1975June

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T5'.3 TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY

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JU L 14 1975

TRINITY REPORTER

H ARTFORD, CONN.

TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 7

JUNE, 1975

Tradition Marks 149th Commencement Three Trustee Changes Approved By Board The Board of Trustees at its Commencement Weekend meeting made a term trustee a charter trustee and approved selection of two new trustees. William R. Peelle '44 of West Hartford, who had been a term trustee, was elected a charter trustee. Brenton W. Harries '50 of Westfield, New Jersey, was elected term trustee for an

Peelle '44

Harries received an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania after receiving his degree from Trinity. Following service as a naval officer, he attended Columbia University Law School. In 1955, he joined the Blue List Publishing Company. In 1963, at the time of a merger with Standard &

DePatie '52

eight year term and Thomas C. DePatie '52 of Ridgewood, New Jersey, was made alumni trustee for a six year term. Peelle, who served as an officer in the Coast Guard Reserve, served Trinity as assistant director of admissions, director of admissions, freshman advisor, assistant alumni secretary and alumni secretary. In 1955, he joined the Wilcox-Crittenden Division of North and Judd Manufacturing Company in Middletown, where he functioned as an office manager and was involved in labor relations and market research. In 1957, he joined Arrow-Hart, Inc., now a division of Crouse-Hinds, Inc., in Hartford . Now vice president, he also handled industrial relations for the company and served as assistant to the general superintendent prior to being named to his present post in 1966. Active in community and civic activities, he was a member of the alumni executive committee from 1957 to 1961, vice president of the alumni association from 1962 to 1963, member of the board of fellows from 1963 to 1969 (and co-chairman from 1968 to 1969) and chairman of the annual alumni fund from 1965 to 1966. He received the College's alumni medal in 1969. Peelle is chairman of the major gifts committee for Trinity's $12 million national fund raising campaign.

Harries '50

Poor's, he was vice president and general manager. Elected president of the Blue List in 1966, he was named a director of Standard & Poor's. In 1967, he was elected vice president of a newly formed Bond and Data Services Division and was appointed to the Executive Committee. In 1968, he was appointed group vice president. He was elected president and chief executive officer of Standard & Poor's Corporation on January 1, 1973. He is a past president of the Trinity College Alumni Association and received the alumni medal in 1970. He is currently a member of the major gifts committee for Trinity's $12 million national fund raising campaign. DePatie is a graduate of the Loomis School and after leaving Trinity, took courses at the Harvard Business School. He joined I.B.M. and has been data processing marketing representative, an instructor in a sales school, marketing manager and national account manager. He is currently senior marketing manager of the data processing division of I.B.M. From 1968 to 1970, he was on the executive committee of the National Alumni Association. A past member of the executive committee of the Trinity Club of Hartford, he was Baltimore area chairman for the Ford Challenge Campaign. A class agent for the Loomis School and presently the school's New Jersey telethon chairman, he is a member of the Kiwanis Club in Baltimore.

GRADUATING SENIORS APPLAUD during Commencement exercises held on the Quad. Although it was a chilly, cloudy day, the rain held off and the audience was not faced with the oppressive heat of some graduation weekends.

3,ooo Attend Graduation Of 216 Men, 175 Women The 149th Commencement of the College on Sunday, May 25 had the traditional flavor and the 391 members of the Class of 1975 seemed to enjoy it all thoroughly. It was a chilly, cloudy day but, with no forecast of rain, the ceremonies were held 'neath the elms and an estimated 3,000 parents, relatives and friends snapped thousands of photographs of the colorful procession , the graduates, the Foot Guard Band and everything else in sight. The graduating class included 216 men and 175 women. Bachelor of Arts degrees were awarded to 296 and 95 others received Bachelor of Science degrees.

Tamaren

McCrady

Valedictorian was Hugh Y. T amaren of Hartford who also received departmental honors in biology . Salutatorian was Andrea M. McCrady of Pittsburgh

who also received departmental honors in history. Twelve others received honors in general scholarship and a total of SO men and women were graduated with honors in their respective areas of study. Four who received bachelor of science degrees in engineering were also to receive Master's Degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Master's degrees were awarded to 79 candidates, 40 men and 39 women, six of whom were Trinity graduates. Seventy-six received Master of Arts degrees and three, Master of Science degrees. In his charge to the Class of 1975, President Lockwood said, in part: "A Trinity education should have cultivated in you who graduate today the brashness to question the conventional wisdom of our society. But it also should have fostered a habit of skepticism which will enable you to resist simplistic solutions to the domestic and foreign problems which the nation confronts. In other words, I trust that during your years at Trinity you have developed the intellectual acuity to distinguish shadow from substance, ideas from mere ideology ." (Full text, page 2 )


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