alumni Medal.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Bowman Bland, of Meredith, NH; two daughters, Betty Homeyer, of West Chesterfield, NH, and Nancy Wadhams, of Simsbury, CT; a brother; and five grandchildren.

JOSEPH ANTHONY CLAP IS, 1941 Joseph A. Clapis of Hartford, CT died on April 7, 1988. He was 69.

Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Hartford Public High School be" fore attending Trinity where he was a member of the Newman and Glee Clubs and the track team. He received his B.A. degree from Trinity in 1941 and his M.A. degree from Columbia University in 1947. He also studied at Harvard University.

He was a World War II veteran of the Army Air Force, having served as a navigator-first lieutenant.

He worked for the State Department of Mental Health for 35 years, retiring in 1980 as chief statistician. For 13 years he also taught evening courses in statistics at the University of Hartford.

A communicant of Our Lady of Sorrows Church, he was also a member of the Parkville Senior Center where he was an active volunteer.

He leaves his wife, Margaret Rode Clapis, of Hartford, CT; five sons, Paul, of Newtown, CT, Michael, Jerome, Leonard and Philip, all of Hartford, CT; three daughters, Christine Hovey of Hebron, CT, Rosanne Santos, of Farmington, CT, and Phyllis Clapis, of South Hadley, MA; and three grandchildren.

he was a member of Alpha Delta Pi fraternity. He received his B.S. degree in 1948. In 1952 he received his D.D.S. degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry.

He served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart.

In 1957 he established his dental practice in Dansville, NY. He was a member of the Dansville Presbyterian Church, Daniel Goho American Legion Post, Dansville Lions Club, Protectives Fire Co., the Geneseo Warplanes Museum organization and the American Dental Association.

He is survived by a daughter, Penny Hinds, of Dansville, NY; a son, David, of Dansville, NY; three brothers; and three grandchildren.

JOHN COLEMAN KILEY, JR., 1941 John C. Kiley, Jr. of Chestnut Hill and Osterville, MA died on March 4, 1987.

He was 69.

Born in Boston, MA, he graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA before attending Trinity with the Class of 1941. At Trinity he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.

During World War II he served in the Navy, rising to the rank of commander.

He was a director of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, Historic Boston, and the Bostonian Society, which he also served as president. He was a member of the Country Club of Brookline, MA. Surviving are his wife, Edith Moir Kiley, of Chestnut Hill and Osterville, MA; three daughters, Sheila Largay, of Connecticut, Joan Partridge, of New Hampshire, Elizabeth Ladd, of Belmont, MA; two sons, John C. III '72 of Marblehead, MA, and Thomas of Vermont; a 'ister; and nine grandchildren.

MICHAEL RICHARD MAGARIAN, 1946 Michael R. Magarian of Newington, CT died on February 13, 1988. He was 65.

Born in New Britain, CT, he graduated from high school there, before attending Trinity with the Class of 1946.

He was the founder and owner of the Vinyl Supply Co. Surviving are his wife, Rosine Jevardian Magarian, of Newington, OT; two sons, Michael R. and Jeffrey J.; a daughter, Christine R.; and a brother.

ERIC PIERCE, 1944 Eric Pierce of Milton, MA died onJanuary 7, 1987. He was 66.

Born in Boston, MA, he graduated from the Brooks School in North Andover, MA before attending Trinity with the Class of 1944. At Trinity he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. He subsequently attended Babson College.

During World War II he was a member ofthe Merchant Marine.

He retired as senior vice president from the Boston investment firm, Eaton and Vance, where he had been employed for 39 years.

He was a senior warden of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Milton, MA and a treasurer of the Briarwood Episcopal Conference Center in the M.onument Beach section of Bourne, MA. He is survived by his wife, Virginia Wright Pierce, of Milton, MA; two daughters, Virginia, of Washington, and Lee, of Keene, NH; a son, Eric V. , of Marion, MA; a sister; and two grand路 sons.

GEORGE WALTER SHERA, JR., 1944 G. Walter Shera, Jr. of Dansville, NY died on September 25, 1987. He was 65.

Born in New York, NY, he graduated from Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, NY before attending Trinity where

RICHARD FRANCIS MASTRONARDE, 1948 Richard F. Mastronarde of Concord, CA died on February 2, 1988. He was 64.

Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Hartford High School before attending Trinity where he received his B.A. degree in 1948. In 1950 he received his M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.

While living in Hartford, he was a social worker for the Hartford Board of Education and Catholic Family Services.

He served as the director of the Department of Social Services for the City of Hartford and also worked for the State Department of Mental Retardation.

Surviving are his wife, Salvatrice Carpino Mastronarde, of Concord, CA; five sons, Richard, of Portland, OR, Thomas, of South Windsor, CT, Donald, of Albany, CA, Steven, of Oakland, CA, and David, of Boulder, CO; five grandchildren; a brother; and three sisters.

PHILIP BLAKESLEE HALE , 1949 Philip B. Hale of Norfolk, CT died on March 15, 1988. He was 64.

Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from Kent School before attending Trinity where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He received his B.A. degree in 1949.

During World War II he served with the Army's 101st Infantry Division. He received the Purple Heart, Distinguished Unit Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Victory Medal, American Theatre Campaign and European-African Mid-Eastern Theatre Campaign Ribbons.

He was employed in 194.8 by the origi-

nal owner of Channel 30 and also worked for WRYM and WRCH Radio. In 1953 ,he signed on with WKNB-TV Channel 30, now WVIT, in Hartford. He was the morning radio personality for WKNB radio and became Channel 30's film director when the station began telecasting in 1953. He continued with radio duties with WKNB for several years. He was a commercial and program announcer on Channel 30, serving as host for early TV shows and "The Late Show" movie programs. He had worked in Connecticut for 40 years.

Surviving are his wife, Barbara Lowry Hale, of Norfolk, CT; two daughters, Sandra Lee, of Key West, FL, and Pennie Dubourg, of East Litchfield, CT; three sons, Philip, Jr., with the Army in Germany, Peter, of Banks, OR, and Patrie, of New York, NY; five grandchildr:en; and a sister.

THORNTON ROBERT LANDERS , 1951 T. Robert Landers of Madison, CT died on November 22, 1987. He was 59.

Born in Brockton, MA, he graduated from St. George's School in Newport, RI before attending Trinity where he received his B.S. degree in 1951. He subsequently attended the University of Pittsburgh.

Upon graduation from Trinity he was employed by Westinghouse Electric Co., serving in management and purchasing positions in the Pittsburgh, P A area and Lima, OH. In 1963 he became director of purchasing of supplies and equipment for the retail food organization, Kroger Co. He joined the P.D. George Co. of St. Louis, MO in 1972 and was the New England regional sales manager at the time of his death.

He leaves his wife, Florence Bower Landers, of Madison, CT; a son, Thornton, Jr., of New York City; and a daughter, Margaret A., of Bloomington, IN. JUSTIN NATHAN NORTHROP, 1952 Justin N. Northrop of Sharon Springs, NY died on August 11, 1987. He was 59.

Born in Delhi, NY, he graduated from Kent School in Kent, CT before attending Trinity where he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity . He received his B.A. degree in 1952.

He was employed as a sales manager for the microwave and tube department of the General Electric Company for 30 years, retiring in 1984.

A volunteer for the Community Hospital of Schoharie County and for the Cancer Society in Cobleskill, NY, he was also a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church where he was senior warden. In addition, he had been a vestryman at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Schenectady, NY. He is survived by his wife, Pauline Baier Northrop, of Sharon Springs, NY; a son, J. Ronald, of Rochester, NY; a daughter, Gail N. Biggerstaff, of Colonie, NY; four brothers; a sister; and three grandchildren.

ALEXANDER STUART HUNTER, 1954 A. Stuart Hunter of Old Lyme, CT died on January 7, 1987. He was 55.

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Born in Pittsburgh, P A, he graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, NH before attending "Trinity where he was a mep1ber of Psi Upsilon fraternity. He received his B.A. degree in 1954.

From 1954 to 1957 he was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of captain.

After his discharge he joined the International Salt Company in Clarks Summit, PA, and in 1964 he was appointed Boston district manager.

At the time of his death, he was a salesman for Spicer's Marina in Groton, CT. He leaves his mother, Marjorie H11n,ter, of Old Lyme, CT; two sons, Alexander Stuart, Jr., of Scottsdale, AZ, and James S., of Roswell, GA; and a sister.

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WILLIAM STEPHEN HUTHER, J956 Wmiam S. Ruther of Webster, NYdied on March 9, 1988. He was 53.

Born in Rochester, NY, he graduated from Allendale School there before attending Trinity with the Class of 1956.

At Trinity he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity arid the. Glee Club.

After leaving Trinity he joined Ruther Bros., Inc. in Rochester, NY, where he was se~retary and treasurev. · He was active in the Webster Presbyterian Church, the Webster amateur theater, and had been area director of tbe New York State Amateur Tlieater Association. He also was a board mem' ber of the E;nglish Speaking Union of Rochester. and had been an active member of the Rochester Rotary Club since 1959. He had served Boy Sc9ut Troop 262 as scoutmaster, and was unit commissioner, district commissioner, and later district chairman for the Arrow Head District in Webster, Fairport and Penfield. In 1988 lie received Boy Scouting'~ highest award, the Silver Beaver.

He leaves his wife, Carole Newberry Ruther, of Webster, 1\TY; two son9, William~ Jr., and John; a daughter, Susan; and a brother - all of..ftochester, NY.

SAMUEL HOGUE ELKIN, 1968 Samuel H. Elkin of Louisville, KY died on February 13, 1988. He was 41.

Born in Waynesburg, PA, he graduated from Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, P f.. before attending Trinity where he was a member of the varsity soccer and basketball tearns, the Senate, Medusa am} Sigma Nu fraternity. Hereceived his B.A. degree in 1968.

He had been a captain in the Marines.

A former attorney for Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay in Pittsburgh, PA, he had been a senior litigator for Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. He was a member of the Kentucky Bar,Association.

Surviving are. his wife, Judy Strohmeyer Elkin, and two sorts, James T. and Craig W., aH of Louisville, KY; his parents, James and Mahala Elltin, of Sun City West, AZ; and a brother.

MICHAEL WILLIAM O'ROURKE III, 1979 Michael W. O'Rourke III of Pawling, NY died on February 14, 1988. He was 30.

Born Proctor, VT, he graduated :from,Trinity-Pawling School in Pawlin,g,

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NY. ln 1979 he received his B.A. degree, from Trinity where he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.

A self-employed painting contractor, . he was the owner of O'Rourke Painting.

He was also the sponsor of a softball team in his community.

He is survived by his parents, Michael W. and Rita F. O'Rourke, of Pawling, NY; a. brother; two sisters; and his grandmother.

MARY LOU SMITH POWELL, M.A; 1.963 Mary Lou S. Powell of Laguna Niguel, CA died on March 24, 1988. She was 52.

Born in Casco, ME, she graduated from Hartford High School in Hartford, CT and reeeived undergraduate degrees * fl:om Hartford College for Women and Mount Holyoke Qollege in South Hadley, MA. She receiveq her M.A. degree from Trinity in 1963. Subsequently, she .:received her doctorate from Union Gradu- ' ate School in Cincinnati, OH. She taught EngJish at Manchester High .School from 1959 to 1965 and at Manchester ColJlmp.nity , College from 1965 to 1968, both in Manchester, CT. She was the first president of the Con~ necticut Community Co1leges Faculty Association.

In 1968 she became a de~n at William Smith College in Geneva, NY. She later became dean of students and associate professor of English at ;Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY. She also serve.d as assistant to the president at Hartford College for Women and as directorof the counseling center there. She was director of Career Directions for 'women at Yale University and a consultant to Fairfield,.University, the Fairfield and Danbury school boards and several corporations. She was a member of the scholarship board at Emhart Corp. ., She also had provided private career , counseling ip Connecticut and Cali~or­ nia.

Surviving is her husband, Theodo~e 'Powell, of Dana Point, GA.

' MELANIE PATRICIAHINES, 1982 Melanie P . Hines of Cambridge, MA was found dead with her husband and .:hild on October 16, 1988. She was 27.

After graauating from Stuyvesant High School in New York City1 she attended Trinity where she was active in the WomE)n's Center program. She also the recipient of the Samuel F. Fisljzohn A ward for Civil Rights and Civil , Liberties, the Human Relations Award, and was namedthe President's F<"Hlow in intercultural studies in her senior year.

ALFRED BOYD .HINDS, JR., M.A. She recejved her B.A. degree in 198Z. 197i Upon graduation she entered MassaA. Boyd Hinds, J;. of Colrain, MA died chusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a Ph.D. candidate in political ,on April 8, 1988 as the result of an automobile accident. He was 49. His .wife, science.

Wendy Pratt Hinds, was also f«tally in; She leaves her parents, Mr. and M:rs. jured in the accident; Herbert E. Rines, of Staten Island, NY. Born in New York, NY, he received

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JAMES MOORE RINGLAND, 1958 James M. Ringland of Chesterfield, MO died on July 8, 1987. He was 52.

He attended Trinity with the Class of 1958 and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fl:aternity.

In 1958.,he joined Sears, Roebuck and Comp~ny in Minnesota, his native state.

He held rnany executive. positions throughout the Midwest before assuming the position of general manager .of retail operations for Sears in Missouri, Kansas, most of Illinois and parts of Iowa, Indiana and Kentucky.

In St. Louis, he was chairman of the board of Junior Achievement and. on the boards of the Arts and Education Council and United Way. He also served on the Chancellor's Council of the University of Missouri at St. Louis. He had been associated with the boards of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association, DePaul Hospital and the Better Business Bureau. He had served in fund drives for Dollar Help Inc., the Camelot Auction and the NAACP. He leaves his wife, Shirley Ringland; a daughter; and a son - all of Chesterfield, MO; and a brother.

Weaver High School in Hartford, CT for 40 years, retiring in 1961.

During World War II she served with Army Intelligence.

A member of United Church of Christ, First Parish Congregational in Saco, ME, she was a past president 'of the E & I Union in Saco, and past commander of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She wlts active in the American Red Cross. She ,w as an honor Fulbright teacher in Germany in 1954 for a year.

She leaves a brother, Frank Lord, of Miami, .FL.. "

his B.A. degree from Amherst College in 1961 and his M.A. degree from Trinity in 1971.

Before moving to Colrain, he was an English teacher at Kingswood School in West Hartford; co-founder of West! edge School in West Simsbury; director of Education/Instruccion (a civil rights advocacy organization); state representative of the 8th district of Hartford from 19761980; and owner of Turner and Cook Inc., a rawhide mallet manufacturing firm, in Greenfield, MA. Most recently, he was an economic developedor SAND (South Arsenal Neighborhood Development Corp.).

Surviving are his mother, Elizabeth Hinds; two sons, A. Boyd III, a senior at Amherst College, and Benjamin S., a junior at the University of Connecticut; a daughter, LisaK., a freshman at Harvard University; and a brother.

RUTH LORDEN WITTIGSCHLAGER, M.A.1976 Ruth L. Wittigschlager of Windsor, CT died on March 20, 198E. She was74.

Born in Elmira, NY:, she received her B.A. degree from Elmira College inthat city. She also attended St. Joseph College, the University of Copnecticut and Central Connecticut State. College. She received her M.A. degree from Trinity i:n'1976.

Prior to her retirement in 1978 she ' had been a teacher in Wethersfield, Stamford and New Haven, CT. She was a former secretary to the Glastonbury, GT chief of police.

She was a communicant of St. Paul's Church in Glastonbury and a member of the AAitP Glastonbury Chapter. ' She is survived by a daughter, Margaret Nareff, of Windsor, CT; and three gra]Jdchildren.

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JANICE OLDHAMB1JR'R Janice Oldham Burr of Newington, CT died on February 26, 1988.

Former director of calenpar and special events at Trinity, she bad worked at the College from February, 1973 to Jo:ne, -1982.

Gifts in her honor may be directed to the Development Office, Williams Memerial. The proceeds will be used to buy book$ for the Library.

She leaves two daughters, Kerry Shorb, of Windsor, CT, and Amy Shorb, of Fort Lauderdale, FL; a brother, Arthur Oldham, of Denver, CO; and her father, Howard Oldham, of Raleigh, NC.

MASTERS ELVIRAM. LORD, M.A.l931 Elvira M. Lord of Biddeford, ME died on April26, 1987. She was 92.

Born in Sa co, ME, she graduated from Thornton Academy and received her B.A. degree from Moravian College in Bethlehem, PAin 1916. She received her M.A. degree from Trinity in 1931. She also studied at the University of California, New York City College, Columbia University and Lehigh University.

She taught English and Latin at

The College has received word of the following alumni/ae deaths, but information for complete obituaries is unavailable: Name Benjamin Mancall '20 John I. Gillis '30 Francis L. Lee '38 Ethan.Ayer '42 Frank J. Williams '61

Date of Death Date Unknown October 20, 1986 January 1985 May1987 Early 1987

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