Trinity Magazine | Summer 2017

THE MAGAZINE OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY SUMMER 2017

A Mid-century, Modern Masterpiece Trinity’s new Campus Master Plan affirms the University’s place and space in time

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TRINITY Summer 2017 Editor Jeanna Goodrich Balreira ’08 Writers Carlos Anchondo ’14, R. Douglas Brackenridge, Susie P. Gonzalez, James Hill ’76, Molly Mohr, Justin Parker ’99, Sharon Jones Schweitzer ’75, Olivia Thomas ’19

Generations of Trinity graduates have told me how the Skyline Campus played a

fundamental role in awakening their academic aspirations and strengthening their personal connections. Today, the campus paths and building sites still inspire discovery, surprise, and personal connections.

We are heirs to a historic, mid-century modern masterpiece. Our Skyline Campus is a treasure for future generations. For this reason, Trinity University will seek to become a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places (read more on page 36). This initiative is part of the University’s recently completed Campus Master Plan, which you learn more about in this issue of Trinity magazine. This is a dramatic step forward. It will bring national attention to Trinity’s unique campus. Schools such as Harvard, Princeton, Emory, Washington University in St. Louis, Bowdoin, Wooster, Franklin & Marshall, and Washington & Lee—just to name a few—have taken similar approaches with some of their historic buildings and campuses.

As a historic district, the University will preserve the cohesive exterior design of our buildings. Except for notable features, Trinity will renovate the interiors to meet the needs of tomorrow’s students.

Trinity University celebrates 75 years in San Antonio this year. It was a bold decision to move here in 1942 at the invitation of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. James Laurie, Trinity’s 14th president, and renowned San Antonio architect O’Neil Ford empowered each other to build a vision for the Trinity campus. As the University built the Skyline Campus, “The Miracle on Trinity Hill” transpired. Ford had an early and lasting impact, developing a master plan in the mid-1940s. He then designed most of the campus buildings between the 1950s and late 1970s.

Over the past year and a half, the Campus Master Plan has engaged faculty, staff, students, alumni, and external stakeholders. The Campus Master Plan will be our guide, pairing our academic mission with Trinity’s architectural history to create a vision that is inspiring, functional, and enduring. The plan goes beyond the decision to seek designation as a historic district. It includes features that enhance the power of connection in O’Neil Ford’s design.

The campus is now more than 60 years old. We can preserve our O’Neil Ford legacy and adapt it to meet 21st century needs. The plan includes priorities to renovate some of our oldest buildings and facilities such as Chapman Center, Halsell, and the Trinity football stadium. It also includes new ideas that continue O’Neil Ford’s spirit of innovation for the future. Like Ford and early campus planners, Trinity’s new Campus Master Plan will have an enduring impact on future generations.

I invite you to imagine our campus preserved for the future and renewed for today. I invite you to imagine all the things we can do together to ensure that Trinity remains a “University of the highest order,” connected to San Antonio, thriving deep in the heart of Texas, and engaged with our nation and our world.

Photographers Nash Baker P’07, Anh-Viet Dinh ’15, Abie Livesay, Joshua Moczygemba ’05, Mike Moreland, Bennett Soriano ’19 Coloring Book Peter Licalzi ’08, Blue Star Press Suzy Joyner, illustrator Copy Editor Ashley Festa

President Danny J. Anderson Board of Trustees Erin Baker ’99; Sharon J. Bell; Ted W. Beneski; Walter F. Brown Jr.; Clifford M. Buchholz ’65; Miles C. Cortez ’64; Janet St. Clair Dicke ’68; Douglas D. Hawthorne ’69, ’72; Gen. James T. Hill (Ret.) ’68; Walter R. Huntley Jr. ’71, ’73; John R. (J.R.) Hurd; E. Carey Joullian IV ’82; The Rev. Dr. Richard R. Kannwischer ’95; Richard M. Kleberg III ’65; Katherine Wood Klinger ’72; John C. Korbell; Oliver T.W. Lee ’93; Steven P. Mach ’92; Robert S. McClane ’61; Melody Boone Meyer ’79; Marshall B. Miller Jr.; Michael F. Neidorff ’65; Thomas R. Semmes; L. Herbert Stumberg Jr. ’81; Jessica Thorne ’91 Trinity is published two times a year by the Office of University Marketing & Communications and is sent to alumni, faculty, staff, graduate students, parents of undergraduates, and friends of the University.

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CONTENTS

Trinity, in Place and Time 30 The Trinity University Campus Master Plan 38 O’Neil Ford 45 Forever Love in Parker Chapel 48 A Field Guide for Trinity University 49 Field Guide Coloring Book

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Letters to the Editor Trinity Today 16 Tiger Pride 22 Where Are They Now? 24 In Memoriam 25 Summer Reading 26 Trinity Press

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Alumni Profiles Class Notes 69 Chapter Activities 74 Trinity Travels 75 Déjà View 60

Making the Cover When we sat down to discuss the cover this issue, we all had a similar train of thought: “We have a fabulous O’Neil Ford black-and-white campus sketch, and we have a stunning full-color illustrated rendering from our Campus Master Plan. But we don’t have anything to blend the two.” So, we created it! Using a combination of printed artwork, hand-painted watercolor, and digital illustration, this issue’s cover art merges history with future. Watch how it was made at gotu.us/makingthecover.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Ever the typical millennial, I had many lives before I wound up in this one at Trinity.

One of those lives was in marketing at Lake|Flato, a San Antonio-based architecture firm with a strong focus on sustainability and place-based design. It was a brief stint, but in the time I was there, I learned so much about the form, functionality, and beauty of architectural design—perhaps most memorably from co-founder Ted Flato, especially when it came to architecture for higher education.

In an early-morning conversation by the coffee pot that may have seemed inconsequential at the time, Ted said to me: “In a world where we’re not always mindful of how we live, we can design the places we live to make us pause, take a breath, and appreciate the spaces around us.”

To this day, Ted still may not know how much this resonated with me. It was something I, admittedly, hadn’t noticed about architecture before. Did the buildings around me really force me to deliberately pause, breathe, and appreciate my surroundings?

As the University celebrates 75 years in San Antonio this year (65 of which have been nestled on Trinity Hill) we look back at the influences that have defined our place and space in time. Arguably, one of the most notable influences was San Antonio architect O’Neil Ford, who transformed a 117-acre abandoned rock quarry into an oasis in the heart of the city. In 1946, it was hard to imagine this ‘limestone jungle’ as anything but a bright magnet for Texas heat; today, it is a bustling, dynamic, green space, where students and scholars share ideas and experiences.

Our campus itself is part of the liberal arts experience. Ford understood the importance of this; as you’ll read on page 38, Ford lived his life “excited by new ideas and experiences,” and he approached architecture with much of the same attitude. His understanding of the campus was one of academic spirit and collaboration—what we’re calling productive collisions these days—where the physical space enhanced the learning process. These purposeful, architectural decisions were at the heart of Ford’s original vision for the campus, and this vision now lays in our hands to honor.

Such was the daunting task facing Trinity’s Campus Master Plan committee.

For the past three years, the team guided the development of a Campus Master Plan that will have a lasting impact on the Trinity campus (read more on page 30).

Among other physical improvements to buildings and structures, the Plan includes seeking placement on the National Register of Historic Places to create a historic district for the campus, further solidifying our commitment to honoring the architectural legacy of O’Neil Ford.

Above all—amid construction, preservation, new signage, old craftsmanship, and green spaces—the Campus Master Plan will serve as a cornerstone that continually implores us to do one important thing: In a world where we’re not always mindful about how we live, this campus continues to make us pause, take a breath, and appreciate the spaces around us.

Speaking of appreciation: With this issue, we bid a fond farewell to Carlos Anchondo, who will be starting graduate school at the University of Texas School of Journalism. Over the past two years, Carlos has added a profound and transformational voice to this publication, which won’t be the same without him. I’m sure Carlos will continue to craft fantastic work, so follow him on Twitter at @cjanchondo to keep in touch. We’ll welcome a new writer for the Winter 2018 issue!

Letter to the Editor I have just finished my hard copy of Trinity magazine, which I thoroughly enjoyed, despite of the roller coaster of emotions I experienced as I read through it. It was great sorrow I experienced in reading the obituaries, especially that of a most influential professor for me in my educational and career choices, Dr. Fred Bremner. He inspired my study of psychology to move outside of the lab, the institution, and into the natural world. That stimulation appeared to pluck my genes and move me into the kind of education and functional professional I became in my psychology career. He indeed holds a permanent place among the ranks of many great Trinity University faculty—a continuous, ongoing list of creative individuals who have made and now are making Trinity the fine, renowned University that it is. Their lives gave ours a deeper meaning and unlimited number of meaningful life experiences throughout our careers.

– Michael R. Van Winkle ’75

Send comments, ideas, or suggestions to

Happy reading,

Jeanna Goodrich Balreira at jgoodri1@trinity.edu or One Trinity Place, San Antonio, Texas 78212.

Letters may be edited for style and space considerations.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Jeanna is a writer, designer, and coder for Trinity’s creative services and a proud English major, class of 2008. When she’s not gardening or trying new foods, Jeanna is probably watching Star Wars, singing with the ladies in the Beethoven Damenchor, or working on writing a book on programming as a second language.

Follow Jeanna at @jeannabalreira.

Carlos is a writer and editor for university marketing and communications at Trinity University. Carlos graduated from Trinity in 2014 with a double major in communication and international studies. He is a runner, reader, and collector of as many stamps as possible to fill his passport.

Follow Carlos at @cjanchondo.

Anh-Viet is the digital content producer for university marketing and communications. He has taken more than one million photographs, enjoys playing piano, exploring nature, and hopes to travel the world. He graduated from Trinity in 2015 as a biology major and feels blessed to have experienced music, art, and science during his time at Trinity.

Jeanna Goodrich Balreira words + photos

Carlos Anchondo words

Anh-Viet Dinh photos

Susie Gonzalez words

Joshua Moczygemba words + photos

Doug Brackenridge words

Susie started her career as a newspaper reporter but changed the “channel” to Trinity when she realized she is a lifelong learner who thrives in an academic setting. Susie loves to share stories about Trinity people and programs with local, regional, and national media outlets and appreciates picturesque sunsets while walking her dog. Follow Susie at @susiegonz.

Joshua is the sports marketing coordinator at Trinity, a post he’s held since 2013. Joshua helps run Tiger Network, maintains and updates trinitytigers.com, and captures action and still sports photography. He graduated from Trinity in 2005 as a business administration major, with concentrations in marketing and communication.

Doug served on the Trinity faculty in the Department of Religion from 1962 to 2000 where he taught courses in the Bible, history of Christianity, and American religion. A volunteer in the University archives, he regularly visits the Bell Center to exercise with fellow retiree Ken Hummel.

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The Big Picture More than 20 different plant species claim the green roof on the fourth floor of the Center for the Sciences and Innovation as their home. A majority of the plants are grasses endemic to Texas and the Hill Country. The green roof is the brainchild of Trinity biology professor Kelly Lyons, who works with undergraduate research students, including Kendall Kotara '17 and Austin Phillippe '16, to maintain the space. photo by Anh-Viet Dinh '15

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Instagram That moment when you’re done with finals. #FountainTime

Trinity Online Web Extras Interact with videos, slideshows, and other content through the magazine’s web extras. A “gotu.us” URL at the end of a story signifies there’s more to experience online—just type the URL as printed directly into your web browser.

Social Media Follow Trinity on social media and stay updated with stories from students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends. Show your Trinity spirit with #TigerPride! facebook.com/TrinityUniversity youtube.com/TrinityUniversitySA twitter.com/Trinity_U instagram.com/TrinityU gotu.us/linkedin

Twitter We flew a banner on our tower.

We kinda like the Spurs... #GoSpursGo

A Transnational Partnership Trinity and Monterrey Tec plan together for a bright future Sixteen Trinity students and more than a dozen University facul-

ty flew south to re-energize the exchange partnership between Trinity and the “MIT of Mexico,” the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. First cultivated by Richard Burr, professor emeritus of business administration, and former economics professor Jorge Gonzalez, the alliance had waned in recent years due to security concerns.

Finance professor Dante Suarez considers Trinity uniquely positioned to be the best university to study all things Latin American. Suarez teaches a Spanish language course, “Doing Business in Latin America,” where Trinity students build an import-export company with Tec counterparts. The Trinity-Tec partnership is distinctive because students meet in-person as well as correspond online.

In addition to meetings and a campus tour, students visited downtown Monterrey, traveled to the Las Grutas caverns, and

This prepares students for a global business landscape. presented their proposed companies. In March, Tec students reunited with their Trinity teammates in San Antonio to pitch their companies at the Stumberg venture competition.

According to Katsuo Nishikawa, director of the Trinity Center for International Engagement and associate professor of political science, these opportunities broaden students’ worldview and prepare them for a global business landscape.

While in Monterrey, President Danny Anderson signed a reaffirmation resolution to acknowledge Trinity’s past relationship with Tec and to signify a rejuvenated partnership.

programs, No. 2 in Texas, and No. 1 among AACSB peer and aspirant schools.

The undergraduate accounting program was ranked No. 17 in Accounting.com’s “50 Best Bachelor’s in Accounting Programs” for 2017. The primary metrics include retention and graduation rates, reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, and curricular standards. Even before graduation, more than 90 percent of Trinity accounting students secure paid internships at national and international accountancy firms.

Dean Tuttle and members of Trinity’s SGA visit the B-Cycle station, located on south campus.

Accounting students aren’t just excelling in the classroom—they’re making a difference in

They See Me Rollin’ B-Cycle installed on Trinity campus

the community, too. Read more about one

The bike-sharing program known as B-Cycle has come to Trinity as an environmentally friendly, low-cost mode of transportation.

The bikes have been branded with the University logo and installed near first-year residence halls.

The B-Cycle program arrives after numerous leaders of Trinity’s Student Government Association fought for its placement.

“This initiative represents the best of our student government. They explored this option, surveyed students, worked collaboratively with B-Cycle staff, and dedicated money to the project,” said David Tuttle, associate vice president and dean of students.

Tuttle commended the students for seeking a method of mobility for students without vehicles. The bicycles will allow students to “easily travel to the Pearl, downtown, and other points south to engage in the life of the city.” The city’s B-Cycle program includes 60 bike stations and more than 500 bikes, according to B-Cycle officials.

No Arguments Here Students help make mayoral debate a success

Success, Accounted For Accounting notches highest-ever CPA exam pass rate For the 2016 calendar year, Trinity graduates had a first-time section pass rate of 78 percent on the Uniform CPA Examination.

This pass rate ranks Trinity No. 5 nationally among almost 300 medium-sized accounting

accounting class at gotu.us/CountTheWays.

San Antonio elected a new mayor in June— but before that happened, Trinity students had a role in educating voters about the candidates. Sean Watson ’17 was at the forefront of that process.

Watson, who graduated in May with a degree in political science, was president of Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society. He was approached by Katsuo Nishikawa Chavez, political science professor and director of the Center for International Engagement, to spearhead student efforts for an on-campus mayoral debate.

Nishikawa and sociology professor Christine Drennon called initial meetings of students, staff, and faculty but ultimately passed the baton to Watson, who found space to meet, developed agendas, and recruited other students to help. “I wanted Pi Sigma Alpha to be the organization taking point on this,” Watson says. “It was a great experience, and I really valued that position.”

He credits incoming Pi Sigma Alpha president Calistra Struby and Student Government Association officers Nick Santulli and Kassie Kelly, along with editors of the online student journal The Contemporary, for creating awareness of the mayoral debate that featured the three leading candidates—in-

cumbent Ivy Taylor and challengers Manuel Medina and Ron Nirenberg ’99, the Trinity graduate who ultimately won.

About 400 people from the Trinity and San Antonio community gathered on the night of the event in Laurie Auditorium.

Recognizing Distinguished Service University awards two Trinity Trustees for their service Trinity University Trustees John Korbell and Lissa Walls ‘80 received the Distinguished Service Award, the University’s highest honor, during the 2017 spring commencement ceremonies.

A Trinity Trustee since 1978, Korbell served as chairman of the Board from 201214. He and his wife, Bonnie Korbell, have been generous supporters of the University for many years. Korbell recently retired as managing director at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney after serving 48 years in the securities industry. He has been an active leader in the San Antonio community.

Walls, a 1980 graduate of Trinity University, is CEO of Southern Newspapers Incorporated. She is the past president of the Texas Daily Newspapers Association and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. Walls served as chairwoman of the Board from 2004-06 and has retired after 25 years of service.

The Distinguished Service Award was established by Trinity’s Board of Trustees in 1973 to recognize and honor outstanding citizens who have contributed to the well-being of the San Antonio community and Trinity University.

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Fond Farewells L. Paige Fields, Mike Wilkins, and Mark Brodl leave Trinity L. Paige Fields, dean of Trinity’s School of Business and the Dick and Peggy Prassel Professor of Business, has been named the dean of the School of Business at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Kan. Fields was appointed dean of Trinity’s School of Business in 2015. An expert on corporate governance, banking, and insurance, Fields has worked to enhance business education at Trinity. Fields’ husband, Mike Wilkins, the Jesse H. Jones Professor of Business and chair of the Department of Accounting at Trinity, will be joining her at KU. Mark Brodl, associate vice president for Academic Affairs and the George W. Brackenridge Distinguished Professor of Biology, has been named the next provost of Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill. During his time at Trinity, Brodl established a national reputation for his work in support of student-faculty research. Over his career, he has been a research mentor for more than 200 students, including 37 who completed honors theses.

Fields, Wilkins, and Brodl left the University on June 30.

tion. He has spent more than 15 years as a business dean, having held the position at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the University of Dallas, and Cleveland State University. Scherer also has longstanding ties to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Scherer is fluent in Spanish and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Chile. His published research has covered a number of areas, including international management, stress and coping, gender issues in the workplace, business education, and entrepreneurship.

During this appointment, Scherer will supervise the operations of the School of Business and the three academic departments contained within the School: Accounting, Business Administration, and Finance and Decision Sciences. Among other supporting duties, he will play an important role in shepherding the School of Business through a re-accreditation review with the AACSB. Appointment of a full-time dean

During the upcoming academic year, Trinity will undertake a national search to identify an individual to serve as dean of the School of Business for a renewable term. In Fall 2017, Trinity will develop a position description, appoint search committee members, and devise a search timeline.​ For more information, contact schoolofbusiness@trinity.edu.

Trinity Appoints Interim Business School Dean Robert Scherer brings more than three decades of experience in higher education

Trinity Names Associate Vice President Michael Soto to lead a range of undergraduate academic initiatives

Trinity has appointed Robert Scherer as interim dean of the University’s School of Business. His one-year appointment began July 1.

Scherer brings considerable experience from a 30-year career in higher educa-

Michael Soto, professor of English at Trinity, has been named associate vice president for Academic Affairs: Student Academic Issues and Retention. He will be responsible for developing, managing, and assessing a comprehensive plan to improve retention

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of undergraduates and lead a range of other academic initiatives, including New Student Orientation and the Academic Honor Code and Council.

Soto also will coordinate first-year student academic advising and adviser training. He is proud of the gains the University has achieved on behalf of first-generation and low-income students, and he strongly believes those learned lessons can be applied to the wider student body.

Soto arrived at Trinity in 1999 and is a specialist in 20th century American literature and cultural history. He was the director of the McNair Scholars Program from 2007-16.

Reading TUgether Evicted chosen as the 2017 Reading TUgether book for the Trinity community Trinity University has announced the 2017 Reading TUgether selection—Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.

Evicted is a sociological study that reads like a novel and tells the story of eight families in Milwaukee low-income neighborhoods and the landlords in their lives.

Each year, the University community shares a joint reading experience and is invited to attend a keynote lecture about the selected book. Desmond will deliver the Reading TUgether keynote lecture on Wednesday, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. in Laurie Auditorium.

Tim O’Sullivan, professor of classical studies at Trinity, says the book was chosen to “shine a light on the debilitating impact of insecure housing. We want our students to be able to grapple with some of the most important issues in contemporary life.”

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First-year Trinity students are required to read Evicted and to attend the lecture as part of New Student Orientation. Tiger alumni are also encouraged to read the book and participate in discussion as a part of the Reading TUgether program to encourage lifelong learning.

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Tobacco-Free Trinity University to prohibit use of tobacco products on campus beginning Aug. 1 Trinity University will become a tobacco-free campus on Aug. 1 in support of the University’s commitment to holistic wellness.

“According to the Surgeon General, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in this country,” said President Danny Anderson. “Trinity strives to provide a safe, healthy environment to learn and work.”

When the tobacco-free campus policy goes into effect, the use of any tobacco product will be prohibited on University property. The tobacco prohibition includes cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, and any other products usually identified with tobacco use. This prohibition includes Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, e-cigarettes, and vaping.

Becoming a completely tobacco-free campus has been a four-year process for Trinity. In preparation for this initiative, the Safety, Security, and Health Committee sought the endorsement of the President’s office, the Faculty Senate, University staff, and the Student Government Association. There are more than 20 colleges and universities in Texas that are tobacco-free. The majority of these tobacco-free campuses are public institutions.

University launches Trinity True Program celebrates the spirit of consecutive giving at Trinity

by Molly Mohr Trinity University has launched a new program to recognize donors who give consecutively year after year to the University. Titled “Trinity True,” the program honors loyal alumni, parents, and friends of the University who support Trinity consistently over time, regardless of gift amount.

“Trinity True honors our most steadfast donors for the spirit of their giving and their generous faithfulness to Trinity University,” says Mike Bacon ‘89, vice president for Alumni Relations and Development. “We are so lucky to have donors who stay true to Trinity every year. We are incredibly grateful for them and their loyal commitment to helping Trinity achieve its educational mission.”

Through the new program, the University hopes to educate donors about the importance of yearly gifts to Trinity, show appreciation to consecutive donors, and foster a spirit of giving, no matter the donation amount.

Membership in Trinity True begins after a donor’s fifth year of consecutive giving at Trinity. Recognition is based on gifts, pledge payments, and matching gifts received in a single fiscal year. Currently 1,700 donors qualify for membership. During fiscal year 2015-16, nearly a third of all gifts to the University came from donors who have given for five or more years consecutively.

To commend their loyalty, consecutive donors will receive Trinity True lapel pins after five years of successive giving. Pins with gemstones denote landmark years, such as 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years of consecutive giving.

For more information about the Trinity True program, contact

Learn more about the tobacco-free policy and find smoking cessation resources at

Alta Compton, donor relations officer, at 210-999-8275 or at acompton@trinity.edu.

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Serving New Orleans Trinity students spend Spring Break 2017 learning through volunteerism

by Carlos Anchondo ’14

above Trinity undergraduates volunteer with The Green Project in the St. Claude neighborhood of New Orleans during Spring Break 2017.

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An almost inaudible squeak escapes as the joints of a step ladder open wide. Its rubber feet sink into a plush living room carpet. Natural light does its best to permeate the half-closed blinds.

“We’re replacing these bulbs, right?” asks Susan Griffith ’19 as she ascends the ladder. She receives a quick nod from a team member, and with three twists, unscrews the old bulb, which she replaces with a new, energy efficient model.

This was Griffith in mid-March, volunteering in New Orleans as a participant on Trinity’s Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip. On the first service day, the group of 12 joined Green Light New Orleans to install compact fluorescent bulbs in area homes. In an effort to reduce the city’s carbon footprint, the nonprofit offers this free service as well as a gardening program and rain barrel installation.

As they worked, students chatted amicably with homeowners about their lives. They displayed no hesitation in meeting strangers, noting that they meet new people every day on Trinity’s campus. Crisscrossing the city in vans, students worked together to find homes, portion out and install the appropriate number of bulbs, and record their progress.

This was the first taste of service for Trinity ASB in the Crescent City. The group, composed of students from a mix of majors and class years, had come to explore the theme of environmental justice. Site leaders Austen Hall ’16 and

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Pooja Bollampally ’17 organized five service days and one cultural exploration day to understand the topic. Students toured the French Quarter, the Garden District, and the Uptown/Carrollton neighborhood on their exploration day.

Amani Canada ’20, an environmental studies major from Houston, applied for ASB because she missed volunteering, as she’d done with groups like the YMCA. “I was excited to serve with classmates who I knew would each bring a different perspective and attitude to volunteering,” says Canada. “On the trip, nightly reflections pushed us to think about the bigger picture and how problems in New Orleans might relate to one another.”

At Green Light New Orleans, Canada saw a nonprofit that brought sustainable living directly to the community. She liked how close the organization was to the people it served and the way it used in-person visits to educate about climate change. Canada shared this observation at one of the reflections Hall and Bollampally facilitated before the group adjourned each evening.

Reflections were a core component of the trip due to Scott Brown, Trinity’s assistant director of experiential learning, who oversees ASB programming and service-learning opportunities. “Through reflection, I wanted students to become more confident in expressing themselves and their ideas while also listening to others’ perspectives and life experiences,” says Brown. “Ultimately, I wanted students to gain a deeper awareness of themselves, each other, and their ability to be effective leaders in their communities.”

Bollampally, a sociology major, was asked by Brown to

be an ASB site leader after he observed her leadership as a volunteer coordinator for TUVAC, the Trinity University Volunteer Action Committee. In addition to planning the trip’s day-to-day logistics, she and Hall encouraged participants to think critically about their experiences and to use previous classroom knowledge to inform their reflection contributions. “The discussions we facilitated produced some really insightful answers and it was great to hear my fellow students think so deeply about our service,” says Bollampally.

In addition to Green Light New Orleans, ASB also served with The Green Project, Groundwork New Orleans, and the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED). Bollampally and Hall selected each of these nonprofits and coordinated each visit. The planning and execution of this trip tested and fortified the leadership skills of both site leaders.

Hall, a recent AmeriCorps Public Ally who partnered with Trinity, says he learned adaptability and group management skills as a trip leader. Like Bollampally, he stresses the importance of daily service reflections, an intentional step taken to ensure that the trip was a learning experience. “Students were able to bring theoretical knowledge from the classroom and connect that to the experiences they were having in New Orleans,” says Hall. “We had conversations about the social and economic dynamics of

Each evening, ASB participants shared their perspectives on service at dinners hosted by Trinity alumni living in New Orleans. Steven Rueb ’88, vice president and director of government and municipal trading at Dorsey & Company, was proud to welcome students into his Uptown home.

Rueb and his wife, Tisha, prepared a New Orleans-style feast complete with crawfish, shrimp, a Doberge cake, and other delicacies.

Rueb, an economics major, called ASB a “wonderful opportunity” for Trinity students to “see the fabric of New Orleans in a more real way” and to create “lasting memories in a unique city. Trips like this are a tribute to the type of academic institution that Trinity is and the students that it attracts,” he says. “These are individuals willing to stretch themselves and look for opportunities to experience something different, and I’m glad the school chose New Orleans because I was happy to meet these students.”

Trinity has a long history of alternative spring break trips, sending students to locations as varied as Georgia and Dominica. Trips are designed to be student-led and affordable, with the trip costs subsidized through alumni participation and free lodging. On this trip, ASB stayed at the Grace Lutheran Church in New Orleans. Students serve approximately 40 hours over a five-day span.

With a successful ASB in the books, Brown hopes

Watch a video from the trip at gotu.us/TrinityASB

“These are individuals willing to stretch themselves and look for opportunities to experience something different.” the city, about confronting our own privilege, and the parts of the city we were seeing, among other discussions.”

Griffith, a history major from Concord, N.H., participated in ASB to better understand the complexities of New Orleans. To avoid insularity, she volunteers “to gain an appreciation of parts of society separate from” her life.

Recalling a previous trip to New Orleans for a college visit, Griffith says service changes your perspective on a place, how you interact with it, and even the neighborhoods you visit. Motivated by the satisfaction of a job well done, Griffith maintains that there should be an element of sacrifice to volunteering.

“Service is supposed to be work,” says Griffith. “There are parts that can be fun, like the sense of camaraderie and accomplishment, but what’s important is how service benefits a community and that’s what’s really rewarding.”

participants from this trip will volunteer as future site leaders. And while Brown mentored Bollampally and Hall and was relied on daily for advice, he purposefully did not attend the New Orleans trip. ASB was meant to hone leadership skills and promote a spirit of collaboration among the group.

Whether it was pulling weeds, painting walls, spreading gravel, or screwing in light bulbs, a fun feeling permeated the entire trip. Maybe it was discovering Creole radio stations. Maybe it was the epic drive across I-10. Or maybe it was the huge pile of powdered sugar atop fluffy beignets at Café Du Monde. Who knows? Somewhere along the line, between service sites and Cajun cooking, twelve Trinity strangers became friends and learned more than they thought possible.

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Modern Love Student essay wins New York Times essay contest

by Susie P. Gonzalez Malcolm Conner ’18 had a lot of questions to confront this spring. As a junior at Trinity, the English major from Wisconsin was not only pondering how to ace the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) but also where to go to medical school and how he would pay tuition. He also had to figure out his love life.

A regular reader of “Modern Love” in The New York Times, Conner says one day he saw an item in the column announcing a contest for college undergraduates to submit their story of campus romance. The deadline was at the end of spring break, so he thought a full week without classes would be the perfect time to sort out his feelings and commit his thoughts to paper.

It worked. Out of more than 2,000 submissions, Conner’s won. He spent that week in March mostly doing homework and hanging out with his girlfriend, also an aspiring doctor who used the time off to study for the MCAT. He dabbled at the essay but wrote at least half of it the day it was due and says he had to “speed finish it.” He pushed the “send” button two minutes before the deadline, annoyed that he forgot New York is the Eastern time zone.

“It was clarifying,” he says of the writing experience.

“One reason I wanted to write is to see if I could put on paper how and why I was rationalizing this relationship.

It is almost certain to say we won’t be together in the long-run because of this tricky thing with her family.”

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The tricky thing? She is another nationality and is forbidden to date outside the family’s ethnic group. Their love is a secret from her parents and is painful for Conner to discuss. Still, the duo comes across as soul mates, particularly because she seems to understand the essence of Conner, who exposed his transgender experience in the Times essay.

Doing so in such a public, contest-winning way was complicated enough, but the announcement, and a link to his essay, took social media by storm just as finals were beginning at Trinity. Conner’s email inbox was immediately flooded with comments, not all supportive, from across the country. The gravity of what had happened was still unfolding.

English professor Peter Balbert taught four of Conner’s classes and is also his adviser. Balbert expresses no surprise that Conner’s article was a vehicle for introspection—“You write to find out what you believe,” Balbert says—nor that he took first place, adding that Conner is an “insightful, incisive writer.” But Balbert had no idea of the student’s personal story until he read the “Modern Love” essay.

Conner credits Balbert with helping him arrive at his college major. “I knew my freshman year that I had an interest in pre-med. I assumed I would be a biology major, and I clung to that for a long time, but Dr. Balbert made a good argument to be pre-med as an English major,” Conner says. “I realized English was something I am good at and got something out of that I don’t necessarily get out of biology.”

Such a dedicated English student is Conner that he missed only one of Balbert’s classes. Conner went to Austin to testify before the Texas Legislature against a proposed “bathroom bill” that would require people to use only the public restroom that matches the gender on their birth certificates.

Balbert said Conner is “the best kind of candidate” to become a doctor if he does well on the entrance exam because “he is not only literate but loves science.” Balbert also complimented Conner’s “wonderfully developed, two-sided brain. What a doctor he will make!”

Another Trinity student, Caroline Grand ’18, also submitted a notable essay to the contest. She is a Summer 2017 Undergraduate Research Fellow as part of the Mellon Initiative that supports research in the arts and humanities.

Read Malcolm’s essay, “The Physics of Forbidden Love,” online at gotu.us/modernlove.

Wilson

Mentorship Gives Edge to New Graduates University launches 1869 Scholars Program to enhance student-alumni networking

by Susie P. Gonzalez

above Angela Wilson ’18 worked at Blue Star Contemporary Art Gallery as an Arts, Letters, and Enterprise intern in summer 2016.

Many Trinity students could benefit from a coach—not an athletic or academic coach, but the type who can offer advice on building or polishing skills to help them succeed after graduating. To do just that, several campus administrators developed the 1869 Scholars Program, a hat tip to the year the University was founded.

The idea is to match students with alumni mentors to boost personal development and interviewing skills with an added reflection component. Graduates with Program experience would be better able to articulate their time at Trinity in ways that make them stand out to graduate schools or employers. The program, which was piloted in the summer of 2016 and the spring of 2017, is designed to complement other campus activities such as leadership positions, internships, involvement in athletics, and more.

With a “clear path to her future,” she would definitely recommend the program to other students.

“This is what employers say they want,” says Jacob Tingle ’95, co-director of the Center for Experiential Learning and Career Success. “They want employees who are engaged citizens and who are innovative problem solvers. As 1869 Scholars, Trinity graduates will not only be able to tell employers, ‘I’m a good problem solver,’ but

also have an opportunity to explain and articulate how to solve a problem.”

During Wilson’s spring semester in London, Tingle matched Angela Wilson ’18, a studio art major with an art history minor from Houston, with Janine McShane ’10, an alumna living in London.

“I didn’t fully realize the benefit of Trinity’s alumni connection internationally,” Wilson says. “Outside of our awesome conversations about attending Trinity and comparing it to life in London, Janine really helped me grasp the ‘after graduation’ point of view and begin pinpointing my next steps in order to solidify and achieve my career goals.”

Through McShane’s questions and reflections, Wilson felt encouraged to identify her own future plans to make sure she was taking the right courses and gaining the right experiences and opportunities to achieve her goals. Wilson, who also will receive a certification through Trinity’s Arts, Letters, and Enterprise program, plans to pursue a master’s in education and to become a teacher.

With a “clear path to her future,” Wilson says she would definitely recommend the 1869 Scholars Program to other students.

Wilson was one of 30 students paired with 30 alumni taking part in the spring pilot program. As the program continues in the fall, the cohort is expected to double to 60 students and 60 alumni. The program was funded in part by a $33,000 grant from NetVUE Foundation that took effect in May. Pairs connected several times during the semester in person and through email and other means of communication to build relationships and master the reflection process.

All Scholars aimed to improve their skills of effective communication and to select a second area of mastery from topics such as engaged citizenship, teamwork, problem solving and innovation, planning and organization, information literacy, digital literacy, or quantitative reasoning.

Alumni coordinators are Doug Conyers ’97, Jennifer Dewar ’02, and Carol Folbre ’81. In addition to Tingle, staff coordinators are Melissa Flowers, director of Residential Life; Twyla Hough, director of Career Services; and Jamie Thompson ’05, director of Student Involvement.

Interested in learning more about the 1869 Scholars Program or becoming an alumni mentor? Contact Jacob Tingle at jtingle@trinity.edu.

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With the help of a trainer, Vivek Poovathoor ’18 practices welding, a skill he first honed in a theater design class at Trinity.

Driven for Design Engineering science students on track to build a Formula One race car

by Susie P. Gonzalez renderings courtesy of Trinity University Motorsport Engineering science graduate Michael “Mikey” Robison

’17 “has cars in his blood,” according to engineering professor Jack Leifer. So it was no surprise when Robison talked four classmates into joining him in building Trinity’s first Formula One race car.

“I love vehicles and things that move,” says Robison, who is from Pineville, La. In the summer of 2016, he and fellow senior engineering science majors Austin Haas of San Marcos, Texas; Hamza Adisa of Lagos, Nigeria; Todd Edwards of Sydney; and Nate Kiszla of Denver began the daunting task of designing and building a car suitable for competing against 80 collegiate teams in the Formula SAE Series in Lincoln, Neb. They searched for car blueprints (there aren’t any) and had to master hands-on skills such as welding (Robison initially burned his arms). They began fundraising to supplement the $1,200 department stipend for group senior engineering science capstone projects and dreamed big.

They hit campus in the fall of 2016 ready to tackle the design project of building the car’s chassis; they aimed to go well beyond by finishing the automobile construction

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and related requirements for competition. The students planned to stay on campus past their May commencement, working feverishly as a labor of love, until the car was built. At the time, Leifer predicted, “If any group of students could do this, it would be this group.”

In preparation for the competition, the students discovered they needed to develop a business model that included marketing plans for their prototype as well as the ability to comply with and pass a range of durability and safety regulations and tests. For help, they pulled in students from disciplines such as biochemistry, microbiology, computer science, business, and any other major who showed interest. They also turned to the Advancement Office for assistance in raising money.

When Trustee emerita Barbara Pierce ’78 learned of their need from an advancement officer, she made a $45,000 gift that ultimately was used to buy a snowmobile that was dismantled for parts. “I found their story and their passion so compelling,” she says. “At that point, they were literally without wheels.”

Obtaining the snowmobile was a challenge, since manufacturers were reluctant to ship a machine to South Texas where it rarely snows. But once it arrived, it empowered the students to zoom forward by finishing

As the race car frame was built, it underwent countless strain and rigidity tests to ensure sound structure.

the car’s chassis and continuing to check off the other competition requirements. With the frame built, they purchased brakes and began crafting a gas tank. Along the way, aspects not related to construction snagged their progress. In short, the students recognized that building a car is an engineer’s domain; developing a startup company and creating a business plan is not.

By April, when technical documents for designs and costs had to be turned in, the team made the painful decision to withdraw from the competition. “When you start from scratch, you have to consider everything all at once,” Robison says, adding that his four teammates were equally disappointed.

In time, they came to see they had created a backbone for what they hope will become TU Motorsport. They organized two teams of five seniors and pressed students from other majors to continue with the project. Robison said he recommends that Trinity form a club of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) to draw upon the national group’s membership expertise so Trinity students can meet and shadow SAE engineers and mechanics and learn the process of designing and fabricating a race car.

Robison and his group successfully met the requirements for their design project, and in May, he held a welding tutorial for the next generation of car builders.

Wearing long sleeves to protect his arms and a hood to shield his eyes, Robison told the rising seniors, “Try to be comfortable, relax, and stand or pull up a stool. It takes a lot of practice.”

Vivek Poovathoor ’18, an engineering science major from Chicago, was eager to master welding skills he first tried in one of Trinity’s theater design classes. “I would love to build a car, but the biggest thing is building a team.

This is ground zero.”

He and Chris Nkinthorn ’18, an engineering science major from Houston, visited the SAE club at the University of Texas at Austin. The UT club members offered technical advice and history, which dates back to 1981 at the beginning of the SAE competition. This year, UT took two finished cars to competition, an electric version and a gasoline engine model.

In addition to successfully completing his senior design project, Poovathoor agrees that forming an SAE club in the coming academic year would be an important link in the quest to build a car. He is thinking of ways to entice sophomores and juniors to participate in the club as well as ways to formalize financial support. “We want to make a sustainable club,” he says. “It would put Trinity on the map.”

Pierce, the donor, says more people need to know about the dreams of the engineering science students.

“This could be a really big deal. It gives me joy to be able to do this, but it’s not about my gift. It’s all about the kids.”

“I would love to build a car, but the biggest thing is building a team.”

And what of Robison, who brought his dream to Trinity? “We spent a lot of time on this,” he says. “We had high hopes, but it just didn’t come together.”

He notes the truth of a commonly spoken Trinity theme that the University is a safe place to fail. The cum laude graduate is taking a position as a systems engineer with Lockheed Martin’s missile defense system but plans to keep his eye on the seniors of 2017-18. “We are passing them the baton. We would not have been as successful if we hadn’t have had such a high goal. It was a very well earned failure.”

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Hill

Women’s Basketball Trinity Wins SCAC Presidents’ Trophy Trinity captured the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Presidents’ Trophy for the sixth consecutive year. The coveted 300-pound railroad bell signifies the best overall program in the conference. Trinity’s teams set a SCAC record by winning the “Bell” for the 17th time.

Tiger teams chalked up 547.5 points, outdistancing second-place Southwestern (TX) University by 125 points.

The Tigers won spring conference titles in men’s and women’s tennis, women’s golf, and women’s track & field. Winter sports championships went to men’s and women’s swimming & diving and women’s basketball.

Trinity opened the campaign last fall by garnering conference crowns in men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball.

Trinity Ranked 24th in Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Trinity earned a final ranking of 24th in the prestigious Learfield Sports Division III Directors’ Cup Standings. Over 400 NCAA Division III institutions are ranked in the standings, administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA). Led by Trinity’s Director of Athletics Bob King, the Tigers amassed 518 points based on NCAA postseason competition. Trinity’s teams chalked up 141.50 points in the spring and 376.50 in the fall and winter seasons.

The Tigers have now finished in the top 25 a total of 14 times over the past 22 seasons. Additionally, the Tigers have been ranked in the top 25 four out of the last five years. Last year, Trinity wrapped up the season ranked 30th.

Fifth-year Head Coach Cameron Hill ’99 guided the Tigers to a 28-2 record, a trip to the NCAA Division III playoffs’ round of 16 teams, and a No. 8 national ranking. It marked Trinity’s third appearance in the NCAA Postseason under Coach Hill’s leadership, and the 28 victories tied a school single-season record. The Tigers’ historic season ended with a 69-59 loss to Whitman (WA) College.

Women’s Basketball also captured its third Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Championship in the five years Coach Hill has been at the Tigers’ helm. For his efforts, Coach Hill was named the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Small College Coach of the Year, D3hoops.com South Region Coach of the Year, and SCAC Coach of the Year.

Senior Monica Holguin was elected a D3hoops.com Second Team All-American and the organization’s South Region Player of the Year. Holguin was also tabbed the SCAC Player of the Year for the second consecutive time.

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Rivara

Men’s Basketball Trinity, led by 18th-year Head Coach Pat Cunningham, advanced to the SCAC Tournament in Georgetown, Texas, and came up short 71-65 to host Southwestern University.

The Tigers completed the season with a 1214 record and a 7-7 mark in conference play.

First-year Danny Rivara was the first Tiger player to be elected the SCAC Men’s Basketball Newcomer of the Year, and he earned a slot on the All-SCAC Second Team.

Junior Matt Jones shelled out a school-record 138 assists and became just one of six players in Trinity history to record 300 or more assists in a career.

Hagmann

Swimming & Diving Four Tiger student-athletes represented Trinity at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships in Shenandoah, Texas.

Junior Lindsay Hagmann placed third in the women’s 100-yard freestyle to earn All-America accolades and ninth in the 50-yard freestyle. First-year men’s swimmer Jacob Hurrell-Zitelman placed 16th in the 1,650-yard freestyle for honorable mention All-America recognition.

Junior Sarah Kate Mrkonich earned All-America honors by finishing eighth in 1-meter women’s diving, and senior Mollie Patzke competed at nationals for the first time in her career. The Tiger women finished 19th at nationals.

Trinity’s women won their 14th consecutive team SCAC Championship, and the men took their sixth in a row. Head Swim Coach John Ryan, assistant coaches Scott Trompeter and Kimberly Jones, and Head Diving coach Stan Randall were honored as the SCAC Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year.

Hurrell-Zitelman was selected as SCAC Male Swimmer of the Year, and sophomore Duncan MacAskill was named Diver of the Year for the second consecutive time. Mrkonich earned her second straight SCAC Women’s Diver of the Year award, and Hagmann was voted the Women’s Swimmer of the Year.

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Coleman

Hall

McCullough

Track & Field Trinity junior Cody Hall and first-year Ayriel Coleman earned All-America accolades at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, led by fifth-year Head Coach Marcus Whitehead.

Hall placed fourth in the men’s 110-meter hurdles to become an All-American for the second time this season; he was the runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March. Hall became Trinity’s first track & field All-American since 2010.

Coleman turned in a seventh-place performance in the women’s triple jump, posting a school-record mark of 11.98 meters.

She became Trinity’s first women’s track & field student-athlete to garner All-America accolades as a first-year competitor.

Junior Matt Love finished 11th in the men’s discus, junior Britney Sullivan placed 12th in the women’s triple jump, sophomore Molly McCullough was 15th in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, and junior Nkolika Nweke finished 16th in the women’s 100 meters.

Hall, Love, and McCullough also excelled in the classroom, as the three Tigers were elected to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Division III

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Nweke

Academic All-District 8 Men’s/Women’s Track & Field and Cross Country Teams.

Trinity’s women’s team won its third straight team title, and the men finished as runners-up in the SCAC Track & Field Championships. The women won nine individual conference titles and 25 All-SCAC performances, while the men had eight individual wins and 22 All-SCAC performances.

Hall was the SCAC Male Athlete of the Meet for the second straight season.

Whitehead and his staff was named the SCAC Track & Field Coaching Staff of the Year, joined by assistants Emily Daum ’09, Thomas Dimitri, Lauren Loeffler, Joe Meno, Corey Callahan Wildman ’12, and Todd Wildman ’09, ’10. Love and Coleman also secured SCAC Field Athlete of the Year honors.

Love

Sullivan

doubles team to advance that far since 2010.

The two Tigers received All-America honors from the ITA and also fought their way to the championship match of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Oracle Cup. Lambeth was tabbed as the ITA Division III Men’s National Player to Watch, becoming the second Tiger men’s player to receive the honor, and the first since 2000.

Prior to nationals, the Tigers won the program’s 22nd overall SCAC Championship, which is the most by one school in any sport in conference history. It was the eighth straight title under Head Coach Russell McMindes ’02, who was also named the SCAC Coach of the Year for the seventh time in his eight seasons.

Men’s Tennis The 13th-ranked Tiger men’s team finished its season with a 17-11 dual-match record, making its eighth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Playoffs. Trinity was eliminated in the third round of the postseason tournament.

Tiger junior Matt Tyer and sophomore Wilson Lambeth advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Men’s Doubles Championship, marking the first Trinity

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Friday, August 25, 2017 5:30 p.m.

Trinity University Intramural Field Open to all Tiger alumni, friends, and family

Intramural Field to be Named in Honor of IM Director Longtime director “Coach” Jim Potter built Trinity’s nationally admired IM program

by James Hill ’76 The Trinity University Intramural Field, located in the

campus outdoor recreation area, will be named in honor of longtime intramural director Jim Potter ’63, ’67. The dedication ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, at the IM Field. The event is open to all alumni, friends, and family.

“Coach” Potter served as Trinity’s director of intramurals for 33 years. He retired in 2000. He was also an associate professor in Physical Education and Athletics.

He earned a Bachelor of Science from Trinity in 1963 and a Master of Education in 1967.

Potter built Trinity’s intramural program into one of the finest in the nation. Each year, he assembled a team of students to help administer the IM program and provided them with a nurturing leadership style that allowed the program to thrive and grow. “He expected us to make decisions using critical thinking, an egalitarian outlook, and respect for the team, those we served, and the staff working together,” said George Brown ’82, a former IM staff leader and now assistant vice provost and director of recreation and wellness at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Potter is a mentor and friend to generations of Trinity students, inspiring some of his staff leaders to go into his profession. “The environment that he created by putting students at the center of the work is still a principle I use in my work today,” said Dion Wade ’02, director of university recreation at Seattle University.

Under Potter’s leadership, the University established the Trinity Outdoor Recreation program that provides students with camping, hiking, backpacking, and other adventure opportunities. “As an outdoor girl from Idaho, Coach Potter gave me a home at Trinity,” said Erin Rausch ’01, former O-Rec student leader. “As a student he trusted me and let me make mistakes. It is in those experiences that I learned the most.”

Potter received National Service Awards from the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) in 1984, 1989, 1992, and 2002. A veteran football official, Potter was a member of the Southwest Football Officials Association. He officiated the Southwest Conference (now Big 12 Conference) and Lone Star Conference games for 16 years.

Potter played basketball at Trinity for four years and led the Tigers in scoring in 1962. He was also an exemplary baseball player for three years.

The University honored Potter as an Outstanding Professor in 1971. A loyal Trinity alumnus, he was presented the “Spirit of Trinity Award” by the Alumni Association in 2007 for his years of exceptional service to the University and the community. Potter was inducted into the Trinity University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.

He is a regular attendee at Trinity’s baseball games, as his son-in-law, Tim Scannell, is the Tiger baseball head coach. Coach Potter often watches Tiger baseball with his wife, Mary Alice ’62, and daughter Christa ’90, Coach Scannell’s wife.

Trinity’s Intramural Field has a durable turf surface and electronic scoreboard. It is used throughout the year for intramurals, recreation sports, club sports, and as a practice site for varsity sports teams.

A dedicated Facebook group has been established where friends, colleagues, and former students are invited to post their favorite stories or photos of Potter. Visit facebook.com and search “Jim Potter Intramural Field Celebration.”

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Driving the Court Transfer student Micah Weaver finds success in and out of uniform

by Carlos Anchondo ’14 The first time Micah Weaver ’18 played competitive bas-

ketball, she was five years old. She was the only girl on the team. It would be another two years before Weaver found a girls’ team to play on, and even then, all of her teammates were older. Yet none of this bothered Weaver.

Basketball was about having fun.

A shooting guard from Poth, Texas, Weaver began her collegiate basketball career at Texas A&M University – Kingsville. Yet after two seasons as a Javelina, she realized basketball had stopped being fun and felt more and more like work. In a difficult decision, Weaver transferred to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), both for a change of pace and some distance from the court. It was the first time since childhood that she hadn’t been on a team.

To fill the void, Weaver began working with the UTSA Athletics Department as a videographer, filming games.

Although she enjoyed the camerawork, it made her miss basketball again. Bad. Weaver found herself watching games asking, ‘Why am I not out there?’

As fate would have it, Trinity women’s basketball played UTSA in an exhibition game that Weaver filmed. The game, which ended in a nine-point loss for Trinity, was surprisingly close for a Division I versus Division III matchup.

Weaver’s interest was piqued. She also noticed Coach Cameron “Cam” Hill and his interactions with players. “I vividly remember just how well he coached the girls,” says Weaver. “Watching that game put Trinity on my radar.”

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Weaver kept tabs on the Trinity women’s team as their season progressed. Although she was excited by what she saw, it wasn’t until a morning drive to UTSA that Weaver had an epiphany. Her commute took her directly alongside Trinity and, glancing out her window, she focused on Murchison Tower. Suddenly, she knew what she wanted to do. She called Coach Hill later that day and set up a meeting to discuss any open positions on the Trinity team.

That fall, Weaver was lacing up in Sams Gym as number 25, a tribute to Becky Hammon and her tenure at Colorado State. “From the start, I absolutely fell in love with the girls, the program, all of it,” says Weaver.

Weaver’s first season at Trinity was also a record-breaking one for women’s basketball. Not only did the Tigers win the 2017 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) with a victory over Texas Lutheran University, but the team also captured its first back-toback SCAC championship in school history. This win advanced them into the NCAA first-round playoffs.

After wins against Hendrix College and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the Tigers ultimately fell to Whitman College in the third-round playoff game in Saint Paul, Minn. Their campaign finished in a 28-2 season record, tying the school record set by the 2002-03 team.

The Tigers also advanced to the sectional for the first time since 2005.

Although the final loss against Whitman was heartbreaking, Weaver is proud of the team’s success and honored to be one of 16 teams that was still practicing and grinding toward the finish.

A sociology major with a sport management minor, Weaver is already excited for the upcoming season. She comes into it averaging 15.8 points per game, 30 games played, and 77.1 percent in free throws. It will be her last season of eligibility, a bittersweet fact that leaves her committed to a season of hard work and determined success. Despite losing five seniors, Hill has recruited six rising first-years, all “really good” in Weaver’s estimation.

Eyes shining, headband pulled high above her forehead, you can almost feel her itch to get back on the court, moving the ball “possession-by-possession, game-bygame.” After stepping away once from basketball, it’s clear Weaver won’t repeat that mistake any time soon.

Baseball

Southwick

Led by 19th-year Head Coach Tim Scannell, the Tigers battled their way to the Championship game at the SCAC Tournament and finished the season with a 28-16 overall record.

Senior Scott Walters was selected for the D3baseball.com Honorable Mention All-America Team after earning a spot on All-Region squads for both D3baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association. Senior Chris Tate joined Walters on both All-Region squads.

Women’s Tennis The 16th-ranked Tiger team competed in the NCAA Playoffs for the sixth straight season, completing the year with a 17-8 record after advancing to the second round of the tournament.

Trinity hoisted its sixth consecutive conference title to earn the automatic qualification to the NCAA Playoffs. Head Coach Gretchen Rush ’86 was the SCAC Coach of the Year after leading Trinity to its 21st overall SCAC Championship, which trails only the Tiger men’s team for the most titles in conference history.

Senior Liza Southwick earned All-America honors for the third time in her career and competed in the NCAA Division III Singles Championship for the first time.

Men’s Golf Trinity finished as SCAC runner-up for the fourth straight year under Head Coach Sean Etheredge.

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Softball Trinity advanced to the semifinals of the SCAC Tournament under fifth-year Head Coach Brandi Crnkovic.

Junior Rebecca Berreth was selected for the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-West Region Third Team for the second consecutive year. She paced the Tigers in virtually every offensive category, including batting average, slugging percentage, runs, doubles, home runs, and RBI.

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Women’s Golf The Tiger women’s team captured its second consecutive SCAC Championship and the third in the past four years under 19thyear Head Coach Carla Spenkoch. Coach Spenkoch was elected the SCAC Women’s Golf Coach of the Year for the third time in her career.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

When Trinity moved to its present campus in

Abram “June” Dominguez Physical Plant

by R. Douglas Brackenridge

1952, President James W. Laurie referred to its occupants as “a company of new pioneers.”

Perched on the rugged and barren terrain of a former limestone quarry, the campus consisted of four buildings. Among the new pioneers was a cohort of physical plant employees that undertook the task of transforming the landscape into a fully equipped and aesthetically pleasing environment. In addition to planting trees, bushes, flowers, and grasses and nurturing them to maturity, they dug ditches to bury utility lines, helped construct roads, installed sprinkler systems, power washed buildings and sidewalks, and responded to emergencies that demanded immediate attention.

Included in that early group of workers was an 18-year old neophyte, Abram Dominguez, who compensated for his lack of experience with a robust work ethic and an eagerness to learn. Over time, he acquired horticultural knowledge and landscaping skills that solidified his status as a key member of the physical plant staff. Known to co-workers and the wider community as “June” (short for Junior), he became the leader of the landscaping maintenance crew that did so much to beautify the campus and enhance the surroundings of the acclaimed O’Neil Ford architecture.

Dominguez took special pleasure in caring for trees and shrubbery that were damaged during building projects. Rather than remove and replace wounded trees and shrubs, Dominguez sought to dress the wounds, protect them from further injury, and give them ample supplies of water. He derived great satisfaction when they revived and thrived.

Dominguez was noted for his ability to mentor new employees and integrate them into the workforce. Under his guidance, they acquired the necessary skills that enabled them to meet his exacting standards. His crew members were quick to express their appreciation for his supervision, commenting that he was fair and honest in his dealings with them.

Traversing the campus on foot and by golf cart to monitor the progress of multiple projects, Dominguez had a smile and friendly wave as he passed by and was easily persuaded to stop for a brief conversation. His sense of humor was evident on campus and at home. When a granddaughter asked whether he had ever gone to college, Dominguez replied, “Yes, I did. For 53 years I went to a university five days a week.” Pausing for effect, he continued, “And I got paid for it!”

Dominguez retired in 2012, having served the University for more than half a century. Former physical plant director Mike Schweitzer succinctly summarized the impact of his long career: “June embodied everything that was the grounds maintenance department at Trinity. In fact, he was the grounds maintenance department, he and his entire family. His leadership was a thing to behold, and his dedication to his employees was only equaled by their devotion to him.”

In retirement, Dominguez and his wife, Eulalia, live in San Antonio. They have enjoyed 58 years of married life and look forward to many more. The couple has three children, sons Ramiro and Abraham and daughter Diana; ten grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Dominguez does some light landscaping at private homes, including the residence of Ron and Genie Calgaard, who extol his expertise and sterling character. Dominguez follows the Spurs on television and occasionally attends a game. He and his wife agree, however, that their greatest satisfaction in life derives from being loving parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. They ably fulfill that noble vocation.

Dominguez welcomes telephone calls at 210-402-3273 or mail at 2435 Cedar Ridge, San Antonio, Texas 78232.

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Buildings can’t be interviewed, but as art forms they speak to thought-

Buildings Can Speak Looking back at the Tehuacana and Waxahachie campuses

by R. Douglas Brackenridge

top “The Pride of Limestone County” building on the Tehuacana

ful observers. Two buildings, one in Tehuacana and the other in Waxahachie, feature prominently in Trinity’s peripatetic history.

They mark Trinity’s foundational aspirations to be “a University of the highest order” and its ability to adapt to changing cultural, economic, and educational environments.

In Tehuacana, Texas, Trinity’s founders began the building program “on faith” despite lack of adequate funding. It took 20 years of faith and perseverance (1872-92) to complete the task. In its finished form, configured in the shape of a T to symbolize Trinity and Tehuacana, the building became known as “The Pride of Limestone County.” Situated on the highest point in the surrounding area, the impressive limestone structure, with its mansard roof and cupola, was visible for miles around and conveyed an image of strength and vitality. The interior featured a chapel that seated 600 people and contained 26 large rooms designed for classrooms, laboratories, meeting rooms, and a library.

Due to chronic financial problems, Trinity left Tehuacana for Waxahachie, Texas, in 1902 and deeded the building to the town.

Shortly thereafter, Westminster College, a Methodist institution, began classes on the campus. In 1972, the college closed and the building remained unoccupied and in disrepair until recent years.

Today, with a remodeled interior, it functions as Trinity Institute, a nonprofit Christian retreat center.

In Waxahachie, construction of an administration building proceeded at a rapid pace. The cornerstone was laid in March 1902 and classes commenced in September. Erected on the site of a former cotton field, the attractive four-story structure, crowned by an impressive observatory, received enthusiastic approval from the local populace. The building was the hub of all campus activities: administrative offices, classrooms, meeting rooms, a chapel, a library, and a gymnasium. The University later erected other buildings, but the original structure remained the campus flagship as Trinity attained stature in an urban environment as a highly regarded undergraduate educational institution.

Repercussions of the Great Depression of the 1930s coupled with the onset of World War II forced Trinity to look for another home. Trinity sold the Waxahachie property to the Southwestern Assemblies of God University, which, in honor of Trinity’s 100th anniversary, gave the original Waxahachie cornerstone to Trinity. It is now embedded in the wall at the northwest corner of Northrup Hall.

At the invitation of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, Trinity moved to the Alamo City in 1942, where it began a new era in the University’s history. Marked by a campus designed by noted architect O’Neil Ford and heralded as “America’s most modern university,” Trinity projected a progressive and innovative educational image.

What transpires inside and around buildings, however, either diminishes or enhances the messages they convey. The ability of Trinity’s buildings to speak effectively depends on the extent to which the University remains faithful to its core values, such as critical thinking, personal attention to students, preparation for future vocations and responsible citizenship, and a campus community where freedom of speech and mutual respect are defining characteristics of everyday life.

campus. bottom The Waxahachie administration building.

The buildings welcome visits in Tehuacana and Waxahachie, daylight hours preferable.

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IN MEMORIAM JAMES CALDWELL

HAROLD MURRAY

The Rev. Dr. James D. Caldwell, former director of Planned Giving, died on April 26. Caldwell served as Trinity’s first full-time director to develop support for the University primarily through estate and planned gifts. He served in this role from 1991-97. ​A lifelong Presbyterian, Caldwell had a lengthy career as a minister and church foundation director. Prior to coming to Trinity, he served in several churches in Northern Kentucky and West Texas.

He became director of finance and executive director of the Independent Presbyterian Church Foundation in 1980, and then in 1986 he joined the Presbyterian Foundation as the Western Regional Director.

He attended Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1953. He earned his Doctor of Ministry from the McCormick Theological Seminary in 1976.

Caldwell is survived by his wife, Linda, his sons and their wives: Jim ’77 and Jeannine ’77 Caldwell; Paul P’05 and Pam P’05 Caldwell; and Cliff ’85 and Kathy ’85 Caldwell, and several grandchildren. He is also survived by his stepsons and their wives: Alan and Alessandra Robinson, and Justin and Jennifer Robinson.

Harold Murray, professor emeritus of biology, died June 22. He was 86. During his years at Trinity, he was a popular teacher, respected administrator, and productive scholar.

A small-town Kansas native, Murray received his bachelor’s degree from Ottawa University, his master’s degree in biology from Kansas State College, and his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Kansas.

Murray joined the Trinity faculty in 1961, shortly after his service in the U.S. Army Medical Service at Fort Sam Houston. He was best known to generations of Trinity students for his introductory biology classes and meticulous advising as chair of the health professions advisory committee.

Students often commented on his “enthusiastic lecture style” and his “unforgivingness about spelling.” In 1965 he was named outstanding professor, and in 1971, students honored him with the Favorite Professor Award. His service to the Trinity community included department chair, member of the Faculty Senate and various Universities committees, and on two occasions he served as acting dean of the sciences, mathematics, and engineering division. He co-authored a comprehensive handbook for advisers of health professions students, which was used extensively in Texas colleges and universities.

An expert on mollusks (snails, slugs, mussels, and clams), he published widely in his field and was active in professional organizations. In addition to articles in scientific journals, he co-authored the book Freshwater Mussels of Texas. He served as president of the American Malacological (study of mollusks) Society and was an elected fellow of the Texas Academy of Science.

After Murray retired from the Trinity faculty in spring 1999, he frequently met for lunch with former Trinity colleagues and friends at Bombay Bicycle Club, which honored his memory by holding his table with flowers and a sign.

GAINES AND JOAN VOIGT Trustee emeritus Gaines Voigt died on May 31. He was 97. Voigt, a retired cement company executive, actively served on Trinity’s Board of Trustees from 1978 to 2004. His wife, Joan McGuire Voigt, died five days later on June 5.

A San Antonio native, Gaines Voigt graduated from Texas A&M University. He served in the U. S. Army, reaching the rank of Major, and was a veteran of World War II. An active civic leader, Voigt served as a director of the Alamo National Bank, San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and other community organizations. Following his retirement from business, he devoted his time to civic and charitable causes, including serving as president of the San Antonio Area Foundation, Trustee of United Way, and director of the Cancer Therapy Research Center. He was a member of the San Antonio German Club, Order of the Alamo, and the Texas Cavaliers, and he was a lifelong member and deacon of First Presbyterian Church.

Joan Voigt graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received an M.A. from Trinity University. After a career in secondary education as a teacher and administrator at St. Mary’s Hall, she served as an educational consultant to the State Comptroller and as an English professor at UTSA and Our Lady of the Lake University, retiring in 2000. She was also an active civic leader.

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SUMMER READING

Obsessed.

Coleen Grissom’s Summer Reading List Delighted as usual with a request to submit for this handsome publication my recommendations for summer reading for the Trinity community near and far, I am, however, a wee bit taken aback as I determine my choices. Why? It appears that I’ve read far fewer works of fiction that I want to urge you to examine, and, worse yet, that I know the reason for that.

Upon close, sometimes revolting examination, I discover that the reason I have few fine works to recommend is that I’ve been so obsessed with reading essays, articles, even headlines, on the “state of the world.” The only defense I offer is that, as David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, wrote, “His [Trump’s] presidency has become the demoralizing daily obsession of anyone concerned with global security, the vitality of the natural world, the national health, constitutionalism, civil rights, criminal justice, a free press, science, public education, and the distinction between fact and its opposite.”

I’m one of those concerned with such matters, and, thus, obsessed. I include this not as an apology but as an explanation.

My favorite fiction readings for the year, in alphabetical order by author, and what got them on my list include: Margaret Atwood – Both a necessary re-reading of her 1985 dystopian fiction, The Handmaid’s Tale, and her brilliant modernization of The Tempest, Hag-Seed, top my recommendations. As you surely know, the prescience of Atwood’s story in the earlier novel is disturbing as well as remarkable, and a reading or re-reading of any version of Shakespeare is almost always uplifting and—in this case—also hilariously refreshing.

Paul Beatty – The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, is among the most filthy, profane, obscene, hilarious, fast-paced, “in your face,” and brilliant novels to cross my desk in many decades. For me, it defies

description: It’s not a reading; it’s an experience and not always an enjoyable one. Still, it’s a must.

Michael Chabon – Moonglow is described as a “work of fictional nonfiction,” and, although I’m not sure what that means, I do know that I found the book mesmerizing, thanks to Chabon’s gifts in composing his prose in ways I’ve never seen, read, or heard before. I laughed, I cried, I went down my own memory lane, and you should also.

Karan Mahajan – The Association of Small Bombs was a stretch for me, but I consider it high time I explored some of the literature on terrorism and extremism. The novel is, indeed, a tour de force and, for me, was also a compelling and informative study of that strange combination: horror and compassion.

Ann Patchett – Commonwealth needs to be included on any “must read” list, mostly just to give us a chance to forget our piddling troubles and to lose ourselves in the tribulations and joys of yet another multi-generational family. (It also cleanses the palate after some of the others on my eccentric list!)

Joy Williams – 99 Stories of God has something to offend everybody, as is expected from this so-called misanthropic writer whose concern for “contemporary language’s inability to cope with the grandeur and tragedy of the natural world” seems to guide much of her writing. She’s spent her entire writing career, it seems to me, trying to awaken her readers to see – really see – this beautiful world. (After all, she also authored this line I cherish: “The silence of animals heals the wounds that human words have caused.”)

This summer, I also urge you to sample some of the excellent, provocative short stories I’ve recently discovered that describe the Mexican-American experience. Try these specific collections: Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women; Dagoberto Gilb’s Before the End, After the Beginning; Manuel Gonzales’ The Miniature Wife and Other Stories; and Kirstin Valdez Quade’s Night at the Fiestas.

Finally, just so you don’t completely give up on me, picture this: Me, stumbling around my home, looking for my copy of George Saunders’ critically acclaimed, but really a challenge for me to get into, Lincoln in the Bardo.

Expect to see it on next year’s list. God willing.

- Coleen Grissom Senior Member of the Trinity University Faculty Professor of English

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Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean Jonathan White foreword by Peter Matthiessen In Tides, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.

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Name Them—They Fly Better: Pat Hammond’s Theory of Aerodynamics Christopher Ornelas foreword by Naomi Shihab Nye ’74 Pat Hammond is not your ordinary artist. In fact, she doesn’t even consider herself an artist. She takes everyday objects, such as spinning tops and jars of cicada shells, and infuses them with new meaning and hope. Through humor and personalization, she uses insignificant and unconventional materials to illuminate a “grand truth” about the world, and even about herself.

Name Them—They Fly Better offers a portrait of a San Antonio artist who has sought to transform each moment into a creative act.

Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch Helen Kleberg Groves foreword by Anne and Tobin Armstrong King Ranch, the largest ranch in Texas, is the inspiration of legends and speculation, tradition, and history. The memoirs of Helen Kleberg Groves, the only child of ranch owners Bob and Helen Kleberg, give a personal glimpse into life on the storied ranch of the Kings and the Klebergs. This compelling book chronicles the 150-year history of the ranch and the intimate lives of the first family of cattle ranching.

Self-Portrait with Dogwood Christopher Merrill Self-Portrait with Dogwood is the memoir of a traveler and writer who has crisscrossed the globe. Christopher Merrill provides new ways of thinking about personal history, the environment, politics, faith, and the power of the written word. In his descriptions of a besieged city in Bosnia, a hidden path in a Taiwanese park, Tolstoy’s country house in Russia, a castle in Slovakia, and a blossoming dogwood at daybreak in Seattle, readers’ understanding of the world will flourish.

Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet Brooke Williams

Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage Lewis F. Fisher

Cornyation: San Antonio’s Outrageous Fiesta Tradition Amy L. Stone

Open Midnight weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness—Brooke Williams’ year alone with his dog, ground truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah, and that of his greatgreat-great-grandfather, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the ocean and the American wild almost to Utah, dying a week short.

Open Midnight beautifully evokes the feeling of being solitary in the wild, at home in the presence of the sublime.

Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio’s visual connections with its dramatic past. Countless landmarks and folkways lend the city an “odd and antiquated foreignness.” In Saving San Antonio, Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic of San Antonio’s cultural and architectural soul.

The process, entertaining in the telling, offers significant lessons for cities everywhere.

Amy Stone, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Trinity University, traces the history of one of Fiesta San Antonio’s most iconic events. Once an insider stage show meant to satirize the elite Fiesta Coronation, Cornyation has evolved into a community celebration and one of the Southwest’s first large-scale fundraisers for HIV/AIDS research. Through vintage and contemporary photography and oral histories, the book chronicles the story of one of Texas’s longest-running LGBT events.

Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade Gerald Stern In Death Watch, National Book Award–winning poet Gerald Stern sifts through personal and prophetic history to contemplate his own mortality. Characteristically audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic, Stern looks back at his life and forward to how his story will play out. Death Watch is an account of a beloved poet’s final journey and a vivid, passionate, and at times whimsical look at the gamble of choosing the life of a philosopher, perpetual troublemaker, prophet, lover, radical, and poet.

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This photograph, part of Coates Library’s “Then and Now” collection, was taken on the path behind Calvert Residence Hall. Atop the hill to the right, pictured in the black-and-white and color photographs, is the Student Union circa 1952, now known as the Coates University Center; the upper portion of Murchison Tower is visible in the background.

The combination of photographs demonstrates the dramatic changes to Trinity’s landscape since the 1950s. Today, trees surround the tall staircase that leads up to Coates and grass covers the ground around the path. In the black-and-white photograph, however, the land is bare except for the cacti that surround the walkway. Cacti were often used in Trinity's landscaping at midcentury.

In 1953, a year after moving to its new site, the University hired landscape architects Arthur and Marie Berger to create an innovative design that integrated lawns and courts with native plants and others appropriate to the climate and the conditions of South Texas. With the help of many generous donors and University officials, the Bergers acquired thousands of dollars' worth of plants to finish the landscape.

This photograph illustrates the change from a characteristically South Texans landscape to one dominated by live oaks and St. Augustine grass. photo by Anh-Viet Dinh '15

Trinity, in Place and Time 30 The Trinity University Campus Master Plan 38 O’Neil Ford 45 Forever Love in Parker Chapel 48 A Field Guide for Trinity University 49 Field Guide Coloring Book

HONORING THE PAST,

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE The Trinity University Campus Master Plan

We are heirs to a historic, mid-century modern masterpiece.

Our Skyline Campus is a treasure for future generations. The Trinity campus is distinctive with its significant collection of regionalist and mid-century modern buildings by renowned San Antonio architect O’Neil Ford. In the early 1950s, Trinity’s 14th president, James Laurie, and Ford empowered each other to create a vision of building a campus on the site of an abandoned rock quarry.

As the University constructed the Skyline Campus, the “Miracle on Trinity Hill” transpired. Designation on the National Register of Historic Places is the most appropriate way to honor the campus’ architectural history and maintain flexibility for a 21st century liberal arts and sciences education.

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Establishing a historic district is central to Trinity’s Campus Master Plan.

It pairs the University’s mission with its architectural legacy. Boundaries to the historic district will encompass all of the University’s buildings designed by O’Neil Ford. The Campus Master Plan reinforces the historic nature of campus and establishes criteria that will guide decisions for renovations, enhancements, space usage, and new construction in the coming decades.

The Campus Master Plan goes beyond the decision to seek designation as a national historic district. A few of the signature strategies include:

Creating a new wayfinding program to provide signage for better navigation of campus.

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Enhancing a “corridor” through the core of campus that meanders from the upper to the lower part of campus.

The “corridor” will improve pedestrian navigation without bifurcating the campus and enhance opportunities for connections.

Replacing two existing parking lots on lower campus with intramural green space.

Redeveloping the Coates University Center as the central dining facility on campus and adding a 500-guest ballroom that can be reconfigured for use as a conference facility.

Establishing a northern gateway to provide an outward face to the University for visitors, prospective students, and our connections with the city of San Antonio.

Improving existing student housing and adding independent living options for juniors and seniors. The plan identifies the need for more single rooms, kitchens, and common space in residence halls.

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top Aerial rendering of green spaces on campus as proposed by the Master Plan. left An enhanced “corridor� depicted weaving through the core of campus. right A northern gateway would provide an outward face to the University from Hildebrand Avenue.

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Pursuing a National Historic Designation

above O'Neil Ford (left) and Trinity President James Woodin Laurie look out over the Skyline Campus.

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Trinity University will seek placement on the National Register of Historic Places to create a historic district for the Trinity campus. The initiative is part of the University’s recently completed Campus Master Plan, which pairs Trinity’s academic mission with its architectural legacy to create a vision that is inspiring, functional, and enduring.

Renowned San Antonio architect O’Neil Ford had an early and lasting impact on the design of Trinity’s Skyline campus, located just north of downtown San Antonio. Beginning with a master plan in the mid-1940s, Ford designed most of the campus buildings between the 1950s and the late 1970s. The campus was built on the site of an abandoned rock quarry, and Ford used the site’s unique topography to create the feel of a “low-lying Italian village” that comprised modernist red brick buildings connected by walkways and lush native landscaping. “The result is a campus setting that is unmatched in character among Texas universities and is one of America’s first modern campuses,” President Anderson said.

Trinity will apply for designation on the National Register of Historic Places through the Texas Historical Commission. A historic district can afford Trinity a number of benefits, including earning the University tax credits with a potential financial benefit of approximately 20 percent of qualified renovation expenses. As a historic district, the University will preserve the cohesive exterior design of buildings. Except for notable interior features, Trinity will renovate the interiors of the buildings to meet the needs of tomorrow’s students.

“Trinity’s campus is truly distinctive in that it is a significant collection of architecturally acclaimed mid-century buildings designed by a single architect,” said Diane Graves, University librarian and chair of Trinity’s Campus Master Plan committee. “We are among a handful of college campuses considering how we preserve our mid-century modern buildings.”

Trinity’s Campus Master Planning committee, in partnership with architectural group Page, guided the development of the Campus Master Plan that will have a lasting and positive impact on Trinity.

Page is a national firm specializing in higher education. Daniel Kenney FAIA, AICP, a nationally recognized higher education master planner, was Page’s lead consultant on the Trinity project. Lawrence W. Speck, FAIA, Senior Principal at Page and a specialist on the architectural design of O’Neil Ford, also contributed significantly. Architect and historic preservation specialist Stan Graves of the firm Architexas guided the historic district consideration and process.

Oblate property

City Vista Apartments

Trinity Accelerates Master Plan with Two Purchases University acquires City Vista Apartments and “Oblate” property west of campus

by Sharon Jones Schweitzer '75 In January, Trinity announced the purchase of the City Vista

Apartment complex at the corner of Hildebrand Avenue and Devine at 655 E. Hildebrand. City Vista Apartments is a 141unit complex with a 340-space parking garage. The purchase of the nearby apartment complex accelerates the University's plan to add apartment-style living to its student residential housing options.

Built by the Koontz Corporation in 2015, the complex is located at the northern edge of the University campus. “The property has exciting potential as student residential housing.

It provides new living opportunities for juniors and seniors seeking greater independence and privacy, while maintaining the benefits of our residential campus experience,” President Danny Anderson said.

With more than 75 percent of Trinity’s undergraduate students living on campus, a recent Trinity University housing study revealed that new housing options will be important to attract and retain students. Juniors and seniors seek options such as private rooms as well as apartment-style living.

At one time in the mid-20th century, Trinity University owned this parcel known as the “triangle property.” Subsequent multiple changes in ownership and deed restrictions on the

property allowed Trinity the “right of first offer” if the property were to be sold again.

While Trinity realizes instant use in the purchase of City Vista Apartments, the University has no immediate plans for development of the “Oblate” property, purchased in March.

The 9.2-acre tract of land adjacent to campus at the southwest corner of Shook Avenue and E. Kings Highway was previously owned by the Oblate Title Holding Company. The largely undeveloped property expanded Trinity’s campus to 125 acres.

“This is a generational purchase for long-term strategic use,” Anderson said. “The value of the property lies in its adjacency to the Trinity campus and the possibilities it holds for future generations. Any future development Trinity University undertakes with the property will be done with the awareness of the environmental, historical, and residential context of the site.”

The property has three karst features (small caves), which are possibly inhabited by an endangered species of spiders known as the Robber Baron Cave meshweaver. Trinity plans to continue to monitor the features as part of its stewardship of the property. In addition, the University initially will clean up brush piles and other debris, address safety issues related to the existing stone wall, secure the perimeter of the property, and explore the possible uses for an existing building on the site known as the Sexton House.

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O'NEIL

FORD

The Story of an Architect, a Rock Quarry, and the Miracle on Trinity Hill

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Half a century ago, architect O’Neil Ford sat down to craft a letter. He sought to be authentic. Direct. Unpretentious.

He believed a letter was the right vehicle to best convey the full measure of his feelings.

In what would become his commencement address, Ford wrote to the candidates for the Class of 1967 on the eve of their graduation. He would be presented with an honorary doctorate of fine arts for his contributions to the “harmony, beauty, and utility” of the Trinity campus. His words, now preserved on translucent, yellowing typewriter paper, rise above the page in delicate arches and modest curves of black ink.

“Though the broad campus plan and building character were strong in our consciousness from the first, we who have seen every yard of rock cut away, every brick put in its purposeful place, probably feel an elation and surprise that isn’t equally shared by you who have only recently come here,” Ford said. “For as the physical campus grew, there was an accompanying growth here of the spirit of enlightenment and respect for man.”1 After nearly 20 years guiding the built evolution of Trinity, Ford lamented a future without the clamor of construction, the excitement of the new, the promise of buildings yet to be created. He reflected upon “this hill above and below our good rock bluff,” and saw an “approaching end of a beginning.”

Ford came to Trinity in 1948 on the advice of William Wurster, Trinity’s consulting architect and dean of architecture and planning at MIT.2 The University had purchased an abandoned rock quarry, four miles north of downtown San Antonio, to build Trinity’s permanent home. Wurster, a personal friend of Ford’s, recommended him for the project after University Trustees decided to forgo a traditional campus model with Georgian architecture for a more functional, economical style. Ford joined the team of Bartlett Cocke and Harvey P. Smith to draft a second campus plan.

Limestone Jungle

Upon first sight, Ford jokingly called Trinity Hill a “dismal and antagonistic jungle” littered with battery boxes, glass, wire, and chunks of asphalt.3 Yet, as he walked the campus, Ford took in its distinctive, sloping topography and the limestone escarpment that famously bisects the campus.

“Ford was influenced by Wurster, who said that Trinity should ‘not negate this site and should let the hills design the buildings,’” says art history professor Kathryn O’Rourke. “Part of Ford’s legacy is his understanding of landscape and the wonderful cliff face that we have. That’s the genius.”

Although original plans called for Trinity’s site to be leveled, Ford understood that the beauty of Trinity’s location stemmed largely from its rocky divide. Only an informal grouping of buildings would appropriately fit the site’s unique topography.

“The buildings on this beautiful ex-dump heap are ranged above and below the rock quarry bluff with enough ease and order and inter-relation to make them relevant to each other,” Ford said in 1967. “This has resulted from a determination to put things where they logically belonged rather than setting them in some prescribed monumental or geometrical pattern.”

Exercising great foresight, Ford thought deeply about the varied relationships between buildings, between students and faculty, between the buildings and the site, and between academic departments. He also considered the University’s proximity to downtown San Antonio. Ford oriented Trinity’s buildings in such a way that they aligned with and mirrored the long, thin streak of the escarpment. He positioned the buildings so that occupants received the best views of downtown and were naturally inclined to take in that spectacular vista.

1. 1967 commencement address. 6, 10.

2. George, M. C. H. (1992). O’Neil Ford, Architect. Texas A&M University Press. 95.

3. 1967 commencement address. 8.

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Margarite B. Parker Chapel, arguably one of O'Neil Ford's most famous designs, is accented with hand-carved wood details by Lynn Ford.

Anne Ferguson ’17, an urban studies and Spanish major, grew up in San Antonio, where she says Ford has become a “total legend.” Long interested in the built environment, Ferguson’s ardor for architecture only grew when she took “20th Century Architecture and Urbanism” with O’Rourke.

“One of my favorite aspects of Ford’s campus plan for Trinity is that it embodies the meandering nature of a liberal arts education,” Ferguson says. “Students are allowed to create their own path, both physically on the campus and academically.”

Ferguson points to Storch Memorial as a prime example of Ford’s ability to use architecture to showcase natural views.

“Once the original campus library, Storch subtly bridges that divide between academic and living spaces and spatializes the whole point of seeking higher education,” Ferguson says. “And that is to go out and make a difference in the world around you.”

Alejandro Garza ’03-’05, an architectural designer at McKinney York Architects in Austin, Texas, shares Ferguson’s love for Ford. Garza attended Trinity for two years as a chemistry major before transferring to UTSA, but says he has never lost his appreciation for the campus’ architecture. He still remembers studying in Coates Library, searching for just the right place to camp out, when he would happen upon a view made deliberately by design.

“There were these little experiences where I would be studying and I would peek out and the view would be perfectly framed,” Garza says. “I did not know it at the time, but experiences like these really made an impression on me.”

After transferring to UTSA, Garza changed direction from chemistry to architecture. Later, when he applied for graduate studies in architecture, Garza referenced the role Ford’s build-

ings played in his personal development. As luck would have it, Garza applied for a student intern position at Ford, Powell & Carson—O’Neil Ford’s San Antonio architecture firm—during his final year of graduate school. To his surprise, he was brought on board and later became an intern architect, designer, and building information modelling (BIM) manager at the firm.

Garza’s education about Ford grew deeper, as did his appreciation for Ford’s aptitude to root architecture in its context and to be responsive to the placement of the building site.

“He allowed the building to become a part of the landscape, and in some ways, to fuel it,” Garza says. “You see his responsiveness to context in the way that the campus is laid out, and Ford’s practical and elegant approach is something I aspire to in my own work.”

Laid by Hand

To best serve Trinity and its future occupants, Ford relied on his knowledge of San Antonio and Texas. Ford was a modernist who was deeply informed about Texas indigenous architecture and materials. He became known for his ability to “merge modernism with the architectural idioms of the pioneer Southwest,” as The New York Times noted in his 1982 obituary.

A Texas native, Ford was born in 1905 as Otha Neil in Pink Hill, near modern-day Sherman. He hated the name Otha and shortened it to O.Neil as soon as possible.4 With time, the period became an apostrophe, due either to a misaddressed letter or a popular 1920s song called “Peggy O’Neil.” Ford and his siblings, Lynn and Authella, grew up outdoors, and Ford’s father, Bert, taught his children the types of trees and the importance of 4. Dillon, D. (1999). The Architecture of O’Neil Ford: Celebrating Place.

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physical education.5 In a school woodworking class, Ford first developed his lifelong love for good craftsmanship.

That love of hand work and the use of good, honest materials would only grow over time. When Ford came to Trinity, he required materials that would serve his simple, yet functional style. The trademark “Trinity red” brick—actually a hue called “Bridgeport pink”— was chosen because it was laid by hand and because it beautifully reflected the glow of the Texas sun.

Michael Guarino, a principal architect at Ford, Powell, & Carson, adds that brick was also picked because it was an inexpensive material, and Ford, a product of the Great Depression, would’ve known it well.

“Ford took a serious look at the orthodoxies in modernism and then filtered that through a lens of respect for local culture, climate, and the materials at hand,” says Guarino, who remembers going to Ford’s lectures at the University of Texas at Austin. “In Trinity, you had a clearly modernist approach to the buildings, but that was also determined by limited resources.”

Julia Walker ’99, an art history professor at Binghamton University, also underscores Ford’s use of the right materials for the right project. Walker says Ford consciously thought about how brick would stand up to the South Texas heat. He also drew a correlation between the brick’s shape, the contour of the escarpment, and the horizontal lines that defined his buildings.

“Ford saw this long, low slope on the campus site, and he thought of brick, which is long and low,” Walker says. “Then he thought of this lift-slab technique, which creates long, low buildings. Everything grows out of the site. The materials relate back to it in fundamental ways that don’t just have to do with how they look. It also has to do with how they behave and how they age.”

In a 1981 interview with David Dillon, the architecture critic who would write The Architecture of O’Neil Ford: Understanding Place, Ford remarked, “The beauty of brick is that you can hold one in the palm of your hand. You have to lay brick by hand, so that when you’ve finished, you know how a wall is built because you can feel it.”6 In addition to his upbringing in North Texas, where he hung around brickyards as a kid, Ford had traveled throughout South and Central Texas looking at native architecture. This greatly influenced his philosophy of design and the materials he used.

Besides brick, Ford strategically used wood to tie his buildings together. O’Rourke points out that the wooden slats used as wainscoting and elsewhere in the Chapman Center mirror the wooden slats adorning the Laurie Auditorium parking garage. The buildings were built at chronologically different phases in Ford’s progression as Trinity’s architect, but these are the meticulous details that run through Trinity like a constant current—all intentional applications of materials he deemed “honest.”

“The wood is used in a totally different context, but there is that repetition of form yet again,” O’Rourke says. “Ford had an eye for those wonderful details.”

In addition to intricate details, Ford embraced big-picture ideas.

He famously pioneered the use of the lift-slab method on Trinity’s campus, where concrete floor and roof slabs were poured on the ground and held apart by a wax coating.7 Hydraulic jacks then raised 5. George, M. C. H. (1992). O’Neil Ford, Architect. Texas A&M University Press. 4.

6. Dillon, D. (1981). A Special Tribute: Architect O’Neil Ford: Legacy of an Indigenous Art Form. Texas Homes. 74-83.

7. Brackenridge, R. D. (2004). Trinity University: A Tale of Three Cities. Trinity University Press. 172.

Ow, she's a brick... campus Test your knowledge of Trinity’s iconic bricks with these fast facts.

A standard individual brick measures

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Is it really red?

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“Bridgeport pink,” a special color blend that is supplied by the Acme Brick Company.

This particular color of brick was chosen because Ford said it “represents the fact that it was both handmade and hand-laid.” Ford knew he could make the brick feel “modern in form,” according to Gordon Bohmfalk.

Leave your mark. Literally!

Trinity seniors have signed a brick inside Murchison Tower since the mid 2000s, a tradition that rewards student philanthropy.

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the slabs. Lift-slab was an economical investment for Trinity, and the Youtz-Slick construction technique was employed for the first time on a full-size structure with the original Northrup Hall, which doubled as a classroom and administrative unit.

The horizontal spirit of lift-slab construction reinforced Ford’s theme of long, graceful lines. Ford designed the buildings to blend into one another instead of stand apart, and a linear design helped connect the buildings together. In his commencement address, Ford noted he was “deeply grateful for this devastating departure from the prevalent.” No one building was supposed to call attention to itself.

Gordon Bohmfalk, Trinity’s director of campus planning and sustainability, says that on the surface a building may appear only to serve a function: A classroom is meant to be a place of learning; a dormitory a place to live. But it is in the history of these buildings that we gain an appreciation for better using them. This lived experience of buildings is something Ford comprehended.

“He understood how buildings go together and how to make them be long-lasting,” says Bohmfalk, who will oversee the implementation of Trinity’s Campus Master Plan. “Ford considered whom his work might affect over time, so he thought about site, human scale, materials, natural light, and craft. He was very well studied in any project he took on.”

As an architecture student at the University of Texas at Austin, Bohmfalk once worked on a project at Hot Wells, a former hotel and health spa in San Antonio. Ford critiqued the class’ work for the redesign and told Bohmfalk, after a final presentation, that he “had a good hand.”

The Art of Design

Moving forward, Bohmfalk says that one of the best ways to honor Ford’s architectural legacy is to show a respect for the original buildings. The University is currently seeking placement on the National Register of Historic Places, a designation that will commemorate the vision shared by Ford, Wurster, former Trinity presidents Monroe Everett and James Laurie, and many others. This historic district is one of the objectives of the Campus Master Plan.

Diane Graves, University librarian and chair of the Master Plan Committee, says Ford’s buildings and their siting have been a cornerstone for the committee’s work.

“The campus is a physical embodiment of the liberal arts,” Graves says, echoing Ferguson. “It involves the art and vocabulary of design, the science and engineering of innovations such as lift-slab construction, and the way buildings and walkways foster a sense of community.”

As heirs to a mid-century modern campus, each inhabitant of Trinity must understand and value that we all share a role in preserving the campus’ ethos.

For Wandita Ford Turner, Ford’s eldest daughter, that role is deeply personal. “We lived his projects,” Turner says. “I can still see him sitting at our big, marble dining room table at Willow Way with huge sets of plans and ‘butter paper,’ working into the wee hours. I took my first steps across the floor in the drafting room.”

She remembers her father as “unselfishly generous and inclusive beyond all words.” He took her sketching in Hondo and Castroville, and Turner later worked as an administrative assistant at his firm in the 1970s. She says that people should honor her father, a man who “never knew a stranger,” by writing about his work and studying his buildings.

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Celebrating Craftsmanship As an architect, Ford celebrated the work of artists and craftsmen. Excellence in the handmade was crucial to his philosophy of design. At Trinity, Ford demonstrated his collaborative nature in partnerships with brother Lynn Ford and artist Martha Mood, among other craftsmen.

Lynn Ford was a woodworker, an ironsmith, and a builder who collaborated with his brother throughout his life. He built several decorative objects for the Chapman Graduate Center and the Margarite B. Parker Chapel, including multiple hand-carved wooden doors.

Martha Mood was a painter, sculptor, quilter, and embroiderer. Mood and her husband, Beau, made the ceramic light fixtures that would become trademarks in many Ford buildings. She also made four ornate tapestries that now hang in the chapel.

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Linda Ford, like her sister, recalls running out to her father’s car after he came home from a work trip. As she grew up, she remembers learning the term hyperbolic paraboloid long before she knew its meaning and watching her father sketch drawings of Murchison Tower on dining room napkins. She knew him to be “principled, compassionate, and self-disciplined,” but never “rigid.”

“He not only valued learning and creativity, but he never stopped embodying those values in his own actions or cultivating them in others,” Linda Ford says. “He felt strongly that architecture should not be about the architect and always maintained the capacity to be excited by new ideas and experiences.”

Both Wandita and Linda attended a 2012 symposium called “O’Neil Ford and The Future of Trinity University,” which examined their father’s legacy and accomplishments.

Among Ford’s plentiful accomplishments are the designs of the Little Chapel in the Woods at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas; the Tower of the Americas in Hemisfair Park; and several buildings on the Texas Instruments campus in Richardson, Texas; and the restoration of La Villita and the San Fernando Cathedral. Ford was an ardent champion of historic preservation and, in 1968, was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the National Council on the Arts. Additionally, in 1974 Ford himself was designated a National Historic Landmark, the only individual to ever be given that title.

Yet for those who know Trinity, Ford will always be remembered for the more than 40 buildings he brought to life on campus. His legacy lives in the cheerful conversations between faculty and staff in shaded plazas and down the steps of tucked away building entrances.

His legacy persists in the camaraderie and solemnity of a Vespers service in the Margarite B. Parker Chapel, as the pipe organ thunders gloriously away. His legacy thrives as students walk into Coates Library on their way to garner some wisdom of their own.

For many who have lived at Trinity, worked at Trinity, and taught at Trinity, Ford has become synonymous with the campus we experience on a daily basis and remember long after we have marched forth from Laurie. As students, alumni, faculty, and staff, we are all stewards of a historic campus that has survived the test of time and continues to make us proud. Ford is our campus, our home away from home. His architectural legacy lives in all of us and the example we set as keepers of this beautiful, vibrant campus in the sun.

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CHAPEL

Nestled among live oaks and crepe myrtles, Margarite B. Parker Chapel is a beacon

for spiritual life at Trinity. Its location at the end of an open plaza, tucked behind Murchison Tower, is reminiscent of O’Neil Ford’s vision of an Italian village. Since its 1966 dedication, dozens of the 1,833 couples who found each other while at Trinity have opted to tie the knot beneath its stunning vaulted ceilings. With an incredible pipe organ and windows opening to a peaceful meditation garden, Tigers across generations have made vows to their forever loves in Parker Chapel.

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AND SIMPLE Kristen Male Tinker ’93 and Mark Tinker ’91 M.A. in Teaching | B.S. in Geology Merritt Island, Florida

THE CHAPEL'S FIRST TIGER Linda Hawthorne Ruhmann ’66, ’81 and Bill Ruhmann ’67 B.A. in Psychology, Master of Education | B.A. in Sociology San Antonio, Texas

On July 16, 1966, then 22-year-old Linda Hawthorne all but floated down the sparkling aisle of the newly constructed Margarite B. Parker Chapel on her way to happily ever after. “It felt like a beautiful dream,” recalls the former Gamma Chi Delta president of her dream wedding to Chi Delta Tau sweetheart, Bill Ruhmann. “We had our Gamma and Delt friends by our side when we promised our hearts to each other, and it was perfect.” Now both 73, they were the first Trinity couple to say “I do” in the Chapel—but they certainly weren’t the last. It was “so romantic, and we highly recommend it!” says Hawthorne, who was a professor of early childhood studies at San Antonio College for 30 years. “Look at me and Bill! Married in the Chapel and just as in love as the day we met.” The couple, who have a daughter and two grandchildren, were neighbors in Terrell Hills and high school sweethearts before both attending Trinity, where they got engaged in the fall of 1965. But shortly after getting married in front of 250 close friends and family, Ruhmann joined the military and served in Vietnam for a year. “I missed him dearly, but we wrote each other love letters,” says Hawthorne. “We still read them, reminiscing about happy times, like the wedding.”

Ruhmann, a retired human resources vice president, says it was the best day of his life: “We never have and never will forget our vows or marriage day in Parker Chapel.”

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Mark and Kristen Tinker can still hear the “elegant, crisp” sound of their three-man brass wedding band reverberating across Parker Chapel on their big day. “It was beautiful and simple—just like our love,” recalls Male, 47, a holistic health coach. “We grew up together and fell in love at Trinity, so getting married on campus was symbolic.”

The Spur met her Omega Phi husband during a physics tutoring session, but it wasn't exactly love at first sight for the duo. “I mean, it totally was for me,” admits Tinker, 48, a technology CEO. “But it took six months for me to woo her and get her to pay attention to me in that way.” And his efforts paid off! Almost five years after meeting, the couple, who have three children together, wed on July 3, 1993.

Afterward, their 125 guests gathered at the Koehler House for a beautiful reception. Says Male: “The Chapel is such a big part of Trinity, and Trinity means so much to us that it brought beauty to our big day in the most special way.”

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Allison Huseman Mickey ’13 and Steven Mickey ’13 B.S. in Business Administration - Marketing and B.S. in Business Administration - Finance Houston, Texas

JUST LIKE Satchie Leighton Seidlits ’11 and Curtis Lee Seidlits ’10

It was love at first-year seminar for Allison Huseman and Steven Mickey. The newlyweds, who recently returned from a romantic, jet-set honeymoon in Italy, met on the first day of classes in 2009—and they haven't looked back since. Huseman, a member of Gamma Chi Delta, and Mickey, former Chi Delta Tau vice president, spent seven sweet years “falling more and more in love” before tying the knot in front of 225 close Trinity friends and family on March 25, 2017. "Seeing Allison in her dress for the first time, walking down the Chapel’s aisle, my mind just went blank,” gushes Mickey, 27, who works in oil and gas finance.

“Delts historically have a close relationship with clergy on campus, so the Chapel has a special place in my heart.” The newlyweds’ ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Stephen Nickle, who “did an absolutely amazing job with the personalized homily,” says Huseman, 26, a communications specialist at Baylor College of Medicine. “Trinity is where our fairytale started, and we wouldn't have had our wedding anywhere else."

B.S. in Economics | B.S. in Economics Austin, Texas

Satchie Leighton and Lee Seidlits always want to remember the magical moment they said “I do” on May 31, 2014— so they relive it from time to time. “I've gone back to the Chapel, walked down the aisle and stood at the altar just to remember the best day of our lives,” says Leighton, 28, a former member of the Loon-E Crew dance team. “With that elegant, classic look and feel, its beauty speaks for itself—especially with that gorgeous organ!” The elementary school teacher’s wedding to Seidlits, 29, was made even more special considering her own baptism took place in the Chapel and the Rev. Stephen Nickle is a close family friend. “Trinity is like home, and it played a huge part in our story,” says Leighton, who went on a first date with her future husband, now an attorney, to a Trinity play her junior year. “The Chapel was perfect for our wedding, and it just felt right to be married there.”

Rose Minutaglio, a writer-reporter for PEOPLE Magazine in New York City, is a 2015 Trinity graduate who majored in communication. At Trinity, Minutaglio was a member of Gamma Chi Delta and president of Phi Sigma Pi. She was honored with the Kemper Diehl/James McCrory Endowed Scholarship in Journalism Award for 2014-15.

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Trinity University Field Guide Experience the Skyline Campus in the great outdoors

In the spring of 1946, “Trinity acquired an exceptional tract of land, which previously had been a working rock quarry. Running from east to west and dividing the campus, a rugged tree-covered limestone bluff offered a spectacular view of downtown San Antonio.”

– R. Douglas Brackenridge in Trinity University: A Tale of Three Cities

Six years later, in 1952, Trinity University relocated to its permanent home on “Trinity Hill” in the Monte Vista neighborhood.

Over the last 75 years, the University has thrived in its location, and today it spans 125-acres of sloping hillside.

In addition to the built environment, Trinity is also home to a vast wealth of plant and animal life. Located at the intersection of the Texas coastal plains and the Edwards Plateau, the campus accommodates birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, mammals, and plants. A walk around Trinity showcases not only great architecture, but also the natural world.

The University invites you to use this field guide as a tool to better acquaint yourself with the creatures that live on campus.

You may be familiar with the mountain laurels and the squirrels, but did you know Trinity Hill is also home to free-tailed bats and Central Texas brown tarantulas? Grab your sunscreen, pull on a visor, and take a walk. You might not encounter every animal or plant we’ve listed, but the natural beauty of the campus definitely will not disappoint.

Get creative! Use colored pencils, water colors, crayons, or anything else you can imagine to bring these campus scenes to life. Share your creations with Trinity using the hashtag #TUFieldGuide.

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It was home to the Trinity University Field Guide coloring book.

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Throughout Trinity’s history, trees have played an important role. In the spirit of “red bricks, green campus,” Trinity was known around San Antonio for saving living trees and providing them new homes. When possible, the University moved trees to other sites on campus when construction of new buildings impeded their space. Additionally, in the 1950s and 60s, Trinity moved trees from citywide sites as they became available. The University transplanted a set of live oak trees that were removed from the construction site of the Sears-Roebuck building in downtown San Antonio (currently the site of the Central Library). The trees were situated around residence halls, and some line Cardiac Hill. photos courtesy University Archives

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Homesick for Trinity?

Take a spin around the fountain, enjoy the view of live oaks from an adirondack chair, imagine the smell of the mountain laurels, trek through the labs in CSI, and visit a few residence halls—all with Trinity’s online virtual tour.

Get started at gotu.us/VirtualTour

Visit campus for Alumni Weekend Oct. 13-15.

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Walter Huntley Jr. ’71, ’73 A Lasting Legacy

by Carlos Anchondo ’14 More than four decades have passed since Walter Huntley met Earl Lewis. It was a warm fall day, and Huntley had just left the Refectory en route to Upper Campus. As he climbed the steps of Cardiac Hill, he heard someone call out his name.

The voice belonged to none other than Lewis, director of the University’s urban studies program. Lewis began to introduce himself when Huntley stopped him.

“Dr. Lewis, you don’t have to do that,” said Huntley at the time. “I know who you are.”

Lewis, bespoke in a sport coat, tie, and trademark spectacles, asked Huntley if he had ever considered a career in urban studies.

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“I owe Trinity a tremendous debt because everyone always enabled my vision and imagination.”

Huntley, a biology major on a pre-med track, weighed the question.

He had recently spent the summer in Los Angeles, where he’d observed the devastation wrought by the Watts riots. It was a transformative experience.

Curious about the role of public health, urban policy, and cities, Huntley said yes. Lewis invited Huntley back to his office for a conversation that would “change his life.”

He was admitted to Trinity’s graduate urban studies program, even earning a fellowship. Yet, before he began the program’s internship portion, Huntley took a leave of absence to participate in the Pittsburgh Steelers’s rookie camp. A Trinity football standout—he was inducted into the Trinity Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005—Huntley was later cut, but always appreciated the willingness of Trinity faculty to let him pursue that dream. After a realistic look at injuries he had already suffered, Huntley decided to forgo a tryout with the Houston Oilers.

Under Lewis’ mentorship, Huntley flourished in the program. He chose Atlanta for his nine-month internship and joined a nonprofit called Research Atlanta to study issues in the city’s metro area.

Fate dealt Huntley another fortuitous hand of cards when Maynard Jackson, then-vice mayor of Atlanta, called on Huntley to deliver a briefing on taxation and finance. A 20-minute session became an hour. Jackson was impressed.

Two weeks later, Huntley was offered and accepted a spot on Jackson’s 1973 mayoral campaign.

“Somebody called me and asked me to work on Jackson’s issues group,” Huntley says. “I said, ‘Well, how much does it pay?’ They laughed and said I had moxie.”

The position was on a strictly volunteer basis.

Jackson was elected and became the first African American mayor of Atlanta and of any major Southern city. At 25 years old, Huntley became a special assistant to the mayor. He would later rise up to serve as Jackson’s chief of staff. The role was a great responsibility, but Huntley felt prepared from his days at Trinity.

“The ability to perform was based on training I had received at Trinity,” Huntley says. “That is why I am so committed to supporting the University. I owe Trinity a tremendous debt because everyone always enabled my vision and imagination.”

Huntley later founded Huntley & Associates, a consulting firm that worked with mayors and cities across Georgia and the United States. As the firm grew, Huntley was appointed by former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young to serve as president of the Atlanta Economic Development Corporation (AEDC), today called Invest Atlanta.

Young was AEDC board chairman. Huntley put his consulting practice on hold and served for 10 years as AEDC president.

Young wanted the Olympics to come to Atlanta, and Huntley helped make it happen. He was a member of the bid preparation committee and remembers being in Tokyo when the bid was secured.

In the years leading up to the 1996 summer games, Huntley traveled to Brazil, Spain, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Africa, and countless other places to promote Atlanta to global business leaders. It was an international experience that he “will always remember.”

In 1997, Huntley founded Huntley Partners, Inc., a development advisory firm that specialized in market analysis and implementation plans for public/private development projects. CHA Consulting, an engineering firm based in New York, acquired the firm in 2013.

Huntley served as a vice president and shareholder with CHA before moving to a consultant capacity in 2015.

“These days I have consciously limited my consulting practice, which allows me to spend more time with my grandson, Justice, who is 1 year old and lives in Chicago” Huntley says.

Humble and jovial, Huntley is an accomplished man who is anchored in his family, the city of Atlanta, and the Trinity community. At the request of former president Ronald Calgaard, he joined Trinity’s Board of Trustees in 1997. Huntley is the first and only African American Trustee. Being a Trustee is an honor he says he never expected, but it’s a chance to repay a University that, he believes, has given him so much.

To this day, Huntley still wears the Trinity class ring given to him by his mother, Elnora, now 95, when he graduated. He began wearing it when he became a University Trustee.

“When people see that ring I tell them its story and about Trinity,” Huntley says. “I got a great education from Trinity and have met so many outstanding people that have affected my life in a positive way. I am honored to continue serving my alma mater, a place that literally changed my life.”

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Jonna Wensel ’91 Preserving Character

by Carlos Anchondo ’14 Colorado Avenue bisects the quaint mountain town of Telluride, Colo. Hand-carved wooden signposts adorn the street corners, and wrought-iron lamp posts illuminate the evening. Brick and wooden facades painted deep reds, pale greens, and faded browns turn hotels, homes, and storefronts into a three-dimensional patchwork of buildings.

As the sun sets behind the Rockies, Jonna Wensel breathes a contented sigh. She got her wish. Every day she wakes up someplace beautiful, somewhere inspiring.

Wensel is a historic preservation planner for the Town of Telluride and moved west from Liberty, Mo., to realize this dream.

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“Preservationists like to say that the greenest building is the one already built.”

As a preservation administrator, she protects the nearly 400 historic buildings within Telluride; the town itself is a national historic landmark district. Wensel and her team review any proposed building changes and work diligently to safeguard the town’s character.

“People come to Telluride for a variety of reasons, but they remember and love it because of the way it feels,” Wensel says. “Our historic buildings give us a sense of place and remind us what little mining towns were like when they were first built.”

Learning about Telluride is best accomplished through everyday living, Wensel says. The town’s history reveals itself through sidewalk conversations and strolls among the old Victorian mining cottages and sheds. There is an unfolding in which the town slowly exposes its many layers to a relative newcomer like Wensel.

Twenty-three hundred souls live in Telluride, where preservation is a religion. Wensel enforces a strict town historic preservation ordinance and set of design guidelines that specify different styles of treatment based on property type and neighborhood. There are no chain stores or restaurants in Telluride. Most full-time residents, like Wensel, are transplants, and the town faces steady pressure from developers and vacationers seeking investment property.

“Our role is to balance development with preservation and to maintain the unique and historic character of the town,” Wensel says.

“The ordinance and guidelines help protect the atmosphere of Telluride, which is rare in today’s modern world.”

As a town employee, Wensel works closely with the town’s building division, public works, and planning staff, in addition to architects, builders, and members of the town historic preservation commission. Members are unpaid volunteers who, out of “pure love,” dedicate their time to preserve Telluride’s charm. Wensel oversees training for these commissioners, who serve in a quasi-judicial role to review small-scale applications.

After leaving Liberty—unofficially the second-oldest town west of the Mississippi River—where she served as the city’s community development manager, Wensel puts her pleasant, diplomatic personality to good use in Telluride. It can be easy, she says, for a preservationist to make enemies, so “delicate negotiations” are often necessary in her meetings and site visits.

Yet for Wensel, the incremental victories and constant effort of historic preservation are well worth her energy.

“You can never stop,” Wensel says. “Preservationists like to say that the greenest building is the one already built. Tearing down buildings or insensitive remodels are a huge waste of materials and energy that have already been captured in the building. These buildings are limited resources.”

Listening to her speak, Wensel’s passion for the subject is so moving that you feel compelled to take action. Her descriptions of Telluride are so vivid that you feel almost guilty for never having visited before.

Even so, a college-age Wensel didn’t know the field of historic preservation existed. She came to Trinity aspiring to join the Foreign Service and thought she would major in international studies. She soon realized it was actually the people and cultures behind that program that interested her, and Wensel became an anthropology major instead. She devoured courses taught by anthropology professor Richard Reed and calls the late John Donahue, then chair, a “wonderfully supportive and encouraging mentor.”

Armed with her appreciation for different cultures and the eccentricities that make communities interesting, Wensel graduated from Trinity without a clear path. It wasn’t until she became involved in a project in Iowa restoring old houses that she first considered historic preservation. She found a master’s program at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and her career took off from there.

“I have lived a charmed life,” Wensel says. “I have lived in London, was the director of an art school in France, and was named the Outstanding Public Official in Missouri a few years ago. Now I live in Telluride, a beautiful place where I have been so warmly welcomed.”

As she nears the one-year anniversary of her move, Wensel takes pleasure in the architectural details of the New Sheridan Hotel or the old shed covered in license plates from the 1930s and 40s. She finds new joy in the “lovely, unassuming” town cottages. And, at the end of the day, she is at peace, knowing that tomorrow she will wake up someplace beautiful, somewhere inspiring, doing the work she loves.

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Elaine Kearney ’00 Creating a Sense of Place

by Susie P. Gonzalez Flanked by three design colleagues and a guest architect, Elaine

Kearney is listening to her team refine a presentation about proposed campus landscape improvements for San Antonio College (SAC).

As happens in preliminary client meetings, some ideas resonate and others need tweaking. “What we’re doing today is taking a quick step back to look at the big picture,” she says.

The team is charged with creating a sense of place at a community college attended by commuter students who would benefit from new outdoor spaces, like a leafy pedestrian mall, outdoor dining terraces, and thoughtfully placed seating.

It is full circle in some ways for Kearney, an economics major, who enrolled briefly at SAC after graduating from Trinity to take courses in design and drafting as a way to transition into architecture.

She ultimately enrolled in graduate school at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, one of only 20 students accepted in 2001 into the landscape architect program. She says her choice of master’s program was inspired in part by one of her minors, environmental studies. (The other was German.)

Now the San Antonio-based managing principal of TBG Partners, a landscape design and planning firm headquartered in Austin with practices in six cities, Kearney loves the variety and the challenges of her life as a landscape architect.

“I feel lucky to have found a profession that I am so passionate about,” she says. “Every single day, we are designing spaces that are important to people. If you could be transported anywhere, where would you go? Most people would say the beach, the mountains, or a favorite park. People connect with outdoor spaces because they are memorable.”

She articulates her field in this way: Architects design buildings, and landscape architects design the connective tissue. “We are designing interstitial spaces,” Kearney says. “A lively park or a great street environment doesn’t happen by itself. How much buffer and landscaping should there be? What are the right trees? How wide should the sidewalk be? If there’s an outdoor café, what is the street furniture that gives it a sense of place?”

All of this is done with an eye toward what is ecologically appropriate and sustainable, Kearney says. She adds that living in Portland, Ore., for a decade after grad school honed the ethos of caring deeply about the environment and designing spaces that honor and celebrate sustainability.

San Antonio turned out to be the perfect place for Kearney and her husband, an architect, to relocate after having two sons and seeking professional opportunities not too far from her family’s ranch in Weimar, Texas. She says she feels a “latent potential” in San Antonio because of its good building stock, historic neighborhoods, and quality of life.

A bonus was being able to reach out, as one of the “Butler Alumni,” directly to Trinity economics professor emeritus Richard Butler upon her return to the Alamo City. She also serendipitously met art history professor Kathryn O’Rourke, and they connected Kearney with Trinity’s urban studies program, where she taught a class in the spring of 2016, “Introduction to Landscape Design.”

The course was cross-listed with art history but also appealed to other liberal arts students, so her class consisted of majors from urban studies, art and art history, geosciences, and political science. “It made for an interesting seminar because there were aspects everyone could engage with. When we were discussing ecology, the geology student could talk about the Edwards Aquifer in greater depth than I could. When we talked about spaces of public protest and civic dialogue, the political science student could add to that,” she says.

Her objective was to get the students out into the city and, for example, to consider HemisFair as a vehicle for reshaping downtown and to think about the ecology of San Pedro Creek and the greenway trails system. For their final project, students took part in a design competition for the reimagining of Broadway.

The exercise shaped the future of at least one student who has since applied to graduate school in landscape architecture. “It has been rewarding to stay in touch with that student and others, and it helped me to appreciate the mentorship of Dr. Butler, who obviously isn’t a landscape architect, but nonetheless provided guidance when I set my sights on this career path,” Kearney says. “To be on the other side and to be able to give back was fantastic.”

Kearney made another Trinity connection, that of Gordon Bohmfalk, director of Campus Planning and Sustainability, who offered her a courtesy briefing on the University’s new master plan. As a landscape architect, she is pleased that Trinity will once again embrace the campus history of being located on a former quarry.

In San Antonio, Kearney is proud of a pro bono project to reimagine two parks east of downtown into a vibrant space with a nature-based playground, modern swings with breathtaking city views, a kiosk where paletas and coffee could be served, a neighborhood community center, and possibly a farmer’s market. The work at Dignowity and Lockwood Parks represents a “grassroots passion project” that she says has galvanized community support and engagement and was approved by voters in May as part of an $850 million bond package.

Joining creative forces with others embodies what Kearney does.

“Landscape architecture is inherently collaborative,” she says. “As much as we are creative designers, we are also communicators and collaborators with other disciplines so our visions for outdoor space can be realized.”

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Oluwatobi Adeyinka ’09 Enhancing Our Environment

by Carlos Anchondo ’14

Eyes fixed on the field, Oluwatobi Adeyinka tapped his foot on the sideline turf. It was 2007, mid-season, and the linebacker/defensive end itched to rejoin the fray. Adeyinka was benched due to an ankle injury from the season’s opening game.

Suddenly, his wait was over.

Adeyinka was chosen to play special teams and was put in at a kickoff. With half a season of energy surging through him, he charged down the field, made contact, and knocked an opposing player clear off his feet. The hit complete, adrenaline still pumping, Adeyinka couldn’t hold back his trademark toothy smile.

“That was probably the best tackle of my life,” Adeyinka says.

For three years, Adeyinka donned the Tiger uniform and played alongside teammates he calls his second family. Yet, life as a Trinity student-athlete was never easy. On top of practice, weight lifting, film review, and games, Adeyinka also balanced studies as an engineering science major. He’d chosen the program for its comprehensive approach to the discipline and enjoyed everyday opportunities to be an innovative problem solver.

“A large portion of my motivation roots from continually working to improve environmental performance,” Adeyinka says. “Being part of the reduction of emissions and helping to ensure that we are the best neighbor possible is all part of the equation.”

Adeyinka was attracted to air compliance by the simple yet profound realization that humans consume air every second of every day. Clean air, he says, is an essential part of life, and any reduction in emissions impacts air quality for the better.

Prior to FHR, Adeyinka was an environmental investigator with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). There, he conducted compliance investigations to evaluate federal and state regulations and responded to oil and gas incidents. He even served as an expert witness for compliance hearings and litigation. This time at the TCEQ reinforced Adeyinka’s decision to become an environmental engineer and provided valuable experience needed to make the transition to FHR. Outside of work, Adeyinka enjoys life as a newlywed. He and his wife, Alicia, a certified public accountant, were married in January.

“Helping to ensure that we are the best neighbor possible is all part of the equation.”

His favorite course was senior design, where Adeyinka and his classmates brought paper equations to life by building a small biodiesel conversion plant from waste grease.

“My ability to think through a problem and come up with a creative solution stems from the liberal arts background I received at Trinity,” Adeyinka says. “When you enter the workforce, there is going to be learning you’ll do on the job, and the foundation for that is built at Trinity.”

Today, Adeyinka is an environmental engineer at Flint Hills Resources (FHR) in Port Arthur, Texas, where he is the air compliance team lead. He ensures that Clean Air Act requirements are met and develops systems and strategies to discover more efficient and sustainable methods. He also oversees risk reduction and mitigation.

It is a lot of responsibility, but Adeyinka is driven by self-improvement. Honing his technical chops is important to him, as is the development of his managerial skills. FHR, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, produces a wide range of fuels, chemicals, and ingredient products for many household goods. FHR recently earned the 2017 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award, one of the top awards from the Environmental Protection Agency.

They live in Houston and love to explore the city’s diverse restaurant scene. They are also avid travelers, with a number of destinations earmarked on their “next places” list, including Argentina and Chile.

“I have always been known by friends and family as a travel bug,” says Adeyinka, who grew up in Cypress, Texas. “Anytime we have the opportunity to travel, we are ready and willing to go.”

His love of travel comes from a willingness to challenge his own perspective about the world. As a Trinity student, Adeyinka was a member of the Black Student Union and the African Student Association. He also participated in the Muslim Student Association, even though he is not Muslim, to learn more about the faith. Adeyinka believes travel broadens the limits of his world perspective and allows him to meet and interact with great people.

Just don’t ask him to pick his favorite travel destination.

“I hesitate to call any place the best,” says Adeyinka. “They are all unique. Whether it is Canada, Cambodia, Guatemala, or Port Arthur, I can tell you a thousand great things about each.”

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Alumni Corner I am honored to represent our 29,000 alumni

worldwide as your Trinity University Alumni Association president. I graduated in 1988 with a double major in business administration and sociology. I live in Houston and have served as an Alumni Association board member for 11 years. I am so grateful for my ever-growing network of Trinity connections.

Are you interested in serving on the Alumni Association Board? Do you know someone who would be a great advocate for Trinity? The process has never been easier.

Visit the Trinity Alumni Association Board page on the Trinity website, gotu.us/tuaab, for the nomination form and more details. Our strategic plan is also located on this page.

Have you heard about Maroon Fridays? Show your #TigerPride by wearing maroon on Fridays— even if you are far from campus. Share your photos via Facebook or tag @Trinity_U on Twitter.

As alumni, we are curious about how our classmates are succeeding in life. One of the most popular areas of Trinity emails and Trinity magazine is the Class Notes section. We need your help in keeping the updates coming in to the Alumni Office. It’s easy to share your updates with your fellow Tigers by submitting a class note at gotu.us/alumniupdates.

If you have missed any of the Tiger Enrichment: Lifelong Learning webinars, they are located on the Tiger Network at live.trinity.edu.

As my term as president of the Alumni Association draws to a close, I am so excited about the state of Trinity. With President Anderson at the helm of this great university and Mike Bacon ’89 and Hugh Daschbach ’95 leading the alumni relations team, it’s a great time to be a Trinity Tiger! The future is bright for our alma mater.

If you haven’t been back to campus in a while, I strongly urge you to visit soon. It’s changed a lot since my days at Trinity—but only for the better!

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please reach out to me at tuaa.president.leslie88@gmail.com.

Leslie Hollingsworth ’88 Trinity University Alumni Association President

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Carol Holland took a glider ride over a large area of New Mexico, a trip she says was “very exciting.”

Bob Lull has been married to

1952 Julian “Pete” Dewell, after leav-

ing the Navy during the Korean War, attended the University of Washington at Seattle and received his law degree. Dewell passed the Washington and California Bar Exams and practiced law for more than 50 years in both Washington and California before retiring in 2015. He received numerous awards over the years and served on various public and charitable boards.

Since 1998, Dewell has helped to build and maintain trails for the Washington Trails Association as a volunteer and has written and illustrated a manual on trail building, which is in its third edition. Dewell and his wife, Alice, have three daughters, five grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

Penny (Mead) Lull ’67 for 51

years. Penny, a teacher, has taught in many locations as they moved around the country. Bob retired from the Army in 1987 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; he then spent 20 years in health care administration, taught U.S. history at a community college, and wrote a biography of Civil War General James M. Williams. The Lulls currently live in Waco, Texas, and Bob is working on another book while traveling. The Lulls have two sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren.

Jeanne Terone taught home

economics for 40 years and received her master’s degree from Penn State in education. She enjoys traveling, including trips to New York City for shows and sightseeing. Terone spends time with her 7-year-old granddaughter who models, and dances ballet, tap, and jazz.

1967 1959 Bernard Brown, Ph.D., wrote an

autobiographical memoir, Daydreaming About Tough Times, and had a book signing event in December at the Texas Star Bookstore in Abilene, Texas.

John Flournoy joined Keller Williams San Antonio, a real estate brokerage firm, as broker of record.

Julia Jarrell is retired from her last program design project for professional development for teachers/youth from underserved communities in Latin America. Jarrell currently resides in Austin, where she is close to her children and grandchildren, and she will occasionally take on special interest projects each year.

Trinity Honors Two Outstanding Alumnae In recognition of their leadership and professional compassion, Trinity University has named Elisa Massimino ’82 as the 2017 Distinguished Alumna and Kay S. Jordan ’64 as the 2017 Spirit of Trinity recipient. Both Massimino and Jordan were honored in February on the Trinity campus.

Elisa Massimino ’82 2017 Distinguished Alumna In January, 10 members of the 1972 Tiger baseball team met for a reunion near Taylor, Texas. This was the first time in 15 years that they were able to get a large part of the team together. It was a weekend of storytelling, sharing photos of grandchildren, and grilling great Texas barbecue. The 1972 Tiger team was one of the best baseball teams in Trinity history, compiling a 32-6 regular season record and falling just

Meet Elisa in a

short of making a trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. At

video online at

that time, Trinity participated in NCAA Division I with scholarships. Last

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year, the members of the ‘72 team followed the 2016 team in their run

massimino.

through the playoffs, which culminated in the NCAA Division III Baseball National Championship. Front row, left to right: Kenny Cmerek ’72, Evert “Bubba” Hermes ’72, Jim Gunderman ’74, James Westley ’73, and Bryan Mayo ’74. Back row, left to right: Mickey Mahler ’74, Bill Daffin ’73, John Dorrer ’72, Paul Batista ’73, and Donnie Sebastian ’74.

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1972

Massimino is chief executive officer of Human Rights First, one of the nation’s leading human rights advocacy organizations, where she is dedicated to ensuring that the United States upholds and champions its founding ideals of freedom, dignity, and human rights. For three decades, she has worked tirelessly to change lives for the better by restoring human dignity and rights. Massimino earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from the University of Michigan. She also is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches human rights advocacy.

Geary Reamey has been selected

to receive this year’s Outstanding Law Review Article Award from the Texas Bar Foundation for his publication, “The Truth Might Set You Free: How the Michael Morton Act Could Fundamentally Change Texas Criminal Discovery, or Not.” Reamey received the award at the annual dinner of the Texas Bar Foundation in June in Dallas.

1971 John Farrow joined the law firm of Gallagher, Casados & Mann PC in Albuquerque, N.M., practicing primarily in civil defense trial work. Farrow was previously with Farrow & Strotz PC.

Kay Jordan ’64 2017 Spirit of Trinity recipient

Tom Masinter is composer of

Gone to Texas, a musical about the Alamo. During “Untold Stories of the Alamo,” an event sponsored by the San Antonio Conservation Society for Historic Preservation Month, the Three Texas Tenors sang three songs from Gone to Texas. Pictured from left to right are Steve Warren, playwright of Gone to Texas; Roy Bumgarner; Tim Birt; William Chapman; Margaret Priesmeyer, historic preservation chair; and Tom Masinter.

Jordan is a role model, leader, advocate, nurturer, and friend credited with exhibiting “extraordinary leadership” and volunteerism in support of the University, including participation on the Alumni Association Board. Since her own five-year class reunion, Jordan has served and organized Trinity class reunions, and she arranged the first gathering of Trinity women at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Jordan is also active in service at Faith Presbyterian Hospice in Dallas, and she works to help create financial independence for women and children in Guatemala and other countries by helping women sell scarves, handbags, and jewelry.

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IN MEMORIAM Betty Adams Holland ’34

Marvin Greer ’50

Stanley Wallace

Katherine Kugle

Dorothy Monthei

Betty Stieren

March 15, 2017

“Swede” Erickson ’59

Williamson ’62

Perez ’68

Kelso ’79

Sept. 19, 2016

Sept. 23, 2016

Oct. 27, 2016

March 30, 2017

Gilbert Hernandez

Patricia McCoy

Carl Giannetta ’68

Todd McBeth ’79

’59

Pabst ’64

Aug. 19, 2016

June 14, 2016

March 29, 2017

May 14, 2014 Nathan Landman ’70

Julie Nevin ’80

Miller Payne ’59

Virginia Burden

Jan. 25, 2017

Nov. 30, 2016

Feb. 5, 2017

Smith ’64 Judith Knecht

Joseph Rosenthal ’81

Babbitt ’71

Dec. 6, 2016

Sept. 12, 2016 Joe Valdespino ’50 Mary Broadwell

Dec. 24, 2016

Carter ’36 Doyle Brown ’51

Dec. 5, 2016

Nov. 4, 2015 Lucy Forgason Kriegel ’36

Arthurene Simmons

Nov. 17, 2016

Cornitius ’51 Dec. 13, 2013

Marie Eastman

April 16, 2015 Charles Rieber ’59 July 1, 2015

Spain ’36

Chester Maxwell ’51

March 20, 2012

Feb. 14, 2017

Hellen Tassos

Robert Maddox ’53

Landrum ’39

Jan. 20, 2017

Lucille Wyatt

Charles Waltman ’60

Richard Boward ’54 March 15, 2016

Hetherington ’47 Dec. 29, 2015

Jan. 17, 2017

Thomas John Jan. 29, 2017

Dec. 6, 2016 Nov. 11, 2016

Paul Rode ’55

Shirley Schweitzer

July 10, 2012

Gwen Long

Oct. 15, 2016

Hirtzinger ’56 Feb. 19, 2014

Jesse Jerrell ’83

Sept. 3, 2016

Aug. 3, 2016

Royce Harrell ’74

Jeanine Scott

June 6, 2016

Titus ’83

Jan. 3, 2017 Lillian Burge Rush-

Dec. 25, 2016 Amelia Flores ’75 Feb. 16, 2017

March 11, 2017

Lois Anderson

Jan. 3, 2009

Bridges ’57 May 24, 2014

Woodie Goodspeed

Judith Jackson Peter Keating ’49

Bresler ’57

Nov. 16, 2016

May 24, 2016

Charles McFarland

Edwin Leffingwell ’57

’49

Sept. 23, 2016

April 27, 2016

March 13, 2017 June 17, 2016 William Gilliland ’75

Jan. 30, 2017

Dec. 18, 2016

James A.

Billie Horn Rabke ’76

Underwood ’66

Feb. 10, 2017

Nov. 19, 2016

Sandra McClellan Robert Strickland ’49

O’Neill ’58

June 28, 2016

April 9, 2017

Brenda Cline ’67

Veron Schrader ’58

Feb. 23, 2016

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Grover Dec. 11, 2016

Amy McCallick ’93 March 19, 2017

Katherine Nickell ’77 Judy Downs March 17, 2017

Dec. 20, 2016

Elissa Hale ’05 Nov. 2, 2016

Larka Smallwood ’77 Feb. 20, 2017

Ruth Roland Hartnett ’67

Walter Hammerick

May 5, 2013

’78

Cunningham ’62 Robert Camp ’50

May 16, 2016

Seaberry ’67

Sept. 27, 2016

Myron Mason ’89

Fernando Vaca ’76

Whiting ’61

March 24, 2017

Robert Lochridge ’85 Dec. 11, 2016

Thomas Roberts ’61

Madge McElowney

Wayne Hardell ’84 Aug. 16, 2013

Nelson ’66

April 24, 2015 Dec. 26, 2005

Lee Elliot ’84

Diego Gallegos ’75

Patricia Schiwetz

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Jan. 25, 2017

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Jerry Smart ’71

Muennink ’61

Albert Walling ’48

Leonard Esler ’49

June 30, 2015

Clyde Mayo ’66

Max Link ’61

Adamek ’48

Feb. 18, 2017

Bruce Kuemmel ’66 Nov. 3, 2016

March 13, 2017

Jan. 5, 2017

May 9, 2015

Ruth Cover Crow ’61

Robert Latta ’47

Baker ’83

Luciano Andia ’66 Wilbanks ’60

Albert Gallo ’54

Susan Gonzalez Thomas Moorman ’71

Warren ’65 Feb. 25, 2017

Lornadelle Bass

Oct. 15, 2016

March 11, 2017 Doris Trude ’60 June 3, 2014

Jan. 11, 2017

James Alcorn ’65

Jan. 21, 2016 Diana Van Wagoner Speer ’67

Elliott Wheelan ’78

Oct. 14, 2015

Nov. 22, 2016

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1981 Andy Pollin joined 106.7 FM The Fan, a Washington, D.C.based radio station, as a regular contributor and host.

Triniteers from the classes of 1967 to 1971 gathered for the 42nd year of “Let’s Go Fishing.” Pictured from left to right are Austin King ’70, Wallace Craig ’71, John Fisher ’70, Jack Houghton ’68, Peter Leighton ’70, Doug Hawthorne ’69, ’71, Forrest Dunlap ’71, Terry McCarty ’70, Phil Wentworth ’67, Tom Shields ’69, Robert Todd ’69, JD Allen ’68, Rick Barnett ’71, Brian

David Elizondo ’78, ’86 is the creator of El Weso, a film concept that looks into the character Diablo from Adan Hernandez’ novel, Los Vryosos; A Tale from the Varrio.

Fink ’70, David Reynolds ’70, Jack Gullahorn ’70, and Larry Helm ’69.

1979 Caroline Gates Kopp served as

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1976

Gary Brown is the proud grand-

Nelson Abbey has three married

father of three.

1974 Don Disbennett is newly retired.

James Kramb is the interim

director of Southern Methodist University at Plano in Plano, Texas.

sons: Sean to Lisa, Matt to Amanda, and Kevin to Jenna.

Abbey also has three grandsons: Torin, Greyson, and Sebastion.

1980

Thomas Barth celebrated his

Scott Hewitt continues to prac-

41st wedding anniversary with wife, Pamela, on Feb. 14. They were married in Trinity’s Parker Chapel and had their reception at Hemisfair Tower.

1975 1977 Sally Stadler Adams is retiring after 28 years as a pediatric nurse practitioner at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. Adams is looking forward to pursuing travel and leisure.

Trinity alumni are bold, innovative, and engaged with the world.

Submit your updates online at gotu.us/ alumniupdates

Trinity’s delegate at the inauguration of Bobby Hall, the 13th president of Wayland Baptist University, in January in Plainview, Texas.

JoAnne Russell had a USTA

tennis event named in her honor: the Les Grandes Dames JoAnne Russell Cup, a national category 2 super senior women’s event hosted by the Academia Sanchez-Casal in Naples, Fla.

tice medicine as an anesthesiologist and chronic pain specialist.

Craig Raguse appeared in part one of American Epic, a fourpart documentary about remote recordings of regional music styles conducted by record companies in the late 1920s with a portable electric system, which began airing on PBS stations in May. The series has been shown at multiple film festivals across the world and has won awards at every festival where it was in competition.

Valerie Shelley moved back to her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, accepting a position as coordinator of youth and teen services at the Central Public Library.

1982 Sarah Griggs-Chase ’82, ’83 accepted a position as the

director of special education in New Caney Independent School District in New Caney, Texas.

This is Griggs-Chase’s 34th year as an educator.

1983 Janet Elizabeth Burnett became board certified in criminal law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Burnett currently owns her own practice in Georgetown, Texas.

Laura DiSilverio released the third book in her Incubation Trilogy, Regeneration.

1984 Melanie Stafford edited the book

Stamped from the Beginning

by Ibram X. Kendi, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

1985 Sarith Abramowitz was hired

as the prevention CSC grant coordinator for Newtown Youth and Family Services in Sandy Hook, Conn.

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Miller Fountain, Tycoon Flats, and Bombay Bicycle Club. Enjoy a night out with old and new friends at some favorite off-campus spots!

Saturday, Oct. 14

Trinity introduces new events to connect alumni together

by Molly Mohr What connects Tigers “TUgether”? Is it the way they become immediately nostalgic whenever the word ‘fountain’ or ‘tower’ is mentioned? Or that their wardrobe choices subconsciously tend toward maroon? Possibly because their mouths water thinking about the local TexMex food from their college days?

There are many things that make you a Trinity Tiger.

Come back to campus and remember why you’re a Tiger at Heart during Alumni Weekend 2017, planned for Friday, Oct. 13 through Sunday, Oct. 15.

This year, the schedule is packed full of both new and classic events. Some of the reimagined activities include: Friday, Oct. 13

On Friday, attend class during the day and hit up former haunts at night—just like the good old days! From morning until mid-afternoon, you may sit alongside current students and learn from their favorite professors in several open classes.

In the evening, join the community for Fiesta with the Faculty, an all-alumni and campus celebration. Take part in fiesta-style fashion with strolling mariachis, Tex-Mex food, and, of course, San Antonio’s famous margaritas.

After the celebration, a free shuttle will run between

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On Saturday, enjoy complimentary breakfast tacos and captivating conversation at Alumni College, a new initiative celebrating lifelong Learning TUgether. Campus legend Coleen Grissom and two alumni speakers will discuss humanities topics close to their hearts. You won’t want to miss these Tigers taking a stroll down memory lane at Trinity and recommending the top 100 things to do in San Antonio.

After attending Alumni College, climb to the top of Murchison Tower and take a photo with President Danny Anderson. Check out the bricks freshly signed by the Class of 2017, and see if your signature is still where you left it. Then, renew your connection to campus with a splash by dipping your Trinity ring in Miller Fountain!

Before watching Tiger Football take on Centre College, attend the Tailgate Party and Festival on Prassel Lawn, where you can enjoy complimentary beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and purchase hot dogs and burgers. While revving up your #TigerPride at the tailgate, visit the Alumni Artisans’ Sale, Greek Carnival, and Reunion Central tent.

During halftime at the football game, watch the induction of eight former Tiger student-athletes into the Trinity Athletics Hall of Fame.

These new activities will be mixed in with the events you already know and love, like class year and department reunions, the alumni group run, and the President’s All-Alumni Reception. Keep an eye out for a full schedule coming soon online at trinity.edu/AlumniWeekend.

Can’t wait ’til Alumni Weekend to connect? Let fellow Tigers know what you’re up to by submitting a class note at gotu.us/alumniupdates, and join the official “Trinity University Alumni” Facebook group.

1986

1989

Patty Jenkins is completing her second deployment as a chaplain in the Army Reserve. Jenkins is in northern Iraq and looks forward to coming home.

Edie Binns was selected director of professional development for Round Rock ISD. Since 2008, Binns served as the principal of Pond Springs Elementary School.

1987 Trish DeBerry was inducted

into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame in the communications category. The San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame honors women leaders who have achieved tremendous success in their careers, contributed significantly to the community, and broken down barriers for women.

Dana Pomykal Franz, Ph.D., ’87, ’91 was awarded full professor-

ship in the College of Education at Mississippi State University.

1988 Jay Cappis has two sons,

17-year-old Christian and 14-year-old Oliver. Christian was recently called into camp for the U.S. Soccer Under-18 Men’s National Team. Oliver is the current alternate for the AAU Tae Kwon Do National Team in his age/weight bracket.

Judith Giesberg authored the

book Sex and the Civil Code.

Gen. Richard Ursone, after a

successful 30-year Army career and 10 years as a director at Deloitte Healthcare Consulting, is retired. Next up? Volunteering and traveling.

Angela Miranda Clark is now

working at the University of Houston in the Equal Opportunity Services Office, investigating complaints of discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct.

In May, nineteen Trinity alumnae came together in the Texas Hill Country for the third Zeta Chi biennial reunion. The group enjoyed wine tasting,

1990

swimming, and catching up. Pictured in the first row are Heather Todd Landi ’98, Trisha Pierce ’01, Reka Lal ’98, Heather Hunziker ’01, and

Rush Olson directed the documentary A Bright Future: West ISD Rises Up, about the West, Texas, restoration to rebuild its education system.

Courtney Schmidt Holcomb ’99. Pictured in the second row are Katie Lawrence ’98, Abby Haran Raddatz ’99, Amy Fowler Tellinghuisen ’99, Laura Tenczar Whiles ’99, Andrea Spolidoro Martinsen ’99, Emily Houston ’99, Sarah Lape Robb ’98, Beth Pedersen Fagan ’01, Kaci Wongsmith ’02, Jocelyn Lewis ’01, and Heather Conger ’00. Not pictured are Cori Ricks ’01, Erin Kieley Roberts ’98, and Kristie Taliaferro Gibson ’98.

Trip Robertson was promoted to vice president of development for Carolina Youth Development Center (CYDC), a nonprofit serving the Lowcountry of South Carolina since 1790. Originally the Charleston Orphan House, CYDC serves children of abuse, neglect, and parental abandonment.

Thomas Spencer has accepted an appointment as the Dean of Honors College at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in Kingsville, Texas. Previously, Spencer was an administrator in the Honors College at Eastern Illinois University from 2012, a professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University from 1997 to 2012, and director of the honors program there from 2008 to 2012.

1991

1994

Lee Koch was invited to pres-

Beth Williams Cusack co-wrote

1992

and co-edited the book Mascot: Memoirs from a Zinc Mining Town, which is made up of 39 chapters, each a memoir by a person who lived or worked in a small town in East Tennessee during the 1930s-60s. All proceeds from sales of the book will go to the Friends of the Knox County Public Library.

Steven Mach was reappointed to

Tim Godfrey was promoted

ent research findings from his doctoral research project on how e-learning affects tertiary-level nurse education and the role of the nurse educator at Sigma Theta Tau International’s 28th International Nursing Research Congress in Dublin in July.

the Texas Public Safety Commission and promoted to chair of the Commission by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

1993 Sean Golliher and his wife,

Sarah ’91, moved to Maryland for

roles with Under Armour and T. Rowe Price.

to vice president of physician services at LifePoint Health in Brentwood, Tenn.

Robert McCollum is the director,

co-writer, co-executive producer, and the voice of “Ron Clarkson” in the audio project “TERMS.”

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1998

2001

Josh McMorrow, with his wife

Jennifer Janes has been work-

Layne Loessin was named in the

Priya (Chouhan) McMorrow ’98

and their two children, moved to Zug, Switzerland, with his company as he took on a new role as vice president, general counsel for the United States and Europe/Africa.

Max Wachtel, Ph.D., is a forensic psychologist who joined the cast of CBS’s new reality series, “Hunted,” as a behavioral profiler who tracks fugitives. The series first aired in January. Previously, Wachtel was a professor at the University of Denver and is the author of The One Rule For Boys: How Empathy and Emotional Understanding Will Improve Just About Everything For Your Son.

ing as a hospice social worker for almost four years, with the last two at Compassus Hospice and Palliative Care, and thoroughly enjoys this job and company.

Janes’ 2-year-old future Trinity Tigers are doing great and preparing to attend Trinity in 15 or 16 years by watching lots of Sesame Street. They love their new dog, Bob Barker.

executive director of the San Angelo Performing Arts Center in San Angelo, Texas.

Lindsay Lew was promoted to

assistant athletic director for digital and database marketing at the University of Colorado in June. Lew enjoyed getting to visit San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl, and she is looking forward to celebrating the Trinity 20year reunion with classmates and the Spurs’ 85th anniversary at Alumni Weekend this fall.

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Claire Swann graduated from

development officer of HCA Gulf Coast Division.

the University of Texas at Austin School of Law in 2004 and has spent her career in public service, focused primarily on representing municipalities. In 2016, Swann transitioned out of law and into city management when she was hired as an assistant city manager for Lewisville, Texas, a community northwest of Dallas with a population of 100,000.

Ron Nirenberg was elected as

2002

1999 Jim Brown was named chief

mayor of San Antonio in the 2017 mayoral election.

1997 Mark Levine was selected as

Houston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,” Class of 2017. Loessin is the president and CEO of Entrust Energy.

Amanda “Mandy” Seymour is the author of The Gift, a book about what true love is and what will make it last.

Sheryl Stoeck was named the

High School Educator of the Year for San Antonio’s Northside ISD.

Submit your updates online at gotu.us/ alumniupdates

April Ancira was named host of KLRN’s Arts, a TV program about arts and culture in the San Antonio area.

Genevieve Haggard, after

receiving her master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, taught first grade for two years. Currently, she is the librarian at Volma Overton Elementary School in Austin, Texas, and she loves it.

Brent Morgan opened a law firm

in January in Midland, Texas, with his wife, Piper. They practice criminal law, family law, and estate planning.

2003 Matthew Clavenna obtained

his medical degree with honors, completed a surgical residency in ENT, had a fellowship in sinus- and skull-based surgery, and together with his wife, Jillian, had their first child, Emilia.

Amber Rogers has been pro-

moted to partner at Hunton & Williams LLP. Rogers focuses her practice on complex employment litigation, labor relations, and related litigation.

Lee Mason founded an autism clinic in 2013. The clinic has been designated a Research Center by the University of Texas at San Antonio in the wake of two $500,000 dollar awards from the state of Texas.

2004 Andrew Cates was selected as a Fellow with the Texas Bar Foundation. Each year, one-third of one percent of State Bar of Texas members are invited to become Fellows.

Charles Parish ’60 and Logan Ramirez

Clifton Ruehl ’99 and Jennifer Howeth

’01 co-authored The Groom Wore

’01 gave talks in the same invited

White Socks, a collection of Parish’s

session at the annual meeting of the

favorite wedding stories from his 50-

Association of Southeastern Biologists

year photography career. The book

in Montgomery, Ala. Despite their sim-

not only shares funny anecdotes, but

ilar interest in aquatic systems, the two

offers a lesson after each one, hoping

Tigers hadn’t crossed paths before, and

to help others learn from so many of

they enjoyed talking about their shared

the events that Parish encountered.

experiences at Trinity.

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Prints can be mailed to Alumni Relations, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200.

Nicola Hill ’15, Michelle Oberndorf ’15, and Vanessa Moreno ’14 ran

A group of Trinity men’s soccer players who received All-American

the 2017 Boston Marathon together in April. All are former members of

honors in the 2016-17 season traveled to Los Angeles and met Landon

Trinity University Women’s Cross Country and Track and Field.

Donovan, a professional soccer player for the Los Angeles Galaxy and the U.S. Men’s National Team. From left to right, Laurence Wyke ’19, Austin Michaelis ’19, Donovan, Kellen Reid ’18, and Christian Sakshaug ’19.

2005

2009

Holly Elliott was named vice president of women’s and children’s services of HCA Gulf Coast Division.

position as CEO of Shannon Medical Center.

ical-free nail salon in Houston called Paloma.

2006 Sarah Koopersmith was pro-

moted to president and CEO of Skyline Displays, a Houston-based full-service exhibit and design house.

2014

Zach Dietze was selected CEO of Seton Medical Center Harker Heights.

James Grant Magness is assistant administrator at Brownwood Regional Medical Center and is engaged to Judi Klein.

Olivia Hochschwender was named an associate attorney at Kastner Westman & Wilkins LLC.

Bryan Horner retired from his

Maryam Naderi opened a chem-

2010

Nick Shockey attended both the

Republican and Democratic conventions in 2016 as a representative of the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition to promote and thank supporters of open access to research, open educational resources, and open data.

Catherine Riggle and Scott Rig-

gle ’12 purchased and moved into their first house in Plano, Texas.

2015 Maribel Miranda started a new

job in 2016 as the digital marketing coordinator at Giles-Parscale.

2016 2013 Alexander Bretoi received an in-

ternal promotion within Nielsen to become one of two music specialists where he directly works with their product leadership team within the Music Division.

Bretoi is also a professional anthem singer and has a popular personal SoundCloud account.

Sonam James has enjoyed her time as a Fulbright Scholar teaching in Zlín, Czech Republic.

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MARRIAGES Rachel Harpster ’10

Cristina Miranda ’08

and Justin Cooper

and Joel Bouldin III

’09

Jan. 14, 2017

Oct. 22, 2016 Maria Mendoza ’06 Emily Shiraki ’13

and Alejandro

and Jeffrey Pfeifer ’12

Mendoza

Oct. 8, 2016

Sept. 18, 2016

Correction

Alumni participants view an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

Tigers at Heart in Houston Alumni and parents partake in Trinity’s inaugural national conference

Shelby Frank ’15 and David Harris ’15

by Carlos Anchondo ’14

March 15, 2017

BIRTHS Logan Saige to Meaghan Golden Avocato ’09 and Phil Avocato ’09 Dec. 14, 2016 Willa Joy Dev Madhani

to Brianna Ginnette

to Erin Hood ’03 and

Pickenpaugh ’10

Jay Madhani ’02

and Ryan Pickenpaugh

Feb. 7, 2017

Jan. 18, 2017

Theodore Vincent to Amanda Barth Mangelsdorf ’07 and Greg Mangelsdorf ’07 Nov. 9, 2016

Hands waved energetically and voices shouted above the clamor as old friends reunited with one another and happened upon their former professors. On Saturday, April 8, 2017, nearly 100 people gathered at the Marriott Marquis Houston for the inaugural National Conference for Trinity Alumni and Parents. Seven decades of Trinity alumni were represented in the attendees.

Trinity president Danny J. Anderson greeted participants over breakfast with opening remarks about higher education today. Conference attendees then broke into sessions taught by Trinity faculty: The Rev. Raymond Judd ’56, chaplain emeritus, and R. Douglas Brackenridge, professor emeritus; music professor Diane Persellin; David Lesch, the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of History; and Paul McGinlay, men’s head soccer coach, and Gretchen Rush ’86, women’s head tennis coach.

Tess Coody-Anders ’93, CEO of Resolute Health in New Braunfels, Texas, attended the conference because she “loved the idea of bringing alumni and parents together to engage directly with professors and staff. It was great to sit in the front row again – this time as an adult learner.”

Following the breakout sessions, participants enjoyed an Aramark-sponsored luncheon that featured Dr. Mark W. Kline ’79, the J.S. Abercrombie Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine.

After a short break, participants visited the Houston Museum of Fine Arts with private tours by Elizabeth Ward, professor and chair of the Trinity Department of Art and Art History, and sculpture professor Kate Ritson. Back at the Marriott Marquis, the Trinity Chamber Singers captivated conference attendees at a President’s Reception with President Anderson. For evening entertainment, participants decided between dinners at Houston-area restaurants or a Houston Astros game at Minute Maid Park.

The Trinity Alumni Relations and Development division is already planning to hold a second annual conference sometime in 2018.

For more information about future events, call 210-999-8404 or visit the alumni events webpage at gotu.us/alumnievents.

Photos from the National Conference can be found at gotu.us/photos.

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CHAPTER ACTIVITIES

Prospective students, parents, alumni, and their children participated in the Houston Chapter’s annual “Trinity Cares” service project at the Houston Food Bank.

Chapter activities listed between Nov. 1, 2016 - April 1, 2017.

ALBUQUERQUE The Albuquerque Chapter held a special alumni gathering on March 1 featuring a conversation between Richard V. Butler, Ph. D., professor emeritus of economics and Trinity’s alumni engagement coordinator, and Rebecca Avitia ’03, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Alumni from a wide range of class years attended the event.

discussed “Bashar Al-Assad and Disintegration of Syria.”

ATLANTA Alumni ranging from the Class of 1976 to the Class of 2011 enjoyed an educational tour of the Oakland Cemetery on Nov. 12 where, among other activities, they had their picture taken at the resting place of golf legend Bobby Jones.

alumni attended the annual SXSW Trinity Alumni Mixer on March 10 at Half Step Bar and enjoyed presentations and live music co-hosted by Choose SA.

BAY AREA The Chapter held its annual Making Connections networking event on Jan. 5 at the Press Club in San Francisco. Students and alumni benefited from conversations about career paths.

AUSTIN ARIZONA Alumni in the Phoenix area attended the Chapter’s Fall Happy Hour on Nov. 16 at Ocotillo Restaurant and Bar. On Dec. 2, Chapter alumni and guests attended the Alumni Holiday Party hosted by Rico ’99 and Jessica Izaguirre at their home in Glendale, Ariz. Area alumni appreciated a lecture and discussion on March 29 at the University Club of Phoenix with David Lesch, Ph.D., the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity. He

Austin Chapter alumni and students from the area attended its annual Making Connections networking event at Fiber Cove, owned by J.P. Maxwell ’95. On Jan. 12, the Chapter competed against other Austin-based young alumni groups from Texas universities, such as Rice University and Texas Christian University, at Dave and Buster’s for the “Young Alumni Texas Challenge.”

The goal was for each participating group to donate a portion of the proceeds to its school’s scholarship fund. Austin Chapter

CHICAGO The Chicago Chapter’s annual Making Connections event, held on Jan. 7 at the home of Scott ’70 and Laurie Themm Walker ’71, provided Trinity alumni with an opportunity to network with current students.

ents of Bob Trigg ’86. On Feb. 20, alumni gathered at Museo de las Americas, a fine arts museum, and heard Richard Reed, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and director of Trinity’s Environmental Studies program, speak on “Guayakí Yerba Mate: popular tastes and political realities of tropical forest products.”

DALLAS The Dallas Chapter’s annual Making Connections event was held on Jan. 6 at the home of Marshall ’88 and Blainey Hess.

On April 7, alumni cheered on the Dallas Mavericks, but the San Antonio Spurs brought home the win. The Dallas and Fort Worth Chapters joined together for a VIP tour of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on April 15.

DENVER Chapter alumni and students from the Denver area discussed career paths at the Chapter’s annual Making Connections event on Jan. 5 held at the home of Wendy and Jack Trigg, par-

FORT WORTH The Fort Worth Chapter held its annual Making Connections Networking event on Jan. 5 at the Colonial Country Club, courtesy of Michael Johnston ’77.

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clockwise from above Alumni from Fort Worth and Dallas posed in the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

Erin Jamison ’11, J.D. Godchaux ’00, Tolley St. Clair ’13, and Helen Harris ’92 volunteered for the New York Chapter’s Trinity Cares service project.

San Antonio Chapter alumni enjoyed a “Trinity Treasures” tour of the Center for the Sciences and Innovation.

Alumni in Chicago networked during the Chapter’s annual Making Connections event. Alumni in Albuquerque conversed with Richard V. Butler, Ph.D., professor emeritus of economics, and Rebecca Avitia ’03, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Alumni in North Carolina enjoyed Tex-Mex and reminisced about their time at Trinity.

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The Fort Worth and Dallas Chapters joined together for a VIP tour of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on April 15.

HOUSTON The Houston Chapter alumni held a happy hour evening on Dec. 13 at Okra Charity Saloon.

For each drink or food item purchased, alumni received a token to local charities, where all January profits would go to the nonprofit with the most votes for the month of December. On Jan. 4, Chapter alumni and students from the area met at the home of Cora and Harry Mach, parents of Trinity Trustee Steve Mach ’92, for the annual Making Connections networking event. The Houston Chapter, in coordination with the Admissions Office, held its fourth annual “Trinity Cares” service project on Feb. 18 at the Houston Food Bank.

More than 50 people, including prospective students, parents, alumni, and their children, participated in the project. During the three-hour shift, the Trinity group helped make more than 4,000 backpack lunches—meals that go home with schoolchildren to sustain their nutrition over the weekend. Houston Chapter alumni enjoyed a special treat from Liz Ward, professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, as she gave a pre-opening tour of her exhibit “Watershed” on Feb. 25 at the Moody Gallery.

LUBBOCK NETWORK Alumni in the area gathered on Dec. 15 at the home of Caroline ’79 and Douglas Kopp for the newly launched Lubbock Alumni Network’s inaugural Alumni Holiday Party. They celebrated the holiday season, reuniting

with old friends and meeting new ones.

NASHVILLE NETWORK Alumni enjoyed having the opportunity to meet President Danny Anderson and Professor Mary Stefl on Nov. 29 at Valentino’s Ristorante.

NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA Alumni and their guests put on Christmas music and ugly sweaters for a “Very Trinity Christmas Party” on Dec. 3, where Erin Whitaker ’00 won the ugly sweater contest. On Jan. 7, alumni woke up early to brave the freezing cold and distribute food to more than 200 individuals through the National Capital Area’s monthly mobile marketplace. Alumni and their families enjoyed exploring the Newseum on March 4.

from top National Capital Area Chapter alumni braved freezing cold temperatures

NEW ENGLAND

to distribute food at

Alumni ranging from the Class of 1980 to the Class of 2016 enjoyed happy hour at Shojo in Boston on April 8.

the monthly mobile marketplace. Arizona Chapter alumni and guests enjoyed the Alumni Holiday Party

NEW YORK

in Glendale, Ariz.

Alumni enjoyed a fun evening of trivia at Irish Exit on Nov. 9.

Despite 20-degree weather and 50 mile-per-hour wind gusts, alumni in Brooklyn enjoyed their last gathering of 2016 at Berg’n on Dec. 15. Continuing a tradition, the New York Chapter volunteered at Bowery Mission on Feb. 25, where they served 188 meals to the homeless and hungry. On March 2, alumni gathered at the Fat Cat for an evening of ping pong, fun, and laughter.

On March 17, alumni and their guests were entertained by talented performers, including Richard Todd Adams ’96, in the Broadway musical Cats.

Alumni in Atlanta took an educational tour of the Oakland Cemetery. They had their picture taken near golfer Bobby Jones’ grave.

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NORTH CAROLINA NETWORK Alumni ranging from the Class of of 1976 to the Class of 2005 enjoyed a happy hour at Chuy’s in Raleigh on March 25.

OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma City Chapter hosted its annual Making Connections event on Jan. 5 at the home of David and Ann Carpenter Zuk ’79. On Feb. 11, alumni from the Class of 1973 to the Class of 2009 helped package 7,680 pounds of food, equalling 6,400 meals for distribution. On April 13, the Chapter held an interactive conversation titled “The State of Healthcare in Oklahoma” led by Bruce Lawrence ’82, where participants enjoyed an open dialogue with one of Oklahoma’s leaders in healthcare.

SAN ANTONIO Alumni from the Class of 1950 to the Class of 2016 enjoyed mingling with friends over a holiday dinner before attending Trinity’s annual Holiday Concert on Dec. 2. The next day, alumni and students cheered for the San Antonio Rampage and watched the hockey team win in overtime. On Jan. 14, alumni and their guests received a tour of the Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI) by Les Bleamaster ’98, professor of geosciences and science facilities manager. On Jan. 26, alumni and students received a tour of Geekdom from Cole Wollak ’11 before hearing from Lisa Ingle-Stevens ’99 and Steve Falk ’98, ’99 about their journey from corporate life to opening three yoga studios and three CrossFit gyms. Alumni and guests attended a wine and cheese reception

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and discussion with Kyle Gillette ’01, professor of theater, on Feb. 17 prior to Trinity’s opening night of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On Feb. 26, alumni participated in a workshop on South Texas native plants and toured the green roof of CSI. Alumni from the Class of 1969 to the Class of 2016 networked on March 30 at The Union owned

by Ingle-Stevens and Falk, where Mitch Walker ’06 talked about his path from growing up in the Grand Canyon National Park, to attending Trinity University, to becoming a first-generation college graduate, to working as a commercial lender. The Chapter hosted a tailgate for parents before the Tigers’ baseball game during Trinity’s Spring Family Weekend—shout out to Rick Hill ’91 for grilling the food.

from top Alumni in the Oklahoma City Chapter received an update of the status of healthcare in Oklahoma from Bruce Lawrence ’82.

SAN DIEGO

Seattle Chapter alumni enjoyed a lecture and discussion led by

San Diego Chapter alumni and guests gathered on March 16 to enjoy a dinner at Prepkitchen Little Italy, followed by an engaging discussion on earthquakes from Glenn Kroeger, professor of geosciences.

Jennifer Henderson, chair of the Department of Communication,

SEATTLE On March 13, Seattle Chapter alumni participated in a lecture-discussion on “Communicating in an era of fake news: why journalism matters more than ever” led by Jennifer Henderson, chair of the Department of Communication, and Aaron Delwiche, professor of communication.

ST. LOUIS Alumni and students in the St. Louis area participated in the annual Making Connections event at Cantina Laredo on Jan. 4.

and Aaron Delwiche, communication professor.

Connect with fellow Tiger alumni on Facebook!

Join the official Trinity University Alumni Facebook group.

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Your Trinity Alumni Chapters There’s a chapter near you! If you would like to be involved in chapter activities or to serve on the Board, contact your nearest chapter president or check out chapter pages at gotu.us/alumnichapters.

Albuquerque

Colorado Springs Network

National Capital Area

San Antonio

Sal Perdomo ’13

Kim Newberry ’93

Avantika Krishna ’15

Trey Evans ’06

salvatorperdomo@gmail.com

kdnwbrry@yahoo.com

avakrish@gmail.com

devans@alum.trinity.edu

albuquerque@alum.trinity.edu

Brianna Tammaro ’13

Sarah Causer ’11

sanantonio@alum.trinity.edu

brianna.tammaro@gmail.com

sarah.causer1@gmail.com

Arizona Tara Zoellner ’01

Columbus, Ohio Network

tzoellner@gmail.com

Duane Weaver ’79

arizona@alum.trinity.edu

dweav1265@gmail.com

nationalcapitalarea@alum.

San Diego

trinity.edu

Megan McClurg ’98 meganalysa@gmail.com

New England (includes New

sandiego@alum.trinity.edu

Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Atlanta

Dallas

Massachusetts, Rhode Island

Seattle

Jeff Winland ’97

Rob Sender ’09

and Connecticut)

Erin Perry ’06

jeff.winland@hawcpa.com

robsender@gmail.com

Laura Smeaton ’92

erincrosbyperry@gmail.com

atlanta@alum.trinity.edu

dallas@alum.trinity.edu

laurasmeaton@mac.com

seattle@alum.trinity.edu

newengland@alum.trinity.edu Austin

Denver

Carolyn Roark ’95

Bob Trigg ’86

New York

Aisha Sultan ’96

roarkcd@gmail.com

bob@gtinjurylaw.com

Helen Harris ‘92

asultan@post-dispatch.com

austin@alum.trinity.edu

colorado@alum.trinity.edu

hharris10@nyc.rr.com

stlouis@alum.trinity.edu

St. Louis

newyork@alum.trinity.edu The Bay Area

Fort Worth

Brittney Elko ’08

Lindsay Hess ’11

North Carolina Network

Jaclyn Metcalf ’08

brittney.elko@gmail.com

lindsaylhess@gmail.com

John Papazian ’04

jaclyn.metcalf@gmail.com

thebayarea@alum.trinity.edu

ftworth@alum.trinity.edu

john.papazian@gmail.com

Alexa Harrison Maloney ’12

Anthony Rodriguez ’05

alexanharrison@gmail.com

ajrodrig@gmail.com

Jason Maloney ’11

Tulsa Network

Central Florida Network

Houston

Matt Giles ’07

Karyn Hall ’11

mggiles@gmail.com

karynhall814@gmail.com

Oklahoma City

houston@alum.trinity.edu

Emily Bowlby ’05

West Texas – Abilene Network

emily.bowlby@gmail.com

Jed Crowe ’85 jed@crowegroup.biz

Charlottesville, Va. Network

jason-maloney@utulsa.edu

Allison Wright ’01

Kansas City Network

Jenny Richard ’97

allisonwright27@gmail.com

Bill Keith ’08

jennyarichard@yahoo.com

bill.r.keith@gmail.com

oklahomacity@alum.trinity.edu

Chicago

Charles Joseph ’84

Julianne Hatfield ’07

charlesejoseph@icloud.com

jkhatfield@gmail.com

Caroline Kopp ’79 Portland

caroline.kopp@att.net

Leslie Wilkins ‘06

Lindsay Bean ’09, ’11 lindsay.b.bean@gmail.com

Melissa Zeman ’07

Los Angeles

namroxx@gmail.com

mharmany@gmail.com

Karen Fisher ’10

portland@alum.trinity.edu

chicago@alum.trinity.edu

karenfisher17@gmail.com losangeles@alum.trinity.edu

Cleveland, Ohio Network

West Texas – Lubbock Network

West Texas – Midland-Odessa Rio Grande Valley Network

Network

Josh Yost ‘96

Sara Burleson ’81

jyost1@rgv.rr.com

saraburleson4@gmail.com

Tim Gibbons ’85

Nashville, Tenn. Network

tfgibbons@gmail.com

Vacant – if interested, please

Shelby Landgraf ’07

email cmartin6@trinity.edu

shelbyllandgraf@gmail.com

For more information on Alumni Chapters and Network Cities, call Alumni Relations at 210-999-8404.

TRINITY TRAVELS

Trinity Tigers are world travelers, and Trinity magazine wants to see your photos!

Use #TrinityTravels to share your photos on social media or submit them to the magazine. (Photo submission guidelines are on page 69.)

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Carlos Anchondo ’14 at Big Bend National Park; President Danny Anderson at the Colosseum in Rome; Susie Gonzalez in New Orleans; Katsuo Nishikawa, director for the Center for International Engagement, in Monterrey, Mexico and at the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo; Alex Perkowski ’18 in Tokyo; Biology professor David Ribble on a faculty-led study abroad trip to Costa Rica; Victor Rodriguez ’14 in Quito, Ecuador; Carmel Tajonera ’12, Jenni White ’14, and Tim Connor ’13 in Florence, Italy;TRINITY McCaleb Summer Taylor ’192017 and his family hiking the Milford Track in New Zealand; and Olivia Thomas ’19 and Hailey Wilson ’19 in Boulder, Co. 74

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The Slab The hub of student life was once an isolated chunk of concrete

by R. Douglas Brackenridge

left The 1953 Mirage featured a photo of students enjoying athletics activities on The Slab. right Even classes were taught on The Slab—even during the mid-summer heat! photos courtesy University Archives

Given the prominence of Trinity’s architectural history, it may come as a surprise that an unadorned (no red brick) and isolated concrete slab was once the University’s center of campus social activities. Constructed on lower campus in 1952 and measuring 118 feet by 142 feet, The Slab initially functioned as a temporary outdoor gymnasium for tennis, badminton, and dance classes until funds became available for permanent facilities. Its use was later expanded to include intramural and intercollegiate athletics contests such as tennis, basketball, and volleyball.

Due to the slow pace of Trinity’s early building program, however, The Slab quickly outgrew its limited athletics use. Enhanced by the construction of an adjacent covered barbecue pit, between 1952 and 1977 The Slab served as a multi-purpose venue for a kaleidoscope of campus events. It hosted dances with live music, speech and drama performances, group parties and dinners, student officer elections rallies, and annual Homecoming and Founder’s Day celebrations. Other uses included roller skating, car washes, drill team exercises, and space to build floats for Fiesta parades.

The Slab was also home to popular summer productions by the Trinity Players, under the direction of speech and drama professor Clayton McCarty, which included dramatic readings and plays such as Gramercy Ghost, The Queen’s Husband, and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. In the series “Drama Under the Stars,” drama workshops designed for high school students included performances such as Twelve Angry Men. Visiting dignitaries were sometimes invited to specially prepared dinners on The Slab. On one occasion, members of Trinity’s international relations club

hosted a roasted elk dinner for an Israeli ambassador and special guests from the Lackland Air Force Base Language School.

For a number of years, Homecoming Fiesta on The Slab featured a carnival atmosphere with old-fashioned county fair booths that were elaborately decorated by sororities, fraternities, and other student groups. The event drew large numbers of people, including families with young children. In the background of calliope music, barkers called out to attract customers to their booths. Among their choices were a western dance hall, old movies, a penny arcade featuring games of chance, a do-it-yourself painting booth, a fortune teller, and a theater satirizing Trinity faculty. Two perennial favorites were the mock prison and the dunking machine. To cap off the evening, Homecoming royalty were announced.

By the early 1970s, however, most social events were being held in various new campus buildings. In 1977, The Slab was reconfigured to accommodate the Pittman Tennis Courts for use by the women’s tennis team.

In this capacity, The Slab continues to serve a useful function as a University structure, even though it has become an unknown entity to most current members of the Trinity community. The Slab may never receive an architectural award, merit a historical marker, or appear on a Trinity logo, but for a quarter of a century it was the highly visible social center of the young campus. Quite an accomplishment for a humble chunk of concrete!

Slab memories and digital and hardcopy photographs are welcomed for preservation in the University archives.

Contact Trinity University Archivist, Jessica Neal, at jneal@trinity.edu or 210-999-8179.

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Then and Now The George Storch Memorial Building was one of the first buildings constructed on Trinity’s new Skyline Campus in 1951. The building was one of the best examples of the liftslab construction system that O’Neil Ford used in Trinity’s earliest buildings. Despite alterations over the decades, the building’s clean lines, clear volumes, and adept siting make it one of the most powerful works of architecture at Trinity.

Until 1979, Storch functioned as a library, but today it houses several academic departments and other offices.

Read more about O’Neil Ford on page 38 of this issue.