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TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 5

Pappas Death Stuns Campus Funeral services were held December 13 in the Trinity College Chapel for Mitchel N. Pappas, associate professor of fine arts, who died unexpectedly on December 10. Mr. Pappas, a member of the Trinity faculty since 1947, was'53. Mr. Pappas, a :prize-winning, artist and former director of the College's Austin Arts Center, was well known throughout the College community and Greater Hartford. The College has established a memorial scholarship in the arts, in his name. Born and educated in Hartford, Mr. Pappas was a graduate of Yale University, where he earned both bachelor and master of fine arts degrees. He joined Trinity as a part-time inst-ructor in 1947, was appointed to a full-time position two years later, named assistant professor in 1953 and associate professor in 1959. From September of 1969 until the summer of 1970, he was director of the Austin Arts Center and was responsible for coordinating a wide range of activities in the visual and performing arts including stage performances, concerts, gallery exhibits and lectures. Mr. Pappas, who specialized in portraits and watercolors, had his works displayed in group exhibits in several major cities, including some successful one-man shows in Boston and Hartford. His awards included the Yale Gallery Portrait Award, the Rockport Art Association Watercolor Prize · and the National Restaurant Institute Award for his murals in the former Sagan's Restaurant in Hartford. In 1962 he won, for the second time , the Alice Collin Dunham Portrait Award at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts for a portrait of his son Damon, then 14. Mr. Pappas first won the award in 1955 with a portrait of his daughter Michelle, who was then 12. In 1970 he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Arts in London and was one of the organizers and judges of the week-long arts festival on Constitution Plaza during the summer of this year. He was a frequent judge in art competitions and had for nine years been regional chairman of the Scholastic Magazines Art Awards Competition. He was a member of the executive

TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

ANNUAL GIVING REPORT As of the end of December, total gifts and pledges to the 1971-72 Annual Giving Cam'paign totaled $190,810 or 45% of the $425,000 goal. This ·amount • was $17,452 more than was raised in a . comparable period last year and the total number of contributors increased from 949 to 1 ,347. Breakdown of the five categories in the current drive: ALUMNI FUND (goal $250,000)-$119,210 raised-1 ,049 contributors PARENTS FUND (goal $85,000)-$35,156 from 246 contributors BUSINESS & INDUSTRY (goal $60 ,000)-$23,369 from 37 contributors FRIENDS OF TRINITY (goal $15,000)-$5,075 from 13 contributors FOUNDATIONS (goal $15 ,000)-$8,0j)O from two contributors To date, 261 contributors qualified for membership in the Anniversary Club (gifts from $150 to $999) and 32 qualified as members of the Founders Society (gifts of $1 ,000 or more). The 1971-72 Annual Fund Campaign ends June 30, 1972.

council of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and of the executive board of the Connecticut Watercolor Society. He lectured extensively and a portrait he did of retired Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Wynne in-1958 now hangs in the Sta:te Library. In 1968 he was one of several Trinity faculty members who commuted between Hartford and Lawrenceville, Va., to 'instruct a weekend Humanities Seminar at St. Paul's College. He also coached Trinity's golf team for many years and in 1960 headed the New England 'Intercollegiate Golf Association. He was active in West Hartford politics and was campaign chairman for a board of education candidate in the late 1950's. (see PAPPAS, page 3)

Mitchel Nicholas Pappas, 1918-1971

DECEMBER, 1971

Intensive Study Program Adopted Trinity has added a program of intensive studies to its curriculum which will allow groups of students and faculty to work together exclusively for one semester. The Intensive Study Program (ISP) will allow a faculty member to devote all of his teaching activity to his ISP group for the semester. The students, numbering about 12 in each group, will engage only in the ISP project, receiving up to four course credits fo-r the semester's work. In a variation of the program, students may take three regularly-offered courses concurrently and participate for credit in a fourth course, which would be an integrating seminar arranged and taught by the instructors of the three .courses. Participation by faculty and students is voluntary and courses will be worked out by faculty members on the basis of competence and interest. The ISP will be open to students after their Freshman year. The Intensive Study Program broadens Trinity's "Special Study Programs," which depart from the traditional outline of required courses, and allow the student, working with the faculty, to tailor his own program of study. . Approval of the ISP was voted by the faculty on December 16. In October, the faculty approved in principle an Alternate Degree-Program which would permit a student to earn a degree without following a definite sequence of courses, and over a period which could vary from three to five years. Under the ADP, a student will work on several projects and prepare for a series of examinations in order to qualify for the degree. Normally, bachelor's degrees at Trinity are awarded on completion of 36 course credits and four years of study. Allied with the Intensive Study and Alternate degree programs is the Open Semester, already part of the curriculum, which allows students to engage in some full-time independent study, either on the Trinity Campus or elsewhere, or to serve as an intern with a government agency or private organization for one semester. According to Edwin P. Nye, dean of the facu-lty, the Open Semester is intended to be an "experience of total immersion" in a subject or project. Students have already used the Open Semester for such projects as producing a film about Shakespeare, industrial research, study in the Philippines, teaching in Appalachia, projects in child development in the U.S. and abroad, and music study in New York and Paris. Eleven of Trinity's 1500 students were engaged in Open Semester projects during the first term of the current academic year and about 38 will be participating during the term beginning January 19. Some 67 Open Semester projects were undertaken last year. The first form of the ISP will follow the pattern of the Open Semester but with s.J me differences. While the Open Semester involves a single student in some form of independent study or work, the ISP will involve a faculty member and

several students in a single project. The second form of the ISP is a modification of the normal course sequence, allowing students and faculty to work together intensively in a seminar on issues which arise in the individual courses. The ISP was proposed last summer by a special planning committee which maintained that the "frequent desire of students and faculty to explore subjects in great depth is too often precluded by simultaneous involvement in several courses," and that "intellectual relationships between faculty and students are often too brief and .too artificial." According to the faculty's Curriculum Committee, the two forms of the ISP which were approved are "desirable and (see ISP, page 2)

Smith to Head English Dept. Dr. Paul Smith, professor of English, has. been appointed chairman of the department it was announced by President Lockwood. His appointment will become effective February 1, 1972. Dr. Smith will succeed Dr. J. Bard McNulty, who completes a term as

chairman begurt in December 1966 under a policy of chairmanship rotation initiated by the Board of Turstees in 1967. Dr. McNulty will remain James J. Goodwin Professor of English. A member of the Trinity faculty since 1959, Dr. Smith received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He has taught in secondary schools, as a Teaching Fellow in History and . Literature at Harvard, the Telluride Association at Cornell, and the Trinity College/Rome Campus. The author of articles on Melville, Shelley, and the English curriculum, Smith is co-editor (with Robert D. Foulke) of an anthology, "Anatomy of Literature," to be published this spring. He has developed a curriculum in literature extending from Kindergarten to the 12th grade for the State Department of Education in Georgia and has been a curriculum consultant in several local schools. (see SMITH, page 4)


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