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TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 7 NUMBER 4
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FEBRUARY/ MARCH, 1977
Exxon Foundation Funds Management Development Study Trinity is one of only 24 colleges and universities in the nation to be selected for a management development and training program funded by the Exxon Education Foundation. It is the only small private college in New England to be included in the program designed to improve the overall functioning of higher education organizations. More than 450 institutions asked to join the project. The program, which has just begun, will be carried out by a non-profit corporation, the Higher Education Management Institute. According to the Institute, the program "will encompass academic, student and business affairs, coordinating their management development and training activities, while focusing on meeting the goals and objectives of the institution as a whole." As one of the pilot institutions, Trinity wilT work with the-Institu te in assessing its needs and in planning the management development and training activities
required. The instructional program for management based on this is scheduled to go into effect next Fall. Although the needs of the colleges will vary, the Institute thinks that the main training activities will be in four areas: institutional goals and objectives and the political, economic and social environment in which the school functions; skills for using modem procedures and techniques of resource acquisition, management, control and decisionmaking; individual and group motivation and decision-making techniques; and in individual skills and interests. President Lockwood said of the program, "We are committed to having a management capability in this institution that will allow us to deliver the best possible educational, research and public service activities in the most effective - way. We-b-eliev e that this program can significantly increase our capability to do this." ¡
TRINITY ALIVE THIS SUMMER! Theatre And Dance Workshops, Chamber Music, Professional Theatre, Carillon Concerts, Film Series To Be Featured
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GOOD SKATE ON CAMPUS QUAD lasted for a number of days during January after a hard ice storm coated six inches of snow already on the ground with a solid layer of hockey quality ice. Photograph above appeared in The Hartford Courant.
Major Figures Visit Campus Two prominent authorities were on campus to talk with and to the students early in February. The annual Mead Lecture in political science was delivered by former Ambassador to Japan Edwin 0 . Reischauer. Dr. Reischauer, who has been university professor at Harvard since 1966, has written extensively on U.S. Asian policy and has written detailed studies of the T'ang dynasty in China. The lectures in economics, political science and history are presented through the bequest of George J. Mead, Hon. '37. Nobel Prize winner Sir John C. Eccles,
the Phi Beta Kappa Bicentennial Visiting Scholar, spent several days on campus and delivered two lectures. One, titled "The Brain and Conscious Experience," was designed for the students and general public, and the second talk, "Conscious Memory," was more technical and scientific. His research relates to the problems of communication in the vertebrate nervous system. The first to apply intracellular recording to neurones in the central nervous system, he received the Nobel Prize for his discoveries of the nature of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic action on nerve cells.
For the first time in the eleven-year history of the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College, a resident theatre company will offer a seven-week season of professional theatre, June 14 through July 31, under the artistic direction of Roger Shoemaker, assistant professor of theatre arts. The Summerstage is part of a program backed by the College designed to open the campus to the community, and will be supplemented by the ongoing carillon concerts, the chamber music series and the Trinity Film Society summer series. The Festival, called TRINITY ALIVE, was instigated by Ivan Backer, director of graduate studies and community education, who secured a grant in July 1976 from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, to study the feasibility of such a program. With a favorable prognosis in hand, the College approved in midDecember. In conjunction With the Festival, aspects of the program college credit workshops will be offered in theatre and dance with George Nichols III, professor of theatre arts and Judy Dworin, assistant professor of dance. On February 1, Nancy Fletcher, former promotion director for the Hartford Civic Center Shops and active volunteer arts publicist, was hired to coordinate the project. She and John Woolley, Technical
Director of the Austin Arts Center, are currently exploring the possibility of children's theatre, Peace Train appearances, dance concerts, art exhibits and recitals. The Trinity-sponsored community programs, Upward Bound and Summer Arts will also be involved with the project. Subscriptions for the summer theatre will be available. For ticket or program information, call527-8062.
Dr. Brown Bequest Totals $500,000 Dr. Karl F. Brown, West Hartford optometrist who died at age 97 on June 21, 1976, has made an unrestricted bequest of $500,000 to the College. Dr. Brown, who was not an alumnus of Trinity, had made other gifts to the College prior to his demise, including the large pair of gates on Broad Street near the Field House which were dedicated in 1973. Dr. Brown was born in Syracuse, N.Y. and lived in the Hartford area for 74 years. He opened his first office in downtown Hartford in 1906 and maintained the business for 45 years.