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Along the Walk ANNUAL FUND GOALS SET

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Buoyed by last year's recordbreaking achievements in annual giving, President Theodore D. Lockwood has announced a new set of leadership goals for the 1979-80 campaign totalling $675,000. In his announcement, Lockwood paid tribute to the support given the College by alumni, parents and friends, stating that gifts to the annual fund are vital in meeting the operating expenses of the institution. "To a large degree, this extraordinary giving record has helped the College achieve a balanced budget for the ninth consecutive year," he noted. Chairman of this year's campaign will be Brenton W. Harries '50. Harries has appointed four chairmen to head up the major divisions of the fund raising effort. The chairmen and their goals are as follows : Edward A. Montgomery '56, Alumni Fund $460,000; Stuart D. Watson (Chairman, Heublein, Inc.), Business and Industry Fund - $65,000; Carl N . Graf, Parents Fund- $100,000; Samuel S. Fuller (Executive Vice President, Hartford National Bank & Trust Co.), Friends Fund - $50,000. In the year just ended Trinity annual giving totalled $617,000, the largest sum ever raised through annual giving. More than 4,400 alumni contributed to the campaign, also a record high in participation. Total gifts to the College last year amounted to $2.2 million.

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS NAMED Five high school seniors from Greater Hartford have received Capital Area Scholarships to attend Trinity this fall. The scholarships, worth more than $100,000 over the next four years, were awarded for the twentieth consecutive year by the College. All of the scholars ranked in the top 10% of their graduating classes and engaged in extracurricular activities. Trinity awards them financial assistance for the full amount of their

THE HARTFORD LITHUANIAN Saturday School, which has used Trinity's facilities for the last two years to hold weekend classes, showed its appreciation by donating the Lithuanian Encyclopedia to the College Library. Pictured with Librarian Ralph S. Emerick are the school principal, Eleonora Simonaitis (left),. and the president of the parent-teacher association, Kastute Raskevicius (right). The school, which enrolls local students of Lithuanian descent, teaches them the native language, culture and arts. 路 路

estimated need; therefore, the recipients are not required to take out loans or to work campus jobs to pay for their education. The scholarship winners are: Michael Collins of Hartford, a graduate of South Catholic High School; John Joseph D'Elia of Hartford, a graduate of Hartford High School; Idalia Terese Mantautas of West Hartford, a graduate of C o nard High School; Stanley Taylor of Hartford, a Weaver High School graduate; and Bruce Allen Zawodniak of Wethersfield, a graduate of Wethersfield High School.

SLOAN CHAIRS HISTORY Edward W. Sloan Ill, a member of the faculty since 1963, has been appointed chairman of the department of history. He succeeds Borden W. Painter, Jr., who has headed the department since 1974. A maritime historian who specializes in 19th and early 20th century

American history, Sloan is the author 'of a book on the naval engineer Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, and of Maritime History : A Basic Bibliography, published in 1972. He has edited four journals by seamen of the "Kearsarge," the Civil War cruiser that sank the Confederate raider, "Alabama." Sloan is assistant director of the Munson Institute of American M aritime Studies at Mystic Seaport, where he also has taught.

DANCE ARTIST Katharine Gould Power has been appointed artist-in-residence and acting dire~tor of dance while Judy Dworin, director of dance, is on sabbatical leave. Power is a graduate of Emerson College and earned her M .F.A. in dance at Smith College. Her professional experience includes dancing with the Boston Repertory Ballet, the Harvard Dance Center, the London School of Contemporary Dance, the


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