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Attbe Koeppel Community Sports Center HOME ICE: SKATING WITH NEIGHBORS

Center for Urban and Global Studies: $3-million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon f=oundation • Running with Scissors star Joseph Cross '08

Koeppel Community Sports Center: A resource for Trinity and the Hartford communities Not only is the newly opened Koeppel Community Sports Center an asset to the Trinity men's and women's ice hockey programs, but it also serves as a recreational resource for people in the Hartford area and Trinity faculty and staff. The center is open to the community an average of 30 hours per week for both public skating and programs geared toward families and school-children in the community.

More than 750 Hartford children come through the doors of the Koeppel Center each week to participate in organized programs, with hundreclS more coming for open skate time. The fo llowing is a summary of the programs currently offered:

Public Skating: There are public skating hours seven days a week.

Learn to Skate for the General Public: Learn to Skate programs take p lace week ly.

M• rtford School• Learn to Skate Program: More than 600 Hartford elementary school children skate daily.

Boys • nd Girls Club Learn to Skate Program: Monday, Wednesday, and friday for thrpe hours per week .

Sport and Medical Sciences Academy Collaborative Mockey Program: Students from the Academy come to the center several hours per week.

Parkville Program: A roll er- blading club with 40 stud en ts w ho practice two hours a week.

Trinity College Intramural and Physical Education Opportunities: 2007-2008 will mark the first year the CSC will be open for a full season of programs.

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Julia i=reedson '95 As director of the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, /:reedson works for the survival and recovery of children all over the world who are caught in the crossfire of political conflict.

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"The brain is the center of every thing we do."

An interview with Assistant Professor of fngineering J. 1-iarry Blaise '94, whose research in the new field of biomedical engineering seeks to discover how the brain takes in, stores, and retrieves information.

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Preparing global citizens for an urban world A new approach to liberal arts education builds on Trinity's successes in urban and global studies

Postmaster: Send address changes to Trinity f:/eporter, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106 The editor welcomes your questions and comments: Drew Sanborn, Office of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 or drew. sanborn@trincoll.edu.

Please visit the College's Web site at www.trincoll.edu for alumni/ae news, admissions information, faculty and student profiles, and much more.

On the cover Head Women's Hockey Coach Andy McPhee gives some pointers to eight-year-old Wilsoniette Paoli. She is one of 50 members of the Boys & Girls Club who came to the new Koeppel Community Sports Center for skating lessons during the month of December.

The Koeppel Center opening ceremony was held on February 11. For more information, see www.trincoll. edu/Studentlife/athletics/CSC/

Catch ing up with Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, Marjori e Van Eenam Butche r s the story goes, the infamous Blizzard of 1978 brought the entire Northeast to a screeching ha lt-literal ly stranding thousands of cars and passengers in their tracks. Recognizing the severity of the devastating storm, Connecticut Governor ~Ila Grasso declared a state of emergency and prohibited all traffic-vehicular traffic, that is-until the roads were cleared. !=or all intents and purposes, the state came to a complete standstill. The exception, however, lies in one determ ined and dedicated professor, Marjorie V. Butcher, who gathered her lesson pl

for t he day, cal led ahead to all her students, and had her husband, Bob, drive her from eir West 1-fartford home-where the streets were plowed and opened-to the 1-fartford line.

i=rom there, the Michigan native walked Hartford 's snowy, hilly streets, as yet unopened in the wake of the blizzard, to reach her classroom of budding mathematicians.

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The decision to walk to

husband in1970, Butcher

campus, for Butcher, was

immediately recognized the

not a decision at all. "I had

chief interpreter of the park

to get to class," she explains

as a student of hers from

simply. More than a decade

the very first class she ever

later, in early 1989, when her

taught. That was in 1947 at

beloved husband suddenly

the University of Michigan in

had a severe heart attack,

Ann Arbor, from which she

she again showed her un-

received both her B.A . and

compromising dedication to

M.A. The pair continue to be

those people and things she

good friends.

values most deeply. Professor Butcher immediately retired from teaching to be at home with her husband.

"We concentrated on a healthy lifestyle and on just being together during those remaining five years, taking drives, walks, and trips to some of our favorite places," says Butcher. Their outings included frequent vacations to Arizona desert country, western Michigan, Cape Cod National Seashore, and Bermuda. Locally, they took drives to Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. As a 47-year member of that museum, Butcher now serves as one of its Overseers.

When not exploring America's backcountry, Butcher claims to be mastering the irony of retirement: "Getting behind in every way." Trinity, for her, is a place where she can go to relax and get away from the endless projects at home, while sometimes assuming a project or two at the College. There, she attends numerous lectures and events, and has a particular affection for John Rose's organ performances, plus those of his students and of visiting artists. And while Butcher misses knowing, teaching, and advising a multitude of students, she clearly hasn't lost her knack

,.

Since her husband died

for exuding her kind and

u <

in late 1993. Butcher has

embracing nature.

~

remained actively involved

u

in many of the interests

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and organizations they both believed in . An outdoor enthusiast and conservationist, she spends a couple of weeks each summer at and near Ludington State Park on Lake Michigan, during the relative solitude of the last week of June and the busy festivities surrounding the Fourth of July. Butcher, who has crossed the entire length of Bermuda on foot, enjoys the miles and miles of beautiful walking trails and of sand beaches and dunes at Ludington. Incidentally, on a trip to the park with her

not in doing what one likes

As she stood in line for the

appreciative Devin Romanul

2006 Convocation cer-

was among the near-capacity

but in liking what one has

emony, newly elected SGA

crowd of professors, staff,

to do." Just as with her trek

president Devin Romanul,

retirees, alumni, students,

through 1-lartford's bl izzard -

nearby, appeared nervous.

and friends gathered in the

stricken streets, Butcher has

Romanul was about to give

Goodwin Theater to honor

always been one to do "what

his first speech to the Trinity

Butcher.

one has to do"-all with an

community, and he was natu-

At that event, Butcher

rally jittery. Butcher pulled

recognized her mother as

him aside to let him practice

the most influential female

his speech for her, nodding

in her own life. As a full-time

with warm approval through-

actuary, wife, and mother,

out. Romanul, says the proud

the elder Van t:enam was a

professor, gave a great

woman ahead of her time.

speech that day. At a recent

Butcher recalls a plaque

Trinity College will undergo

event celebrating the soth

that hung on her mother's

a comprehensive evaluation

anniversary of Butcher's hir-

overflowing zest for all that life has to offer.

Notice of reaccreditation

bedroom wall, one that has

visit on April 15-18, 2007, by a

ing, marking the first female

continued to guide her: "The

team representing the Com-

professor at Trinity, an

secret of happiness lies

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Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools

team will recommend to the commission a continuing statu s

and Colleges.

for the institution; following a review process, the commission itself will take the final action.

The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education is one of eight accrediting commissions in the United States that pro-

The public is invited to submit comments regarding the insti-

vide institutional accreditation on a regional basis. Accredita-

tution to:

tion is voluntary and applies to the institution as a whole. The

Public Comment on Trinity College

commission, which is recognized by the U. S. Department of

Commission on Institutions of Higher Education

Education, accredits approximately 200 institutions in the si x-

New England Association

state New England region.Trinity College has been accredited

of Schools and Colleges

by the commiss ion since 1929 and was last reviewed in !=ebru-

209 Burlington Road

ary 2001. Its accreditation by the New England Association is

Bedford, MA 01730-1433

based on 11 standards which encompass the entire institution:

E-mail: cihe@neasc.org

viz., mission and purposes, planning and evaluation, organization and governance, the academic program, faculty, students,

Comments must address substantive matters related to the

the library and other information resources, physical and

quality of the institution. Comments will not be treated as

technological resources, financial resources , public disclo-

confidential.

sure, and integrity. This reaccreditation effort will differ from previous efforts in that Trinity has chosen to focus on three

Written, signed comments must be received by April 18, 2007,

areas of special emphasis in addition to the commission's 11

the last day of evaluation. The commission cannot guarantee

standards. These three areas are intellectual and commu-

that comments received after that due date will be con-

nity engagement, planning and budgeting, and urban-global

sidered. Comments should include the name, address, and

issues. All three were chosen by the College because they

telephone number of the person providing the comments.

have emerged in recent plann ing efforts as recurring concerns

The commission cannot settle disputes between individu-

that the institution desires to address through intensive study.

als and institutions, whether those involve faculty, students, administrators, or members of other groups. Individuals con-

!=or the past year and a half, Trinity College has been engaged in a process of self-study, addressing the commission's Stan-

sidering submitting complaints against an affiliated institution

dards for Accreditation and the three areas of special em-

should request the separate Policy and Procedures for the

phasis. An evaluation team will visit the institution to gather

Consideration of Complaints Made Against Affiliated Institu-

evidence that the self-study is thorough and accurate. The

tions from the commission office.

Trinity team develops disaster-relief software

Tales abound of the chaos,

response to a disaster-and

waste, and inefficiency in

more are in the offing.

Hurricane Katrina's wakesquandered federal dollars, poor deployment of resources , and a lack of training and coordination for thousands of potential volunteers. According to computer scientists at Trinity, an open-source software system known as Sahana is poised and ready to coordinate a multitude of disaster-relief details, potentially affecting countless lives in the future . The Trinity team recently developed a valuable component for >-

u Sahana-a volunteer manage<

_,

ment module to manage all

~ aspects of voluntee rism in z

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The award-winning Sahana i=ree and Open Source Software Disaster Management System (www.sahana .lk/), one of the hottest topics in disaster/humanitarian fields today, can be deployed by a relief organization during a natural disaster. In its current form , it includes modules to register missing persons, coordinate the distribution of resources, track the location and numbers of victims in camps and temporary shelters, and manage inventory, among others. Sahana, which translates to " relief" in Sinhalese, a Sri Lankan dialect, was created in response

Noted intellectual and activist meets with Trinity students in Chile Noam Chomsky, author and activist, met with students and faculty at the Trinity Global Learning Site in Santiago, Chile, last October. Among other activities, Dr. Chomsky received an honorary degree from the University of Chile. During his visit, he had dinner with Trinity students studying in Santiago and also met with a combined group of Trinity and University of Chile students.

Chomsky is the Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I-le has made notable contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics, notably through his theory of generative grammar, and has had an important impact on the philosophy of language and mind. I-le is also well known as a political activist who has criticized the foreign policy of the United States and other countries and who was among the leading voices in opposition to the Vietnam War.

to the As ian Tsun ami. Sa hana

The team will custom ize

pend ently, try ing to manage

hottest topic in IT tod ay,

was deployed t here fol low-

t he module for use by th e

shelt ers and volu ntee rs."

it hasn't moved int o t he

ing the tsunami, in Pakistan

Sri Lanka Red Cross. They

after t he 2005 earthq uake,

have also agree d to be "on

and following the 2006

call" whenever Sahana is de-

mudsl ide disaster in t he

ployed in a disaster in order

Philippines.

to make needed customiza-

2004, de Lanerolle, a native

t ions that wi ll support the

of Sri Lanka, notes, "We

d isaster-re lief effort.

wa nted t o do more t han

The Trinity team is the fi rst academ ic group in the United States to have a software

average computer science I-l aving seen t he devasta ti o n in his homeland after th e As ian t su nami of December

hand out water. Buil di ng a The volu nteer management

softwa re system that fac il i-

module accept ed by Sahana.

mod ul e provi des a single

t at es coordinat ion of th ou-

Professor Ralph Morel li,

source for better track-

sands of details, impacti ng

Visiting Professor 1-leidi Ellis,

ing and coord ination of

tho usa nds of lives, is an ideal

Computer Science/ Engi-

volunteers, which wi ll be a

way for us, as IT profession-

neering Technology Coord i-

significa nt st ep t oward de-

als, to appl y our ski lls whe n a

nator Trishan de Lanero ll e

creasi ng some of th e chaos

catastrophe strikes"

'04, Jonathan Damon '07, and

following a disaster. "After

Jonathan Raye '09-a su m-

Katri na, we heard repeat-

mer research st udent from

curric ulu m. "What appea led to us, as academics, is t hat Sa hana is not a t oy proj ect, t here are rea l dead lines, real cust omers, and it requires developm ent rigor. By it s nature, it creates an environment where stud ents are going t o be more engaged and produce better-qua lity soft ware." Damon poi nts out t hat t he rea l-world appl icat io n of Sahana appea ls to him. "This isn't a typica l

From a pedagogica l pe rspec-

comp uter science project; it

edly t hat peop le wanted to

ti ve, t he Saha na project is a

wi ll never get st ale." he says,

help, but didn't know how,"

adding, "And how many stu-

Bard College-developed

computer science stu dent's,

de Lanero lle, says. "It's no

and professor's, dream come

dents get to pu blish soft ware

the prot otype volunteer module, which was accepted

wonder, there were some 50

true. Ell is notes that wh ile

t hat ca n pot ential ly affect

Web sites opera ti ng inde-

open-source soft ware is th e

millions of peo pl e's lives?"

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The Ward S. Curran Distinguished Professorship in Economics was established in 2006 by Peter and Jill Kraus in recognition of the extraordinary career of Professor Curran and his service to Trinity College for more than 45 years. Curran will occupy the chair named in his honor until his retirement. In mid -October of 2006, Professor Curran delivered the first annual public lecture associated with this professorship. In "Trinity College and Chapter One in the Story of Financial Economics,â&#x20AC;˘ Curran showed how finance developed into financial economics and the challenges faced in gaining recognition from members of the economics profession that something that was once solely part of the business school curricula was now also an integral part of the study of economics. Trinity was one of the first liberal arts colleges to offer a course in finance within the economics curriculum.

Curran also discussed the future of financial economics and Trinity's continued leadership among liberal arts colleges in the field.

Professor Curran received his B.A. from Trinity in 1957 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1958 and 1961, respectively. He began

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teaching at Trinity in 1960. His fields of interests include corporate finance, financial regulation, and investment theory and practice. He has taught

ECONOMICS

a course at Yale University for almost 30 years and has also taught at the

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tion, he was a consulting economist to the Minary Nine, which later became

University of Connecticut School of Law and Wesleyan University. In addithe Consortium on Financing Higher Education, and served as director of institutional planning during the administration of Theodore Lockwood, Trinity's 15th president. Among Curran's many publications are the books,

Principles ofFinancial Management and An Economic Approach to the Regulation ofthe Securities Markets. Currently, Curran is working on a chapter, â&#x20AC;˘ Principles of Financial Regulation: in a book entitled, Companion to Economic Regulation. He is a member of the American Economic Association, American Finance Association, and Financial Management Association.

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f=aculty awards and honors

dencies to d iverse educa-

Award in 1999. the Connecti-

tiona l communities, including

cut Dance A lliance Award

Trinity Co ll ege and the Trin -

change in our universe-per-

a 10-year association with

for Disti nguished Service in

ity Club of J...1a rtfo rd honored

sonal, educationa l, and

1-1artford's Parkville Com-

2006, and the Charter Oak

Judy Dworin, Class of 1970

globa l. Th ro ugh her artistic

munity School, and York

Vision Award for Arts and

on November 9. 2006, at th e

vision, th e Proj ect provides

Correctional Institution fo r

Education in 2006, among

women, th e program's most

others.

club's Annual Ban q uet and

cu tting-edge pe rformance

Person of th e Year Dinner.

th ro ugh t he Judy Dwori n

recent venue. Dworin has

Dworin was recognized fo r

Performa nce Ensem bl e

also taug ht residencies in

her service to the College

(JD PE), a ground-break-

Bulgaria and Taiwan as we ll

and the commu nity.Dworin

ing ed ucational res ide ncy

as t hroughout New England.

founded the Judy Dworin

program of long stand ing,

Performance Project, Inc.

Moving Matters!, co-directed

(JDPP Inc.) in 1989 based

with Associate Artistic Direc-

on a commitment to the

tor Kathy Borteck Gersten.

important ro le the arts play

Movi ng Matters! has brought

in cha llenging and creating

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Dworin's commitment to education also has a 35-year history at Trinity College, where she founded the

She is on the master teach-

Dance Program, co-founded

ing roster for the State of

the Trinity/La MaMa New

Connecticu t and is the re-

York C ity Semester in the

cipient of the Distinguished

Performing Arts, and cur-

Advocate for th e Arts Award

rent ly chairs the Department

in 1998, th e Govern or's Arts

of Thea t er and Dance.

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Professor of 1-listory Ch•ryl Gr••nb•r& has been appointed as the inaugural Raether Distinguished Chair, a position endowed by a gift from Trinity alumnus and Board of Trustees Chairman, Paul t . Raether '68. Greenberg has taught courses in African American history, race and ethnicity in the United States, 20th-century United States history, and civil rights for 20 years. She was promoted to full professor in 2000.

She received an A.B from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. An expert on African American history and race relations, she has published Or Does It Explode? Black 1-larlem in the Great Depression, Oxford University Press, 1991; edited A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC, Rutgers University Press, 1998, and, in 2006 published Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, with Princeton University Press. She is now at work on a study of African Americans in the Great Depression, which is under contract at Rowman and Littlefield. Future projects include a project on intermarriage and group identity among Jewish Americans, African Americans, and Japanese Americans.

Greenberg has received some of the highest awards in her profession: a Danforth Fellowship; an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D.; a fellowship at the Charles Warren Center for American 1-listory at 1-larvard University; a fellowship at the W.t.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at 1-larvard University; and a Bicentennial Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the University of 1-lelsinki, Finland. At Trinity, she has served as director of the American Studies Program and most recently as secretary of the faculty. In the city of 1-lartford and the state of Connecticut, Greenberg's many projects include providing diversity training for teachers, civic groups, and colleges; serving as a housing discrimination tester for the Connecticut Fair I-lousing Center and as vice chair of the West 1-lartford Initiative on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.

Paul Lauter, the Allan K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature, has been selected as the recipi ent of the American Studies Association's Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Lauter teaches American literature, specializing in the early 19th century and in contemporary multicultural writing. Much of his work has centered on how literary canons are constructed-and changed . 1-lis book Canons and Contexts examines the history of the canon of American literature as well as changes in it generated primarily by ethnic and femini st studies. The 1-foath

Anthology of American Literature, now in its 5th edition and for which Lauter is general ed itor, represents a successful effort to put canon change into practice.

1-lis most recent book, From Walden Pond to Jurassic

Park-The Cultural Work of American Studies , traces the development of American Studies as a discipline and a form of cultural and political discourse in the United States and overseas. Lauter served as president of the American Studies Association (USA) and has spoken and consulted at universities in almost every state and in 25 countries. Other recent

projects include a co-edited collection called Literature, Class, and Culture, and a volume of Thoreau's writings for the New Riverside Series.

Lauter was the 2001 recipient of the annual Jay 1-lubbell medal for lifetime achievement in American Literary Study awarded by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association.

The Bode-Pearson Prize, established in 1975. is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in American studies. The prize, named for two of the founders of the American studies field , Carl Bode and Norman 1-lolmes

Pearson, is awarded periodically at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association and includes lifet ime membership in the ASA for the recipient. The prize is awarded to an individual for a lifetime of achievement and service within the field of American studies. Chartered in 1951, the American Studies Association is the nation's oldest and largest organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history.

Trinity College Composer-inResidence Robert Edward Smith has been selected to receive an ASCAPlus award

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for 2006-2007. The awards are available to writer members

tion at St. John's Memorial Chapel at the Episcopal Divinity

of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Pub-

School, Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2002 to 2003. I-le

lishers (ASCAP) by the Society's ASCAPlus Awards Panels.

has also taught harpsichord and continue realization at the

The purpose of the special awards, which have been given

University of 1-lartford since 1992, and has taught composition

each year since 1960, is to reward writers whose works have

and harpsichord privately since 1970.

a unique prestige value for which adequate compensation would not otherwise be received , and to compensate those writers whose works are performed substantially in media not surveyed by ASCAP.

Also a distinguished harpsichordist, he is the first person since the 18th century to have performed the complete harpsichord literature of !=ranr;:ois Couperin. 1-lis recording, J.S. Bach: 1-larpsichord Music in the Grand Manner, was named one

Smith has composed chamber, orchestral, choral, and vocal

of the best recordings of the year by the American Record

music for ensembles of all kinds, ranging from violin and piano

Guide in 1996. Smith has also been the administrator of the

to symphony orchestra. I-fa has been composer-in-residence

Trinity College Summer Chamber Music Series since 1998.

at Trinity College Chapel since 1979. and held the same posi-

urban update

Notes on the College's urban academic and volunteer efforts

Urban-Global Senior Project Grants for the Class of 2007

ership. (!=acuity Sponsor: Theresa Morris).

Danai Pointer '07 (Music;

Rising seniors from all

Community Action Minor},

departments and programs

Exploring the Role and 1-lis-

at Trinity are eligible to apply

tory of Guakia, a Puerto Ri-

for Urban-Global Senior

can 1-leritage Arts Organiza-

Project Grants. Grants of

tion in the Greater 1-lartford

$500 are awarded to sup-

Community.

port senior projects that

(!=acuity Sponsor: Eric Galm).

address urban issues, global issues, or a combination of the two. !=inancial support is provided by the President's Cornerstone l=und . To learn more about this program, please visit the Trinity Web

Trinity panel showcased the

Community Learning lnitiative celebrates 10th anniversary with symposium-In

with 8th graders from the

early October, Trinity-along

Corridor to research and

Children's Rights Project, which paired Trinity students 1-lartford Middle Magnet School at the Learning

with the University of

become "experts" in areas of

1-lartford and Capital Com-

children's rights. To illustrate

munity College-sponsored

the rights issues, students

a symposium on campus/

produced videos, pamphlets,

community partnerships.

and poster presentations.

nomics, Cone. in Applied

The symposium was held at

With help from their college

Mathematics), Economic

Trinity and funded by grants

partners, the 8th graders

Impact of Innovation in Latin

from the President's Corner-

presented their final projects

!=ernanda Rocha '07 (Eco-

America: An Empirical Test.

stone !=und and the 1-lartford

at a Children's Rights Day

(!=acuity Sponsor: Miguel

Consortium for 1-ligher

on the Trinity campus. The

Ramirez).

Education. The purpose of

University of 1-lartford panel

the event was to encourage

covered the Micro Business

site at www.trincoll.edu/ depts/educ/UG/. The cur-

MichaelSnow'o7(Econom-

academic collaborations

Incubator project, which

rent projects are as follows:

ics), Good School Districts:

between and among censor-

brings training, development,

I-low Are Public Elementary

tium schools and commu-

resources, and support to

Schools Affecting the Value

nity organizations. The 120

businesses throughout the

Katie Gordon '07 (international studies and 1-lispanic studies), Discourse On Sexual Identity and Gender Roles In the Southern Cone

of Your 1-lome? (Revisited).

participants included faculty,

Upper Albany neighborhood

(!=acuity Sponsors: Diane

administrators, and students

of 1-lartford, matching these

Zannoni and Jack Dough-

from seven consortium

businesses with students

erty).

schools and representati ves

from the University of

from 25 community organiza-

1-lartford's Barney School of

of Latin America and Its Effeds On 1-lealth Policy.

Jessica Wagner '07 (Educa-

(!=acuity Sponsor: Anne Lam-

tional Studies and Anthro-

bright and Gustavo Remedi).

Meaghan Kilian '07 (econom ics and sociology), Redlining In 1-lartford and Its Past, Present, and l=uture Effects On Lending and 1-lome Own-

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pology), The Intersection

Panels from Capital Com-

of Gender and Culture:

munity College, the Univer-

Examining Gender Relations

sity of 1-lartford, and Trinity

Amongst Urban Elementary

presented campus/com-

Schoolers. (!=acuity Sponsor:

munity projects unique

Andrea Dyrness).

to their institutions. The

Business. The Capital Community College panel's topic was "Building Communities from the Inside Out through Service Learning." Many Capital Community College students are residents of the neighborhoods in which they

participate in their service

d irectors about their ere-

semester has included the

Adopt-A-Family Thanks -

learn ing projects. Students

ative ideas and processes,

4th Habitrot 5K !=un Run,

g iving Food Basket Drive

enrolled in several socia l sci-

in hopes of crafting "a new

which had 75 pa rticipa nts

ence courses are required to

t heoretical aesthetic and

and raised more t han $900,

for M.D. Fox flementary School: !=or t he eight h year

conduct 10 hours of service

approach to th e th eater."

and two on -ca mpus "fa rm ers

in a row, the Annua l Com-

learning throughout the

All the participants benefit

markets," the fi rst of which

muni t y Events Staff (AC ES)

Greater Hartford area.

from the Open Semester

featured loca lly grown food

and ConnPIRG collaborated

components: academic

and the second bei~g an

to raise money and food

seminar, arts internship, field

apple festiva l that included a

to provide 100 families of

Int ernsh ip Office

research , performances,

whole range of local apples

children at Hartford's M. D.

Open Semester is a non-

and practice classes. A final

and products made from

!=ox Elementary School with

traditional curricular option

group project was presented

apples. Habitat students

a Thanksgiving turkey and all

consisting of a full term

at La MaMa and on campus

staffed the market and made

the trimmings. Chartwells,

of independent work or

in Hartford in December.

apple pies, fritters, and

the on-campus food service,

turnovers.

do nated all 100 tu rkeys.

internship either on campus or away, supervised and evaluated by a member of the Trinity faculty. Earlier this year, seven regular undergraduates and three special students participated in the

!=or more informa ti on about Open Semester or about

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1-/omelessness

contact Anne Lundberg,

Awareness

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grams, at (860) 297-2382 or

fall , a num-

anne.lundberg@trincoll.edu.

Trinity/La MaMa Urban Arts Semester in New York City, an individually tailored open semester designed to utilize the landscape and history of the city as a catalyst for intensive study in the arts.

As one participant stated,

ber of events took place on campus to raise

Office of Community Service and C ivic

awareness hunger and homelessness

Great Pie Project: With

and to give students the

materials donated by

~ngagement

opportunity to take action

Chartwells, Praxis members

about issues of

locally. The week consisted

prepared and made 500 pies

of the following events:

for a dozen social service

the semester "allows me

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to experience first-hand

September, the eighth an-

the performing arts scen e

nua l Do It Day brought more

I-lunger Banquet: This event

in NYC both by attending

than 520 Trinity volunteer

splits participants into

agencies in the Great er Hartford area. The pies were de livered on November 20

performances and by intern-

participants to over 55 work

three wea lth categories and

ing at a professiona l theater

sites throughout the Hart-

engages them in a simu la-

company while I take classes

ford area.

tion that approx imates the distribution of wealth arou nd

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mance piece." According to

J...labitat for J...luman ity- The

the world, il lustrating how

the 11th year, the Office of

a dance student, "a lot of my

Trinity Habitat for Humanity

that distribution affects

Community Service and

motivation to create dances

chapter broke ground in mid-

how people meet t heir

Civic Engagement and ACES

comes from the works I have

September on the second

basic needs. More than 75

conducted a gift drive for

grown up admiring ... While

house it has cosponsored.

students participated .

developing my [Open

This cosponsorship involves

Semester] proj ect, I want

assisting wi t h house con-

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to be able to feel comfort-

struction twice a month and

el: This event is done in con-

able enough to explore

raising $25,000, which the

junction with t he Nationa l

new movement and musical

chapter has been gradually

Coalition for the Homeless.

selection s .. . to show my

doing over the past two-plus

The panel consist s of peop le

audience that I am not afraid

years. The house is located

who were homeless, or who

to explore my skill in differ-

on 16 Waverly Street in

are currently home less,

ent ways." Another member

Hartford , and is being built

who put a human face on

of the group, researching her

for a single mother of seven

the problem by telling their

senior thesis on theatrical

(fi ve of whom live with the

persona I stories.

theory, planned to interview

mother). !=undraising that

and develop my own perfor-

and 21, in t ime for Thanksgiving mea ls.

Hartford Interval House, a local domestic violence shelter. Members of ACES made paper snowmen with the names of children and their preferred gift and then recruited members of the Trinity community to donate the gifts, which were handed out at the Interva l House annual holiday party in early December.

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B y Hannah Charry ' 08 hile his student peers deal with the anxiety of finals, Trinity tudent Joe Cross's laid-back demeanor is well deserved. With o major motion pictures released this year, life is undeniably eet for the 20 year old. ross was at home base in New York City preparing for a short trip to the West Coast when interviewed by phone. His destination was Los Angeles where he would accept a Satellite Award for "Best Actor in A Motion Picture, Comedy, or Musical" for his part as Augusten Burroughs in Running With Scissors. Cross worked under Nip Tuck creator Ryan Murphy, along with Steve Samuels, Brad Grey, and Brad Pitt.

"The last two movies I enjoyed the most because I was around people who were so talented, " said Cross. " I had two very different characters, which were also my first adult roles ."

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In his other film, Flags of Our Fathers , Cross plays one of si x men who raised the flag at lwo Jima . Di rector Clint l:::astwood has received a Golden Globe nomination for it in the " Best Motion Pictu re" catego ry.

While both movies were released nationally in Odober, similarities end there.

Running With Scissors is an adaptation of real-life Augusten Burroughs' childhood in the 1970s. Burroughs' life was marred by a mentally unstable mother and alcoholic father, portrayed by Alec Ba ldwi n.

When the ir marriage ends in divorce, the child is sen t to live with his psychologist, Dr. !=inch. Burroughs shows steadfast res iliency am idst even more chaos. He lives under the same roof with a Bible-obsessed sister (Gwenyth Paltrow) and barrage of prescription drugs. " Burroughs is a bright. young man struggling wi t h issues of

abandonment," summarized Cross. He distinctly reme mbers the date he found out he got the part- December 16, 20 04-beca use he was forced to miss a phi losophy exam as a resu lt.

He im mediately began to prepare for the role by reading the original biography and taki ng notes on t he script. l:::ven t hough Cross has been acting since the age of eight, he has never

Cross found t hat Flags was more physica lly demandi ng, w ith long hours and tiring days, even tho ugh he was among industry great s.

"Working with Clint was a litt le scary. He's a cultura l phe nomenon, a rea l Amer ican icon. At the same t ime, he is so sweet and accommodati ng. I loved worki ng on t he set wit h such great people tel ling me about t heir experiences," says Cross.

enro lled in acting lessons.

Cross left Trinity in t he spring of 2005 to start fi lming in ea rl y Ma rch. He focused on Flags of Our Fathers immediately after.

The movie was based on t he 2000 New York Times bestsell ing book of the sa me name and is slowly gathering an Osca r buzz.

"I asked [l:::astwood] if I needed to do any boot camp for it , if I needed t o be bigger and stronger. Th is movie required less advance preparation and I was told t o go in just as I was," he said.

Th e two prod ucers he worked with had opposite ways of re lating to their jobs.

M urphy was more part icul ar. " He has a very st yl ized vision and knows what he wants.

Then you have Clint, who gave us extreme freedom .

He was open to see what happened." l:::it her way, recent work has made Cross confident in his preference of movie over te levision drama. "Movies are my favorite beca use th ey feel more substantial. There is more plan ning invo lved

and you get t he opportu nity to play more characters, which gives you freedom .

You can pick and choose among roles t hat you can co ntinue to be passionate about." l:::ve n th ough his ti me spent on campus has been brief, Cross knows he wan t s to return for a degree whi le pursuing a professiona l career.

"C o ll ege helped me stay down t o earth. It's also just a f un environment to be in.

Yo u learn things in college th at no one ju st t ell s you. " He has not current ly dec lared a major but is ce rtain of his desire to fin ish in the future. "It's impossible to know what wil l pop up professiona lly, but Trinity wi ll always be th ere."

1-/annah Charry is an American studies major and is currently studying in Paris. When she is on campus, she is a member of the Tripod staff

Picasso and American Art

Statttl Woman with Wristwatch,

Pablo Picasso

Although Pablo Picasso never visited the United States, his work had a powerful influence on a number of American artists. Associate Professor of l=ine Arts Michael l=itzGerald has curated a major exhibition on Picasso's influence in this country, which has been on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art throughout the fall and winter. The show will move to the San l=rancisco Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center.

Picasso and American Art juxtaposes works by the Spanish artist with paintings, drawings, and sculpture by nine Americans, ranging from Max Weber to Jasper Johns. "The intense involvement of American artists with Picasso's work was at the center of a fundamental transformation of American art," l=itzGerald says. "Picasso, more than any other artist, became the chief figure against whom Americans measured their achievements."

Girl on the Beach, Roy Lichtenstein

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On the first day, she recalls, Professor Lloyd-Jones began posing

The fiartford -a rea residents that participate in Trinity's Gateway Pro-

questions such as, "Why are you here?" "Who chose to be born?" and

gram, which is co-sponsored by the Connecticut fiumanities Council ,

"Who will choose to die?" The answers, Nelson and her classmates

receive tuition, books, and bus fare at no cost. At the end of the 24-

would come to find out, were never simple, but the engagement and

week program in subjects such as U.S. history, philosophy, art history,

discussion of the questions was the intellectual stimulation Nelson

literature, critical thinking, and writing skills, the graduates receive

and the others had been seeking. "My brain is really opening. Profes-

Trinity College credit-and the unquantifiable idea that knowledge is at-

sor Lloyd-Jones is nourishing my brain; he's feeding it," she says with

tainable. Thi s year, the Gateway students also receive d another reward

both excitement and deep appreciation .

when Trinfo Cafe-Trinity's community technology center-announced that it was donating refurbished computers to each student, as wel l as

Lloyd-Jones, who has been teaching in the program since its inception six years ago, says, without hesitation, that it has been the single most gratifying experience of his career. fie believes that by engaging

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offering free tutoring in computer basics, th e Internet, and an introduction to Web-based e-mail.

economically and educationally disadvantaged students-who vary in

As Lloyd -Jones prepares for retirement from the Modern Languages

age as much as they do in life experiences-in subjects traditionally

and Literature Department at the end of thi s academic year, he says

associated with the life of the mind, they gain the cultural knowledge

that being part of the Gateway Program has given him a Golden Age

and conceptual skills to improve the circumstances of their lives. "The

at the end of his teaching career. While the satisfaction he has gained

humanities," Lloyd-Jones explains, "are the basis of our community."

in this unconventional teaching atmosphere is intangible, he hopes he

Students learn how to learn, but they also begin to understand that

has "planted the seed of aspiration" in his "feisty" bunch . fioweve r, the

discussion-learning to listen and respect other people's opinions and

success of the program, he maintains, ca n be found in what lies at the

beliefs-is an important feature of building community.

heart of Trinity: "We do what we do be st at Trinity, and that is to teach ."

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archival

The Trinity College Chapel under construction: A photographic record, 1930-1932 In early r930, just as workmen were installing the Chapel 's foundatio ns, President Remsen B. Ogilby engaged William G. Dudley, a local commercial photographer, to record the construction. T he nearly roo photographs that resulted provide a unique record of resolve on the part of President Ogilby; the donor William G. Mather, Class of i8 77; architect Ph.lip H .

Frohman; and the workm . The construction took place dur路 the Depression.

Peter). Knapp '65

Celebrating the Trinicy College Chapel's 75th

Anniversary In its 75 years of existence, the Trinity Chapel has become a beloved landmark, both for the College community and for the city of Hartford. Completed in 1932, the Gothic Revival building was designed by Philip H. Frohman of Frohman, Robb & little, who was the principal architect of the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C. The Chapel was a gift to Trinity from William G. Mather, Class of 1877, a Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist.

Under the theme of "living Stones," the anniversary celebration affirms both the historic role of the Chapel throughout the years as well as its role in the life of the College as we face the changing landscape of higher education in the 21st century Throughout 2007, the Chapel will present a series of public events that celebrate the life of the mind and of the spirit. These events are free and open to the public, and all are welcome.

Friday, March 9

Satu rday, April

8:00 p.m.

5:15 p.m.

Ensemble Amarcord in Concert As part of their Trinity appearance, Ensemble Amarcord will combine with the Trinity College Chapel Singers in the premiere performance of a new work written for the occasion by Chapel Composer in Residence Robert Edward Smith.

Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University Palm Sunday Service, followed by dinner and a discussion on "Theology in the 21st Century"

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Saturday, June 9

Friday, November 10

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Renewal of marriage vows for couples who were married in the College Chapel

Special music under the direction of John Rose.

Preacher: The Rt. Rev. Michael Creighton '62, Episcopal Bishop of Central Pennsylvania (Retired) As part of the Reunion Weekend activities, there wiJI be tours of the woodcarvings and special lectures on the Chapel architecture.

Friday, October 12

7:30 p.m.

75th Chapel Anniversary Organ Celebration, "The Clarence Watters Memorial Recital" Paul Jacobs, organist Tuesday, October 16

a.m.

4:00 p.m.

Service of Thanksgiving and Celebration for the 75th Anniversary of the Chapel.

The Rt. Rev. Andrew D. Smith '65, Bishop of Connecticut, presiding.

The Rev. Dr. Lloyd A. Lewis, Jr. '69, Professor of New Testament, Virginia Theological Seminary, preaching.

Forfull information on the anniversary schedule, please go to the Trinity Web site at www.trincoll.edu/ StudentLife/ ReligiousSpiritual/ Chapel/ anniversary/ events.htm.

7:30 p.m.

Amy-Jill Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, Vanderbilt University.

Lecture: "Religious Diversity: Then and Now" Wednesday, Novembe r 7

7:30 p.m.

Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director, Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, Illinois Lecture: "Faith: The Great Fault Line of the 21st Century"

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â&#x20AC;˘ The older I become-soon to be 60, mind you-the more grateful I am for the incalculable gifts brought to my life by my teachers, and I still consider "teacher" to be the most noble of words in any language. As a boy at Georgia Military Academy, in a lormer life that seems both incredibly long ago and sometimes simultaneously not even as far back as last Tuesday or so I was required to read and read and read: some 15 major texts each academic year, starting with the eighth and continuing through the twelfth grades, ana an adaitional IO texts each summer. Those English masters were convinced that literature, and only literature, would save our intemperate, male adolescent souls.

Among those works were several that pushed me eventually to climb mountain peaks all over the world.

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As I told a beloved friend in 2001, when he asked why I was so persuaded that we had to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, "it was all Hemingway's fault."

I was so taken as a boy with the exergus to "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" that I simply had to go to see that desiccated body of the white leopard for myself. Now, truth be told, we never found the leopard, which the Masai supposedly spotted on top of Kili, but the climb was worth every ounce of physical stamina it took from us all.

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And then there was the duo of James Hilton and Somerset Maugham. In the summer between our eighth and ninth grades, the English masters had us read both Lost Horizon and The Razors Edge. I have been giddy ever since. Two of the central characters, Hugh Conway and Larry Darrell, were like some sort of real tirne heroes, so vividly did they affect my imagination. Hilton, born with the century, was only 33 when he published Lost Horizon . The movie version immediately was nominated

for one Oscar after the other, and FDR, who took office the year the book appeared, named the Maryland presidential retreat Shangri La. I was mad at Ike, about the time we had to read the novel, when he jettisoned Shangri La and renamed that facility for his first grandson David!

At Home on the Trail with My Fictional Heroes This past January, being still drawn to mountain peaks by the power of my early

reading, I joined 13 Trini ty College students, one of my colleagues on the faculty here, and two of my old climbing buddies on a trip to Nepal . I told the students they had to read Lost Horizon and The Razors Edge to understand just why we were there: in the cold, trekking on yak trails as old as time itself. climbing and descending one high Himalayan mountain after the other, trying hard to catch our breath in the incredibly thin air. When we left Kathmandu for Lukla, where the trek to the base camp

knowingly upon us all, conch shells blowing to draw us to morning prayer, bells ringing, monks chanting, we read four of Hugh's poems, including his "We Never Tire, But Flourish," which describes so acutely what it means to be a teacher. My mind wandered from his gift oflanguage, which he gave to all of us at Trinity for more than four decades, back to the gifts my own teachers bestowed upon me, that gangly boy who loved books and whose own life has been so influenced by the power of words, those magic lanterns, upon the written page.

of Everest begins, we boarded a twinengine Otter, just like Conway did in Hilton's tale. I felt right at home and told our students how important the choice of plane had to be, ruled as it were by serendipity alone.

Pascal ("The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.") would have been right at home with us as we trudged along, lost in our own thoughts, glad we had each other.

We never found Shangri La, although we saw a number of signs indicating the Shangri La lodge or the Shangri La restaurant. But we did find ourselves: in that there was no difference between the president of the College and the 19-year-old fellow trekker. We were all cold as hell, exhilarated by the vistas, worn out by the thin air. As we walked those 150 miles or so to Everest and back, characters from both books came back to me, as real and vivid as if I had been walking the trail with them. I fantasized about Maugham's ancient recluse who reveals the mysteries of the eternal to my fictional old friend Larry Darrell, as I also fantasized about Father Perrault and his counsel to Hugh Conway I wondered if Conway ever did find his way back to the magic valley And I thought that the French author Blaise

Remembering a Trinity Poet and Teacher Migh in the Mimalayas We paused at Tengboche, the most venerable Sherpa monastery of the Solo-Khumbu region and the place where parties seeking the summit of Mount Everest have traditionally stopped, since Mallory's time, to be blessed by the High Lama. It was there that we held a memorial service for our colleague Hugh Ogden, poet and Trinity professor of English, who fell through the ice in Maine and drowned right before the New Year. We asked the Buddhist monks to offer prayers for him. There in the incredibly beautiful monastery atop one of the Himalayan peaks, the Buddha smiling

As I sat there in the monastery, I was very grateful that my military school teachers had made us read so many books, and that these books had made such a difference in our lives.

Few of those teachers are alive today, but I bless their memories all the more for inculcating such magic echoes so firmly in my adolescent head. The echoes of those pages still resonate with me even today, and they have taken me to heights I never thought remotely possible. Looking around me that morning in the monastery- part of a circle of students and teachers drawn together in such a special place- I felt once again the ages-old power of books to move, to transform, and to inspire. And I knew that the Trinity students who were my companions on this journey would someday approach the eve of their own Goth birthdays pushed to climb their own mountain peaks, as I have been, by the books of their youth.

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A alumna profile

As director of the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, Julia Freedson '95 works for the survival and recovery of children all over the world who are caught in the crossfire of political conflict.

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It's not always easy to articulate what we'd change about the world if we could, but Julia Freedson'95 has no trouble summing up her priorities: her work takes her "wherever children are being killed, maimed, tortured, raped, abducted, and violated just because they are unfortunate enough to be caught in the middle of adult wars."

Save the Children Alliance, the Norwegian Refugee Council, World Vis ion International, and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. It is housed in New York at the Women's Commission offices.

Freedson is director of the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, an international network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that track and combat atrocities committed against children living in war zones around the world, including Sudan, Liberia, Colombia, Afghanistan, and many others. Through a combination of strategy, grit, and passion, Watchlist uses its expertise to influence major policy makers, including the United Nations Security Council, with the single aim of protecting children's safety and rights.

Freedson traces her passion for this grueling, often heartbreaking, but ultimately rewarding work to her time at Trinity College, from which she received a degree in international affairs (then called "area studies") with a focus on the Middle East.

The network- which is the only one of its kind In the world- includes local, national, and international organizations and is managed by a steering committee whose members represent Care International, the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, International

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The years at Trinity: academic rigor and personal attention

"I know I wouldn't be on the same path I am now if I hadn't gone to Trinity;" Freedson says. "The most important academic experience I had there was the opportunity to interact personally and regularly with my professors.

Because my major was very focused and there were few other students on the same track, I received tremendous personal attention and commitment from several professors who helped me to follow my interests without letting me stray too far."

Freedson mentions in particular professors Ron Keiner, Sam Kassow, Levana Polate, and Clinton Bailey

"I think of them often and am grateful for the commitment each of them made to my personal and academic growth," she says, citing such invaluable contributions as "pushing academic rigor, encouraging me to study abroad, and even driving me to New York for an important job interview."

After leaving Trinity, Freedson received a master's degree in international affairs (MIA) with a focus on human rights and humanitarian affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Before joining Watchlist in 2001 , she worked for the AntiDefamation League and the UN. Mission in Kosovo.

She began working as a consultant to several NGOs that had the idea of developing a network.

Eventually, it became Watchlist, and she has guided it from its austere beginnings to its position today as an influential group with an annual budget of $700,000 .

A direct impact on children's lives Freedson has published widely on the impact of armed conflict on young people, and her research into such atrocities as killing, forced displacement, maiming, genderbased violence, and the effects of HIV/ AIDS has earned her the respect of human rights advocates around the globe. Watchlist's work is widely covered by media, from the New York Times to BBC News and National Public Radio.

achieve often get intertwined with bigger geopolitical dynamics, so it's important to stay focused on the fact that our efforts really do affect the lives of children who have suffered some of the most grave human rights violations imaginable," Freedson says. "The most gratifying thing for me is the privilege of working with the real frontline human rights defenders. These are people who workoften at great personal risk- to protect the children of their communities and countries. I have a colleague in the most remote, war-torn area of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo who himself treks into the bush to negotiate with rebel commanders to release child soldiers under their command. After obtaining the children's release, his organization works to reintegrate them into their communities- remember, these are children who may have suffered the terrors of the battlefield, heinous sexual violence, starvation, abuse, and other atrocities. Most have lost out on years of education, proper nutrition, and regular childhoods. Many are child mothers caring for their own children born of rape. Often, they live in far-off places even the UN. doesn't reach."

There is no way any of us could face these atrocities on a daily basis and not be affected, and yet for Freedson, there is also great joy in the work.

"It's so satisfying to see Watchlist's initiatives directly reflected in the work of the UN. Security Council, and then to see the council's words on paper translated into action," she says. "And while there's no doubt that high-level policy-making bodies move infuriatingly slowly, it does help me get my work done when I'm able to see that our efforts have a direct impact on children's lives."

Freedson, who grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts, admits that directing a global effort and dealing with large governmental bureaucracies can sometimes dilute the immediacy of her group's work.

"If it weren't for the dedication of

"Because much of our work is done on the international policy level, the changes we're trying to

activists, these children would have little hope for survival or recovery I feel so privileged to work with colleagues like this and I'm inspired by them every day"

Freedson is quick to redirect the accolades to her unheralded colleagues in the field.

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Was there a particular person or event that strongly influenced you as a Tri nity undergraduate?

The particular class was "Economics IOI ," taught

by Professor Ward Curran.

I was a first-year then and was fascinated by the subject and by Professor Curran himself He was probably the reason I became a teacher. I was fascinated by how he clearly enjoyed doing what he was doing and by how the students were very taken by his knowledge of the subject.

As far as a mentor, I would say it was Professor Bronzino of the Engineering Department.

Very early on, I became his research student, and we have had a mutually beneficial relationship ever since. I still collaborate on some of my research with him. He has taught me so much about doing meaningful research in a small liberal arts college, research that has an impact on my whole field. Some of the things he has accomplished are amazing in terms of name recognition.

What is biomed ical e ngineering?

Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary field that brings together engineers from the traditional subdisciplines of mechanical and electrical engineering who apply basic engineering principles to solve problems in medicine and biology. It is a relatively

new field, but because the world is moving towards more integration, more connectedness, it's becoming a very important component in healthcare delivery and drug discovery.

"Many fieople can still te 1 you where they were when they first learned about (emotional events such as September II or the death of JFK), but they can't tell you where they were on more ordinary days. When we experience emotionally traumatic events, stress hormones are released the adrenal g ands. A lot of these hormones are sent to areas of the brain responsible for learning. They enhance memory of particular events ... "

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A lot of biomedical engineers work for pharmaceutical companies on new drugs, and many are at work on new devices that help handicapped people in ways we wouldn't have even thought about five or IO years ago.

For example, there is a prosthetic device for the blind currently under development in which a sensor implanted in the brain will stimulate areas of the visual cortex.

Perhaps this will give a blind person a sense of seeing, even though it might not be true vision, but at least an impression of shapes or colors will become possible.

What are your research interests within the field of biomedical engineering?

My own research is in the electrophysiology of learning. I am interested in how the brain takes in information, stores it, and later is able to retrieve it. In other words, how do we learn, how do we memorize things> I do research primarily in an area of the brain called the hippocampus, which is widely thought to be the first entry point for meaningful informationprocessing in the brain.

When information comes in through the eyes or other modalities of the senses, it goes through a couple of different layers of the brain- for example, the primary cortices and then is relayed to the hippocampus.

The hippocampus is

where the actual, slow, sequential processing of that information takes place. The hippocampus doesn't actually store memories, but it processes, consolidates, and relays them to other areas of the brain for storage. I am interested in that entry point where information comes in and begins to be processed by this "hippocampal machine."

A new line of research for me is the correlation of emotion and memory. We all remember traumatic things; it's something we can all relate to. How does emotion impact what we learn, what we remember, and how long we remember it> Examples I like to give are emotional events such as September II or the death of JFKmany people can still tell you where they were when they first learned about these events, but they can't tell you where they were on more ordinary days. When we experience emotionally traumatic events, stress hormones are released by the adrenal glands. A lot of these hormones are sent to areas of the brain responsible for learning.

They enhance memory of particular events because the brain is being flooded with hormones that enhance the learning rate for memorization of these events. In today's research, we think about ways in which we can leverage that power to enhance how we learn and remember things . Once we know enough about how these mechanisms work, then it

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will be possible to develop drugs that mimic the same pattern and in this way enhance learning and memory.

Another aspect of my research is simply the matter of learning about ourselves - learning about who we are as individuals.

Our brain is responsible for so much of our character, which is shaped by the experiences we have as individuals. So much of who we are is denned by the way we experience the outside world internally and how events and feelings are internally represented in the brain.

The brain is the center of everything we do, of how we see the world, and how we interact with others.

It all has to be done by the brain, that marvelous center of cognition and of consciousness. So, a lot of what I do is also pure research, wanting to learn about us, about human beings, about the business of life as a hwnan being. How do we go about this, how do we discover the world? How do we view the world from a cellular point of view? From a neuralcircuitry point of view?

All of the information we are bombarded with every day- how does that machine (the brain) allow us to adapt to novel environments and to create new things?

Is there a place where this work will find an eventual outlet in everyday life?

Yes. What we have learned from the research I am doing can be easily transferable to other research that seeks to design drugs that manipulate the way we learn or enhance long-term memory. For example, Parkinson's disease attacks the brain, as does Alzheimer's. If we can learn how the brain circuitry responsible for learning and memory works, then it might be possible to create drugs that compensate for deficiencies in people who suffer from learning disabilities or other forms of brain disease.

What are your interests outside your professiona l life?

I'm a computer geek, so I can always be found on the computer! I like to play computer games and I like to go out on the Internet a lot. I'm also an avid reader, and over the last few years I have become an electronic book reader, so I get my books now as PDFs, and I read them on the computer. I read mostly non-fiction, a lot of things having to do with science and how science impacts society or religion or culture. Also, many publishing houses are coming out with textbooks in electronic form , which is helpful because I now have access to many of my texts I use in class right 路 on my laptop, so I can do background reading right at home over the Internet.

PREPARING GLOBAL CITIZENS FOR AN URBAN WORLD A new approach to liberal arts education builds on Trinity's successes in urban and global studies H.

BY JIM

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A $3 -million challenge grant from the Mellon Foundation will allow Trinity to press forward swiftly this year with plans to integrate the College's longstanding urban initiatives and global studies programs into a single, cohesive program called the Center for Urban and Global Studies.

When the center debuts, it will be the em bodiment of a new vision of liberal

education that is expected to impact nearly every area of study, while also distinctively positioning Trinity among the ranks of the nation's liberal arts colleges.

"Given what is happening to liberal arts colleges nationally, and given the demographic shifts that are going to occur in the future, these colleges will need a clear,

articulated focus on what differentiates one school from another, and one school from the national cohort ofliberal arts colleges," says Trinity President James F. Jones, Jr. "From our strategic planning has come the clear message that Trinity can, and must, distinguish itself as a liberal arts college in a capital city with links from our Hartford campus to cities around

the world, thanks to our global sites."

"The Mellon grant paves the way for a fundamental change in the way the College approaches liberal education and a transformation of campus culture to one that challenges assumptions about what learning means and how it takes place," says Jones . "Over the next year, Trinity will devise a unique undergraduate model aimed at preparing our students for global citizenry This generous grant from the Mellon Foundation is a significant vote of confidence from one of the most prominent foundations in the world that Trinity is on the right track," Jones added.

Trinity was one of 16 national liberal arts colleges invited to compete as part of the Mellon

Students in E::NVS 275 "Methods in E::nvironmental Science" conduct an environmental assessment of f-lartford's Park River. Top: collecting samples. Below: analyzing samples in the laboratory. Right: clay layers in a soil sample from the Park River project.

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Foundation's "Centers of Excellence" program. Of the 16, seven schools were selected to receive awards. Trinity and Sarah Lawrence College received the first two and were among four institutions selected to receive the maximum $J -million grant.

In inviting proposals from these select colleges, the foundation urged them to develop ideas that "address a major priority, leading to a long-lasting, positive educational and financial outcome." The foundation also encouraged them to focus on an aspect of their programs having the greatest likelihood of producing meaningful change for the campus community. Trinity chose its urban and global programs, identifying opportunities to improve their linkages, secure their funding on a permanent basis, and articulate their functional integration as a signature feature for the College. This is a new affirmation of the important relationship between Trinity and Hartford in the College's academic mission and vision.

For its part, the College will raise $9 million in matching funds as part of the $12 million endowment to sustain urban and global programs. Trinity will launch an immediate campaign and will pursue an intense 18-month effort to accomplish this goal. Already, three donors have committed $1.8 million in matching funds toward the challenge.

Encompassing both Martford and world citiesa new vision of the liberal arts paradigm Education that involves interaction with the city of Hartford has long been an important part of Trinity's approach, as has the extensive use of overseas study. The new Center for Urban and Global Studies will bring these two existing streams together to give the College a powerful new medium through which to reconfigure the idea ofliberal arts education and its relevance to the 21st century.

Urban programs, fueled by grants from the WK. Kellogg and other national foundations during the 1990s, emerged from efforts to invigorate Trinity's relationship with Hartford, starting with the South End neighborhoods immediately surrounding the College. A host of distinctive programs and institutions- including the Learning Corridor, the Trinfo Cafe, the Boys & Girls Club at Trinity College, and the new Community Sports Complex- grew from that work. They have significantly improved the quality oflife in Hartford while also providing learning opportunities for Trinity students, many of whom have benefited from internships and workstudy programs in the city.

TOP: Internship site--Margaret Kistow Children's Home, Arima , Trinidad MIDDL~: Mural project, Santiago, Chile BOTTOM: Trinfo Cafe, Hartford

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At the same time, the College has established learning sites at eight cities worldwide, including Moscow, Istanbul, Barcelona, Cape Town, Paris, Santiago, Vienna,

and Port of Spain, in addition to the ongoing program in Rome.

These programs enable students to travel and study abroad in a host of cultures, while also performing internships or community learning that more fully integrate them with institutions in their host cities.

"We believe that the education Trinity offers its students is distinctly stronger because it encompasses both Hartford and world cities," says Dr. Rena Fraden, dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs, but she is quick to add that the College's commitment to the traditional liberal arts and sciences remains firm .

"This initiative does not mean that Trinity will now aim to graduate only students who are 'urbanists.' Our commitment to the full spectrum of liberal arts education has not changed.

However, by bringing together our existing, successful, urban and global programs, we believe we can breathe new life into the liberal arts paradigm, creating a variety of'real world' opportunities for students to learn and grow. It also means a stronger commitment to engaging with, investing in, and drawing sustenance from the many programs and relationships here in Hartford and all over the globe that we've been building for many years."

A new dean and a new center

The urban -global initiative will play out in a number of ways, says Dean Fraden, who is spearheading implementation. For starters, the Curriculum Committee is expected to bring to the faculty a proposal requiring that every student take at least one course that focuses on Hartford and another on international issues.

The College is currently engaged in a national search to recruit an accomplished scholar to fill the new position of dean of urban and global studies, with a mandate to provide overall vision and leadership for the program and direct the center's activities. Two contiguous Trinity buildings at the corner of Vernon and Broad streets will be renovated to create a physical presence for the center. When it opens, the majority of Trinity's Hartford-focused and global progran1s will be housed in this complex.

Under the dean's leadership, the center will sustain and build linkages between Trinity's Hartford, community, and global programs that previously existed separately. In addition, a new Cities Resource Center will develop a comprehensive Web site with links to other urban and global projects; create guides for students and researchers who are studying Hartford's history or seeking connections to ongoing work in cities across the United States and the world; and create an introduction to resources in archives, libraries, and cultural institutions in Hartford and the region.

"We're committed to a model of the liberal arts that strongly incorporates off-campus engagement both in Hartford and abroad," says Dean Fraden. "A central task for the new dean will be to integrate the three interlocking intellectual spheres inhabited by our students: the classroom, the city, and the world."

Arthur Vining Davis l=oundations grant supports student urban-global research projects The Arthur Vining Davis f=oundations have awarded a grant of $200,000 to the College to support student research and internship opportunities in an urban and/or global context. The AV Davis f=ellows Program will provide stipends, housing, and program support for up to 20 students in the summers of 2007 and 2008, as well as a stipend for a faculty coordinator.

The grant will also support a Summer Institute in Urban and Global Studies modeled on the successful 1-joward 1-jughes Medical Institute (l-ji-jMJ) Summer Research Program in the life sciences. Participation in the summer institute wil l be open to any student conducting on-campus research in the 1-jartford region, their faculty mentors, other faculty members engaged in urban and global scholarship, 1-jartford-based student interns, and campus-based students preparing for a semester of study abroad. Like the 1-ji-jMJ program, the institute will provide students with the opportunity to participate in weekly seminars throughout the summer and to present work in progress at one of the seminars. Special lectures and panel presentations will be organized on topics geared toward fostering debate and discussion. Guest lecturers may include academic experts in relevant topics; representatives of local governments, nonprofits, and community-based organizations; and speakers from other regions and countries who will bring a comparative perspective to the selected topic. The grant will also provide support for a fall symposium on student urban and global research, which wil l provide a forum for students to present the results of summer work to the campus and the wider community.

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"It happens all across the country: the freshman freakout.

They arrive on campus- often at their dream school- and they are faced with so many unknowns and differences that they begin to question why they wanted to go to college . . .. Is this sort of meltdown happening more often with this generation? And how should parents respond?

Randolph lee, a psychologist and director of the counseling center at Trinity College, doesn't think he's seeing more homesickness than he did a decade or two ago. but 'I think you do see more of a knee-jerk reaction: Parents tend to get more alarmist about it more quickly than they used to. 'We see so many more calls from parents.' In their well-meaning desire to be responsive, lee says, 'parents jump too quickly Parents need to lay back a little: This is a new adventure; it's exciting. Kids are going to feel like they don't have friends at first. They are going to feel lonely They may think they will never make friends .' If left alone, lee says, kids usually find friends and feel much more at home by about mid- October .... The good news is, experts say, that most freshman relax into college life sometime during that first semester. At Trinity, lee says. they have tried to start group therapy for kids who are trying to adjust. But by the time they assemble a group, the kids are over the homesickness."

Tl-IE l=RESl-IMAN l=REAKOUT:

I WANT To CoME

I HATE IT HERE.

HoME' NoT To WORRY, PARENTS.

T1-11s, Too, S1-1ALL PAss

1-!artford Courant, September 22,

2006

"The Congressional Research Service reported this year that congressional earmarks have more than tripled since 1994. The service reported there were 4,126 earmarks worth $29.6 billion in 1994. By fiscal year 2006, that figure jumped to 12,852 earmarks worth $67 billion, an increase of about 126 percent in value, according to the service.

Experts say that's more than a coincidence. Diana Evans, author of the 2004 book Greasing the Wheels: Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority Coalitions in Congress, said leaders of powerful congressional committees started doling out earmarks i.n the late 1980s to buy loyalty from other lawmakers. In return for funding a pet project in one district, a lawmaker was expected to support congressional leaders on other issues. 'In a sense, they have become the prisoners of earmarks. Members expect them and the more they get them, the more they expect,' said Evans, a political science professor at Trinity College i.n Hartford, Conn. The

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jump in earmarks 'may be as simple as demand rising to meet what is apparently a never-ending supply."' she said.

SPENDING AS A WAY OF LIFE IN CONGRESS: PROFESSIONAL "INFLUENCERS" WORK FOR LOCAL INTERESTS, ENDURE WASl-llNGTON SCANDALS

The Press-Enterprise (CA), September 22,

2006

"Trinity College has received pledges totaling $39-5 million from three anonymous donors, officials have announced.

The money. which is about equal to the largest single gift in the college's history. will be used to support endowed faculty positions, financial aid for international students and the general endowment at the private liberal arts college in Hartford. ' It's a wonderful vote of confidence in the future of the college from three very generous alumni who are dedicated to paying back part of what they believe Trinity gave them, said Trinity President James F. Jones Jr. The gifts, part of a $300 million fundraising campaign announced in May by college trustees, will 'enable us to bolster our commitment to attracting and retaining the brightest and most talented students and the highestcaliber faculty,' he said. Under Jones, the college has sought to bolster fundraising and cut costs. Over the past two years, Trinity has reduced some part-time faculty jobs and imposed other cost-savings measures. The latest pledges will allow the school, with an enrollment of 2,300 students, to increase its endowment, which is estimated at between $380 million and $390 million."

DONORS PLEDGE $39.5 MILLION TO TRINITY Newsday, October 20, 2006

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Samples of the abundant seaweed from the Sargasso Sea that has washed up on Bermuda's shores in recent weeks is to be analysed by US -based seaweed expert Dr. Craig Schneider of Trinity College in Connecticut. As reported in yesterday's Royal Gazette Dr. Martin Thomas, who works closely with the Aquarium is also looking at the various examples of the seaweed that has broken off from the Gulf Stream and drifted into the Island's coastal waters. But it is Dr. Schneider who is the lead expert in the field. Commonly referred to simply as Sargasso seaweed, the Aquarium's collector of species Chris Flook points out the official name of the species is Sargussum seaweed. An unusual type of the

seaweed, thought to be an as yet undocumented "flowering" phase of the seaweed, has been discovered during research of the seaweed that has reached Bermuda this year and exan1ples of this are being sent to Dr. Schneider in the US to exam.

AMERICAN EXPERT TO ANALYSE SEAWEED

The Royal Gazette (Bermuda), December 6,

2006

Last year, Nike drew buzz with its campaign that centered on , and celebrated, robust body parts typically shunned by women and advertisers. "My butt is big," proclaimed one ad. "I have thunder thighs," said another. In recent weeks, the so-called "skinny model ban" instigated in Madrid has gained steam. Most recently a government agency threatened to pull its annual ÂŁ620,000 contribution to London Fashion Week if organizers continue to send underweight models down the runway . . . Strung together, does it spell the beginnings of a beauty backlash of sorts?

Or is this doomed to be a passing fad in this culture that proclaims ample-bottomed Jennifer Lopez "hot" one season and a reed-thin Nicole Richie the next? 'Something bigger is going on,' says Audrey D. Brashich, a Trinity College graduate and author of the new book All Made Up: A Girl's

Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty.

'There's some sort of resistance that's gurgling beneath the surface. I don't know that I can say it's full blown,' says Brashich, who spoke at the college last week for national Love Your Body Day 'But these new pieces of pop culture are refocusing a debate that's been kicking around for some time. And the best action is to build on it."'

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D rn N1T10N OF PMYSICAL LooKs Is EMERGING?

/-lartford Courant, October 27.

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"Recent world events have put Islam under the microscope.

Author Sohaib Sultan is out to change what he calls the negative public perception of the religion. Sultan, the lslan1ic chaplain at Yale University in New Haven and Trinity College in Hartford, spoke to about two dozen people Wednesday night at St. James's Episcopal Church. In a wide-ranging conversation that lasted almost two hours, Sultan touched on several issues facing Islam. Sultan, author of The Koran for Dummies, took his audience through a primer on Islam, recited a few verses from the Muslim holy book and answered about an hour's worth of questions in an effort to teach people a little bit about his religion . . . . One of his pet peeves, he explained, is the way the news media, pundits and 'experts' discuss Islam without much knowledge

of the religion .. .. Sultan said he hoped people walked away with a new, alternative perspective on one of the world's largest religions. ' I would like for the attendants to see the human side of Islam . .. what makes Islam a religion that is worthy ofliving,' said Sultan, 26. The Rev. Robert C. Hooper I I I, rector of St. James's Episcopal Church in West Hartford center, said he invited Sultan to speak so he could give audience members, most of them parishioners of St. James's, a better grasp of an often- misinterpreted religion . ' I have a personal and spiritual interest in the dialogue,' Hooper said. 'When we come to understand other people's religions better, we understand our religion better."'

ISLAMIC CMAPLAIN EXPLAINS ~IS FAITM

/-lartford Courant, November 2,

2006

"There were 6 a.m. and II p.m. off-campus practices, but not too many players raised a stink. The coach used to carry the puck bucket and hockey laundry in his car back to campus, and that did a raise a big stink. Maybe it always was worth it, but finally, on Friday, all the sacrifices will make sense. Trinity has been playing men's hockey for 46 years, starting as a club team in 1960, but has never had a home rink. And whether it was the outdoor ice at Colt Park in Hartford or the rink at Kingswood- Oxford School in West Hartford, every practice, every game, has been a road trip of some kind. That ends Friday when the doors of the $155 million Trinity College Community Sports Complex open for the Wesleyan-Trinity women's game at 4 p.m. , followed by the Hamilton-Trinity men's game at 7:30. Both Trinity teams are opening their seasons. 'I've stopped by the site several times every week since the groundbreaking (Nov. 6, 2005) ', men's coach John Dunham said. It's like a dream .

I appreciate it so much for the players, former players, the college and everyone who has supported the program. It gives me the feeling that, 'You know, we did something right.'No one deserves more accolades than Dunham, who's No.6 on the all-time Division III wins list. With a 433 293-30 record in 32 varsity seasons, he is Trinity hockey . . .

'John has gone above and beyond the call,' said Mark Cleary, the captain of Trinity's first varsity team in 1974-75. 'How does a coach recruit players against Middlebury (eighttime NCAA champion) and Amherst without a campus rink' And to put a tean1 in the Final Four without a rink on campus. Amazing."

TRINITY ~OCKEY: F INALLY, A ~OME R INK

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speak out

In which we ask a member ofthe Trinity community to speak out on important issues ofthe day. You are invited to respond with your opinions, which will be published in the next issue ofthe Reporter.

The Generation of IEDs and I Pods Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair ofSouth Asian History On September 3, 2006, the weekend before the fall term opened, two young boys from Connecticut were killed. Eighteen-year-old Private lst Class Nicolas Madaras of Wilton died when a roadside bomb (an IED) exploded next to his humvee in Baqubah, Iraq.

In Ramadi, on that same day. another bomb killed 19-year-old lance Corporal Phillip Johnson of Enfield.

Madaras, who had coached soccer, hoped to return to the U. S., go to college, and study nursing. Another college career squandered.

Total U. S. fatalities in Iraq are now in excess of 3,000. (Editor's note: A Trinity alumnus, Schuyler B. Haynes '89, was killed in action in Iraq in November of 2006. His obituary appears elsewhere in this issue of the Reporter.)

That same day. 22 Iraqis died in eight separate incidents, from a suicide car bomb in Al-Kamarah to an explosion in New Baquba (in the latter, a father and his four children were killed

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as they drove in their family car). Not long after, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health released a remarkable study It found that 654,965 more Iraqis have died since 2003 than would have been expected under pre-war conditions.

Shortly after the study appeared, the President said that it was "not credible," but "I do know that a lot of innocent people have died, and it troubles me and grieves me. " These events marked my first week of classes.

Before me sat smart, eager students, most of whom are the same age as Madaras and Johnson, and of those Iraqis whose names I do not know. My students are eager to learn about the world, to find meaning in the chaos that greets them in the newspapers, on television, and from our political establishment. They were just about teenagers during the terrorist attacks on September II , 2001, and have since grown into young adults as war upon war has unfolded around them. The inconvenience of airports is routine for them, so too is the news about lives lost, cities devastated. For our students, the generation of IEDs and I Pods, there is no comprehensive narrative that links together the contemporary histories of globalization and populist rage. If they do not have a

narrative or many narratives that try to explain why more than half the 275 "world opinion leaders" told the International Herald Tribune that "American policies or actions in the world were a major cause of the September II attacks," we will fail them. Our students see animosity against the U.S. government, and against U.S. -based corporations, but there is little attempt to parse carefully the arguments of the antagonized and learn from them. If we seek not to understand the complaints and address them in some fashion, the only solution is to kill anyone who has animosity against us. The military solution is predicated upon such thoughtlessness.

War is distant for our students, as for us. We read about it, see images from it: war is a spectacle for us, nothing corporeal.

Newsweek took a stab a month after 9/ 11 . Its international editor, Mumbai-born Fareed Zakaria, wrote an engaging essay under the headline, "Why They Hate Us." On the cover of the issue (dated October 15, 2001) a young boy in a white turban held aloft a Kalashnikov. Zakaria claimed that 9/ II could be explained by "the sense of humiliation, decline and despair that sweeps the Arab world." Arabs,

he wrote, "feel that they are under siege from the modern world and that the United States symbolizes this world." A generation of social scientists had already walked down that path. As modernization theorists, they championed modernity as the antidote to tradition. The histories of colonialism and of the uneven integration of the formerly colonial world into the circuits of capitalism did not bother them. Secular education systems combined with the mass media propagation of new ideas would shatter traditional frameworks .

Commerce and integration into world capitalism would finish the job. At least this was the view of W W Rostow in his 1960 classic,

The Stages ofEconomic Growth.

Zakaria's is a sophisticated variant of this, but for all its poise, it remains far too simplistic: Modernity (us) is the torment of tradition (them), and our freedoms and fun enrage them into un-freedom and fundamentalism .

Granta, founded at Cambridge University in 1889, dedicated the 77th issue of its new series to the proposition, "What We Think of America" (spring 2002). A series of wellregarded writers, including Lebanon's Hanan al-Shaykh, Chile's Ariel Dorfman, and Canada's Michael Ignatieff,

produced short reflections on America. Harold Pinter, the playwright who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature, lamented the loss of life of those who had the temerity to challenge the way the world had been ordered. Why did the thousands of Indonesians, Chileans, Nicaraguans, and others die, Pinter asked? "They died because to one degree or another they dared to question the status quo, the endless plateau of poverty, disease, degradation and oppression which is their birthright. On behalf of the dead, we must regard the breathtaking discrepancy between U.S. government language and U.S. government action with the absolute contempt it merits."

From Canada, in a widely circulated Internet statement, Sunera Thobani, who presided over the National Action Com mittee on the Status of Women, challenged the notion that the wars to come in revenge for 9/ II had a benign motive. She worried that the U.S. president's rhetoric shortly after 9/ n invoked the U.S. people to seek blood ("they don't care whose blood it is, they want blood") in vengeance.

The peace marches, she wrote, contest this idea of the nation, but those who seek peace are politically weak, even if morally strong.

Congresswoman Barbara lee, the only member of Congress to oppose the open-ended declaration of war passed in September 2001, concurred with Thobani. "We have a chance to demonstrate to the world," she wrote in a statement, "that great powers can choose to fight on the fronts of their choosing and that we can choose to avoid needless military action when other avenues to redress our rightful grievances and to protect our nation are available to us. We must respond, but the character of that response will determine for ourselves and for our children the world that they will inherit." In addition, the character of the response will define the nation's sense of itself and sense to the world.

In 1995. I read political scientist Benjamin Barber's Jihad Versus Mc World. Barber retooled modernization theory, to argue that Mc World, the soulless corporation, meets its antithesis in Jihad, the fanatical fundamentalist.

Such an account allows us to believe that if there are more I Pods in the world, there will be less IEDs. Globalization, in other words, will undermine the basis for all manner of atavism.

But, my own work, now coming to fruition in The Darker Nations, suggests that Jihad is actually the twin of Mc World. Take Pakistan as an example. The International Monetary Fund, the advance guard of corporate power, pushed the state to cut back on funding for educational and health-care services. Into the breech came the Islamic charities, many funded by the Saudi government, and some even enjoying the largess of the U.S. coffers (during the Afghan War of the 1980s). They educated and healed the lower middle class, drawing in vast numbers of people into their organizations. The growth of the Islamic Right in Pakistan is a product of Mc Jihad, the unified effect of both globalization and fundamentalism.

Dulce helium inexpertis: war is sweet to the inexperienced.

Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of

South Asia n History. Prashad has taught at Trinity for 10 years and is the director of the International Studies Program.

He completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, where he received various fellowships to support his graduate work.

His dissertation on the social history of a Dalit community in India, Untouchable f:reedom, was published by Oxford University Press in 1999. His subsequent title, Karma of Brown f:olk, was published in 2000 and named one of the 25 best books by the Village Voice. His latest book, The

Darker Nations: A People's 1-iistory of the Third World, is due out soon. The Kellner Chai r of South Asian History was established in 1995 with a gift from George '64 and Martha Ke llner.

Your turn to speak out.

Share your opinions on this essay with other Reporter readers.

Send your letters or e-mails to Drew Sanborn, Office of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 or drew.sanborn@trincoll.edu.

Responses will be published in the next issue ofthe Reporter.

Letters to the ed itor Read responses to previous Speak Out columns on the Trinity Web site at www. trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/ News_ Events/ Reporter/

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books and other media

MAYORS AND SCl-IOOLS: MINORITY VOICES AND DEMOCRATIC TENSIONS IN URBAN EDUCATION STEFANIE CHAMBERS. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Temple University Press, 2006; 229 pages TURTLE ISLAND TREE PSALMS HUGH OGDEN , PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

1-/igganum I-Iii/ Books, 2006; 87 pages JUDAISM AND l-IELLENISM RECONSIDERED LOUIS H. FELDMAN 46

Brill, 2006; 950 pages SETTING Tl-IE TABLE: Tl-IE TRANSFORMING POWER OF 1-!0SPITALITY IN BUSINESS DANNY MEYER '80 1-/arperCollins, 2006; 320 pages

PICASSO AND AMERICAN ART MICHAEL FITZGERALD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF FINE ARTS

Whitney Museum of American Art. in association with Yale University Press,2006; 400 pages

IN Tl-llS REMOTE COUNTRY: FRENCl-I COLONIAL CULTURE IN Tl-IE ANGLO-AMERICAN IMAGINATION, 1780-1860 EDWARD WATTS '86

The University of North Carolina Press, 2006; 288 pages A VISITOR'S GUIDE TO COLONIAL & REVOLUTIONARY NEW ENGLAND PATRICIA FOULKE '70 AND ROBERT FOULKE

INVENTING A SOVIET COUNTRYSIDE: STATE POWER AND Tl-IE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL RUSSIA 1917-1929 JAMES W. HEI NZEN '84

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004; 297 pages JANE AUSTEN: NORTl-IANGER ABBEY, Tl-IE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF Tl-IE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN EDITED BY BARBARA M. BENEDICT, CHARLES A. DANA PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH . AND DEIRDRE LE FAYE

Cambridge University Press, 2006; 354 pages POWER, PLAIN ENGLISl-I, AND Tl-IE RISE OF MODERN POETRY DAV ID ROSEN. ASSISTAN T PROFESSOR O F ENGLISH

The Countryman Press, 2006; 344 pages DESCRIBING LIFE: MONOLOGS FOR WOMEN JOLENE GOLDENTHAL M'69

Bleich Books, 2007; 126 pages l-IOW EVERYONE COULD BE RICI-I , FAMOUS, ETC. LEWISS. MANCINI . M.D. '73

Trafford Publishing, 2006; 240 pages INSIDE MAVERICK'S: PORTRAIT OF A MONSTER WAVE EDITED BY BRUCE JENKINS AND GRANT WASHBURN '90, PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUG ACTON

Chronicle Books, 2006; 160 pages

Yale University Press, 2006; 212 pages POSSESSED VICTORIANS: EXTRA SPl-IERES IN NINETEENTl-l-CENTURY MYSTICAL WRITINGS SARAH A. WILLBURN , VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Ashgate Publishing, 2006; 169 pages

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athletics

Wesley N9 new head coach of womens rowing team Trinity College has hired Wesley Ng as head coach of the Bantam women's rowing team. Ng has spent the last two seasons as the assistant coach and head novice coach for the Trinity men's rowing team. He replaces Marina Traub, who resigned this spring for personal reasons.

The Trinity women's rowing team finished the 2006 season with a 9-1 record and finished second in both the New England Division Ill Championships and the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships, and fourth in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) National Invitational Regatta. The Bantams qualified for their fourthstraight NCAA Di vision Ill National Championship Regatta, finishing fourth in the grand final and third in the Overall Points Standings. Trinity has been to the last four NCAA Division Ill Championship Regatta, winning the Varsity Eight National Championship title in 2005, and capturing two New England crowns (2003 & 2005), two N ESCAC crowns (2004 & 2005), and the 2005 ECAC National Invitational title in the process.

Ng graduated from Yale with a bachelor's degree in history and is currently a candidate for a master's degree in public policy studies at Trinity. As a collegian, Ng helped Yale win three Eastern Sprints Championships and the IRA National Championship title in 2002.

"Trinity has been so successful in the past four years with four straight trips to the NCAA Division Ill Championships and two third -place finishes as a team. I feel very lucky to get the opportunity to coach scholar-athletes who have demonstrated their dedication in the classroom as well as on the water," says Ng. "Their impressive team GPA and academic contributions as well as their rowing performance suggest the team is poised for future success. I'm really looking forward to facing the new challenge of racing in the NESCAC, which I consider the most competitive Division Ill rowing league in the nation."

In his two years at Trinity, Ng's first and second novice crews at Trinity posted a 19-0 record with New England and ECAC National Invitational Championship titles in both 2005 and 2006. Prior to Trinity, Ng coached the freshman lightweight men's crews and assisted with the women's crew teams at Yale University over two seasons.

Detrick and Longley sweep NESCAC golf post-season honors Trinity College freshman Reid Longley was selected as the 2006 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Golf Player of the Year and as the 2006 NESCAC Golf Rookie of the Year. Bantam head coach Bill Detrick was voted

the 2006 NESCAC Coach of the Year, giving Trinity a sweep of the league's post-season honors this fall. In addition, Trinity senior co-captain George Boudria and freshman David Anderson were each named to the 2006 All-NESCAC Second Team.

This marks the second straight year that a Bantam golfer has claimed the individual crown at the NESCAC Championship as Boudria won medalist honors at last year's tournament.

Entering his 16th season at Trinity, Detrick has fielded a squad capable of finishing among the top 10 teams in New England each year. Last season, the Bantams finished third in both the New England Small College Athletic Conference and among Division Ill colleges at the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association (NEIGA) Championships during the fall season.

The 2001 NESCAC Coach of the Year, Detrick also guided the Bantams to a fourth-place finish in the ECAC Division Ill Championship Tournament. Detrick came to Trinity in 1990 after a legendary tenure as head men's basketball coach at Central Connecticut State University, where the gymnasium bears his name.

Skipp earns All-American field hocl:ey honors: Bantams Curran and M watarura also take post-season accolades Trinity sophomore defender Emily Skipp was selected to the 2006 All-New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) l=ield Hockey Second Team, the National l=ield Hockey Coaches Association (Nl=HCA) Division Ill All-New England West Regional l=irst Team, and the National l=ield Hockey Coaches Association (Nl=HCA) All-American Second Team .

Bantam junior midfielder Katie Curran graced the Nl=HCA Division Ill All-New England West Regional Second Team and sophomore M/D Christine Mwatarura made the All-NESCAC l=irst Team .

The Trinity field hockey squad, coached by Anne Parmenter (6th season) posted its best record since 1998 at 9-6 and qualified for the NESCAC Championship Tournament for the second time in three years. The Bantams lost at Tufts, 2-1, in the tourney first round.

Skipp started all 15 games and recorded one goal and two assists for four points and added a defensive save. Skipp, a transfer this fall from Division I Northeastern University, played a major role on the Trinity defense that held its opponents to 1.26 goals allowed per game (27th in the nation).

Curran started all 15 games this season and had one goal and six assists (6th in NESCAC) for eight points. A graduate of South Portland High School, Curran is majoring in anthropology at Trinity.

Mwatarura started in 14 of her 15 games and tallied two goals and two assists for six points, including the game winner in a 2-1 regular season win over Tufts. A graduate of the Chisiple School in her native Zimbabwe, Mwatarura is majoring in economics and Asian studies at Trinity.

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named to All- NESCAC women s soccer first team Trinity sophomore midfielder Devin Nwanagu was named to the 2006 All -New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Women's Soccer First Team. The Trinity women's soccer squad, coached by Michael Smith (10th Season), posted a 2-10-2 overall record and an 0-8-1 mark in the NESCAC. Nwanagu, an All-NESCAC Second team selection and the NESCAC Rookie of the Year in 2005, started all 14 games and led the Bantams in every offensive category with four goals and four assists for 12 points. She set a new Trinity record for assists in a game this fall with four helpers in a 5-0 win against Coast Guard. A graduate of the Noble & Greenough School , Nwanagu is majoring in economics at Trinity.

Gluckman earns presti_gious award at rowing coaches conference Trinity College men's rowing head coach Lawrence Gluckman was named as the 2006 College Level Coaches Recognition Award recipient at the 30th annual Joy of Sculling Coaches Conference in December. The Trinity men's rowing team finished the season with a 10-1 record and swept the New England Division Ill Championship and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) National Invitational Championship titles.

The award is selected by a panel of men's rowing coaches and given to a coach at both the university and the college level.

Larry Gluckman is currently in his fourth year as the head coach of men's rowing at Trinity. Formerly the head crew coach at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College, Gluckman returned to the coaching ranks in 2002-03 after spending the previous 12 years in private business in the rowing industry. The Trinity men's varsity eight has posted a 27-1 record (27-0 against American colleges) in Gluckman's three seasons and the Bantams have won the I-lead of the Charles and the 2005 1-lenley Temple Challenge regattas in 2005, and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) National Invitational Regatta in 2006. Trinity finished the 2006 season as the No. 13-ranked team in the nation among all divisions.

Soules earns trip to Aztec Bowl: 12 others take post-season honors for Trinity football Trinity College senior captain S. Michael Soules leads a long and impressive list of Bantam football players chosen to recei ve prestigious post-season awards for their outstand ing play during the 2006 football season. Soules is one of 13 Bantam players who were honored following Trinity's 7-1 season , as the Bantams finished ranked No. 4 in the final New England Division Ill Poll. Trinity, coached by Jeff Devanney, finished second in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).

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Soules was selected as the 2006 NESCAC Defensi ve Pla yer of the Year, becoming the third consecutive Trin ity player to earn that award (Aaron Goldstein in 2004, Michael Blair in 2005).

Soules was also honored as a member of the New England Football Writers Di vision 11/111 All-New England Team, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division Ill Northeast All-Star Team, and the D3Football.com All -East Region Second Team. In addition, Soules wa s chosen for, and played in, the 2006 Aztec Bowl as a member of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Division Ill All -Star Team against a Mexican All-Star Team in Cancun, Mexico on December 16.

Senior captain OLB Christian Allen also repeated on both the New England Football Writers Division 11/111 All-New England Team and the All-NESCAC First Team, while jun ior G Mike Robinson graced the D3Football.com All-East Region Third Team, and junior C John Mihalko earned a spot on the ECAC Di vision Ill Northeast Region All -Star Team. This foursome and three others gave Trinity seven players on the All -NESCAC First Team and si x other Bantams graced the All-NESCAC Second Team . Trinity senior captain RB Gennaro Leo, junior DT D.J. Lanz, and junior CB Jared Boyd were also each selected to the All-NESCAC First Team. Bantam senior captain WR/RS Chris Olenoski, senior CB Paul Mounds, junior OT Ben Willig, junior DL Jeff Carpenter, junior !LB Nile Lundgren, and jun ior OLB Matthew Rettig were all picked for the All -NESCAC Second Team.

Norte wins NCAA men's cross country regional champio:iship title Sophomore 1-lunter Norte won the men's race by over 10 seconds at 25:37.9 to lead the Bantams to a third -place finish in the NCAA Di vision Ill New England Regional Champion ships at Veterans Golf Course on November 11 at Springfield, Massachusetts. The Trinity men totaled 164 points, one ahead of fourthplace Wesleyan, and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Di vision Ill National Championships in Ohio where they finished 31st overall. Williams College won the men's race with 57 points and Bowdoin came in second place at 125, while Middlebury College took first place in the women 's race with 73 points. Trinity men's senior co-capta in Nate Gravel came in 16-place with a time of 26:18, while sophomore Sam Moorhead recorded a 20th-place finish at 26:22, and junior co-captain Matt Anderson was 52nd at 27:02. Freshman Ryan Lane secured Trinity's third-place finish by one second with a 75th-place performance at 27:31 . Sophomore Alison Lemire came in 133rd place in the women's race with a time of 25:44.

For up-to-date information on the latest team scores and other Bantam sports news, go to the Trinity College Web site at www.trincoll.edu/athletics/.

class notes

Alumni Fund Goal: $10,000

Alumni Fund Goal: $150 Class Secretary: Dr. Julius Smith, 3114 So. Ocean Blvd., #609, 1-lighland Beach, FL 33487-2531

Alumni Fund Goal: $200

Alumni Fund Goal: $2,000

Alumni Fund Goal: $500 Class Secretary: R. Pearce Alexander, 4025 Pulitzer Pl. #312, San Diego, CA 92122-4226; e-mail: rowen . alexander.1935@trincoll.edu

It is difficult for your Class Correspondent to report to the Trinity magazine without input from classmates, so this is confined to personal activities. With daily workouts and coordination with the nearby physical therapist, my health and typing are good, not great, but good enough with the assistance of a small gym inhouse and an HP computer. These modern gadgets are of great benefit to occasional writers, especially to far-away military friends who are scattered around the globe. Life continues to be pleasant here is southern California. I check the daily weather reports from my home area, central New Jersey and Germany, where it was sent for years by Uncle Sam, then feel some satisfaction about moving out here. San Diego was a small Navy-oriented town back in the late 6os, but my how it has grown due to worldwide migration to our rather pleasant weather and beaches.

There is some business opportunity here for the opportunists.

Alumni Fund Goal: $500

Alumni Fund Goal: $4,000 Class .Secretary: Michael J. Scenti, 226 Amherst St., Wethersfield, CT 06109-1906 Class Agent: William G. I-lull

Alumni Fund Goal: $5,000 Class Secretary: James M.F. Weir, 27 Brook Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525-1926

A surprise visit from Jack Leon, who flew up from North Carolina to spend a weekend with Stan Mo11tgomery. They both attended Homecoming and its football game along with Harry Sanders '37 Jack was last seen driving up to Hyannis to visit with family and friends. Jack, still an avid golfer, seems to have found the fountain of youth that eluded his forbearer, Ponce de Leon. The mild autumn, in these parts, still allows Stan to play golf with a handicap worthy of someone 20 years younger.

Although news is a bit sparse these days, do keep your cards and letters comingyour classmates enjoy hearing from you wherever they are.

Alumn i Fund Goal: $3,000 Class Secretary: Sherwood V. Martin, Sunrise of So. Charlotte, 5515 Rea Road, #215, Charlotte, NC 28266 e-mail : sherwood. martin.l939@trincoll.edu

Alumni Fund Goal: $10,000 Class Secretary: Donald J. Smith, M.D., 501 W. 107th St., Unit #504, Kansas City, MO 64114; e-mail: donald. smith.1940@trincoll.edu

Alumn i Fund Goal: $13,000 Class Secreta ry: Frank A. Kelly, Jr., 21 Forest Dr., Newington, CT 06111-3118

Alumni Fund Goal: $12,000 Class Secretary: Joseph J. Bonsignore, 9105 Santayana Dr., Fairfax, VA 22031-3026 e-mail: joseph.bonsignore.1942 @trincoll.edu

As I write these notes, I am looking at a newspaper photo of Frank Fasi in a newspaper article sent to me by Jack Barber. The newspaper story reported the dedication of Honolulu's principal municipal building in Frank's name (see his bio in this section).

Frank's classmates could have predicted Frank's future. I discussed the newspaper story with Hank Rothauser, fellow Hartfordian, who well remembers Frank. We talked about Frank's aggressiveness on the football field, his "neversay- die" behavior, throwing his unimpressive weight around with utter abandon against bigger and heavier opponents.

Barber also sent the article to Joe Beidler.

My talk with Joe about Frank, baseball, and Trinity football led to all sorts of reminiscences, how he himself was the member of a quartet of stalwarts from the Philadelphia area, encouraged and enabled to go to Trinity by one of Trinity's most illustrious and generous alumni, Martin Clement, then president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Clement's proteges made our freshman year a sports dream: Beidler, Al Will , Ray Rodgers, Bill Kramer. Joe excelled in baseball as well as football, had a big-league throwing arm; Al captained the football team and was an inspi rational leader on the field. Rodgers dropped out of school but became a faithful alumnus; Kramer was a devastating fullback.

Joe became a life-long friend of Don Viering .

We talked a lot about Don, what a great person he was. Joe will be at the 65th Reunion and we will have a great time talking about old times with him. A small present-day note from Joe: He has a grandson playing football in Montana.

Fittingly, this lad weighs in at 260 pounds, about 90 pounds heavier than Joe's playing weight.

With the 65th in mind, I talked with Tom Tamoney, now retired from law practice and settled in a retirement community. They keep him busy there. He keeps fit by swimming three times a week. Just the night before my phone call he had attended the annual Trinity Alumni Dinner, along with Class of '43 John Bonee, fellow legal maven. Tom hasn't missed a Reunion and plans to be at our 65th. We talked about another lawyer, Judge George Stoughton, now retired and living in Bloomfield. We have hopes of persuading George to delay going to his vacation retreat in Nova Scotia, come to the Reunion, and tell us about his successful and adventurous life.

As usual, I chatted with Charley Johnson, happily gardening in South Carolina. Charley is finishing up his compilation of letters of Union Civil War supporters. The University of Florida will publish his work when it is completed.

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class notes Frank Fasi ~2: Martford native turns Monolulu hero At a ceremony in July, former mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, !=rank l=asi, Class of 1942, was honored for his 22 accomplished years as leader of that city.

He was also recognized as "one of Honolulu's most colorful and effective political leaders."

The July festivities centered around the renaming of the 15-story Municipal Office Building and adjacent park in honor of the 86-year-old politician. The plaque on the inside of the !=rank F F=asi Municipal Building succinctly summarizes the much-admired politician's career: " Named in honor of !=rank F l=asi, champion of the little guy, who faithfully served the people of the City and County of Honolulu as their Mayor for 22 years and whose leadership contributed significantly to the progress of modern Honolulu."

When l=asi, a former football star at Trinity, took over as mayor in 1968, Honolulu was certainly not the metropolis that it is today. F=asi's energy and leadership helped direct the city and its programs as it grew into the modern era . Current Mayor of Honolulu Mufi Hannemann, in an article in the Star Bulletin, concurs, "'I cannot think of a lasting city project that does not have !=rank l=asi's imprimatur on it." During his tenure, l=asi started the city's bus

once working with Matt Birmingham. Charley is enthusiastic about the 65th and will write to all in his capacity as class president, encouraging everyone to attend.

Also talked with Jack Swift, still moving and shaking things in idyllic Georgetown on the coast of Maine. His family has had a place there since the r88o's but Jack is the first one to live there the year round. Jack was the principal speaker at our Goth Reunion and we have hopes he will attend the 65th.

I found friend, Ken Albrecht . He had moved from Texas to Tennessee, and I hadn't caught up with the change. He's living near one of his three daughters and is now retired from the motel business. I owe a lot to Ken. He sheltered me during registration week when the great flood and hurricane of '38 flooded the Connecticut River and cut me off from my home in East Hartford.

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system, implemented the garbageto-energy plant, and, as Hannemann adds, "'many other programs to help the little guy."'

His wife, Joyce l=asi, who spoke on her husband's behalf while he is recovering from ill health, says, "He was really the best mayor Honolulu ever had." He was also, she adds, the longest-serving mayor, since the city has recently limited the mayoral term to two years. l=asi served six terms in office, from 1968 to 1980 and 1984 to 1994.

A Hartford native, l=asi served in the Marine Corps during World War II, and rather than returning to the frigid New England winters, he decided to try the agreeable Hawaiian climate. Once on the island, explains his wife, he started his own building supply business and was also a house mover. But l=asi had bigger ambitions and wanted to help the Hawaiian people on a grander scale. He successfully ran for territorial senator in 1958- Hawaii was still a territory and not yet a state then-and also served as city councilman.

As classmate Joseph Bonsignore ~2 says of the photo of l=asi from the front page of the Star Bulletin, which shows the former mayor brimming with pride at the dedication ceremony, "What you see, most strikingly, is !=rank's jaunty military salute and twinkling eye, defying the ravages of old age. !=rank is undoubtedly the most politically successful member of our class."

by Carlin Carr At the risk of being monotonous, let me urge everyone to overcome infirmities and come to Trinity next June.

Alumni Fund Goal: $20,000 Class Secretary: John L. Bonee, t:sq., The Bonee Law Offices, One State St., Ste. 820, 1-lartford, CT 06103-3102 e-mail: john. bonee.1943@ trincoll.edu; fax: 860-522-6049 Nick Motto, Your Secretary's old friend and our classmate, died on Monday; October r6, 2006, after a long illness. Nick taught mathematics in the Hartford Public School System and was elected as a state representative from Hartford to the Connecticut General Assembly Nick was a lifelong advocate of public education on all levels, serving six terms in the General

Assembly He was appointed by the governor as commandant of the Connecticut State Veterans Home and Hospital in Rocky Hill and served until being stricken by a stroke. Having lost his wife, the late Margaret Gunning Motto, he is survived by a large and loving family including children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, to all of whom his classmates send their sympathy Jack Fay. A resident of Florida, Jack fre quently visits family members who reside in the greater Hartford area and never fails to phone Your Secretary with news of recent travels and other activity Jack and his wife, Marie, are veteran world travelers by way of Elder Hostel.

Their recent hostel was a visitation of upper New England towns, followed by another hostel flight to Frankfurt, Germany. followed by trips to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and St. Petersburg, Russia. We shall ask Jack to regale us all with international travel stories at our next reunion.

No classmate tells a better story than Jack. He has an unparalleled sense of humor, which is only exceeded by his vigor. My favorite recollection of Jack's vigor is the day he was knocked unconscious in the Coast Guard football game.

The four stretcher bearers were struggling and panting while in the process of carrying his 215pound body off the field when suddenly Jack's head pops up, followed by a large muscular leg, then all of him is on the field, racing back to his position of center. He finished the game, which I think we won!

Allie Resony died on Thursday, October I2, 2006, having survived his beloved wife, the late Elsie Kindle Resony Allie served in the United States Army Air Force during World War I I. After the war, Allie served as an actuary for The Hartford Insurance Group for 35 years until retirement. At Trinity he was an outstanding member of Dan Jesse's baseball team. The condo lences of Allie's classmates go out to his two sons, John and James, and to all other members of his family Jim McAndrews. A recent edition of these notes was devo ted to classmate Jim and his current ailments. Jim is still being cared for at St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center in West Hartford.

One of Connecticut's leading urologists when he was in active practice, Jim's warm and friendly nature made many lasting friendships for him while an undergraduate at Trinity. ~oting from the 1943 fvy concerning Jim: "Rather quiet, and with a certain dignity that might be mistaken for placidness at first glance, McAndrews has managed to slip without too much commotion into an enviable place in scholastic ranks.

A graduate of Loomis Institute, he is Pre- Med Major and a member of the Newman Club."

Those words may rekindle memories for Jim's classmates and motivate a visit, a letter, or a telephone call to Jim, which you may be sure he will thoroughly enjoy

Alumni Fund Goal: $10,000 Class Secretary: Thomas A. Smith, 21 Grieg Rd., Westerly, RI 02891-4771; e-mail: thomas. smith.1944@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Roger G. Conant; Charles Jarvis Harriman; Richard ~.

Haskell; Merritt Johnquest; H. Martin Tenney, Jr.; Robert Toland, Jr.

Alumni Fund Goal (1945): $3,000 Alumni Fund Goal (1946): $3,000 Alumni Fund Goal (1947): $20,000 Class Secretary: George A. Oberle LIS, 45 Ocean Ave, Apt. 3J, Monmouth Beach, NJ 07750-2401; e-mail: george. oberle.1945@trincoll.edu Class Agent and Reunion Agent: Irving J. Poliner, M.D. L!7

Alumni Fund Goal: $15,000 Class Secretary: The Rt. Rev. Otis Charles, 584 Castro St., Suite #379, San !=rancisco, CA 94114-2594; e-mail: otis. charles.1948@trincoll.edu Art Walmsley and your Secretary were among the bishops at the

ational Cathedral in Washington, D.C., for the ovember 4 Investiture of the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and the first woman primate of the Anglican Communion.

The Alumni Office reports that Leonard A. Helman was recognized in an article in the Alb11q11erq11e )011rnal, entitled "Beloved 'Town Rabbi' Reaches Fourscore Years; Cleric Found Two Synagogues." In October, his parish celebrated his Both birthday and Beit Tikva's board of directors named him the congregation's "founding rabbi."

Alumni Fund Goal: $13,000 Class Secretary: William M.A. Wilson, 65 West Rd., Collinsville, CT 06019-3739 e-mail: william.wilson.1949@ trincoll.edu; fax: 860-231-9242 Class Agents: Robert Bowden; Bill Coughlin; John C. Gunning; John !=. Phelan; William M. A. Wilson

Ken Albrecht ~2 sheltered me during registration week when the great flood and hurricane of '38 flooded the Connecticut River and cut me off from my home in ~ast f-lartford.

- Joseph J. Bonsignore ~2 thing to report. We are all in great shape for the shape we are in. Congratulations to last year's teams, which, besides the above, included Ron Urquhart and Duane Wilson. Our goal was Sw ,ooo, we raised S1s,ooo and had s6 percent participation, better than the College average of SS percent. Nice going. Wonderful letter from Richard Sherman, living now in Falmouth, MA, and I quote, "Since my retirement in 198S, I have presided on four non -profit boards. The one which I have been active in for over 20 years is the Falmouth Hospital. As a volunteer, I have most recently been a patient rep to visit various rooms to see if patients are being wellserved. It is so rewarding to be thanked by the patients. I was also instrwnental in getting a new tlirift shop built. Our auxiliary raises in excess of Sroo,ooo per year to buy new equipment, such as CAT scan and other equipment. I have kept busy and perhaps that is why my health is good.

I lost my wife, Joanne, in 1997, after five years on oxygen. Then married her cousin in 1999· Patty and I still go to the Vineyard in the swnmer and have gone on numerous cruises. The most memorable was taking my family on a cruise to Alaska. Retirement is great and I hope for many more years. Regards to all." Thank you, Dick, it makes my job so much easier. l talked with Ron Urquhart, and age has finally caught up with him. Not involved in the election after many years, but a man in his party elected to the town council. This was an office that Ron had worked on for years and had laid the ground work for his man to be elected. I did some calling for Moveon.org and was successful in replacing an entrenched Congresswoman. Hooray for us.

Now let's hear from the rest of you.

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Co-Class Secretary: Robert Tansill, 104 Aspen Dr., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920-1977 Co-Class Secretary: ~van W. Woollacott, 128 Terrys Plain Rd., Simsbury, CT 06070-1830 Class Agents: Robert M. Blum, ~sq.; John G. Gri ll, Jr.

We are at it again. The team of Bill Wilson, John Phelan, Jack Gunning, Bill Coughlin, and Bob Bowden met to plan our new campaign.

John Phelan was back from two weeks iJ1 Ital y, visiting Rome, Florence, Venice, and the Anialfi Coast. Bob Bowden back from an eight-day cruise to Bermuda, and me from a four-day stay in the Hartford Hospital with an attack of spinal stenosis. None of the others had any-

www.trincoll.edu/alumni • Births • Marriages • New Jobs • Photos

Alumni Fund Goal: $40,000 Class Secretary: Richard G. Mecaskey, 11428 Cedar Glen Pkwy #Cl, Cleveland, OH 44106-2631; e-mail: richard. mecaskey.195l@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Timothy R. Cutting; David !=. ~dwards

Edit<wi Note: Please note that the I 951 class notes that appeared in the fall 2006 issue of the Reporter were written by Dick Mecaskey, not Jerry Hansen.

We are sorry for any confusion that this may have caused.

For better or for worse I guess I'm the new secretary for the Class of '5r. It was only in late August that I wrote up the class notes for the November Reporter and here I am doing the same for the winter edition. Because it's sort of last minute I didn't have time to get news from a lot of you. Please contact me by phone, fax, or email with any information. It may not seem very newsy to you but I can assure you it's probably quite interesting to a lot of your classmates.

Had a nice chat with Dave Edwards the other day. Dave is one of those alumni who, along with guys like Jerry Hansen (Mr. Trinity) , Tim Cutting, and others are indispensable to our class and Trinity. Dave got me going.

Next I talked to Jerry, who reported that he attended Homecoming with a tailgate lunch including Bill Dobbs, Dave and Barbara Edwards, Tim Cutting and, of course, Georgia Hansen, the one person who can keep Jerry on track. It's rumored that Tim Cutting spent a lot of time showing everyone photos of his new granddaughter lovingly named Sal ly after Tim's deceased wife.

Jerry and Georgia attended the marriage of Trinity grads Peyton Tansil! and Art Muldoon in Florida on Veteran's Day. They are continuing their quest to be Nwnber One in the Guinness Book of Reconis for the nwnber of wedding photos they are in. After this affair, an unscientific poll suggested that Jerry and Georgia attend 1.45 in every 3.68 Trinity weddings.

Other news focused on Dick and Cathy Mecaskey's visit to London and Paris in September to see their new granddaughter, Tara, and, of course, her parents, their son Jeff and his wife. At this stage of life, Tara spent most of her time sleeping, sometimes strapped to her mom or dad, and of course, feeding. Naturally she also spent quite a bit of time in the arms of her grandparents and obviously is a beautiful baby- she has to be with such a good-looking mother. While we were there, Jeff was wrapping up a position with Save the Children in London. In his capacity; he will head up all of

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class notes their health issues. So its farewell to Paris and hello to London, a great city with everything one needs or could desire (as long as you can afford it- wow it is expensive). And, of course, quite a few of the residents speak English.

Again, please let me know what you all are up to.

Alumni Fund Goal: $100,000 Class Secretary: William J. Goralski, 49 Blueberry Ln..

Avon, CT 06001-4012 e-mail: william. goralski.l952@trincoll.edu Class Agents: John S. Hubbard; Lyndon H. Ratcliffe; David R. Smith

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Bob Hunter sent me an e-mail from Palm City, FL, where he and his wife, Elizabeth, reside during the winter. Bob said that he recently played golf with a Williams College graduate who took delight in "razzing" him about the football game this fall, when Williams ended the Trinity win streak at 30 games. (Bob won the golf match!!) .

Bill Vibert and his wife, Patricia, drove to Chicago during the last week of September to attend the annual reunion of the officers and personnel of the U. S.S. Strickland (DER) . Bill served as an officer (Lt.) aboard the ship from 1952 to 1954. They also visited the new Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL While driving back home, they stopped at two towns in Ohio: Worthington (founded by people from Granby; CT) and Granville (founded by people from Granville, MA, just north of Granby on the Connecticut- Massachusetts state line) . Bill is currently serving as president of the Granby Historical Society.

Tips on dining in the Hartford area when you visiting Trinity College: The Elbow Room restaurant on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford Center is the selection for this issue of the alumni magazine.

Remember our class reunion in June 2007!

Alumni Fund Goal: $35,000 Class Secretary: Stanley R. McCandless, Jr.. 3712 Rice Blvd .. Houston, TX 77005-2824; e-mai l: stanley. mcca nd Iess.l 953@trincol l.ed u Class Agents: Ric hard T. Lyfo rd, Jr.; Joseph B. Wol lenberger, ~sq

This seems to be a light information newsletter this time. We were able to get two wonderful letters from Pat Keller and Ron Rowland, in two separate issues of the Trinity Reporter. Once again, my new e-mail address is stanmac1@sbcglobal. net. If that does not work, call me at 713-669 1830. Or send something in the snail mail to Stan McCandless, 3712 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX 77005. Where are the rest of you> What did you do this summer> What trips did you take? Did

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Bill Bernhard wrote, "Hi Stan, Am not planning on deploying next year in June, so am considering a trip to Trinity or to Kent School in May When will there be a class reunion? I am the RCAG Surgeon for 201 Corps in Afghanistan.

Stationed at Camp Black Horse outside Kabul.

Expect to redeploy home in November. Hope to have the opportunity to visit with our classmates next year. I think this e- mail is still good for Bill, wbernhardmd@yahoo.com. Please write to him. Bill, be at Trin June 2008. I told an old Kenty friend of mine, Class of '45 or '46, to let the school know that you were on the loose, his name is Roger Small.

Paul Mortell sent a very nice article from The Longboat Observer. Paul is the president of the Longboat Key Club Tennis Association. It is a senior league of 800 to 900 players. He is on the court six days a week. Paul also has for a number of years been involved with the local arts center, which provides the structure for him to coordinate and organize a jazz series, January to April. Paul gives Dusty Pollock a plug, re the jazz, for inviting him to the Sun Valley Swing 'n Dixie Jazz Jamboree many years ago, which has become an annual event for Paul. Seems to me this is one busy dude ... He also keeps me posted on the Trin squash team.

Sandy Dwight wrote, "Hello Stan: This in return for advising me of your e-mail. I live in California, north of San Francisco in the wine country Right now things here are in full -harvest swing, and soon the smell of fermenting grapes will be wafted on the fall breezes. I live in what used to be a primarily agricultural area, but now is more of a bedroom community for Ukiah, California. I have lived here for 40 some odd years. Certainly was nice to hear from you. My brother, Edmund, who attended classes with me following the Korean War, lives in Vero Beach, Florida, but right now is in northern California where he haunts the golf courses. I still play a little golf here in Mendocino County. Best regards from your fellow classmate. Sandy and Barbara Dwight.... Thanks Sandy Just under the wire, Milt Sencabaugh sent me a pretty good joke about heaven and hell and the difference when Congress is campaigning and when they are voting. He writes, "I am the alternate precinct judge and will be working the polls all day Nov. 7 I am known as the pinko commie by some in our community. Despite that, I served two terms on the West University City Place City Council, a very conservative city. We have 2,411 voters in our precinct and 55 percent of them turned out on Tuesday- what a day!"

Joe Wollenberger just got under the dead line with a note. He and Sue are doing well but they have confined their traveling recently to the states. He keeps himself busy with many varied activities at the local, state, and federal levels.

They are looking forward to next reunion in 2008. Oh, and by the way; he put the arm on me to make a contribution to Trin, "It's tax deduct-

ible." We should all keep this in mind. Thanks, Joe, for your note and reminder!

Sal and I were in Chatham the first two weeks of June and the last two weeks of July We were in Maine and Vermont in between. We had a large dose of family most of the time, so that our time was well consumed. We are very lucky to have Abby with her two boys in the next town and see them weekly Effie has returned from San Francisco, works from her apartment close by; and commutes to her Wells Fargo office here in Houston and once a month to San Francisco.

Our baby; Sadie, has a little girl, Maura Louise Maguire, and lives in Los Angeles. Her husband operates a fixed -base aviation facility in Van Nyes. They are Californians.

Alumni Fund Goal: $30,000 Class Secretary: Richard L. Hirsch, 76 Stonecroft Lane, Buffalo, NY 14226-4129 e-mail: richard. hirsch.1954@trincoll.edu Class Agents: T. Gerald Dyar

My wife, Lynn, and I paid a visit to Havana recentl y It's a beautiful city, but poor and decaying. The city is worth a trip if you can arrange it. One of the lasting memories of the visit was the sight of the cars, those legendary American cars that have found longevity in Havana. I saw my father 's 1950 DeSoto, my fri end Alfred Koeppel's 1952 Plymouth convertible, as well as the Chevrolet BelAirs that were a familiar sight cruising on Vernon and Summit Streets in the '50s. It's a startling and memorable sight, the old cars, painted and repainted, lovingly cared for, and still running.

Speaking of cars, you may be driving aroundwithout even realizing it- equipped with a small but effective security device on your car designed, manufactured, and sold worldwide by a company fow1ded by our classmate, Lew McCauley. It's the McGard wheel nut, one of which can be used as a lug nut on each wheel of a car, thus thwarting thieves who might be tempted to steal the wheels off your Lexus, Acura, Cadillac, or other car.

Lew and his famil y sold the business recently, but Lew is still at the plant in Orchard Park, NY, five days a week, usually by around 6:00 a.m. "I leave early in the afternoon and don't come in on weekends anymore," he says, which is good news for his wife, Harriet. His two sons, Durham and Peter, continue in executive roles under the new ownership. On Lew's office door it says "Founder."

Back in the r96os, a local car dealer sought Lew's advice about a way of securing the wheels to the cars parked overnight in his lot. Thieves often scaled the fence, slipped onto the lot at night, jacked up some cars, loosened the nuts, and fled with the wheels. Lew and his colleagues developed the unique nut, which can be loosened and removed only with a special key It worked beautifully and Lew recognized he had

Jazz Musician Dave Mackay '54 Listens, Learns, and Loves During Dave Mackay's days as an English major in the early 1950s, he liter· ally never read a book. Instead, Mackay, who was newly blind and had yet to learn Braille as he entered Trinity, simply listened and absorbed the words. Attending lectures and seminars without taking notes, he says he had an innate ability to memorize everything he heard as if it were a tape recording.

"Many professors decided to give me oral exams," recalls Mackay, the first blind student to graduate from the College.

"They apologized, thinking they would be stressful. But for me, they weren't. 1 had memorized everything."

Listening since his childhood-even before he lost his vision to the degenerative eye disorder, retina stigmatosaMackay vividly remembers hearing the lively tunes of swing-era jazz that filled the air when he was a little boy. Now a celebrated jazz musician who plays nightly at the New York Grill in Ontario, California, outside of Los Angeles, Mackay, a piano player since age eight, says his older brother, Don, always had jazz "happening in the house." From the beginning, Mackay knew this was the genre of music he was attracted to.

"I had a gift for jazz. When you get something in your heart and you have a passion for it and you want more, you follow that lead. If you do that, then that's your gift. That's been my gift all my life," says Mackay, a spiritual man who says that his talent is one of God's many gifts.

At 16, Mackay began playing professionally, and, along with his brother, went

designed and fabricated an item which had wide application. The rest is automotive history: the McGard nuts are used worldwide, are often standard equipment on high-end cars, and can be purchased at auto parts stores for virtually any make or model.

With a report on four-footed transporta· tion powered by oats, checking in from the horse country of Virginia is Bill Dobrovir. Bill reports that he has given up riding but still has his horses. "They eat and poop and don't have to work, sort oflike me," he said. Bill, who prac·

to New York City to hear jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Bud Powell, and Lenny Tristano, who was also blind and with whom Mackay studied for a period. "There were certainly handicaps in not being able to read the music," says Mackay of the challenges he faced throughout his jazz career. "But listening is really a big part of playing jazz."

Nearly 60 years later, Mackay, now 74, has no intention of shutting down his acoustic piano any time soon. Describing his style as similar to Frank Sinatra, he enjoys playing the classic composers from the Great American Songbook: the Gershwins, Michel Legrande, and Cole Porter. Sometimes, he'll even throw in a little Stevie Wonder. "l know a lot of what I'm going to play beforehand," he says of his nightly performance at the New York Grill, "but I'm not going to play it in the same way from night to night."

Although he may have lost his sight, Mackay clearly has a vision for what he wants to do with his music and how it can affect other people's lives. i::::ach night, when he shows up to the New York Grill in his paratransit-service van, he sits down behind the large piano, runs his fingers across the keys, and takes in the feeling he enjoys most-just being creative.

Mackay hopes the diners feel the energy of his music, and describes what emanates through the restaurant as the piano begins to sing, "Peace, beauty. Sometimes humor. A lot of times, love."

Dave Mackay can be heard Tuesday through Saturday evenings at the New York

Grill, 950 Ontario Mills Drive, Ontario, California.

by Carlin Carr

ticed law in Washington for many years, is still handling some legal matters from his office at home. He is very discouraged about the situation in Iraq, noting: "On Iraq, I would paraphrase Einstein's definition of insanity: 'Continuing to do the same thing that has consistently failed but expecting a different result."'

From Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Dave Bunnell reports that for at last half the year it's possible to stand absolutely still in the shade of a tree and still break a sweat. But he and his wife, Pat, definitely prefer that to the snows of the North,

where both spent their youth. Retired since 1996, Dave neatly wrapped together two diverse careers, chemistry and law. After service, he returned to Trinity as a chemistry lab assistant and received a master's degree in chemistry in 1960.

He eventually landed in Pittsburgh in a lab at the Koppers Corp.. where, outstanding among the beakers and testing paraphernalia, he noticed another chemist. You guessed it: the chemistry was right. He met Pat in the lab, and they were married. Dave became interested in patents and enrolled in evening courses at Duquesne Law School, where he graduated and was admit· ted to the bar. He spent the next 30 years as a corporate patent attorney, working in-house for several large corporations in various locations, including Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, and Louisiana.

Now he enjoys travel, both foreign and domestic, and spends time in his home garden, handling various building projects at home, and collecting old diecast toys, the kind we all played with 65 years ago.

On the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, in a home he designed himself, lives Doug Green, with his wife, Betty.

The location is Wintergreen, a development covering about n ,ooo acres, of which 6,ooo are being kept undeveloped.

"Living in Wintergreen is about as good as it gets with golf, tennis, skiing, hiking, biking, swimming, and a few other miscellaneous activi· ties to suit one's pleasure," Doug says. "The only one I have given up is tennis, due to a bad skiing accident in 2004, but I am still able to ski, which I do every morning during the season.

Sometimes, on warmer days. I can ski in the morning on the mountain and play golf in the valley in the afternoon."

Doug and Betty lived for 32 years on G ibson Island in Chesapeake Bay, where he practiced architecture and they sailed their 31 -foot sloop.

They loved the island life, but as the commu· nity began to change. they decided to change. too, and in 1999 moved west to the mountains.

There is no sailing at Wintergreen, but Doug and some friends now compete regularly, sailing radio-controlled model boats on a nearby pond.

Doug is probably among the last architects admitted to practice without attending archi · tectural school. He apprenticed for five years, and that was then sufficient to enable him to take the licensing exams. He initially practiced with a large firm, but in 1973 began working on his own. He is still doing selective projects for friends and a few of Betty's clients, she being a realtor working full time. Many classmates remember Doug singing as the lead tenor for the Trinity Pipes. He seldom lifts his voice in song anymore, explaining that it just doesn't sound the same when you reach our age.

Sandy Campbell and his wife, Ellie, do some boating, too, but they prefer gas power to wind power. They live in Virginia Beach, overlooking the Lynnhaven River, which flows into Winter 2007

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class notes Chesapeake Bay. They will frequently cruise up into the Bay. After some 17 years of retirement, Sandy says he was finally mastered the art of doing next to nothing, still enjoys watching the sun set over the river. T he Campbells have been passengers on a number of cruise ships. and love being tourists.

When it comes to the installation of new wiring for the model railroading club in Woodbury, CT, Peter Windesheim is the first choice. Why> Because he spent many years as an engineer for Underwriters Laboratory, the organization that tests all things electrical and issues the UL seal of approval. After living and working on Long Island for many years, Peter and his wife, Sue, moved to Woodbury after his retirement in 1998. They spend time traveling and Peter became interested in HO scale model trains and is active in the club, which annually schedules a number of exhibits for local charities.

Peter and Clara Carlough are planning to move into a newly developed cooperative 110using development, currently under construction in Burlington, VT. It is being built in a wooded area very close to the Carloughs' prese nt home and will include 32 units that will be occupied by some retirees and some young families. There will be cooperative areas, and Pete reports that the concept is drawing national attention. "We're quite a varied collection of people, from elders like us to fami lies with newborns. That's what co-housing is all about- community, sharing, and supporting. We hope to move in November 2007," Pete said.

Mort Webber is still busy; living in Avon and practicing law in Hartford, in his own building on Grand Street, near the Hartford County Courthouse. Mort has become widely recognized as a tort specialist, handling a variety of personal injury cases. "Lawyers just don't retire," he said. 'Tm not working as hard as before, and 1 go home around 1:30 every afternoon, but if you're ever in Connecticut and get hit by a bus, be sure to call me." ln the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California, among the most common sounds are wildlife and the winds whispering through the redwoods in the high country. That is the retirement home of Roger Harmon, who arrived at Trinity as an Illinois Scholar from Rockford and has since traveled to a variety of places on assignments for the Methodist church and as a teacher of college English. He attended Yale Divinity School and later received a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. Now he lives in Ahwahnee, CA, within a 15- minute drive of one of American's revered beauty spots, Yosemite National Park. He settled there in 1992 after retiring from a long incumbency on the faculty of Cypress Community College in Orange County; California. Earlier in his career, he twice served in Zimbabwe at Methodist missions. Other stops along the way included teaching at Endicott College in Massachusetts.

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After retiring from Cypress, he taught at Fresno Community College, where many of the students were from the inner city and the demographics were very different from his classes in Orange County. Now, with some of his children and grandchildren living nearby, Roger occupies his time with reading, keeping up with world affairs, and enjoying the beauty of the changing seasons at Yosemite. He can be readily reached at rogerharmon@sti.net.

Oh, by the way, I'm not even sure what "blog" means, but I suggest that I may be among the first in our class to have one. How did this happen> Almost by accident. I surfed around, found a blog of a friend, and before 1 knew it the computer asked, "Want a blog of your own>" I answered yes and, after a few clicks here and there, I established my own unique little des tination on the information superhighway. For those with some free time or chronic insomnia, the address is: http://try- it-who- knows-youmay-even-like-it.blogspot.com/ Visitors there will find a selection of some of the recent columns I have written that are published in Buffalo on a weekly basis. Your comments are encouraged.

Once again, let me remind you of that basic rule of news writing: A reporter is only as good as his sources, so, as in the past, I will be relying on you all to send me news of your latest adventures or misadventures. If your name doesn't eventually turn up in this column, you have only yourself to blame.

This e-mail address is the preferred method: bflotales@AOL.com.

Be good to yourselves.

Alumni Fund Goal: $30,000 Class Secretary: E. Wade Close, Jr., 622 West Waldheim Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15215-1845 e-mail : wade.close.1955@ trincoll.edu; fax: 412-820-7572 Class Agents: David S. Dimling Assistant Agents: Gordon R. Maitland, Jr.; Robert L. Mullaney

To say we had a good time back on the campus for the first home football game in September is to put it mildly, albeit, out of focus. Our returning classmates had a super great mini- rew1ion. It was full of good weather, a tense, satisfying victory over Colby, a relaxing and particularly appetizing dinner at the Smith House, and much, much enjoyable interaction between fellow classmates. What I am trying to say to those who missed the event ... better luck next tinle. Your class officers, headed by the hard working el Presidento, Don Mountford, who continues to amaze us all with his determination and hard work to make these events so successful. He is ably assisted by many, but none work as diligently in a support role as Bob Mullaney.

Our group included sixteen '55ers, plus nine spouses or significant others. In addition to Lura and Don Mounrford, we were blessed to have with us Ann and Scott Price and their Cape Cod buddies Jean and Bob Freeman. Jack lsselhardt and Nai Chang, plus Dave Nelson joined us for the game, but could not stay for the dinner. Others who did stay included Bobbie and Bill O 'Hara, Carol and Wade Close, Helen and Dick Zampiello , Justine and Bill Laporte, Elaine and Bob Laird, plus Sandy Rose and Barbara Massey. In addition it was great to enjoy the eve ning with Bob Mullaney, Ed Yoeman s, John Gleason and John D'Luhy, who was on his way to Newport, RI , that weekend to prepare for an important event at the Naval War College. John is the current chairman of the board of trustees for the Naval War College Fow1dation. The col lege, as well as the fow1dation for 122 years, has prepared its graduates to meet national security challenges as senior leaders.

Heard from Al Fisher, who proudly announced the arrival of his first grandchild, thanks to daughter Andrea. Also, he and Barbara were thrilled to celebrate son John's wedding earlier this year. It has been a happy, busy time for them . Classmates, remember, Al is the keeper of our collection of 5oth Reunion pictures (about 80 in total), so if you missed getting a set, contact him at afisherjr@aol.com. The price is right, zero $. Also, have been able to keep up with Dick McCrea, although I missed seeing him when I was in Cleveland during the summer when he was at an old family retreat in northern Michigan. l did have a chance to visit with Phil Truitt, who also lives in Cleveland. He has a great philosophical outlook on life and appears to have a particularly good attitude about growing old. Aren't we all. Hope to see many of you in T.<mpa, Florida, in February. Just another great gathering of ' 55ers.

Alumni Fund Goal: $75,000 Class Secretary: Bruce N. Macdonald, Stonehouse !=arm, 1036 Zollman Mill Rd ., Rte. 4, Lexington, VA 24450-7265 e-mail: bruce.macdonald.1956 @trincoll.edu Class Agent: 1-lenry M. Zachs

After the massive earthquake that hit the islands of Hawaii in October, I began to worry and wonder about David Taylor- so I sent him an e- mail. He responded promptly as follows: "We had no problems, injuries or damage, although the house shook and rumbled and we lost power for about 12 hours." They were luckier than the people of the big island of Hawaii, which was badly damaged. David and his wife, Trudie, have a daughter who lives in Alexandria, Virginia, whom they planned to visit in October. They also have a visit scheduled to go to New Zealand this fall. His wife is active with the Garden C lub of Hawaii and is the inspiration for the trip and

adventure. David did telJ me about Alastair Taylor, who lives in San Jose, California. Alastair I never knew but evidently he was some 40 years in the computer software business in California, has been widowed for some years now from his second wife of 31 years, has two children, four grandchildren, and one great grandchild. David (Taylor) is convinced that Alastair is our class's first great grandfather. If anyone out there is also a great grandfather, please let me know. Gerry Pauley calJed me in September from Hartford while he was attending the Colby Game, and planned to meet and have a few with Paul Cataldo, Ken Swanson and Howie Gartland

and to tell me about a small pewter bowl he had been awarded, one time by mistake (he telJs me). Gerry recently heard form Gordie Wood, who still lives in Sullivan, IL, where he has run the family insurance business since graduation.

Gordie considers himself the "mayor of SulJivan, Illinois," and that he managed to orchestrate two traffic lights for the town. Finally I talked to John Ritter, whom we alJ missed at reunion last June. He is well, active with a new and renewed camera club in Kokomo, IN, and sees his grandson, Drew, frequently. Drew is a student at DePaul University, in Green Castle, IN, not far away. John and his wife, Edit, continue to visit Oxford, MD, each fall, staying in various houses in that historic smal l town on the Chesapeake.

He works regularly for Meals on Wheels and a local homeless shelter and plans to winter again in Florida this February.

The Alumni Office reports that Bruce N. MacDonald represented the College at the inauguration of Kenneth P Ruscio as president of Washington and Lee University on October 21, 2006.

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: i=rederick M. Tobin, Esq., 116 Camp Ave., Darien, CT 06820-2709 e-mail: frederick. tobin.1957@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Neil M. Da y, Esq.; Terry Graeme i=razier

During the Homecoming Weekend in November, we had an excellent turnout for our Reunion Planning Committee meeting. As usual the meeting was chaired by his Excellency Paul Cataldo, Emperor of the Duchy of Franklin.

Also in attendance were Fred Baird, Professor Ward Curran, Terry Frazier, Dick Hall, Judge Jim Kenefick, Jim Pitchell, Paul Marion, Paul Russo, Manny Slater, and yours truly. At our

Smith House Dinner, we were joined by Kathy Curran, Barbara Frazier, atalie Slater, and my wife, Carroll.

In case any of you wonder, I am reporting on classmates in alphabetical order. Fred Baird is now living in the Richmond area. Still athletic to an extent, the Mouse is eating lots of cheese as usual.

Arthur G. Polstein '58 attended the recent 1-lomecoming at Trinity and watched the football team blank Amherst 24-0. Gary Bogli '58 and Joe Repole '58 joined him on the 50-yard line.

Now on to Professor Curran, who merits his own page here. Ward commenced his illustrious career as a member of the faculty at Trinity in 1960. In addition to teaching at the College for some 46 years, he has also taught at Yale, Wesleyan, and the UConn law school. He has authored many publications and is currently working on another chapter in a soon-to-bepublished book. This is Ward's last full -time year on the faculty; but he will continue to teach two courses starting next September. But the big news is that Peter and Jill Kraus have this very year established the Ward S. Curran Distinguished Professorship in Economics.

Peter is a former student of Ward, and Ward will occupy this new chair wuil his retirement.

Bill Morrison published his third book, SaVV)' Negotiator, in January 2006, and he plans to start on his fourth this year. After 37 years with Westinghouse and a teaching position at San Jose State, Bill continues to teach in-house negotiation workshops for companies through out the country. In the past year he has been on safari in southern Africa and he even drove a golf ball in Antarctica. He also is enjoying his many children and grandchildren.

I was pleased to receive a calJ from Stu Ferguson, who lives in Florida and is looking forward to joining us in June.

Dyke Spear continues to sit immediately behind Cataldo at home footbalJ games. Now that the season has ended, Dyke will be bringing a musical to Washington State.

Sam Stone is staying busy running a man ufacturer's rep/ consulting business. In early November, Sam enjoys the St. Michaels Oyster Festival and boating on the Chesapeake.

As for your faithful scribe, Carroll has retired from her teaching position in Stamford, but she is right back in the classroom serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Bridgeport. She is also spending time on various projects for MacMillan, the publishing company.

Alumni Fund Goal: $70,000 Class Secretary: Arthur G. Polstein, 20 Bentagrass Ln., Newtown, CT 06470-1928 e-mail: arthur. polstein.1958@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Joseph J. Repole, Jr.; Edward B. Speno

I'm looking for classmates to help me rake the leaves. Did that jolt you to write and decline the offer> If so, please attach some news with your message.

Your secretary attended the recent Homecoming at Trinity and watched the foot-

balJ team blank Amherst 24-0 . Gary Bogli and Joe Repole joined me on the 50 -yard line.

Prior to the game, your 5oth reunion committee met in the Painter Room in the Smith House for some initial discussions about our reunion in June 2008. In attendance were Gary Bogli, Bordie Painter, Ed Speno, Ben Williams, Joe Repole, and your secretary. All are fine and send their best wishes to all classmates. We discussed fundraising for our 5oth as well as plans for the events of the reunion. The reunion committee is traditionally headed by the class president, Gary Bogli, and an expanded committee was planned. Here is a message from Gary; "We are in the process of selecting an expanded committee and welcome anyone who would like to help. We would appreciate any suggestions you might have for a faculty member you would like to invite to our dinner. Also, we are looking for topics for a panel discussion among our class members. Please save the day in June 2008 for a great time to reminisce and see alJ the great things going on at Trinity." If you would like to serve and haven't been asked by now, please contact Gary at gbogli@cox.net. On a personal note from your secretary, if you have not updated your address with Trinity College, please do so.

This will be of great assistance to your reunion committee in trying to contact you. This will be our 5oth Reunion. It only happens once and we want to be certain that everyone in the class receives proper information about the event.

Now on to the news, which is brief Gary Bogli and his wife, Bette, have had a busy year with a visit to Prague, in the Czech Republic, to visit with their son who is teaching there. Then in late October they visited the wine country in southern California, between San Diego and Los Angeles. In between, Gary traveled to Canada two times to fish for black salmon in Restigouche and for landlocked salmon in Labrador.

Bill Lorson reported about what he calJed the best vacation he and Joann had ever taken.

Alaska and British Columbia were the destinations and the adventure included beautiful scenery, a BBB (big, black bear) lapping up salmon drippings as it stood on an outside grill, and a fl.oat-plane flight through mountains and over glaciers. Playing golf north of Denali Park was a challenge for Bill in the 40+ mph winds.

The itinerary included Fairbanks, Denali Park, Anchorage, Portage Glacier, Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia. Bring the pictures to the reunion, Bill.

Bill Saunders advised that he was running again for a seat on the Tenafly Borough Council.

He has served in the past for four terms and was trying to become the first to serve for five terms.

Results have not been received as ofthis writing.

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class notes Bill is working to obtain our special wine for the reunion and will no doubt be successful.

Joe Traut has advised that he is still working and currently heads his own inkjet printing company. Joe will soon be blessed with his roth grandchild, he is in good health, and he continues to work on his golf score. Joe has also volunteered to join our 5oth Reunion committee.

Finally your secretary had the pleasure of a visit by Jim Studley, who was migrating south for the winter from his summer home on Cape Cod. Over a few drinks and dinner, we managed to solve most of the major problems facing mankind and the world.

I hope you all have made a New Year's reso lution to include a note to me with news for the next issue. Please write.

Alumni Fund Goal: $35,000 Class Secretary: Jon A. Reynolds, P.O. Box 4204, Wilmington, DE1~02 4 e-mail: jon.reynolds.1959@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Robert D. Coykendall; Robert Pizzella

Greetings Class of '59, Attendance at Homecoming last November was almost double that of Homecoming 2005we had eight attendees- not exactly a groundswell of participation, but a vector in the right direction. These harbingers of future festivities iJ1cluded Bob Coykendall and Bob Pizzella (our stalwart and unrelenting Class Fund Raisers) , Len Baskin, Doug Frost, George Graham, Walt Graham, Charlie Nichols, and Albie Smith- an

all-star cast. They are the foundation of our 5oth Reunion (yes- 5oth Reunion) planning committee. As discussed at this 4 November 2006 meeting, the ideal reunion committee structure is to have 20-25 members. This allows for everyone in the class to be contacted by a classmate rather than a staff member or student.

Other classmates who may feel moved to join are encouraged to do so and to participate in the planning process. If not so moved, we will still look for you in June 2009. Once again, put Reunion 2009 on your to-do list. According to Trinity statistics, our class is not getting any larger, and we want to see you there. This planning committee will meet again in February 2007- their mission in part is to ensure we have a great reunion, and yes, you guessed it, to ensure we recognize that the $550 we paid for tuition 50 years ago no longer cuts it. FYI and planning, the 5oth Reunion Gift has now introduced a new five-year pledge option- in short, our 5oth Reunion Gift is all money pledged or paid that is given to the Trinity Annual Fund between July r, 2007 and June 30, 2012. Details to follow.

Congratulations Doug Frost, who "se miretired" with fanfare from his 40 years as vice president of development at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore,

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Maryland. Bill Abeles, one of Doug's high school classmates, attended one evening of a four-day affair honoring Doug's stepping down. Over 500 attendees included Senator Sarbanes, college trustees, major supporters, alumni, professors, family, and friends. One of Doug's major achievements during his 40 years at MICA was the successful funding of the Mt. Royal Station, an historic B&O terminal that MICA transformed into galleries and sculpture studios. The New York Tiwes called this pioneering example of adaptive reuse "the keystone of a new urban movement." It is now a National Landmark.

In recognition of this accomplishment and his service to the institute, the entrance area to the Mt Royal Station has been named "Frost Plaza."

Doug will continue his work at MICA as special counsel for development and vice president of development emeritus, not only supporting the new vice president, but also compiling and writing the history of the 180-year-old institution- founded just three years after Trinity.

Canada: Ted Taylor and Sandy, still living in Nantucket, spent a month during SeptemberOctober visiting the Canadian Maritime Provinces- great time, and highly recommended. Their daughter, Sandy, is expecting twins in December. Bob Spielman, also visiting Canada, reports he made a dent in the ruffed grouse population hunting the southeast corner of Manitoba at the beginning of October. Bob's a good shot, whether it be 20 ga or 2omm- but grouse are always a challenge- not like shooting rats in the Wethersfield city dump. Bill Abeles again journeyed to Cooperstown, NY, to participate in a week of baseball, batting over .200 (not bad for a 69 year old) and catching all five fly balls he was able to get to in right field. Bill Lukens (now 70!) and Emily are still enjoying life in the historic ~een Village part of downtown Philadelphia. Joe Casello and Gail are back in Pensacola, FL, their home and neighborhood no longer showing the ravages of Hurricane Ivan. Walt Graham and Lorna have moved to Waretown, NJ, on Route 9, 30 miles from Atlantic City. Their children are mostly in nearby Medford, and they are surrounded with eight grandchildren. Charlie Nichols and Linda spent a grand two weeks with Tim 1-lorne and family in Italy and sailing the Adriatic. He reports the Dalmatian Coast is truly spectacular.

Charlie is also preparing to move from his home in Newport, RI , to the rural area in northern Delaware, and should have done so by the time you read this letter.

Bill Scully (Trin '61) and Marlynn again hosted the annual Alpha Delta Phi "Bankers Invitational" weekend at their John's Island home near Vero Beach, Florida. Class of '59 attendees included Jim Price and Julie, George Truscott and Heidi, and George Graham and Sally. I can report (as an invited guest, along with Emilee, to the final evening's banquet) that these guys have not changed, just older- having a great time and enjoying each others company.

The overall event was diminished, however, by the tuiforrunate absence of our classmate Jim Joy, a long- term resident of Vero, who sadly succumbed to melanoma and died peacefully in Vero Beach on October 2. He was represented by his wife of 42 years, Michael. Jim also leaves behind three daughters and five grandchildren.

God Bless.

Send me yo ur news or an update at jreynolds@speakeasy.net. All the very best.

Jon Reynolds and Bill Abeles

Alumni Fund Goal: $85,000 Class Secretary: Richard W. Stockton, 518 White Pelican Circle, Orchid Island, Vero Beach, FL 32963-9519 e-mail: richard.stockton.1960 @trincoll.edu; fax: 908-2732246 Class Agents: George P. Kroh; Morris Lloyd, Jr.

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: William Kirtz, 26 Wyman St., Waban, MA 02468-1517 e-mail: william.kirtz.1961@ trincoll.edu; fax: 617-373-8773 Class Agents: William P. Kahl; Edward P. Seibert; Vincent R. Stempien; Douglas T. Tansill

In Hartford, Frank Morse, Dale Peatman, Warren Simmons, and Doug Tansill braved the chill at Homecoming Weekend.

Meanwhile, in Utah, Bill Mandler is gaining recognition for promoting emerging artists in his Park City Redstone Gallery The Park City Record notes his stable of nationally and internationally known, as well as local and regional artists. "We provide the financial wherewithal.

We help make it when they don't have a chance to make it otherwise. We do what we can do to help make them successful," Handler says, aiming to help "faniilies and others build a worthy art collection."

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: Frederick M. Pryor, TFC Financial Management Inc., 30 Federal St., Boston, MA 02110-2508 e-mail : frederick. pryor.1962@trincoll.edu; fax: 617-951-0274 Reunion Leaders: Doug Anderson ; Sam Bailey; Thomas F. Bundy; Rodney Day; Lawrence Harris; Chuck Hoffman; William Leahy; Gerald McNamara; William Mitchell; Dr. John C. Norman; Bill Polk; Frederick M. Pryor; Bill Richardson; Clawson Smith; Lou Scaturro; Bill Turner; George Will

As our 45th Reunion nears, John Norman, our president, and Pete Bundy, our class agent,

have been actively working on putting together a list of several classmates, one of whom will be contacting you. June 7-10, 2007 are the dates.

These reunions are a lot of fun , so try to make an effort to return to Hartford for the weekend. The classmates who will be doing the contacting are mentioned above under Reunion Leaders.

John, Pete, and myself will also be doing our share. Speaking of Pete Bundy; he deserves much credit, and perhaps a 'standing O ' at the _Reunion, for doing a great job as class agent. In many ways it is a thankless job. He has been the catalyst for raising money from the class, and year in, year out our participation numbers have been excellent.

A number of classmates are difficult to find.

They are Messrs. Arp, Banghart, Berkley, Broudy, Coombs, Fraise, 1-larned, Leng, McConnell, Kermit Mitchell, Platts, Rudi, and Sears. If you

know where these people are, please e- mail Pete at Bundytf@aol.com.

Alumni Fund Goal: $150,000 Class Secretary: ~Ii Karson, ~Ii Kerson CLU & Associates, 115 Bridge Street, P.O. Box 747, ~ast Windsor, CT 06088-9547 e-mail: eli.karson.1963@trincoll. edu; fax: 860-654-1659 Class Agents: Scott W. Reynolds

Since my last edition of Class Notes this past summer, I have had little opportunity to prime the e-mail pump or assemble and compose, so this will be an abbreviated edition. My hip replacement took place on August 8 as scheduled and while still recove ring in late September, ancy and I began a roller coaster ride that is just now coming to a conclusion. About a week afrer we decided not to attempt to sell our home in Co nn ecticut until spring, we were presented with a potential ready buyer who was willing to pay our asking price. We agreed to it and set a scheduled closing date for December 8, 2006.

Well, three weeks later, the deal fell apart and then got resurrected over eight stressful days that I don't want to experience again! So, now, we are faced with a definite December 8 closing date and not nearly enough time to comfortably arrange the transition. We leave for Tucson December 9 and plan to return to Connecticut in May to a six-month rental, somewhere!

Much of the recent news I received from our classmates was in response to efforts from President Bordogna and others encouraging a Homecoming gathering at Trinity on November 4. Here's what I got.

Perry Rianhard wrote, "I don't believe we'll be making it back this year. I'm expecting my sister to come through on her way to Florida, and we've got a commitment at a fund raiser on Friday night. I'm working with the Shellfish Commission in our town, Madison, Connecticut, and we are preparing the seed (clams and oys-

Meanwhile, in Utah, Bill ~fondler '61 is gaining recognition for promoting emerging artists in his Park City Redstone Gallery.

ters) for winter on Friday and Saturday. Don't know when I ever found time to work! We love Madison, just need some 36-hour days to fit it all in. We will get together one of these days, for sure."

And then there was Pete 1-laskell's response: "Unfortunately. Burrill and I again have a conflict. Our church has an annual art show, and the opening gala is on Friday evening. We then host a buffet at our house for roughly IOO people, lasting to 2:00 a.m. sometimes! On Saturday we have to return supplies, etc., and then collapse!"

"As for news, our son Livingston (Livy) is the father of our three-year-old grandsor-:Henry, and is living in Richmond, Virginia. He was recently appointed general counsel (the com pany's first) at Lumber Liquidators. He had been recommended by one of his partners at Williams, Mullin. His comment after his first week was 'I've never seen so many people so happy to see a lawyer in my life!' The company is planning to do an IPO next year- an event that will enhance his resume! Son Thom is living in Boston and is working as the northern New England district sales manager for Suzuki automobiles. Therefore, I am now driving a Suzuki! Burrill and I are continuing to work for a couple of more years and are trying to decide where to retire. Give my best to everyone at Homecoming."

Bob Anning too offered some news. "I'm still putting full days in at Merrill (my 39th year) and enjoying it as much as ever. Two of my three partners are my sons Rob and John, who I'm sure would like to see me retire. Sydney and 1 still manage to travel quite a bit and just returned from our 13th trip to a small town in so uthern France. The last couple of years we have biked through Vietnam, Morocco, Italy; and France. Next month we are traveling to India and will miss the class get- together in early November, not that my attendance has been that good anyway.

"We have ten grandchildren living in Cincinnati and are expecting our !Ith (our first New York baby) in early October. We have a gathering of the clan at our home every Sunday evening, and while quite fun, it's getting to be a bit hectic to say the least. In my other life I am still an active trustee of Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where among other tasks, I chair the endowment committee.

"Hope this finds you well. Please give my very best to our classmates when you see them at Homecoming."

Dave Wicks wrote: "Joan and I will not be able to make it this year. We have a trip planned that we can not change. On the news front, I am increasing my course load this spring, teaching international students in a master's program

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at Columbia. In addition, I am involved in Chile with a program to foster entrepreneurship. Tough assignment as it means at least one vacation trip in Chile attached to my duties with a University in Santiago and the government.

Lastly; our daughter is getting married in the spring. Best to all!"

Jon Tiefenbrun also responded: "Susan and I will not make it to Homecoming but want to wish everybody a wonderful year and a hope to make it next year. Susan has just started another summer law program to complement Nice, in Hangzhou, China, May 15-June 7, 2007, and it should be exciting. Believe it or not, she is getting very good in Mandarin. Hangzhou is two hours from Shanghai, an old Imperial city, and the place that Marco Polo thought was the Venice of the East. Regards to all I" Among those committing to Homecoming was Munter Marvel. He also took the time to share some happenings in his life. He reported that he and his wife, Camilla, enjoyed a joyous event this past summer when their son, Hunter Jr., was married to Devon Elizabeth McDevitt on July I , 2006, in Sonoma, California. Their daughter, Genevieve, served as a bridesmaid and friends of the couple came from the East Coast, Midwest, Idaho, and the San Francisco area to attend the wedding. Devon is from Mill Valley; California, and a graduate of Scripps College of the C lairmont Colleges. She teaches at Galinas School in San Raphael. Hunter Jr. is a graduate of Hamilton College and now an account executive at CNET Games & Entertainment in San Francisco. The couple spent their honeymoon traveling in Thailand and now live in San Francisco.

Our last acceptance was received from my Theta Xi fraternity brother, Chuck Klotz '64.

When I heard that he and his wife, Debbie, were coming to the football game, I insisted they join us for dinner.

Finally; on Saturday, November 4, the C lass of ' 63 once again celebrated another Homecoming Weekend "neath the elms." By my count there were 21 of our classmates in attendance, most with spouses, a number of faculty members from our era and six Class of '63 Scholars.

Special guests at dinner included president of the College, Jimmy Jones, former director of admissions, F. Gardner F. Bridge, and Professor Marjorie Butcher, Trinity's first woman profes-

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class notes sor. For many of us, the appearance of "Mr. Bridge" was particularly significant. He was the voice of the College, beckoning us to gather together in that fall of 1959 to form the Class of 1963- It was great to see him again and to learn what the F's stood for: Francis and Flynn.

With six Class of '63 Scholars present, including Tom Calabrese's daughter, Jamie, and our first scholar, Tony Canara, the focus of the evening was on them. It was gratifying to hear them share what this scholarship has meant to them. And we were also delighted to hear of Jamie Calabrese's recent engagement to her Trinity classmate, Sasha Bratt. This truly was a fine evening and thoroughly enjoyed by all. The list of those who were in attendance is as fol lows: Andrian, Peggy (guest); Andrian, Professor Gus (guest); Blair, Elaine; Blair, James; Blume, Loretta; Blume, Marshall; Bridge, Gardiner F, (guest) ; Bridge, Patricia (Trish) (guest); Butcher, Prof Marjorie (guest) ; Calabrese, Jamie (scholar) (fiance, Sasha Bratt) ; Calabrese, Linda; Calabrese, Tom; Calder, David (scholar) ; Creighton, Sandy; Creighton, Elizabeth; Curran, Kathy; Curran, Ward; Davison, James; Daly, Mike; Gastmann, Albert (guest) ; Goodridge, Jim; Goodridge, Lucy; Howland, Martha; Howland,William C.; Jackson, Brett (scholar) ; Jackson, Laura (scholar/ mother) ; Karson, Eli; Karson, Nancy; Keen, Jeanne Ruddy; Keen,Victor; Lenicheck, Timothy; Soos, Emese (Lenicheck) ; Masius, Michael; Feldman, Nancy; McGill, Charles; McGill, Pat; Pham, Bao (scholar) ; Pitcairn, John (game only) ; Raymond, Barbara (game only) ; Raymond, David (game only) ; Reynolds, Lee; Reynolds, Lloyd; Reynolds, Peggy; Reynolds, Scott.

That, my friends, concludes this edition.

Once I have settled in Arizona for the winter, you will be hearing from me. My phone, fax, and e-mail remain unchanged so you have no excuse for not responding. I would love to hear from you.

All the best, Eli

Alumni Fund Goal: $100,000 Class Secretary: Christopher J.

McNeill, M.D.. 166 Rainbow Dr. #6682, Livingston, TX 773991066 e-mail: christopher.mcnei ll.1964 @trincoll.edu Class Agents: Christopher T. Gi lson; Charles R. Klotz Bill Avery has joined the ranks of Medicare, as most of us have or will soon. He continues to sell real estate in the Washington, D.C., area and commutes bi-weekly from Indianapolis, IN, where his wife, Alice, and he moved four years ago to help care for their two granddaughters.

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Fred Miller is happily retired from the County of Los Angeles, and he and his wife are doing lots of traveling.

Frank Kirkpatrick has returned to the classroom and his scholarly research after spending two years as interim dean of the faculty at Trinity. He is thinking about retirement in the next three to four years.

Art Bobruff is also thinking of retirement, now seeing patients only one day per week. He and Martha have been married 35 years, and, although she continues her full - time psychiatry practice, she will be discontinuing her teaching appointment at Harvard Med School so they can spend more time at their second home in New Hampshire.

He has retired from his avocation as ski instructor after a number of seasons, but has not lost his passion for skiing. Last year he managed to get in 85 days on the slopes and came close to skiing two-million vertical feet. Son, David, was an honors graduate from Amherst, an MBA, and MILR from Cornell, and now lives in the Boston area with his wife, Jen, and works for the GAO in Boston, Daughter, Rachel, graduated magna cum laude from Amherst, has just returned from a Peace Corps assignment in Thailand, and now enters Columbia in the field of organizational psychology. She inherited her father 's passion for skiing and travel and has run numerous marathons in the U.S. and Thailand.

Art has indicated that he would welcome contact from anyone in our class.

David C. Woolman, director of the Curriculum Resources Center at Rhode Island College, has contributed a chapter, "Educating for Conflict Resolution and Peace," in the recently published book, Towards A Global Commtmity Educating for Tomorrow s World. The book builds on a 1996 report to UNESCO by The International Commission on Education for the 21st Centu.ry in addressing the question of how education might contribute to promoting a "true global community where countries, communities, and individuals can live in harmony and where cultural diversity is not seen as a threat but as grounds for celebration." Last summer Woolman attended the 21st Biennial Conference of the International Peace Research Association in Calgary, Alberta, to present a paper, "Teaching for Peace and Conflict Resolution in a Global Context," and chair two other sessions, one on "Indigenous Populations" in the Peace Education Commission and the other on "Resource Conflicts: Case Stu.dies from Around the Globe" in the Ecology and Peace Commission.

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Alumni Fund Goal: $180,000 Class Secretary: Peter J.

Knapp, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 300 Summit St .. Hartford, CT 06106-3100 e-mail: peter.knapp@trincoll. edu; fax: 860-297-2251 Class Agent: Robert W. Hartman

I had a wonderful visit recently from Dave Rehmann and Deb Moodey '79. Back east from Denver for a high school reunion, Dave was exploring the possibility of presenting to Trinity his extensive collections of books, correspondence, manuscript material, and photographs dealing with T. S. Eliot and with various literary figures of the Beat Generation, including among others Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Willian1 Burroughs. It was a pleasure to see Dave and Deb, and an invitation to attend our 45th reunion in 2010 was warmly extended. In other news, Anne and T co-curated a major exhibit in the Watkinson Library that opened in mid- September and nms though December 15. Entitled '"You're the Top': Illustrated Sheet Music of American Popular Songs from World War I to the 1940s," the exhibit draws on cl1e Watkinson's extensive collection of sheet music with illustrated covers and focuses on eight major composers of the period, including George Gershwin and Cole Porter. To celebrate the opening of the exhibit, we gave an illustrated lecture in early October on composers and recording artists of American popular song that discussed the music covers and included the playing of a 78 rpm recording of a featu.re song for each of the eight composers.

The recordings were selected from another of the Watkinson's major collections. That's all for now, and please remember to keep me posted on news of note.

Alumni Fund Goal: $100,000 Class Secretary: Thomas S.

Hart, 97 Minot Road, Concord, MA 01742-1920; e-mail : thomas.hart.1966@trincoll.edu Class Agents: David C. Charlesworth, M.D.; Brian Grimes; Joseph A. Hourihan, Esq.; Lindley C. Scarlett; William H. Schweitzer

Class of 1966: Not much news flowing in to your humble reporter this cycle- and that may be just as well, as he's been run ragged by politics, caught up in the Deval Patrick gubernatorial campaign.

Really, I was doing more political stuff this fall (and the summer before, and the spring before that) than I've done since ... well, since way back in the- gulp- 6os! I attended rallies, held signs (we call that "doing visibility" these days) , walked the streets doing canvassing, delivered signs, did phone-banking, went to caucuses- you get the idea. And here's the amazing thing: I was the least political member of my household! My

wife was (in addition to her college teaching job) the town coordinator for the Patrick campaign, and eldest son Patrick (fresh out of Swarthmore this past June) was a paid Patrick staffer, working 16-hour day after 16-hour day as, among other roles, the state canvassing coordinator.

Here's my proposal to you classmates out there: check in with me and tell me if you also got caught up in the political spirit (regardless of your particular political slant or party) and took part somehow in what's being portrayed as a major renaissance of political activity nationwide. I mean, the big picture after the midterms is clear enough: Schweitzer's depressed, Tribken's happy. and Kilgore's playing golf somewhere. But what about YOU> I'd love to hear what you think, and I bet others in the class would, too .... you know how to reach me! Tom

Alumni Fund Goal: $300,000 Class Secretary: Jeffrey J. i=ox, !=ox & Co Inc .. l Gilbert Hill Rd ..

Chester, CT 06412 e-mai l: jeffrey.fox.l967@trincoll. edu; fax: 860-677-5349 Reunion Leaders: Robert A. Boas, Esq.; Bob Brickley; Gilbert G. Campbell; Horace Caulkins; Roger Derderian; Jeffrey J. !=ox; Edward B. Hutton, Jr.; Charles Kurz; Alexander H. Levi; Steve Nuernberger; Jim O 'Connor; James H. Oliver; G. Theodore Ruckert, M.D.; Charles R. Perrin; Charles J. Sanders; Walter R. Seibert, Jr.; Robert Trainer; Alan Weinstein

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On June 8, 9, IO of 2007, every Trinity man who graduated in 1967 is invited back to campus for freshman week and an encore of the Great American Ball gan1e, or whatever that mayhem was called. These Trinity men will be encouraged to sing some song about trees as Gil Campbell plays the carillons (which are the Chapel bells ... for you readers from other classes) . In addition, Bill Rosenbaum is going to play Prof John Dando playing Shakespeare's l-/e11ri1 V, doing his t. Crispian Day pep talk at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 AD. That performance alone is worth the return . Floyd Putney has generously agreed to deliver any babies forthcoming that weekend from the women of said Trinity men.

Ted Ruckert has agreed to assist as Floyd's hands ain't what mey used to be. Ric Catoni and Rick Ludwig are going to tandem flyovers. Bernie Maguire and Ned Prevost are going to hear confessions . Charlie Sanders is not expected to do another pole dance, but Charlie Perrin is (if you know what the definition of "is" is) .

Geoff White casually says there is nothing new, just one heart attack and two stems. Geoff is doing well. Everything is cool. Geoff and the omer Theta Xi's will have a mini- reunion at the upcoming 4oth. Everyone should be having mini-reunions. Just call somebody and it's on.

Bill and Mary Ann Fox were spotted at the shore, ambling the beaches with Don and Isabel

Defending the Constitution: George Christian '67 Last July, after the !=Bl phoned his office at Library Connection in Windsor, CT, George Christian, Class of 1967, says a "good cop, bad cop" team of agents-

"a neatly dressed young man with blazer and tie and a pa rtne r who was a much more robust man with a spandex shirt that revealed exactly how ro bust he was"-arrived to hand-deliver a letter. The organization, which manages a complex computer network that runs circulation systems for 27 Hartford-area libraries, had been issued a National Security Letter (N SL) by the !=Bl, requesting a ll information available about the user of a specified IP address during a 60-minute period six months earlier.

After careful review, Christian, a man of strong convictions, felt it was his duty not o nl y to protect the privacy of the users but to protect the core values of the Constitution that he felt the letter's request was violating.

Since taking a required course on constitutional law at Trinity, Christian has been keen ly aware of, and interested in, the rights and responsibilities protected under this country's founding document.

The letter, while similar to a subpoena or warrant, never underwent the standard process of judicial review-an egregious violation of the Constitution. Having never heard of these letters before because of the perpetual gag order that accompanies them-prohibiting the receiver from speaking to anyone at all about the document-Christian was immediately suspect. i=urthermore, he was concerned that he was being asked to hand over information about

library patrons whose privacy was protected unde r Connecticut legislation.

Connecticut is one of 48 states with important legislation that charges libraria ns to protect patron privacy, and Christian took his position as gatekeeper to that information very seriously.

Despite the gag order associated with the letter, Christian decided to seek advice from a three-member executive committee acting on behalf of the board of Library Connection to protest the gove rnment's request. He explains his decision, "My son was studying constitutional law at school. I wanted to set an example for what I believed was right."

Christian has always been one to sta nd up for what he believes in. During the Vietnam War, he wrote a letter stating his beliefs against what he called "a civil war," and was granted, under highly unlikely circumstances for a Roman Catholic, conscientio us-objector status.

"My argu ment was that I didn't believe the government had the right to tell me t hat it was o.k. to kill people," Christian explains.

In his most recent case against the government, he took a similarly steadfast approach. The New York Times and the Washington Post reported that since 9-11, 30,000 National Security Letters a year have been issued by the !=Bl, and that Library Connection is only the second organization ever to contest compliance with the letter in court. Christian and his colleagues also sought an immediate lifting of the gag order in order to testify before Congress whi le the renewal of the Patriot Act and its NSL provision were being debated.

The Justice Department opposed this at the Appellate Court and even at a review by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only relenting after the Patriot Act was renewed. According to Christian the positive changes in the renewed act are very modest. NSLs now have to state that recipients can consult an attorney, but the gag provisions have been revised to make successfully contesting them much more difficult.

"Many people have said to me since this began that if I've got nothing to hide, then why fight it," says Christian.

He responds with the poignant words of Benjamin i=ranklin, "Those who would sacrifice liberty to gain security deserve neither."

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class notes Browne. The girls were properly and chastely dressed, but Bill was ... .

Don and Isabel are doing fine. And they see light at the end of the college tunnel. # 1 child graduated from Harvard. # 2 child graduated from BU. # 3 child is a senior at Cal (Berkeley) and captain of the tennis team. # 4 child is a junior at Univ: of Delaware. Isabel is still practicing law. Don oversees Morgan Stanley's investment advisory offerings for ultra wealthy clients and has no plans to retire. Good! The Brown's wine cellar is now 1,600 bottles and growing. As everyone knows, wine is mentioned favorably 154 times in the Bible, and that a recent study at Harvard proved that red wine is good for one's body and soul. Don is bringing a remarkably chewy little Bordeaux to the reunion. A votre sante.

Culley Carson is thriving in Chapel Hill. He is a professor at the Univ: of North Carolina Med School, where he teaches the healthful aspects of chewy little Bordeaux.

Mark your calendars for June and call Greyhound for your tickets to Hartford.

Alumni Fund Goal: $175,000 Class Secretary: William

T. Barrante, P.O. Box 273, Watertown, CT 06795-0273 e-mail: william.barrante.1968 @trincoll.edu; fax : 860-7384906 Class Agents: Lawrence J. Slutsky, M.D.

One of the books we read in Professor Paul Smith's American literature course was The Education Henry Adams, written by the grandson of John ~ncy Adams and great-grandson of John Adams. One of his themes was that the world was moving faster and faster in technology Consider this: Compare the differences between 1700 and 1800, and then 1800 and 1900, and then 1900 and 2000. We got steam power in the 18th century and a few steam automobiles were built in the 1800s, but nothing significant until the end of the 19th century The automobile of 1900 did not look much different from the buggy of 1800. But compare the car of 2000 to the car of 1900. The Wright Brothers made their first flight in 1903. By 1969 we landed a man on the moon. The greatest changes have been in communications. A client gave me a plaque with the front page of an 1821 Washington, D.C., newspaper. The paper came out in April 1821, with stories from Naples datelined February Today we get the news from Naples on the radio as we drive here and there.

And the Internet has revolutionized everything.

As I write this, we are still in the sixth year of the 21st century How different will 2100 be?

Many of us will remember Professor Marjorie Butcher, who taught us first -year calculus. She was Trinity's first female professor. She was good. Even though math and science were not my high points, I remember doing fairly well in

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her class. The College recently celebrated her 5oth year with the Trinity family. I will here offer her best wishes from the Class of 1968.

Alumni Fund Goal: $150,000 Class Secretary: Alden

Gordon, f=ine Arts Department, Trinity College, 300 Summit St., f-l artford, CT 06106-3100 e-mail: alden.gordon@trincoll. edu Class Agents: Nathaniel S. Prentice; Matthew S. Simchak

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Classmate Robert Sherrill, Jr., has been appointed to the State of New Mexico Board of Psychologist Examiners by Governor Bill Richardson.

Reliable report has it that Matt Simchak has retired and is splitting wood on a Pennsylvania mountaintop.

Bill Marimow has left National Public Radio to return to the Philadelphia Tnquirer as its editor.

Bill won his first Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for the Tnquirer.

Bill Glahn sent this update on his news: Your plea for news is very compelling. I never imagined that anyone would be interested in what I've been doing, but then I'm always very interested in what others are up to, so I thought I'd respond. Living in New Hampshire is something I thought I'd never do, but we've been here 31 years and I've been working as a trial lawyer here for that same length of time.

We've loved living here and I've enjoyed the practice (mostly). I joke that I'm the world's most boring man: I've had the same wife for 35 years, the same job for 25, and, until we built a new house in Concord two years ago, had lived in the same house for nearly 30 years. Our two sons Brooks (33) and Ben (29) are, respectively, living in Boston (Brooks is a trial lawyer no less-proof positive that kids don't do what their fathers tell them) and Salzburg, Austria, where Ben works for the Salzburg Seminar (one ambition is for your kids to live in an interesting place to visit, and Salzburg fits that description) . My knees have given out after more than 40 years of running and skiing, so I do a good deal of biking now. Hansi and I celebrated our 35th anniversary by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in August- a very interesting mountain, and Africa and the animals were fascinating. I have a sabbatical from my law firm next year and hope to volunteer in Eastern Europe for a non-profit and perhaps to think about options for- dare I mention it- retirement. Never thought I'd be that old, but I never thought I'd live to see the Red Sox win the series either. I've gotten involved on a fundraising committee at the College and will probably be speaking with some of you soon. If any classmates find themselves in New Hampshire, please look me up."

Michael Beautyman won three national tennis titles this year and played on the US team

at the Senior World Championships held in Turkey. Mike and his teammates won the Team World Championship for the USA while Mike was runner-up in the individual world championships, losing in the finals to a guy he had beaten three times this year. Mike concludes: "That means I have to keep doing this nonsense until I achieve my goal." Michael would love to hear from classmates at mbeauty@beautyman.com.

Alumni Fund Goal: $120,000 Class Secretary: John L.

Bonee Ill, Esq., 19 Scarsdale Road, West f-lartford, CT 06107-3339 e-mail: john.bonee.1970@ trincoll.edu; fax: 860-5226049

Class Agent: Ernest J. Mattei,

Esq. Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Co-Class Secretary: Robert

Benjamin, Jr., 608 Turlington Ct, Livingston, NJ 070398267 e-mail: robert .benjamin.197l@trincoll.edu Co-Class Secretary: Diane A. Clancy, 32 Abbott Street, Greenfield, MA 01301 -2510 e-mail: diane.clancy.197l@trincoll.edu Co-Class Secretary: Edward B. Karam, 44-10 28th Avenue, Apt. lf=, Astoria, NY lll03-2125 e-mail: edward.karam.197l@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Robert Benjamin, Jr.; Phil Khoury; Wi lliam f-1 . Reynolds, Jr. John Jehl reports from New Hampshire that "my oldest son Scott, 23, just got married. It was held on Lake Winnepesaukee. Scott is a Web design developer and Web page creator. His wife is a Ph.D. biology major at Harvard." John has been practicing internal medicine in New Hampshire for 28 years. He and his wife, Susan, also have a daughter, Kristen, who "just graduated first in her class from Virginia Wesleyan, and was an NCAA Division 2 Scholar-Athlete award winner," says John. "She played field hockey and lacrosse for Virginia Wesleyan. And my youngest, Adam, is a senior in construction management at Fitchburg State in Massachusetts."

He notes that none of his children went back to Trinity, although his father, Wilbur, is Class of 1942." Biology major John reminisced about the soon-to -be-demolished Life Science Building, which opened during our college years: "I spent a lot of time with fruit flies in that building."

Ted Kowalski also has some bragging to do about his son, 1}.ndrew, who is "in sophomore year in Berklee College of Music" in Boston.

Andrew's instrument is alto sax, and his major, Ted says, will probably be music business and music management. They were unable to attend the reunion because they were on a vacation in Rome. "We went for IO days, and Rome is amazing," says Ted. "We ended up staying in an

area called Bologna, a real neighborhood but still close to the center." He especially enj oyed a dis trict called San Lorenzo: "It's like SoHo used to be 20 years ago- a lot of younger people, fantas tic restaurants. Out of the IO nights we had dinner there four times in different restaurants."

He did have a bit of culture shock, though.

Explains Ted: "Andrew is almost 20. As in Paris, they think it's fine for kids that age to drink. So now he pours."

Ted has visited his brother Jim '73, now dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City "He lives in the bishop's palace, built

by J.P. Morgan." says Ted, whose descriptions of ecclesiastical splendor make one envious: "Fifteen rooms, two sitting rooms, beautiful leaded-glass windows. Jin1's office is the original library of the mansion."

However, Michael Trigg reports an even greater occasion of splendor. Michael, who has worked as an oncologist, recently visited India to give a talk. The president of India was unfortunately unable to attend the speech, so he called and asked Michael and some colleagues to come to the presidential palace for a discussion. "He lives in a 300- room palace and is a figurehead, like the ~een of England," says Michael. "He has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. He was terrific."

Although Michael was a surgeon of bonemarrow transplants for 25 years, "I quit seeing patients fulJ - time at the end of August 2005 and decided to take a job in the pharmaceutical industry." he says. Because of the deciphering of the genetic code IO to 15 years ago, opportunities had opened up in areas involving targeted therapies. Michael found numerous openings for an oncologist who had clinical research expertise, as he did, to guide companies "as to what they are studying, where therapies should be applied, and how to go about setting up clinical studies," among other things. He settled on Merck, he says, partly because of their reputation and "partly because I knew what I was going to be able to learn. I spend about a quarter of time in my office in suburbs of Philadelphia, and a quarter of the time working in my house, and then traveling the rest of the time." At the moment he's considering another change of job in the booming field: ''.As of today I had my 98th job offer." he noted.

"Outside of that," says Michael, "I build houses for fun. I have two boys, ~. 17, a junior in high school, and Donavan, 14, in eighth grade."

Artist Anne Pomeroy Dixon writes, "I am working on an acrylic painting of the Granby Land Trust that is near my house. If it comes out well enough, I plan on entering it in a Granby Land Tmst exhibit and competition." Anne is also a jewelry designer: "Two of my jewelry designs have been put up on the Web at beadpatterncentral.com," she says. Anne recently had an open house and had a wonderful time. About two- thirds of her inventory was already sold, so she is busy trying to create more jewelry inven-

1-fonsi and I celebrated our 35th anniversary by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in August-a very interesting mountain, and Africa and the animals were fascinating. I have a sabbatical from my law firm next year and hope to volunteer in ~astern ~urope for a nonprofit and perhaps to think about options for-dare I mention itretirement. -Bill Glahn '69 tory. She says she is very excited that she got her first royalty check from the sales.

Speaking of artists, Diane Clancy and partner Susan Elkin "are taking a business class for artists. Also, we are very active with an initiative called Fostering the Creative Arts in Franklin County." Diane also chairs the visual artists group and will be exhibiting in her first gallery show in December 2006 at Pushkin Gallery in Greenfield, MA. You can see some of her work at her Web site, wwwdianeclancy.com.

She also reports that "in October 2005 my [then] 32-year-old daughter, Jennifer, got married. They are head over heels with each other.

My daughter has been at Disney World for over a decade now." Recently Diane and Susan "had dinner with Tom Weiner and hung out with his son, Stefan, and his wife, Susan."

In October, Jack Reale hosted Al Farnell '70 and George Sutherland 'n Alpha Chi Rho brothers, at his home in the Highlands/ Cashiers area in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The company was great and the laughs were many.

Ann Harris says, "I have some cool news.

Our son, Chris ['01] finally proposed to his long time girlfriend, Scotty Herron [also Trinity 'or].

They knew each other all through Trinity, but only started dating after college. We are feeling incredibly fortunate that she said 'yes' and are planning a summer wedding at our home in New Hampshire. In the meantime, between calls to tent man and the caterer, I continue to travel a lot for Andover. Much of my time is spent on the NYC shuttle, but I will be heading for Santa Fe and Florida this winter, which will be great fun. Love to see any or all of you and any tips on 'mother of the groom' are always appreciated."

The news from Craig Maier is that he took over his family's restaurant business, the Frisch's Big Boy franchise, with outlets in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Craig and his wife, Ann, have three children: Avery. 12, and twins Alexandra and Taylor, 9.

"We married late in life," says Craig, "so we're having our grandchildren. I'm heavily involved in arts and culture in Cincinnati," he adds. "I sit on five or six arts boards," among them the ballet, the art museum, the museum center, !max, and Playhouse in the Park. That brings him in touch with Nancy Heffner Donovan. "I see her all me time," he says.

Bishop Steven Charleston, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, was a key speaker

at the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota's 149m Annual Convention in October. Steven is a leader in justice issues and spiritual renewal in the church and a highly regarded preacher. He has appeared on A BC World News Tonight, BBC World News, and The News J-/011r with Jim Lehrer, among other programs. In September he was a guest at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Marblehead on Massachusetts' North Shore, where he spoke on spiritual anxiety. He also offers daily recorded meditations, based on the Daily Office. The meditations are available on me Web site of Episcopal Divinity School (wwweds.edu) and can be listened to on the Web site or downloaded as podcasts. Steven was recently quoted as saying, "While we cannot control such things as terrorism and the crisis in the Middle East, there are concrete spiritual answers that can change despair to hope and fear to confidence."

Actress Susan Grace will be appearing on Medi11m on Jan. IO as a teacher of Ariel's (Allison's oldest daughter) . "There's a good chance the role will recur," says Susan. "I'm also starring in a new play in L.A. called Ts11ris- a silly send-up of older folks who live around Boca Raton and all the bagel shops they frequent. " Bob Miller has taken early retirement from St. Thomas University in St. Paul, where he taught English. "I've had an active life as a writer the last 30 years, which corresponds to the 30 years I've been at St. Thomas," he says. "I've done all sorts of things, including a lot of academic texts. Now I want to focus on literary nonfiction: essays and memoirs." A professor emeritus now, Bob also intends to spend "more time trying to be a fiction writer. It's tricky" Bob was one of the original Trinity men who went to Vassar in the exchange that brought Trinity our co-secretary. Diane Clancy "I stayed in Poughkeepsie," says Bob. "I have the distinction of being the first man to matriculate at Vassar. The first person I met there was Meryl Streep. who was in my graduating class. I met her on my first night, and she teased the dickens out of me. She came up to me the next day and apologized for teasing me. I remember being dazzled by seeing her perform as an undergraduate in Missjulie."

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class notes In 2003, Bob spent a week at Bread LoaÂŁ a writers' retreat and a setting for writing events at Middlebury in Vermont. He rented a car and drove back to Trinity. "Everything looked beautiful," he recalls.

I'm sure all our classmates will be sorry to hear of the death of Allison Rose, daughter of Karen Lewchik Rose, in a car accident on Aug. 19, and wish to extend our sympathies to Karen and her family. (Her obituary is at ajc.com/obits.) "We have two other children," writes Karen, "Chris, age 23, who is getting his master's in accounting from Wake Forest Univ., where he graduated from Phi Beta Kappa in May with a degree in finance. Our other daughter, Whitney, is 18 and graduated from the Westminster Schools in Atlanta in May. She is a freshman at UGA. Both kids missed a week of the beginning of school and, of course, to say it has been difficult is an understatement."

Alumni Fund Goal: $150,000 Class Secretary: Kristin Ande rson, 32 Linebrook Rd., Ipswich, MA 01938-2919 e-mail: kristin. anderson.1972@trincoll.edu Reunion Leaders: Kristen Anderson; Peter R. Blum; Hamilton Clark, Jr.; Bayard R. i='iechter; James P. Gamerman; Jeff Hales; Wi lliam I=. Lingard; Wi lliam J. Miller, Jr.; Mike Sooley; Donald Viering; Wi lliam Whetzel

Just as a writing exercise alone, I wonder how to urge classmates to come back to Reunion next June. That is, how could I select and arrange the words so that they don't just roll past everyone's notice and vanish. For those who have been to Reunion before, the word itself evokes real images, so you know what I'm talking about and will come. For those who have never been back, the task is harder.

The question is why would you ever want to come back? The architectural growth and changes are spectacular and, well, you may have paid for some of it. That may be true wherever you are, so not much of an argument there. The food and entertainment are great. But I can find the equal at home, you might be thinking. Kind of true if you are used to banquets and being served like royalty and if you keep the live and kicking members of the Outer Space Blues Band in your den to play at your beck and call so that you can once again feel the thrill of weightlessness and youth their music evokes. Still you may just not want to undo the calm and order you have carefully built up over the years with your routine. Understandable.

But, if some tiny part inside wants to push to the edge of the comfort zone by returning to campus (June 7-ro, 2007) , the risk will be repaid handsomely It won't be the buildings, it won't be the food, but it just may be hearing the band and what it triggers inside. The greatest reward, though, will be seeing people. Not just people you may have known, but people- peri 48

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od. The nameless classmates you passed on the Long Walk who looked too much like hippies, geeks, preps, or jocks for your taste, have evolved into fascinating professionals of every sort- and I mean every sort. They all have something to offer, some vision, some wisdom. And while there are no doubt fascinating people around you now; these particular people sprang from a common alchemy. with you. To dip back in, even if just for Saturday evening, you will, I know you will, discover some part of yourself and rejuvenate some part of yourself to take back home.

Alumni Fund Goal: $125,000 Class Secretary: Daniel M. Roswig, M.D., 880 Sheffi eld Road, Shavertown, PA 187089548 e-mai l: daniel. roswig.1973@trincoll.edu; fax:

860-651-0895 Class Agents: Patti Mantell-Broad Jan Gimar has sadly informed us that his wife of 29 years, Sherri Robison Gimar, died suddenly on July 17. 2006. The Gimars have lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for 18 years, where Jan continues to serve as an executive for the local Boy Scout Council and where Sherri taught elementary school.

The Alumni Office reports that Dr. Lewis Mancini's new book, How Everyone Could be Rich, Famous, Etc., was recently published.

Alumni Fund Goal: $130,000 Class Secretary: Matthew E. Moloshok, Esq., 1006 Prospect St., Westfield, NJ 07090-4221 e-mail: matthew. moloshok.1974@trincoll.edu; fax: 973-621-7406 Class Agent: Gary I=. Kinsella, Esq.

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: William M. Taussig, 187 Country Club Rd., Dedham, MA 02026-5639 e-mail: william. taussig.1975@trincoll.edu Class Agent: Henry E. Bruce, Jr.

Having no clue as to when this edition of class notes will arrive in your mailbox, be advised this was pulled together the Night Before Homecoming. And with that outta the way, here's what arrived over the virtual transom.

Clay Debevoise chimes in from the lower left coast, noting, "I do have something this time: http://HOME - PPPnet/ ... that is: "HOME - A Play of Poems and Photographs," on the Web

by Nov. 6. A 30-year project: 1976-2006! The photos were taken on the Appalachian Trail in 1976; it took the rest of the time for me to finish the poems (with feedback and encouragement from our own Milla Riggio, plus James Merrill,

Allen Ginsberg, Connie Carrier, and others) .

My daughters are both doing well- Cali, 6, is with me in CA. and Nell, 26, since her master's in politics, education, and democracy from Cambridge last year, is in Rome, in love, working with wwwGlocalForum.org."

From Al Glater, who has the catchy e- mail handle of DrZhicago and may well be a longsuffering Cubs fan, comes the following brief summary. "Not much new. Still working as a small animal veterinarian on the north side of Chicago, about one mile south of Wrigley Field (past 25 years). Recently moved back into our gut-rehabbed home (a two -flat converted to single-family) with my partner, Larry" Meanwhile, Robin Landy, who suggested I edit her submission (sorry. Robin, it's good as is) , writes and invites from the Pacific time zone, "I've been working in the affordable housing development field for more than a decade now, sometimes building for more controversial elements of our communities like late-stage alcoholics and the homeless. (Cheaper to house them in buildings rather than in our emergency rooms and jails!) Though humble, I have to confess that I just won an "Unsung Hero" award from our trade group for surviving four years of legal battles to bring a difficult project to fruition . I love all parts of the process- competing for the public and private money, overseeing design and construction, and leasing up units to those who desperately need a place to call home. Two kids are in college, Charlie, a senior at Georgetown, and Alison, a freshman at Smith, with Peter, a high school sophomore here in Seattle. A regular runner and swimmer, still potting at the wheel in my spare time, I invite everyone to give me a call when visiting the Northwest. No place prettier on Earth, and Chez Robin always has an extra bed and fabulous cuisine." Her contact info is 518 N. 64th Street, Seattle, WA. 98103 and (206-783-9728) .

Finally, at the bottom of this alphabet soup of contributors is Ron Williams, who notes that "The Class of '75 has at least two legacies in the Class of 2008. My daughter, Amanda, and Burt Apfelbaum's daughter, Meghan. This fall, the two of them are co-captains of the Bantam cross country team. Her first response was, "No way. Dad," when I suggested she consider the alma mater. However, a campus visit with the cross country team won her over. She loved her freshman year and made NCAA All-American for the Bantams at the Indoor Track National Championships." As for Dad, who works for Hewlett- Packard, "I like to pretend I'm still in my 30s. However, an occasional triathlon reminds me of my true age. The California lifestyle agrees with me, but I do miss New England now and then. I'm sorry I missed the reunion, but I'm saving my trips to Trin for visiting my daughter. I'm looking forward to reading about the rest of you in future Class Notes."

And until such future arrives, that's a wrap.

careers. Just drop me a line, via e-mai l or regular mail, and I'll be happy to publish your news.

As many of you already know, our classmate, Tom Santopietro, is on the bookstore shelves as author of a fab ul ous book on Barbra Streisand, The Importance of Being Barbra. He's done it again with a new book, Considering Doris Day. As Liz Smi th recently said in her N Y Post column, "Author Santopietro also put out a similarly intelligent, amusing, and objective career overview of Barbra Streisand. But his homage to Doris Day is even more passionate and acute in it's critique ... there is something thrill ing about Doris Day rediscovered, especially when the archaeologist of this American treasure- Mr. Santopietro- is so right-on- the -money." Bravo, Tom!

Class of 1975 alumnae reach out to AIDS orphans in China Joan Kaufman, Ph.D., an expert in public health in China, recently invited Class of 1975 friend , classmate, and child psychologist , Dr. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Shea-Clement P'09, on a grant-funded trip to rural China over the summer to work with AIDS orphans. Kaufman has been working on China and health issues for over 25 years, and her most-recent project involves setting up a mental health counseling program for children left orphaned by the increasing AIDS epidemic in that country.

Although it was Shea-Clement's first time in China, there was little time for exploring the new land. As Kaufman explains, " It was an intense 10 days.

Lizzie worked with five Chinese mental health professionals and did assessments of about 30 kids, helping us shape the specifics of the planned counseling program for our partner, the AIDS Orphans Salvation Association of f=uyang, Anhui Province." Shea-Clement, who resides in the western Massachusetts area, got Spaulding to donate soccer and basketballs to the children, to great acclaim from the kids. 1-lowever, the Class of 75ers, who lugged the ba lls with them

Alumni Fund Gool: $300,000 Closs Secretary: Elaine !=eldman Patterson, 824 S. Ridgeley Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90036-4727 e-mail: elaine.patterson.1976 @trincoll .edu

on an overnight train from Beijing, spent hours in their hote l exhausting their lu ng capacities, blowing up each ball one by one.

The t wo friends met t heir first year at Tri nity in 1971, when they lived on the same floor in North I-loll on Vernon Street. Kaufman, who was an intercultural studies major with a concentration in Chinese studies, says that after taking every class on anyth ing about China in the greater 1-lartford area , she spent her last year at the University of California at Berkeley, where she subsequently returned to complete her M .A. in Asian studies and M .S. in health and medica l studies. After pu bl ishi ng her thesis as a book, A Billion and Counting:

Population and Family Planning in China, Kaufman moved to China to work fo r the U.S. Population f=und from 1980 to 1984. W hen she returned home, she began her Ph.D. at 1-l arvard's School of Public 1-lealth. She is currently based at both 1-larvard's Kennedy School of Government and Brandeis's 1-leller School for Social Policy and Management.

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fax: 714-985-6350 Class Agents: Phil Brewe r; John P. C lifford, Jr.; Harold A. Smullen, Jr.

Our 30th Reunion stories are beginning to fade, so please think about sharing some new tales about your adventures, families, and

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: Richard W. Meier, 152 Hawthorne St., Manchester, CT 06040-3023 e-mail: richard.meier.1977@ tri ncoll.edu Reunion Leaders: Sophie Bell Ayres; Marian Kuhn Browning; Angelee Dana Carta, M.D.; J. Gilmore Childers; Deborah !=lower; Lawrence Golden; Ted Judson; Jan L. Larsson; Michael Leverone; Stuart S. Lovejoy; Rick Meier; Harriet !=. Smit h; Mark Stern

Happy Holidays to the Class of '77 Here is the news ... Planning continues for Our 30th Reunion Weekend (June 7-ro, 2007) . We are still looking for a few more volunteers to join us on the Reunion Committee. Committee members take assignments of five to IO names and reach out to these classmates, encouraging them to attend the Reunion.

I got e-mails from some far- Bung alums ...

David J. Murphy writes that he is "presently unable to co mmit to attending the 2007 Reunion. Embassy life in Beijing is pretty demanding." David is a commercial officer with the U.S. Commercial Service and stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Diana Lee l-lammond tells me, "Woul d that I could be there for the reunion ...alas the tyranny of distance .. .I'd love to see any member of our class who might be passing through Perth, Australia."

Marty Kanoff wrote again to let me know he will be unable to attend Reunion due to the time commitments of his new solo Ob/ Gyn practice.

He did relay his Web site URL, for those who are interested: www. harmonywomen.com.

Charles Spicer continues as an executive editor at St. Martin's Press, where has has recently published a New York Times bestselling memoir by Bill Clinton's former FBI director, Louis Freeh and will be publ is hing an upcoming book by actor Alec Baldwin. He recently returned from a wonderful trip to Budapest, Vienna, and Prague.

He divides most of his time between Manhattan and a house he owns with his partner, Jeff Steele, a landscape designer, in the Berkshires. Charl ie

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class notes also writes that he can't attend Reunion but hopes we enjoy the weekend.

Also, heard from Robin Kahn, who wrote, "My daughter, Alex, is a junior at Dickinson College and is spending the year in Malaga, Spain. My daughter, Mallory, is a junior at Wooster School.

I am still practicing law at the firm of Cohen and Wolf in Danbury, CT, where I have been for 26 years. My husband (George Johnston) and I recently celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary Congratulations to you and George!

At Homecoming I did not sponsor the Trinity Club Tailgate, so I got to wander around campus. At lot has changed in the 30 years we've been away.Trinity is still beautiful. Come home and check it out!

Here is the list of classmates who are plan ning on coming to Reunion: Ramsay Gross Bell, Bill Clark, Mike Diefenbach, Dan ladonisi, Stuart S. Lovejoy, Debbie Flower, Mark Gerchman, Mark Stern, Marriet Smith, Gil Childers, Jan Larsson, Mike Leverone, Sophie Bell Ayres, Stuart Lovejoy, Nancy Barber Aderman and Rick Meier. If you are planning on attending

and/or want to help contact classmates e-mail me at rickmeier@cox.net.

Also, please consider your gift to the Annual Fund this year, if you are a regular donator, try increasing you gift in honor of your reunion. If you've haven't donated, now is the time, even the smallest gift helps Trinity! The Reunion Committee has established a goal of roo% participation, so every gift counts!

Many thanks to those who wrote, keep those e-mails coming... those of you who didn't write, drop me an e-mail today! I really enjoy hearing from all of you.

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: Kathryn Maye Murphy, 6 Kneeland Rd., Marlborough, CT 06447-1225 e-ma il: kathryn.murphy.1978@ trinco ll.edu Class Agent: Jomes P. Smith

Jeff Dufresne writes, "Life begins at 50.

"Over the past 25 years, I've enjoyed a fulfilling career in commercial real estate investment.

I must acknowledge that my urban engagement preparation at Trinity prepared me well for this career. Recently, I decided to start 'giving back' and joined the Urban Land Institute as an executive director. It's a great job where we help build better communities (with the support a strong network of developers, inves tors, architects, planners, attorneys, public officials, and students). For example, we're working to create gree n space and affordable housing around Atlanta's BeltLine- a $3 billion urban recycling project along 22 miles of abandoned railroad track. I also derive pleasure from my work on the boards of Emory University, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF Atlanta) , and the

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Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA). In the pure 'fun' category, I leave next week for a two week biking trip in Morocco with Jodi, my better half of a quarter century Should your travels ever take you to Atlanta, please give me a "shout" at jdufresne@uli.org.

"On a somber note, life can also end at 50.

"I am saddened to report the passing of our classmate, and my very good friend, Rick Wang .

You may remember Rick as that imposing 6' 3" Asian gentle giant who played football and set records in the high hurdles that stood for almost 20 years at Trinity. He graduated with a mechanical engineering degree, got a master's degree in engineering in New York, worked for IBM and continued his career with Fluor, married a wonderful girl named Aljo, and was the father of two bright boys- Fredrick and William. Rick was extraordinarily courageous in life and throughout his long struggle with congestive heart failure. In view of his commitment to his sons' education, Rick's family requests that memorial contributions be made to The Wang Educational Trust, c/ o Pat Wang, GNYHA, 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1500, New York. NY roor9."

Alumni Fund Goal: $150,000 Class Secretary: Deborah A. Cushman, 5 Corbrey Ave., Sharon, MA 02067-2312 e-mail: deborah.cushmon.1979 @trincoll.edu Class Agent: David P. Rosenb latt, !:=:sq.

Alumni Fund Goal: $175,000 Class Secretary: Thomas D. Cosey, 4944 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, MD 20815-6244 e-mail: thomos.cosey.1980@ trinco ll.edu Class Agents: David !:=:. Clark, Jr.; Mark Leavitt; Currie Smith

Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: Dede Seeber Boyd, 23 Grove Avenue, Madison, CT 06443 e-mail: dede.boyd.1981@ trincoll.edu

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Alumni Fund Goal: $200,000 Class Secretary: William S. Lindquist, 11 Lokeridge Dr., Orchard Pork, NY 14127-3361 e-mail: williom. lindquist.l982@trincoll.edu Reunion Chairs: Tom Mathews, Claudia Piper, Bill Talbot Planned Giving Chair: Rhea Pincus Turteltoub Reunion Committee: Khooshe AdibSomii Aiken; Victoria S. Aronow; Janice Kunin Castle; Word C lassen; Dave Congdon; Sandy J:razier Connelly; J:roncesca Borges Gordon; Patricia Hooper Kelley; Andrea Scully Keogh; Barbara Sherman Levison; Bill Lindquist; Joe Reineman, Jr.; Linda Rich; Laura Hewitt Riley; Alice Harlow Ronconi; Beth Shipley; Lyn Snodgrass; Betsy O'Herron Swindell; Ann Mortin Pfister; E=:ric Woods

Alumni Fund Goal: $100,000 Co-Class Secretary: Marissa Ocasio, 88 Wolcott Hill Rd., Wethersfield, CT 06109-1243 e-mail: morissa.ocosio.1983@ trincoll.edu; fax: 212-251-8543 Co-Class Secretary: Wendy J:arnham Schon, 194 Bartlett Dr., Madison, CT 06443 Co-Class Secretary: Tina Tricorichi, 5610 Chelmsford Dr., Lyndhurst, OH 44124-4007 e-mail: tina.tricarichi.1983@trincoll.edu; fax: 216687-0779

Hello to all, Class notes are short this time but not empty.

Please keep writing and more people write!

Mike lsko wrote to the many people who he doesn't get to see often and others who helped their son, Gabe, along and who helped Mike and his wife, Roberta. He wanted to pass along joyous news that Gabe is going to be Bar Mitzvah in early November. Mike describes Gabe as a lovely young man whom a teacher described as "a good human being with a kind heart." Mike and his family. including wife Roberta and other child Emily, could not be more happy for and proud of Gabe. Also, Mike cleverly added, "Good luck getting a holiday card this year!" I (Tina) attempted to see Mike on a drive through New England last May for a Vermont wedding, but I underestimated my time and had to settle for a phone conversation. Congratulations, Mike, on your son's milestone!

Wendy Gorlin layer kindly responds to my pleas for news and I just saw her in San Diego in early November (she looks great, by the way, in between being a practicing psychologist, moving to a new home, chauffeuring kids to soccer games, field hockey matches, school events, and managing to meet up with and chauffeur friends like me, visiting S.D. sans car!) We also spent time with Prudence Horne '85, who is also wonderful. Wendy said she visited with Jane Klapper Sykes in September at her cute new house in San Rafael, California. Also, Agi Sardi

Ted Lord '83: Mumanities Empower the Mind and the Community "The humanities are about listening to the dialogue of the ages and of the diffe r ent voices and experiences of society today. There is a sense in which my whole career has been about learn ing to appreciate how groups make better decisions than individuals- and that there is something known as collective intelligence," explains Ted Lord '83, who has been engaging his Pacific Northwest state in programs and opportunities to promote civic wisdom since taking over as president and c~o of 1--1umanities Wash ington in 2006.

Beginning in 1985 during his days in the Peace Corps, Lord developed the concept that has guided him: that col lective intelligence and collective action have the abil ity to empower groups and societies more so than disparate individual action. After rece iving his master's in poetry, Lord, a pub lished poet who was a President's i=ellow in the ~nglish Department at Trinity and worked closely with recently deceased poet and professor l--1ugh Ogden , decided to apply for a position with the federally fund ed program that sends volunteers to developing countries. Upon selection to the Peace Corps, Lord was deployed to Mauritania , a poor West African country, where he began helping groups-organizations, communities, and societies-"to unleash their potential."

"I've received many blessings," says Lord , "and I want to live in a world where and her son were some of Wendy and family's first out-of-town visitors in their new digs. By the way, Wendy and her famil y remodeled their new home built in the 1950s, and believe me, it is a wonderful housejhome. Lastly, to give more defini ti on to her career, Wendy is still a staff psychologist at UCS D, treating adults of all ages, specializing in behavioral medicine, and super-

the most people have the most access to blessings." During his time in Mauritania, he began to reflect on the capital ist culture from which he came and concluded that "we have no notion of what is enough, of personal satiety." l--1owever, Lord believes that through his positi ons in philanthropy and public service, he has been able to "gain a better understanding of what we each need and what we can each offer."

One thing he says collective strength can offer is the ability to create a more equitable society. !=or eight years, Lord, who lives in Seattle with his partner of 20 years, Chris Cooper, and their two children, ran the Pride i=ounda tion, where his goal was to get more people involved by giving both financial and volunteer support. "It was about bringing a group together to discuss how to strengthen the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community-and have that be regarded as a community asset and strength," says Lord , who during his tenure at the organization inc reased annual grant and scholarship disburseme nt from $35,000 to $500,000 and increased donor participation from 300 to 5,000.

With hopes to do the same at l--1umanities Washington, Lord sees his goals as growing reading, funding learning, and engaging dialogue. Through programs such as Motheread/ i=atheread and making grants to museums, libraries, and community groups, Lord hopes that "people see the relevance of the humanities towards critical thinking and problem solving," and come to understand that the humanities-~nglish, religion, history, philosophy, etc.- are not just dusty old subjects for the intellectual elite. In fact , they have the ability to help foster an understanding of how people make meaning, and perhaps, more importantly says Lord, how people can have lives that they find meaningful.

by Ca rlin Ca rr vising post-doctoral students.

Rick Barone wrote that he ran into (Fred) Rick Thomas '84 in Wilton and learned that he is his eight year old's foo tball coach! The two Ricks played Trin football togeth er, so it was a rush for them making the contact. Rick also shared the good news that his brother, David '85, is newly engaged to a great girl. Rick's startup

company (www. tpr2.com) is about to move into a sales and marketing capacity and has a private placement offering happening ... .Any classmates interested in high tech he queried. Ri ck says he's just an e-mail away on the Web site! That's his latest from Wilton, CT .

Terrie Johnson and Ted Martsoe wro te inalthough I think Terrie actually wrote the email, but she can cover for two of our class mates, of course. Incredibl y, we have been out of college so long that their oldest child, Katie, started her freshman year at the Tisch School at NYU this fall, where she is pursuing a BFA in theater and a B.A. in French. Terrie added that some apples fall far from the tree but that the experience of moving her into the 9th floor of a dorm on roth and Broadway was nothing like she and Ted remembered from their freshman year moving into North Campus and Wheaton!

Professional ly, she reports that not much has changed for the two of them. Ted is still teaching economics at Choate, and his students have won a number of national economics awards through the years (excellent, Ted!) . Terri e is now the middle school director at a pre-K to 8th grade private day school. She continues to coach basketball and softball as well as teach one section of science, usually phys ics, but her job is primarily administrative. (That's a full plate, Terri e!) . Terrie and Ted continue to travel with their three kids as much as possible, spending the summer in China two years ago and in the canyons of the Southwest last year. She looks fo rward to reading the Reporter and catching up.

(This is Tina, note to class, WRI TE!) Lauren Griffen Niclas sent an informative e-mail, but I might not be able to get it all in as I am finishing this at the last minute- sorry. I'Li add the rest next time. O.k., Lauren> She gave an updated version of her life: her husband, daugh ter, C ristina, and she are living in Amity Harbor on LI . Her daughter loves fourth grade and Lauren is enjoying being able to work part-time at her school now that she is no longer wo rking 60-hour weeks in TRetail for Claire's Stores.

She is in almost daily e- mail contact with Ellen Tattenbaum and Allen Lepore . All recently spent a few fun days in Cape May. They are both doing well and are still living in Hopewell, New Jersey.

Allen is commuting to work weekly to Avon, CT, to run the family business up there, and Ellen is juggling several different jobs, including being a dance and aerobi cs instructor. Also, Laure n is in frequent touch with Marlene Arling Dube, although they haven't actually seen each other in years and she lives in Plainville, CT, with her 16year-old daughter, Hillary. Also, Ellen is occasionally in touch with Eric l=isher and his famil y, who are enjoying life in Switzerland. She just got an e-mail from Mike Ziskind '84, who is living in Furlong, PA, with his wife, Ingrid, and their three adorable children. Thanks, Lauren, for updating on other class members- very helpful.

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Gotta go, or I'll be late to court ... Please Write! Tina

Alumni Fund Goal: $50,000 Class Secretary: Susan Sherrill Canavan, 403 S. Maple Ave., Glen Rock, NJ 07452-1536 e-mail: susan. canavan.l984@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Patricia Adams; Janice M. Anderson; Salvatore Anzalotti Ill; Amy Curry

Alumni Fund Goal: $75,000 Class Secretary: Stephen J. Norton, 9 Ninth St., S~.

Washington, DC 20003-1333 e-mail: stephen. norton.l985@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Annette M. Boelhouwer; Kathi O'Connor Boelhouwer; Marc Chabot; Christopher Hogan; Stephen Norton; John Wilson

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Boy oh boy, not long ago I was getting spoiled by all the news of 40 -year-olds gone wild and pre-reunion updates. Now I get a bare trickle, even after calling a few dozen of you and leaving a message!

OK, I acknowledge, for many of us, life has become the happy but banal slog of career and parenthood, with the smattering of dieting and exercise or a nice vacation thrown in to make it fun . Many of us praise good books but have no time to read them. When we read, it is for work. We jibber-jabber about soccer, karate, yard work, and the latest fundraiser for our kids' school. We admit to watching idiotic TV shows and then quickly explain we simply need to "escape" from the tumult of the day You probably figure it makes no sense to write in with something like, "Work is great. Jimmy is turning nine- hard to believe! I am coaching his football team this fall - it keeps me out of trouble, yadda, yadda, yadda!"

Frankly, many of us are delightful, interesting people. We just don't see it in ourselves. Fine.

How about something new? How about more of a blog> Don't just supply news. Offer wry commentary, defeatist reflections, erotic musings, whatever.

For now, please enjoy these tidbits.

Katy Kapteyn Baldwin had a baby girl named Tess this fall while Louise Williams Senopoulos thanks God she (Louise) has no additional kids.

Her daughters are tall enough to look her in the eye. Her daughters are nine and 12. I will not speculate on whether they still see eye-to-eye with Louise, height notwithstanding. Louise acknowledged the girls, "... would probably beat me in tennis if 1 agreed to keep score properly."

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Bob Flanagan is nurturing the spiritual life of his congregation in Bedford, Y, which includes a number of Trinity folks, including Steve O'Brien. Recall, Bob went to the seminary after several years in the insurance business. (By the way, Steve, your pastor has noticed your absence from the pews.) Bob and I chatted about the schism in the Anglican Church, which I will not go into here. As much as I would like to hear people's thoughts on things, religion and homosexuality might be veering a little too far afield for an alumni bulletin.

John Fiske is writing away and staying busy as a full -time dad on Boston's north shore. He is self-publishing an historical novel on the design and construction of the New York City Public Library and has found the Trinity alumni network very useful in this effort.

Alumni Fund Goal: $45,000 Co-Class Secretary: Kimberly Crowley Hart, 59 Argyle Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06107; e-mail: kimberly. hart.l986@trincoll.edu Co-Class Secretary: Jennifer i=. Zydney, 714 A Norfolk Lane, Alexandria, VA 22314-6205; e-mail: jennifer. zydney.l986@trincoll.edu Co-Class Secretary: Marceline Lee, 1620 Santa Rosa Street, Davis, CA 95616-7331; e-mail: marceline.lee.l986@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Molly Schnorr-Dunne; Tom Madden; Kathryn George Tyree

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As holidays approach and 2006 rolls to a close, I'm reminded- as I'm sure many of you are- of a reunion year resolution to do a better job at staying in touch with old friends and classmates. Thankfully, l had an opportunity to catch up with three of my old roommates on a crisp fall weekend this November. Elizabeth Heslop Sheehy, Jen Zydney, and I met up at Karen Resony Peters' house in Brookline, New Hampshire, for a "girls' weekend." Karen's husband, Sean, kept us well fed , while their beautiful one-year-old daughter, Kate, kept us thoroughly entertained. We gossiped, shopped and, of course, re- told lots of old stories. Karen also shared with us the video of Kate's journey from an orphanage in China earlier this year and the wonderful story of how they became a family We couldn't be happier for them!

Elizabeth just returned from a trip to Egypt with daughter Emma and so.n TR. (Husband Tom held down the fort in Virginia with their youngest son, Jackson) . Celebrating her 20th anniversary with the May Company, Elizabeth is currently a regional merchandise manager for Macy's in Arlington, Virginia. Jen, meanwhile, shared photos of her recent bike trip to Croatia.

When she's not traveling the world, Jen works at SunTrust Bank in Washington, D.C. A fewweeks back, I had lunch with A.J. Hern, whose office is just around the corner from mine in downtown Hartford. He and wife Margaret

Figueroa Hern live in West Hartford with their

four children: C laire Eileen (who just started middle school) , Owen, Amelia, and Justin (who just started nursery school). A.]. is enjoying his private law practice, primarily handling employer and worker's compensation issues.

The Alumni Office reports that Emily Ginsburg is currently an associate professor and chair of the lntermedia Department at the Pacific Northwest CoLlege of Art in Portland, Oregon. She has been actively showing her own work at galleries and museums around the U.S., England, and Australia and, in early 2007, will be traveling to Rio de Janiero, Brazil, for an exhibition at A Gentil Carioca. Check out Emily's work at www.emilyginsburg.com.

Mike Oxman has been appointed director of Business for Social Responsibility's (B R) oil and gas advisory services team. A leading provider of innovative business solutions to many of the world's leading corporations, BSR is a non- profit business association based in San Francisco. Prior to joining BSR, Mike worked for Chevron and consulted on various oil and gas projects in the Republic of Kazakhstan for Price Waterhouse.

While our classmates are venturing to foreign shores, my husband, Wesley, and I are anxiously awaiting the birth of our first child in December in exotic West Hartford. Here's hoping there's room in the Trinity Class of 2024!

Alumni Fund Goal: $110,000 Class Secretaries: Lincoln S. Purdy and Nancy Golding Purdy, 54 Bridle Path, i=ranklin, MA 02038-4104 e-mails: lincoln.purdy.1987@ trincoll.edu; nancy.purdy.1987@

trincoll.edu Reunion Chairs: Melissa Bronzino Regan; R. Kevin Smith Reunion Committee: Natalie Perkins Bartlett; John Dalsheim; Michael Donovan; Thomas i=urey Ill; Austin Keyes; Douglas Kim; Lincoln Purdy; Maria Rodriguez; Betsy Smith; Hope Williams; Bryant Zanko

Greetings, fellow 87ers. Once again, the Class Notes cupboard is pretty bare. We do have a couple of items, however: We got an update from Chip Rhodes, who is still chairman of the English Department at Western New England College and whose next book will be out shortly Chip is living in Longmeadow, MA, where his daughter is in the same first-grade class as Amy (Folta) Ryan 's '88 son.

Ted Shannon reports from Topsfield, MA, that he has moved into a new house from a very old one and is thrilled to have electricity and running water. He is working for AI Hunneman Commercial in Boston. Ted and his wife, Mary, have two boys, six and two years old.

They are expecting their third child in February 2007

Don't forget that our 20th Reunion is June 7-10, 2007 Start making plans to attend and don't forget to bring the kids! We would like to give special acknowledgement to th e members Class of 1987 Reunion Committee, who at this very moment are hard at work helping the Alumni Office to plan the big event. Members of the committee are all listed above.

Alumni Fund Goal: $45,000 Class Secretary: Joseph P. Cataldo, E::sq., 3 Audubon Tr., Norfolk, MA 02056 e-mail: joseph. cata ldo.1988@trincoll.edu; fax: 508-520-0699 Class Agents: Constantine Andrews; Scotland Davis; Lisa Godek Well I have to say a big thank you to Gina Gewant Doyle for helping me out with the past few editions of the Reporter. She did a great job gathering news and tracking down some classmates we hadn't heard from . I have to admit that I almost missed this edition if it hadn't been for a great e- mail from Melissa Moore Janes. Melissa had the chance to catch-up with lots of fellow classmates on their 4oth birthday celebrations. Here is her update ...

"In August I traveled to the Bay Area for Marianne Eldredge Evenhuis' 4oth birthday.

Tracy Moore Steele, John Lee, and I joined Mar's friends and fan1ily at the Claremont Resort in Berkeley for a party weekend. Marianne and her family live in Moraga, and she has two beautiful children in 6th and 3rd grades. She's involved in school activities and has a great paper arts business creating specialty invitations and cards. Tracy is a public art specialist, currently with the city of Providence, R.I. , where she recently moved. While 1 think she's glad to be back out East, she misses California. Luckily, the Public Museum of San Diego has re- hired her to consult on an upcoming exhibit. Missing was Lisa Smith Fischer, who just left Heinz's legal department in Pittsburgh to join Shady Side Academy, her alma mater. John Lee Lives in Oakland, is in management with Ke1rneth Cole, and also works with nonprofits, helping them with marketing and special events.

"Recently several of us were together for the wedding of Allison Kinney.

"Allison was married in Sonoma to a great guy called Tom McGowan. Tom is in the wine business, and recently t11ey relocated from San Francisco to Lake Forest, IL Allison works with Hammacher Schlemmer, and I'm thrilled to be able to see her so frequently now. She and Tom are expecting their first baby- a little girl- in December. Timothy Clark was in from Switzerland for Allison's wedding. He manages maritime projects with a firm based out of Geneva. "!, by t11eway, am married with three children.

I have identical twin boys who keep us busy with

John f=iske '85 is writing away and staying busy as a full-time dad on Boston's north shore. ~e is self-publishing an historical novel on the design and construction of the New York City Public Library and has found the Trinity alumni network very useful in this effort. their high energy- it's like having puppies in the house. My daughter is in the first grade, and the boys still in preschool. I worked for Sara Lee Corp for many years and am now involved in several community causes. 1 celebrated my 4oth last month and was in awe of my husband, who surprised me by including Marianne and Tracy again, as well as Andrea Bici, John Lee, and Andrew Blume. Andrea works with Schoeder Investments in New York as an analyst, and Andrew lives in Cambridge, MA. He recently was ordained in the Episcopal Church and is pondering a move back to New York. He and his wife had meir first baby, William, this past spring, an d enjoy a country house on Cape Cod. Missing was Liesl Odenweller, who lives in Venice and co ntinues her successful opera career while juggling life with a three-year-old daughter and globe- trotting husband.

"This past spring, Bryant Zanko '87 gathered several W Michigan Trinity alums together for a fu.n evening. He works in business development here for Stryker."

Alumni Fund Goal: $20,000 Class Secretary: Jeffrey S. Jacobson, 15 Iron f..Jollo w Rd., Sharon, MA 02067-2863 e-mail: jeffrey. jacobson.1989@trincoll.edu; fax: 617-439-8474 Class Agents: Donna f-lagh ig hat; Christopher Rogers Dickinson Lydia Babbitt reports, "Conrad Sienkiewicz and 1 were married 12.04 in Litchfield, CT, and now reside on beautiful Highland Lake in Winsted, CT. I am getting used to the fact that I live with a guy who teaches at the high school from which I graduated (Litchfield High School). It still is odd to know that colleagues of his were teachers of mine (albeit yow1g ones). I have maintained my last name as 'Babbitt,' so if you are in me area looking for a tour guide, look us up. Our daughter, Caroline Sarah, was born in May of '06 and is proving to be an absolute delight. She is rather theatrical like both of her parents, loves the music in church, and sings along when she is awake. We are waiting a while to see if she takes to muzzle loading artillery Iike her mother or not. I saw Laura Everett Stanley over the summer and she is as energetic, fun, smart and funny as ever. She and her husband James are still in the area with their beautiful daughters, Elizabeth and Virginia."

I am not opposed to paraphrasing a report,

but Michelle McEttrick gives me such good Seattle-speak (e.g. "Skyping?") that I am quoting her as well.

"Here's the dish. I moved with my husband to London spur-of-the- moment at the end of August for a fantastic job at advertising agency BBH. We had just finished a three year remodel of our home in Seattle. Which is, of course, unacceptable to the order of the universe. Finish a remodel and you will be moving, no question.

Last weekend we saw Andrew (Spike or Zippy depending on when you met him) Walker and his wife, Tina, at a kick-ass Gus Fawkes bonfire, complete with fireworks so close the embers were falling in our hair. He and Tina have been in London with their two tots for three years.

He organized a poker game which my husband, Mike, attended with six ex- pat guys who had never played before. Trinity alums, there is money to be made at poker in London."

Sue Kinz Maggioni, Nancy Cudlipp, and I just spent an hour Skyping this afternoon. They each have three beautiful, talented, charming, and witty children. Husbands aren't bad either.

Sue is in Wellesley, Nancy is in Seattle. In other news, Paul Nyhan is also in Seattle with lovely wife Sam and two adorable kids. He is still fighting the good tight in journalism while writing diligently on his own projects by candle-light at night.

The Trinity Altunni office forwarded information concerning Susannah L. Brown, who opened her new law office in Pembroke, MA, in August. The firm specializes in family law, divorce, and immigration. Susannah has practiced law for r 5 years and most recently practiced with another law firm in Pembroke.

Becky l-lolt recently opened her own office in downtown Nyack, NY, teaching kids with special needs and "working as an education specialist and holistic health counselor with kids and families looking to live a more a more healthy life .. . I am happy to be a little business owner in a cute town I love so close to the City" I heard from Kate Roy Sullivan, Ph.D., a psychologist, who has a private practice in central Massachusetts where she lives with her husband, Jon, and her four children. The include daughter Emma (II) and three sons James (8) , Thomas and Finn (5 months). She reports very busy days ... "third grade math is tough' With an almost 12-year-old daughter, visiting colleges again doesn't seem that far away# Of course, all of my friends are too lazy to help me out a bit here so I will pass on the fol lowing, STOP THE PRESSES - Jonah Cohen \Ninter 2007

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Speaking of the boys, I played golf with Jonah, Chris and Jon Leary, Ridge Cromwell, and Mike Joyce '90 as part of a larger crew at Foxwoods in the fall and enjoyed a few hours at the casino. Also, I celebrated at Mike Miele's surprise 4oth birthday party hosted by his wife, Kara, at their home with, among others, Ted Lyon , who, with his wife Margaret, is expecting his second child in the spring.

Who else? I had a few beers in New York with Steve Seiber and Rich Maloney (on the due date of his second child). I will update you on their lives and families if they eve r write in to me.

Alumni Fund Goal: 30,000 Class Secretary: Timothy J. Callahan, Jr., 44 Vernon Street, Apt. l , Brookline, MA 024464936; e-ma il: timothy.ca llahan.

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Class of'90 This installment will be a bit on the short side, for a variety of reasons. As I write this, my most recently posted notes have not yet gone to press, which puts me at a bit of a disadvantage.

Generally a good long posting generates feedback for the next Notes, and thanks in part to some great (and much appreciated) help from my lovely predecessor, Sara Moorin Lang, the last installment was well stocked. Unfortunately, as I sit here hunting and pecking at deadline, you haven't yet read it. Because of this very fact, the Alumni Office has informed us that they will be changing the publishing schedule, ensuring that the Notes are published before the next ones are due. This is a good thing. On to the Notes.

I had the chance to catch up with Andy Steinberg the other night, and "Tree" got me up to speed on what's been happening with the Steinberg clan out in greater LA. In short- it's growing (the clan, that is). Andy and his wife, Connie, recently welcomed a second daughter to the family, Alexa Gabriela, joining threeyear-old daughter Maya. Alexa is quite a joy, but unfortunately she has kept Tree away from his beloved lakers and his season tickets. Happily though, he did recently have a chance to take Maya (a.k.a his little laker Girl) to the Staples Center to catch some live hoops. When later asked who her favorite player is, Maya excitedly replied "Defense!" of which she had heard the crowd chanting during the game. With all that chanting, she assumed "Defense!" must be a pretty darn good player. Good thinking, Maya,

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Andy also reported that he keeps in regular touch with Ron Goodman. Ron has been busy running a successful accounting practice and is back living in his hometown of Sharon, MA. I used to see Goodie around my current 'hood, Brookline, quite a bit, but sadly, I have n't run into him in quite some time. Please look me up if you're around any time soo n, Goodie.

A few weeks back, I had the happy occurrence of seeing a fri endly but long-lost name pop up in my Inbox- Eric Lorenzini. It had bee n many years since Eric and I had corresponded, and it was great to hear from "Goose" (or, as my old roommate Augusto "Goose" Lopez used to call him, The Imposter- only room for one Goose on a small college campus, apparently).

Turns out Eric is an attorney and was going to be in Boston to take a deposition. After Trinity and a stint at Common Cause in D.C., Eric went to Stanford law, fell in love with the California weather, an d never returned east. He settled in Hollywood, where he works for a medium -sized LA furn and specializes in copyright law as it pertains to the entertainment industry. Interes ting stuff Good thing I never downloaded any music using any of those nefarious file -sharing search engines like Napster. Um. ~ckly changing th e subj ect, I mentioned a class mate of ours and good friend of Eric's, Dave Loew, whom I don't think I've see n since graduation. Eric has hooked up with Dave several times when in Chicago on business. Dave is living in the C hicago area, where he is working at an advertising agency on the creative side, and from the sounds of it, basically killing it. Dave has been one of the creative drivers behind so me large national ad campaigns on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, essentially writing and scripting national TV spots. Dave is happily married to his long-time wife, whom he met back when we we re at Trinity, and Eric described his daughters as "ridiculously beautiful." Nice going, DL Eric was pumping me for info on some other classmates for whom he hoped I had an update, but unfortunately I was empty handed. For instance, what on Earth happened to Jamie Gabriel? last I saw Jamie, it was maybe 1995, at the Michigan/ Ohio State football game. If you read this Jamie, please drop me a line, I would love to get back in touch. And what in the heck ever happened to Dave Landa ? I remember getting a postcard from Dave many years ago, penned while Dave was on a bullet train in Japan, if memory serves. Every year during the little l eague World Series, I half expect to see Dave on TV in Williamsport, PA, coaching the Taiwan national team to the LLWS title, and every year I am disappointed.

If anyone has doubts, I'm trying to encourage more of you to write in. It would be great to be able to post some mo re updates on some of you from whom I haven't yet heard, such as, The Tall Boys- J-Bus (Jason Farrar), Tim (Boylan) , Steve (Kemler) , Frank (Alexander),

Jason (Hicks) - what are you guys up to> If you get a second, please write in and let me know what's up. I'd love to kn ow, and I'll bet your classmates would to.

I hope you are well C lass of ' 90 - I miss y'all Peace.

Tim

Alumni Fund Goal: $25,000 Co-Class Secretary: Heather Watkins Walsh, 4519 Sangamore Rd., #102, Bethesda, MD 20816-2539 e-mail: heather.walsh.1991@ trinco ll.edu Co-Class Secretary: Ann Newman Selvitelli, Suffield Academy, 185 N. Main Street, Suffield, CT 06078; e-mail: ann.selvitelli.199l@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Robin Halpern Cavanaugh; Susannah Smetana

Classmates' The column is short and sweet this time.

Thanks to everyone who e- mailed me back, and I am sure we'll have more news next time (hint, hint) .

My big news is that I am due December 31 with a baby boy. Our daughter, India, was born in Dec of last year, and I've heard my husband, Bob, say rece ntly, ''Another rock.in' New Year's for the Walsh famil y!" Seems like a lot of you can relate!

But th e bes t class news of all is .... Bryan Neel, who was feared lost by the Alumni Office, was just busy and living in the Mid West!

Bryan Neel: "Went to Cornell and earned an MBA IO years ago, married a long Islander nine years ago, and have a son and daughter who are wonderful kids, super athletes. Happily settled in Minnesota where I came from. Spend summers on the lake, playing tennis, romping with the kids; winters we ski, skate, and sauna at the cabin. Am a VP-wealtl1 management at Smith Barney. l ife is good, and l am happy alive! E- mail is hbneel@yahoo.com for anyone out there."

David Payne: "Helen Gemmill (Midd.'oo) and I are engaged to be married in September 2007 at the Basin Harbor Club in Vermont.

In the meantime, we're attempting to make our recently purchased home in Boulder 'net-zero' through ene rgy efficiency retrofits and install ing on-si te solar thermal and electric systems, etc. I'm still (slowly) working on my Ph.D. and teaching in the meantime at University of Colorado."

Katie Everitt Denious and her husband, Peter Denious '90, successfully ran in the New York Marathon together. Their children cheered from the sidelines. l heard Katie accidentally gave l ance (Armstrong) a Aat. Missy and Dylan Remley have added two more to the Remley brood- identical twins Alexander and Kellen Remley were born on June 16, 2006.

Keep in touch everyo ne ...Happy Holidays.

Alumni Fund Goal: $50,000 Class Secretary: t:ric H. Holtzman, 853 S. LeDoux Rd., #103, Los Angeles, CA 900351859 e-moil: eric.holtzmon.1992@ trincoll.edu Reunion Committee: Mo lly Gerber; t:ric Holtzman; Kathleen Kadziolka; Malcolm Maclean IV; Patrick McKeigue; Matthew Woods Greetings fellow members of the Class of 1992. lt is time once again for another update.

Fellow denizen of the View, Molly Buck Eldridge wrote, "It's been a while since I have written anything for the alumni magazine so I 'm not sure where to start. I think at the Reunion I had just moved to Crested Butte, Colorado, to run a ski lodge. Alan and I are still here and just celebrated our 10-year armiversary! We have two boys- six and almost four, so life is busy. loud, and fun. I just started a new career seLling real estate with Prudential, so if anyone needs a Rocky Mountain getaway- look me up! I am planning to come to the Reunion in June and think Laura (Weintraub), Jen (Yourdon) and Petula (Gordon) are, as well. I see them whenever I get to the East Coast, and life is goodl Hope to see everyone in June!"

Elizabeth Sullivan Davidson is currently living in Manhattan with her husband, teve, and their son, Stephen. She is working with a Mexican jewelry designer, Mercedes Werner, to help launch her collection in the United States.

She is also doing volunteer work at both her son's school, Saint David's School, and at her high school, The Convent of the Sacred Heart.

Fellow resident of the City of Angels, Anna David, wrote with the exciting news of the publication of her first novel. She writes, ''I've been writing for magazines like Playboy, Details, Cosmo, Redhook, Premiere, People, etc. for several years now but my first novel, Part)' Girl, is due out in June of next year from Regan Books/ HarperCollins, and you can acn1aLly pre-order it on Amazon now! I also appear on random TV shows, discussing the merits of reality TY, doling out relationship advice, or talking about whatever else they ask me to. My site, www.armadavid.com, contains more information than anyone could possibly want to know about me.

"I don't run into that many Trinity- ires in LA- we lost both Chrissy Klotz and Phil Mittleman to New York over the past few years- though I did recently catch up with Mary McCormack, who was Class of 1991, recently had a baby, and is always working on either TV or in movies Marie Ele na Rigo, M.A., also lives in sunny southern California in nearby Santa Monica.

Marie Elena started her own company, offering Feng Shui, interior design, and life coaching in 2004, called MER Life Design and it's been growing steadily. Her story of leaving corporate America to do Feng Shui was featured on The Fine Living Network's "Radical Sabbatical" show

We're attempting to make our recently purchased home in Boul der 'net-zero' through energy efficiency retrofits and installing on site solar thermal and electric systems, etc. -David Payne '91 in 2005, and it still re-airs frequently (you can watch it at www.MERlifedesign.com.) She was hired to shoot a pilot about Feng Shui for A&E and is waiting to hear if they'll buy the series.

She also shot another demo for an L.A. production company and they are pitching it to cable networks- so media buzz abounds.

Marie Elena writes, "[ have a wonderful partner who is an inspirational singer/ songwriter.

He's also an entrepreneur, and we love sharing the freedom, growth, and learning that comes from running our own businesses. Still in touch with Sara Jo Wayne, who has two little ones now- and speak to Colleen Curran periodicaLly as well. I did hear from Malcolm Mclean, who comes ou't to Santa Monica every few months, but we haven't been able to meet up yet. All the best to the Class of '92. I can't believe it's been rs years!"

My former Funston roommate, Tito Vasquez, sent the following update: "Hope all is well. I'm here in Long Island.

I'm finishing up with my plastic surgery fellowship with the Long Island Plastic Surgery Group in Garden City. Then finally I'll be making more than minimum wage. We just moved from Manhattan, where I finished my hand surgery fellowship. Mary Jo (Puglisi) , Kate, and I are living in Mineola (we miss Manhattan a bit more, but things aren't so bad- except for the skyrocketing gas prices) . Mary Jo had a good time being with Kate for the last year and will probably be looking to work at least part time in a few months. Kate is 2 1/ 2 and we'd like to take her to Disney World in the fall. Don't quite know where we'll end up, but chances are we're moving back to CT in two years. Anything can happen."

Another Pike Brother (and another doctor- where did I go wrong?) , Brian Claussen, has been practicing medicine in Manchester, CT, since 1999. He is board certified in family medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Connecticut and completed his residency at the Harrisburg Family Practice Residency Program in Harrisburg, PA. His practice, Family Physicians of Manchester, was recently acquired by Catholic Medical Center.

Regular contributor Kate Powers has endured a very difficult year. She writes, "In December 2005, my Manhattan apartment caught fire, rendering me homeless and nearly possessionless in less than an hour. My soapbox message to everyone: double-check your insurance policy's relationship to your worldly goods! The cost of replacing your clothing alone is more than you think it is. James Weston and Monique Odom Weston (both Class of '93) have been part of

my personal network of generous, patient, and supportive 'first responders.' It is astonishing how much of one's time it takes to be homeless: while the lawyers still wrangle, I have finally, in mid-July, moved into a new apartment in Brooklyn and am starting. eight months later, to get my life, and my directing career, back on track. Oy vey. I have directing projects coming up at the Mint Theatre here in New York and at both Richmond Shakespeare Festival and the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia. That about sums me up for 2006."

Karen Isgur writes from Atlanta, "I have been working as a personal trainer since April of this year. Totally new career path for me as I was in corporate marketing for five and half years with Coca- Cola. I am loving it! I am doing some marketing consulting projects on the side. I've also started writing again, which I haven't reaLly done since being a creative writing major in college. I have published two articles in Triathlo11 Life (a member magazine for the USAT). In October, I will be running my first (and probably my last!) marathon in Dublin, Ireland, and traveling through Ireland after that.

I have been training with Team in Training and have raised $5,000 for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It's a great cause that I have been working with for over a year now. Still in Atlanta, GA, so call me if you are ever in the area! Otherwise, hope to see everyone at Reunion '07."

Andrew Formato, who spent many an evening in my Boardwalk quad with my roommates, John Niland and Dave Golas, was recently named to the board of directors of C lear Choice Financial, Inc. Andrew is the managing director of Weeden & Co. of Greenwich, CT He also serves on the management committee. Additionally, he serves on the board of the New York Athletic Club and M.l.N.T., a local children's charity. Since my last update, I have had some interesting experiences- one bad one and, fortunately. many good ones.

In May, I was held up at gunpoint at II:30 in the morning, one block from my son's school after chaperoning a fie ld trip. So, if you can get held up by gang-bangers in broad daylight in the middle of Beverly Hills, where are you safe these days? As for the good news, only an hour before this happened, my wife and I found out that we are going to have another baby- a girl, due the second week of January.

AdditionaLly, I have had the good fortune to visit with two of my closest friends, Drew Kemalian and Jeff Nowak. Drew is a CPA working in Canton, MA. Jeff is a VP with Arnold Worldwide Advertising and lives in Arlington, MA. Both are married and both have

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And fin ally, fo r a great Trini ty "small wo rld" story ... my so n's new friend from school came ove r for a play date last wee k. When his mother came to pick him up, we we re chatting and th e subject of college came up. She asked me where I went to school and, as I usually do wirh people in LA, explained that I went to a small college in Connecticut that she had probably never heard of called Trinity College. She then said, "Are you kidding me, I did my junior year there and it broke my heart that I had to go back to Skidmo re fo r my senior year!"

O n th at note, thanks to all who co ntributed.

You have no idea how much I apprec iate eve n the smallest blurb rhat you se nd. I look fo rward to seeing all of you June 7 - IO , 2 007, back at om little Cam p Trin-Trin!

Alumni Fund Goal: $50,000 Class Secretary: Jonathan E.

Heuser, 200 West 26th St., Apt. 12F, New York, NY 100016761 e-mail: jonathan.he use r.1993@ trinco ll.edu; fa x: 617-886-0900 Class Agents: Stephen Curley; Ke lsey Hubbard; Elissa Ra ethe r Koves G reetings all and welcome to the latest edition of our class notes. It was a bit of a slow quarter fo r notes, but nothing to be conce rned about. All trends indicate that Births, Marriages, and Life Changing Events should be back at th eir usual robust levels by next quarter. lt is also possible rh at malicious goss ip and salacious murmurings will stage a co meback. Analysts note th at the risk of such a tre nd is inve rsely co rrelated to the number of submissions that your class secretary receives ... interes ting data, to say rh e least. ln any case, what we lack in quan ti ty we make up for in quality!

O ur classmate Jeff Devanney is in his first year as the head foo tball coach of the perenniall y migh ty Bantams after serving as an assistant for the past five seasons. "I am very proud to be rhe head foo tball coach at my alma mater," writes Jeff, who lives in Newington with wife, Michelle, and two daughters, Shea (4) and Caitlin (2).

Co ngratul ations on the new role, Jeff, and best of luck to you. Make us proud!

Dan Scanlan recentl y returned to the nineto- five world (Dolly Parton reference expunged) , taking a position in corporate and fo undation relati ons at A ID S Action Committee of Massachusetts. 'Tm really excited to be able to wo rk wirh the private sector to find ways fo r companies to help fight HI V/ AID S," Dan said.

'Tm wo rking with a great group of people who are making a difference here in rhe Boston area."

A great cause, fo r certain, and when I caught up wirh Dan in Bosto n a few mo nths back, he had just wrapped up a very successful fundrais ing campaign. Nice work, Dan. Co ngratulations are in o rd er for Leslie

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Soler, who happily welcomed second son, Andre

Rainville, on June 24, 2005. The previous winter, Leslie finished her master's in business from the Unive rsity of Co nn ecticut - a program from which she graduated with honors. ~te a year!

She continues to work in the mergers and acqui sitions unit of The H artfo rd as counsel. H er older son, Yvan, just started kindergarten. Leslie stays in close touch with oth er Trini ty alumni, including Irene Rodrigues, Michelle Jasper '92, and Ewa Whiteside '9 2 .

T his fall Audrey Brashich did a tour in support of her recentl y published book, All Made Up:

A Girls Guide to Seeing Through Celebrit)' Hype and Celebrating Real Beaut)'. T he tour brought Audrey back to campus to speak at Mather, in additi on to speaking engagements at other colleges, schools, youth groups, and conferences - and even garnered coverage fro m CN N H eadline News and th e 1-lariford Courant! Audrey celebrated wirh her own personal tour of H awaii - befo re tackling the finishing touches o n boo k number two.

I caught up wirh another of our medi a/ jour nalist classmates, Jay Akasie, for lunch a few months ago, and he filled me in on his new role as business editor for the New Yi>rk Sun. G lad to see Trini ty's hold ove r rhe media gainin g strengrh ... our plans to dominate rhe hearts and minds of America are finally coming together.

Brian Johnson spent some tim e with rhe Chris Bodkin clan (including two children) and the Andy Brick clan (more on the Bricks in a moment) this past September, and sent in some pictures to prove rhe tru th of his asse rti ons - looked like a fun weekend.

Menti oning this visit brought to Brian 's mind a somewhat di ffere nt adventure, back in March, when Brian, Andy. Clive Jacques, Jon Trevisan, and Jamie Gaillard staged a freshman -year Wheato n dormi to ry reuni on ... in Sin City. Brian notes that while he had a great

JIM HAZELTON '93 and Jessica Row land were married on Septmeber 24, 2005, in Boston. Trinity alumni/ae and fr iends attend ing were : (front row, I. to r.) Tim Ward '07, Eric Mudry '94, Pres Stewart '93, Rob Stempien '93 ; (second row, I. to r.) groom and bride; (back row, I. tor.): Ali Baird '94, Duffy Mudry '94, Tad Hazelton '92, Jon Deluca '92 , Kelsey Hubbard '93, Lloyd Nemerever '93 , Jerry Webber '71 , Brian Oliver '93 , Alex Hazelton '99, Anne Hazelton and Trinity College Director of At hletics Rick Haze lton P'92, '93, '99.

time with old frie nds, the trip wasn't wirhout its disappo intments: "I was ce rtai n something absurd or salacious would happen in Vegas - it says so in the ads. Also, none of us won or lost more than about $ 150 ...I rhink rhe seafood buffet was the highlight." I , fo r one, am not foo led by th e seemingly innocuous subterfuge, but hey - what happens in Vegas ...you know where l am going here.

Andy Brick himself wrote in to welcome he and wife Jen's third child, Camryn Elizaberh, on June 2 . T he two are "delighted to have a girl to go alo ng with o ur two busy boys!" Andy recently had the chance to get togerhe r with Tom Reuter and Jo rge Rodriguez '91 in New York. Tom is wo rking for the Nespresso division of Nestle Co rpo rati on and is moving to Vienna, Austria, in November to ove rsee the growrh of various new Nespresso stores. Accord ing to Andy, "To m is currently single, but is in a co mm itted relati onship with a fo rmer tennis pro fessional.

Despi te losing a little hair, To m looks an d acts the same."

"Brian Johnso n came down to see me a few weeks ago to watch the Cowboys- Eagles game.

Brian inexpl icably is a big 'Boys fan, but my Eagles pu t him in his place. Brian wo rks for Acce nture and has been dating heavily, al though it appears he is in a pro mising relationship at rhe moment."

I asked Brian to ex pand on the "dating heavily" comment, and he explai ned somethi ng about the different perspectives of married and single people .. .J won't go into details, and wi ll leave out the more colorful language. I n any case, I appreciate Andy's provocative co mments ...we could use a few more raco nteurs in our ranks .. .

Jim l-lazelton got married! Okay - so it was more th an a year ago (Se pte mber 2 4 , 2005) and it may be old news to so me but it is new fo r the Reporter, and still new and excitin g for Jim as well.

He's sent alo ng a pho to so that we can all share in the mo ment. Basking in the glow of success, Jim writes, 'T m in L.A. li ving the dream."

Amanda and Mike Reynal, moved back to the U. . tl1is summer after nearly three years in olde London town. While they miss London, they're glad to be back in rhe States, and are settled in Des Moines, Iowa, where Mike conti nues his job as emerging markets fund manage r for Principal G lobal Investors. A manda is do ing in terior design while managing rhe res ponsibili ties of being mo th er to H enry (6) and George (3) .

Scott Toth , long abse nt from th e Reporter, has just celebrated IO years as a San Francisco resident (Would this be an appropriate time to pose the rhetorical question, "Where does the time go>") and has been industriously at work fo r Oracle Corporation the entire time. Scott notes that the last two years have bee n "crazy," deal ing with rh e mountains of acquisitio n integrati on wo rk. Scott and his wife, Liesel, had their first child, Sean Alexander, this past May, and while many of us swelter th rough triple digit temperatures in steamy northeastern cities,

Scott and family are "enjoying the cool summer weather in SF." Jennie Baker also checked in from the West Coast, noting some important changes in her life. After 12 years in sales and sales management for the broadcasting industry, she has decided to start her own coaching and training company called "360 Coaching & Training." Jennie's focus is sales performance improvement, training for managers and life coaching. Though based in San Diego, she works with clients located al l over the country. Whenever she is back in New York, Jennie continues to meet up with Wendy Yun, currently in-house counsel for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Steve Tobey, a vice president at Banc of America Securities.

Congratulations to Peter Knight and his wife, Samantha, who this January welcomed Peter Jr. into the world. According to the proud parents, Peter Jr. is "huge and happy and has a chin dimp le you could see from outer space."

More good news: Pam 0 . Foster earned a promotion and is now overseeing grants administration for The Rockefeller Foundation, meanwhile acting as assistant general counsel. This sounds to me like a lot of responsibility; and Pam agrees: "A lot of work, but a lot of fun," she notes, adding that, "Chris and the kids are great- Emma is almost four, and we're having fun watching her imagination at work. Abby turned one in May; and is walking and starting to talk."

Pam had a cha.nee to catch up with 1-ledy (Klein) Ayers and her newly-expanded family recently: joining her son, Jack, is a new baby boy; reportedly "very adorable."

I'm not one for omens, but still - this is all a bit strange. I-lorry Cohen and his wife, Shari, proudly greeted their second child, Ma.ya Reese, on June 6 of this year- otl1erwise known as 6/ 6/ 06. ~ite a date to begin with, right? Now get this: She was the 66th baby born at the Newton-Wellesley hospital that month! How much did she weigh, you ask> Of course it was 6 pounds ( 6 pounds, 10 oz, to be exact) 1 Harry continues to enjoy his work for MFS Investment Management in Boston as an IT project manager on their fixed income trading/ research/ quantitative applications and feels fortunate that Maya didn't turn out to be sextuplets.

Kim Pitrowski has an interesting new job, having recently moved to the Food Network.

Also, some of her artwork will be featured on different floors of Barney's- in the main store no less- during New York's Fashion Week, and then rotating every few weeks thereafter.

Congratulations, Kim! While we'll still need to wait a few months for the complete story; readers should have no doubt that Quanti Davis will soon have some interesting adventures upon which to report: as of tlus writing he had recently departed on a "working vacation" trip to Europe and Africa.

During this epic voyage, ~anti will visit France, Italy, and South Africa for fun, and then spend

The Trinity Club of ~ai rfield held a reception at the beautiful and historic Lockwood-Mathews Mansion in Norwalk, CT. ..

We also served wine from 1-laight Vineyard of Litchfield, CT, a winery owned by Trinity alumnus Sherman 1-laight '.46.

-Matt Longcore '94, president, Trinity Club of ~airfield time in Rwanda to help set up a sister school for his current employer.

What a time for David Riker: Last year he got married to the delightful Mela.iue, a feat that would seem difficult to top. Undaunted, however, David persevered. First, he founded a new company: Storm Risk Solutions, which helps corporate clients and investors to hedge weather risk. (Want to take an "over-under" on the outcome of the tailgate party instead of the game> David's your man.) T hen, if that wasn't enough. he founded a new individual ... that's right, a baby!

David and Melanie were expecting their first - due within weeks of this writing.

That seems like a great place to leave things ... with exciting expectations and optimism about things to come. Until next time, best wishes to all, and we look forward to hearing your news and sharing your stories as we mighty Bantams march shoulder to shoulder, wing to wing, across the free - range of life.

Alumni Fund Goal: $25,000 Class Secretaries: Jeffrey Sanford and Ma rt ha Sma ll ey Sanford, 12 Pennacook St., Norfo lk, MA 02056-lll? e-mails: jeffrey.sanford.1994@ trinco ll.edu; martha.sanford.

1994@trincol l.ed u Class Agents: Stephanie Cope Donahue; Patrick Gingras; Jay Sarzen

We are writing this just shortly before Thanksgiving but by the time you read this it will be 2007, so Happy New Year! Hope 2006 was good to everyone and that even better things a.re in store for the year ahead. 2006 was a busy year for us as we welcomed a baby boy; Mason Smalley Sanford, on August 28. He was born at 8 pounds, 2 ounces and by his two-month checkup has quickly ballooned into the 99th percen tile in weight and height. You should see the cheeks on this kid! We are already fielding salary contra.ct offers from the Patriots for his lineman services in 2027 Older twin sisters Suzie and Evie a.re both doing well and love their new little brother, almost a little too much!

In other baby news, Carter and Suzanne (Cahill) McNabb had a little boy; Carter III, on June 12. Lord help us that another Carter McNabb has been released upon this earth.

I don't care how sweet and angelic he looks right now, he is going to be trouble- just like his daddy Hopeful.ly his big sisters, Clare and Mimi, will be able to keep him in line.

Anne Kwon Keane and Pat Keane '92 had a little girl on November 2. Her name is Eleanor Louise Kwon Keane. They are calling her Ellie, and from the pictures she looks to be quite a cutie- pie. Not sure if you all caught it, but the editor-in-chief of Lucky magazine did a piece in the November issue on how stylish Anne has been throughout her whole pregnancy. Are any of us the least bit surprised>!

In other Trinity 1994 news, we saw Brendan Murphy and Sarah (Godcher '95) Murphy recently at a Halloween party at the New England Aquarium. They are expecting a boy in January to join older sister Norah. 1 petitioned for the name of Sean Preston Spears Federline Godcher Murphy; but with the recent divorce announcement from Britney, that name may not quite have the same cache as it once had.

Perhaps by next issue we'll be able to share with you the name they settled on ...

Braxton (Jones) Lynch wrote to us with the following update. "After II years as the director of thoroughbred sales at Three Chimneys Farm, I an1 branching off on my own with my husband, Damian. Our Royal Oak Farm will board and sell horses in Kentucky over the coming years.

This move enables me to spend more time with our boys, Dylan (3) and Henry (r 1/ 2). I'm excited to be self-employed and as always, we have an open invitation for any Trinity fo lk to come and stay" Someday; Braxton, we hope to make it down for an outing to Churchill Downs and to drink our fill of bourbon!

Joe Gross updated us on the fo llowing news: "I ran into Rosadel (Varela) Yellin and her fam ily in Bryant Park during a street fair in New York City. She is taking a break from movie producing and has spent the last year raising her son. I've also been in touch with TJ Rau , who 1s doing well over at Schroder Investments. My family and I also spent an afternoon iliis past summer with Carl and Yarel Marshall's '96 fam ily (of five) to get our kids together. They currently live down in the D.C. area."

Amy (McGill) Dilatush is still in NYC and has exciting news: "John, Mac (4) . Olivia (18 months) , and I just welcomed our newest addition, Henry; on September 16. We went to

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ly wedding last Saturday at the Central Park Boathouse. Ginny (Ross) Snow, Jennifer Usdan McBride '95, Suzanne Molinaro, Justin Burke, and Whitney Morrison Saunders were also there. Amanda was a stunning bride!" We also had news directly from G inny (Ross) Snow, who wrote, "Drew, Charlotte (3) , Anders (r) , and I have taken a temporary leave from the States and are living right outside of London. Drew's job moved us over here, and we arrived about two weeks ago. Just settling in now and getting used to driving on the other side of the road!

We'll"likely be here for two-three years. After a lot of thought, I stopped working at Cambridge Assoc. when Anders was born and am now home with the kids. I miss work, but it has been great being home." We hope Giru1y enj oys London as much as we did and hooks up with some of the other Trinity ex-pats over mere, like Betsy (Grimstad) Limpenny.

Rob Weber and wife Nicole (Komposch

'96) are in Brooklyn and e- mailed us with the latest and greatest. "We visited Mike Robinson and wife Virginia in their new home in CT this weekend. It's a beautiful new home and mey learned how to cook since moving to me 'burbs too! Their mree-year-old son, Brooks, beat up our one-year-old, William. I told Brooks to watch out cause if he grows up to be skinny like his dad, William will get him back. They also have a new baby, Luke (his full nan1e is Lawrence, so I'm pretty sure he wasn't named after Luke Tansil!). Ash Altschuler and wife Shana were there too. They are due to have their first child in four weeks- end of an era, as they say! We wish them the best. We also attended a nice birthday dinner for Joe Stein last week. Someone recently described Joe as a chameleon - there was biker Joe, then surfer Joe, men London Joe, now Wall St. Joe. Steve Lari was mere too. Steve is a busy international man of real estate and doing quite well, it seems. So all is busy in NYC between kids and new babies and business."

Matt Longcore has kept close ties with Trinity and filled us in on the fo llowing updates, "As president of the Trinity Club of Fairfield County, I o rganized a recent alumni event, which was well attended. We held a reception at the beautiful and historic Lockwood- Mathews Mansion in Norwalk, CT (the mansion was featured in me fi lm The Stepford Wives). The guest of honor was Borden Painter '58, president and professor of history, eme ritus. We also served wine from Haight Vineyard of Litchfield, CT, a winery owned by Trinity alumnus Sherman Haight '46. Major kudos should go to my wife, Bree, for attending to the last-minute details of me event. She's the domestic diva in this relationship; I'm just good at sending out email invitations. The club has a newly formed Executive Committee, which wi ll meet periodically to plan local alumni events. Alums living in the Fairfield County area are welcome to get involved. If you are interested, please e- mail

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me at trinitybantam@yal100.com. My brother, Drew, Trinity Class of '08, is currently studying at the Trinity Rome campus. Those of us who remember studying abroad know that me term 'studying' is used rather loosely (However, Andy Levine and I actually did study while at Oxford; we studied the pubs, the nightclubs, and me ladies from Smith College). Drew loves Rome, but he's looking forward to getting back to Camp Trin Trin. I am looking forward to mat, too, as it gives me a good excuse to head up mere from time to time."

Deb (Watts) Povinelli sent in the following tidbits. "We have some news to report- as of December I , we are moving to Ridgefield, CT (in Fairfield County). We will be leaving my family and many of our Trinity friends, but look forward to being closer to some of the CT/ NY folks. Also, since the last update we had a baby showe r for Natascha (Kontny) Gundersen, who has since delivered a baby boy (Kai - July 30).

Benna (lynch) Rondini was our hostess, Molly (Thiele) Farrell was mere, as was Sara (Titus) Skelly, with her one-year-old son, Jackson. Kai is adorable and me Gundersens are doing well."

We ran into Deb recently and she looks great.

It's hard to believe that it was r6 years ago mat I lived down the hall from her, freshman year in Jones Hall!

Cliff Fuller is keeping busy and has set the record straight. "Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I still live and work in New York City For the past two years I've been me production coordinator on the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." In my spare time, I'm still slaving away on the Great American Screenplay" Good luck wim that, Cliff!

Kate Armstrong sent in "Lots and lots of baby news. We had a third daughter, Delia, on October 16, joining big sisters Annie and Ruby.

She made an early appearance at Trinity, coming to Homecoming. where we had a great time catching up with Matt McGowan '92, his wife Heidi, daughter Neve, and brand-new addition Fiona, born at the end of August. Patrick McKeigue '92 and his wife, Sandra, and four children(!) also joined us for some tailgating and laughs. Three of my Trinity basketball teammates also had babies recently Jennifer (l-ladfield) Larson had a little boy, Tyler, in July, and Patty Sarmuk Canny '95 also had a boy; Cam, in June. B.J. Toolan Constantine '95 had her second child, Jake, in May; just II months after giving birth to daughter Abby and weeks after being inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame!"

Thanks to everyone for me updates. Sorry this is a short C lass Notes, but with three 1ittle ones demanding attention, life has turned into a bit of a circus. In fact, when I asked Mark Kastrud for advice on handling three kids, he simply said "Learn to juggle." To all of you out mere with children, hang in there! To all of you out mere without children, keep sm iling!

Alumni Fund Goal: $20,000 Class Secretary: Jennifer M. Petrelli e-mail: jennifer.petrelli.1995@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Charlie Adams; Ashley Gilmor Myles; ~lien Scordino; Colleen Smith

Greetings '95ers!

My apologies for the blank entries in me class notes section for the past two editions of me Reporter. It has been a tough year or so for me PetrelJi's. My father passed away in April after a battle wim metastatic lung cancer and we miss him terribly I am fortunate to have a great mom and a close relationship wim my bromers Joe '97, Mike '04, and wonderful friends from Trinity and beyond, which has been a great comfort.

I just returned from driving down to Marco Island, FL, from CT, with my mom to her "winter abode." We stopped at such fine dining establishments as me "Squat and Gobble," somewhe re off l -95 somewhere in North Carolina, and enjoyed fantastic Sunday gospel programming. The who le experience made me miss my days of yore in Atlanta.

As I write, I'm in me midst packing for a trip to Argentina with my beau, Mariano, who is from Argentina. I look forward to eating yummy Angus steaks, drinking some fine malbec, attempting to tango (a frightening prospect for onlookers) , and sightseeing, in mat order, of course!

Thanks to I-leather Dunbar's generosity; I had me pleasure of attending the first performance in front of an audience for me Broadway show, High Fidelity, when it was in Boston in September/ October. Heamer is an integral part of the costume design team for me show and it was great to visit wim her and see her excellent work!

Congratul ations to BJ (Toolan) Constantine, who was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as a college player. The ceremony took place in New Haven, CT, in April.

Patty (Sarmuk) Canny and Kate (Armstrong) van der Heide '94 were in the audience to cheer her on! Here's some info from the CT Basketball Hall of Fan1e Web site, and this is just from her senior year at Trinity! "During her senior year, BJ scored 546 points, averaged 21.8 points per game, and made 85 three- pointers- all were Trinity season records. That same year, she led me Bantams to a 21 -4 record and me second round of the Division III NCAA Tournament.

She also set career records in Highest Career Free Throw Percentage (76 percent) , and Most Careeq- pointers (200) ." BJ lives in Tarrytown, NY, and is a physical therapist and assistant girls' basketball coacl1 at her alma mater, Irvington High School, also in Tarrytown.

Patty and husband, Bill, are ecstatic to report mat mey had a baby boy on June 7! "His name is Cam William Canny and he is a very happy baby.

And since it seems that BJ (Toolan) and I do

everything together these days, l am also proud to report that she and her husband, Mark, also had a baby boy one month before C am! His name is Jake Edmund Constantine. They also have a beautiful 16- month-old daughter, Abby.

BJ and I talk on the phone almost every day to check in and share funny stories of mommyhood!"

Mag Sweet, a Rhode Island native and fellow biology major, was featured in an August article in the Providence journal entitled, "Horse love finds her dream job in Saratoga." After graduating from Trinity, Mag went on to work with the ew York Racing Association and the Jockey C lub i11 NYC. She is now the office manager for Todd Pletcher, one of the best trainers in the business, in Barn 62 at the Saratoga race course.

Mag communicates weekly with the owners of over 200 horses in training.

Jeff Goldschmidt (another fellow biology major!) writes that he graduated from UConn Dental School in 1999 and completed a threeyear residency in periodontics at UConn. He now is in private practice in New Britain and Southington, CT His father, Paul Goldschmidt '68, retired recently, and Jeff took over his practice. Jeff and his wife Holly Sena recently celebrated their roth wedding anniversary.

In April 2006, they had a son, Max Louis Senna- Goldschmidt, and they are e njoying him immensely Jeff and Holly live in West Hartford, CT. Nicola (Easterling) Donovan writes to update everyone that she and husband, Eric, had a new addition, a baby boy named Sean Patrick Donovan in 2005. He is an active tod dler now! Nicola writes that Joy Wright and Steven Goodison '96 had their first child in 2005, a beautiful girl named Grace. "We (Sean, Eric, and myself) visited them in Connecticut.

Also, Joy and Steve have relocated to Florida in 2006. l speak to Joy often. She is enjoying being a stay-at-home mom to Grace and the beautiful Florida weather."

Aaron Burrows (fellow biology major!) fin ished his gastroenterology fellowship at Saim Vincent's Hospital in Maiiliattan. He has a daughter, Samantha, who is now r6 months old. She is the most amazing little person in the world. "The big news is m at my wife, Jodi, and I moved to Denver, Colorado. It has been a dream to move out here and we took the big step on July r. We bought a vacation home in Vail, Colorado, about a year and a half ago and now are able to use on a regular basis, instead of just a couple of times a year. I have joined a gastroenterology practi ce here in Denver, which so far has been a great fit. Jodi, Samanma, and I are adjusting nicely so far and enjoy the sunny outdoor lifestyle. We are gearing up for a great ski season in the mountains."

"Sadly, I do not have much e-mail contact with the old gang. but I did get to see Jim Adams and his wife, Natalie, before we left for Colorado. They are doing quite well and just

Congratulations to BJ (Toolan) Constantine '95, who was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball ~all of f=ame as a college player. During her senior year, BJ scored 546 points, averaged 21.8 points per game, and made 85 three-pointers-all were Trinity season records. purchased a new home in Auburn, MA. They have a BIG dog (which my daughter loved) ai1d are both teaching in Massachusetts.

Ted Anastasiou and Amanda (Smith) Anastasiou '96 also bought a new home in New Jersey I, too, am in the process of buying a new home in Denver."

Gus Phelps writes that he married Wizzie C rocker in June at the AcLrondack League Club in Old Forge, NY Pat Ashe ai1d his wife, Ashley, Sean Berry '97, David Bernard, Jordy Davis, Dan Good, Lindsay (Conway) Murphy '96, Ashley Gilmore Myles, Benagh and Josh Newsome, David Rhoads , Sandy Schmid '99, Colleen Smith, Luke '96 and Sally Amon Tansil! '98, and

Tory Haskell '96 were in attendance. Gus and his new bride live in Beacon Hill in Boston.

Megan (Curren) Schmidt writes, "My hus band Marc and I have been enjoying life in Montauk, NY, with our seven-year-old dog, Emma, since returning from our unbelievable two-year 'stay' on Maui, which ended in 2002.

I have been working for The Child Development Center of the Hamptons since our return ai1d an1 currently the director of developmenta busy but very rewarding job! (www.cdch.org) .

My husband, Marc, a contractor, is now also a volunteer firefighter, so we spend a lot of time responding to calls and supporting the MFD bar!

Sara (Bliss) 1-lamblett ai1d Megan took a trip to Las Vegas tliis past August with some other mutual friends. Megan writes, "Sara is a surprisingly skilled Craps player' Who knew)" Hot off the presses ... Christy (Brown) Murray was recently married! Details to be reported in me next edition of the class notes!

John Brien is living in Vermont in a small house on IO acres of woods. He is married to Kerri, from Saranac Lake, New York. He has a son, Connor, who is r8 months old. Life is great up here. John is working as a senior software engineer for IDX, which was acquired by General Electric last year.

Tom Lazay and his wife, Liz, are expecting a little girl this winter and recently moved to Andover, MA. Amy (Kerrigan) Cole moved from NYC to San Francisco with her husband, Andrew, and son, Tommy They see Lisa Gallagher and Lisa Smith. Lisa recently moved to San Francisco with her husband, Edwin, and baby, Ted. Arny writes that she recently saw Adam Beard at a party that Lisa Gallagher threw and is looking forward to connecting with other Trinity friends.

Kat e Innes reports that she is living in

Washington, D.C., and has been working at the University of Maryland admissions office for the past five years. She is an assistant director of admissions. She recently had a fun trip to Boston, where she enjoyed a mini- reunion with Bryan Satter, his wife, Jamie, Tim Sullivan, Shannon (Joyce) Spaeder, Dani Slepian, Kathy Robinson, and Brian Roberts '94.

Julie (Papazian) Charles is still living in

Orange County, CA, with husband, Bill. In May she had her third daughter, Liza! Liza joins big sisters Emma and Remy. They had a wonderful summer adjusting to life as a family of five and enjoying southern California. She often sees Stephanie (Goldstein) Scott, who lives in LA., and had a great visit with Elena Bassler 1-lirsh while she was in San Diego with her beautiful daughters this summer. Meghan Riley Thress and her daughter, Abbie, visited Julie just before she had Liza.

Stephanie is loving living in LA. with her husband, Tom. She is freelance writing, and Tom works for a private equity group. Stephanie and Torn recently celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary and took a lovely vacation to Cabo. Steph recently saw Renee (Zimmerli) Spertzel in San Francisco a few days before Renee gave birth to son, Max. It's nice to hear that old Trinity friends keep in touch!

Stephanie reports that she is in close touch with Renee, Julie (McCloskey) Campbell, Sarah Tyre, Elena (Bassler) 1-lirsh, Carny (Portanova) Toth, Meghan (Riley) Thress, and Natasclia

("Tasch") (Kontny) Gundersen '94. Steph is looking forward to seeing Tasch's baby, Kai, this summer and Billy Hogan's '96 new arrival, Lulu, and Annie (Chick) Goodrich's '96 new arrival, Emmett, when they are back in Boston for the holidays!

Elena writes that her husband fuUshed his one-year fellowship in Portland, OR, in July, and they have now moved back to the East Coast. "We are currently (although possibly temporarily) living in Summit, NJ. We really ended up liking Portland but are happy to be back on the East Coast again with both our families. Sarili Tyre was the first one out to visit us in Summit (Yeili, Sarili!). My girls are now five (Kaitlin) and two (Brooke)."

Trish (1-laneman) Cox moved to Newfields, New Hampshire, after nine years in and around NYC. " It has one general store and is close to Portsmouth and Exeter, so a great location only an hour from Boston. We bought an old home from 1717 and 1856 and my husband, Chappy, who is in historical restoration, has lots of proj -

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class notes ects ahead! Our 18 month old, Breck (named after Breckenridge, where C happy and I met and Lived for a couple of years after graduation) loves being outside and the extra space. I am working for the Portsmouth School District as their outof-district special education coordi nator, teaching and advising an early childhood graduate seminar at UNH and advising child life students at Wheelock in Boston. I am hoping to start a consulting firm for children with special needs up here, when I get more grounded. Breck's godmother is Jill Charlesworth Hellman, who is now living in Richmond, Virginia, with two sweet little girls, Libby and Whitney Jeremy, her husband, is busy with many home improvement projects too!"

Laurie (Schaeffer) Young has a daughter, Maggie, who is 3 1/ 2 years old now. Laurie, husband Rob, and Maggie recently moved to Nan uet in Rockland County, NY Laurie has been teaching histo ry at C larkstown High School South in Rockland County for IO years. Trinity alum, Sara Simon '99, also teaches at South . "We actually graduated before she started at Trinity (yes, that made me feel really old!). ara teaches English and we've been working together on a program for South seniors that's simi lar to the European C ivilization Guided Studies Program at Trinity The students take AP European history with me, AP literature with Sara, and AP art history with one of our art teachers. So I guess all that work in Guided Studies at Trinity prepared me for my future career more than I ever expected. It's much more fun to be the one assigning the work, though.

Laurie also speaks often with Kim (Rados) Powell. Kim moved to San Diego from Nashville in May 2005 for her husband to attend the San Diego Golf Academy "He graduated as valedic torian and is now happily working as golf pro at a local country club. I've been to a few Trinity events out here and ended up becoming friends with Emily Keating Mortimer '99 and her husband, Trevor, who I actually went to boarding school with." Kim, her husband, and daughter H olJy (age two years) attended a summer kickoff at Katie and Charlie Adams' house to meet di e students from San Diego who are fresh.men at Trini ty this fall. It was a lot of fun to think back to the final weeks before our freshman yea r at Cam p Trin Trin. I am still working in Database Marketing at PETCO and loving it."

Congratulations to Colin Reilly, who has been promoted to first vice president at CB Richard Ellis in Stamford, CT. He is a corporate and institutional leasing and sales specialist with experi ence in commercial and real estate services. Colin lives in Norwalk and is pursuing his master's degree at Columbia Business School.

Thanks for sending in all the great tidbits of news! As you can see I am back on the ncwsbeat and loo king forward to hearing more from you!

So, if there's so me news I overlooked please email me and I'IJ get it in the next edition!

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Alumni Fund Goal: $75,000 Class Secretary: Philip S. Reardon, State Street Global Advisors, l Lincoln Street, 27th Floor, Boston, MA 02lll -2900 e-mai l: philip.reardon .1996@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Bee Bornheimer; Tiger Reardon; Clay Siegert; Tory Haskell Whitlock

We only have a few updates from our classmates this go-round. Please remember to send along any announcements, updates, or sightings to me at philip_ reardon @ssga.com .

Billy Hogan and Jen (Martinelli) '98 wel come their first child- Eloise Jane Hogan- on Thursday, August 24. I was fortunate enough to see Jen and Billy at a dinner organized by Clay Siegert for his wife D eirdre's birthday. Billy and Jen report that "Lulu" is doing very welJ and that they are adjusting nicely to parenthood.

Jennifer (Crookes) Carpenter reports, "I had a blast at the Reunion catching up with everyone, al though our ti.me together as a class flew by way too fast! In August 2003, I married Bradford Carpenter at the HilJ-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT. The minister was Bill Pfohl '86, a good friend who was the advise r for my quirky high school youth group in Trumbull, CT. There were a bunch of Trinity grads at the wedding, including Jeb Gutelius and his lovely wife (then girlfriend) , Sarah Hamilton Gutelius '03.

Brad is an art history and English teacher at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, where I began working in the Communications Office after our engagement. My stepson, Charlie, walks to school across the street from our house on the beautiful MPS campus; he's now in fourth grade!

Life is good perso nall y, although world eve nts are distressing. I'd love to be back in touch witl1 Trin roommates and other partners in crin1e, or any classmates visiting or living in the Hartford area. E- mail me at jenniferccarpenter@gmaiJ. com .

We had a decent turnout from our class at this year's Homeco ming game. Jon Golas with his wife Katy (DeConti) '99, C lay and Deirdre Siegert, Tim Chick, who was making the rounds with Caroline Ponosuk '99, Jennifer (Crookes) Carpenter with husband and stepso n all miLled about campus on a beautiful autumn day We were also fortunate enough to hang out with Marc Pezzuto, who made the trip down from Boston with wife Amanda and their baby, Ryan.

-Tiger

www.trincoll .edu /alurnni • Births • Marriages • New Jobs • Photos

Alumni Fund Goal: $30,000 Class Secretary: Tanya D. Jones, 1523 Mace Ave., Apt. 2F, Bronx, NV 10469-5933 e-mail: tanya.jones.1997@ trincoll.edu Reunion Chairs: Amily Dunlap Moore; Benjamin Russo Reunion Committee: Katie Reifenheiser Adams, Bill Bannon, Peter Burns, Charles Bake r, Jenny Dakin, Robert Johnson, Tanya Jones, Gary Koenig, John Lawrence, Tara Conn elly Lawrence, Jim O 'Hare, Laura Bernstein O'Hare, John Pickford, Kearney Harrington Staniford

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Katherine Anderson Doyle writes "... we gave

birth to our twin babies on July 29! After four months on bed rest, I incubated the babies well- they made it to 37 r/ 2 weeks, which for twins is great. Jackson WiJJiam Doyle and Faith Anderson Doyle were bo rn at just under 5 lbs., and each and are doing very well. I love being mommy- it is very busy for sure- but as you can remember, it goes by so fast and they grow so quickl y that I would not wish any of this precious time away."

Katie Reifenheiser Adams shared this news: "Elizabeth Pflug Donahue and her husband, Tim, welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Riley Elizabeth Donahue, on June 5 in New York City Ril ey weighed 7 pounds and IO ounces. In o ther exciting news. Li z, Tim, and their new daughter left New York City and moved to Hong Kong for the next few years. A few days later, and also in cw York City, Megan Williams Grant and her husband, Tim, welcomed their new baby girl, Catherine Louise G rant, on June !I . Lily we ighed 7 lbs., 15 oz. Exciting engage ment news to share ... Laura Yaggy was recently engaged.

Abigail Keeler is set to marry Jesse H ord o n October 14 at her parent's home in LoudonviJJe, New York. Irene Laird Jennings and her husband, Elliott, gave birth to a baby gi rl named Zoe Ann Jennings born February 17, 2006."

J recently attended the wedding of Alice McCartney Auth . She was married in the church where her parents and grandparents were married in Middle Village, ~eens . l was honored to sing "Lift Every Voice"-a Trinitone favorite.

Shaakirrah Sanders, Ashley Hammarth, and Ali's cousin, Greg Haffner '94, were all in attendance. Greg resides in New Haven, where he is an ophthalmologist. Shaakirrah wilJ be vacationing in ltaly for her annual Thanksgiving adventure. And Ashley is doing well, living in North Carolina and working in public health.

Elisabeth Schramm Buckley and husband Pete are awai ting the arrival of their second child, due at the end of November.

As for me, I am wrapping up o n a Disney production and anxiously awai ting a "go" for a second seaso n. And I'm off to Milan to visit Kate McCabe, who has been worki ng with tate Street Bank in project management. She has

been with her company for close to IO years. I hear there is a Vespa waiting to ride me through the streets of Italy.

Finally, please join us in June for our 10-yea r reunion. O ur reuni on committee is so excited to be planning out the weekend. After the fi ve year, who knows what fun is in store (snicker, snicker) . Best wishes to all of you!

Alumni Fund Goal: $15,000 Class Secretary: Ta lia Kipper, 70-12 Prospect Street, Metuchen, NJ 08840-2270 e-mail : tolio.kipper.1998@ trin coll.edu Class Agents: E::rin Blakeley; Sean Brown; Ko re n Go; David Messinger; Soro Tonner

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Greetings '98e rs!

I hope fall has treated everyone well. From the reports rolling into my inbox, it's been a busy season fo r babies, weddings, new jobs, and all sorts of good life changes. Let's get to it!

For the first tin1e in my stint as Class Secretary, I have received a report from a source who wishes to remai n anonymous. I told the source I would oblige but promised that there would be no permanent ramifications fo r squealing on her fri ends. So, uh, I won't tell you who she is, but here is what her fri ends are up to. Ellen (Newman) Petrov is living in uffield, CT, and teaching at Suffield Academy. She and husband Denny Petrov '0 1 are the proud parents of two beautiful baby boys. Sasha (Metznik) Schwartz and husband Seth continue to dote on daughter Alexandra, who will soon be marking her first bir thday. Kerin Brauer recently married Dennis um1 at a beautiful and fun -fi lled event on Cape Cod this past summer. Rebecca Stover is happily married, living and working in Boston.

Regan (Farrar) Cucinell married Glenn Cucinell this past September in Westport, CT. Word has it the bride looked amazing. Devin Tindall moved back to CT a little over a year ago and is the proud father of a glori ous baby girl. Deep Throat herself is currently working on an MBA at UConn and expects to graduate in 2008.

Laura Mullaney recently accepted a position as senior account executive at GS W Worl dwide (one of the largest healthcare adve rtising agencies in the world) with responsibilities fo r managing a team while promoting strategy and project implementations. Prior to GSW, Mullaney served as senior account executi ve at Roska Direct Adve rtising. Ryan Moore writes in that he rece ntly moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to wo rk fo r Vegas Group Entertainment.

His new line of wo rk has him involved in entertainment and music industries along with casino marketing and event planning and pro motion.

He remai ns close with Paul Hillman, who is living in Seattle with his fiancee. Paul continues to create award-wi nning docwnentari es. Mark Craig is also engaged and living in Y, working

Reinventing the World Around Mer: Entrepreneur Emily Beck '98 Perhaps as a premonition of her ambitious and successful entrepreneurial career, l::mily Beck '98 was always one to chart her own course, even during her days at Trinity. 1-foving self-

designed many of her college courses, after graduation Beck's panache for creating led her to self-publish the bestsell ing European guidebook series, Let's Stay Abroad, a nd, most recently, launch her own product-development company, Lulu Brands, which has been featured in the New York Times for City Mitts, a stylis h germ-free glove designed t o protect against the griminess of mass transit.

The impetus, she expla ins, behind starting the new brand "was an idea I had about underwear." Yes, t hat's right, underwear. ~creed to shut down her publishing company after international travel dropped post-9/11, Beck's entrepreneurial spirit was set free to explore new ideas like, well, redesigning the most fundamental piece of most wardrobes.

"My zest, my drive to do something else just kept going. I just kept wanting to innovate and do something bigger and better," she says. In 2001, as many were

leaving Manhattan, Beck left behind the open air of her Aspen life and moved shop to the basement of a small East Village apartment to begin shaping her responsibilities of what today can be summed up as "product manager, strategist, and inventor." f-1er products range from the quirky and unusual, such as Busy John, a funky musical arrangement made up of beats and flushes to be played in "otherwise music-free and echoey restrooms," to the everyday practical, such as Slip It, a credit card and MetroCard holder that allows users to slide their cards for purchases without ever taking them out of their holders. f-1er inventions-created from start to finish all on her own- beg the question, "Why didn't I think of that?"

Beck agrees and says she is always left wondering how it hasn't been done before.

Her ingenuity, she says, comes from careful observation of the world around her. The idea for Slip It came as she observed people's frustrations with traditional wallets as they fumbled to find the right card at the checkout counters and onboard public transit. "People always ask me about how I come up with my ideas. It's about being aware of your environment and about how people use their environment. I see opportunities all day, everyday," she explains of her keen eye.

With a new spin on a literally everyday item, Beck's "luxury liner" panty line is unquestionably the most-revolutionizing product to hit the undergarment aisle in years. Her fashionable feel -safe underwear, equipped with her patented stain-preventing invention, Wick Stop, are available as of ~ebruary 2007 in Nordstroms, Ritz Hotels, Macy's, and Sax ~ifth Avenue stores nationwide.

To find out more about Emily Beck's products, visit her Web site at www.lulubrands.com.

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TALIA KIPPE;:R '98 and Anthony Ausiello were married on September 17, 2006, in Chicago, IL. Trinity olumni/oe in attendance were : (front row, I. to r.) Ally (Hurder) Levy '98, Rebecca Cole '98, bride, groom, Tamar Kipper '02 , Isobel Corte-Real '98; (bock row, I. to r.) Chris Comer '99, and Charlotte (l=airbonks) Comer '98.

in the design sector.

In other wedding planning news, college roommates, post collegiate roommates, and lifetime friends Rebecca Cole and Isabel CorteReal are planning their spring weddings four weeks apart! Those crazy gals! The Trinity housing lottery gods sure did hit the jackpot setting those two up together. Isabel will marry Victor Almeida on May 6 in their hometown of Danbury, CT. Their mothers have been planning the wedding for years, so Isabel looks forward to receiving an invitation to her own wedding.

We're pretty sure it will still be on May 6, but who knows for sure. In a sweeping motion to change just about everything in her life, Isabel has also recently put her Jackson Heights, NY, apartment up for sale and relocated back to CT, where she has accepted a position as "something very important but I can't remember the tide right now" with Carrier (a United Technologies Company) . Again, she's crazy. Rebecca will marry sweetheart Matt Trump in Delaware on June 2, in what promises to be a splendid affair!

It's also a NASCAR weekend, which fulfills none of Rebecca's fantasies but amuses her friends immensely We're hoping to tie some "Just Married" cans onto one of those race cars and watch it go REAL FAST! I'll keep everyone posted.

Now, we'll segue to those who have added another shiny jewel to their left hands. Jordan Benjamin married Matt Schaefer on Oct. 21 in Vermont and is remarkably unhappy about her re-emergence into the real world after posthoneymoon bliss. I relate. Eoin Beirne writes that he and Marianna Vulli were married at St. John's Memorial Chapel in Cambridge, MA, on October 14. The couple met on Jones 2 as freshman and have been together since sophomore year at Trinity Hot dog! Trinity housing

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gods strike again! Katy (DeConti) Golas reports that she and husband John Golas '96 are living in West Hartford and recently adopted a crazy yellow Labrador. She has come full circle and has actually gone BACK to Trinity, working in the development department. Yes, people, she has your phone number and she'll hound you for money Consider yo urself forewarned.

David Messinger just bought a house down the street from Katie and Jon. He should be stopping by any day now to borrow eggs, sugar, or vodka. Uzma Akhand is wrapping up her Ph.D. in New York, and Emmy Tracy recently returned from the London School of Economics with her master's degree (and hopefully a faux British accent and/ or a penchant for digestive cookies and ginger beer). In other Golas family news, David Golas '92 and wife Laura recently welcomed their second daughter, Ella Katherine, while brother Ben Golas continues his surgical residency in New York. He has followed in his big brother's footsteps by adopting an equally crazy dog.

Karen Go, my ever faithful source of news, writes, "John Walston and Colleen Burke had a wonderful wedding and celebration underneath the stars at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

Trinity attendees included myself, Adrianne Ober, Julie Wyman '01, Terrence Black 'oo, and James Griffith '99. In Boston, Jocelyn Bartlett and Seth Frank recently became engaged. Here in New York, Christopher Lui and Leigh-Anne Lopinto '99 plan to tie the knot in Connecticut in May of 2007 l know there are more Trinity bells soon to be ringing for '98ers, but I'Li keep their secrets for now! As for me, I am currently living in HeU's Kitchen and recently left Perry Capital, having had two amazing years there. I leave behind some good friends, including Emily Snider '02, but have just started work at Tiger Global Management."

A note from Brendan Falvey informs us that he was married to Lindsay Elliman on June 24, 2006, in C harleston, South Carolina. Trinity alums in attendance included best man Colin Lynch, Ryan Burch, Craig Borsari, Joe Mullaney, Mike and Natalie Clapp, Tara Hanlon, Michelle

Buckley '96, Meghan Wilson '04, and Derek Falvey '04. Since their return from their honeymoon, they have been living in Rockville, MD, but Brendan has recently accepted an offer to become the director of new partner development for the Colorado Rockies. He and his new bride are looking forward to life in Colorado and would love to hear from any Denver-dwell ing alums.

Tanya (Dickey) Pereira is featured in the new issue of Mainebiz, a statewide business publication, as a member of the NEXT List. This list is published each year to recognize IO people shaping the future of Maine's economy Pereira is recognized as a young leader in economic development in the state.

Christina (Tsoules) Soriano accepted a posi tion as an assistant professor of dance at the

Theater and Dance Department of Wake Forest University She and husband Jeffrey do not miss the snow.

Speaking of snow, Mike Burns reports on his road trip up to Buffalo for Sean Spencer's wedding to Ellen Grimm. He writes, "Jason Bridge had a pong table set up in his dining room and Sam Riter, Seth Schwartz, Joe Roberto, Adam Rix, and I al l played for hours. Too many hours,

and so we went home with the Buffaflu, some missing work that Monday. Adam has two kids now and is an international water tycoon, bringing water innovations and capabilities to the far corners of the earth. I see James Callaghan quite a bit. He is an assistant D.A. in ewport, RI , and carries a badge. His golf game is still crummy Tim Rath and his wife, Betsy. are also doing well, living nearby in C harlestown. Tim is the controller at the Celtics, but his bench press max is down to 265 lbs. We also see Gene Kennedy and his lovely wife, Susannah, fairly often. Gene is living in Brooklyn, having returned from grad school in L.A. We like to reminisce about the time that we beat self- proclaimed Bantam baseball studs Brendan Falvey and Colin Lynch in a high-stakes wiffle ball gan1e a couple of years ago. Brendan was apparently coming off Tommy John surgery Whatever."

Next subject. People responsible enough to procreate! Sara (Moss) Terpeny and her husband, Dave, welcomed daughter Maggie in August. The happy fan1ily is living in northern Virginia and loving parenthood. Kirsten (Graham) Randolph and husband Peter gave birth to baby Katherine (Katie) in April. OK. technically Kirsten gave birth, but I'm sure Peter did something utterly useful, like hold her hand.

Alisa Boll reports that she is engaged to Jonathan Kurian and is planning a September 2007 wedding. Alisa attended the June 3 wedding of Kristin Koch, who was married to Christopher Burley in Washington, D.C. Congrats to all!

Soon learning how to change a diaper are Erin (McNamara) Fortunato and her husband, who are expecting a son on Apri l 11! Lots of people named above can provide tips, I bet!

One possible resource might be Alexis (Roemer) Benson and husband Alan, whose daughter, Emily. celebrates her first birthday in January The couples' econd child, a boy. is due in March.

Alexis and Alan live in Manhattan and are tllrilled with their growing little tribe. Robert Witherwax and Catherine (Rubin) Witherwax are also proud to announce the arrival of their baby boy, Theodore Brevoort Witherwax. He was born September 14, 2006, in NY, weighing 6 lbs and 14 oz. Kate, Rob, and big sister Catie (already 3 'h !) are so very happy Robin (Zopolsky) Gabriele wrote in with lots of good baby news- she and classmate Natalie (Marois) C lapp had the same due date of 9/ 29 but baby Oliver Everitt Gabriele made an early appearance. Natalie and Mike Clapp welcomed son Gavin into the world on 9/ 29. Jennifer

(Martinelli) Hogan and husband Billy Hogan '97 had a baby girl in August. Baby Eloise Hogan goes by Lulu and reports indicate she is the world's cutest child.

Josh Goldfine sent me a "fine" update (hee hee) . He writes, "Life is great here in Needham, MA. My wife, Amy, and l have an 18- monthold daughter, Emma, who keeps us busy day and night. Still keeping up with many old friends, most of whom we saw at Joe Mullaney's wedding down in Newport over Labor Day weekend. On tlle work front, I am still teaching history and coaching baseball at Belmont (MA) High School, where I have been for five years.

Things are great, and I look forward to getting together with everyone down the road ... as long as I don't have to ride in the car with Juice to get there!" La Fleur Small writes that she has completed her Ph.D. in medical sociology and works as a tenure track professor at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. She is currently working on a joint- research collaboration with the health department, developing health curriculum on HIV/AIDS for the elderly She is getting acclimated to Ohio weather and hopefully has invested in some really, really warm boots.

La Fleur also updated me on friend Therelza (Watson) Ellington, who is happily married to Dean Ellington. She is the proud mother of four-year-old Julian and will soon be adding another little Ellington to the brood. Therelza works as a pediatric nurse and is still actively involved in theater.

Travis Mersereau wishes to inform the Trinity community that he has met an awesome girl.

As for me, I fo llowed through on my promise (threat?) to marry Anthony Ausiello on September 17 in my hometown of Chicago, IL (GO BEARS!). It was beautiful and I loved every single minute of it. That said, having written about all of my wonderful classmates' good news, I grew weary (read: lazy) and was incapable of writing my own. Good thing I've got Rebecca Cole in my corner, and she agreed to write it for me! See, this is why one has bridesmaids! Those duties DO NOT end after me reception, contrary to popular belief So here it is, from Rebecca: "In September, I had the pleasure of being part of an all - Bantam lineup of bridesmaids in Our Class Secretary's beautiful wedding to Mr. Anthony Ausiello in downtown Chicago. Charlotte (Fairbanks) Comer, Isabel Corte-Real, Ally (Hurder) Levy, maid of honor Tamar Kipper '02 and I were delighted to stand at Talia's side as she took her new Italian last name and officially became the stepmother of a charming shih- tzu named Noel. The bride was lovely, the groom was handsome, everyone cried. Then we all ate, drank, and danced a lot (three words: soft pretzel bar). It was fabulous!

Also enjoying the festivities were Charlotte's husband, Chris Comer '99, who also did his fair share of damage on the pretzel bar." There you go! Anthony and I honeymooned in Tuscany,

"I completely live the good life ... I eat ridiculously well-fresh local veggies and meat-and ride my clunky three-speed to work, every day that I choose to work. I'm also illustrating logos and packaging for Taza Chocolate, a chocolate company in its first year of production in Somerville, MA. -Kathleen !=ulton '99 where we ate and drank our faces off I'm told we also toured some places of historical significance.

I trust there is photographic evidence of such.

That's all I've got for now. Stay tuned, and keep me posted!

The Alunmi Office reports that Uzma A. Akhand represented the College at the inauguration of Susan H. Fullrrnan as president of Teachers College, Columbia University, on January 31, 2007 All best, Talia (Kipper) Ausiello

Alumni Fund Goal: $8,000 Class Secretary: Alyssa Daigl e, 25 Main St., Apt. D, C harlestown, MA 02129 e-mail: alyssa.daig le.1 999@ trincoll.edu; fax: 617-242-8841 Class Agents: Beth Bron zino Deegan; Heidi Notman; Margaret Cleveland Pitts

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Season's Greetings! Thanksgiving is just arow1d the corner, and we have been at a steady balmy 65 / 75 degrees here in Boston ... no complaints- I know the snow is also just around the corner! In the meantime, here's what's new: Christie (Walsh) and Corey Rishworth '98 gave birth to daughter Isabella on September 17 and, based on the pies I have seen, she is a beauty- just like her mother, who looked spectacular in her bridesmaid's dress just one week earlier at Christie Blake's wedding!

Morn, dad, and Baby Isabella are all doing well .

Jason Gabriele and wife Robin (Zapolski) '98 gave birth to son Oliver Everi tt Gabriele on September 9. According to Dad, healthy, happy Ollie is "AMAZING" and keeps them laughing and smiling every day! Whitney (Scarlett) and Charlie Saunders welcomed Charles Lindley Saunders on June 6, 2006. The baby's middle name is after Whitney's dad, Lindley C. Scarlett '66. Whitney and Charlie have left NYC for NJ and Charlie is working as the director of integrated marketing for Sports Illustrated. Christina (Spilios) Farren and husband Tom recently moved back to the Boston area after six years in California and welcomed daughter Athena Brown Farren on October 26. Christina reports they are "having a lot fun and adjusting to life with a little one." Congrats to all the new moms and dads! I wonder what the tuition at Trinity will be by the time these babies are heading to college?!

I caught up with Karyn Meyer and Heidi Notman in NYC last weekend. Heidi is starting her third year of living in New York and contin-

ues to work at Banc of America Securities on the equity trading floor. Heidi, Kate Modzelewski, Sabrina Gaya, and Amy Cardello '98 ran the BAA Half-Marathon in Boston in early October, and Heidi went on to complete the NYC marathon on November 4- her second marathon.

Way to go, girls! Karyn is about to start a new advertising position- she will trade the Nike account for T - Mobile at her new company.

The Nike account gig was pretty cool and she will miss it (and the discounted gear) , but the T- Mobile opportunity is looking pretty good, and she is excited to take on the new challenge.

Karyn is still enjoying life in her native city of Seattle, WA. Chris Comer, also in Seattle with wife Charlotte (Fairbanks) '98, writes: "Charlotte and I moved to Seattle, recently bought a house in Ballard, and got a dog. Up until a week ago, I sat next to Karyn Meyer at work, but she just changed jobs. So I'm working at an interactive advertising agency, placing ads on the internet for Disney Home Entertainment. It's pretty interesting work, and the people are a lot of fun.

We meet pretty regularly for Monday Night Football, where I see fellow Trin alums Karyn, Paul Hillman '98, Bill '99 and Brianna (Stanton) '01 Mahoney, and of course, my wife Charlotte."

Heidi, Karyn, and I also met up with Tristin Crotty '98 as well as Katie (Kurz) McComb and Marina (Bolsterli) Smith '98 while in New York. Marina and husband Townsend Smith '98 are living in New York and loving it while Katie was in town visiting from Switzerland, where she has been living and working. She writes: "Reconnecting with friends in the States is a pleasure, since I've been living in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the past 15 months. I've grown very fond of the Swiss life . In August and October respectively, I participated in two great local athletic events- the Lausanne Triathlon and Half- Marathon. Earlier this fall, my father (Charley Kurz '67) passed through on business travel and we enjoyed the day together in Bern.

We're excited for the ski season and celebrating Marina's 30th birthday in Verbier!"

I also caught up with Christina Glennon recently during her last whirlwind tour through MA- we thoroughly enjoyed dinner at Masona Grill in West Roxbury, where Christina's brother is a chef (I highly recommend it), and after 7+ years of California living, it looks as though the home state has lost her for good. In fact, she will even be trading MA for a vacation in Maui with her boyfriend, Todd, this Christmas!

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class notes am looking forward to a season of white powder at Mt. Snow, where I will be participating in a ski house with Heidi Norman, Trist.in Crotty, and Sarah Walker. The first ski house weekend is coming up and Allison Lanzetta will be joining us for the inaugural weekend. Allison recently completed a master's degree in education at St. Michael's College in VT and is now working in admission at St. Mike's. She continues to live in BurJjngton, VT, and is in the process of building a log cabin!

In more graduate degree news, Elisa DeVito will graduate from NYU Stern with an MBA in May, but not before heading south for the winter to study in Buenos Aires- have a great time! It was also great to hear from Nate Anavy, who reports that he has completed a master's degree in physiology and is now in his second year of medical school at the University of Arizona. Dwight Pringle is also a second-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Though studying a lot, he is always up for meeting up with Trinity folks! Good luck, guys!

Justin Gottlieb met up with Eric Crawford, Rachel Crawford '04, and Andy Tarrant in Cleveland for the wedding of Gill Taylor-Tyree in May. Justin is still Jjving in Portland, OR, and has been running his own business for nearly two years.

Kathleen Fulton just moved to a new apartment in Boston and is doing well- she writes: "l completely live the good life, by which I mean I eat ridiculously well, fresh local veggies and meat and ride my clunky three-speed to work, every day that I choose to work, which is not every day. I am working as a scribe, which means that I illustrate conversations real - time in a large, mural-like format, for large corporations who shall remain nameless and rather not be linked to the likes of an illustrator. I'm also illustrating logos and packaging for Taza Chocolate, a chocolate company in its fust year of production in Somerville, MA. If all goes well, I will be soon working with the artist who created Ben & Jerry's crazy pints on a chocolate bar label." Pretty cool ... a lot more fun than my job description!

In more Boston news, word has it that Chris Wirts is working on an MBA at Babson College, although I have been able to reach neither Chris nor his rep for comment. Chris- are you there?

I run into Brandon Barnes on occasion in our shared ne ighborhood of Charlestown. Last I spotted him, he was with his new wife, Danielle, although I did not get to chat with him to ask the details- stay tuned!

Sarah (Maloney) Dowden was married to James Dowden on June IO , 2006, in Chestnut Hill, MA. The couple lives in Boston and Sarah was working in the office of Lt. Governor Kerry Healey . . not sure what happens now after Deval Patrick's recent win~ Keep us posted, Sarah!

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birthday in Boston over Head of the Charles weekend in October. She writes: "My husband surprised me by having Leigh Burwick '98 and her fiance; Dan van Nierop '97 and his wife; and Austin Rown '95 and Sarah Nethercote 'oo join us for dinner. While we were cheering on Trinity at the regatta the next day, we ran into Colin McAllister along the river. Colin has just moved back to the Boston area after being in CA for a few years."

Last but not least, Jen Gerard writes: "I am still living in Los Angeles- and still loving it!

I have a great job doing online advertising and marketing at Crew Creative Advertising, working on Network Television accounts. I live in a great house in Carthay Circle (near the Miracle Mile neighborhood) with two roommates, one of whom, Willa, just finished up competing on Season 3 of Dancing with the Stars."

I wish you all a very happy, healthy holiday season with family and friends!

Best, Alyssa

Alumni Fund Goal: $15,000 Class Secretary: Christopher C. Loutit, Johnson, Lambeth & Brown, 232 Princess St., Wilmington, NC 28403 e-mail: christopher.loutit.2000 @trincoll.edu Class Agents: Peter W. Espy; Caroline G. Nonna; Stephanie L. Olijnyk

The Class of 2000 reports the following class news: Tyler Stewart writes, "Kathryn Bevan was just engaged in October to Porter Farthing. Will Kneip will be married in the summer of 2007 to Kari Hall. I just finished the 2006 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. I finished as top amateur and won my age group.

Still owning and running Wags, my husband and my pet shop in San Francisco. I am planning on becoming a professional triathlete in 2007, but continuing to have my regular life as a dog walker, washer, and business owner."

Peter Marino writes, "My wife, Maura, and I are now expecting our second child, which is due in May 2007 I am still practicing law, now in Winchester, MA, since my brother, Gerard, passed the bar in December 2005, operating under the name, 'Marino & Marino, P.C.' It's a general practice but we find otu-selves mostly in real estate, probate practice, and civil litigation."

David 1-lerman writes, "Finally finished my Ph.D. in neuroscience last April at the University of Arizona. I'm now working as a post-doc at UCSD. I love living in San Diego, though I do miss the New England fall about th.is time of year. Can't say I'll be missing the cold when it's 70 degrees here in February, though. I've been able to hang out with Katie Karlsgodt '99, occasionally, as she's finishing her Ph.D. up at UCLA and visits when she's home here in SD. Also, Christina Palmese '98 was out to visit th.is

summer. Anyone who's in tl1e area or needs a little SoCal relaxation, drop me a line. Being five minutes from the beach has its perks."

Wick Mclean writes, "I came back from volunteering in Biloxi, Mississippi, after hurricane Katrina about a year ago. The place was a disaster, and yet tens of thousands of people chipped in to help. Trinity is all about volunteering, and I learned much of the volunteer ethic while I was at Trinity. Now I'm in Virginia going to law school (again) , and one of the things that attracted me to the profession is the fact that lawyers are responsible for maintaining the social contract and keeping order in places where there is none, like in Biloxi right after the hurricane.

Trinity endowed me with the tools I need to think in the way I want to practice law, and I am forever indebted to the scl10ol for that."

Katie Wallack lives in Brooklyn, NY, just rettu-ned from a summer spent in Oregon and Hawaii shooting a couple of films and media installation projects.

Andrew Schiavetti is a student at Babson, where he is pursuing his MBA. Sharon Thor writes, 'Tm still working in the jewelry biz and living in New York. I've recently joined a dodge ball for charity league with Matthew Wong and Caleb Sayan. Despite our rookie status, we're hoping to make it to the playoffs. Cross your fingers for Tean1 Dodge My Balls. I talk to Erik Anderson regularly as well.

He's doing an amazing job with the Peace Corps in Bucharest, working with an NGO encouraging and educating young Romanian entrepreneurs on how to run a successful business. I also recently ran into Leah Wolk at our IO -year high school reunion ! Leah's currently living in ew Hampshire and happily working as a secondgrade teacher."

Todd Brodeur writes, "My wife Oo- Ellen Viola Brodeur, Class of 99) and I are expecting our first ch ild in January and couldn't be more excited about welcoming our little one into this world. Things have been busy since graduation in 2000. 1 went straight to Suffolk Law School with fellow Bantan1, Peter Marino. We both graduated in 2003. My wife and I moved to Grafton, MA, Jimmy Klocek's hometown, in 2004. Since then, practicing law with Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple, P.C., in Worcester, has kept me very busy. I recently attended the Trinity Baseball Golf Tournament down in Simsbury and saw Jay Barbarrotta, Jarrett Bayliss 'or, Greg Spanos '02, and a whole host of other recent grads I played with in my time down at Trinity. l hope all is well with the rest of the class. If anybody is coming through the Worcester area and needs anything. let me know. tbrodeur@ftwlaw.com."

Sarah Jane Nethercote writes, "I moved back to Boston from NYC in July for a new job at UMASS Boston as assistant vice chancellor of alumni and family relations. My husband, Austin Rowan '95, is in the middle of a job search and will hopefully be joining me here

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Tr inity alumni/ae in attendance were : (front row, I. to r.) Heath Pendleton '07, Sam Titelman '01 , Rachel Fairbanks '04 , Dan Cutler '01, Da ve Osowa '01 , Ben Cella '01 , Barret Bijur '01 , Phil Thompson '01 ; (second row, I. to r.) Haley (Milner) Lemonica '01 , Sarah (Riolo) Osowa '02 , Sarah (Coughlin) Whitman '00, Liz Fairbank s '01 , groom , bride , Collin Wil son-Murphy '04, Lauren Albrecht '04, Misha (Geller) Warning '01 , Cory Warning '01, Olessa Pindak '01, Christie Phillips '01 , Amy Werner '02 ; (back row, I. to r.)

Brian Allen '01 , Mark Lemonica '01, Rob Wienke '01 , Fernando Borghese '01, Reed Whitman '02 , Shannon Daly '01 , Tom Hambric k-Stowe '01 , Megan Myers '01 , Matt Wikstrom '01 , Tim O ' Brien '01, Bill Glo ver '01 , Nate Folkemer '01 , Lauren (Kaufman) Folkemer '01 , Rafe Quinn '01 , Kerry (Blethen) Quinn '01; and missing from photo : Nik i! Sikan '07.

very soo n. I'd love to re-connect with alums in the Boston area! Shoot me an e-mail: sarah_ nethercote@yahoo.com."

Alexis Stewart writes, "I was living with my husband in London fo r a year and a half until Decembe r 2005. We are now back stateside in NYC (Tribeca) . Alexis is working in residential real estate wi th the Corcoran Group. Also, Sarah Felix is working as a features editor at Good Housekeeping magazine by day, and by night she is on her way to becom ing a pool shark. Sarah lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Mike Kornhauser, Chris Ayala, and myself recently returned from our annual golf trip to Bermuda. Despite a minor moped mishap, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and even improved on our scores from last year.

Mike works for A LK Technologies in London, where he is mappi ng the wo rld. C hris practices corporate law at a fir m in New York. I'm still prac ticing law in W ilmington, North Carolina."

T hat's all for now. Be sure to send all of your class news and Trinity updates to Loutit@aol. co m.

BOBBI OLDFIELD '01 and Mark Wegner were married on August 19, 2006, in Milton , MA. Trinity alumni/ae in attendance were : (front row, I. to r.): Michelle Theodat '01, groom , bride, Jessie Achterhof '01 , and Dave Achterhof '01 ; (back row: Kim Grad '01 , Morgan Sandell '03, Todd Flaman '01 , Heather Robbins '01 , Ale x Costas '01, Jess Ritter '01, Lindsay Packard '01 , John Jankowski '00, Jimmy Brett '02 , Pete Gottlieb '01, and Brian Andre '01.

Alumni Fund Goal: $10,000 Class Secretary: Shannon V. Daly, 343 i; 74th St. Apt 20D, New York, NY 10021-3777 e-mail : shannon.dal y.2001@ trinco ll.edu.

Class Agents: Whitney L. Brown.;

Keith Connor

G reetings and thank you for the great updates I continue to receive. It sounds like our class has been busy and successful in the five short years since we graduated. There have been a lot of promoti ons, weddings, engagements, and even a baby announcement.

O ur fi rst congratulations go out to Scotty Heron and Chris Harris who recently got engaged and will be married in August 2007 Scotty teaches first grade at PS 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and Chris works at GE Capital while applying to business school.

Lindsay Packard writes in: "I got engaged in April to John Jankowski and we are planning to get married in New H ampshire (Live Free or Die) in July of 2007 I am still living in Brighton, MA, and am working as a clinician in Westboro, MA. I see Jessica Ritter often, as she moved back to Boston in September. I saw a bunch of Trini ty people at Bobbi Oldfield's wedding in August, which was a great time. That's about all the news I have for now. I hope everyo ne is doing well and I wish everyone happy and healthy holidays!"

After much anticipation, Ethan Rice finally got engaged to Elly Dwye r. T hey are scheduled to have a sunset wedding next June in Bedford, NY The couple and their pug, "Pudding," live in th e C helsea neighborhood of Manhattan and could not be happier.

Christie Phillips and Tim O 'Brien we re engaged this fall in Broo klyn, NY Both Christie

and Tim are living in Brooklyn and looking forward to a future together.

Patrick King writes: "Been living in Dublin, Ireland, now fo r just over fo ur years. Spent most of that time working as a policy analyst at a place called the Institute of European Affairs, but moving on to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce to be a policy and communications manager. I had hoped to attend the Reunion, so I apologize to all the fri ends I didn't get to catch up with. My delayed trip back to the States wasn't a complete waste as I got engaged. H er nan1e is Esther Radford and she is from Co. Wexford, Ireland, so I'm in Ireland fo r the long term. Hope some of my long-lost Trin fri ends will be able to join us next July for the wedding.

Still in contact with Alex Kennedy, who did his junior year abroad with us, who's back in London after another hemispherical trip that took him to the States. As I'm really bad at staying in touch with people, they are welcome to drop me a line at patrick.king.200 1@trincoll.edu (yes I still use Trinity email) . Shin go f6ill."

Bobbi (Oldfield) Wegner was marri ed in August to Mark Wegner in ~incy, MA, at the G ranite Links Golf Club. They are now living in Greenwich, CT, and enj oying married life. Jessie (Sandell) Achterhof was the maid of honor, and there were many Trini ty fo lk in attendance.

Angie (Demartino) Hillman writes: "After completing my master's degree in higher education from Arizona State University in December 200 5, my husband (Josh) and I moved to Williamstown, MA, where I am working as a prospect researcher at Bennington College.

Josh is a golf professional at Taconic Golf C lub (Williams College) . We are enjoying being back in New England (close to family and fri ends) after spending three years in Scottsdale, A Z. Josh and I were married on August 7, 2005, in Osterville, MA." Reed W ilmerding married C hristine Lamprecht at a lovely ceremony in Philadelphia.

The reception was held at the elegant Philadelphia Cricket C lub in Chestnut Hill.

Attend ing from the Class of 2001 were Barrett Bijur, Duncan Pearson, Rafe Quinn, and Ben Sayles.

Alex Costas recently joined wo rldwide adve rtising agency O gilvy & Mather, where he

works as an account supervisor on the global IBM account. In his spare time, Alex trains for the 20 12 NYC Marathon.

Michelle Theodat is still living across the street from Brian Andre and seeing massive amounts of Trinity people regularly. Michelle writes: "I am looking forward to the wedding of Abby Dorman and Chris Glover '02 in West Palm Beach, FL Brooke (Ronhovde) Fernandez, Molly Malgieri, and Bill Glover are in the wedding. There will be a ton of Trinity folks there, should be a really good time."

Brian Andre continues living in N YC and having a great time. Not only does he work

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R~~D W ILMrnDING '01 and Christine Lamprecht were married in Philadelphia , DA. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (front row: I. to r.) Christian Bul litt '95, groom , bride, Duncan Dearson '0 1; (second row : I. to r.) Had ley W il merding '06, Steve Gregg '97, Shap ley Stauffer '02, Alice (Affleck) Bullitt '03, Amanda Gifford '03, Ashley Donoghue '03 , Barrett Bijur '01, Ben Sayles '01, Carrie Rorer '00; (back row: I. to r.) Rafe Quinn '01 , Jeremy Wilmerding '95, Jeff Denn ington '95, and Charlie Fo x '03 .

at Goldman Sachs with Peter Roge rs '0 2 and Alex Ullman 'oo, but he gets to hang out regularly with a lot of his best friends from Trinity, including Michelle Theodat, Stephanie Ng, Shannon Daly, C harles Russo '02, Alex Costas and many others. He'd Like to wish all of his classmates the best of luck and would also like to extend hearty CO G RATU LATlONS to Dave and Jessie Achterhof, as they expect to have their first child in February! Yes it's true, Jessie and D ave just moved out of cramped New York C ity into a house in Cohasset MA, to accommodate their growing famil y.

Haley LaMonica writes: "I am continuing to pursue my Ph.D. in clinical psychol ogy with a focus in neuropsychology. I am working two days a week at a veteran's hospital, do ing individual and group therapy. Very demanding work, but it has really heightened the pride I have for our soldiers, both past and present."

Kristin Forester reports that she will be starting a new job in January. A fri end brough t her in as a wholesale team member at Blumarine, Anna Molinari, and BluGirl, Italian women's RTW lines, working with the sales director. Kristin continues living in Brooklyn and is really looking forward to her new position.

Marisa Eddy writes: 'Tm currently working with General Electric on th eir corporate audit staff Traveling extensively, internati onall y, auditing various GE businesses. My home base is still Los Angeles, CA, where I head back to about once or twice a month from whateve r locatio n I'm placed in (currently rotating betwee n Danbury, CT, and Paris, France) . Still running/competing fo r GE's Corporate Running Team in various road races and marathons. l am

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loving the traveling and the running!"

Teddy Schiff: " ] left Lehman Bro thers last May after fi ve years trading credit derivatives and corporate bonds .in o rder to travel for the summer and then attend Columbia Unive rsity in September. The summer was wild: I was in South East As ia with two friends for a month and then bounced around Europe and other random spots with a few other fri ends. I'm currently in graduate school at Columbi a, trying to get into real es tate development, and loving the career change."

Alexandra Holden reports that she co ntinues to live in Berlin, Ge rmany, and will marry next spring, 2007 in Berlin. She is busy wedrling plan ning, learning Ge rman, and working. If anyo ne comes through Berlin, please co ntact her! She is happy to give a tour throughout the city.

Meghan Reppond is living in Washington, D.C., and completing her final year of graduate school at Johns H opkins U ni versity.

Charles Botts is no lo nger working for Trinity but now working as a communi ty organizing consultant fo r AARP in H artford.

Charlie is hel pi ng AARP implement a housing project to keep older adults in their own homes as they age. H e reports that it is actually ve ry gratifying work and his so n, C harles I V, is doing great. C harles IV has bee n attending a half-day program at the Magnet Montesso ri School in th e Learning Corridor across the street from Trini ty.

Mike Mobley moved to Los Angeles to hang out with Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx. H e is an ad space king, and there is no space he cannot sell.

Known as "Mobley.wood," he has taken LA by storm, and has shown the West Coasters "how you do it in the LES." Lise Rabinowitz (aka Mandy Rab) is still in NYC and rece ntly go t a new job. "I am still at Tommy Hilfige r, but am no longer designing, thus no more shirts named after AD boys. I am now in mens merchand ising; I not only love what I am doing, but I am really excited about all the interesting things I am learning. The best thing is I have the same desk and work with the same people- it's an ideal situation!"

The rece nt cele bration of Katherine Holland's 25th birthday brought seve ral of us together fo r a downright medieval celebration. Mandy Rabinowitz, Becky Thibault, Phil Thompson, Rob Wienke , Kath erine, and I went to Medieval Times in Lyndhurst, NJ. Katherine was formall y knighted and from here on shall be addressed only as Lady Katherine or her majesty.

In other news, Becky and Phil have moved in to a fabulous new apartment in New York C ity. Rest assured, they are living together but not "living together."

Megan Heanue and I are getting ready for our trip this winter to Slidell, LA, to work with H abitat fo r Humanity fo r a week building homes in a communi ty th at was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Whi le some members of my family think watching me shingle a roo( install

J~SSICA LONDON '02 and DAVID RAND '01 were married in June 2006 . Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (front row, I. to r.) Ke vin Fauteu x '01 , Caroline Olmstead '99, Matthew Brown '01 , Joanna Sandman '02 , Michael Labella '01, Andrea Lincoln '02 , Mark Mahoney '02 ; (second row) : groom and bride; (back row, I. tor.) Jennifer Mann '02, Julia Hil l '02, Scott Wallach '01 , Kate Toman '02, Jeff Boswell '01 , Stuart McCormick '01 , Dane McCorm ick '01, Andrew ~r s kine '01, ~lien Zarchin '02 , Ale x Delanghe '02 , Will Deari e '01 , Rebecca Dearie '01 .

bath roo m til e, and dig a fo undation will be the funnies t thing ever, I think it is going to be a great week.

I continue to ge t grea t updates from everyo ne; please keep se ndin g th e news to trinity2oor notes@aol.com. Also, I am always looking for new field reporters, so fee l free to upd ate me on the people you see who never manage to send in their own updates. T hanks, Shan non Daly

Alumni Fund Goal: $10,000 Class Secretary: ~li e n M. Zarchin, Th e Maronea l, 2222 Maroneal St. Apt 1441, Houston, TX 77030-3268 e-mail: ellen.zarchin.2002@ trin coll.edu Reunion Committee: Nicol e K. Belanger, Malick Fall, Anson Frelinghuysen, ~l iz a Nord eman, John Rossi, James Southern , ~li en Zarchin

G reetings and salutatio ns fro m Houston, Texas! We are quickl y approaching our five -year reunion! I know many of us can not believe that it is almost here. Please chec k out the alu mni link on Trini ty's Web site fo r more information.

We'll start off the C lass Notes with all the news of weddings and engagements. Sarah Riolo and D avid Osowa 'o r we re ma rried o n Sunday, October 8, on Nantucket Island.

Congratulatio ns! It was a beauti ful antucket fall day for the couple that loves the island so much. Samira Shamoon got engaged on the 14th of October to Justin. Sam ira writes th at he is the most wo nderful guy and that a September 2007 wedding is planned. Kristin Hagan and Brooke Peltzman will be brides maids. Co ngratulations!

Kim Stevens is engaged to Sergio Pires and a May

James Weston '93- It is truly a small world! I was accepted to law school in H ouston recently, so we will definitely be in Houston for the next few years.

See you in June!

C HRISTOPHrn DUNN~ '02 and Rachel Mallory Leitze were married on August 12, 2006, at the Trinity Co ll ege Chapel.

Trinity alumni/ae attend ing were: (I. to r.) Samuel Ralston '02 , Ted Govola '01, bride, groom, Robert f:arrell '73, and Thomas Chew '02.

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wedding is planned . Co ngratul ations!

Andrea Lincoln an d Mark Mahoney are engaged

and a June 2007 wedding is planned on Cape Cod . Congratul ati ons! Belated congratulations to Kaitlin Wilson and Will Gambrill '01 on their recent nuptials!

Amy Werner works at Goldman Sachs in train ing and profess ional development. Mia Epifano e- mai led from N YC with the fo Llowing update, "Alexis Bodenheimer still loves her job as a real estate b ro ker and is living in the Upper East Side. Mia Epifano just moved into the Wes t Village with Rob Johnson 'oo and is working at Lilly Pulitzer. Bette Armstrong is living in Union Square and just started a new teaching job at Poly Prep in Brookl yn. Maggie Jerde is now living in Murray Hill and continues to work at Bruce Bierman Design. Rachel Brodie just bought an apartm ent in Dallas and is teach ing at the G ree nhiLI School. She just became th e proud mother of a puppy named Tucker.

Samantha Staffier is living in D.C. and working at the Washington Speakers Bureau; she too has a new puppy named Lilly. Claire Rosebush is wo rking long hours at Prides Capital and loving her new apartm ent in Geo rgetown. Nicole Belanger is living in Back Bay in Boston and working fo r Fo rres ter Resea rch. Newlywed Emily (Bodenheimer) Debevoise is living in L A. wi th her husband, Aaron, and golden retrieve r, Sydney, and is working at BluPRint PR- she plans to move bac k to N YC soo n, though!

Shapley Stauffer is living in Philadelphia and is working at the Mann Ce nter. We all go t together a few weeks ago down in Dallas for a fun girls' weekend!"

Jay Burns relocated fro m ew Yo rk C ity to Bermuda thi s past summ er. H e is wo rking fo r ACE Tempest Reinsurance. He now joins Dave Bigley, who has call ed Bermuda home for so me ti me now.

Nate Amory is studyi ng law at Bosto n University, where Katy Ward ' 04 is a fe llow classmate. Mollie Malick will be graduating from Was hington Uni ve rsity's Architecture School in May Joanna Sandman will be graduating

NATA LI~ N~WC O M '03 a nd DR~ W ZA LKIN '03 we re marr ied on Ju ne 24 , 2006, in Denver, CO. Trinity alumni/ ae attending were: (front row, I. to r.) groom and bride ; (second row, I. to r.) : Dana Betterton '02, Joe Reynolds '03, Tay lor Wo lfe '02, Amanda Berge r '03, Ted Lovej oy '03; (B ac k row, I. to r.): Ni ls Lundblad '03, Tracy ~ ames '03, Hil ary Burral l '03 , Andy Bre ine r '05, ~r in Linehan '03, and Andy Ha berman '04.

from Northeastern University's School of Law in May. Lisa Lambrenos will be graduating fro m graduate school at Geo rge Was hington Unive rsity in May. Lisa is now working at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as a can1paign coordinator for the Team in Training Program.

Lisa writes, "If anyone in the D.C. area wants to run a maratho n o r a half marathon (or cycle IOO miles or do a triathlon) while rais ing money fo r a fabulous cause, please let me know!"

James Cabot is still in Warsaw, Poland, and working fo r CASE - Ce nte r for Social and Economic Research, a not-fo r-profit economic and public policy think-tank with operations in Central and Eastern Europe, the fo r mer Soviet Uni on, and the Balkans. James writes, "I was rece ntly promoted to a vice-presidency position, which I am very excited about. I will likely be in Warsaw until Jun e of 2008 and would love to hear from any Trinity alumni who are traveling in this area. O n a personal note, I have man aged to do so me fun travel in the regi on, visiting Ukraine, Bulgari a, Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo this pas t summer."

Rebecca Mayer touches in from H ong Kong, "In H ong Kong markets are good, which means I don't sleep. Before the summer I fini shed a big deal out of Malays ia and now am currently back doing work in Indonesia. I am already looking forward to C hristmas (we'll be in Paris) and New Year's (we' ll be in Casablanca) . I was back in th e U.S. fo r wo rk and got to see lots of old Trin faces, including Megan Mye rs ' 0 1 and her fi ance Tom Hanbrick-Stowe '01, Brooke Peltzman, Samira Shamoon, Emily Snider, O scar Buitrago 'oo, and Kate Mason ' OJ. It was a bit of culture shock

go ing back to t he states after bei ng away so long, but wonderful to see so many friendly faces."

Patrick and I continue to love the city of H ouston. O ne of Patrick's finance professors at Ri ce is another Trinity College graduate,

Alumni Fund Goal: $8,000 Class Secretary: Trude J. Goodman, The ~m e ry/Weiner School, 9825 Stella Link, Houston, TX 77025 e-mail: trude.goodman.2003@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Suzanne H. Schwartz; Zoraida I. Lopez

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G reetings from H ouston, where I am happy to say we have had a hurricane- free fall . Things are good down here. I am still keeping the middle schoolers in line, entertained and educated as a 6th grade teacher and coordina tor of student life at The EmeryjWeiner School.

Last summer I was able to catch up with a few Trin folk Back East. Sarah Weisberg and her family visited C hatham in July. Sarali is in her second and final year of her clinical psychology master's program at Ameri can; she is deciding if she will re-enter the working wo rld or pursue a higher degree next year. I also had a chance catch up with Bill Jenkins, Pat Guelakis, Stu Smith, and Craig Rowen at the G uelakis fam ily co mpound on the Connecticut shore. The fell as seemed to be doing well. Stu's working in Boston , Bill in New York, Pat in Co nnecticut, and C raig is in medical school. Becca Landy had an exciting summer in Botswana, which included working for a judge, traveling around the country. and getting engaged! Tiffin Pastor spent most of August in the Vineyard before heading off to New York and graduate school in public health at Columbia. Tiffin and I had a chance to see each other in the C ity this past October and she is adjusting to, but enjoying, being back in school. Molly Schofield also jumped back into the classroom this year- she is pursuing a degree in social work at Salem State while still working full time in Boston. Natalie and Drew Zalkin will hopefully forgive me for getting this news to you so late. If you haven't heard they were married last June 24 in Denver.

Natalie wrote: "We had quite a number of Trin alums in attendance and a handful in the wed ding party. Amanda Berger and Erin Linehan were both brides maids, and Joe Reynolds, Andy Haberman, Taylor Wolfe ' 02, Ted Lovejoy, and Nils Lundblad we re groomsmen. We spent our honeymoon on Maui and Kauai and have now returned to New York, where I continue as a

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class notes specialist in the Russian Works of Art department at Christie's, and Drew continues as a senior analyst at CharterMac Capital." Nicole Reichenbach was my best source for news this time around, she wrote: "Laura Rand moved to Phi ladelphia to pursue an MBA at Wharton Business School at the University of Penn sylvania this fall. Laura worked the past three years doing real estate financial consulting in New York City Although excited about returni ng to school, she will certainly miss seeing fellow New Yorkers Christine Kim, Nicole Reichenbach, and Tina Parmar regularly! Nicole Reichenbach is currently at Columbia University pursuing a master's degree in international affairs. For the past three years, she worked in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and also traveled to Ethiopia as the adm inistrative coordinator for a UN Staff Officers Training Course in Addis Ababa last fal l. C hristine Kim left US News and World Report to pursue a master's degree at Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Tina Parmar is still working at Harper Collins. Last year, Lisa Phu moved to Wrangell, Alaska, and is working as a news reporter for the Wrangell Sentinel. Over the past three months, Katie Miller traveled through Kashmir, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan before starting school this fall at the London School of Economics! Asia Grabska is currently in medical school in Granada and is loving it!" I hope this issue of the Reporter finds you happy and healthy wherever you are.

Please be sure to stay in touch. I have a new e-mail (trude.goodman@gmail.com) , so try me here next time you want to send me an update or tell me you are ready to take my up on my offer to buy you a Cape Codder at the Squire in Chatham next summer. All the best, Trude. P.S. Colman come home soon!

Alumni Fund Goal: $7,000 Class Secretary: Melinda Mayer Leone, 123 i=lorence Rd. 2C, Branford, CT 064054233 e-mail: mel inda.leane.2004@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Robert Corvo; ~ ugene f..1 su; Kristiann Sawyer; Natha lie Toomey Kevin Dmochowsky recently accepted an associate position with the law firm of Kirkpatrick &

Lockhart Nicholson Graham in its Pinsbu rgh office. He is currently finishing his final year of law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Pat Malloy writes, "I am still living in the South End of Boston and working on the trading desk of the money management firm Longwood Investments. I am living with a friend from high school and Marcello Miccozzi, who just moved in. We have been having a great time in the city and are running into a ton of Trinity people."

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Descatur Potier '03 "I cherish my Trinity education because everyone there supported everything I wanted to do. Trinity helped me find myself and my niche. That's what I now want to pass on to others," says Descatur "Dez" Potier, a member of the Class of 2003, who is now pursuing a master's degree at Tufts School of Education.

After his experiences at Trinity and with the Hartford community, Potier plans to teach and, eventually, enter the educational administration arena, preferably at an urban school.

While an undergraduate, Potier was a J=leet Bank Community Service Scholar. Along with four other students, he was required to spend his summers in Hartford performing community service. The school gave him the funding and support to start an Adolescent Mentoring Program (AMP) at the local Boys and Girls Club. The program, still in existence, originally provided Trinity tutors for local middle and high school students on Saturday mornings. AMP continues to provide those connections during weekday evenings after school, and is one of the many successful examples of Trinity students working hand in

sort of news actually qualifies for class notes but, in any case, I have spent the last two years in New Delhi, India, studyi ng at Jawaharlal Nehru University for a master of arts in international relations. Needless to say, I have completed my degree and all in all it was a great experience."

I-lope Roth is living in Boston and working at Tufts University doing IT support. She recently got a promotion. "I've been playing music in clubs around Boston and in the subway. My shows have been well attended, with a strong representation from many of my fe llow Trinity alums. I have a five -song demo CD for sale, and I hope to record a full -length album in the next few months. My music Web site is www.

hand with 1-fortford residents. "[During the program] 1started seeing the community through the kids I loved," Potier says. "You can't have a negative image of the community if you immerse yourself in it."

In 2001, after an internship at Harvard's Civil Rights Project, which sent him to the national office of the NAACP, Potier received the Connecticut Higher Education Community Service Award in recognition of his passion and commitment to the community.

During his years at Trinity, Potier was also actively involved with many organizations, including the MOCA (Men of Color Alliance), vice president of multi-cultural affairs for the Student Government Association, and the Black Student Union (JMANI).

Currently, he serves as executive director of ONECA, the Organization of New England Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha, the fraternity he was a member of while at Trinity.

Potier is deeply thankful for the opportunity to participate in the J=leet Bank Scholars Program because it shaped the path to his future. In fact, he was recently appointed as state liaison for the Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association (MEOA), and now advocates and lobbies on behalf of first-generation , low-income college students from urban areas. The position, he says. is related to the work he did in Boston with Upward Bound, a program with a similar mission.

"I don't think I would care as much about this if it hadn't been for AMP," says Potier. "My experience working with kids and community service brought me this passion that I have today. I see education as the civil rights issue of the 21st century."

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hoperoth .com/ music. My boyfriend, Kristian Sanchez, and I moved in with each other this past June. We have a lovely two-bedroom apartment in Somerville, which we share with a couple of adorable but psychotic cats."

Mimi MacKinnon writes, "Hello C lass of 2004! I can't believe it's been almost three years since we left camp. Like most of us, I have taken a couple of years to settle into my new life of being a 'yow1g professional!' After two years of coaching ice hockey, most recentl y at Trin, I have decided to move back to NYC. I am enjoying a fast-paced environment, working in special events in the sporrs industry and living in the Uppe r West Side. In between work, I

love playing intramural sports with my sister's company, Zogsports ..... looking to get a Trin team together for touch football in the spring if anyone is interested. Feel free to contact me at meredith.mackinnon@trincoll.edu! Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying life to the fullest!"

Amanda Jones is in Boston in her second year of dental school at Tufts.

As for myself, Mike Leone 'or and 1 finall y got married on ept 23- We had a strong Trinity turnout, Elitsa Daneva, Ashley Brennan, Geoff Long, Renie Delson, John Michael Boudreau '03, Max Riffin, Ryan Smith, Brooke Fitzgerald ' 05, Pat Noonan '01 , Sean Cognahan '0 1, Karen O'Keefe '01, Colin and Alice (Wisniewski)Vautour '01, Mike Carucci '01 , Angela Flores 'or , Shannon McGill '01 , Bob and Emily (~een) Rekuk '01, Susanna Kise 'or , Tony Panza '01 , Charlie Botts, and JR Romano '01 al.I graced us with their presence. Mike and I have just bought a condo in Branford, CT Love, Mimi Leone

Alumni Fund Goal: $6,000 Class Secretary: Stefanie C. Lopez-Boy, 88 E::. 5th Street, i=loor 13, Brooklyn, NY 112181451 e-moil : stefanie.lopezboy.2005 @trincoll.edu Class Agent: Taylor Robinson Love is in the air everyone ... th is round of class notes I received announcements for four (count them, four!) engagements and two weddings!

Many congratulations to all of you and wish you the best in your wedding planning, or in your new lives together!

First the engagements: Jamie Calabrese got engaged to Sasha Bratt '03 this August.

The wedding is set for October 7, 2007 Mark Tremblay got engaged to long time girlfriend Kyle Polichronopoulos. The wedding is in September of 2007 James Stevens and Rachel Claflin are engaged and living in San Francisco together. Wedding date is yet to be determined.

Finally... Brian Volk got engaged to Kel.ly Deutsch in June 2005 and their wedding date is July 14, 2006.

Wedding bells rang for... Danielle Markel Kozlowski and Matthew Kozlowski, who got married at the Trinity Chapel and celebrated their reception at the Old State House in Hartford. The newlyweds are living in Delray Beach, Florida. Andrew Breiner and Megan Shapleigh were members of the wedding party and Jonathan Chesney was the best man. There was also a good nwnber of Trinity '05ers there. l-layley Einhorn recently married Aaron Seigel on September 16 at tl1e Essex House Hotel in ew York C ity Lisa Kassow, directo r of Hillel at Trinity, was a witness for th e ketubah, and alumna Hannah Gutstein '03 was also in atten dance. Hayley is studying to be a rabbi at the

Margot Koch '06 spent the summer in Boston living and working on the Liberty Clipper 125-foot sailboat as a deckhand ...

She got to race in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race before making her way down to Key West, f=lorida, in "a harrowing trip that included seven-foot seas and winds high enough to cause us almost to lose one of our anchors and our lifeboat."

Academy for Jewish Religion.

Tim Wenson is getting In other news his master's in instructional technology at Bridgewater State College and is hoping to graduate in May of 2007. Ashley Tetu started her master's in public health at Boston U111vers1ty and has spent the last year working in research.

She regularly sees Jess Millward and Irene Mosey.

Bryce Baschuk has settled down in Washington, D.C., and is working at the Washi11gro11 Ti111es after a tour of Europe and Asia and some time with the American Red Cross as a relief worker in regions affected by Hurricane Katrina. He lives in the Adams Morgan section of D.C. As for me, I'm living in New York City, still working as a legal assistant for Legal Momentum, the new name of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fw1d. I was recently elected to be the chapter di rector of the New York Metro Chapter of the Younger Women's Task Force, a national organization committed to working on younger women's issues and promoting younger women's leadership. 1 co-founded a younger women's media justice project last year called the REAL hot 100, and we had our first aruiual list and party this August. (And here's a shameless plug, visit www.therealhouoo.org, we start accept111g nominations at the end of November.)

Thanks to all those who wrote in ...keep the good news coming!

Peace and Love, Stefanie Lopez- Boy

Alumni Fund Goal: $5,000 Class Secretary: Maureen E::.

Skehon, 674 Washington St., Apt. 5, Brookline, MA 02446 e-mail: maureen.skehan.2006 @trincoll.edu Greetings from Boston! I hope that those of you who made it to Homecoming had a good time. It was great to see everyo ne and pretend for a moment that we were all still cool enough to go to Trinity I'm lucky enough to get to see a fair amount of Trin kids in Boston. I am in living in Brookline with a friend from high school and working at EBSCO Publishing, an on.line research service provider. Claire Lawlor lives just down the road from me and is working as an associate scientist in a medicinal chem-

istry laboratory at Biogen Idec in Cambridge.

Claire's former neighbor, Reid Offringa, is once again Living close by and is working as a technical research coordinator in the laboratory of Dr. Ceizler at Brigham & Women's Hospital . [ had the pleasure of attending a (free!) wine tasting with Reid, Stacey Wei, and Beth Jones recen tly Botl1 neuroscience lad ies are working as research ass istants at Massachusetts General Hospital. Beth lives in Cambridge with Juli Martha, who works as a research coordinator for the Boston Spine Group at the New England Baptist Hospital. Trinity must be taking over Mass General, because l-loa Lam is also working for the hospital as an intake coordinator for the Department of Child Psychiatry Richie l-lowe lives in Porter Square in Cambridge and works for Eaton Vance as an equiry research assistant.

Erin Timm lives in Somerville and works as a marketing assistant for Houghton - Mifflin. Margot Koch spent the summer in Boston living and working on the Liberty Clipper n5-foot sailboat as a deckhand. She spent the month of October on an 80-foot sailboat, sailing down the East Coast. She got to race in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race before making her way down to Key West, Florida, in "a harrowing trip that included seven- foot seas and winds high enough to cause us almost to lose one of our anchors and our lifeboat." Wow! As of January 2007, Margot will be interning with the education department at the non -profit Dolphin Resea:ch Center in Grassy Key, Florida. Between sail111g the high seas and swabbing the decks, Margot was able to attend the housewarming party of Lindsey Moore and Annie Chapman, who are living in Harlem .

Other news from New York comes from Cate French. She is working in Manliattan as a coordinator of supply management for Avon.

Kaci O' Leary is also working in New York City as an analyst in the products health and life sciences operating unit of Accenture. Miriam Zichlin brings in lots of news from New York.

She, Rebecca Wetzler, and Alicia Diaz are all teaching in the Bronx tlirough the New York City Teaching Fellows. Miriam teaches high school, and Alicia and Rebecca are teach111g elementary school. Miriam occasionally sees Sarah Churchill and Gina Bacchiocchi, who are living in Brooklyn. Miriam often goes to see Steve Nale DJ at Stir. Steve lives on the Upper East Side and works for Sirius Satellite Radio. Other Trins on the Upper East Side

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class notes include Pamela Judkowitz, Hayden Howell, and Elizabeth Mooney, who are all living together.

Connecticut must be the place to go to become a teacher.

Class president Elena Wetmore is student teaching a first -grade class at Daniels Farm Elementary School in Trumbull.

She will be starting to earn her master's degree in elementary education in January. Stefanie Pagano-Kor, who was kind enough to offer her house to yours truly and others during Homecoming, is living in West Hartford. She is student teaching Spanish at Southington High School and is earning her teacher certification through St. Joseph College. Kathleen Milnamow was written up in the Connecticut Post for her work with Teach for America in New Haven.

Trinity athletics all-star Mike Blair is now coaching at Williams College, which I'm convinced, is the only reason they beat the Bants.

Another football alum, Joe Penny, married his high school sweetheart, Rebecca Wells, in Texas this summer. Congratulations Joe and Rebecca!

News comes from our nation's capitol, as well. Kara Takesuye is living in Georgetown and works for the Washington Post as an account executive in the jobs advertising department.

Julia Hoppock also Lves in Washington, D.C., and works at ABC News as a production coordinator.

Several Trinity alumni are traveling the world. Magee Mcllvaine writes that he, Chris Moore, and Maureen Masterson founded the non -profit Sol Productions, which focuses on independent fi.lmmaking and media activism.

The three are working on their first major project, a political documentary in Venezuela.

Anna Korsiak is currently traveling and working in Australia. She has been to Sydney. Adelaide, and Melbourne.

That's all for now. Send in any news and best wishes for a cozy winter!

Alumni l=und Goal: $15,000 Class Secretary: W. Robert Chopmon '91, 314 Polk Street, Roleig h, NC 27604-1250 e-mail: robert.chapman.1991@ trincoll.edu Class Agent: Joyce McCartney '84

In September 2006 Katherine A. Perez '97 was sworn in as the fust chief of the Bowie (MD) Police Department. Perez is the former chief of the District Heights (MD) Police Department.

Prior to that she worked for 20 years as an officer in the Hartford Police Department, where she rose to the rank of captain, at the time the highest ranking Hispanic officer in its history.

Most recently Kathy was appointed by Governor Robert Ehrlich to serve as juvenile justice monitor for the state of Maryland. In addition to her B.A. in political science, in 2003 Kathy also earned an M.A. in public policy from the College. The new Bowie Police Department

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Reforming l-lartford Schools: Steven Adamowski M'75 In November 2006, Dr. Steven Adamowski, a master's recipient from Trinity, returned to Hartford to take on arguably one of the toughest jobs in town: reforming the public school system. As superi ntendent of schools, Adamowski has been charged with the task of turning around one of Connecticut's largest and most-troubled school systems. In an interview with the 1-fortford Courant, Adamowski explains the difficulties and challenges of the school system, "'The district is a collection of d isparate initiatives. There's nothing that ho lds it together."'

Bringing his 35 years of experience as an educator and school reformer Adamowski plans to act as the glue that has been missi ng from efforts being

made at individual schoo ls. I-le sees the challenges as simi lar to those he faced as head of the Cincinnati school system from 1998 to 2002. In the Ohio city plagued with failing test scores and lack of students going on to four-year colleges, Adamowski's strategy led to a massive district redesign, boosting overall student achievement. In fact, during his tenure as superintendent and CEO, Adamowski helped Cincinnati gain national recognition for its school accountability system, budgeting, alignment of teac her evaluation and compensation, improvement of early literacy, and redesign of high schools.

1-l is plans for 1-lartford are no less ambitious. Connecticut's capital city, according to the Courant, suffers from more high school freshmen reading at t he third-grade level than at the ninthgrade level, high absenteeism, and serious behavioral issues, among other prob lems. With measures such as implementing a system to recruit talented teachers and redesigning some of the schools, Adamowski promises that his vision will bring a ll students up to the state average for reading and math, as well as improving the quality of education in the high schools in order to send more students off to four-year colleges.

Originally from Connecticut, Adamowski earned his undergraduate degree from Southern Connecticut State Col lege, his master's from Trinity, and his doctorate from St. Louis University.

Before coming to 1-lartford, he was a senior fe ll ow and managing director of the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C., where he worked to help school districts improve their effectiveness.

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will eventually grow to more than 50 officers.

"It is an awesome challenge," she says, "but I'm excited and ready to get to work." As if her new job doesn't provide enough excitement, Kathy will be getting married in November to Allan Grines.

Kelly Raimo '01 ofTerryville (CT) gave birth on Sept. 9, 2006, to a baby boy. Ethan. She is currently earning a master's degree in English at the College.

Donna McCully Small '06 is administrative assistant to College Librarian Richard Ross.

After graduating with honors in art history. she's now enrolled in a master's degree program at the

Holyoke (MA) campus of Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

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In-Memory Douglas J. Gladwin, 1934 Douglas ]. Gladwin, 93, of Bloomington, MN, died on July 9, 2006.

H e attended Trinity with the Class of 1934.

H e served in the U.S. Navy during the occupation of Japan.

During his lifelong career in insurance, he founded Gladwin Insurance & Bonds and retired in 1975.

H e leaves his son, William, ofTarpon Springs, FL; three granddaughters; rwo great-granddaughters; and four great-great-granddaughters.

of 1943.

He served m the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. For 35 years, he was an actuary at The Hartford, from which he retired. H e was a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

He is survived by rwo sons, John Resony, of Farnlington, CT, and James Resony, of Hebron, CT; a daughter, Judith Kelly, of Tampa, FL; and his companion, Barbara LaRosa, ofWethersfield, CT.

Edward Joseph Cosgrove, 1946 Eric Arthur Anderson, 1938 Eric A. Anderson, 90, of Cromwell, CT, died on July 31, 2006.

After graduating from Hartford High School, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1938.

He enlisted in the Co1111ecticut National Guard, attended Officer Candidate School, and was cofl1111issioned a second lieutenant in 1941.

He served as a commander in th e European theater during World War II. Following release from active duty, he wa appointed commander of the Maintenance Squadron for the 103rd Fighter Group. In 1951, he was recalled to serve in the U.S. Air Force at Elmendorf Air Base in Alaska during the Korean Conflict.

He bega n his 40-year career in the insurance business at The Travelers, and subsequently, he founded his own business, Independent Insurance Agents, Inc., retiring in 1979.After retirement, he worked part time at Mechanics Savings Bank in Wethersfield, CT. He is survived by his wife, Virginia, of Cromwell, CT; a son, Eric Jr. , of Dayton , OH; a daughter, N ancy Gilbert, of Rhode Island; and a granddaughter.

David Keating, 1939 David Kea ting, 89, of Vashon, WA, died on August 10, 2006.

After graduating from Lee High School in Lee, WA, he attended Trinity witl1 th e Class of 1939.

He was awarded a conmlission at Annapolis and earned the rank of lieutenant commander in the N aval Reserve.

During his career, he worked for Knopp, Inc., and General Electric Co. He leaves 11.is wife, Heron MaA'Well Keating; rwo daughters, Daphne Gail Collins ofTurner, ME, and Patri cia Raye Keating ofVashon; a son, Jeffrey MaA'Well Keating of Verona, WI ; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Allie Vincent Resony, 1943 Allie V Resony, 85, ofWethersfield, CT, died on October 12, 2006.

After graduating from Bulkeley High School in Hartford , he attended Tri11ity with th e Class

Edward]. (Ned) Cosgrove, 82, of Guilford, CT, died on September 2, 2006.

After graduating from Hartford Public High School, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1946, receiving his B.A. in 1949 from Wesleyan U11iversity. He subsequently received an MBA from the University of Connecticut in 1957.

In 1943, he entered the service in the Air Corps and spent 11 months in the Pacific theater.

He had a 33-year career as a public relations and personnel executive with Southern New England Telephone Co. He was elected to three terms as a Democratic town selectman for the Town of Guilford and served on a variety of community and political boards.

He is survived by his wife, Connie; a daughter, Mary; five sons, Sean, Edward]. Jr. , Anthony, Benedict, and Joseph; and seven grandchildren.

Robert Joseph Boland, 1948 Robert]. Boland, Sr., 83, ofWaterbury, CT, died on April 28, 2006.

After graduating from Crosby High School in Waterbury, CT, he spent a year at Cheshire Academy in Chesllire, CT, before enrolling at the University of Connecticut. He subsequently attended Trinity with the Class of 1948, graduating in 1949, and received his M.A. from the College in 1952.

He served in the U.S. Air Corps from 1942 to 1946.

He was a teacher and coach for his entire career.

He is survived by his wife, Ann.

Walter l-lenry Neff, 1948 Walter H. Neff, 85, ofTolland, CT, died on July 22, 2006.

After graduating from Rockville High School in Rockville, CT, he attended Tri11ity with the Class of1948.

He served with the U.S. Navy during World War ll.

He was a teacher at Rockville High School in Co1111ecticut for over 40 years before retiring as head of the math department.

H e is survived by 11.is wife, Leah (Kloter) Neff; llis son, Scott; a grandchild; and a great grandchild.

l-larold Charles Richman, 1948 Dr. Harold C. Richman, ofWest Hartford, CT, died on September 12, 2006, at the age of 80.

After graduating from New Britain High School in New Britain, CT, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1948. He subsequently graduated from Tufts Dental School.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific.

He was the founder of Mt. Soutllington Ski Area in Southington , CT, and continued to hold a leadership role there.

He is survived by his children, Lauren Richmond, of Newton, MA, Jennifer Richman Toder, of Los Angeles, CA, and Dr. Jonathan Richman, of Southern Pines, NC; and six grandchildren.

Joseph Gerald Whelan, 1948 Joseph G. Whelan, 85, of Fairfax, VA, died on August 26, 2006.

After graduating from South Park High School in Buffalo, NY, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1948. He subsequently received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1956.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. As a hospital corpsman, he supported the Marine Corps in the battle of lwo Jima and the occupation of Japan.

In 1952, he joined the Congressional Research Service, specializing in Soviet and Eastern European issues and preparing extensive studies published by congressional corrmlittees dealing with international relations. Among his published works, he released a study on Soviet diplomacy and on "the brain drain," which discussed what happens when talented students from developing countries come to the U.S. He retired as a senior specialist in international relations and Soviet affairs at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress in 1987 but continued as a consultant.

He leaves 11.is wife,Anne Downey Whelan of Fairfax, VA; three children, Terrence]. Whelan of Munich, Joanne M . Nikitakis of Fredericksburg, and ChristopherT.Whelan of South Riding; and six grandchildren.

Thomas Cornelius Austin, Sr., 1949 Thomas C. Austin, Sr., 81, of Avon, CT, died on September 29, 2006.

After graduating from Bulkeley High School in Hartford, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1949.

He served in the Army Air Corps as a bombardier in World War ll, earning numerous cita-

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In-Memory tions and medals. Upon graduation from Trinity, he reenlisted in the Air Force and served an additional year.

During his career as an engineer, he designed surgical needles for Holgrath Corporation, retiring in 1990.

H e is survived by his wife, Corinne McDonough; three sons, Thomas "Neil," of Cheshire, CT, Douglas J., of Dallas, TX, and Rev. Stuart J., of Ft. Myers, FL; and five grandchildren.

Mitchell Ernest l-lolmgren, 1949 Mitchell E. Holmgren, 80, of Somerset, NJ, died on August 29, 2006.

After graduating from East Hartford High School in Connecticut, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1949. He subsequently received his master's degree from Columbia University.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was a plant manager for the precious metal manufacturing facility ofTessler and Weiss in Union, NJ, until he retired in 2000.

He is survived by his son, Mitchell Holmgren, Jr. ,ofSomerville,NJ;his three daughters,Adrienne Holmgren, of Franklin Park, NJ, Elea nor Olsen, of the Villages, FL, and Romelle Lysenko, of Somerset, NJ; and two grandchildren.

Andrew Anthony Deluca, 1950 Andrew A. Deluca, 87, of Clinton, CT, died on July 28, 2006.

After graduating from Hartford Public High School , he attended Trinity with the Class of 1950.

In 1941 , he entered the U.S. Army and the next year he was inducted into the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps. He received his Honorable Discharge in 1946 and remained an active CIC reservist until his retirement in 1968 at the rank of major.

He worked for American Standard in Hartford and, subseq uently, at Products Design Newington as a metallurgist until his retirement.

He was a member of the American Society of Metals from 1962 to 1982.

He is survived by his daughter, Jacquelyn, of Old Saybrook, CT.

Raymond Peter Flebeau, 1950 Raymond P. Flebea u, 79, of Rocky Hill, CT, died on August 14, 2006.

After graduating from East Hartford High School in East Hartford, CT, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1950.

He served as a Navy pharmacist's mate in World War II. He was a packaging engineer at General Electric Corp. in Plainville, CT, for most of his career.

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He was a lifelong member of th e Rocky Hills Lions Club and a longtime member of the Wethersfield America n Legion.

He leaves his daughter, Elaine Aliso n Kurasinski, of Colchester, CT, and his granddaughter.

Jay Edward Geiger, 1950 Jay E. Geiger, 78, of Riddle Village in Middletown Township, PA, died on August 1, 2006.

After graduating from William Penn Charter School, he attended Trinity with th e C lass of 1950, where he was student body president, member of Sigma Nu, captain of the squash and soccer teams. H e contin ued his connection to his alma mater as a long-time class agent and an alumni trustee. He received his M.BA from Harvard Business School.

He began his career in sales as a sugar broker with William Eden Co. and Farr-Mann Co. ln 1973, he launched his own hand-tool wholesale company, Craftsmen's Co., Inc., where he spent 29 years in sales and administration.

He also coached soccer at Westtown School in Westtown, PA. In 2003, he was inducted into the Penn Charter Sports Hall of Fame.

He leaves his wife, Louann "Lonny" Cupp Geiger; daughters, Lynne Murray, of Lexington, MA, Laurie Geiger, of Round Hill, VA, Leigh Partridge, of Narberth , PA, Lisa Geiger, of Brookline, MA; and seven grandchildren.

Langford Warren, Jr., 1950 Langford Warren, Jr., of Kittery Point, ME , died on May 27, 2006, at the age of 81.

After graduating from New Preparatory School in Cambridge, MA, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1950, graduating in 1953.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Pacific.

He is survived by his wife, Judith (Thaxter) Warren; three daughters, Leslie van Berkum, of Deerfield, NH, Linda Tripp, of Tenants H arbor and Stratham, NH, and Laurie Warren, of Norfolk, MA; and seve n grandchildren.

Steven Jay Godsick, 1953 Steven J. Godsick, of Delray Beach, FL, died on August 1, 2006.

After graduating from Columbia Grammar School in N ew York City, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1953. He subsequently received his law degree from the University ofVirginia.

He was an advertising executive in N ew York, and after his retirement, he continued in the same fi eld through volunteer work for the NewYork Police Foundation .

H e is survived by his children, Jeffiey and Christopher, and seven grandchildren.

William Karl von Allmen, 1955 William. K. von All.men , 73, of North Bran.ford, CT, di ed on August 18, 2006.

After graduating from Mount Hermon Prep. School, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1955, graduating from the University of Connecticut. H e subsequently received a master's degree from Southern Connecticut State University and his 6th Yea r Certificate from the University of Bridgepo rt.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958.

H e was a teacher at the Seth Haley School in West Haven, CT, prior to his retiremen t.

He leaves his wife, Karen Kittleso n von Allmen, of North Branford, CT; so ns Kurt and Eric von AlL11en, both of Albany, WI; and four grandchildren.

John Richardson Morley, 1956 John R. Morley, 73, of Nassau, Bahamas, died of brain cancer on July 18, 2005.

After graduating from Moses Brown School in Providence, RI , he attended Trinity with the Class of 1956.

H e was a realtor and businessman in the Bahamas and was part owner of th e Mall at Marathon.

H e was a past president of th e Bahamas Chamber of Commerce.

Sinclair Smith Martel, 1959 Sinclair S. " Sandy" Martel, 68, of Gainesville, VA, died on October 4, 2006, of cardiopulmonary arrest.

After graduating from N ewington High School in Newin gton, CT, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1959. H e graduated from the Naval War College in 1977.

H e was commissioned into the N avy in 1960 and served 27 yea rs as a naval intelligence specialist. He rece ived many military awards, including three Legions of Merit.

H e worked on th e 1988 presidential campaign for the Bush-Quayle ti cket. ln 1989, he was appointed to the State Department and served as the deputy assistant secretary of sta te for politico-military affairs in the administration of President George H.W Bush. [n 1992, he led a team of U.S. experts to Israel to in pect that nation 's Patriot missile holdings, investigating charges that missile equipment had been improperly sent to China. He retired in 1993.

He leaves his wife, Madeleine "Maddy" Cullinane M artel, of Gainesville; two children, Elizabeth Marie Mon.roe, of Springfield, VA, and Charles Sinclai r Martel, of Atlanta, GA; and five gra ndchildren.

In-Memory James Frederick Joy, 1959

David Allen Pemmerl, 1972

Jaime A. Ficks, 1979

James E Joy, 69, of Vero Beach, FL, died on October 2, 2006, of melanoma.

After graduating from Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, he earned a B.S. from Trinity in 1959 and a B.S.E.E. in 1960. He subsequently received an MBA from NewYork University in 1964.

Until his death, he was senior managing director of European business development, responsible for North American investor relations, for CVC apital Partners Limited, based in Luxembourg. He was previously a longtime director of First R epublic Bank based in San Francisco, CA, and a long-standing member of tl1e National Leadership Council for Communities in Schools.

He leaves his wife, Michael; three daughters, Whitney Cathcart, Merrill Slaugh , and Ashley Wood, all of Ross, CA; and five grandchildren.

He also leave a brother, Ri chard P. Joy llI , Trinity Class of 1955.

David A. Pemmerl, 55, of Rehoboth, MA, died of cancer on August 30, 2006 .

After graduating from Middletown Township High School, he attended Trinity with the C lass of 1972, graduating in 1975.

He started his career as an international marine insurance underwriter with AIG in New York City and for Allendale Insurance of Rhode Island. He subsequently left the business world to become a teacher in Rehoboth, MA. An active member of his community, he held many volunteer positions in the town and coached various youth leagues.

He is survived by his wife, Connie, and his children, Ross Pemmerl of Rehoboth and Elizabeth Pemmerl of Rumford, RI.

Jaime A. Ficks, 49, ofWest Hartford, CT, died on October 10, 2006, after nearly 20 years at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, CT. After grad uating with honors from William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, CT, and being inducted into the school's Quill and Scroll Journalistic Honor Society, she, despite her physical challenges with cerebral palsy, attended Trinity with the Class of 1979, graduating with honors. She was a member of Pi Ganmu Mu, spent a semester at the London School of Econonucs, and was a Connecticut legislative intern. She subsequently attended the University of Connecticut School of Law, but was unable to complete her studies due to illness and physical limitations.

She was a member of the Niantic Yacht Club and was a conmrnnicant at the Church of St. Peter Claver in West Hartford.

She leaves her brother, Robert Bemuson Ficks, Jr., of Canton, CT.

Michael Sedgwick Wade, 1960 Michael S.Wade, 69, of Fort Collin , CO, died on August 1, 2006, of cancer.

He attended Trinity with the Class of 1960, where he was a member of Delta Phi . He subsequently received his master's degree in science from Wesleya n University.

He taught science and music at Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, T, from 1960 until his retirement in 1989. He also taught in England and Sweden on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1966 and 1982, respectively. His most wellknown course was a Wagner seminar.

He is survived by his children, Betsy Strafach, of Fort Collins, CO, William Wade, of Nashville, TN, and Catherine Davis, of Broomfield, CO; even grandchildren; and a great grandchild.

Charles Lewis Grant, 1964 Charles L. Grant, 64, of Newton , NJ, died on September 15, 2006.

After graduating from Trinity with the Class of 1964, he spent several years teaching and served in the Vietnam War as a military policeman.

In 1968, he published his first of more than 200 short stories. H e became a full-time writer of tales of horror and suspense, publishing more than 110 novels and editing anthologies. He was well-known for his awa rd-winning Shadows anthologies.

In 1993, he returned to his alma mater to give a talk at Gallows Hill, entitled "Why I Like to Scare People."

He was a three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award.

Richard William Johansen, 1973 Richard W Johansen, 54, of Rancho Santa Fe, CA, died on September 22, 2005.

After graduating from Trinity with the Class of 1973, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara Johansen, of Rancho Santa Fe; his children, Brooke Johansen, of R.aleigh, NC, and Todd Johansen, of Dallas, TX.

Stephen l-lolla Garner Ill, 1977 Stephen H. Garner Ill , 52, died unexpectedly on August 19, 2006 .

After graduating from the Hill School, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1977. He subsequently attended Christie's Fine Arts course in London.

Early in his career, he taught history at St. Marks School in Southborough, MA. Following, he worked in New York at Valdemar F.JacobsenAntiques . He becam.e a well-respected antiq ues dealer on the East Coast.

He is survived by !us son, Steve Garner, and his mother, Elizabeth Gamer Martin, of East Orleans, MA, and Vero Beach , FL.

Alexander M. des Villates Moorrees, 1978 Alexander M . Moorrees, of London, England, died on September 20, 2006.

After attending Trinity with the Class of 1978, where he was a member of St. Anthony HaJJ, he graduated with an MBA from Columbia University School of Business in 1982.

He worked in London at A!G Global Investors, Inc., an international capital management firm.

He published a book, entitled Stra11ge Happe11i11gs at the Independence C/11b, in 1997, and he created a board game about the day in the life of a shark called " hark Pit." He leaves his mother, Louise, and his brother, Oni.

James Cornelius Kapteyn, 1983 James C. Kapteyn, 45, of Deerfield, MA, died while playing soccer on January 16, 2007 .

After graduating from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, MA, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1983. He subsequently received his master's from Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.

An English teacher and assistant dea n of students at his alma mater, Deerfield Academy, he was also a coach of the Deerfield varsity girls' soccer and varsity boys' lacrosse teams. Previously, he was chairman of the English departments atWillistonNorthampton School and at Cushing Academy.

He leaves his wife, Kirsten, and two daughters, Ingrid and Ilse.

Grace Adela Cavero-Pace, 1986 Grace A. Cavero-Pace, 41, of Cheshire, CT, died on August 8, 2006, of breast cancer.

After graduating from South Catholi c High School, she attended Trinity with the Class of 1986. She subsequently received her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. After law school, she was employed by the Office of the Public Defender for the State of Connecticut. Until recently, she held the position of supervisory assistant public defender for juvenile matters in New Britain Superior Court.

She was a member of the Hispanic Bar Association.

She is survived by her husband, David; two children, Gabriel and Erica; and her father, Manuel Cavero.

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In-Memory Schuyler Bonticou l-laynes, 1989 Army Sgt. 1st Class Schuyler B. H aynes, 40, of New York, NY, died on November 15, 2006, in Baguba, Iraq .

After grad uating from the Millbrook School, in Millbrook, NY, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1989, where he was a member of the foo tball and rugby teams.

A career noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army with 17 years of service, Haynes's ve hicle was killed by a roadside bomb about 40 miles north of Baghdad. H e was on his second tour of duty in Iraq, and had previously served in Panama and the Serbian republic of Kosovo.

H e was a descendent of Philip Schuyler, a major general who served George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

Stephen Christopher Redgate, 1991 Stephen C. Redgate, 37, of Groveland, MA, died on July 16, 2006.

After grad uating from Andover High School in Massachusetts, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1991, where he was a member of the football and track teams.

He was founder and president of ORBIS Technology, Inc., and Boston Capital M arkets, Inc., both in Andover.

He is survived by his wife, Sandra (Vogel!)

Redgate; his sons, Scott, Sean, and Luke; and his parents, H oward V. and Susan T. Redgate, ofWest Newbury, MA.

Joyce Perkel Winkler, 1994 Joyce P. Winkler, 63, of Portland, OR, and formerly of Bloomfield, CT, died on June 6, 2006.

After attending Grant High School in Oregon, she attended the University ofWashington but did not finish her degree. In 1994, she graduated from Trinity's Individualized Degree Program.

She was a fundraiser for the women's division of the Greater H artford Jewish Federation and served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Center and board of Jewish Community Relations of the Greater Hartford Jewish Federation. She was also on the board of ECAP (Exceptional Cancer Patients).

She is survived by three children, Stacy, Stewart, and Gary Winkler, and her five grandchildren.

Lloyd Wayne McCurley, 1997 Lloyd W. McCurley, 49, of Hartford and Ridgefield, CT, died on September 12, 2006.

After grad uating from Ridgefield High School in Ridgefield, CT, he attended Central Connecticut State University. H e su bsequently received his M.A. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechni c Institute and an M.A. in

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economi cs from Trinity.

He was an employee of Connecticut Natural Gas Company in H artford in marketing research.

He was also an active participant in outreach programs to the community and a volunteer at the Prudence Crandall Center of Hartford.

He leaves his parents, Brian and Dr. Jea n Gaumer, of Ridgefield; two sisters, Laurie McCurley, of Clinton Corners, NY, and Elyzabeth Gaumer, ofNewYork, NY.

John V. Borgo, 1970 Rev. John V. Borgo, ofWeston, MA, died on April 20, 2006.

He received his B.A. from Boston College in 1950, his B.. T. from Western College of T heology in 1958, and his M.A. in Latin from Trinity in 1970.

He served on the faculty of Fairfield Preparatory School and Fairfield University, both in Connecticut. He was also the chaplain of St. Vincent's M edical Center.

MASTER'S Katherine Griffin Leeds, 1948 Katherine G. Leeds, of Farmingron, CT, died on February 17, 2006 .

After receiving her undergraduate degree from St. Elizabeth's College in Convent Station , NJ, she received her master's from Trinity in 1948.

She was an English and history teacher at Simsbury High School in Conn ecticut and was a homemaker and substitute teacher after her marriage.

She is survived by a daughter, Ann P. Leeds, of Evansron, IL; three sons, William B. Leeds, of Santa Fe, NM, James B. Leeds, of Oakton, VA, and Capt. Robert G. Leeds, USN (Ret. ), of Springfield, VA; and six grandc hildren.

Leonard F. Kilian, 1964 Leonard F. Kilian, 73, ofWest Hartford, CT, died on February 4, 2006.

He received his B.S. in 1952 and M .S. in 1967 from the University of Notre Dame and a master's from Trinity in 1964.

He worked as an actuary at Travelers Insurance Company. He also taught mathematics at local schools and computer programming at the University of Notre Dame.

He is survived by his wife, Mary E. Kilian; his five sons, Michael, Joseph, John, Dan, and Steve; and nine grandchildren.

Charles Elmer North, 1967 Charles E. North, 77, of Bonita Springs, FL, died on July 10, 2006.

H e received his B.S. from Central Connecticut State University in 1955 and his M.A. from Trinity in 1967.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.

He was an economics and accounting teacher at Windsor High School in Connecticut, and was the first teacher to bring economics into the high school curriculum in Connecticut. H e retired in 1985.

He is survived by his wife, Joanne; his sons, Kevin A. North, of Simsbury, CT, Thomas S. North, of West Chesterfield, NH; and four grandchildren.

FACULTY l-lugh Ogden Hugh Ogden, 69, of Glastonbury, CT, died on December 31, 2006, at Rangeley Lake in Maine.

H e received an A.B. from Haverford College, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He joined the Trinity College faculty in 1967. He was the co-fo under of the Creative Writing Program at Trinity and founder of the Creative Writing Program at the Academy for the Arts magnet school in Hartford, where he taught poetry workshops. Before coming to Trinity he taught Greek and Latin literature in the H onors Program at the University of Michigan for seven years.

He published seven books, most recently Turtle Island Tree Psalms (2006), and approximately 500 poems in over 300 periodicals.

Garrison Keillor read his poem " Circumference And Centers" on the "Writer' Almanac" in March of 2006 and Bringing A Fir Straight Down (2005) was nominated for the Kingsley Tuffi Prize. He was selected as a fellow at The MacDowell Colony twice and won residencies at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland; Le Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland; the Albee Foundation, U-cross, twice; the Djerassi Resident Artists Program; and The Frank Water Foundation, twice. H e received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and three from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and was twice nominated for The Pushcart Prize - Be t of the Small Presses.

H e acted on the stage, ran a read-aloud program on Connecticut Public Radio, wa "poet- in-the-school" for over 30 Connecticut and Massachusetts grade and high schools, and worked with kindergarten children, the elderly, and prison inmates.

He leaves his children, Cynthia Ogden '83, of Chevy Chase, MD, David Ogden, of Colchester, CT, and Katherine Ogden '90, of South Glastonbury, CT; seven grandchildren; and his former wife, Ruth Woodcock.

A celebration of his life, scheduled for June 9 during Reunion Weekend, will take place at the College. Donations may be made to the Hugh Ogden Poetry Prize, care of the Triniry College Advancement Office, Williams M emorial, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106 .

Lecture On The Tides This is the point when the earth wobbles and the days lengthen and the years have to have days added . The point when the harness that pulls the sea pulls each of us into spring and makes us shudder again when the first red appears , the bleeding that quicker than not becomes green. You will always be here as long as water cuts deeper into soil and the coursing adds to what is left, as long as leaves are drawn out by the tide and buds bleed through bark, even you who are lost will always be here as long as the moon circles into its line with sun and the oceans respond, as long as we are able to find the moment when the winds make the globe waver, as long as the earth corrects itself, as long as pain takes faith in its bud and flowers .

-Hugh Ogden , Two Roads and This Spring

Deaths The College has received word of the following deaths, but information for complete obituaries is unavailable: Andrew James Miller, 1962 Richard Dean Wang, 1978 William Eric H alverson, 1989 Albert L. Gastmann, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus **Stephen George Ro111ai11e's ' 50 wife, Nellie Uccello R omaine M'60, was mistakenly identified in the Jail issue. The R eporter apologizes fo r any discomfort this a11no1 111ce111e11t might have caused.

Trinity R eporter Vol. 39, No.2 Winter 2007 Vice Preside11/ for Alumtli RelnriollS n11d Co111n11111icc1rio11s: Kathleen O'Connor Boelhouwer '85

Editor: Drew Sanborn Mn11a_~er of Crenri11e Services: Rita Law Desig11er: James Baker Design Co11trib11ti11g Wl'ifer: Carlin Carr Sporrs Editor: David Kingsley BOARD Of TRUSTEES

Clinrter1r11s1ces: E. Thayer Bigelow, Jr. '65. Saundra Kee Borges '8 1, Alfonso L. Carney, Jr. '70. Rodney D. Day Ill '62.

Raymond E. Joslin '58, George A. Kellner '64, Philip S. Khoury '71, Mark A. Leavitt '80, Alexander H. Levi '67, Michael D. Loberg '69,Alexander P. Lynch P'03, '04, '07, Mitchell M. Merin "75, Mary Penniman Moran '76, Alice M. O'Co1rnor '80, Charles R. Perrin '67, Margaret-MaryVoudouris Preston '79, Paul E. Raether '68, William H. Reynolds.Jr. '71, William C. Richardson '62 , Hon. '03, Edward C. Rorer '65, Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh '80, W. James Tozer '63, William H. Turner III '62, RonaldVWaters Il l '74, MargaretJ.Young '76 A/1111111i 1r11srees: Peter R.. Blum '72, Emily Latour Bogle '79, Robert E. Brickley '67, Elaine Feldman Patterson '76, R. Kevin Smith '87, Harold A. Smullen,Jr. '76

Tmstce Ex-Officio: James F.Jones,Jr., President and Trinity College Professor in the H umanitics

C. Keith F1111sto11 Tnistee: Emelie E. East '94 Tnisrees Emeriti: Evan S. Dobelle, Thomas S. Johnson '62, Edward A. Montgomery, Jr. '56, Borden W Painter, Jr. '58, Douglas T. Tansill '6 l NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

You can put the "graduate" in graduate fellowships!

Did you know that some of the most prestigious graduate fellowships and scholarships welcome applications from young alumnl/ae?

"Recent graduates often don't realize that they may still be eligible for these extraordinary opportunities to pursue graduate study and international travel," says Anne Lundberg, chair of Trinity's Graduate Fellowships Committee. "We are eager to get the word out about these programs, especially because some of them require nomination or endorsement by the College."

Examples of alumni-friendly fellowships include the Luce Scholars Program (www.hluce.org). Fulbright U.S. Student Program (www.fulbrightonline.org), and Rhodes Scholarships (www.rhodesscholar.org).

All of these have application deadlines in October and November.

Please consult the individual Web sites for eligibility criteria and application procedures. For further information about nomination/endorsement, contact Anne Lundberg at (860) 297-2382 or anne.lundberg@trincoll.edu .

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Executit'f Committee: Sanmel Bailey.Jr. '62, Hilary A. Burrall '03,John S. Hamblett '84, L. Peter Lawrence '7 1, Malcolm F. Maclean IV '92, Lina Estrada McKinney '98, H. Conrad Meyer Ill '77,WJames Murphy.Jr. "90, Pamela Richmond '93, David Sample '71, Virginia Sanchez '77, R. Kevin Smith '87, Matthew B.Woods '92,WTownsend Ziebold,Jr. '84, Alden R. Gordon '69, Faculty Representative, Alan K. Martin '78, Black Alumni Organization Representative Members Ex-Qffirio: Michael S. Gilman '76,William S.Jcnk.ins '03, Matthew J. Longcore '94, M. Morgan Risse! '98 BOARD Of FELLOWS Khooshe AdibSamii Aiken '82, Andrew Aiken '83, Sophie Bell Ayres '77, Patrice Ball-Reed ' O,Aimee Brown '74, Dr. Harvey Bumpers '78,James T. Caillouette M.D. '79, Kathrine Kawamura Corliss '76, Samuel B. Corliss.Jr. '76, Armando A. Diaz '89, Peter F. Donovan '75, Barbara E. Fernandez '74, Peter Gleysteen '73, P'09, Renate C. Gleysteen P'09, S. Randolph Gretz '70, P'06, '09,Joshua Gruss '96, Peter A. Gutermann, Esq . '82,Joseph Head '84, Frank "Ted" Judson '77, Elliot M. Katzman P 'OS, Mary Jo Matel Keating '74, Michael J. Kluger '78, Elissa Raether Kovas '93, Karen Fink Kupferberg '73, P'07, Todd D. Lavieri '83, Nicholas W Lazares, Esq. '73, P'08, '09, Pamela J. Lazare . Esq., P'08, '09 , Kevin Maloney '79, Paul McBride '78, P' 10, Lisa Hill McDonough '79, P'08, ' I 0, Neil D. McDonough "79. P'08, '10,Thomas L. Melly '80,Josh Newsome '95, Benagh Richardson Newsome '95, E. Carter Norton '79, Althea Leidy O'Shaughncssy '78, Peter B. Pfister '81, Ann Martin Pfister '82, Steven Roberts '78, Allan M. Rudnick '62, Andrew D. Smith '65, Andrew R . Taussig '73, Karen Thomas '78, Justin Van Etren '96, Richard H. Walker, Esq. '72, Constance Hart Walk.ingshaw '74, Timothy Walsh '85, Lorraine Saunders White '84

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Dear Friends, On a recent visit to campus, I passed a student on the Long Walk who was talking on her cell phone. I overheard a couple of sentences-" I'm SO excited! I have an interview in Washington on Friday!"

For this year's seniors, conversations like this are increasingly the norm as their final semester heads toward Commencement and the start of their careers.

As Trinity alumni/ ae, we can play an important role in aiding these new graduates, working in close cooperation with the professional staff of the College's Office of Career Services. Before I move on to identify ways in which you can become involved, here is a snapshot of recent achievements and activities of that office. (see box)

• Out of eight peer schools participating in a recent recruiting fair conducted by the Liberal Arts Recruiting Connection, Trinity ranked number one in interview offers .

• Out of 16 selective liberal arts colleges surveyed in the spring of 2006, Trinity ranked fifth in percentage of students accepting fulltime offers of employment • In that same survey, the College ranked third out of 16 in students who applied to attend graduate or professional schools • Trinity regularly attracts recruiters from the top financial, manufacturing, media, and nonprofit organizations in the country. A partial list includes Credit Suisse; Bear, Sterns & Company; Google; KBW; Teach for America; ESPN; Department of Justice; ICF International; Travelers; The Hartford; General Electric; IBM; and many more.

• The College provides extensive support for students through the Health Professions Advisory Committee, the Pre-law Advising Committee, and the MBA Advising Committee, which are made up of faculty members and members of the professional staff.

• During Trinity Days in February, the Office of Career Services helps coordinate annual student visits to major employers in New York and Boston, where Trinity alumni/ ae who are top executives in their companies update our students on the current state of their industries.

• In the spring semester, all sophomores are assigned a career adviser and urged to begin their relationship with Career Services.

As you can see by these examples, Trinity offers tudents a variety of avenues by which they can initiate successful career strategies. And this is where we, as alumni/ ae, can be very helpful. Career Services welcomes and encourages our involvement in a variety of ways.

It may be as simple as forwarding your organization's position vacancy notices to Career Services-not only does this help our students, but it also means you have the potential to hire new employees with a quality Trinity

education. At another level, you and your organization can host an on-site visit by a group of students. These events are particularly effective in providing a close-up look at current issues and opportunities, and they have a proven track record of opening doors and providing invaluable networking opportunities.

Here are just a few examples of recent events. Last fall, Bob Benjamin '71, senior managing director at Bear, Sterns & Company, brought together 22 students for a session on interviewing and other aspects of career planning. And during the fall semester, Rita Scuris '88-a principal utilities finance specialist with the Connecticut Department of Public Utilities Control-assembled a panel of finance experts from such companies as Hartford Investment Management and Phoenix Investment Partners to help our students gain insights into careers in that sector. Finally, one of the highlights of every year at Trinity is the annual State of the Communications, Entertainment and Information Industries event, organized by Ray Joslin '58 and cosponsored by the Trinity Club of New York and the Cable Center. This year's program featured a presentation by Richard Parsons, chairman and chief executive officer, Time Warner Inc. Parsons was interviewed by Paula Zahn of CNN's Paula Zahn Now. Twenty Trinity students had the opportunity to meet with Parsons and Zahn in advance of the event.

I encourage each of you to consider how you can partner with the professionals in the Office of Career Services to provide a great career start to the newest members of our alumni/ a body. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Lanna Hagge, director, at 860-297-2080 or lanna.hagge@trincoll.edu.

Regards, Kevin Smith '87

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UPCOMING 2007 EVENTS SAVE Tl-IESE DATES February 26

Trinity Club of Boston, President's Reception

February 27

Trinity Club of New York, President's Reception

March 15

Trinity Club of Philadelphia, King Tut Exhibition Tour and Reception

April 11

Trinity Club of Naples, Alumni luncheon

April 22 & 23

College Admissions and Exploration Program for Sons and Daughters of Alumni and Faculty

April 15

Trinity Club of Denver, Alumni Reception

May8

Trinity Club of St. Louis, President's Reception at St. Louis Cardinal's game

For details, visit our Web site at www.trincoll.edu/ alumni/ *If you would like to attend one of these events, please call Kristen Blake in the Alumni Office at (860) 297-2406.

Atlanta Tom Rowland '90 (404) 325-8311 thomas.rowland.1990@trincoll.edu Boston Barry A. Freedman, Esq. '87 (617) 535-3718 • barry.freedman.1987@trincoll.edu Robin Ha lpern Cavanaugh '91 (978)443-4605 • robi n.cavanaugh.1991@tri nco ll.edu Chicago Joshua P. Newsome '95 (847) 446-2067 • joshua.newsome.1995@trincoll.edu Denver Robert Phelps '78, P'08 (303) 607-77155 • robert.phelps.1978@trincoll.edu Fairfield County Matthew J . Longcore '94 (203) 643-4623 matthew.longcore.1994@trincoll.edu Hartford John Patrick Bayliss '91 (203) 509-9078 • john.bayliss.1991@trincoll.edu Los Angeles Michael S. Gilman '76 (323) 466-1541 • michael.gilman .1976@trincoll.edu New Haven David R. Lenahan '84 (203) 245-8826 • david.lenahan.1984@trincoll.edu

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New York John B. Akasie II '93 (212) 860-9493 • john.akasie.1993@trincoll.edu

Southeastern Connecticut Conrad Seifert '77 (860) 739-3617 • conrad.seifert.1977@trincoll.edu

William Jenkins '03 (781) 964-3335 • william.jenkins.2003@trincoll.edu

Southwest Florida Michael L. Wallace '57 (239) 596-7780

Northern Florida Theresa Ross Smith '73 and Otho Smith '74 (904) 272-14430 • theresa.smith .1973@trincoll.edu Philadelphia John S. Hamblett '84 (215) 567-1101 • john.hamblett.1984@trincoll.edu Rhode Island Thomas M. Madden, Esq. '86 (401) 886-7397 • thomas.madden.1986@trincoll.edu Rochester Peter Z. Webster '57 (585) 586-4765 • peter.webster.1957@trincoll.edu San Diego Katie Reifenheiser Adams '97 (858) 454-0443 • katherine.adams.1997@trincoll.edu San Francisco M. Morgan Rissel '98 (Co-President) (415) 350-5250 • morgan.rissel.1998@trincoll.edu Michael Poremba '97 (Co-President) (310) 869-6677 • michael.poremba.1997@trincoll.edu Seattle AJ Kamra '94 (206) 575-3600 • ajaypre'et.kamra.1994@trincoll.edu

St. Louis Maria Pedemonti Clifford '88 (314) 997-0237 • maria.clifford.1988@trincoll.edu Vermont Peter H. Kreisel '61 (802) 658-0716 • peter.kreisel.1961@trincoll.edu Washingt on, D.C. Jennifer Dakin '97 (202) 669-6119 • jennifer.dakin .1997@trincoll.edu

If your area is not represented-

GET INVOLVED! Contact Kristen Blake, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations at (860) 297-2406 kristen.blake@trincoll.edu

Bring your local alumni together.

A BIG Tl-IANK YOU TO ALL OUR ALUMNI AND PARENT MOSTS.

Attention Trinity Alumni and Parents: Show Your School Spirit!

Katie Reifenheiser Adams '97 & Charlie Adams '95 &

H. Louis Bailey P'o9 Antoinette Russell P'o9

G. William Brown, Jr. P'o9 & Amy Moss P'o9 Daniel & Lisa Callahan P'o8 Tom Chase '81 John & Margaret Claghorn P'o8 H . William & Martha Cyphers P'o9 Daniel & Lisa Dorian P'o8 John & Cathryn Gandolfo P'IO Raymond Joslin '58

$35.00 per tie or scarf (plus $3 .50 shipping and handling) www.trincoll.edu/pub/a lumni/memorabilia/apparel.htm

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John Linehan '76 Alexander & Sally Lynch P'o3, '04,'08 &

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President Jones with Judy Dworin 70 at the Trinity Club of Hartford's 47th annual banquet. Professor Dworin was honored with the Club's Person of the Year award.

Christine Quinn '88 enjoying her Trinity scarf at a reception in her honor in New York City.

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Professor of Art, Michael FitzGerald speaking about his Picasso exhibit to a group of alumni in Boston.

Trinity students with Richard Parsons, chairman & CEO of Time Warner Inc., and Paula Zahn at the Eighth Annual State of the Communications, Entertainment, and Information Industries event.

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ne of my boyhood heroes was Adlai Stevenson, known in his lifetime as one of America's most distinguished public figures and an orator of exceptional gifts. In the last speech of his life, delivered at an UNESCO conference in Geneva only a couple of weeks before his untimely death in July of 1965, Stevenson compared the planet Earth to a spaceship, hurtling through the universe, with all of the planet's inhabitants as passengers.

Even though he may have borrowed the analogy from the architect Buckminster Fuller, his comparison strikes me today, all these decades later, as one of the most apt descriptions of our lot at this crucial time in humankind's fractured history. Stevenson opined that how the passengers, rich and poor, of varying backgrounds, races, and creeds, coped with each other would determine if the spaceship would arrive safely at its destination.

Here at Trinity, we have a similar task, one made all the more important because our students-those for whom Trinity exists-have four very short years to spend on our campus, and these four years should be among the most formative of their entire lives.

Trinity is part of the city of Hartford, the state of Connecticut, the United States, and the planet Earth. What issues and forces determine history elsewhere will determine our lives on our campus as we go about our daily tasks as fellow learners in this place.

What, one might ask, have we learned about each other in the past four months or so as we experienced two racial incidents that jolted our campus

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and brought the attention of The New York Times to our College?

First, I think that we learned that Trinity, as a community, was hurt that incidents of racial insensitivity could mar a place we all hold cherished.

Second, we learned that as a community, just as in our families when bad things come out of the proverbial blue to hurt us, Trinity could react positively. The Chairman of our Board ofTrustees, Paul Raether, denounced the incidents in front of the faculty and in a message to the entire College.

We held an open forum in Cinestudio.

When Jan and I were walking over, on the afternoon of November 15 (an important date for us each year since it is our wedding anniversary), we had to wait to get inside the building because every seat was taken, students, faculty, and staff were standing in the two vestibules, sitting in the aisles, and the like: I was astonished at the outpouring of concern evinced by the huge gathering and by the eloquent statements of our students who spoke long past the allotted time for the event.

Third, while we cannot change the planet Earth, we can and must take responsibility for our own little spaceship Trinity. And I fear that if we fail to take our responsibilities appropriately, our students may never, once, in their lives experience a place where they have to think, and think deeply and broadly, about the salient issues of our time. Our two incidents were racially charged, but real diversity (the thrust o.f Stevenson's analogy to passengers aboard a single vessel) means learning to live with difference, abandoning barriers of race, background, social status, sexual orientation, or creed since the spaceship will not land safely unless those on board learn to live peacefully with each other.

In the board's review of its own governance structures, which started in the 2004-2005 academic year, the trustees decided to have two different sets of committees: a set of standing committees and a set of what we have taken to calling charter committees.

The latter category allows for broadly based committees, on quick timetables, to deal with issues of importance that will inevitably arise from tim e to time.

Thus, at their December meeting, the trustees enacted a Charter Committee on Campus Climate. The committee will include three trustees, three faculty, three staff, and three students.

MIT professor and Associate Provost Philip Khoury '71 and the Raether Distinguished Professor of History Cheryl Greenberg will serve as cochairs of this committee, which will report back to the trustees in May, a timetable of considerable daring. The committee will make reconunendations on how to improve the climate for all of the passengers on board our little craft. The late Bart Giamatti, former president ofYale, likened can1puses to "free and open spaces," a line that I cherish as I try to think about the essence of a school, a word, with the word teacher, surely among the most treasured in our vocabulary.

We shall do whatever it takes to make certain that our own spaceship, Trinity College, is such a place for each one of us who is a passenger at this time in the College's long and venerable flight.

James F.Jones,Jr. President and Trinity College Professor in the Humanities

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Sarah Raskin,Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Author, with Catherine Meeter, of Neuropsychological Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

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