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1 1977
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TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
JUNE/JULY, 1977
Overflow Audience Attends 151 st Commencement As 386 Men And Women Receive Bachelor Degrees Facing a barrage of clicking and whirring cameras and the outstretched hands of well-wishers, 386 men and women of the graduating Class of 1977 walked in procession through the Downes Memorial arch on their way to receive degrees at the College's 151st Commencement. Before the watchful statuary eyes of Bishop Brownell, 265 men and 121 women received bachelor degrees. The Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred upon 291 students and the Bachelor of Science degree was awarded to 95. This year's graduates hailed from 26 states and the District"of Columbia, as well as four foreign countries. Nearly 4,000 spectators were on hand. The Master of Arts degree was conferred upon 69 students and the Master of Science degree was awarded to two. Masters degrees were given in economics, education, English, French, history , Latin, mathematics, philosophy and political science. Masters recipients had received their bachelor degrees from institutions in 13 states and the District of Columbia. Departing from the tradition of recent years, Trinity's ceremonies included a Commencement speaker, the respected news commentator and ABC anchorman Harry Reasoner whose pungent and witty comments on current affairs drew laughter and applause. He told the graduates to "cheer up, things could be worse and they probably will be." The Right Reverend Frank S. Cerveny, Bishop , of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, Trinity '55,
SPRAWLING audience responded appreciatively Commencement Speaker Reasoner's wry remarks. delivered the Baccalaureate Address in the morning. Honorary degree recipients were Carlyle F. Barnes, chairman of the executive committee of Barnes Group, Inc., Bristol, Connecticut; The Right Reverend FrankS. Cerveny, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida; Ella T. Grasso, 83rd governor of Connecticut; Sister Mary Consolata O'Connor, president of Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut; Harry Reasoner, ABC news correspondent; S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and Ousman A. Sallah '65, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from The Gambia. Valedictorian was Andrew H. Friedman of Stamford, Connecticut,
George Will '62 Wins Pulitzer Prize One of the most prestigious prizes in American journalism was awarded to syndicated newspaper columnist, Newsweek columnist, political talkshow panelist on Agronsky and Company, former political science professor and Trinity graduate '62 George F. Will. He won the prize for commentary and specifically for his twice weekly column which appears in 250 daily newspapers. The column originates in The Washington Post and has been syndicated since 1974. The award committe-e said- that his columns contained "the freshest political analysis to appear in years" and commended him for bringing "scholarship and wry humor" to his political analyses. At Trinity, Will was editor-in-chief of the Tripod and class secretarytreasurer. A former professor at Michigan State and the Universities of Illinois and Toronto, Will was cited in
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PRESIDENT Lockwood confers the honorary degree upon Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso.
who received the B.A. degree Optimus with majors in mathematics and economics. Friedman is a Phi Beta Kappa and has been a President's Fellow. He has received honors in general scholarship and departmental honors in mathematics and economics. Donald S. Berry of Danielson, Connecticut, was Salutatorian. A political science major with honors in general scholarship, Berry also received departmental honors in political science. Ten other graduates also received honors in general scholarship. They are Jane Annunziata of Branford, Connecticut; Louis J. Aronne of Brooklyn, New York, also with departmental honors in biochemistry; Virginia H. Bartot of Falls Village, (continued page 2)
1974 by Time magazine as one of the "200 young leaders in America." Said Time, he "skewers his victims with sharp erudition and marinates them in martini-dry wit." After graduating from Trinity with honors in religion, Will went on to Oxford for the BA (1964) and then to Princeton for the MA (1966) and Ph.D. (1968). Will returned to Trinity in 1975 to address the annual Business, Industry and Government Dinner. He told the guests that he regarded journalism in the same way that the late Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck regarded laws and sausages. "If you want to retain your respect for laws and sausages," Will quoted Bismarck, .;'you don't want to know very mud{ about how either is made." In 1974 Trinity honored Will with the Alumni Achievement Award. An interview with Will, in which he ranges from education to the Chicago Cubs, will appear in the Fall issue.
NEWSMAN Harry Reasoner received degree for wit, concern, insight.
VETERAN of 25 Commencement concerts, Foot Guardsman Eugene Anderle arrives early to check arrangements.