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TRINITY 路R EPORTER VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3

TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

JRINHY COLLEGE LIBRARY

RECEIVED

DEC 19 1975 HARTFORD, CON N.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, 1975

Record Turnout At Reunion

FULL TUITION SCHOLARSHIP from the loctite Corporation was awarded by loctite President Dr. Robert H. Krieble to senior Susan Anne McGill. The award is presented annually to an outstanding chemistry student. looking on is Dr. Henry DePhillips, Jr. chemistry department chairman.

ALUMNijPARENT -CAREER ADVISORY PROGRAM Only two weeks after receiving an announcement about a new Trinity career advisory program, an overwhelming response has been received from parents and alumni volunteering their help, and more postcards offering assistance are coming in as the Reporter goes to press. It's no news that in these times students need all the help they can get with their career plans. The Administration, Board of Fellows, and Faculty have expressed great concern for the need of providing additional services in this area. It is felt that alumni and parents are an extremely valuable, yet largely untapped resource, and that this group is likely to be sensitive to changes within their career fields . The letter from Chris Shinkman, director of career counseling, and Jerry Hansen, director of alumni relations, noted that the purpose of the Alumni-Parent Career Advisory Program is to enlist the assistance of parents and alumni in order to provide information and direction to students during all phases of career counseling and placement. Target date for operation is midwinter with development centering in three key areas . .路 First, an occupational and geographical directory will be compiled consisting of parents and alumni who have expressed an interest in serving as career field counselors. They will be contacted as the year advances by students seeking information about specific careers. Shinkman and Hansen foresee an eventual strong network of alumni and parents with career and professional expertise and a collective knowledge of business and industry to whom students may turn for practical, down-to-earth advice prior to making decisions of vital importance to their future. Alumni and parents will not be asked to directly secure employment for the students, but rather to provide a one-to-one relationship for examining the current career marketplace. Next, the Career Counseling Office and the Alumni Relations Office will prepare a list of notable alumni and parents who are willing to return to the campus and take part in Career Day panel discussions. These informal discussions will bring firsthand views of the career situation to the College and will enable the students to evaluate the possibilities in a realistic manner . The third area will be the organizing of an internship program. This will supplement existing programs either during the school year or during the summer. A group of alumni and parents who find it possible to offer, or who may know of others who can offer, internships and part-time paid or volunteer work will be an invaluable adjunct to the student' career determination process. Alumni and parents interested in helping in this critical effort are urged to fill out and return the form on page three of this issue.

A record breaking number of alumni descended on the Trinity campus on November 14 for the annual three-day Reunion-Homecoming Weekend. Director of Alumni Relations Jerry Hansen estimates that about 1,000 attended the various events, traveling from about 25 states and Canada. The reunion featured some 15 events, including art exhibits, an organ recital, a slide show presentation by President Lockwood, luncheon, reception, dinner and dancing. The Student Theater Arts production of Saroyan' s "The Time of Your Life" was presented twice and professors collaborated on a Bicentennial Symposium exploring the causes and consequences of the revolution. Alumni visited classes and sat in on seminars. No polls were taken but many faculty members commented on the larger-than-usual number of alumni visiting their class discussions and many reunion "regulars" were delighted to see friends who had not attended the annual weekend for some years. The buffet luncheon in the Field House was supposed to be a sit-down affair but at any given time as many people were grouping and talking in the aisles or in transit to another table as were seated. One alumnus was overheard to say that it reminded him of Times Square on New Year's Eve. About 35 alumni were expected, on the basis of past experience, to attend the symposium on the American Revolution but more than 60 appeared, which so energized the panelists that the session ran overtime. The traditional warm-up for the game was staged again by Coach Don Miller at the Trinity Club of Hartford smoker on Friday evening. An over-

flow crowd watched film clips of the 路 1949 Trinity-Wesleyan game, narrated by Roger Hall '50, captain of the Bant's undefeated team. A homecoming crowd of more than 6,000 watched Wesleyan edge out the Bantams in a hard-fought 14-11 game. It was a perfect football day and many alumni came prepared to enjoy it to the full. The parking lots were peppered with couples opening picnic baskets and uncorking. The Marching Kazoo Band played a half-time and a gaudy, bewigged student leaped out of a huge cake lettered "Happy Birthday, U.S.A." to enthusiastic applause. With characteristic deadpan humor the title of Homecoming Queen was bestowed on a dog whose qualifications were not immediately apparent. The postgame reception held in the Austin Arts Center soon overflowed to the foyer and hallways and the sculpture exhibit of Norman Carlberg was jammed. The annual homecoming dinner this year was held in beautiful downtown Hartford at the Sheraton-Hartford. With admirable foresight in view of the parking problem caused by a large antique show and a professional hockey game in the adjacent Civic Center, free bus service was provided to and from the campus throughout the postgame-postdinner period. About 400 alumni attended the dinner, applauded the awards (see article), listened to the Trinity Pipes and stayed for dancing. Of all the happenings on the campus during the weekend only one was sparsely attended and, in view of its implications for future enrollment, the Admissions Office has been notified. Hardly anyone used the free babysitting service.

Large Grant Awarded To Watkinson Library

Used by scholars from around the world, The Watkinson Library holds 路 important bibliographical and reference works, many American and European periodicals of the 18th and 19th centuries, and publications of many learned societies. It has special collections in early voyages and travel, folklore, witchcraft and demonology, and the Civil War.

The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded a grant of $70,000 to the College to assist in the expansion of The Watkinson Library, one of America's first free, public research and reference libraries. New quarters for The Watkinson Library are part of a $2.5 million planned expansion of The Trinity College Library, which has housed the Watkinson collection since 1952. The grant from The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving will provide shelving for 200,000 volumes in the expanded stack area . In 1936, when The Hartford Foundation made its first grant, it contributed the entire year's income$982.52 - to assist The Watkinson Library .

1974-75 Annual Giving Report Begins On Page 7 .


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