ALONG THE WALK President Dobelle, right, signs agreement with Pingtung Teachers College of Taiwan; President Fred Fwu-Tyan Ho is at left.
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Trinity creates link with college in Taiwan Over Commencement weekend, a significant new connection was formalized: Trinity and the Nationi!l Pingtung Teachers College of Taiwan established a partnership. The new partnership will permit one Trini ty graduate who is a student of Chinese
to teach English in Pingtung each year. Trinity, for its part, will an nu.ally bring one student from Pingtung to study at the College. T he agreemen t between the two institutions creates the likelihood of fac ulty exchanges and encourages collaborative research projects that wi ll link the two fac ulties . President Dobelle and Pingtung President Fred Fwu-Tyan Ho signed the
partners hip agreement during a Saturday luncheon w ith the Trinity trustees. President Ho also received an honorary degree at Commencement. Architect of the partner- · ship is Michael Lestz '68, associate professor of history and director of international studies . "This agreement is significant because it's Trinity's first institution-to-institution exchange with a college or university in East Asia," Lestz says. "It will give Trinity; like Yale or Amherst, a way of regularly sending its best students of C hinese language and East Asian studies to work for a period of time in the Republic of China." Lestz notes that, because Pingtung is a state-operated institution, Trinity had to obtain the permission of Taiwan's Ministry of Education in negotiating the agreement . . Ho has been president of National Pingtung Teachers College since 1988 and is one of the Republic of China's foremost experts on the training of educators for early childhood and elementary school education. He is well-known in Taiwan's educational community for his personal visitation of more than 300 elementary schools overseen by Pingtung in 1993-94. Trinity offers an undergraduate degree in Asian Studies. Among the languages taught at the College are Chinese and Japanese. •
Trinity's community'service efforts count in the city Trinity volunteers made positive contributions to Hartford during the 1994-95 academic year. Coordinated through the College community service office and 'oth er departme!'lts, a host of new and ongoing projects added up signifi cantly in terms of hours and dollars contributed by students and the other members of the Trin ity College community. "We have dedicated student, faculty, staff and administration volunteers here at Trinity," says Tara Gill, coordinator of the community service office. "Their efforts are appreciated and they truly do impact our neighborhoods." Statistics maintained by Gill's office showed the foll owing in the 1994-95 academic year, for ongoing volunteer placements, onetime placements, donations and community attendance :
298 ongoing Trinity volunteers in 22 programs; (approximately 73 percent were women) 591 one~time volunteers in 14 events sponsored by no fewer than seven departments or organizations on campus 596 hours of community service, w ith an average time commitment of two hours a week
$29,985 in monetary donations to nine agencies/countries/ states deriving from nine events sponsored by at least six departments or organizations donations - 8 0 trash bags of clothing to three local agencies • • • •
2000 books to two local agencies 52 units of blood 250 toys to four local agencies 65 shopping bags of food to two local agencies • at least 10 miscellaneous items to five agencies
2138 community members attended (or participated in) 13 Trinity-sponsored events *Additional events and/or donations may have occurred without the assistance of th e community service office.