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TRINITY ·REPORTE·R VOLUME 2 NUMBER 6

TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1972

4 Area Colleges Unite To Improve Services Lockwood, Chairman ; Dr. Archibald The Hartford Foundation for Public Woodruff of the U of H; Sister Mary · Giving has awarded $60,000 matching grant to Trinity. College, the University of Consolata of St. Joseph College; and Miss Hartford, St. Joseph College and Hartford Laura Johnson of Hartford College for College for Women to fund a four-college Women. consortium in Greater Hartford, the first The $60,000 "seed money" grant will in the area. be spread over a three-year period, Basic objective of the consortium is to starting with the current year. It will be pool the resources of the four schools to supplemented by matching grants from the four participating institutions. avoid costly duplication, and to provide better services at lower · cost. In a sense, Membership in the consortium will not the consortium could be regarded as a be limited to the four charter members, "common market" in private higher but may be expanded to include other ·education·for Greater Hartford. institutions. The Hartford Courant, commenting The arrangement will enable each of editorially on the project, said that "The the member institutions to offer students regional approach to commu.nity a broader choice of courses. problems has frequently been promoted It is the outgrowth of a limited here , but seldom implemented. But cross-registration program o-yer the past cooperation of the kind where there is several years involving students from little or no foss of identity is certainly Trinity, the University of Hartford, St. Joseph College and the Hartford soun<f--especially when money is conserved and services are improved. Seminary Foundation. Under that Educators ... in Greater Hartford have program, called the Intercollegiate Registration Program, students from one indeed found important keys to such cooperation." college were allowed to register at another college for courses not available at the "home" college, and withQut paying additional tuition. · The new consortium will expanq that program in' three ways: - - - - - - - - • By comb-ining enrollments, enabling the four · Schopl~ to con:_til}Ue ; offering ~ courses· which ' have: in - the individuaL schools, -a s-mall a' nd· ~neco~onuc enrollment. • By joint planning of graduate level Trinity College balanced its budget courses and programs. during the fiscal ' year which ended June • By exploring po~ibilities- of pqeling · 3_0; 1971 and appears likely to have a common resources in , administrativ~ = ·-: Q.alanced ~udget al _the end of the current areas, ·su-ch · as · computer services ' and·- liscal '-year, .Treasurer J. Kenneth specialized library resources. Robertson says. Total expenditures and transfers ·in Initially, the governing board of the Greater Hartford Consortium for Higher 1971, Robertson said were $7,719,646 Education will consist of President (see BUDGET, page 2)

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CLARENCE WATTERS, Hor,orary O~ganist of the College, at the console of the new Chapel organ.

1, 000 Attend Recitals Inaugurating New Organ More than 1,000 people-invited guests, Hartford residents and members of the College community-came to Trinity to hear Clarence Watters play two recitals inaugurating the new organ in the Chapel. More than 350 attended the invitation-only recital and reception on January 21 and nearly 700 packed the Chapel for the public performance the following night. There were standing ovations on both evenings, and reviewers gave high praise to both the artist and the instrument. Theodore H. Parker, critic for The Coutant, credited Mr. Watters with a "brilliant performance," and described the organ as "splendid." Mrs. Dorothy Stowe, writing in The Hartford Times, called the recital an "auspicious beginning for a fine organ which will inevitably become a mainstay of the community." Mr. Watters, she said, "played with great style and unfailing good taste." She observed that for him, the recitals were a "crowning moment in a life devoted to the organ and to music at Trinity." Warren V. Tanghe '70, writing in the Tripod, described the organ as "an important contribution to the cultural life of the nation," and praised Mr. Watters' role in designing it and demonstrating ' it to be "a viable instrument for a wide variety of musical styles." The organ is a gift of the late Mrs. Newton C. Brainard in memory of her husband, a trustee of the College for 41 years. A private service of dedication was held in the Chapel on January 15.

The organ has 4,720 pipes in 78 ranks, three manuals and 65 stops. Located under the Rose Window in the Nave of the Chapel, if is one of the largest organs in Connecticut. It can be described as "Neo-Classic," a 20th-Century organ which employs the best principles of the past three centuries of organ-building. The instrument was built by Austin Organs, Inc. of Hartford, at a cost of $150,000. Clarence Watters, Honorary Organist of the College, was consultant on the design of the organ. He was head of Trinity's Music Department from 1932 until his retirement in 196 7. In 1968 and 1970 he was visiting professor of organ at Yale University. For his program he chose works of Bach, Reger, Widor, Franck and Dupre, as well as one of his own compositions. Future events in the Chapel will include a recital March 12 by John Holtz, Chairman of the Organ and Liturgjcal Music Department, Hartt College of Music; a concert for choir and organ March 17 and 18; by the Trinity Concert Choir; a recital April 17· by McNeil Robinson, organist of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City; "The Bloomsbury Mass" on April 18, by the Choir of the Church of the University of London, and music for pipe organ and rock instruments May 2, with Larry King, organist of Trinity Church, New York City, and the "Outer Space" band of Trinity College.

Budge_t Balanced - I~ -'71; Outlook =~~Con-tinues Good

Annual GiYing

More Give Less Barclay Shaw Dies Word reached the College as this issue went to press that ·Barclay Shaw '35, Chairman of the Trinity College Board of Trustees, died February 20 at his home in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Details will appear in the next issue of The Reporter.

More contributors, fewer dollars is the current story of the 1971-72 Annual Giving Campaign when compared- with the giving record in the same period last year. The most"recent progress report shows 1,634 contributors, an increase of 25%. However, in dollars, the $255,377 raised so far in gifts and pledges is (see GIVING, page 2)

FRIENDS TOP GOAL-The Friends of Trinity Fund segment of the 1971-72 Annual Giving Campaign. has already topped its $1 5,000 goal. Shown, left to right, Ostrom Enders, chairman of the Friends Fund, and Christopher_Percy '57, vice chairman.


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