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From the President Dear Friends,

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his is a special time at Trinity. The College this year is commemorating its 175-year history and celebrating a tradition of scholarship , leadership, and innovation. Throughout th e fi rst half of the year, our faculty, students, and staff have demonstrated on countless occasions and in myriad ways that the College's proud tradition is a vital and vibrant one, even as a new century dawns . And Trinity alumni, each and every day, provide testam ent to the value of a liberal arts education, particularly the value - and enduring relevance - of a Trinity liberal arts education.

As a centerpiece of the anniversaryyear commemorations, in February Trinity hosted a two-day symposium foc used on " The Liberal Arts College in the 21st Century. " Participants, who cam e from thro ughout the United States and abroad, listened to and learned from the distinguish ed scholars and exp erts gathered at Trinity to explore the many mon1entous ch allenges, opportunities, and responsibilities that liberal arts colleges will :fuce in the con1ing century.

T h e challenges that the speakers discussed are indeed fo rmidable. H owever, w h en th e panelists suggested how liberal arts colleges might best meet and surmount those challenges, I was h eartened that Trinity has launch ed many initiatives and programs such as those described. I also was moved, though, by several speakers' eloquent reminders that, in order to provide an education most appropriate for and responsive to a changing world, liberal arts colleges - and Trinity among them - must increase their efforts to become more diverse and inclusive institutions - institutions that promote , celebrate, and support m ulticulturalism in its broadest sense and at eve1y level.

The symposium, h eld on the occasion of Trinity's 175th anniversary, was a sigt1ificant and tho ugh t-provoking event.

W hile it affirmed in many respects that the lib eral arts college will remain vibrant, vital, and relevant in the next century, it also remin ded us how much more we need to do .

Trinity confronts the future and the challenges ahead with confidence, for this is a particularly auspicious moment for the College . The enthusiastic response to our clearly articulated strategic goals and current initiatives is truly gratifyi ng. For

President Evan Dobelle speaking at a campus event.

example, over 60 percent of Trinity alumni participated in the recently concluded, $100-million Trinity College Campaign during the past five years. T his level of participation is unprecedented in th e College's history and affirms the solid, widespread support fo r our vision of Trinity's future. And it is not only alumni who h ave stepped up to help propel Trinity forward. Local and national foundations and the corporate sector have b een immensely generous, demonstrating the strength and vitality of the private-public partnerships we have established.

Th e momentum continues. R ecently, Trinity exp erienced th e strongest six months of fund raising in College histo ry . For the July 1 to D ecember 31 , 1998 p eriod, new gifts and pledges totaled $21. 6 million, compared to $11. 4 million during th e firs t half of the prior fiscal year. After only six months, Trinity already has recorded more than $21 million in new commitments toward a new three-year goal of $7 5 million! These funds will un derwrite and make possible key Strategic Plan priorities .

Alumni engagement is high er than it has b een in years - perhaps in our history. Fifty-one p ercent alumni participation in annual giving is a key barometer, and we are on track to achieve 52 or 53 p ercent this year. Only a handful of all the nation's coll eges and universities achieve a 50 p ercent rate, a milestone Trinity achieved las t year fo r the second yea r 1t1 a row.

On the adm issions front the results are j ust as exciting and the prospects JUSt as bright. This is th e fourth consecutive record-breaking year for applications received. Applications for the Class of 2003 exceed 4,600, w hich represents a 10 p ercent increase relative to last year's total of 4,187. And as the quantity goes up , quality of the applicant pool is improving as well. We can report an increase (relative to last year) of over 20 points in the aver-

age SAT scores of the applicants admitted in the two Early Decision rounds.

I am unaware of any college or university in the country that has achieved record-setting applications four years in a row. The challenge now is to convert the top applicants into matriculants; all our energy and creativity will turn to the task of increasing "yield" on admitted students, thereby bringing more talented, highly motivated young people into the College ... Talented, highly motivated young people like J ocelyn J ones '99, for example.

J ocelyn, a senior majoring in English, was one of only 60 undergraduates, nominated by their colleges and universities across the nation, to b e nam ed to USA T oday's 1999 All-USA College Academic T eam . These extraordinary students were selected on the basis of their grades, awards and activities , leadership roles , and service to community.

And. Trinity's athletes continu e to shine - on the fields and courts as well as in the classroom. Yolanda Flamino '99 , featured on the cover of this R eporter, is a scholar-athlete in the very b est Trinity and NESCAC traditions. Our m en 's squash team - arguably the best collegiate squash squad ever assembled - did itself, Coach Paul Assaiante, and Trinity College proud by beating H arvard in the national championship game on February 28. N ever before has a Division III college been crowned national champion .

Trinity's faculty, as well, bring great distinction to Trinity through their singular awards and achievem ents. Professor H elen Lang of the philosophy department h as been selected for a one-semester Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a " first" for T rinity. This is a mark of great distinction for H elen, and it brings great honor to the College. T h e Institute was founded to give refugees from Nazism a place to work, and its most famo us resident was Alb ert Einstein. H elen will b e at the Institute for spring sem ester 2000.

And th e College's path-breaking work with its neighbors and partners in H artford continues to draw national attention.

I was honored and proud to have b een invited to address the National Press Club last mon th. M y m essage was simpl e and straightforward. America's colleges and universities hold a special responsibility to h elp young men and women fulfill (continued on page 2)

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their promise. And places like Trinity College in Hartford, where the liberal arts give voice to timeless lessons about truth and character, are particularly accountable to inspire civility and citizenship; particularly accountable to provide the ethical foundation upon w hich progress in the n ext century will b e based.

As president of a lib eral arts college , I am keenly aware of the responsibility that institutions of higher learning hold.

We are the stewards of' a tradition that hands to each new generation the accrued w isdom of ages p ast. Tru e stewardship requires us to go b ey ond the simple engagem ent of ideas and to set knowl edge at the service of humanity. It is not enou gh simply to find truth; we m ust use truth to im prove the human condition.

Our mandate is to inspire yo ung men and won1en to embrace both the challenges of scholarship and the values of citizenship. This is a m andate that do es not fall to Trinity alon e but to all colleges and universities , places that at their b est combine excellen ce in the class room and laborato ry w ith the high est ideals of service to comm unity and n ation.

As we respond to this m andate, we reaffirm our commitment to the liberal arts tradition and to Trinity's nlission. As we reach new m ilestones, we confidently set Trinity's sights even high er.

And as we build on our su ccess, we are ever grateful for the involvement of the College's loyal alumni and its m any friends. This support sustains and inspires us every day.

Evan S. Dobelle

Trinity hosts national conference on the liberal arts college in the 21st century

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or two days in Febru ary, some of the most distinguished conm1entators on American higher education gathered at Trinity to explore the challenges, opportunities , and responsibilities facing the liberal arts college in the 21st century. As the centerpiece in the College's yearlong celebration of the 175 th anniversary of its founding, the symposium was designed to celebrate the liberal arts college and the tremendous potential it offers students, communities, and the nation. But as Trinity President EvanS. Dobelle announced at the beginning of the symposium, the panelists and audience h ad also gathered " to examine the liberal arts college critically to learn where it needs strengthening and how we can meet what will assuredly be increasing social and educational responsibilities."

Very much like the lib eral arts college itself, th e symposium panelists offered a kaleidoscope of perspectives drawn from their richly diverse backgrounds. The panel sessions opened with an appropriate challenge: is the liberal arts college an anachronism outmoded by educational, cultural, and technological changes, or is it rather an educational paradigm for other institutions to follow?

Distinguished historians of the American college Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, professor of American studies at Smith College, and Francis Oakley, president emeritus of Williams College , d escribed some of the significant events that h ave shaped the lib eral arts college today and sug-

Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann was one of the speakers at the symposium.

gested both its limits and its opportunities. These ideas received further elaboration

by Louis Menand, a professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center and a contributing editor of The New Y ork R eview of Books and The New Yorker, and Robert Pippin '70, the Raynwnd W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Co1mittee on Social Thought, University of Chicago.

On a panel devoted to the place of the arts in the academy, Robert Brustein, the director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard and drama critic for The New Republic, explored "the tension between liberal arts education and a liberal education in the arts." His fellow panelists - internationally acclaimed artist Lesley Dill '72, Trinity's award-winning short-story writer and Allan K. Smith Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in Fiction William H enry Lewis '89, Director of Trinity's InterArts Program and a professor of theater and dance Katharine Power, and award-winning

poet Chase Twichell '73 made compelling cases for resolving that tension by better integrating the practice of the arts in the curriculum.

Panelists also explored the central role of the sciences in the liberal arts college. In a presentation that drew as easily from literature , anthropology, mythology, policy studies, and education, as well as from the sciences, Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann described the increasing need for education to build relationships among disciplines - the arts, the humanities, and the sciences. Trinity alumnus Jay Bernstein '69, theW. Alton Jones Professor ofPhilosophy at Vanderbilt University, concurred and suggested that the liberal arts college wo uld be especially well positioned to provide opportunities for such "transdisciplinary" study. And Priscilla Kehoe, director of Trinity's neuroscience program, and Daniel Blackburn, professor ofbiology at Trinity, presented convincing evidence of the liberal arts college's ability to turn out first-rate scientists.

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sph ere, Paul Goldberger, architectural critic and contributing editor for The New Yorker, spoke about th e city as a metaphor for the liberal arts college in terms of its range of educational, cultural, and civic opportunities, and singled out Trinity as a "national leader" fo r engaging students in the life and social health of the city. This point was strongly affirmed by noted philanthropist and founder of the " I Have A Dream Foundation" Eugene M. Lang, who, drawing on Trinity's example, argued that "undergraduate education sh ould be designed to enrich the experience of students by inculcating democratic values, respect for the institutions and processes of democracy, ethical perspectives, civic and social responsibility."

Panel sessions on the second day tend ed to foc us a more critical light on the liberal arts college and suggested areas that need to be addressed if that institution is to live fully up to its promises and potential. C hief among the concerns raised is the need for continuing and even expanding efforts to make the liberal arts college more inclusive and more diverse.

Paula Fass, a historian at the University of California, Berkeley, and Peter Rose, a sociologist at Smith College, described how the challenges of demography and democracy hav e historically produced responses from lib eral arts colleges that not only expanded the diversity of the campus community but also enriched the entire educational experience . Dean of the Graduate Sch ool of Arts and Sciences at New York U niversity Catharine Stimpson and Trinity Profes(continued

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At the symposium Interim Dean of the Faculty Miller Brown addressed the group, offering thoughtful remarks on the liberal arts and Trinity's place in that realm. Here are excerpts from his remarks: \

Colleges like Trinity are extraordinary places. Their students comprise scarcely four percent of all the students in this country, and as freestanding institutions, our likes ex ist in virtually no other part of the world. Yet we produce a disproportionate number of research scientists, scholars, and other professionals who go on from their under graduate training in places like this to further graduate work and then distinguished careers.

Here we have in a sense the best of both worlds. We have faculties whose research and scholarly agendas often compete with those of large universities, but. who provide the finest opportunities for teaching and learning in direct contact with students . Here students can learn about and even share in first-rate research, and even as freshmen can study with full professors . Our programs are robust and flourishing even as they undergo some extraordinary change as we open our curriculum to the City.

Trinity is reaching out as never before into the larger non-academic community, and beyond it to other parts of the world. But we, like many colleges, are also strugg.ling to determ i ne whether in the midst of this extraordinary flourishing of many separate intellectual projects- linked, it is true, by some interdisciplinary progra r[lS of great vitality and promise- we can find a sense of some central core, a new narrative thread to replace that of Western civilization that seemed so obvious to my teachers in the aftermath of world war. Perhaps this new narrative, if such be possible at al'l, lies in some new conception of world history, or in the evolutionary biology of all humans, or in the constructive power of social organizations and symbolic systems . Whatever it might be, something li ke it, I believe, could give a renewed sense of purpose and coherence to the liberal arts.

This sense of a proliferation of unconnected p ro jects and disciplines is closely related, in my mind, to a number of other issues . Among them is the pressure on colleges such as Trinity to emphasize the practical, vocational, and experiential in our programs, to provide our students with pre-professional training, workplace experience, and job opportunities. We need, I think, to resist these pressures, but also to explore how they affect, for better or worse, our efforts to convey to our students the transformative power of knowledge for self-discovery. In seeking to know the other, we need better and systematically to reflect on how this informs our knowledge of ourselves .

I think we have for too long neglected the self-conscious study of fundamental moral, civic, and cultural values as an integral part of the liberal arts experience. Colleges like Trinity have, to use Jacob Bronowski's words, "inherited the moral imagination ." It mu~t. be our goal to foster that imagination in our students . This is the deepest meaning, the human meaning, I think, of the College's efforts to develop wholesome and mutually benefiting relationships with the City and beyond .

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sor of American Studies J erry Watts argued forc efully that the liberal arts college must be more inclusive in composition and in its central practices, with Watts exhorting his white colleagues to establish much closer academic relationships and interactions with their students of color as a way of making education "real," and Stimpson offering the multidisciplinary, inclusive sch olarship ofwomen's studies as a model for lib eral arts colleges to follow as they seek to reach out to a more diverse community and reflect the complex diversity of the world.

In his introduction to a panel session on "General Education: The Challenge and the Promise of the Liberal Arts College in the Age of the University," Trinity's Interim Dean of the Faculty Miller Brown outlined the "perplexities" and looming challenges facing the distinctive education that liberal arts colleges offer - the increasing specialization of knowledge and consequent faculty specialization , the enormous proliferation of information, the development of a world culture, and the diversity of educational experiences of incoming students. Brown proposed Niels Bohr's description of science "as the gradual rem.oval of prejudice" as a central goal for the development of programs and curricula necessary to meet the challenges of the future.

Trinity faculty write on liberal education in new book of essays Jay Bernstein and Francis Oakley were joined on this panel by Smith College President Ruth Simmons and Robert Stepto '66, director of graduate programs in African and African-American studies at Yale, and pursued several paths to a fuller understanding of the risks and promises of a reinvigorated con1n1itment to gen eral education.

For I'nany, one of the most comp elling pan els was the one devoted to presenting students' perspectives. Trinity students J ennifer Antoniazzi '99, Jocelyn Jones '99, Adam Slickman '99, and Richard Walker '99 teamed w ith Smith College's Vanessa Daniel '00 and the University of C hicago's Rohit Khanna '98 to describe their exp eriences and their perceptions of the accomplishments, dilemmas , promises, and shortcomings of a liberal arts college education.

The syn1posium was organized by a steering committee composed of Assistant Profes, sor of History J onathan Elukin, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Drew A. Hyland, Professor of Humanities Berel Lang, D irector of Marketing Mark McLaughlin, Associate Professor ofTheater and Dance Katharine Power, and Associate Academic D ean Ronald Spencer '64. Reflecting on the two days ofhighlevel discussions, Sp encer said, " Despite the very real and considerable challenges that a numb er of the panelists articulated, I came away much h eartened: the liberal arts college faces a very bright future .

As the panelists demonstrated, the lib eral arts college is adaptable, flexible, and capable of adjusting to new demands and needs. I'm confident that institutions such as Trinity w ill flourish in the 21st century quite as well as they have in th e 20th."

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n the occasion of Trinity' s 175th anniversary, some of the College's most di stinguished teachers were invited to reflect on the major issues, challenges, and opportunities facing the liberal arts college at the millennium . Their arguments and insights, ranging well beyond Trinity and taking in the broad educational landscape of the liberal arts college in general , have been published recently as Teaching Matters: Es-

says an Liberal Education at the Millennium .

Intended as a " voice" in the ongoing national discussion of the place and role of the liberal arts college, the volume, according to President Evan S. Dobelle in his introduction , makes " a case for the enduring vitality of the liberal arts college and its central importance for American undergraduate education ."

The writers , drawing from their experiences as teachers at Trinity, present a variety of perspectives on the mission of the liberal arts college . But they are united in their conviction that qual ity teaching is central to that mission . As the title affirms, teaching matters.

That isn ' t to say, however, that the authors agree on what counts a s good teaching , how it can be most effectively accomplished, or its most productive relationship to scholarship. Associate Professor of Psychology Dina Anselmi , for example, describes the teaching situation a s a social engagement of student and teacher in w hich the teacher function s as a mentor to the student' s apprenticeship . For Drew Hyland, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, the relatively new " educational paradigm " of collaborative learning can perhaps best ignite in students a pa ss ionate commitment to learning. And Assistant Professor of International Studies Vijay Prashad argues for radically reconstructing the teaching-learning situation as a " democratic educational ensemble. " Other writers take on the challenges presented by rapid and extensive developments in information technology and the question of how best to integrate those new tec hnologies in liberal learning ; the inculcation of civic literacy; the productive tension between teaching and scholarship; the importance of science education to a quality liberal arts education; the role of the arts in evoking the wonder of learning; and the development of innovative educational programs within and across disciplines . Some of the essays, most notably those by Professor of English Ronald Thomas and Professor of American Studies Jerry Watts, offer more deeply personal reflections on the art and practice of teaching. Though not exhaustive, the volume does present a wide view of teaching in discipl ines spanning the arts, sciences, and the humanities.

Copies of Teaching Matters can be purcha sed for $8 .95 ; contact Mark Mclaughlin, Director of Marketing , at 860-2972139; o r mark.mclaughlin@trincoll .edu to place an order.

Men's squash is NUMBER ONE

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rinity's men's squash team became the first non-Ivy League school in 32 years to w in the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (N!SRA) T eam Championships when it beat Harvard, 8-1, on February 28 in Cambridge. Trinity is the first Division III school to win this title. The team, coached by Paul Assaiante, has a season record of 17-0 and an individual-match record of 150-3. Trinity ente!ied the tournameht as the top seed, with the men having won a total of 124 games out o{ 126.

In the first round of the NISRA championships, the Potter Trophy bracket, the Bantams blanked the Wilhams College Ephs, 9-0. E ight of nine Trinity players won 3-0 matches.

During regular-season play, the Trinity team drew crow ds and made h eadlines, including in early February when it ended Harvard University's 91-match home w inning streak. At the time of the match,, which Trinity won 81, Harvard had last Jost a home game in 1982, against Princeton.

Squash Maga z,ine called the Trinity team "the best re-

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cruiting class ever to enter a college squasli program. " Jack Cavanaugh wrote in The New York Times, "Hyperbole aside, little Trinity has stolen this season's thunder from

Harvard, Yale and Princeton, w hich have dominated collegiate squash for more than six de cades." The Trinity team boasts four returning AllAmericans, including twotime defending U.S. Singles Champion Marcus Cowie from Norfolk, England, and five new players from all over the world. The All-Americans - senior Charles Saunders of Haverford, P A and juniors Cowie, Preston quick of La ewootl, CO, and Loua Coetzee of South Africa and senior tri-captains Joe Pent:land of St. Louis, MO and Ian Conway of Marion, MA returned to the squad.

The newcon1ers Gaurav and Rohan Juneja of India, Rohan Bhappu of Singapore, Akhil Behl oflndia, and Lefika Ragonste of Botswanaadded strength and a global dimension to the team.

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exciti g championship victory, the web site SquashTalk.com reported, "Tritaity's win is a healthy change and hopefully the beginning of a trend in squash. Trinity's team is visibly much more diverse , heterogeneous, and integrated than any of the Ivy teams. This is right in line with Trinity's vision for its vitality as a school i~ the 21st century."

Photos from Championship day are reprinted from the web site SquashTalk.com courtesy of Ron Beck.

All-American Marcus Cowie

Members ofthe 1999 championship men's squash team are, left to right: first row, J. Miller, R. Sheldon, N .

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Pearson, and R. Bhappu; second row, R. Goldsmith (manager), G. Juneja, I. Conway, J. Pentland, J. Chur~hill, L. Ragontse, L. Coetzee, R. Juneja, A. Behl; and third row, Coach Paul Assaiante, 0. Buitrago, D. Burn, M . Bastien, and C. Saunders.

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n November the College spon sored a convocation w hich celebrated women their accomplishments and their struggles, the societal shifts affecting their lives in this centu ry, and the possibilities for the future. Two years in the planning, "W omen at the Millennium: Trans ~ ti o ns and Transformation~" was highlighted by the presence on campus of six notable wom en, to whom Trinity awarded honorary degrees.

The ho no rees were: Marilyn K. B ergman, O scar-w inning lyricist and president, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publish ers (ASCAP); Cathleen P. Black, president, H earst M agazin es; Johnnetta B etsch Cole , former p resident of Sp elman College; Billie Jean King, pioneer of women 's sports; Dr. Susan M. Love , surgeon and researcher, and best-selling author; Mildred Torres Soto, H artford community leader and manager of community affairs, The Hariford Courant; and Helen A. Thomas, White House bureau chief of United Press International. Sadly, Mildred Soto died in late O ctober, and for the first time in the histo ry of the College, an honorary degree was awarded posthumously.

While on campus, the honorees were fe ted at several gatherings and spoke informally at a panel discussion. At the panel the six women captivated the audience of students , faculty, administrators, and guests from the community with their responses to questions submitted to them in advance. They were asked

At the convocation the honorary degree recipients were photographed with President Evan Dobelle and trustee Emily B. Swenson ' 75: from left, Susan M. Love; Johnnetta Betsch Cole; Marilyn K. Bergman; Do belle; Helen A. Thomas; Hariford Courant Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Marty Petty, accepting the honorary degree awarded posthumously to Mildred Torres Soto; Billie Jean King; Swenson; and Cathleen Black.

to consider how their respective fi elds have been transformed by the presence of women ; w hat skills, perspectives , and parti cular strengths w omen have brought to the workplace; the exp eriences of exclusion they h ave felt as working w omen; and to offer an y words of wisdom for yo unger women ready to enter the wo rkplace.

Award-winning newswoman Helen Thomas responded first. Sh e recalled that women began working in national journalism during World War II w h en Uncle Sam "drafted every man who

could breath e ." The dynamic Kentucky native, w ho still professes outrage at the length of time it took for women to be granted the right to vote, recalled the time w h en Soviet P remier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in W ashington in the late 1950s and female journalists had to sit on the floor of the National Press Club to eat their lunches and listen to him.

When asked which presidents had had the most impact on the women 's movetnent, Thomas, who joined the Washi ngton Press Corps in 1943 , offered the names of Lyndon Johnson and Bill C linton.

Next, surgeon and activist for women's h ealth care Susan Love recounted the difficulties sh e faced pursuing her interest in a career in medicine. As an undergraduate in 1970, she recalled, even her academic adviser discouraged her, saying that her re-

ceiving a place in medical school n1.eant that a yo u ng man h er age w ould die (because he would be drafted and have to serve in Vietnam). Also at that time, sh e said, m edical schools allotted a small number of spaces for women students. She persevered, and, finding that breast surgery was a sp ecialty much neglected , entered that fi eld.

T he au th or of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book and Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book, sh e was the first female surgeon on the staff of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. While surgery is a field still domi-

nated by men, Love told the audience that "she climbed out on a limb to find her own place."

Tennis champion Billie Jean King spoke next, describing her experience growing up in an active California household where she was encouraged to pursue sports and her brother became a professional baseball player (Randy Moffitt). She had her first tennis lesson at 11, but struggled throughout her career to gain equity for women in virtually every aspect of this male-dominated sport. As an undergraduate playing in California in the '60s, she had to compete against men because there was not a conference for women. She won six Wimbledon singles championships when the amount awarded to women was slightly more than half that awarded to men. She fought for the right for women players to

participate in the lucrative arena of advertising endorsements. To support other women players and advocate for equity, in the 1970s she founded the Women's Tennis Association and cofounded the W on1.en's Sports Foundation. Her accomplishments on the courts include: a ranking in the top 10 in the world for 17 years, holding a record 20 Winl.bledon titles, and having the distinction of being the only woman to win U.S. Singles titles on four surfaces.

Johnnetta Cole, President Emerita of Spelman College, brought to her remarks perspectives from her careers as a college president, anthropologist, and scholar in women's and African American studies. She said that anthropology encourages us to respect the ways in which the world's peoples are similar AND different.

Alumnae who played on Trinity women's tennis teams had the thrill of meeting Billie Jean King. From left are: Elizabeth Dean M ontgelas '76 P '01, Susan Martin Haberlandt '71, Patti MantellB road '73, King, Barbara Sherman Levison '82, Tracey Wilson '76, and Deirdre Redden '75. Earlier in the day King met Trinity's w omen athletes to offer winning advice.

From women's studies and African American studies, she said, we must learn to challenge the ways in which the academy has been and too often is still practicing "the three w's": that is, scholarship and teaching that are Western, White, and Womanless.

For a woman of this era to reach her full potential, she needs to learn about and be inspired by heroes AND "sheroes," too. She needs to know history, but she needs to know her-story, too. And she certainly needs to learn from and be inspired by womenfolks who are willing to be her mentor and her "kitchen cabinet."

Cathleen Black, the first female president of Hearst Magazines, set a trailblazing path in the 1970s and 1980s, taking risks on new publications that she helped to launch into national success stories. In the 1970s, as advertising manager of Ms. magazine, she helped editor Gloria Steinem win over skeptics and put the magazine on a successful financial footing. Mter Ms. she became publisher of New York magazine and then went on to USA Today, betting that the naysayers who doubted the marketability of a national newspaper were wrong. As publisher, she worked on establishing that newspaper's winning formula and helped to assure its phenomenal success. "Men assume office with the presumption of success," Black told the audience.

"Women assume office with the presumption they have to

prove their right to be in the office. A woman conung up still has to work harder than her male counterpart, because more is expected of her. She needs to find projects that will increase her competence, skill set and visibility."

Marilyn Bergman, three-time Oscar-winning lyricist and first female president of AS CAP, said she hoped female undergraduates do not think that "the path has been cleared and the work has been done ....

With each door that is opened, there is a door behind it. Women are still represented by men who reap great fortunes from their labor." In the space of the last two decades, women's voices have begun to be heard, she said. But, she cautioned, "we have a long way to go before the glass ceiling is shattered."

In her keynote address at the convocation ceremony Cole echoed Bergman's warning, offering sobering thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead for women.

"The nmnber of women sitting on Fortune 500 boards rose to 11.1 percent this year from 10.6 percent last year.

At that rate, an equal number of men and women will be on top corporate boards by the year 2064! Whether you call that moving with deliberate speed or not, there is certainly only a snail's pace of change going on in terms of the racial and gender cf'mposition of the CEOs of America's top corporations.

Today 95 percent of these CEOs are white men."

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In January Professor of Philosophy W. Miller Brown was appointed interim dean of the faculty. President Evan Dobelle announced that Raymond Baker had stepped down as dean and Brown had agreed to assume the deanship on an interim basis. There will be a national search for a permanent dean.

Baker is returning to teaching and research and will be on sabbatical for the next year and a half. "I am grateful to him," Dobelle said, "for the role he has played in advancing Trinity's academic goals and encouraging widespread faculty involvement in the planning and implementation of new initiatives."

A long-standing member of the faculty, Brown is an Amherst College graduate who holds his doctorate from Harvard. Since joining the Trinity faculty in 1965, he has served as chairman of the philosophy department and of the faculty's Appointments and Promotions and Educational Policy committees.

He has been acting ombudsman and participated in last year's strategic planning efforts as a member of the committee that addressed important curricular questions.

He currently serves as cochair of the Faculty Research Committee and is a member of the health professionals advisory committee.

Trinity is offering a new museum studies program for graduate students. It is a concentration in the American studies master's degree program and is being offered for the first time this spring. The first course offered as part of the concentration in museum studies is "Alfred Stieglitz and American Modernism," being taught in tandem with an exhibition at the Wadworth Atheneum (from April 15 to July 11) .The course's instructor is Amy Ellis, the assistant curator for American painting and sculpture at the Atheneum. The exhibition, entitled "Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, and American Modernism," includes 62 photographs by Stieglitz and O 'Keeffe, as well as more than 50 by other American modernists.

The museum studies track, a part of Trinity's American studies MA program, is under the direction of Allan K. and Gwendolyn M. Smith Professor ofEnglish Paul Lauter, who is also director of American studies at the graduate level. Trinity will offer students a regular fall "Introduction to Museum Studies" as well as a changing set of courses directly related to exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum and at other regional institutions. Additional plans now being investigated include the development of museum internships.

Nine students from eight area high schools, including Hartford Public, Bulkeley, and Weaver, were involved in engi路 neering workshops at Trinity in January as part of the UTCEI (United Technologies/Trinity College Engineering Initiative) program.

Jake Mendelssohn ofTechnology Services Institute presented a workshop on "solving an engineering problem," and David Jarmon of United Technologies presented a seminar on technical writing in engineering. The high school students, all juniors at high schools affiliated with the UTCEI program, were among the 19 new "scholars" chosen to enroll in UTCEI. The workshops were part of a series designed to prepare the students for being involved in solving real-world engineering problems at Trinity.

A jury's $12.7-million judgment in favor of a former professor who sued Trinity has generated widespread interest, because the award is thought to be the largest ever made in a tenure dispute case. The College has already filed a motion to set aside the jury verdict, and Trinity's attorneys are confident that ultimately the College will prevail based upon existing law.

A Connecticut jury made the award to former chemistry professor Leslie Craine, who challenged the College's 1993 decision to deny her tenure based on her gender.

Trinity has argued that it denied her tenure because her scholarship in organic chemistry was lacking.

In a January message to the campus community, Vice

President for Finance and Treasurer Robert A. Pedemanti '60 said that the College " is taking all the necessary legal steps to ensure that Trinity will prevail in this matter." Pedemonti said that the verdict was disappointing, but not surprising to the College's legal team.

"Our attorneys believe that several key rulings by the trial judge were in error," according to Pedemonti.

These rulings adversely affected the College's ability to present its case, he said. Felix ]. Springer, a lawyer for Trinity who has defended many colleges in Connecticut and elsewhere, twice moved for a mistrial in the Craine case.

In his message to the campus, Pedemonti reaffirmed the College's stance on equal opportunity. "The College does not and will not tolerate discrimination in any form," he stated. "This institution is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons, and I believe the College's record supports this claim." Currently, half of the Trinity faculty are women and nearly one-third of the tenured professors are women.

Trinity's tenure system has been viewed by many academicians as being among the fairest, said Jordan E . Kurland, associate general secretary of the American Association ofUniversity Professors, when he was interviewed about the award by The New York Times. In a January 19 Times article, Kurland called the award "out of the ball park." Kurland was quoted as saying, "I can recall one or two cases where the jury award was in the seven figures, but they didn't end that way."

Recruiting process gets a boost

. . . he Career Services Offic e has a new state-of-the-art tool for students to use in managing their job search and accessing summer and fulltime opportunities.

Called Trinity R ecruiting, the innovation is a powerful on-line application designed to facilitate the recruiting process through the use of web technologies . Crimson Solutions, Inc. , the company that offers this recruiting tool, says th at advances in Internet technology and the rise in popularity of the Internet have generated the m.eans and the demand for an enhanced and effective recruiter management service by career services offices like Trinity's.

The College's Career Services Office collaborated extensively with Crimson Solutions to customize the software for Trinity users.

Bernadette Longboy '91, director of marketing for Crimson Solutions, provides a close link for Trinity with the company and a firsthand appreciation for w hat constitutes an appropriate and effective tool for liberal arts students. Among the new tool's advantages are giving the Career Services Office the capability of providing: job information and services 24 hours a day through the automation of resume submission s, calendars, schedules , and interviewing processes as well as the com.piling of statistics on interviews and j ob offers; the p ossibility of making services available to all students, who are able to conduct their job searches conveniently from. anywh ere and at any time; and the speed and accuracy provided to recruiters, who

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In a visit to campus this winter, Jesse J ackson addressed a large audience in Oostin g Gym and met with students. Here, he greets students at the Umoj a House.

can submit their information sheets on-line, search and review student resumes and cover letters, assign interview candidates, and update job postings at their own convenience.

Hmy is it working at Trinity? According to Director of Career Services Lanna Hagge, "A th ird of Trinity students

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Don't forget ~ I to vote!

I" The offic ial ballot is being mailed in A pri l for a lumni to use in selecting a n alumni trustee .

This year the ca ndidates are William W .

Ginsberg '76 and Harriet F. Smith '77 .

Director of Alu mni Relations Eugenie M .

Devi ne asks a ll alumni to consider thei r selection and send in their ballots - or vote by e-ma il, per the instructions on the ballot. The

ballots are due back at the College

by May 19.

have established their electronic j ob search portfolio u'sing Trinity Recruiting and can access recruiter information and program events thro ugh our web site. We are moving to the next phase of scanning all job listings into the system and anticipate completing the transition by the end of the academic year. The fam.i liar red notebooks overflowing with tattered job listings will soon be a thing of the past, and students w ill enjoy the convenience of ro und- the-clock information service."

Senior named to All-USA academic team

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ocelyn M. Jones '99 of Cheshire, CT was chosen for a place on USA Today's 1999 All-USA College Academic Team. The announcement in February that Jones was included in the newspaper's annual salute to "th e best and the brightest" of America's college students added another honor to Jones's distinguished academic career at Trinity.

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Jocelyn M. Jones '99

路 An English m.ajor, Jones was selected to read her poems ,on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, and she teaches creative writing to high school students. She also is a member of the crew team. Her grade poi nt average is 3 .97. After graduation, she plans to work in publishing and eventually go to graduate school.

Anniversary awards go to 24 alumni wenty-four alu~mi have been selected by a special awards committee of the National Alumni Association (NAA) to receive one

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of the College's 175th Anniversato/ Awards. The award winners c01ne from classes spanning nearly five decades.

President Evan Dobelle notified the winners of their selection this past winter.

The Anniversary A ward winners were chosen by the NAA committee as graduates "who exemplify the College's mission and uphold its proud tradition of scholarship, leadership, and innovation."

Alumni and faculty were asked to help in identifying potential award winners by nominating graduates who are scholars, leaders, or innovators, or who may be !'unsung h eroes " working quietly behind the scenes to make a difference.

The awards will be presented to the winners at events throughout this academic year and at Reunion '99. The next issue of the Reporter will feature a brief

'69; Arlene Forastiere '71; Dean Hamer '72; JoAnne Epps '73; H. Susannah Heschel '73; Carolyn Pelzel '74; Mary Ann Nelson '77; D. Holmes Morton '79; Danny Meyer ' 80; Joanna Scott '82; and Lisa AlvarezCalderon Cox '88.

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profile of each award recipient. These are the winners: Joseph Bonsignore '42; the late Elliott Stein '44; Theodore Lockwood '48; Geogia Hansen P'78, '85, and '88; Gerald J. Hansen, Jr. ' 51; William LaPorte ' 55; James Crystal '58; Borden Painter, Jr. '58; Jon Reynolds '59; Lee Kalcheim '60; George Will '62; Phineas Anderson '64; Joseph Martire '64; Robert Stepro '66; William Marimow

Chapel offers festival service in celebration of College's 175th anniversary

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n Sunday, April 25, the Chapel will celebrate the 175th anniversary of the College by offering a Festival Service ofVespers. Beginning at 5 p.m., this service will be open to persons of all faiths. Based on the ancient evening service of Vespers, the celebration will include beautiful music and outstanding vocal presentations by the Chapel Singers. Among those taking part in the service will be the Rt. Rev. Clarence Coleridge, bishop of Connecticut; the Rt. Rev. Andrew Smith '65, bishop suffragan of Connecticut; the Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston '71, chaplain of the College and assistant bishop of Connecticut; and Evan Dobelle, president ofTrinity.

A very special part of this event will be the invitation to all graduates of the College who are ordained pastors or rabbis to attend and be honored during the service. The Chapel wishes to recognize the historical contribution Trinity College has made over 17 5 years of providing leadership and inspiration to religious life throughout the United States. Any alumni w ho are serving their faith in an ordained vocation or are in religious orders are cordially requested to join us on campus in April for this unique moment. Please contact the Chapel Office at (860) 2972012 or e-mail us at: donna.swols@mail.trincoll.edu for more information or to RSVP.

Michael West is named chief financial officer

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ichael D . West has been appointed chief financial officer of Trinity.

The appointment was announced by President Evan Dobelle in December.

"Mike's appointment follows a national search that produced an impressive pool of talented individuals eager to join Trinity's leadership team at this exciting and critical time in the College's history," Do belle said at the time of the announcement.

"In Mike West, we have found someone who has both a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with the position and the qualities and qualifications to be successful in this key executive post at the College. He most recently served as vice president for finance , operations and treasurer at Simmons College. At Simmons, where he served for nearly 20 years in increasingly senior financial posts, Mike built an impressive track record in fiscal management and enjoyed excellent relationships with trustees, faculty, staff, students and alumni. I have every confidence that Mike will work collegially with and quickly gain the trust and confidence of colleagues in both the faculty and administrative staff."

West graduated cum laude from Bentley College with an undergraduate degree in ac-

counting. He also holds an M .B.A. degree, with a concentration in marketing and finance, from Bentley. Prior to joining the administration at Simmons in 1978, West, who is a certified public accountant, had a brief career in accounting, working in Boston for Deloitte & Touche, LLP and for Pannell, Kerr, Forster, PC. As senior vice president for finance, West will be the principal steward of the College's resources - financial, human, and physical and will serve as chief financial officer of the institution.

The business m anager and budget director, the comptroller, the director of facilities management, and the director of hun1an resources ""will report directly to him.

He will plan, lead, and manage the finances of the College in a way that will strengthen and protect Trinity's focus on its 路c ore academic mission and ensure that the recently adopted Strategic Plan is implemented in a fiscally responsible manner.

"The specific responsibilities of the position," Do belle said, "are virtually identical to those which Bob Pedemonti has performed in exemplary fashion, and the individuals and functions that have reported to Bob will report to Mike when he joins my staff.

Bob's contributions to Trinity, over three decades of service to his alma mater, have been extraordinary, and I am certain Mike will find Bob's guidance, counsel, and institutional memory indispensable during a 'period of transition. Bob will continue to serve Trinity as vice president for investments and treasurer, focusing on the endowment and real estate matters, fiscal management ofltalian programs, and other work where his experience is singular."

Trinity extends global reach through educational collaborations in Asia

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h e distan ce between Trinity College and Asia has b econ1e much shorter now that agreemen ts h ave b een signed w ith four leading institutions of higher education in C hina, Hong Kong, Taiw an, and Vietnam , providing for student exchanges and other academic collaboratio ns.

T h e agreem ents further expand Trinity's global reach and are consistent w ith its new strategic plan, w hich calls for a "world- cities" emph asis in cu rricular and co-cu rricular offerings . A centerpiece of this strategy is the creation of a network of global learning sites that provide distinctive foreign study opportunities.

T h e n ew institutions to align w ith T rinity are Tsin ghua University, the Beijing institution that is considered C hina's finest scientific university ; T amkang University, T aiwan 's firs t p rivate institu tion ofhl:gher learning; Lingnan College, on e of H o ng Kong's best colleges; and Vietnam N ational U niversity, the H anoi-based institution th at is the oldest and most selective university in Vietnam. The collab orative agreements w ith Trinity were reached in D ecember and J anuary w hen the College 's president, Evan S. Dobelle, visited the Asian institutions along w ith fac ulty m embers Michael E. Lestz '68, associate professor of history, and King-Fai Tam, associate professor of modern languages and international stu dies .

"We h ave created an elas ti c set of agreements that will enable u s to experimen t w ith more complex relations w ith these sup er institutions," said Lestz, addin g he w ill return to Asia to further refine and amplify the agreem ents. For in-

Photographed at the signing ceremony in Hanoi were: front row, Evan Dobelle and President Nguyen Van Dao, president ofVietnam National University Hanoi. Standing are, left to right: Professor Vu Ngoc Tu, d~rector, international relations department, VNU; Michael Lestz '68, chairman, history department, Trinity; Dean Truong Giao Binh, VNU School of Business; and Madame Vu Thi Quy, vice director, international relations department of VNU.

stan ce , Lestz said the C ollege is in terested in establishing a fac ulty exch ange program with Tsinghua , which h e called the " MIT of C hina. " Lestz noted the agreements culminate mo n ths of talks and n egotiations. The relationship with Tamkang University b egan in 1996, w h en the College presented an h onorary degree to C hiu C huangH uan , a senior adviser to the presid ent of Taiwan. C hiu used his influence to open con1munication b etween Tamkang and Trinity, Lestz said.

In addition to the fo ur new conn ections w ith "worldcities" in Asia, T rinity already has campuses in R ome and San Francisco, as well as a new global learning site in Cap e Town, South Africa .

T h e San Francisco campus op ened in J anu ary, p roviding a semester- lo ng, in terdisciplinary program focusing on the city and its resources fo r u n-

dergraduates路 fro m Trinity and oth er institutio ns. A pilot global learning site program is underw ay at the University of W est Indies in Trinidad.

"W e are com nlitted to providing students an offcampus learning experience that is dem anding and integrated into their overall Trinity education. Every Trinity

global learning site reflects a co mnlitment to academic rigor, engaged learning and civ ic responsibility. Internship exp erience, as well as nu ndato ry comm u ni ty service in the indigen o us com m unity, w ill b e built into the program at each global site," said Dobelle.

"Typically , our global sites w ill be centered on a sp ecial seminar taught by a w ellqualified local academic appointed by the College. In addi tio n to the senlinar, students w ill ta ke elective courses at a local university.

Students at a global site w ill b e connected via information technology to the H artford 路campus and w ill also exch an ge ideas and exp eriences w ith students at other global sites thro ugh an electro nic global forum and 'global cyber seminars' on a sp ecially designated global challenge ," D obelle explained . " It is our goal that Trinity students w ill h ave distinctive learning experiences that w ill lead them to become citizens of th e world w h o are particularly sensitive to diffe ren t cultures and p ~ rsp ec tives," h e conclu ded .

On their Asia trip, Evan, Kit, and Harry Dobelle and Professo5>.

Michael Lestz (all wearing white sashes) went to the Keydong Thuk- Che-Cho-Ling Nunnery School in Kathmandu , Nepal and met with some of the nuns who visited the Trinity campus last spring and created a mandala.

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Trinity band achieves cult status 30 years later Do you have an American Blues Exchange album in your attic?

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ike every college in the late '60s, Trinity had its share of undergraduate rock & roll bands. I was the bass player for the American Blues Exchange (ABE to its fans); other members included guitarists Roger Briggs '71 and Dan Mixter '72, singer Roy Dudley '71, and drummer Dale Reed '70. We played psychedelic blues/rock, mostly covers of tunes by such artists as Cream, Fleet-wood Mac, Jifferson Airplane, John"Mayall, Ten Years After, and others.

In 1969, we decided to record some of the original material we had written, so we went into an East Hartford studio and cut nine tracks. We then selfpublished 1,000 copies of the "Blueprints" album and sold about half at gigs and through local record stores. Despite local radio airplay and lots of gigs, the man with the big cigar from the major record company never knocked on our door. In 1970, the group disbanded and the album disappeared from memory.

Until 1998.

In March oflast year, I got a phone call from Roger, with whom I hadn't spoken for 10+ years.

He told me that those 500 copies of "Blueprints" have become collectors' items, selling for as much as $500 each!

"Yeah, right," I replied, thinking that some of the personal chemistry experiments of our youth had finally come home to roost. The story he told was as amusing as it is bizarre.

It seems that a friend ofRoger's was at a flea market and got to talking about late-'60s Connecticut bands with another attendee. He mentioned that a

As proof that our newfound (Jame JJ and (Jortune JJ haven Jt gone to my head) I used the money to take my family to dinner and buy a pair of bifocal sunglasses. friend of his was in ABE. "Oh, yeah," the guy replied. "I've got their CD." Knowing that Roger wasn't aware of this, he borrowed the disc and brought it to Roger. To his great shock and amusement, it was, indeed, a (low- fi) copy of the album, issued by Flash Records (no address given).

Naturally, this piqued Roger's curiosity. So, this being the '90s, he made his way to an Internet news group and posted a request for information. Within days he was contacted by a number of people who not only had heard of ABE, but also were eager to get their hands on an original copy (and were, indeed, willing to pay ridiculous sums). It turns out that around 1985, someone in England had made bootleg copies of the album under the Heyoka label. Why? Well, apparently in Europe and especially in England, there is a rabid group of Web-connected collectors who have a thing about late-'60s psychedelic bands.

As a result, when CDs became popular, someone else in Italy made the album available in that form (the Flash label version).

The American Blues Exchange, THEN (top photo) and NOW (bottom). From left to right are: Dan Mixter '72, Dale Reed '70, Roy Dudley '71, Roger Briggs '71, and Peter Hartman '71.

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None of the members of ABE currently pursues music for a living, although most tried it after the group broke up- before succumbing to regu lar meals and paychecks. If you were in Connecticut in the early '70s, the following list may bring back long-lost memories ...

Roger Briggs followed his muse through several groups on both coasts before settling down : Captain Obvious; Moose Newton {with Roy); Electric Cowboy (with Peter); Paul Arnoldi; Sweetwater; and an early version of Right on Red. These days he records and issues home studio cassettes ("Logarhythms/' "Bovine Intervention/' "Plugged" ) on an irregular basis.

He's been with Trio Printers in East Hartford for nearly 20 years and is now the production manager there.

Roy Dudley sang with various bands after ABE: Moose Newton; Sloth (with Sam Graham, Bob Baldwin, Jamie Evans, Pierce Gardner, and Mallory Harris, all Trinity '73); an acoustic g roup with Dan; Airplay, which was popula r' in Europe and whose songs were final-cut choices in the Columbia Records American Song Festival. He has worked in corrections for more than 25 years, specializing in the treatment of sexual trauma, and chemical dependency and addictive disorders . He is now assistant deputy superintendent of treatment at the Hampden County Sheriff's Department and Correctional Center. He is also a field instructor for the University of Connecticut Graduate School of Social Work and has affiliations with both Springfield and Assumption colleges and is a clinical associate with the sexual medicine unit, Del Amo Hospital, Torrance, CA.

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Dan Mixter moved from ABE to lead guitarist for Liquide Lighte.

He then started a band named Farfel before turning to the agency side of the business, becoming a divisional vice president, and then starting Mixter Artist Management, his own management/producing/playing company .

After; playing with and producing Ted Mather, he was signed to Acuff Rose Publish ing in Nashville ~nd did a lot of studio work and gigging . He gave all that up when he became a dad and worked as an ad rep and assistant ad manager fo r the Hartford Advocate, then vice president, sales/marketing for The Industrial Process (ompany. He is now co-president of Graphic Works, a digital output and design shop.

Dale Reed "sold my drums for food and travel money to get to Ohio for my fi rst 'real' job in industry." Subsequent musica l activities included lead ing the Ind ian princesses in campfire songs in Atlanta and the local neighborhood fa mil ies caroling in North Carol ina. He sang in the church choir in San Diego for several yea rs and then in the Rancho Bernardo Chorale (1 00 vo ices strong) . He' s now a vice president forT rom peter Electron ics in California. , I chased the dream for a couple of yea rs, playing with Electric Cowboy {with Roger at one point) and the Amazing A lbertis (featuring John Speziale '72) in Connecticut. I then moved (back) to Boston and have kept at least one foot in the mu sic business ever since, pl aying with Jack O 'Diamonds, Felony Shoes, Johnny and the Tygers, and Hard Love (the latter two with Speziale aga in) . I currently play w ith both the A shcan Fools and Geezer.

My mo rtgages have been paid by a succession of technical writing jo bs; I'm currently mana ger of technica l communication for Riverton Software (Burlington, MA).

So there we are: so lid, taxpaying citizens, every one; I g uess it happen s to the best of us.

Roger also contacted one of th e dealers (wh ose name was, appropriately enou gh , Deleriu m.co ,uk) ab out its sou rces . The dealer, of cou rse, professed innocen ce ab o u t th e b ootlegs, but did point Roger to a couple of stateside labels th at reissue period stufflike our alb um. It was at this point that Roger got in touch with the rest of u s to share the fun .

Now, I must admit that it was a real kick to search the Web for American Blues Exchange and not only find it, b ut also see my n ame listed above a review of th e band and alb um . It was also quite a giggle to fin d a b uyer w illing to p ay an absurd am o un t for two of my copies . (As proof that o u r newfo u n d "fan1.e" and "fortune" haven't gone to my head, I used the money to take my fam ily to dinner and b uy a pair of bifocal sunglasses,) P,T. Barnum would have loved the Internet; there's a su cker born every nano-minute.

But wait, the absurdity doesn't stop there.

It seems that two of these reissue labels were interested in mark eting ABE. Void Records wanted to press new vinyl copies and Gear Fab R ecords (I am not making this up) wanted to issu e a remastered version on CD, which would inclu de not only the original nine studio tracks, b u t three live recordings from Roger's archives . They even wan ted to pay us for the privilege! (Okay, if they sell the entire pressing, we'll each make about a month 's worth oflunch money; b u t, hey, nobody even offered before . Return on Investment is not a maj or concern at this point .)

So, last fall we all fi n ally signed a record contract - 30 years afte r th e fact and beyond our wildest fan tasies, Of course, at th is point in our lives, we no longer h ave stars in our eyes and dreams of "making it" in the big bad world of rock & roll Uust bemused grins on our aging mugs). But it's still fun to know that ABE is listed on Amazon.com alo n g with C lapton, Areth a, Jewel, and th e Clash. For a mere $13.50 (plus shipping) yo u can bring the sounds of the '60s at Trinity b ack into your h ome . Truth be told, it doesn't sound th at bad - even with all th e baggage in my ears. T h ose of you who were around in those days will recognize the Alpha Chi Rho house (and its garage) as the backdrop for th e band pictures that Roger recently unearthed

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he American Blues Exchange was initially formed

by Peter Hartman (bass) and Roger Briggs (guitar), based on a mutual love of blues and a desire to impress girls . By early 1968 we were joined by Roy Dudley (vocals and harmonica) and Dale Reed (drums), and a working four-piece band was formed . Our repertoire drew heavily from British blues groups such as Savoy Brown, John Mayall, Cream Free, as well as U.S. artists such as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Jefferson Airplane, and Canned Heat.

As a four-piece band, we played area coffeehouses and fraternity parties through the spring of 1968.

When school resumed that fall, we were joined by Dan Mixter (guitar and vocals), forming the five-piece group that would subtly alter musical history for the next two and one-half years, until Dale Reed graduated and the group disbanded.

During that period of time, ABE, as it came to be known, played steadily at fraternity parties, college mixers, high school dances, clubs, all primarily on weekends and mostly in the Connecticut/western MA a rea , frequently stopping at McDonald's along the way to chow down - hence the song title "Big Max Revenge" on the LP. For some unknown reason , in 1969 it began to seem 1

for inclusion. O h , th e mem ories . . . I think (it was th e '60s, after all) .

So w h ere are we now? See the sideb ar with this story fo r th e d etails o n b and mem bers . What h ave we learned from this experience? Well, it's a strange wo rld out th ere, as this tale illustrates. Anything you play can and w ill come b ack to hau nt you. Also, cyberspace has made all

like a good idea to record an album of original mus ic, as Roy was writing quite a few songs that we had inco rporated into ou r performances . So we rehearsed nine original tunes for a few months, then went to Fiesta Studios in East Hartford (now The Gallery), where engineer Doug Clark and our agent Dick Booth~helped us record what we called "Blueprints ." (Also of g reat help were guitarist D.J. Reilert '70 and Nancy Taylor, who made it all possible.) The front cover is actually a fairly accurate blueprint of our stage setup as seen from above; being an engineering student, I was "volunteered" to do the drafting .

By late 1969 we had 1,000 LPs pressed, and Dan and I drove a deathtrap of a VW bus down to Long Island in a mighty crosswind to pick them up. We somehow managed to survive, though the return trip was slowed considerably by the weig ht of 40 cartons of LPs. Sales of the LP were, shall we say, m<Ddest, and perhaps 300-400 were sold to fellow students, all our relatives, etc . By the time the band broke up, there were many hundreds left unsold , which we divided up and gave away for years to come . Today fewer than 10 copies remain in our possession .

We are genuinely surprised and pleased at this rerelease of "Blueprints" nearly 30 years after its creation .

sorts of weird things p ossible . Thanks to the Internet, we found th at th ere is still an audien ce for our yo uthful indiscretions (go figure). A BE and Gear Fab would never have fo u n d each oth er without it (wh eth er this is a goo d thing is left to the reader) . And , thro u gh e- mail, the members of ABE are all in contact again and there's rum or of a reunion al-

bum . (Why? Well, given everything else that's h app ened , that w ould seem to b e an irrelevant questio n .) All in all, these are good things .

Besides, from all rep orts, our ki ~. th ink th at it's pretty cool th at th ei? "geezerly" dads have a rock alb u m out.

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n December Don Miller, the all-time "winningest" coach in Trinity and New England Division Ill football history announced his plans to step down as head coach of the Bantams' football squad. Achieving a 174-77-5 career record, Miller owned one of the highest winning percentages (.693) of all active football coaches in the nation.

With his "multi-flex" offense, Coach Miller brought a high-powered style of offense into full strength . In 1993, with an average 44 .3 points per game, the Bantams set a record with 355 points -in a season. That year Miller's career hit another milestone when he coached the team to his first undefeated season (8-0) and a number-one ranking in the final ECAC Division Ill New England Poll . Trinity posted a winning NESCAC record in every season but one since 1979, including three finishes (1991, 1993, 1996) at the top of the league.

Gerald Hansen '51, long-time director of alumni relations and Secretary of the College emeritus, said, "On behalf of the alumni I want to thank Don for the honor and sense of pride he has given to Trinity. He will be remembered for the many thrills he ha ~ provided over the years. "

Don will be sorely missed on the sidelines but w ill rema in in our hearts as the molder of some of Trinity's most successful alumni ."

Stanley Twardy '73 , an attorney with Day, Berry & Howard and former chief of staff to former Connecticut governor Lowell Weicker, played footba ll under Miller as a n undergraduate. Twardy said , " Don Miller has had a tremendously positive effect on Trinity students over the many years, including on me . He helped prepare me for my career as a lawyer and in public service by the example he set. His standards were very high , and he wanted us to be both physically and mentally tough . Winning was important, but how you played- by the rules a nd giving it all you 've got- was most important to Don. He expected - in fact demanded -that we play by the rules and give it all we had , win or lose . These standards have been a guiding principle in my career and in my life.

I' m eternally grateful to Don ."

Miller's remarkable athletic achievements began in high sc hool , where he captained the football , basketball, and baseball teams at Prospect Park (PA) High School . He competed in those three sports at the University of Delaware .

Starting every game for four years at quarterback for the Blue Hens, Miller was named a First-Team Little All-America n as a senior. He comp iled a 31-2 record from 1955 to 19 58 as the head football coach at Newark (DE) High School and earned a master' s degree in education from the University of Delaware. In 1958 he was named Del aware ' s High School Coach of the Year. He served as the o ffensive coordinator at Amherst College under head coac h Jim Ostendarp from 1959 to 1964 before coming to Trinity in 1965 .

Before assuming the helm at Trinity, he served as an assista nt coach to the legendary Dan Jessee for two years .

A fte r Jessee retired, M iller became the 25th man to hold the head coaching reins at Trinity, but only the second since 1932 .

Th e extraordinary success of Miller and Jessee will be remembered always at Trinity, as the trustees of the Colleg e voted in January to rename the football field Jessee/ M iller Field in honor of the these two "winningest" coaches . In a ddi ti on , President Evan Dobelle has announced the establi sh men t of a scholarship at Trinity in Don Miller' s name, a nd Mi ller himself will be the guest of honor at a gala dinner in November during Homecoming weekend . â&#x20AC;˘

Jeff Fox book iises to the top BY

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effrey Fox '67 h as sotnething in common with the creator of Dilbert: H e is a really as tute observer of contem.porary corporate America.

As h ead of his own marketing consulting firm, Fox counsels clients w hose firms represent more than 60 industries. On a daily basis he is givi~g advice on business strategy to CEOs. Earlier in his career h e worked in marketing for su ch corporate giants as Pillsbury, Heublein, and Loctite. He has had plenty of opportunity to observe w h at works and what doesn't wo rk in the business world.

Those who want the benefit of his experience ml.ght pick up Fox's popular new book, How to B ecome CEO. Published by Hyperion in October, by November the book had soared to a place on the business b est-seller list of the Wall Street J ournal. By D ecember it was in its seventh reprinting and on Business Week magazine's bestseller list. A selection of the Money Book Club, the book w ill b e available in more than 20 countries and has b een recorded as an audio book.

The inspiratio n for the book came from a talk that Fex, who is class secretary for '67 and a trustee of the College , gave to Trinity seniors four years ago. At the lecture he gave a han dout, a "little monograph," as he describes it, that contain ed the notes and observations h e had collected over two-plus decades in marketing. The recommendations probably seemed counter-intuitive in many

ways, h e admits.

Nonetheless, at least some of the students took the handout seriously . About a year ago Fox received a phone call from a bo ok p ackager in California , who h ad obtained a copy of his h ando ut and believed that there was the potential for a b ook in it . "He called it 'a mini-cult item' and said that there were hundreds of copies circulating," Fox recalls. And sure enough, in no titne the book packager h ad found an agent and a publisher for the book. Soon, Fox was on the road, doing radio interviews at stations all over the country and appearing in national publications

such as USA Today and Mademoiselle.

What's behind the book' s runaway su ccess? Well, there is Fox's cultivated interest in advertising, w hich began when, as a teenager, h e would clip from magazines ads th at h e thought were effective. He read industry guru David Ogilvy's primer on advertising. And h e made plans for his future career and the day when he would have his own business. H e didn't plan to write a best seller or to publish two more books, for which he now has a contract.

As an English major at Trinity, he gained practice in writing, although, he says, " I

always used to get these grades that I thought were too low for the amount of analysis and time I spent in writing the bloody papers. " Fox's writing is direct and to the point, a style w hich didn't necessarily w ork to his favor for the more reflective style of academic papers . But, he says, " I didn't change my style once" at Trinity or afterward at Harvard B usiness School, w h ere h e earned an M.B.A. It' s the style, perhaps more than any other factor, that has made his book a hit w ith readers .

"Being in marketing, I look at the target audience," h e explains . "Today people are overwhelmingly busy, and they're inundated with information - 85 channels on television, for instance. You have to write something that has velcroâ&#x201E;˘, that sticks. One way to do it is the style in w hich this book is w ritten .

The chapters are one, two, three pages long. The sentences are short and punchy.

This is the way I w rite. H aving read Ogilvy's book, I am of the belief that writing is intended to persuade, to express a point, or to show the results of analysis. You assess 'good' w riting on wheth er it succeeds: Does the person remember what h e read?' Did the person do w hat yo u wanted? Did h e read the w hole thing? That's good writing.

"I wrote this for my two older children - I have often thought that they sh ould be

Winning Wisdom from How to Become CEO

"Never write a memo that criticizes, belittles, degrades or is hurtful to a colleague. Never write a memo that is cynical, condescending or unkind. Never send a memo in anger or frustration. ''The world of business is very small. People get promoted, change companies, change jobs, have powerful friends and do all of this around the world and throughout your 40- to 50-year career. Companies merge, acquire and get acquired . ... "

"If you are going to be first in your corporation, start practicing by being first on the job. People who arrive at work late don't like their jobs .. . at least that's what senior management thinks. People don't arrive 12 minutes late for the movies.

"Don't stay at the office until 10 p.m. every night.

You are sending a signal that you can't keep up or that your personal life is poor. leave 15 minutes late instead . .. ."

en trepren eurs or b e w ith a corp oration. But, whatever they do, I wanted to give them th e real j azz . I didn' t intend for th em to fail.

"In spite of th e title, really it's no t just abou t how to becom e CEO . A lot of p eople do n 't w ant to become a CE O . A lot of p eople are in jobs th at d on ' t even have th at position available. The book is intended to h elp people do w ell no matter what the j ob is, which is perhaps w hy corporations h ave b een buying the bo ok .

"I tell my kids, ' It do esn' t matter w h at your job is, as long as yo u ac t as if you ow n the job , o r yo u do in fac t

own the job. The w oman w h o cleans houses is the C EO ofth at j ob . Y o u can b e CE O of a store or a truck . ...

Whatever, "' h e says. ''I'm qu alifi ed to w rite on the things that I know h ow to do - how to get a j ob, or h ow to get the n ex t job in the company," h e says. " I can w rite from m y experience, b ecause I have seen these things happ en . I can w rite abou t the example that ultim ately became the subj ect of the Harvard B usiness School case that' s mentioned on the j acket of the boo k. B ecause of that case study I was named M arketing M an of the Y ear and was on the cover of Sales

"Always be on the lookout for ideas. Be completely indiscriminate as to the source. Get ideas from customers, children, competitors, other industries or cab drivers. It doesn't matter who thought of the idea. What matters is who implements the idea . .. ..

"Creative people are doers. They recognize a good idea right away . .. . "

"Companies are filled with idea killers. The idea killers come in all personalities, job titles, shapes and sizes.

The idea killers say things such as, 'we've tried that before,' 'management won't buy it,' 'we can't afford it,' and a hundred other anti -risk statements.

"Consider the idea killers as a positive, as an incentive. Treat their negativism as a reason to do more homework .... "

and Marketing m agazin e. And that w as a case w h ere everybody in the company advised me against follow ing thro ugh on m y idea. E VERYBODY. " So , this book is ab o u t w hat I've observed and learned .

P eople have asked m e w h at the one or tw o rules are that I w ould stress . I think the numb er one rule is: 'Always stay close to the custom.ers. ' Any j ob that h elps yo u get or k eep customers is the real job. If yo u have 10,000 people w orking in a company, but only 50 of th em talked to a custo m.er to day, how is that compan y going to move ah ead? Anything that you do every day that direedy o r indirectly h elps your

company to ,get and keep customers is really w h at's important. " And th e second important rule is abou t h ow to deal with p eople. B e nice to the people. B e nice to w ork with. Say 'thank you. ' Say 'please .' Write h andw ritten notes . There 's so much ab out busin ess that' s really ab out the human side of it and understanding the fundam entals of getting along w ith p eople . It' s n o t abou t who writes th e most brilliant m em o, alth ough that's im p ortant to some p eople, but it's about being polite w ith p eople and understanding they have a life, too." â&#x20AC;˘

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Examining the brain for clues to human behavior

arah A. Raskin

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StudentS' in Professor Raskin's classes become familiar with the equipment used in research in neuroscience.

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hat would you do with this patient?" It's a question that students in Associate Professor of Psychology Sarah A. Raskin's "Clinical Psychobiology" class must answer when, as p art of their course work, they are poring over case studies on individuals with brain damage . Students ' initial reaction is often to w ish for a battery of tests and treatments, ranging from brain scans to invasive brain surgery. Since such an initial barrage of expensive procedures would be unlikely in the real world, students must refine their responses by considering analytically which m ethod (or w hich sequence of tests) will best diagnose a p articular patient and lead to the best course of treatment.

The critical thinking and analysis that are required in this exercise are the hallmarks of Raskin's teaching. She expects the application of rigorous scientific methods and provides opportunities for them to be applied within real clinical contexts.

With a bachelor's degree in behavioral biology fromJohns Hopkins University and a doctorate in neuropsychology from City University of New York, Raskin is an interdisciplinarian at heart w ho favors a multipronged approach to the study of the mind. ''I'm interested in the relationship b etween the brain and human behavior," she says. A member of Trinity's faculty since 1994, she teaches courses in such areas as psy-

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chobiolo gy, cognitive n euroscience, and neuropsychology.

Raskin also conducts on-campus research that is rooted in improving the cognitive abilities of people w ith brain damage. Students in h er research lab work direc tly w ith p eople w ho have suffered traumati c brain injuries; the students administer electroenceph alograms (EEGs) and cognitive tests. She says, "I always tell my students: 'You're finding out stuff that no one ever learned b efore .

You're creating knowledge."' Called enthusiastic and even inspirational by h er students, Raskin is, according to Charles A. Dana R esearch Professor and Professor of Psychology Priscilla Keho e, both "an excellent teacher and a fabulous research er."

In Raskin's classroom, n othing is a given. While she acquaints students with w idely accepted th eories, sh e also h as them study scientific data for them selves to see wheth er th ey wo uld arrive at the same conclusions as did the exp erts in the fi eld. She often focuses on current deb ates in the scientific community. Brian T. Hare! '96, w ho is now a fi rst-year gradu ate student in clinical psychology at the University of Co nnecticut, was a neu roscience m ajor at T rinity and took Raskin's "Psychobiology" course . H e recalls, "What I liked most about the class was that she did not use a textbook .

Instead we read the recent literature on the particular disorder we were studying." These articles, h e points out, were written for an audience of research ers in the field, making the m aterial more demanding, and ultimately provided the b asis fo r a richer understanding. "Dr. R askin is definitely trying to teach stu dents about more than j u st the limbic system~ or neuronal connections," says psychology major Suzanne M. Fallon '00.

"She leaves a lot of questions op en -ended and expects students to find the answers fo r themselves."

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Hands-on learning If students must exercise their analytic minds in class, they must use their eyes, ears, and personal skills outside of the classroom. With a service-learning component for each of her courses, Raskin dispatches h er students to Hartford Hospital, the Institute of Living, and other local medical facilities, w here many act as companions to patients or assist with therapy. Raskin points out that sim.ply having a conversation with someone who exhibits the lan guage difficulties students have read about gives the students a much better understanding. She says, "Th ey learn a lot about the class material when they actually see it in a person w ith brain damage."

Raskin, who holds clinical staff appointments in two area hospitals, is wellknown in the Greater Hartford n1.edical com1nunity, and uses th ese conn ections to enhance h er students' learnin g experiences. Scott L. Raymond '00 describes a visit to a local neuropathologist's lab as a

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highli ght of the course in psychobiology.

Students in the class not only watched a brain autopsy up close, he notes, but they were also "engaged" by the physician w ho briefed them on the case history and exp ected them to answer tough qu estions.

To further such off-campus opportunities, Raskin and Professor Kehoe have developed a n ew academic internship program that this spring enrolled 10 students as Health Fellows. In addition to doing seminar work on campus, the students work 30 hours each week in the health-care settings of Hartford Hospital, Conn ecticut Children's Medical Center, and the Institute of Living under the su pervision of a professional and devise their own independent researc h projects .

T h e program gives students w ho plan on pursuing a career in h ealth care an invaluabl e real-world experience.

Raskin says she spends much time talking to h er students about dealing w ith human subj ects, especially since many

undergraduates h ave had little exposure to disease and disability. In the past, she has had students in h er "Psychology of Aging" course walk around campus with three pairs of gloves on their hands, grease on their glasses , and stones in their shoes . She wants them to understand the experiences of the geriatric patients they would encounter in nursing h01nes so that they w ill interact w ith these older citizens with emp athy.

Raskin h erself is something of a role model for compassion and service . A regular support-grou,P facilitator, she is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Brain Injury Association of Connecticut. On behalf of that organization, she coordinated a conference at Trinity last spring for brain injury survivors, th eir families, and health-care professionals.

She's developing plans for another one this J une, Says Priscilla Kehoe of he; colleague, "She does a million and one things, and she does them well." â&#x20AC;˘

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Communicating through his lens

Pablo Delano

BY SuzANNE ZACK

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or Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Pablo Delano, art and life are closely intertwined. As a documentary photograph er, he finds inspiration and reason for his work in the places where he has lived and traveled. As a community activist with deep affection for his homeland of Puerto Rico, he feels compelled to record on film w h at h e sees as both the hard realities and the life-affirming triumphs of the Puerto Rican and other Latino communities. " Photography is a form of personal expression, but it's also a form of commu nication," h e asserts.

Students in Delano's course in making public art look over the work with their professor.

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A student work from the seminar on documentary photography.

Delano sp ent 17 years communicating through his lens by chronicling the everyday life of Latinos in New York City, where ~e produced two major public art projects b efore joining Trinity's faculty in 1996. His arrival at the College marked the inauguration of a new academic concentration in photography and a new state-of-th e-art darkroom in Hallden Hall, the design and construction of w hich he sup ervised.

Painting roots Born in Puerto Rico and trained as a painter (he holds a master of fine arts degree from Yale University's School of Art), Delano discovered the power of photography w hile teaching in an afterschool arts program for elementary school children on the lower East Side of New York City. While there, h e documented on film the artwork and lives of his students. "With this early photography I found that I was able to satisfY my need for a formal engagement w ith picture-making- namely my fascination with graphic elements like light, color, shape, and form - w hile dealing with a

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subj ect that I cared about deeply," he explains.

Just as Delano has incorp orated his classical training as a painter into his own photography, students in his introductory course in the subject learn more than the sheer mechanics of how to use a camera, develop film, and make prints. "I talk w ith my students about the history of photography ," h e notes .

"History is crucial. If yo u take your work seriously, ultimately yo u will have to place your work in historical context."

In discussing the history of photography, students learn about H enri Cartier-Bresson, a 20th-cen tury photographer credited with being the father of contemporary photojournalism, and about 19thcentury photographer Romualdo Garcia of M exico, whose "exquisite portraits" chronicled the Mexican Revolution, according to Delano. Students also study

the work of photographers such as J ack Delano, the professor's late father, who cap tu red the D epression's devastating effects on America for the Farm Security Administration. "Seeing how oth er photographers have expressed their ideas helps students develop their own vision," Delano says.

Using Trinity's location to &est advantage

Professor of Fine Arts Robert J. Kirschbaum praises his colleagu e's professional stature, pointing to Delano's two New York public art projects - a series of large-scale photomurals commissioned by the New York City Department of C ultural Affairs for a n ew city school, and 754 portraits of Americans for the American Flag of Faces project at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The latter project, commissioned by the National Parks Service, h as b een on exhibit since 1990. Kirschbaum is also quick to point o ut how Delano 's teaching approach capitalizes on Trinity's location. " In his seminar in documentary photography, Pablo made deft use of Trinity's location and led his students in producing a remarkable body of work. H e is a demanding teacher, w ho also knows how to establish an atmosphere in his studios which is serious but not solemn."

Sarah L. Bettencourt '98, an English nujor and visual studies minor, participated in Delano's seminar in documentary photography.

Responding to input from Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Gustavo Remedi, who was a guest lecturer in the class, Sarah and h er classmates photographed the fence that marks the boundaries of Trinity's campus, capturing it both artistically and in sociological terms.

Professor Remedi later used the im.ages in a lecture he delivered at Tulane University entitled "Rap A student work from "The Fence Project" in Around the Fence: Cracks in the Delano's seminar in documentary photography.

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Photo by Pablo Delano from his work in Trinidad.

Bettencourt, "Professor Delano expects a lot from his students and h e's very encouraging. I think h e's great!"

This semester in Delano's course "Special Issues: Art for all ofUs: A Hands-on Co urse in Making Public .Art," students will collaborate to create a permanent work of public art for the Trinity Community Child Care Center. They w ill design and paint a mural , following the guidelines used by government agen cies in the commissioning of public art and thus gaining valuable exp erience for a career in art, if they choose to go that route. At the same time, Delano points out, they w ill b e making a valuable contribution to the campus.

Also this semester Delano is contributing his expertise to an initiative of the Hartford Studies Project, which w ill offer

a retrospective look at images from the newspaper morgue of the now-defunct Hariford Times through a photo exhibition entitled "Conversations w ith a Camera: Photographing Hartford' s People, 1946 to the Present. " In addition ·to giving a glimpse of Hartford' s past, the exhibit will examine the nature of the photojournalistic image- how the meaning and impact of a photo can ch ange over time. There will also b e panel discussions with photojournalists and historians, including one on April 22 chaired by D elano .

Since coming to Trinity , Delano h as worked collaboratively w ith fac ulty from other disciplines on a range of projects.

Especially noteworthy was his involvement in the World Conference on Carnival that took place on campus last September. In preparation for the confer-

ence, Delano trav ~led to Trinidad in February 1997. The photo essay abo ut Carnival that resulted from this trip was later published in TDR (The Drama R eview) in a special issu e edited by Trinity · Professor of English and Carnival confer:.. ence organizer Milla Riggio.

For Delano, teaching photography in a liberal arts setting is particularly appropriate . " I feel lucky that I've fo und a way to work w ith the lan guage of art and deal with all the concerns that artists always run1inate over - space, prop ortion, the arrangement offorms, geometry . But photography is a very open discipline," he says. " In my classes, I'n1 not only teaching about photography as a medium. I'm also teaching about history, politics, and sociological issues like race and class." •

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'Migrcilions, Diasporic Communities, and Transnational Identities'

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he beginning - the very beginning - is always a good place to start. For the yearlong, collegewide series called "Migrations, Diasporic Communities, and Transnational Identities," that meant having Professor ofBiology Daniel G. Blackburn discuss "The First Diaspora: The Peopling of the Globe by Humans and their Ancestors" as one of the first events in the series. Blackburn's lecture was indicative not only of the historical scope of the series which also includes more contemporary migrations - but also of the unprecedented range of academic departments that are participating. In choosing a broad subject for the series, says lead organizer Dario A. Euraque, associate professor of history and director of international studies, the goal was to "engage as many colleagues as possible, given the multidisciplinary nature of the theme."

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Building upon the momentum oflast year's decolonization proj ect, w hich examined the transformation of the world from an arrangement of colonial powers to a new world order, the 1998-99 migrations series includes a variety oflinked courses, an independent study course, a faculty lecture series, an online discussion forum, guest sp eak ers, and special events , performances, and presentations. Quantitatively bigger than last year's project, migrations is also b etter, according to Euraque. He says series organizers have enriched and expanded the concept by integrating local community persp ectives and by coordinating efforts wi th the arts faculty and the Austin Arts Center staff to make thematically related exhibitions and

p erformances part of the Center's offerings throughout the year.

One of more than a dozen students on the program's student planning committee, Bryna]. McConarty '99 says she sees the series as an irreplaceable opportunity to learn about a compelling intersection of ideas. No single class or set of classes, she points out, could treat the subject matter the way the co-curricular series can. As a neuroscience major with interests in other fields, she says, "I don't see the series as part of my major but as part of m y education in general." The subject of migrations resonates for h er on a personal level as well, in the context of the history of her own hometown and her family's own Irish roots.

Migrations ol spirit ancl ol ideas Professor of Theater and Dance Judy Dworin '70 observes that with virtually the entire College looking at one central theme, the series "allows a kind of cohesiveness" in the College's total learning environment. Dworin last semester taught "Leavings: Stories of Migration," o?e of a cluster of first-year seminars linked to the series. Students in the seminar examined migrations of Native Americans, African Americans , Tibetans, and Puerto Ricans, as well as their own "personal migrations" to Trinity. Dworin says the course explored broad concepts of migration, such as transformations that are the equivalent of "migrations of spirit." At the end of the semester, class participants performed an original piece, which they had created as a group and included song, story-telling, and movement, and which in itself was an event on the n1.igrations series calendar.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Aetna Mathematics Center Judith F. Moran presented a program which married math with art and culture in a discussion of "Cultural Manifestations of Mathematical Patterns: from Moorish Ornament to Escher's Prints ." H er focus was on "the migration of ideas" that occurred when American artist M.C. Escher went to Spain in the 1930s,

made sketches of the centuries-old Moorish mosaics there, and then incorporated the Moorish patterns into his famous eye-teasing prints.

From the Moors, who conquered Spain in the 8th century, to the 20th-century artist's work, Moran says, "mathematically the structure underneath is exactly the same ."

Community participation Since the theme of migrations is particularly meaningful in the context of Hartford, a city of many immigrant groups and cultural flows, series organizers have tried to involve community groups in the project. Representatives from Cambodian, AfricanAmerican, and South American groups have b een among the interested parties. In addition, the Charter Oak Cultural Center has embraced the project and hosted some series events, including a Reading Week Community Panel called "Music Matters - Musical Expression in the Experience of Migratory and Diasporic Processes ." Moderated by Instructor in Music Lise Waxer, an ethnomusicologist, the panel included local and regional musicians and experts on Puerto Rican and Trinidadian musical traditions. Waxer says the event reflected a desire on the part of series organizers to have the discourse flow in both directions b e tween the Col-

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flows of mankind lege and the community. Students in W axer's "World Music" course used the city as the source for a group proj ect that maps Hartford's ethnically and culturally diverse musical life.

T he class's w ork became part of the database of the Trinity Center for Neighborhoods.

Students participating For organizer Euraque, one of the most exciting asp ects of the series is that Trinity students have clearly invested in the project. In addition to the students w ho comprise the planning committee, there are individu als as w ell as student groups - including La Voz Latina and the Asian American Student Association w ho have signed on to h ost films and panels in the series or participate in other w ays .

For Jocelyn A . Schneider '99 th e migrations series provided an opportunity to hone h er design skills and improve the portfolio that she'll take

w ith h er after sh e graduates w ith a degree in studio arts.

D esigning and producing the passport-them ed brochure and poster advertising the series were, acco rding to Schneider a privilege . She felt entrusted by the steering committee to apply h er artistic vision to the proj ect .

Richard G .Walker '99, a history major, h as been a research assistant for the series and w ill b e a student host for an upcoming film. H e believ es that one of th e best ben efits of the series is that it "creates a forum w h ere professors and students can really interact in an academic and p ersonal setting at the same ti1ne."

Such interaction is at the core of the series, w hich , after all, is not simply a set of calendar dates, but a process .

Says Dworin, "It allows people to b e in conversations that will continue to be developed throughout the year." â&#x20AC;˘

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Inv estigating the ancient origins and contemporary face of Jewish civilization

ewish Studies ith a number of faculty experts in Jewish history, civilization, and religion, long-established ties with a vibrant local Jewish community, and the capacity to offer both biblical and modern Hebrew language courses, Trinity has quietly been

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Since last spring, when the College's board of trustees voted to establish the J ewish studies program - a secular , multidisciplinary investigation of Jewish civilization across the globe from ancient times to the present - the cat is out of the bag. Terry].

Rifkin '99, a former religion and Midclle Eastern studies major, will be Trinity's first graduating ,senior with a major in J ewi'sh studies.

Associate Professor of Religion Ronald Kiener, w ho is the director of the program, notes that only a small subset of the nation's liberal arts colleges offer a J ewish studies program. Such programs are more likely to b e found at m ajor research universities and the Ivy League schools.

"We're in good company," h e observes.

Professor of Humanities Berel Lang, w hose course on th e Holo caust counts toward the J ewish studies major, notes that interest in the academic field of Jewish studies has been gaining momentum in recent years . "It's one of the few growth subj ects and one of the most lively areas of the academy," he says. " It's a field in which there are more facu lty positions than quali-

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developing something special. Mark R. Silk, director of the College's Center for the Study ofReligion in Public Life, says the quality and incredible range of offerings relating to Jewish studies have been "the best-kept secret at Trinity."

fied people to fill them."

Kiener says that in a similar program at a research university, students are more likely to "lose themselves in a highly specialized major."

Trinity's challenge, he says, has b een to integrate such a program into the overall liberal arts model that seeks to create well-rounded students.

Visiting Lecturer in Modem Languages Levana Polate helps a student in her "Modern Hebrew" class.

Guest Speaker Rabbi Joseph Ron Fish speaks to students in Associate Professor ofReligion Ronald Kiener's ''Jews in America" class.

The versatility of the faculty, who represent several departments, are an important factor in the success of this interdisciplinary program. Senior fac ulty members, includin g Professor of Modern Languages Dori Katz and Professor of History Samuel D.

Kassow '66 (who in November delivered Indiana University's prestigious Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in J ewish Studies) are joined by newer faculty mem.bers such as Assistant Professor of History Jonathan Elukin , a medievalist w ith expertise in J ew-

ish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages. The program also features Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Studies Clinton Bailey, who has teaching appointments both at Trinity and at Tel Aviv University.

Mark Silk says, "For a college of its size, Trinity has the best Jewish studies faculty in the country."

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P rofessor of History Samuel Kassow '66 takes his class outdoors.

standing program make, and in characteristic Trinity fashion , the Jewish studies program w ill capitalize on the resources available in Hartford. Kiener says that for m any years Trinity has been partnering with the Hartford Jewish community by, for example, inviting lo cal rabbis to talk to students, co-sponsoring lectures and film festivals with the Greater Hartford Jew ish Community Center, and creating internship opportunities for students w ith such groups as the Connecticu t J ewish Historical Society.

These established relationships will clearly enhance both academic and co-curricular aspects of the p rogram.

Trin ity's Jewish studies program is also bolstered by the Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. Part of the Center's goal, says Mark Silk , is to take advantage of opportunities to foster program s relating to the Jew-

ish community. Mor';;over, the center can provide material and administrative support to the program's efforts. Explains Silk, "We see ourselves as full partners and a resource for the Jewish studies program."

Study in Israel Trinity recently joined forces with Wesleyan and Brown universities to offer a semester abroad program in Israel, which Professor Kiener believes w ill be an "essential" aspect of Trinity's J ewish studies. Affiliated w ith Hebrew University,, the spring semester "Program in Israeli and Palestinian Studies" features rigorous classroom learning, contextual learning, and direct contact w ith leading Israeli and Palestinian figures, offering students the opportunity to study comparatively Israeli and Palestinian culture, politics, religion, and society . In addition to

this study abroad option, the Jewish studies program also benefits from the well-established summer study-away course in archaeology, coordinated by Associate Professor of Classics Martha K. Risser, w ho brings students to Caesarea, Israel to participate in an excavation .

While the establishment of the Jewish studies program will have primarily an academic benefit for J ewish studies majors and students in related disciplines, having such a program is also expected to contribute to the quality ofJewish life on campus for current students and combat w hat Kiener calls the "perennial problem" of attracting J ewish students to a college named Trinity. The College, Kiener notes , has always tried to convey that its name does not imply that nonChristian students are unwelcome, but establishing an eminent Jewish studies program will definitely send a very clear

message that exactly the opposite is true.

Terry Rifkin agrees, saying that while Trinity can boast different kinds of diversity and is committed to increasing diversity in all its dimensions , Jewish students still are significantly underrepresented. She b elieves that the program w ill attract students w ho will not only be interested in the program but also will contribute to the cultural experiences of a!( members of the Trinity community .

In its inaugural year, the program continues to build upon an already solid foundation. Faculty members continue to modifY existing courses and plan for new ones that can contribute to the strong J ewish studies curriculum. Jonathan Elukin hop es that his first-year seminar, "J ews and Judaism in the Diaspora," will help genyrate interest in the program on the part of new students and prompt more of them to take advantage of its resources. Meanwhile, an endowed professorial chair in J ewish Studies (thanks â&#x20AC;˘to support from Trinity alumnus Leonard Greenberg '48, whose philanthropy has also supported the Center for the Study ofReligion in Public Life) is expected to be filled in the year 2000. No longer a "secret," J ewish studies at Trinity has everything it needs to be a success. Quot!~> ing from a popular baseball movie, Kiener says with a smile, "If you quild it, they w ill come." â&#x20AC;˘

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Honoring Trinity on its anniversary

____路story, by the book Here and in the next issue, the Rep orter is publishing excerpts from the forthcoming book, T rinity College in th e Twentieth Century, A History, by Peter Knapp '65, Anne Knapp M' 7 6, and Professor of History Emeritus Glenn Weaver. These excerpts and the photos which accompany them give a taste - just a taste, for the excerpts are quite condensed in the magaz ine, for reasons of space - of what's in store for readers of this new book.

The hope is that the excerpts whet the appetite for more reading from this appealing book, the first Trinity history to be published in more than 3 0 years. Information on ordering the book will be included in a future issue of the Repo rter .

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Students answer the call during the Flood of '36 Excerpt from Chapter Two -

Greater Things In Store uring th e 1930s, President Ogilby strength en ed Trinity's ties with Hartford . H e was active in many civic affairs, working tirelessly on the institution's behalf. In his annual report for 1935-1936, h e relish ed noting that Trinity had becom e an attraction for visitors to the city. "During the summer months," he noted, " I drive at least twice a week past a great bill-board

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1898-1919 The following is the fi nal installment in the Reporter of a timeline to be published in Trinity Col-

lege in the Twentieth Century, A History by Peter Knapp ' 65, Anne Knapp M '7 6, and Professor Emeritus Glenn Weaver. The timeline was adapted and expanded by the Knapps from a chronology of Trinity which the late RobertS . Morris ' 16, a trustee, com-

on the publi c highway w hich reads: ' Hartford nineteen miles from here.

Points of interest: 1. Trinity College .... ' It is something of a responsibility to be public point of interest No. 1." The campus p ossessed a beautiful chap el and a ch emistry laboratory that were of interest to Hartford residents and non-residents alike. But the College's relationship to th e city and its environs was considerably deeper. Ogilby said, "Through the years we have provided opportuni ty for higher education of a selected group of young m en from this community, w ho perhaps for financial reasons wo uld otherwise be unable to go to college .... In addition we have provided business, industry and public service in these parts with a succession of trained young men, graduates

piled in the early 1950s but never published .

President Ogilby at the Empire Day Cricket Match, May 24, 1940, held to raise funds for war relief in England.

[Walter B. Lane]

ofTrinity ... ," and had also spent considerable sums of money that contributed to the local economy.

"But the real contribution of a college to a city," Ogilby maintained, "lies in the

in the National Guard as the country prepares fo r war w ith Spa in.

1898 The College constructs a new 600-foot-long walk in fron t of Seabury, Northam , and Jarvis .

Students burn an effigy of King Alfonso XIII of Spain in response to the mysterious explosion of the United States battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. Several undergraduates en list

Th e Jesters in a burl esque circa 1898

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realm of th e intangibles . The u nconscious influ ence of intellectu al leadership in th ought contrib u ted by the m em b ers of th e Faculty, the civilizing influ en ce of a scale of valu es based upon eternal verities, th e lib eralizing effect of the presen ce in th e community of a fellow ship based upon h igh ideals ofb eau ty, goodness and truth: all th ese shcmld bulk large in the pride Hartford rightly takes in its college .

We should bind the city to us w ith h oops of steel. " Service to the commu nity w as a vital aspect of the College's relationship w ith

the city, and took an unexp ected form w h en natural disaster stru ck . In late M arch 1936, the C onnecticut River , swollen by h eavy, early spring runoffs, overflowe d its b anks, broke through the dik e near the Colt Firearm s plant, and engulfed w ide sections of the city . T h e "Flood of 1936" was the w ors t H artfo rd h ad exp erien ced in decades, and Presid ent Ogilby an d th e student body resp on ded to the emergen cy. From M arch 19 to M arch 28, w orking throu gh th e R ed Cross and various city relief cen ters, and w ith O gilby tirelessly coordinating

Downt own Hartford during the Flood of 1936.

A t the federa l government's request, Professor W illiam L. Robb (Physics) partic ipates in improving defenses for Lon g Isla nd Sound and lays electric min es for th e defense of New Haven harbor.

Thirty-s ix Tri nity men serve in the armed forces during the SpanishA merica n War. Lt. Clarke Churchman '93, of the U.S. Army's 12th Infantry, had left the College early in his under-

graduate career, and eventually entered West Point in l 894 . Having just become a commissioned officer, he dies on July 2 at El Caney.

While referring to college mascots such as the Princeton tiger and the Yale bulldog in an address at the spring gathering of the Princeton Alumni Association of Pittsburgh, Trinity alumnus Judge Joseph Buffington '75 introduces his creation, the ban-

their activities, T rinity u nd ergraduates h elp ed set up and staff sh elters to h ouse those driven from their h om es, evacuated victim s from flo o ded areas, collected food , sorted don ated clothing, worked in soup kitch ens , h elped pump o ut basem.en ts, manned an aux iliary gen erator at R ed C ross headqu arters during a p rolonged power o utage, and served as messengers . Sleep was a precious commo dity , and as the Tripod rep orted , "going w itho ut sleep w as common amo ng the undergraduates ... . There seem ed to b e no time for slumber when there was w ork to be do n e ." T h e total numb er of students " including "working on various p roj ec:ts duplications " under Red C ross auspices sto od at 336, a little over two-thirds of the student b o dy. C ountless stu dents assisted relief efforts in oth er ways or participated in safety patrols of the darken ed campus. Among m any letters of gratitude the president received w as one fro m W illiam H . St. John, chairman of the H artford C hapter of the American R ed Cross, w ho thanked O gilby and the students for th eir h elp, noting a " clear m ental picture of y our squad of. Trinity boys, lined up at h eadquarters in the Old State House, ready to resp ond to, any call from serving as chauffeurs to h eavy action as dishwashers. They were always on their to es , ready to respond to any call, day and nigh t .... "

tam . It is soon adopted by the undergraduates to symbolize Trinity's prowess in intercollegiate athletic competition.

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Boardman Hall with inset of William Brocklesby

The College completes construction of the William Brocklesby-designed Boardman Hall of Natural History, dedication of which occurs in December. The gift of Miss Lucy H. Boardman, the new building houses the Biology Department and the Museum, both formerly located in Seabury . Boardman serves as an instructional building until its demolition as an outmoded facility in 1971 .

Irving Knott Baxter '99 wins the high jump and the pole vault in the Olympic Games at Paris, establish ing new Olympic records of 6 feet, 2 and 4/5 inches, and 10 feet, 9 and 9/10 inches, respectively . The games at Paris are the second Olympiad in modern times.

1901 The College introduces electricity in Alumni Hall, Boardman Hall, and the library in Seabury Hall.

1902 The College constructs a building just south of Seabury Hall to house the Commons dining facilities .

It is moved in 193 1 to the site of the future McCook Mathematics-Physics Center, to make way for Cook Commons (later the Hamlin Dining Hall).

Eventually occupied by the Brownell Club, the building is demolished in 1962.

The City of Hartford widens Summit Street and connects it to Zion Street.

William Courtney ("Uncle Billy") Adams d ies at age 7 4. Orig inally employed to assist Professor Jim , and beloved by students, he served the College for 53 years . Following Professor Jim's retirement, Uncle Billy Adams had presided over the punch bowl at Class Day.

Associate Professor of English Kenneth W. Cameron and "Bucephalus."

Trinity's facultyscholars of the 1950s and 1960s Excerpt from Chapter Five -

New Directions 'Neath the Elms

any memb ers of the faculty during Alb ert C. Jacobs's presidency h elp ed advance scholarship in their fields. T he R ev. Dr. Kenneth W. Cameron (English) was steadily contributing to the literature on several major 19th -century American authors , particularly Emerson and Thoreau . H e was also instrumental in fou n ding and editing two journals that soon became of primary importan ce to the scholarly community and w hich continue to be published: the Emerson Society Quarterly (later known as ES Q: A J ournal of the American Renaissance), and American T ranscendental Quarterly. In 1987, long after his retirement fro m Trinity, Professor Carneron b egan to issu e American R enaissance L iterary R eport, an annual publication. From the late '40s until the 1970s, Cameron's late-evening seminars devoted to reli gi ous and literary subj ects, and his annual pilgrimages to literary Boston and the places associated wi th E merso n, Thoreau , H awthorne and Longfellow becam e legendary, as did his ever-present bicy cle, which he named "Bucephalus," after Alexander the Great's faithful steed.

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B. Cooper was also responsible for the establishment of a scholarly journal, The Journal of B ritish Studies w hich made its app earance in 1961 as the result of sponsorship by Trinity and the Conference on British Studies, a national organization of specialists in British history . Of wide interest to American and Commonwealth scholars, and devoted to publishing articles exclusively on English, Scottish, Irish, W elsh, and imperial history, the Journal had its editorial office at the College . With Cooper serving as managi ng editor, the publication soon establish ed an international reputation. Noted for his fo rmidable intellect and keen w it, h e deftly synthesized in his classroom lectures extensive reading and an extraordinary depth of understanding of British histo ry as well as of European histo ry in general. Active in local politics, Coop er received the high est numb er of votes w hen h e was elected to H artford's Board of Edu cation in 1959 on the Democratic ticket. He served on the Board until 1965, and was its president from 196 1 to 1963 . C lose to state Democratic P arty chairman J ohn M . Bailey and former C onnecticut Governor, cabinet m emb er, and U. S. Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff Hon. '55, Coop er chaired th e Governor's Bi-Partisan Comm.ittee on Redistricting the State Senate from 195 9 to 1961, chaired H artford' s Charter R e-

Northam Professor ofHistory George B. Cooper Hon. '83.

reaches a successful concl usion under the leadership of the Rev. John J. McCook ' 63, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature.

1911 Miss Caroline M . Hewins, Librarian ofthe Hartford Public Library, becomes the first woman to receive an honorary degree (M.A.) from Trinity.

Students form the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1918, it becomes the Delta Chi Chapter of Sigma Nu .

The first issue of the Tripod

Professor ofEnglish J ohn A. Dan do.

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vision Commission in 1961, and from 1962 to 1965, served on the National Cancer Advisory Council of the U. S. Public Health Service. In recognition of his distinguished service to Trinity, Cooper was appointed Secretary of the College in 197 4 and, upon his retirement in 1983, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Professor J ohn A. Dando (English), another memb er of the faculty who was highly regarded by students, was faculty adviser to the Atheneum Society, the College's undergraduate debating team, and taught a particularly popular course on Shakespeare. Before coming to Trinity in 1950 fo llowing graduate study at Columbia University, he was briefly a member of a Shakespearean acting company in Canada and hosted a radio program on literature for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In Hartford, he developed a popular WTIC-AM radio show, "Behind the Pages," which critically assessed major literary works, and in the late 1950s broadcast a similar program for a short period on WCBS in New York. At the same time, Dando created and became the moderator of a successful WTIC-TV C hannel 3 panel quiz show, "What in the World?", which aired until1975. For many years, he also broadcast for the Voice of America and was inv;olved in the production of educational films on such subj ects as Shakespeare, Dante, and the Bayeux Tapestry. As College Marshal at Commencement during the 1950s and 1960s, Dando proclaimed the name of each degree recipient in his sonorous voice.

1903 Professor Luther serves as acting president for one year, and introduces a new course sequence in civil engineering, which inspires a number of students to transfer from other colleges .

The freshman beanie becomes standardized .

The football team enjoys its first undefeated season.

1912 Lacrosse becomes an informal sport.

Soccer becomes popular on campus.

The College completes work on a new athletic field .

1904 The inaugural issue of the Trinity Tripod, the campus newspaper, appears in September.

1905 The library now contains 49,000 volumes.

The College replaces the boardwalk from Alumni Hall to Vernon Street with flagstones .

1906 President Luther wins election to the Connecticut State Senate on the Republican ticket.

1907 Sophomores require freshmen to wear a freshman cap (beanie) for the first time .

1908 President Luther wins reelection to the State Senate .

J.

P. Morgan contributes $150,000 toward the construction of Williams Memorial.

31 1913 The library now contains 65,000 volumes .

Students organize the Political Science Club, which becomes the only student activity to continue uninterrupted during World War II .

1914 The College dedicates Williams Memorial on October 31 in memory of the Rt. Rev. John Williams '35, former president of the College.

The building houses the library (until 1952) and administrative offices.

1916 President Luther heads a campaign to raise $1,000,000. He raises $350,000 by the end of 1917.

Some 40 Trinity men attend a student

The faculty replaces a numerical marking system with letter g rades .

The College participates in the ceremonies marking the dedication of the Bulkeley Bridge across the Connecticut River.

1909 Undergraduates form a student senate.

A $500,000 fund-raising campaign

The first undefeated football team

military camp at Plattsburgh , New York during the summer.

The 1968 sit-in Excerpt from Chapter VI -

Currents of Change

19 17 Mrs., James J.

Goodwin ~~ dows the James J. Goodwin Professorship of Literature in memory of her husband, James Junius Goodwin , Hon . ' 1 0 . A prominent businessman and civic leader in Hartford , Goodwin was a trustee of the College from 1 896 until his death in 1915 .

Odell Shepard becomes the first James J. Goodwin Professor of Engl ish Literature, and continues on the fa culty until 1946.

Charles A. Johnson ' 92 becomes the College ' s fi rst alumn i sec retary, and serves until 1920.

I. K.A., the country' s oldest local fraternity, becomes the Sigma Chapter of Delta Phi .

Three students are ordered into service in March as members of the 101 st Machine Gun Battalion of the Connecticut National Guard .

By June, one-fourth of the student body is in military service, including 25 men in the 101 st Machine Gun Battalion .

The College institutes a compu lsory course in mil itary training in the fall , w ith official recogn ition from the War Department. Capta in J. H . Kelso Davis ' 99 is the program ' s mil itary director.

1918 By January, 301 alumni and undergradua tes are in military serv ice .

College property a long Vernon Street, between Alumni Ha ll and the Ath-

uring the 1960s and early 1970s, the United States experienced profound social and political change. Inspired

by President J ohn Kennedy's call to service, undergraduates across the country turn ed their attention beyond their campuses to confront a multitude of concerns, including America's involvement in th e war in Indochina, the struggles of the civil rights movement, and the collective sense of uncertainty which followed the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Over time, student disillusionment and disaffection gradually intensified and became increasingly radical, finding expression in action as well as in rhetoric.

Many Trinity undergraduates became more involved in volunteer service in the local community and beyond, from tutoring students in Hartford's North End to assisting with voter registration drives in the South. They also b egan to question why more black students were not enrolling at Trinity, other than a few from Hartford and from Africa. As with other in stitutions of higher education in the Northeast, the College began in the early 1960s to mount an aggressive campaign to attract more black applicants.

This effort eventually yielded steadily growing numb ers, and by 1970 resulted in a total of 87 black students among the four undergraduate classes, or just under seven percent of a student body of 1 ,493 . The prevailing student perception by the spring of 1968, however, was that the College was not providing enough targeted scholarship assistance for black students, and in M arch and again in April, the Student Senate approved resolu tions to the administration insisting on th e establishment of a $150,000 scholarship fund .

The fund was to be created through a levy on undergraduate general fees amounting to $60,000, proceeds estimated at $15,000 from Senate-sponsored student activities including a work day (the differential between that figure and what was actually raised would be paid by !he Senate from its student activities budget), and $75,000 in matching funds which the Development Office was expected to procure.

By late April, a number of factors had combined to create a highly volatile situation on campus. Undergraduate frustration was intensifYing over what was perceived to be a deliberately slow pace of response by the College to the Senate's scholarship resolutions. In adclition, the student body's clistrust of the administration was growing daily as a result of disagreements over policies affecting undergraduates such as improved social facilities, changes in parietal hours regulations, and a surprise tuition increase. The breaking point was the assassination on April 4 of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, J r., w hich stunned the campus community as it did the entire nation.

On April 22, th e Trustees ' Executive Committee gath ered at 4:30p .m. for its sch eduled m eeting in the boardroom over the archway of the Downes Memorial Clock Tower. In addition to President Albert C. Jacobs, seven trustees were in attendance, including President-elect T heodore D. Lo ckwood '48 . Also present were ]. Kenneth Robertson, Treasurer of the College; Seabury Professor of Mathematics and N atural Philosophy and Dean of the College H arold L. Dorwart; and Ms . Elisabeth (Betty) Belden, the president's execu tive secretary. The major item on the agenda was consideration of th e Senate's resolution on the scholarship fund for black students. In addition, the Senate had requested trustee

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letic Field, is put into use for war gardens.

The U. S. Army establishes a Students Army Training Corps unit on campu s in April. Colonel Calvin D. Cowles, U. S. Army (Retired), is the officer in charge . The Army demobilizes the S.A.T .C. uni t in November .

By October, 486 Trinity men are in mi litary service .

An additional 90 are in var ious suppo rt servi ces at home and overseas, such as the Home Guard , the Red Cross, and the YMCA, etc .

The College co nfers an ho norary Doctor of Laws degree on former U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt at Commencement in June . The day before, he delivers an address "to the largest crowd of people ever assembled at one time on the campus, " estimated at approx imately 5 ,000 .

The local fraternity Sigma Psi becomes the Delta Chi Chapter of Sigma Nu .

191 9 The Class of 1888 presents a sundial to the Col lege . It is installed at the sou theast corner of W illiams Memoria l.

President Luther retires, and the Trustees appoint Henry A. Perkins, Professor of Physics, as acting president for o ne year .

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Sign posted on the doors to Williams Memorial by the sit-in demonstrators (from the 1968 Ivy).

33 suppo rt for fac ulty initiatives to d evelop courses in urban affairs, black hist01y, poverty, and psy chology of the gh etto , for exp ansion of the education dep artm ent, and for community development efforts. The Executive Comm ittee b egan its discu ssion , and the minutes state tersely w h at then o ccurred: "Consideration of the ab ove proposals was b ro ught to an abrupt h alt w h en it was discovered that ab o ut 160 students h ad tak en p ossession of the buildin g and inte nded to prevent the Trustees from leavin g until they h ad agreed to their proposals. No decision co uld possibly be reach ed under th ese conditions and the Trustees were finally allowed to leave the building at 8 :30 P .M. " In an ac tio n unprecedented in the College's history, 168 students occupied the D own es and Williams administration buildings in an effort to for ce the T rustees to consider the Senate's scholarship proposal. In an April 30 m emorandum addressed to the Trinity community, including the alumni, President J acobs rep orted the details of the "sit-in," and recapitulated the events, as th en known , w hich led up to it. Prior to the Execu tive Committee's m eeting, the adminis-

tration h ad b een aware that m emb ers of the Trinity Association of N egro es (TAN) , w ith the assistan ce of the Trinity chapter of Students for a D enwcratic Society (SDS), were planning a dem.onstration to urge implem entation of the scholarship prop osal. TAN had called for students to j oin a rally in supp ort of the proposal, and the gathering took place at the fo ot of Bish op B rown ell's statue in the late afternoon of April 22. [It was later learned that the sit-i n participants formed the core of th e rally attendees .] In his m emorandum President Jacobs w ent on to note that "W e exp ected the detnonstration to b e non-disruptiv e ... though there were rumors of a possible sitin .... At about 4:45 PM som e one hundred and fifty students quietly entered the hallways of the two buildin gs . There was no disruption of the m eeti ng nor of the College offices . At 5:15PM one of the Trustees on the Executive Committee [William P. Gwinn] w as excused from the meeting so that h e could meet a prior engagem ent . Students standing by the doors of the Trustees' room blocked his path ...m y request th at the Trustee b e p ermitted to leave was fi rmly denied by the students."

According to the T ripod, P resid ent J acobs " cam e out of the room and told the students that the Trustees h ad been giving 'very fav orable consideration ' to the proposal but that now they refused to consider it further. Jacobs asse rted that the group w ould not wo rk on the p rop osal under pressure. As the StudentFaculty Disciplinary R eport later stated , the situation resul'ted in a deadlock: "th e T rustees refused to consider the studen t pro posal w hile the 'hold-in' continued , and the students refus ed to give up the 'hold- in' until the Trustees en acted the student proposal or its equi valent. " At 5:55 p.m., President J acobs requ ested that B etty B elden b e allowed to leave th e buildin g and the students con"lplied.

Ab ou t an h ou r later, D ean D orwart ask ed several of th e stud ents to consider the terms of a sch olarship program w hi ch the president h ad formulated, and to w hich the E xecutive Committee h ad give n its informal agreement when deliberations were interrupted. The students rej ected this proposal b ecause it fell far sh @rt of w h at the Senate h ad envision ed.

T hose detained in the b oardro om as a result of the sit-in, m eanwhile, faced a (continu ed on page 34)

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number of concerns, one of a delicate nature. M any years later, Dr. Theodore D. Lo ckwood '48 recalled that " the questi on w as how we were going to get anything to eat, and, there being no bathroom facility in there, how were we going to cope with that situation? D ean Dorwart's wife [Carolyn] , thinking all along, sent in some fo od for us, w hich the students let through, with emp ty milk cartons.

So that took care of that one." [The cartons actually were the suggestion of the D orwarts' n eighbor on Vernon Stree t, Mrs. D onald B. Engley, wife of the College Librarian.]

At 8:30 p.m., TAN permitted the trustees and administrators to depart from D ownes M em orial. T h e demonstrators then b egan an occupation of Williams in an effor t to deny access to offices until the Senate proposal was implem ented. The stand-off continued thro ughout the night and during th e ensuing day. President J acobs was loath to call in the H artfo rd police, stating in his April 30 n1emorandum that h e w as determined to preserve the detachment of the College community in its free pursuit of inquiry and knowledge, a privilege w hich h e b elieved was eroded "wh en ever the academic community surrenders authority, however briefly, to an outside agency." T h e administration proceeded to resolve the situation through the efforts of an ad hoc administration-faculty committee consisting of D ean Dorwart, C haplain Alan C. Tull, and P rofessors George C. Higgins, Jr. (Psychology) and Rich ardT. Lee (Philosophy) .

The fi nal agreem ent called fo r the College to provide sufficient fi nancial aid for as many black students as were "available," not just from the H artford and New Haven areas as the Senate proposal had emphasized, with a minimum guarantee of 15 full scholarships for disadvantaged students, and to m atch the Senate's pledge of$ 15 ,000 in scholarship funds with the intention to go as far'beyond that as the College's budget w ould allow.

The agreement was concluded shortly after midnight on April 23, an d at about 1 a.m., the demonstrators called off th e sit-in, w hich had lasted for m ore than 30 h ours. All of the students readily accepted responsibility for the consequences of their actions, and the president indicated that the C ollege w ould follow established p olicy in carrying out discipline, n oting in his memorandum that " the events of the 22nd and 23rd of April. ..threaten ed th e very integrity of the academic comnmnity .... Violence was avoided. There was n o dam age . The College retained control of its affairs .

There are no martyrs. W hile there was a brief disruption of C ollege business, there was n o loss of control over College affairs."

N ewspaper coverage of the sit-in was abruptly halted by the breaking news of th e disruption that had b egun at C olumbia University, an occurren ce w hich, in contrast to the situation at T rinity, involved a much larger number of students, lasted over a week's time, and resulted in p olice intervention . In characterizing the Trinity in cident, President J acobs asserted that: "Th e direct outcome of the entire occurrence was, ironically, consistent with the desires of both the demonstrators and the ins titu tion - a reassertio n of commitment to take actio n on the problems of R ace and P overty 'within the scope of our ability to contribu te m eaningfully to the solutions of those com plex and urgent needs."' â&#x20AC;˘

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In Russia, the stakes are high a morale is low B Y SAMUEL

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he news from Moscow is dismal. The ruble has collapsed. Russia has in effect defaulted on its international debt. Sergei Kiriyenko, the young prime minister w ho tried to ram through a badly needed reform package, is gone.

Kiriy enko push ed all the right policies: tax reform, better tax collection, reform of the banking system . But w h at nukes economic sense isn 't alw ays good politics especially when economic common sense clash es with entrenched interests.

In getting Kiriyenko fired, the oligarchs - the robber barons w ho scooped up the crown j ewels of the Russian economy on the ch eap in the early '90s - flexed their political muscle. Privatiza tion was a front fo r well-connec ted insiders to line their pockets. M afia extortionists diverted money from small businessm en that might have been reinvested in the economy . A stupid tax system h as push ed m uch of the economy into a barter system that precludes effective pricing and rational inves tment.

Banks h ave all too often served as glorified m oney launderers .

Russia is a wealthy country with an educated wo rk fo rce.

Professor Samuel Kassow

One can make a lot of money th ere. But by some accounts as much as $60 billion is stash ed away in foreign accounts . Had that money b een invested in Russia, there would b e no crisis. But since n o n ew tax m on ey is coming in , there is a real danger that the new Russian government w ill try to print its way out of the crisis. T rillions of n ew rubles might set off a n ew wave of hyp erinflation .

So far the really important story in Russia has b een w hat hasn 't happen ed. How w ould Americans have reacted to a simultan eous collapse of the U.S. economy, a losing wa r against the N avajo in Arizona, the disappearan ce of their life savings, and j obs that don't pay them for months at a time? Judging by wh at happen ed in the gas lines of 1973

te chers

"Now Russia will face its toughest test since the 1991 putsch."

and 1979, not well!

Yet Russia has remained so far-remarkably stable. Yes, there is bitterness and despair.

But so far - in Russia proper - there has not been blood in the streets. Democracy has taken hold. There is a growing middle class. There are pockets of real prosperity, especially in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Many Russians have started their own businesses. The younger generation won 't even h ear of areturn to Communism.

Now Russia will face its toughest test since the 1991 putsch. K.iryenko's successor will try to persuade the International Monetary Fund (IMF) tQ keep pumping money into Russia. But in the present circumstances, this will be throwing good money after bad. The United States was right to push the IMF to help Russia last June when Kiriyenko was in power. But now, despite the obvious risks, President Clinton should offer advice, not more loans.

The stakes are high. A Russian meltdown might hurt far more than many Americans think. True, economic woes in Russia will have only a tiny direct effect on American companies and banks. But coupled with the Asian crisis, Russia's problems might sour investors on Latin American markets and currencies - and that would really hurt.

Russia's default will clobber German banks - which hold more than $30 billion in Russian debt - at an especially

sensitive time; badly needed investment and credit could turn away from Eastern Europe , even though countries like Poland have made striking economic progress. As it phases in the Euro, prepares to expand NATO and widen the European Union, the last thing Europe needs now is a recession.

An imploding Russia raises plenty of other worries. In a collapsing economy, arms sales - to whoever can pay - have been one of the few bright spots for Russian exports. So have Russian deliveries of nuclear reactors to Iran and missile technology to India. Saddam Hussein still owes billions to Moscow.

Russia would like to get that back. If that means undercutting U.S. policy in the Middle East, so much the better. In the Balkans, Russian influence on Serbia still counts especially if we want to forestall escalation of the Kosovo crisis. A more hawkish Russian government could well foment crises in the former Soviet Union. The Crimea dispute with Ukraine still festers. More troublesome is the potential conflict with former Moslem Republics over the vast oil reserves in the Caspian Sea. The shaky status of the millions of Russians living in the "Near Abroad" -the former Soviet Republies - can always be a source of trouble.

Nor should we forget the down side of a demoralized Russian army. If soldiers go

months without pay and officers commit suicide because they can't support their families , then they are more likely to sell weapons - of all kinds - on the international black market. Russia still possesses thousands of nuclear warheads. Without an effective army, the nuclear option becomes the one weapon that still backs up Russia's failing claim to Great Power status.

The arms control agreements signed with Russia -one of President Clinton's most impressive foreign policy achievements - still await ratification by a recalcitrant Duma.

Yet despite all the reasons for pessimism, there are some grounds for hope as well. The Russian crisis might certainly galvanize much-needed reforms in the rest of the world; it could certainly remind the Japanese government of the risks inherent in political inertia. The growing economic problems will remind Republicans that they had better stop blocking more funding for the IMF. In the final analysis, no one in Russia, except for a few Communist neanderthals, wants to go back to the old system. Most of the rivals currently jockeying for power in Russia understand what will happen if Russia loses its access to foreign capital and world markets.

The United States and Russia share many common interests - in the Middle East, in Central Asia, and in Europe .

Short-term benefits from

Russian arms sales and technology transfers wil~ not outweigh the larger danger of fomenting instability on Russia's exposed southern flank. The Cold War is over. Nuclear weapons cannot substitute for economic power. Most would-be Russian leaders know this.

Hopefully they will also know what has to be done. â&#x20AC;˘

Samuel D. Kassow '66 is a professor of history at Trinity and an expert on Russian and Eastern European history. Recently, he had the honor of being chosen by Indiana University to deliver the prestigious Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in jewish studies. The Schwartz Lectures have featured some of the most eminent scholars in the field ofJewish studies. Kassow was the first Schwartz Lecturer to be chosen from a liberal arts college. The scholars deliver two public leetures, which later are published as a monograph by Indiana University Press. Professor Kassow's lectures were "The Rise of the jewish Metropolis: Warsaw in the Modern Era" and "Resistance and History in the Warsaw Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbes Archive."

This article is adapted from "Bring Advice, Not More Loans, " an op-ed piece written by Professor Kassow for Th e Hartford Courant in advance ofPresident Clinton's visit to Russia last year and published in the Courant on August 30, 1998.

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GLASS: SHATTERING NOTIONS

by Anne Madarasz '81 Histori cal Society of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA), 1998, 163 pages, $48.95 ($52.38 P ennsylvania residents)

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This richly illustrated book/ catalog was published as a companion to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania Exhibition "Glass : Shattering Notions" at The Senator John H einz Pittsburgh R egional Glass Center. Auth or M adarasz, who is curato r at the Historical Society of W estern P ennsylvania, was Proj ect D irector and C urator for the glass exhibitio n .

The catalog, underwritten by the PPG Industries Foundation, and the exhibition, are the result of five years' inquiry into glass and the history of the glass industry in W estern P ennsylvania. Philip Scranton, Kranzberg Professor of the Histo ry of T echn ology at Georgia Tech, describ es the catalo g as a "vigorous and inviting review of W es tern P ennsyfvania glassmaking across two centuries." Shattering Notions, he says, led him to reflect on "th e relative invisibility of the glass industry in the Pittsburgh region - and I grew up in the midst of the industry. " At th at time, in the '50s and ' 60s, "it seemed that everyone's job in n1.y hometown revolved around the steel corporations and other metal wo rks in the valley," he writes.

M adarasz's book chips away at that invisibility. From th e foundin g of the region's first two glassh o uses in 1797, throu gh to the m any fac tories and workshops established in the 19th century, th e b ook provides views in text and color illustrations of glass created for great i.1tility as well as for beauty . There are chapte rs devoted to workshops, selling, design, and the industry today, including n ew uses for glass .

Four appendi ces offer descrip. tions fo r images in the book as well as brief histories of some of the glass companies and maps showing where the factories we re located.

deep in the h eart, are its study, and the po em s drawn from them pulse w ith a darkly swirling, reflective music . James Langenbac h makes h ere a masterly debut."

THRESHOLD by j ames L angenbach '8 1 The University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), November 1998, 70 pages, $26 cloth, $12 paperback

THE STORE OF A MILLION ITEMS

by Mich elle Cliff Houghton Miffiin (Boston, MA), 1998, 115 pages, $ 12 pap erback

This, Langenbach's first book of published poetry, is called "admirable and splendidly promising" by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky . Langenbach, w ho is Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Roc h ester, has written several critical wo rks, the most recent being M odem Poetry after Modernism . In Threshold he looks at th e nature of parental love and the shifting spaces between different states of human experience. The poems cross ma ny thresholds and, read in sequence, circle back to th e places w here they began woods, hill, w路ater. U ltimately they put their faith in "easily forgott en happiness" and the "bland good luck/that is our sustenance ."

Th resho ld is one in the series Phoenix Poets, edited by Alan Shapiro . J. D. M cClatchy has said of the book, "Threshold is a book of revelations. Things far back in the mind, things

Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature Mich elle C liff is said by San Francisco Chron icle reviewer Autumn Stephens to be "at the height of h er searing, velvethammer eloqu ence" in this, h er second collection of short stories. The stories in this book revolve around Cliffs experien ces as a child growing up in Jamaica and M anhattan. She w rites compellingly in it of the gaps b etwee n the two cultures, b etween n1.en and women, and b etween the generations.

In The New York Times Book R eview, M egan Harlan called the collection of 11 short stories "spare yet fervidly inventive."

"Throughout The Store of a Million Items," Harlan writes, "Cliff displays a dazzling array of subj ects, presented with th e precision and finesse of one w ho kno ws her literary sto ck backward and forward."

In Booklist, Vanessa Bush

wro te, "Cliffs economy of words conveys the h eftin ess of human relations, m ale and fe male, black and white. "

BLUE AS THE LAKE: A Personal Geography

by Robert B. Stepto '66 Beacon Press (Boston, MA), Sep tember 1998, 208 pages, $23 hardcover Blue as the L ake explores an African-Am.erica landscape unique in Am.erican literature .

In these stories of migration th e author and his ancestors travel from Washington to Misso uri, Chicago to Massachusetts.

Stepto recalls evocati vely the summer retreat for AfricanAmeri cans from midwes t cities w h ere h e vacationed w ith his grandparents . He writes of the Martha's Vineyard of his yo uth and of his recent exp erien ce.

The reader travels with him to th e houses in C hi cago and the suburbs w h ere h e grew up. H e traces his family history, from slavery in the East to Misso uri. 路 In the process, Stepto intra, duc es the reader to some of his relatives, including the legendary jazz musician Coleman H awkins and Inabel H awkins , the pioneering feminist and social wo rk er.

B eautifuiJy and intimately rendered, Stepto's stori es have been described as "though tful and moving" by Publishers Weekly . ln Booklist Van essa

Bush wrote that Stepto "vividly portrays the sights and sounds of a bla ck reso rt in the 1940s and 1950s and the racially changin g Chicago n eighborhoods of his youth. [A]lyrically w ritten m emoir." Author Michael H. Harper, author of Dear J ohn, D ear Coltrane, desc rib ed it as " a book of human geography ... [Where] eloquence is th e essential ingredie nt. "

Stepto is th e autho r of From Behind the V eil and is widely published in literary journals including Callaloo and New England Review. H e is professor ofEnglish, American studies, and Afro-American studies at Yale University.

THE ORDER OF NATURE IN ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICS: PLACE AND THE ELEMENTS

by HelenS. Lang Cambridge Unive rsity Press , 1998, 352 pages, $59.95

In this book, Trinity Professor ofPhilosophy H elen Lang enters into the point of view of those living in ancient times to interpret how they saw the world and to demonstrate the arguments used by Aristotle to support this view. Professor Lang illustrates a new m ethod for reading th e texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argum.ent running from the Physics to D e C aelo. She ana-

lyzes a group of argw;n.ents that are usually treated separately and demonstrates th eir elegance and co h erence. ln conclusion, she asks th e reader to co nsider w hy a view of the physicial wo rld rem.ains interesting today in spite of the fact that it has been disproven and replaced by b etter arguments.

Lang shows that it's necessary to rethink the current approach to Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts.

In doing this, sh e has created a book sure to ca use debate and stimulate new thinking among philosophers, classicists, and historians of science.

MESMERISM AND HAWTHORNE: Mediums of American Romance

by Samuel Chase Coale ' 65 The University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL), March 1998, 224 pages, $34 .95 cloth

In his new est book, Professor Coale explores th e great influence that the mesmerist and spiritualist "craze" of the 1840s and 1850s had on Nathaniel Hawthorne's fictional techniqu es . Hawthorne deplored mesmerism and spiritualism, viewing them as new forms of w itchcraft in which the masterslave relationship o verwhelms all others. However, although h e expresse d moral rej ec tio n of th e manipulations used by mes-

m erists and spiritualists, h e himself, as Coale shows, employe d th eir powers in his ow n w ork. Coale points out that Hawthorne's romanc es are in thems elves a form of m esmeric expressw n.

As John L. Idol, Jr. of C lemson Universi ty writes, " Professo r Coale's illuminating study of m esmerism traces a central thread running througho ut Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and art and reveals how Haw thorne's interes t in, and concern for, mesmerism helped to shape both his theory and practice of fi ction. This book will stimulate fruitful readings or rereadi ngs of Hawthorne's wo rk."

"No one knows Hawthorne better than Sam Coale," says Rob ert J. B egiebing of New Hampshire College. " In his developm.ent of a Hawthornian ~ th eory of the imagination, Coale places Hawthorne clearly at the forefront of 19th-century ' th eoreti cal-practitioners' of literature ."

Coale is professor of American literature at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. H e is the auth or of a numb er of books on Am.erican writers including In Hawthorne 's Shadow: American Romance fwm Melville to Mailer.

LITERATURE AS INTROSPECTION: SPAIN CONFRONTS TRAFALGAR

by Ronald]. Quirk '64 P eter Lang Publishing, (New York, NY), June 1998, 104 '\ 12_ages, $36.95 .hardcover

In the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, th e con1.bined SpanishFrench fleet suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the British. This new book by Quirk explores the frequent appearance of Trafalgar in Spanish literature throughout the 19th century in which initial denial of defeat and outrage evolve d into more sober refl ection and finally critical reassasstnent. Quintana,

Moratin, Fern:in Caballero, Alarcon, Gald6s , and many other Spanish writers return to th e grievous wound suffered by Spain. Each struggles to find comfort in the h eroism of the defeated Spanish and m eaning for th eir sacrifice .

Arnold L. K erson, professor of m odern languages emeritus at Trinity, has written of Literature as Introspection , " In a welldocumented study, Professor Quirk, after summarizing this historical event in which the combined :Qeets of the French and Spanish suffered heavy losses, traces the Spanish reaction to the defeat as it is manifested in literature (poetry, novels, th e p eriodi cal press), histori cal accounts, as well as visual arts. Professo r;. Quirk's m eticulous study, lo gically and c~early develop ed, is an invaluable contribution w hich provides a new perspec tive on the subj ect of Trafalgar. It sho uld be of great interest to students and scholars of Spanish history as well as literature, and is hi ghly recommended for every library collection."

Quirk is professor of mod ern languages at Quinnipiac _College in Hamden, CT. H e has published studi es on C ervantes, Valle- Incl:in, Romance linguisâ&#x20AC;˘ ti cs, and Spanish literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Serafin Esteba nez Calderon: Baja Ia Corteza de su Obra, published in 1992.

WAVES AND GRAINS: REFLECTIONS ON LIGHT AND LEARNING

by Mark P. Silverman Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), June 1998, 440 pages , $69.50 cloth and $22.50 paper M ark Silverman, professor of physics at T rinity and the author of And Yet It Moves and.

More Than One Mystery, has watched light p erform its m yriad wonders. Drawing on his exp erience as an optical and ~

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atomic physicist and as a teach er and w riter, h e explores in W aves and Grains the theoretical, exp erimental, and histo rical themes of light - and in doing so untangles some of the m ys teri es of physics by directing the mind's eye toward neglected corners of th e study of light and the curious human drive to know just how it all wo rks.

In this book, Professor Silverman gives examples of fascinating experiments that look insi<j.e the opaque. H e demonstrates to th e reader the m arv el of seeing inside doudy liquids as a result ofhis ow n research. H e examines the origin of the strange hyp erpolic diffraction pattern Newton originally produced w ith sunlight and knives, w riting, " I have seen no optics text o r monograph, elem entary or advan ced in w hich is mentioned, let alone analyzed, the intriguing problem that captured N ewton's attention some three centuries ago." " Silverman has a sharp eye for the unusu al/ a daunting skill in follo w ing up arcane and illtrodde n aspects of physics, and an uncommon felicity w ith words .... His science refl ects his considerable skills at primary research. And he has the ability to stand back and take in the contours of a subj ect from the viewpoint of a nonspecialist so as to en co urage then1 to see w hat h e is seeing. What more could one ask?" says Geoff Stedm an of the University of Canterbury, New Z ealand.

ADAM SMITH AND THE VIRTUES OF ENLIGHTENMENT

by Charles L. Griswold, Jr. '73 Cambridge U niversity Press (New York, NY), 1998, 448 pages, $59.95 hardcover, $21.95 paperback Charles Griswold, professor and chairman of the department of philosophy at Boston Unive rsity, h as written th e first com-

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preh ensive philosophical study of Adam Smith's moral and political thought. In this n ew book, Griswold places Smith's work in the context of th e Enlightenment and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy . Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his balanced defense of a liberal and humane moral and political outlook are also explored . A major philosophical and historical reassessment of a key E nlightenment figure, this book will b e of sp ecial interest to philosophers and political and legal theorists, as well as to historians of ideas , rhetoric, and political economy .

Said Stephen Darwall of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, of this book, "With one eye on the eighteenth century and the other on our current predicam ent, Charles Griswold's Adam Smith and the Vi rtues of Enlightenment is wonderfully interesting and informative, philsophically stimulating and acute, and beautifully written."

NIKE IS A GODDESS The History of Women in Sports edited by Lissa Smith '95 Atlantic Monthly Press (New York, NY), October 1998, 331 p ages, $24 cloth Lissa Smith, an editor at Atlanti c M onthly Press, has produ ced this lively collection, w hich features original, profiledriven pieces from 13 top female sp ortswriters. Illustrated w ith black and w hite photographs, th e anthology describes the profound changes women 's sports have undergone and pays tribute to the path-finding women athle tes w ho led the way.

In an Introduction, Mariah Burton Nelson, the aw ardwinning author of The Stronger W omen Get, T he More Men Love Football, writes, "To b e our b est, female fans n eed female

ch ampions to show us w hat greatn ess means. We n eed female w riters to uncover and interpret that greatness . W e n eed to learn about women who succeeded despite the odds, w ho sprinted past all th e p eople w ho said 'no' and 'you shouldn't' and 'you can ' t.' We need answers to our big questions: How do women grow strong? How can we w in?

Where does courage come from ? This book answers those questions. " Among the women featured in the stories are: Wilma Rudolph, Jackie Mitch ell , C hris Evert, Babe Didrikso n , Dawn R iley, Sonia H enie, Gertrude Ederle, D ianne Krump, Mary Lou R etton, Mia Han1n1, Manon Rheun1e, and Pat H ead Summit. The contributors include: Kathleen M cElroy, track and field; Amy Ellis Nutt, baseball and softb all; G race Lichtenstein, tennis; M elanie H auser, golf, Anna Seaton Huntington, boating; J ean W eiss, skiing; Michelle Kaufman, figure skating; Karen Karbo , swimming; J ackie C .

Burke, equestrian; Jane Leavy, gymnas tics; Elise P ettus, soccer; Barbara Stewart, ice hockey; and Shelley Smith, b ask etball.

AMERICA AND THE SEA: A MARITIME HISTORY

by Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler, J r., John B. Hatten dorf, Jeffrey ]. Safford, Edward W. Sloan, and Andrew W. German M ys tic Seaport, The Museum of America and the Sea (Mystic, CT), 1998, 704 pages, 350 photos , $65 hardcover Edward Sloan, Charles H. N ortham Professor of History at Trinity, and five other of the nation's leading m aritime scholars collaborated to produ ce this m agnificent history, w hich has b een described as "nothing less than a n ew history of the United States ."

Sloan and the other fiv e authors are faculty members at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at M ys tic Seaport. Established in 1955, the Munson Institute offers graduate-level, accredited courses in m aritime studi es during the summer months.

Professor Sloan has taught for many years and served as assistant director of th e Munson Institute. The book " distills the know ledge of a great many years of teaching" of the six authors, Sloan comments.

Sloan says that America and the Sea " represents the first time th at there has been an integration of m ercantile and naval history , presented in the context of more gen eral developments in this country. " The

book's 700 p ages are filled with more than 500 years of America's dramatic maritime story - from pre-Columbian seafaring to explo ration and discovery, from fishing to shipbuilding, from great packets and clippers to humble oyster sloops, from 1890s dreadnaughts to 1990s container ships. In addition to the wo rk of the six m aritime scholars, there are contributions by many other exp erts on subj ects from. immigration to the environment. R eviewers say the book is "artistic, inspiring, informative ... " (Sea H istory 86, Autumn 1998) an d "the best textbook on Am.erican maritime history w ithin memory" (Book list, September 1, 1998).

"This is not just a 'history book'; it is a treatise on the art, both visu al and written, of our maturation process. It is philosop hical and at the same time lyrical, " writes W. H. White in Sea History 86, " ... entertaining and interesting reading not only for history fanatics, but for any who have an intellectual curiosity about o ur great country and th e maritime interests w hi ch played , and continue to play, su ch a large part in our developn"lent."

Roland Green, writing in Booklist, says, " H istorio graphically up to date, it notes th e roles of women and minorities, the role of American maritime ac tivity in develop ing American industry and vice versa, and much more, including the traditional repertoire of the romantic teller of sea stories. The auth ors' grasp of their subj ect and the b ook's relative paucity of academic j argon h elp convey the excitement of seafaring and its history, if not always its rotnance."

ROMANTIC WEEKENDS: NEW ENGLAND

by Patricia Foulke M'70 and Robert Foulke, Hunter Publishing (Edison, NJ), 1998, 402 pages, $16 .95 paperback

H ave a h ankering for M aine lobster cioppino or fire-roasted haddock with Maine lobster salsa? Want to find a spo t w here yo u can tour a pristine w ildlife sa nctuary, or stay in an inn built in the 1730s? Romantic Weekends: New England, a book in the Hunter Travel Guides Series, su ggests these and other tantalizing adventures, B &Bs, and charming restaurants. In this exploration of New England, the Foulkes do a thoro ugh and imaginative job of covering the waterfront (and th e inland terrain).

Underpinning it all are h elpful and detailed description s of hundre ds of accommodations, from lakeside :abins to grand hotels, b eachy Cape Cod ge taways to stately New H ampshire inns. Included are tips for fine dining, excursions and tours, drawings illustrating a region 's best offerings, and m aps to h elp in planning a trip. The authors also have obtained and included recipes for signature dishes made at some of the fine restaurants include d in the book.

R esidents ofLake George, NY, the Foulkes have b een exploring New England together for nearly 45 years. Among the many travel guides they have written is D aytrips & Weekend Getaways in New England (Globe Pequot), focusing on the area's historical dimension.

LAW AND COMPETITION IN TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPE

by D avid Gerber '67 Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1998, 472 p ages, $90 hardcover This book is the first compreh ensive study of the development of comp etition law in E urope, and it is therefore exceptionally important for understanding how European comp etition law systems operate - h ow decisions are made, why institutions opera.te as th ey do, h ow E urop ean legal officials and lawyers tend to think

abou ~ comp etition law issues, and so forth. It is particularly timely, because E urop ean competition laws have become far stricter and more aggressive in recent years. Moreover, it is a key to understanding the role of antitrust law in th e globalization of economic activity and the current controversies su rrounding that role .

David Gerber is a professor at 路路 Chicago-Kent College ofLaw.

TIME'S TAPESTRY: FOUR GENERATIONS OF A NEW ORLEANS FAMILY

by Leta Weiss Marks M ' 61 Louisiana State University Press, 1997, 200 p ages, $24.95 More than 40 yea rs after leaving N ew Orleans b efore h er marriage, Leta Marks wen t home again, in search of her past. This absorbing memoir is the result. Written following interviews w ith Marks's nonagenarian mother and aunt, archival research, and the autho r's own recollections, the b ook chronicles several generations of family life.

At the center are th e author's pare nts. H er mother, Caroline Dreyfo us, was born into a prominent J ewish family of New Orleans; her father, Leon Weiss, was a talented architec t whose firm was chosen by Huey Long to design the new state capitol and governor's mansion, and N ew Orleans' Charity Hospital. H e also was sentenced to two years in federal prison after being implicated in the " Louisiana Scandals."

"No other J ewish community in the co untry is quite like New Orleans, " writes Lawrence N. Powell ofTulane University. " Leta Marks, anative daughter, w rites about it w ith rare detachment: abo ut its desire to fit in, its fitful protests against injustice, its civilized charms and graces. Marks also paints a moving portrait of h er parents, especially her father,

Huey's architect . At times Time's Tapestry seems like a reprise on All the King's Men, except the tragic downfall h appens to one of the men, too."

Leta M arks lives in Connecticut and teaches English and writing at the University of H artford.

FILM NEWS Producer Chris Seufert '9 0 won a Bronze Award at the 1997 C harles ton In ternatio nal Film Festival for his documentary, L obstering on the Benjo.

The festival received 1,510 entries from 23 co untries .

Seufert was also nom~nated for three awards in the professional category of the 1997 M assachusetts Cable Television Awards and won a Bron:;j:e Statuette at the 1998 T elly Awards in Ohio .

In the documentaty, Seufert, w ho runs M oonc usser Productions in West C h atham, MA, follows a lobsterman and his sternman throughout a typical work day of N ew England lobstering. The documentary is part one of Fish town, an .ongoing proj ect do cumenting every type of commercial fishing that is still active in New England waters, despite the cras h of the traditional ground fish stocks of cod an d h addock.

Seufert graduated from Trinity with a degree in English . In addition to the most recent awards, he h as won prizes in comp etitions of the Communicator A wards, M assachusetts Cable Television Awards, and Panasoni c V ideomaker Awards.

Chris Seufert '90

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Junior Jeffrey Ward

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"Poetry is a great means for expression," says Jeffrey Ward '00, "because it works with n1any of the basic e1notions - fear, anger, love, jealousy, wonder, etc. The ch allenge is to let the reader exp erience these emotions and the images used to create them as powerfully and con1.pletely as possible. The most satisfying thing is to know yo u 've touched someone with yo ur words and have made that person understand what it is you were tryi ng to get across."

An English (creative writing) major from Old Lym e, CT, Ward has b een w riting poetry on his own for about five years . After taking the "Introduction to Poetry" course with Professor of English Hugh Ogden in the fall, h e signed up for Ogden's senior poetry seminar, in which h e is now enrolled.

Aside from writing, Ward enjoys reading and music, and afte r graduation hopes to work in the music industry in New York City. "From the moment I played my first show w ith the band I'm involved w ith," h e recalls, " I knew that music was the area in w hich I would pursue my career."

Ward says h e encourages everybody to write. " It is d efinitely a cathartic exercise," h e says, "and even if no one sees your efforts, simply expressing w h at you are feeling can help you realize the joys and sorrows h eld by everyone. It' s also fun ."

The stream boils,

vanilla scent, marvel at the milky pitch

no square inch

that drips from a beetle's bored hole.

of its surface still.

Look up at the Stellar's jay, black head on top

In the clean moonlight

of a cobalt body, oily, irridescent, squawking in the lim bs,

of the Alaskan night,

and then move on-

I cannot tell where dark water ends

fi nd the rock, the stream, and listen

and dark bodies begin .

to the sounds of the living forest in sunlight .

Twelve years old,

Walk downstream

I stand on the banks of that nameless

to the sharp left bend, down to where

water, four hundred yards

the water whispers, now wide and shallow.

from the sawn-plank door of Three Moose L odge,

Look across that ankle-deep passage

learning about

to the limbless trunks,

Purpose.

blackened and sooty .

Get your feet wet and tell me,

Purpose is

amidst the charred skeletons,

leaving familiar salt-water,

the killed-campfire smell,

following a map scribed into DNA,

the dim high-noon light,

fighting against fresh current,

that you can 't fee l it.

swimming past squatting bears that rip open pale bellies to go rge

No jay squawks here,

on bright roe,

no owl leaves his pellets

leaping up ten foot falls,

of mousefur and bone.

fai ling,

Nothing grows, flies,

leaping again to find the exact stretch

stalks here

of calm, shallow water

in. fire 's shadow.

where Purpose was birthed.

Find the middle; Purpose is

stand in the stream, freezing toes

dropping cargo, a thousand pink spheres,

numb, crowns of snow-

and then, purpose accomplished,

melt rushing down rocky shoulders

once-firm flesh hanging over coat-rack bone,

from two thousand feet above.

settling on gravel,

You stand between bright motion

a limp, cloudy-eyed, mysterious

and gloomy stillness . Try an_d understand

teacher.

the metaphora unique opportunity, this, so when you tromp back into the living room,

A Moment's Calm Reflection

leave enough muddy sneaker-prints on thP clean. beige linoleum for someone to ask

Stop and smell the bark

" TVha t on earth have you been doing?"

of a J iffrey pine

You can look her in. th e eye

on your way to the big rock,

and truthfully say,

streamside, that bluebelly liz ards use to sun themselves .

Inhale the pale

"No thin . "

games. After three straight losses to end the season, the Bantams came together to down Messiah (4-0) and Field Hockey Hartwick (2-0) before losing to eventual champion MiddleThe field hockey team earned bury 4-1 in the semifinals. its second trip to the NCAA The season began with a Division III Final Four, under record-breaking 19-0 slaughthe direction of Head Coach ter of Elms behind three goals Robin Sheppard (24 years, each by freshmen Brooke 242-67-13). Reaching postEvans and Heather Standring. season for the 16th time in 17 Next, a't Amherst the Bantams years, the Bantams earned battled a stingy Lady J eff their fourth NCAA Division squad to win, 1-0, on a late III play-offbid in the last six goal by senior Nancy Dwyer. campaigns.

The Bantams trounced Mt. The Trinity women con' " Holyoke in the third game 9tinued their string of strong 1, with Dwyer recording a starts, winning their first 10

Fall season wrap-ups

Senior Vanessa Ruff was a key member of the Trinity defense in 1998.

hat trick, and junior Camilla Love and Standring scoring twice each. Senior Whitney Scarlett scored the game-winner in an overtime 3-2 win against Bates, after the Bobcats had tied the score with 35 seconds to play.

With a 4- 0 mark, the Bantams hosted Springfield College on October 1. Trinity rebounded from a 1-0 deficit, scoring two goals in the second half to win, 2-1. Scarlett got the Bantams on the board early in the half, and sopho- ' more Whitney Brown scored the clincher with 3:38 left in the game. Freshman goalie

Jess Martin stopped six shots in a flawless relief job, holding the Pride scoreless for 54 minutes.

After a 3-1 victory at Williams and a 3-0 win over Connecticut College, the Bantams were rained out in Maine against Colby. Love scored a pair of goals against the Camels, w hile senior cocaptain Kate Leonard notched a pair of assists.

Their record improved to 8-0 when the squad posted a 3-0 victory over Smith, as Dwyer scored two more times and Leonard recorded two more assists. Martin and junior M elissa Church combined for five save_s with their fourth of six total shutouts this fall. Then, Trinity outscored Tufts, 5-3, extending its regular-season winning streak to 23 and home streak to 29. Brown notched her first career hat trick and senior Kelly Flan1an scored an unassisted goal fo r the Bants.

On October 21, Trinity defeated Wesleyan, 2-1, on two goals by Brown. With four games to go, Trinity held hopes of another undefeated campaign and a home game in the NCAA Tournament.

Then at Bowdoin, where a Bantam loss ended an undefeated season in 1996, they were stymied again. Dwyer notched Trinity's only score, while Martin had 12 saves in a 2-11oss.

At Keene State, the women lost despite outshooting the Owls by a large margin, including a rocket from the top of the circle by Leonard for the Bantams' only score of the day.

In the final game, Trinity lost 3-1 to Middlebury to post a 10-3 record. The Bantams slipped into the field of 16 as the #3 seed in the South Atlantic region at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

In their third straight NCAA tournament appearance, the Bantams visited Messiah (165) in the first round ll}J.tchup . Brown scored two goals, one on a pass from Scarlett, who added an insurance goal along with Dwyer, for the 40 win.

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Next, Trinity ousted #4seed Hartwick, 2-0, thanks to a pair of scores by Love on assists by Scarlett and Dwyer.

The Trinity defense came to M essiah ready to play, as M artin n eeded to make just nine saves in the shutout triumphs. The defensive unit of senior co-captains Leonard and Christina Spilios, senior Vanessa Ruff and junior Kate Rieg were dominant in the two wins.

At the Final Four, Trinity again faced Middlebury. The Panthers came on strong, outshooting Trinity 14-8, in a 4-1 Bantam defeat. Scarlett cut the Panther advantage to 2-1 in the first period, on an assist from Leonard, but Middlebury's Heidi Howard scored two of her three goals in the second half to seal the win. Middlebury went on to beat hosts William Smith in the final game .

Trinity finished the 1998 season with a 12-4 m.ark , and seniors Flaman, Barkley Kinkead, Pam Kelley, Dwyer, Leonard, Katie Krautmann, Love, Spilios, Scarlett, and Ruff totaled a 46- 14 overall record in their four years.

Men'5 Soccer After a 9-6-1 season in 1997 and the team's first app earance and victory in the NCAA Division III Champi-

onship, expectations were high going into 1998. Coach Eddie M ighten and the Bantams did not disappoint, advancing to the finals of the ECAC Division III Championship and tying the College record w ith nine wins for the second straight year.

The season began with a 1-0 loss at Coast Guard, followed by a 4-0 win over Albertus M agnus. Senior goalkeeper Craig Anderson made four saves, while freshm.an forward Chris Zoppi put in two goals in the shutout. Trinity wo n the next three contests, defeating Connecticut College, 3-0, behind two scores by sophomore midfielder Mickey Chambers, and then Salve Regina and Wesleyan, both 1-0. Senior co-captain back Andy Hayes scored the gamewinner versus the Seahawks, and soph omore forward Brett MacQuarrie connected against the Cardinals off a pass from Second Team AllNESCAC sophomore midfielder Caley Iandiorio.

Anderson totaled 16 saY::s with four shutouts, earning NESCAC Player of the Week for his efforts.

After a 5-2 loss at Williams, the Bantams faced national power Amherst. Junior striker Mike Wilson scored from classmate Richard Lynch late in the first half to tie the score at 1-1. The Bantam defense,

led by Hayes, fellow senior co-captain and Second Team All-NESCAC defensive back Mike Dudevoir, and sophomore keeper Tom HambrickStowe, kept the Jeffs at bay in the second half. H owever, Amherst knocked in the deciding score in overtime for the win.

The Bantams rebounded valiantly with three consecutive wins and improved to 73. They stopped Vassar 3-1 and rallied for a comeback 21 win at Eastern Connecticut behind second-half goals by senior forward Jay Fernandes and Zoppi. Zoppi struck again with the game's only score and Hambrick-Stowe notched 12 saves, as the Bantams capped off the ministreak with a 1-0 shutout against Tufts.

In the next three games, NCAA squads Bowdoin, Middlebury, and Western Connecticut defeated the Bantams, with Iandiorio managing Trinity's only goal in each match. A 5-1 win over Stevens Tech ended the Bantams ' regular season at 8-6.

Fernandes put in a pair of scores, while freshman Adrian Fadrhonc scored his first of w hat should b e many career goals.

Trinity earned the # 4 seed in the ECAC Metro Championship and hosted Vassar in the opening round. Fadrhonc

scored on a feed from Lynch in the 78th minute to give Trinity its record-tying ninth victory and a spot in the semifinals.

Coach Mighten's squad played the top-seed Merchant Marine Academy to a 1-1 tie through regulation and two overtimes, as Wilson quickly answered a King's Point goal in the 16th minute. The Bantams outshot the Merchant Marine on penalty kicks, 4-3, with Dudevoir connecting on the clincher.

In the finals, Coast Guard edged the Bants with a 1-0 triumph. A sketchy handball call allowed the Bears to score on an easy opportunity inside the circle, and Trinity lost, despite outshooting Coast Guard by a 15-5 margin.

At 9-7-1, Trinity barely missed the Championship and a College record for wins, and will b e hungry for n1.ore n ext fall.

Women' 5 Soccer The women's socc.er program continued rebuilding under second-year H ead Coach 路 Mike Smith, finishing the season 5-7-1 , up from 3-10-1 in 1997-98 . In addition, the team welcon1.ed three new assistant coaches: Jordan Grossman and Allyson Guild '96 and Colleen McGlynn '98.

The Bantams started the season strong with a 1-0 victory at Eastern Connecticut, as freshman forward Martina O 'Sullivan netted her first collegiate goal 41 seconds into the game. The Bantams defeated their next opponent, Emerson, 8-1, including a hat trick from junior forward Meredith Papa. Freshman midfielder Tisha Driscoll posted a goal and two assists in the win. The team carried this momentum into its third game against perennial NESCAC power Amherst.

Freshman goalkeeper Sarah Bradley was spectacular, recording 22 saves. After two overtime p eriods, the game ended in a scoreless tie.

The Bantams lost in their next outing against Connecticut College, but rallied to defeat Bates at home on Parents' Weekend. Senior tricaptain midfielder Courtney Glenn deflected a shot off a Bobcat defender in the 83rd minute for the 1-0 win.

Next, the Bantams (3-1-1) took on the undefeated, nationally ranked Cougars of Clark University. Clark scored one minute into the game, but Trinity answered with back-to-back goals by Glenn and fellow senior tricaptain midfielder Shelley Lozier. The Bantams played a nearly flawless first half, and enjoyed a 3-1 lead at intermission after Glenn netted her second goal of the game .

However, in the second half Clark scored three goals in a 4-3 comeback victory.

On October 3, Trinity lost to Williams, 3-0. Next, the team fought in the pouring rain to a 2-0 victory over Smith College, thanks to goals by Driscoll and sophomore midfielder Marisa Eddy.

But, the Bantams lost their next three games in close matches with Tufts, Western Connecticut, and Bowdoin.

On October 28, Trinity met NESCAC rival W es-

leyan. After a physical first half, the game remained scoreless. Fourteen minutes into the second half, freshman back Jillian Liese scored to give Trinity a 1-0 advantage.

Wesleyan rallied, tying the score with 17:06 remaining in the game. Papa's fourth goal of the season six minutes later sealed the Bantam win.

Unfortunately, Trinity lost the final game to Middlebury, 3-1, eliminating the Bantams from post-season play. The team ended the season 5-7-1, with hopes of continuing their improvement next fall.

Football The 1998 football team suffered its first losing season in almost two decades, but still put forth a maximum effort in all eight contests. The 2-6 record may not sparkle, but the teamwork, dedication, and grit of this club will be ren1e1nbered.

The Bantams started in fine fashion with a whitewash of Colby, 21-7. Senior tri-captain halfback Marc Maccarini, caught a pass from junior Liam MeN eilly in the corner of the end zone for a 7-0 lead. Colby answered with a touchdown strike, but Trinity

mance (19-29 for 238 yards), running back Mike Ladd soon Trinity could not get on the broke free on an 18-yard scoreboard.

Faget caught touchdown run. Strong safety seven passes and gained a caSean Cooney iced it for Trinreer-high 110 yards. Strong ity, picking off an errant pass freshman fullback Matt and racing 73 yards for a 21-7 Gjerulff muscled 67 yards on lead. The Bantam defense the ground, also a careerheld the White Mules to 41 high. The "big three" in the yards on the ground. middle for Trinity- Iudice, Next, Williams hosted Lahaie, and junior Dale Trinity and crushed the Bants, Phelps all notched nine 34-6. Williams stormed ahead tackles.

The often-overlooked 34-0 before MeN eilly scored Santos Matos played a solid on a one-yard keeper. Junior game with a sack while roulinebacker Jeffludice (10 tinely forcing double teams tackles) and big junior tight from the Polar Bear blockers. end Sean Fur~y (7 catches for On Oct. 31 against Middle101 yards) were Bantam bury, the Bantams were seen standouts. on the New England Sports The next week Trinity Network (NESN), with their picked up a second victory, second ECAC Division III beating Hamilton 24-14.

New England Game of the Freshman Steve Cella showed ' .Week in four seasons. Trinity his versatility, collecting two fell behip.d by 17 points early touchdowns and eight tackles. in the contest, but scored Trinity trailed 14-10 at the when juniQr cornerback half, but McNeilly hooked up Patrick Wenger blocked a with Furey on a ten-yard , " Panther punt in th6 end zone strike in the third quarter, and and fell on the ball for a Cella galloped into the end touchdown. Then, MeN eilly zone again, giving Trinity a fired a bomb to Faget for a 24-14 advantage. The defense 76-yard touchdown, cutting held Hamilton scoreless in the the lead to 17-14. The Bansecond half Iudice corralled tams got no closer, in a 46-14 10 ball carriers for the second defeat. Lahaie collected nine consecutive game and junior tackles, three for losses, and tackle Nate Barad notched blocked an extra-point try: three sacks.

Junior defensive tackle Blue Next, hosting Tufts, the Eaves played his best game of Bantams played great football the season, as he tripped up for three quarters. In the seven Middlebury ball carriers. fourth, the Jumbos struck for At Homecoming, Trinity three touchdowns and a 24-3 spotted the Lord Jeffs of triumph. McNeilly played his Amherst a 24-0 lead before best game of the season, hitstorming back. In the third ting senior tri-captain receiver quarter, Wysocki connected J .R. Faget and Furey nine with Faget on a 40-yard times for 158 yards. Faget 1 touchdown. Then, the Baneven completed a reverse optams struck again on tion pass to Furey for a 32Maccarini's eight-yard scamyard gain. Junior linebacker per.

Needing a big stop, Brain Lahaie set up Trinity's Matos stepped up and tackled only score of the day on an Amherst quarterbackJason interception return deep into Campbell for a loss of seven.

Tufts territory. Junior kicker The sack forced Amherst to John Jankowski debuted with punt, and Wysocki engia 29-yard field goal. neered a 10-play, 67-yard Then, Trinity matched up drive to cut the lead to 24-18 against Bowdoin, where, with 2:15 left to play. On the sadly, a streak ended- the drive, Wysocki rushed fout near-two decades and over times and completed four 150 games since a Bantam passes before senior halfback team had been shut out. DeSherman Francis hurdled sevspite junior quarterback Greg eral Amherst t~cklers on a Wysocki's excellent perfor-

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nine-yard touchdown run.

But, Amherst answered with a quick touchdown, making the final tally a disappointing 32-18. Iudice shone, w ith 14 tackles, two for losses, and a sack resulting in a fumble.

Defensive end Mike Mobley (three sacks) and defensive back Bre;dan McDavitt (six tackles and an interception) also starred. The offensive li~e op ened holes all game long, led by senior tri-captain guard Greg Tirell and sophomore guard Jay C~vetti.

In the season finale at Wesleyan, Trinity went o~t fighting. At the start of the second quarter, with the Bants trailing 27-6, W ysocki found Faget for his fourth touchdown catch of the year.

Midway through the third, Wysocki connected with a streaking Furey for another score. T his cut the lead to 27-20, but after another Wesleyan score, the lead was 34-20 . Trinity's hop es of a comeback looked bleak, but Cella expl~ded for an 88-yard' kickoff-return for a fourth Trinity touchdown. Two Wesleyan touchdowns put the game out of reach, though Wysocki fired his fourth touchdown pass of the day to Furey in the closing seconds. Cella added the twopoint conversion and Trinity walked off the field with a 49-35 loss. The feeling after the game echoed that of the entire season - unsatisfied but unashamed.

Golf The golf team, under the tutelage of Head Coach Bill Detrick, completed its fall season with a 27th-place tie at the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association Championships.

The season b egan with the Williams Invitational, w h ere sophomore KeithJendza shot

a 168 over two rounds, finishing in a tie for 60th overall.

After a 13th-place performance at the ECAC C hampionships, Jendza matched that score w ith a 21 st-place finish in the NESCAC C ham.pionships at Middlebury. Junior Wayne Sellers sh ot a 17 4 to take 17th , and Trinity finish ed tied for ninth w ith Bates in the league.

Trinity finished strong as J endza's 162, freshman Pat Worhunsky's 164, and senior captain Dan Weinberg's 166 helped the Bantams tie Division II Franklin Pierce for 27th (eighth in Division III) at the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association Championships.

Volleyball In Head Coach Fran Vandermeer's third season, the volleyball team posted an 18-16 record. The team finished fifth in the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championships and earned its first post-season invite, a bid to compete in the ECAC Tournament.

The Bantams started slow ly with three losses and one victory at home in the Trinity College Invitational. The B antams lost to RutgersNewark, Bates, and NYU b efore defeating NESCAC rival Wesleyan in the final match of the tournament.

The 1-3 start turned into a 3-8 record before the Bantams rallied to win seven of their next nine,evening their record at 10-10. During the hot streak the Bantams managed to win three matches in the Trinity Family Day Tournament against Connecticut College, Teikyo Post, and Regis.

The Bantams split the next two matches, dropping one to Amherst, 3-1, and defeating Western Connecticut on the road, 3-1, before ending the regular season winning seven out of eight.

The Bantams closed with four impressive 3-0 shutouts heading into the NESCAC

Tournament. They defeated Connecticut College and swept Coast Guard, Wesleyan, and Roger Williams en route to a first-place finish at the Coast Guard Invitational. For her outstanding performance in the tourney, sophomore Megan Konieczny was named NESCAC Player of the Week, averaging 5. 7 5 kills p er game . In nine games at Coast Guard, Konieczny had 52 kills and 9 errors in 90 attempts for a .467 hitting percentage.

Riding their four-match winning streak, the Bantams entered the NESCAC Tournament as the #6 seed. The team opened the tournament w ith a decisive 3-0 win over Connecticut College before falling to ultimate champion Middlebury in the second match. After Middlebury, the Bantams downed Colby and Bates each by the score of 31, with fresh man setter Natasha Wilson totaling 75 assists and 27 digs and Konieczny racking up 30 kills. The Bantams' victo ry over Bates earned the team fifth place in the NESCAC Tournament and a bid to the ECAC North Division III Tournament.

The Bantams bowed out of the ECAC Tournament in the first match, a 3-1 loss to Bates. Wilson led the way with 47 assists and 20 digs, while fello w rookie Beth Landry led the team with 19 kills. With a core of u nderclassmen returning, including junior captain Harleigh Leach and sophomores Angie DeMartino, Tina Couch, and Tricia Mase, Vandermeer will look to achieve post-season play again in 1999.

Women's Tennis W ith seven returning letterwinners, the women's tennis team achieved a 6-3 record, clinching the seventh consecutive winning season under H ead Coach Wendy Bartlett.

The women started stro ng, defeating the University of Connecticut at home, by a

score of7-2. Five singles players won tl1eir first matches of the year in straight sets, including senior tri-captains Amy Friedman and Sarah Maloney and junior H eidi Polsen. Then, the Bantams dropped a 6-3 decision at Williams, w hile playing without two of their top singles players, senio r tri-captain Erica M ann and freshman Rebekah Mate.

Four days later, the women swept Connecticut College, 9-0 , in Hartford. Soon after, however, Trinity dropped a 9-0 decision to the Amherst Lady J effs.

Trinity rebounded nicely, w inning a close match with Wesleyan, 5-4, a match highlighted by a hard-fought three-set win by junior Caroline Hughes. Trinity then shu t out Brandeis, 9-0, and beat Division I University of Hartford, 7-2.

At the Rolex T ournament the following weekend, the Trinity women put forth a solid effort. Mate, the number- one singles player in h er freshn1an season, advanced with a 6-1, 6-2 w in, but could not make it past the second round. Friedman lost in the first round, but advanced to the semifinals in the consolation bracket.

In d oubles, both of Trinity's teams reached the quarterfinals of the tournament, with th e unranked tandem of Pols en and Hughes upsetting the number-two seed in the second round, 62, 6-1.

The Bantams extended their winning streak to four matches after defeating Smith, 6-3. Highlights included a strong performance by the number-two doubles team of Polsen and Mann.

Despite wins by junior Erica Johnson at num.ber-two singles and Maloney at number six, Trinity lost its final dual m atch of the season to Tufts, 7-2.

At the New England Division III C hampionships, Trinity finished seventh of 10 teams. The doubles tandem of

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Friedman/Hughes advanced to the quarterfinals of the number-three doubles tournament, ending with a 6-2 record for the season. T he Bantams will return seven letter winners next season, and although senior tri-captains Friedman, Maloney, and Mann will be missed, the future looks bright.

Women's Cross Country The women's cross country team enjoyed another solid st;ason, with an eighth-place showing at New Englands and All-American performances by senior co-captains Yolanda Flamino and< Thania Berrios at Nationals.

The team finished a single point b ehind seventh-place Brandeis at the New England Championships, and Flamino won the, race with a course record and personalbest 18:01 at Babson College. Berrios came in fourthplace at 18:14 as both easily qualified for Nationals.

Trinity hosted Connecticut College and Wesleyan in the season opener, capturing the top three sp ots and defeating the Cardinals and Camels. Flamino won the meet with a time of19:18.

After managing a thirdplace finish at the 20-team UMass-Dartmouth Invite, the Bantam harriers excelled at both the Dickinson and Babson Invitationals. Three Bantam runners finished in the top 12 to lead Trinity to fifth place in each. Senior Nicole Hanley edged Berrios by one second for sixth place at Dickinson.

At the Bantam Invitational, Trinity came in second behind Wheaton College, despite another 1-2-3 finish b y Flamino, Hanley and Berrios. After a 22ndplace showing at the Division I New Englands, the women harriers finished~fifth in the NESCAC Championships, as Middlebury ran away with the league title .

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Benios, 14th, to earn ailleague honors.

The next week, Head Coach George Suitor rested his veterans, but freshtnan Caroline Leary and junior Kara Barbalunga ran good races with 52nd- and 73rdplace finishes, respectively. At New Englands, Flamino (1st), Benios (4th) , and Hanley (18th) took home All-New England honors, and the two co-captains prepared for Nationals.

The duo returned to Dickinson, the host course, and came through in fine fashion. Benios ran an 18:37 to place 25th and earn Cross Country Coaches' Association All-American status. Flamino finished 13th overall, good for 13th place and consensus All-American honors.

Men's Cross Country The yourg Trinity team faced a tough task in 1998, replacing graduated seniors Ben Appleyard and Eric Lavigne.

Led by junior co-captains David Kyle and Adam Forkner and talented sophomore Todd Markelz, the Bantams had hopes of rebuilding.

The season began with a meet hosted by Trinity with Wesleyan and Connecticut College. Markelz won the meet with a tirne of27:56, as the Bantams lost to Wesleyan and defeated the Camels.

After a fifth-place team finish at the 20-team UMassDartmouth Invite, the Bantams competed in the Dickinson Invitational. Markelz placed 29th, leading Trinity to a 21st-place fini;h o ut of 31 squads. On October 3, Markelz's ninth-place showing helped Trinty to a 10thplace finish heading into the Bantam Invite. Three Trinity

harriers placed in the top 10, as the Bantams finished in second place. Markelz won with a time of 27:12, w hile Kyle was eighth (28:53) and junior Andy Malick finished six seconds behind for ninth.

Following a 37th-place performance at the New England Open, Trinity hosted the NESCAC Championships at hilly Wickham Park. At NESCACs, Kyle replaced the ill Markelz as the Bantams' top finisher with a 28th-place effort. Markelz came in 49th and freshman Steve Napier ran his best race for 70th-place.

Then at the ECAC C h ampionships, Coach Suitor concentrated on his younger harriers. Napier impressed again, finishing as the top Bantam in 101st.

Trinity closed the season with a 19th-place performance at the Division III New England Championships. Kyle paced Trinity with a 56th-place time of27:01, while Markelz finished five places later at 27:04.

Yolanda Flamino and Thania Benios: SeHing a new standard as scholar-athletes In its newly revised mission statement the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) states that "its members are c01nmitted first and foremost to academic excellence and believe that athletic excellence supports our educational mission."

Trinity has a nominee for standard-bearer for NESCAC - senior cross-country and track and field star Yolanda Flamino.

Recently named to the NCAA and Cross Country

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Yolanda Flamino

Coaches All-America squads in cross country and outdoor track and field, Flamino has been captain of the crosscountry team for one year and captain of indoor and o utdoor track and field for 路 two years. She earned a place on the All-New England and All-NESCAC squads in several events through out her four years as a Bantam. At the same tim.e she has attained a 3.4 grade point average while pursuing a major in biochemistry and been active in many extracurricular activities. Currently, she is a lab assistant in chemistry, a tutor in the Trinity Writing Center and in Hartford-area high schools, and a sports writer for the Trinity Tripod. And she helps teach a freshman seminar.

Trinity's Junior Scholar

Athlete of the Year in 199798, Flamino is now weighing a number of postgraduate plans, ranging from teaching and coaching at the prep school level to attending medical school.

This fall, Flamino and fellow senior co-captain Thania Benios both qualified for the NCAA Division III National Women's Cross Country Championships in Pennsylvania. Flamino earned her spot by winning the New England Division III title race with a career-best time of 18:01. Her time was 12 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher and 13 seconds ahead ofBenios, who came in third. At the Nationals, both harriers made H ead Coach George Suitor proud - Flamino ran an 18:23.44 to finish in 13th place and Benios crossed the finish line at 18:37.55 to place 25th. As one of the top 15 runners, Flamino earned AllAmerica honors from every organization voting, while Benios' performance put her on the Cross Country Coaches' Association AllAmerica squad. Suitor said of the two athletes, "I could not have found two finer young women to have the pleasure of coaching over their careers at Trinity. Their success here is due to the work they have put in, their desire to excel, and their competitive spirit.

Both epitomize the NESCAC and the Division III philosophy of putting academics first and athletics second, but they have managed to succeed at both."

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The Trinity Club of Boston capped off summer and headed into fall with its usual array of events. ]elfjacobson '89 helped bring summer to a close by organizing the Fifth Annual Bantam Open. On September 18, 40 alumni teed off at the Shaker Hills Country Club in Harvard, MA. Following the tournament, the group gathered for dinner and an awards ceremony honoring the individual and group winners of the day.

On October 15, Trinity young

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alumni helped Boston kick off the Head of the Charles activities with a happy hour at John Harvard's Brew House in Harvard Square. Elizabeth McFarlan '96 hosted the event to mark the start of the weekendlong crew races.

Phonathon results are in! The B;sronrgroup, chaired by josh Sanderson '96 and Heather W)nne '96, raised $18,236 from 136 donors and pledgers. The Boston group consisted of 20 alumni and parents who dialed into the evening on October 27. Rumor has it that one dedicated volunteer stayed untillO p.m. to bring in the last pledge. Thanks to all of the volunteers who made this phonathon a success.

On Halloween, Boston alumni participated in the around-thecountry viewing of the TrinityMiddlebury football game that was broadcast on New England

Sports Network (NESN). Kevin Smith '87 coordinated the event in conjunction with Trinity's alumni office. Alumni gathered at the Oliver Tavern for food and fun, complete with complimentary pompoms. Unfortunately, the group did not witness a Bantam victory, but spirit abounded, nonetheless.

The Club participated in the first Career Services Networking Breakfast in Boston. On November 20, Trinity, Holy Cross, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges hosted a breakfast for college seniors, designed to give students the opportunity to discuss career paths with area alumni. The Club has received positive feedback and hopes to combine next year's networking activities with a dinner or reception.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston exhibited works by

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A note to all alumni: Please send address updates directly to the Alumni Office, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106-3100, or via e-mail to alumni.office@trincoll.edu or by phone, 860-297-2400 or by fax, 860-297-2312.

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French Impressionist Monet this past fall. On December 2, the Club was able to secure a block of tickets for a viewing of "Monet in the 20th Century," which focuses on Monet's later works. Approximately 25 alumni and friends rook advantage of the opportunity to study works that included the famous "water lilies" series and other paintings that have never been publicly displayed before.

In the spirit ofThanksgiving, about 10 alumni served a meal at the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans. On December 6, the group helped prepare and serve lunch to the city's homeless veteran community. The group was al~o able to take time to sit and talk with the men who were enjoying lunch.

The Club has additional activities scheduled for this winter that include a College Luncheon Series lectur(l, Young Alumni events, and 'the annual pilgrimage to the Boston Pops concert.

Watch the mail for details. Please let the alumni office (860) 2972400, or alumni.office@trincoll .edu know if your address has changed. We have great events planned and want to be able to reach you.

CHICAGO Brook Me Whirter '91 Club President Aft~r

an event-packed fall, the Trinity Club of Chicago welcomed President Evan Dobelle on December 3 at the Tower Club, the same locale where the eight-school semi-formal was held earlier this fall. The Executive Committee, including

David Copland '90, Benagh '95 and josh Newsome '95, Elizabeth McDonald Krebs '92, Sara jo mzyne '92 and Tyler Eddy '96, is

looking forward to putting together new events for 1999.

The Trinity-Middlebury football game, which kicked off the Halloween weekend, was a huge success, as was the phonathon, which was held two days later.

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On October 31, in celebration of Trinity's 175th Anniversary, the New England Sports Network presented a live broadcast of the Trinity vs.

Middlebury football game.

Many alumni gathered at Coach's Sports Bar in Stamford to cheer on the Bantams a~d have a good time.

The Trinity Club of Fairfield County Book Awards were given to eight high school juniors this year from our area. Many thanks to Richard DiPreta '91 for presenting the Greenwich Book Award.

Thanks to all who assisted the admissions staff this year. Our volunteers covered many high school college fairs, conducted alumni interviews and made many phone calls tp students in various stages of tl:'ie admissions process. Thanks to our efforts, almost 20 students from our area are members of the Class of 2002.

Our annual reception is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, April21, 1999. Our special guest will be President Evan Dobelle. Save the date, and watch your mail for details!

The Trinity Club of Fairfield County has many exciting events in the works, including a theater event in Stamford. Please check your mail for notices detailing these upcoming events. If you are interested in becoming a member, or if you have an idea for a Club event, please contact Gina Zarra Blum '89 at home at 203329-7477.

HARTFORD Donna Haghighat '89 Club President The Trinity Club of Hartford had a busy fall. Andy Filler '87 organized a fun event at City Steam with the theme of Octoberfest. Many young alumni from the area attended this event and everyone had a good time. On October 31, the Club was one of 15 area clubs hosting an event to watch the Trinity Bantams battle the Middlebury Panthers. Club members enjoyed bloodies and bagels before kickoff. The event, which was co-sponsored by the Middlebury Hartford Club, was very well attended and many Club members wore temporary Bantam tattoos to the game. jim Goodridge '63 did a fantastic job organizing this event.

On Wednesday, November 18, the Trinity Club of Hartford held its 39th annual banquet and presented its Person of the Year . award to Charles E. Gooley 75, president and CEO ofYankee Energy Systems. The award is presented annually to an alumc nus or alumna who has given o.utstanding service to the community or to the College, who has graduated within the past 25 years, and who resides in the Hartford area. The Club honored Chuck's accomplishments as a business executive as well as his dedication to community service.

Chuck, in turn, gave brief remarks and dedicated his award to his father. Guest speaker President Dobelle gave an update to the latest campus and neighborhood initiatives and fielded many questions from alumni.

The Club leaders proudly presented a check to President Dobelle for $20,000 in scholarship aid, generated by the Club's endowed fund which is supported by Club fund-raising events and member contributions. Club committee members also thanked their outgoing president, jim Goodridge '63, who was presented with a Trinity chair. The newly elected president of the Club is Donna Haghighat '89.

Trinity Club of Hartford President Jim Goodridge '63, left, presented President Evan Dobelle with a check for $20,000 for scholarship aid.

The contribution was generated by the Club's endowed fund which is supported by Club fund-raising events and member contributions.

Hartford was one of 15 area clubs holding an event to watch the October 31 match-up with Middlebury (broadcast on New England Sports Network). Among those enjoying the pre-game refreshments were, from left, Jim Goodridge '63, Hal Smullen '76, Peter Bums '97, and Don Viering, Sr. '42.

On, December 1, the Club renewed its Downtown Luncheon series with a presentation and book-signing by trustee and author, jeffiey Fox '67, P'95.

Jeff spoke about his book, How to Become CEO, at Max Downtown. Thanks to Andy Filler '87 and Michael Masius '63 for organizing this event.

Another of the Club's traditional events was held in December.

Members served as ushers at the College's service of lessons and carols on December 6. Thanks to Justine and Bill LaPorte '55 and Lucy and Jim Goodridge '63 who served as ushers.

NEW YORK Robin E. Halpern '91 Club President This fall has been busy for all of the alums in the New York Club. The annual "Welcome to the City" party was held in October for young alums. This very successful event was organized by Meghan McGrath '96 and helped kick off the year's activities. The next event was the Middlebury/Trinity game on Halloween. The game was viewed by about 70 fans (2/3 Trinity and 113 Middlebury) while they were enjoying the "best wings in town" and beverages in those great blue Trinity

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On December 3, Arthur Feinsod, associate professor of theater, gave pre-show remarks at the SoHo theater, Synchronicity Space, where his play, Malcolm Call, was being produced.

The new year will bring Douglas johnson, associate professor of music, to a pre-concert discussion and chamber music program at Lincoln Center; the annual President's reception; possible art gallery walks; and any other events we can think of and find volunteers to help coordinate.

If anyone would like to help the Club in organizing an event, please volunteer. You are needed!

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PHILADELPHIA Andy Newcomb '91 Club President

The Trinity Club of Philadelphia has enjoyed several successful events so far this fall.

On October 31, we kicked off our schedule of events at the Boathouse in Conshocken, where we gathered for a nationally televised Trinity vs.

Middlebury football game.

While the turnout was impressive, the final score was not, as Trinity lost a nail-biter at the end. (That's to see if you really watched the game.) Despite the most disheartening loss, the food and beverages were quickly packed away and the numerous generations ofTrinity alumni present reminisced of the way it used to be.

On Wednesday evening, November 18, 28 dues-paying members of the Trinity Club of Philadelphia gathered at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to view an exhibition of 110 works by the great French master Eugene Delacroix. The exhibition, which came directly from the Grand Palais in Paris and made its only United States stop in Philadelphia, celebrated the 200th anniversary of the artist's birth. Prior to the Club's touring the exhibit, Teresa {Terry) A. Lignelli '83, currently an associate

conservator of paintings at the PMA, treated the Trinity Club to an excellent presentation on Delacroix's technique and on methods of cleaning and restoring works of art.

On December 3, a group of young alumni gathered at the Dock Street Brewery in Center City Philadelphia. A good crowd, made even larger by the presence of members of the Middlebury Philadelphia Club, was on hand to sample the many Dock Street ales. That's two events the clubs have had together in less than two months! They just can't get enough of us. That Trinity spirit is infectious.

Heading into the new year, we are looking forward to a number of exciting gatherings. First, on January 12, Chestnut Hill Academy and the Philadelphia Cricket Club will play host to both the nationally ranked Trinity men's and women's squash teams. The exhibitions will showcase some of the finest collegiate players in the country - ours! Their opponents will be composed of some of Philadelphia and New York City's elite players. The entire Trinity Club is invited to attend, as well as a large portion of the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington squash communities. It .should be a great showing. In addition, we continue to plan for the following events: a late winter or spring date for a program tentatively entitled "The Business of Philadelphia''; an evening of wine tasting at a local art gallery or museum; a visit from a Trinity professor (to be determined); and of course, President Dobelle's now-annual spring visit to town.

As always, we welcome further input and ideas for future events.

PITTSBURGH Anne Madarasz '81 Club Member

The Trinity Club of Pittsburgh was pleased to welcome Brodie Remington, vice president for development and alumni programs, and Christopher "Topher" Small, vice president for enroll-

ment management, for an event on November 4. Tom Miller 79 and Anne Madarasz '81 hosted a cocktail reception and dinner in one of the exhibit galleries at the Heinz History Center, where Anne is a curator. Surrounded by photographs of Pittsburgh taken in 19i_8, when it was still the " smoky city," alums ate, drank, and visited before dinner.

After the cocktail hour, Brodie and Topher updated the group on the exciting changes going on at the College and fielded questions on admissions, the capital campaign, and changes to the urban landscape surrounding the school. Sewickley Academy Headmaster Hamilton Clark 72 added information on high school and college admissions, and questions came from john Burton '64, Reed Schroeder '45, and Elizabeth Santos 74, among others. The Club appreciated this chance to hear firsthand news of the College.

WASHINGTON Mac jacoby '51 Club Member

The fall season for the Capital Hill-toppers has been a busy one indeed, with a multitude of activities available to young and old, and the prospects for '99 indicate an equally busy schedule. A particularly successful social gathering at the Old Ebbitt Grill in downtown Washington took place on September 17 and was attended by about 40 alumni and five current parents. Trinity classes represented ranged from '48 to '98. Next on the docket was the televised Trinity-Middlebury football game at the Music City Roadhouse in Georgetown.

Approximately 50 Trinity alums were present, as were about 25 Middlebury supporters. An unlimited supply of peanuts was consumed, not to mention a variety of liquid offerings, but unfortunately neither food nor drink could influence the outcome of the game, so the rooters from Vermont had the added

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elation of victory.

The next social event, on November 5, found a group of young alumni meeting for a happy hour at the Big Hunt near Washington's Dupont Circle.

This writer is not eligible for such affairs, but from all reports, it was well attended and a pleasant evening.

Less than two weeks later, thanks to the efforts of Ford Barrett '66, an "overflow'' group of more than 45 alumni and parents toured the "Impressionists in Winter" ("Effets de Neige") exhibit at the Phillips Collection.

This is the first exhibition exploring winter landscape painting as a discreet phenomenon of the Impressionist Movement.

Bethany Baran '9B, currently a graduate student in art history at American University, provided expert analysis during d1e tour.

Also, it was apropos that Topper Shutt '81, a meteorologist, was on hand to handle explanations relating to his expertise.

Our final event before this writing was a successful phonathon held in the offices of Shea & Gardner, thanks to the kindness of David Beers '57.

Mickey Lloyd '60 路ansi Top her Small, vice presiden~ for enrollment management, in town for a luncheon earlier in the day, stopped by to support the crew of Stacie Benes 74, Tom Casey '80, josh Lahey '95, Currie Smith '80, and Robin Scullin '87. It is hoped that their efforts produced significant contributions to this year's Annual Fund.

With the membership growing by leaps and bounds, the executive committee is working to fill out the Club's 1999 calendar. Look for a mix of favorite events such as wine tastings and museum tours, and new advencures such as ~ bowling party or squash tournament. We are off to a good start, with lots more to come!

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ENGAGEMENTS 1996 KEYNE BARRY and Rob Cahoon 1998 KATE RUBIN and ROB WITHERWAX MARKSTUCKENBRUCK and ALICE YAMADA

1991-1992 KIMBERLY NUZUM and AARON LIPPERT, Sept. 5, 1998 1992-1993 JENNIFER MURPHY and JACQUES CATTIER, July 25, 1998 1993 ANNE DUNNING and Patrick Kealy, Sept. 12, 1998 1994 PETER FRIEDMAN and Laura Blum, Aug. 9, 1998 MATTHEW PAUL and Christina Chen, Aug. 22, 1998 MARLON QUINTANILLA and Holly Olson, October 1998 1996 KEYNE BARRY and Rob Cahoon 1998 TRACY MCDEVITT and Andrew Waugh, Sept. 19, 1998

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1944 PETER TORREY and Ann Robertson, Sept. 26, 1998 1977 MARIAN KUHN and Richard Browning, Oct. 31, 1998 1980 SUSAN ANGELASTRO and Robert Hodakowski, Jan. 3, 1998 1981 SARAH VEALE and Jerome Taylor, Oct. 17, 1998 1985 LYNN ELTING and Robert Siegel, Aug. 22, 1998 1989 JOHN EMERY and Barbara Thorpe, Oct. 17, 1998 1990 OLIVIA BINGHAM and SCOTT ENGLISH, Sept. 19, 1998 ALIX OGDEN and Evan Matthews, Sept. 19, 1998 DAVID WELLS and Anne Merriman, July 11 , 1998 1991 EDUARDO ANDRADE and Christine McKendry, Sept. 26, 1998 STEVEN DRUCKMAN and Vanessa de Sa Pereira, Sept. 6, 1998

BIRTHS 1978 ALAN and Karen MARTIN, son, Alton Wesley, Nov. 5, 1998 1979 Nick and LAURA MCCANLESS GAKOS, son, Steven Nicholas, Aug. 27, 1998 :1:981 Hollis and RO SPIER FRENCH, daughter, Katharine Hollis, July 19, 1998 1982 Michael Laser and JENNIFER PROST, son, Alexander Prost Laser, April15 , 1998 David Johnson and BARBARA SELMO, daughter, Emma Antonia Selmo Johnson, Oct. 26, 1998 1983 Robert and AMY JO BENNETT BORST, son, Robert Stephen, Jr., Aug. 21, 1998 1983-1985 MARK and KATHLEEN O'CONNOR BOELHOUWER, daughter, Clare Katharine, July 20, 1998 1984 Jon and SUSAN S. SYMONS, son, Caleb Daniel, June 29, 1998

1985 SANDY and Corina MONAGHAN, son, Oliver Gaffn~e, Oct. 13, 1998 1987 KEVIN and Susan SMITH, daughter, Morgan Tracey, Aug. 20, 1998 1989 Mark Thompson and MARCIA BUCKLEY, Brigid Buckley Thompson, Jan. 16, 1998 STUDENT CLUB SEEKS ALUMNI SPEAKERS The Business and Entrepreneurial Club at Trinity is a student-run organization now in its second year. The club is committed to the study of business and entrepreneurship both in the classroom and in the real world.

The club's successful inaugural year included several guest speakers and the creation of a web site. The web site connects students, faculty, alumni, and parents to the best restaurants, hotels, and entertainment options that Hartford has to offer. This year the club is looking to expand upon last year's activities with an emphasis on alumni speakers.

Questions or comments can be directed to Kevin Colket or Emily Harrall at (860) 297 -4219.

The club's web site is at

www.trinformation.com.

Trinity alumni/ae directory t The telephone verification phase of our alumni/ae directory project, in which each alumnus/a can make a final change to his or her listing, is now complete. Representatives of Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, Inc., the official publisher of the Trinity College directory, have begun final proofreading.

Since the company will publish only enough directories to cover pre-publication orders placed at this time, please let Harris know if you are interested in purchasing your own directory. This will be your only opportunity to reserve a copy of the Trinity alumni/ae directory.

You may contact the company directly at: Customer Service Department, Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, Inc., 22 Koger Center, Norfolk, VA 23502.

Their phone number is 1-800-877-6554.

Representing the College at Inaugurations Carolyn A. Pelzel '74, at the inauguration of James Wright, Dartmouth College, Sept. 23, 1998 Russell E. Collins '43, at the inauguration of 路 The Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.]., University of Scranton, Oct. 2, 1998 Gerald J. Hansen, Jr. '51, at the installation of Susan Martin Haberlandt '71 as head of school, Providence Country Day School, Oct. 23, 1998 Barbara J. Johnson M'89, at the inauguration of Dr. John M. Hilper, Northern State University, Dec. 11, 1998

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The Rev. Canon Francis R. Belden 411 Griffin Rd. South Wmdsor, CT 06074-1353

CHARLES JACOBSON writes, "Since retirement in 1981, I have been supporting the United World Federalists in their quest to create a limited world authority with sufficient power to preserve the world's peace. " Class Agent: G. Jerome Wyckoff

Sad to report, we have lost two wellknown members ofTrinity's Class of 1932 recently.

HENRY 0. (Hank) PHIPPEN, JR. died last September in Salem, MA (see In Memory) . He will be most remembered for holding long-standing records for dropkicked field goals. He taught at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, PA and at Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, MA before joining the investment firm of N.W Rice in Boston in 1936.

RALPH S. CHRISTY, SR. passed away in July in Westerly, RI at age 86.

YOUR SECRETARY, who left for his usual haunts in Florida for the winter, sports a pacemaker, travels a lot, and still loves tournament bridge.

From December through March, please contact me at the address listed below. Any Class news would be appreciated.

Dr. Julius Smith 3114 S. Ocean Blvd., #609 Highland Beach, FL 33487-2531

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In response to a recent inquiry, PAUL ADAMS protested that he had nothing newsworthy to report and then sent a lengthy description of his summer adventures. For many years, Paul and family have enjoyed fantastic sailing in Scandinavian waters that adjoin Sweden, Denmark, and

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Finland. He calls them the dreamland of sailing! He had an unusual experience in 1955 when he was the president of Norden Labs (of bombsight fame). Before leaving home, Paul had visitors from the National Security Administration, the group charged with keeping our military plums from falling into the hands of the former USSR. The colonel in charge was reluctant to let Paul participate in this event because part of the race would take place within the Soviet sphere of influence. After investigation, the NSA said, okay, he might go, since he didn't have knowledge of any Norden secret equipment.

But he was warned that if the Russians found out who he was and suspected that he might have knowledge of value to them, they would not hesitate to confiscate his yacht and subject him to prisoner interrogation. Nice dilemma!

"How do I prove my lack of knowledge if taken into custody?" he wondered.

Paul decided to go and the race was without incident, perhaps because of protective coverage by the Swedish Navy and Air Force.

Things went smoothly until, on the return leg, a submarine suddenly surfaced just ahead.

Apprehension bloomed for a while, but the sub finally displayed the Swedish flag and the race coneluded happily. Thank you, President Reagan, for winning the Cold War. TONY CACASE says that he is grateful that at this stage of life his health still permits him to load up the station wagon each fall and retreat to Ft. Walton Beach, FL for the winter. He returns in the spring to Old Saybrook where he attends to his flowers and azalea bushes. Despite two (successful) cataract surgeries, he reads a lot and watches TV- particularly sports, old movies, and political discussion programs.

How our tastes change over the years. DUANE FLAHERTY, one of our pitchers at Trin is now much interested in basketball, as any reputable citizen of Kansas City should be; he roots for KU, Kansas not Kentucky. He has taken only one cruise - from Japan to San Francisco in 1946, courtesy of the U.S . government, and he says the crew were not very attentive. Proof of Duane's sense of humor is that the car that best fits his lifestyle is a 1947 Hudson, but

he has settled for a later model. He claims that he was the first in our class to marry - in December 1931. Also, he has reclaimed an 路 old friendship with BURT SCULL '36, in frequent correspondence.

And from the Class of'37, we had an e-mail from BILL HULL of that group, reminding us that severa! stalwarts of rhat class played for the famous '34 football team: CARL LINDELL, MICKEY KOBROSKY, and JOE GRECO. When Joe (Colonel USAF, Retired) was contacted, he protested that he was a mere scrub who was used as bait for the regulars. Joe, a Pearl Harbor survivor, is living at 7,500 ft. elevation in a great place, Colorado Springs, home of the Air Force Academy. He recalls our meeting in 1960 in Munich when he got to fly an Army helicopter for the first time - quite an experience for a fighter pilot. We had a fine Bavarian dinner that evening.

Keep in touch, Joe. A note was received from DR. ORSON HART in New Canaan.

He claims to be really, fully retired and spends his spare time bugging members of Congress, particularly about Medicare. Most MDs have something (bad) to say about that program. He likes Senator Kerry's proposal that would allow taxpayers to redirect some of the payroll tax into the stock market. Orson appreciates reading news about his classmates ... so, send me some.

JACK and Dorothy MAHER were invited to accompany me to the Reunion this summer, but declined. He says that 86 years of fun have caught up with him and he is now visiting a Dr. Fenn, a rheumatologist, who has him on a routine of pills and walking. But, good news, he is still driving. We didn't go either, Jack, because of some of the same reasons. One of you MD classmates, please tell us what a rheumatologist does.

We note, with sadness, the passing of DENNY FARNELL, who is remembered as one of the managers of the 1933 track team with T OM SISBOWER. A fine outfit.

Others of our class on that team were JIM HANAGHAN, ART HAZENBUSH, LOU KELLAM, BILL WARNER, OLLIE JOHNSON, MACK LANE, and YOUR REPORTER. JACK ZIETLOW appears in this column just about every issue, because he sends letters, usually long ones. He attended an allied

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Masonic Degrees meeting recently in Washingron and complains that he is the oldest attending member these days. He also is considering acquisition of a computer to write better letters and to help in the study of German. ~ our Class Agent, he laments that we are under the 51 percent average in giving for the College and neighboring classes. You are not alone!

R. Pearce Alexander 2775 Inverness Dr. La Jolla, CA 92037-2043 fax: 619~453-8073 Class Agent: John F. Ziedow, Jr.

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HARRY DAVIS now has 18 grandchildren and a dozen great-grandchildren. He retired from the medical profession in 1983 and moved from Utica, NY to Scottsdale, AZ. "I drown myself these days in family genealogy," he writes. Meanwhile, five other Davis households have decided to move near Harry and Ruth.

Harry's office walls depict many memories - "my years with mainraining and driving my horses on the Standard-bred circuit" along with) 6 diplomas for his family's school and college careers. He keeps in touch with BOB MCKEE, BOB CHRISTENSEN, and SHERWOOD RAYMOND. "My thoughts ar~ always with Trinity," he declares.

ROBERT DUNNE and wife, Arlene~ celebrated their 60th anniversary with an open house on D ec. 6 at their home in Granby.

Bob reports that they now have not only five children, but also nine grandchildren 'and four greatgrandchildren. He still plays bridge "but no longer golf or duck pins. " BOB MCKEE lives at the Park Lane, a retirement home, in Monterey, CA. He and Florese ("an excellent pianist," reports Bob) still enjoy playing four-hand transcriptions of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and Dvorak. He notes that he has had several operations, including a triple by-pass and successful treatment for a stroke. However, he says "it's not likely we shall attend the 65th."

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From a page of the Tryon Daily Bulletin (in North Carolina), we learned of the honor given Beth and JACK LEON, who were recently inducted into the Second Wind Hall of Fame. The Second Wind Hall of Fame is a nonprofit organization which honors the achievements of retired men and women who have chosen to go on working on behalf of others in their community.

Transplanted to Tryon in 1975, Jack and Beth have given of themselves with great energy and dedication to such diverse groups as St. Luke's Hospital, the American Heart Association, the Tryon Rotary Club, many charitable drives in the area, and their church.

Beth, after serious surgery since the time of our 60th Reunion, continues her volunteer work for St. Luke's Hospital, and currently is a member of the Hospital Foundation board of directors.

This recognition is indeed a fine tribute to people who have been active in trying to improve the quality of life in t!ieir communities. Congratulations from us all.

I had a short note from BOB GILBERT, who again traveled to Maine, and has since returned to his home in Florida. He stopped along the way to visit family and friends, one being LEW WALKER, who, he reports, is feeling fine after a bit of medical treatment on his leg. Bob also kindly alerted me to the news of Jack Leon.

James M. F. Weir 27 Brook Rd. Woodbridge, CT 06525-1926

The recent letter from MIKE BASSFORD has already alerted ]unel0-13 you to our 60th Reunion in June 1999. These notes will simply reiterate the invitation -please try your best to join the nucleus who will attend.

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From time to time, the vqy informal "Greater Hartford Tiinity Guys (and their spouses)" meet for lunch and good fellowship. YOUR SECRETARY from Florida does not qualifY, geographically, but has already been able to attend twice this year. In alphabetical order, we are: Mike Bassford, GEORGE GREENLEAF, DICK LEGGETT, SHER MARTIN, ED SMITH, and JACK WILCOX. And any of you within driving distance should contact one of the group for details.

You can expect to hear more about the 1999 Reunion in the coming months.

Sherwood V. Martin 4461 Stack Blvd., #E 230 Melbourne, FL 32901-8568 Class Agent: Ethan F. Bassford

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DICKMORRIS, professor emeritus of education and anthropology at Trinity, received, in April, the second edition (paperback) of his biography, john P Holland, Inventor ofthe Modern Submarine, published by the University of South Carolina Press.

The January issue of The Submarine Review printed his talk before SNAME given last May: ' "John P. Holland: Mechanical Genius." The September/October issue of Naval History carries his article, "Who Built Those Subs?" and in the week of 19 October he presented, with ex-submariner, Leo Shea, a second Elderhostel seminar on the history of submarines. In early October, he was presented with an honorary life membership in the Maritime Institute of Ireland for his "contribution to Irish maritime history," and hosted its secretary, Pat Sweeney. Together they visited the Nautilus Museum and Submarine Force Library in Groton, which houses the Morris Collection of Holland Memorabilia. Dick's private collection of some 60 books on submarine history is now in the Trinity Library, his gift to his alma mater.

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Received a long, chatty letter from NED MAXWELL. He and I are also alumni of St. Thomas Seminary. Other seminarians mentioned by Ned were John Fox, not a classmate, and GERRY BARNABY, now retired in Florida.

Ned has seen Gerry recently and says he's in great shape. Ned entered Tri~ity in his junior year and immediately delighted the hearts of Ray Oosting (basketball) and Dan Jessee (baseball). Ned played semi-pro ball at 15 as a catcher, but couldn't displace fouryear star, DON VIERING, so he fitted in well at third base or in the outfield.

Ned founded his own business which sold equipment up and down the East Coast, especially to oil companies, with one of his major clients being Mobil. Ned retired only five years ago and his sons now run the successful business, providing Ned a generous income. Ned is in great health, witness his playing golf four times a week. His home in Connecti~ut is on a golf course and his other home in St. Croix is also convenient to gol拢 He misses MATT BIRMINGHAM at reunions, but promises to come up to Hartford soon.

I heard from MIKE ZACCARIA, who is rapislly becoming a Texas tycoon. The entertainment clubs previously reported on in the planning stages were set to open last Thanksgiving. Several clubs are in the heart of San Antonio, which has a national reputation for creative redevelopment of the center of the city. Mike sent me clips from local papers on JIM MURRAY '43.

Mike has a Ph.D. in business and industrial psychology and taught that subject at the college level.

Now he's putting that knowledge into practice.

Also heard from eagle-eyed CHARLIE JOHNSON, our Class antiquarian, for whom the past is present. The point of the letter was to point out omissions in the current issue of Smithsonian magazine, a publication with which I have had some relationship. In a story

on the American hobo, Smithsonian identified a John McCook merely as someone "who has studied the hobo population in the 1890s." Trinity loyalist Johnson points out that JOHN MCCOOK was a Trinity graduate, Class of 1863, a professor of German at the College, a well-known social historian, an Episcopal priest, and a Civil War hero. I gave Charlie the name of the person to call at the magazine.

FOWLER WHITE sent me a missive (96 cents postage) telling me about what he is doing, which is plenty. In addition to practicing medicine, Fowler is writing, of which he sent me samples. It's witty, eclectic, rather sardonic, philosophic... every subject from time and space, to domestic and feral cats, to the disastrous loss of topsoil on American farms.

Fowler has his own plane and one day ran into (in a sense) FRED JACOBS and his glider. He has also seen DAN NORTH, his Litchfield neighbor. Fowler topped off his letter with a recipe for Fowler Flapjacks: one ingredient, seven teaspoons of baking powder.

Fowler, your pancakes are airborne, too.

Joseph J. Bonsignore 9105 Santayana Dr. Fairfax,"A 22031-3026 Class Agents: John R. Barber John L. Swift

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JIM MURRAY. One of the greatest sportswriters and news columnists who ever lived was our classmate, JAMES PATRICK MURRAY, and he died on Aug. 18, 1998. Jim was one of only four sportswriters awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Fourteen times he was voted sportswriter of the year.

He wrote like an Irish poet. Jim was sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times for nearly 40 years.

Quoting from his first column written on Feb. 12, 1961 and his last column which appeared in the Aug. 16, 1998 edition, one can get an inkling as to his style: "I have been held up to you as somewhat of a joke athletically, but I want you to know I had one superlative as a college freshman baseball player. I was the most nervous right fielder our team ever had. Our coach, Ralph Erickson, had only four fingers on his right hand and

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the prevailing theory was he had the regulation five until he saw us and started biting his nails. I caught a fly once and got so carried away I almost decapitated our first baseman on the throw-in. As I remember the first baseman, it wouldn't have affected his play much. H e didn't use his head a great deal. " (L.A . Times, Feb. 12, 1961.) H ere Jim was doing an anid e about a particular race horse.

"You know, in most sports, the athlete gets a generation to prove himsel拢 A Jack Nicklaus wins his Olympic boxing gold in 1968, and 30 years later he's still fighting.

Babe Ruth hits his first home run in 1915 and his last in 1935. But a race horse has to act like he's double-parked. H e gets only months to prove he has been here. And if his prime coincides with that of Man 0 ' War, Citation, Secretariat or even Count Fleet, he might as well have been born a plow horse."

(L.A. Times, Aug. 16, 1998.)

Jim also wrote for Time magazine. He was one of the founders of Sports Illustrated and wrote for the magazine. His book, jim Murray: An Autobiography (MacMillan), published in 1993 is one of the most interesting, humorous, and readable books on sports, as well as anything which struck Jim's fancy, I have ever read. Our classmate, MUSH GUILLET, dear friend of Jim's from campus days and teammate on the freshman baseball team, provided much of the background for these notes. Some of Jim's words are quoted in the Aug. 18 edition of the L.A. Times: "I like country roads and moonlight, homemade fudge and ocean sunsets. I like Christmas carols and Easter parades, jelly beans and black-eyed peas .. .I like to look down on a field of green and white, a summertime land of O z, a place to dream. I've never been unhappy in a ballpark. I like one o' cat in the sandlots, bubblegum cards in the schoolyard, batting practice and trade rumors. I even like artificial grass. I like baseball.

Because it's always 1910. I like 1910. It was a better time. I may grow up some day. I hope not. " Some of Jim's laws: "You can fool all of the people all of the time if you own the network."

"Whatever can go to New York, will. Whatever can't will go to Philadelphia. " Here follows what

others had to say concerning Jim's death. President Ronald Reagan: "Whenever something significant happened in the world of sports, we could hardly wait to read what Jim's comments would be. His column was always full of humor and insight - he gave us a slant we couldn't get anywhere else. H e w iU be sorely missed. " Governor Pete Wilson: "Jim Murray leaves more than empty column space in the morning newspaper. He leaves a void in sports journalism - a void that may never be fiUed. Like Red Smith, Shirley Povich and a select legion of reporters, Jim didn't merely cover games - he went between the lines, explaining to his readership the nuances and strategies that make sports such an integral part of the American experience." Jack Lemmon: "Millions of people are going to feel that they have lost a friend because of Jim Murray's writings. He was the greatest of them all and not just because he was funny, but because he really knew sports and what he was writing about. H e was a warm and loving person and he was loved in return. I feel privileged to have known him." Arnold Palmer: "H e was, I suppose, what I wo uld like to think about every media person. A good guy. I guess he picked on me as much as anybody.

But it was never malicious." Sandy Koufax: "H e was a great writer and a great friend. He was a man who managed to see the humor in both himself and those he wrote "about."

Jim had this to say about Koufax.: "Sandy's fastbal l was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound. His curveball disappeared like a long putt going into a hole." So much more could be written about our old friend Jim it would consume this entire publication. It is a fascinating story. My advice: get a copy of Jim's book and find out for yourself O thers, including classmate, WALT HAJEK, andMIKE ZACCARIA '42 have written to me concerning Jim, sending reams of material including commentary from other sportswriters and quotations of Jim which I shall attempt to work into the pages of future class notes.

Mush Guillet also writes to me concerning the death (see In

Memory) on Oct. 12, 1998 of another old and dear friend and classmate, AL EULIANO, as fo llows: "John, you asked for some recollection(s) about Al Euliano a 'character' as well as a friend from grammar school days (third grade up), including high school and finally Trinity. Al lived on Allen Place - almost in back of the Sigma Nu house, so he didn't have far to commute. In grammar school, Al and I would often walk to school together and he had the reputation of being a 'tough' but gentle person who had what is now known as 'respect. ' His older 路 brother was a standout football player at Bulkeley High School my memory tells me he was nicknamed 'Moxie'. In any event, during WW II, Al was drafted or enlisted and was sent to Ft. Devens. I was still in school, waiting to go into the Army Air Corps.

One day the enclosed card arrived at the Sigma Nu house, addressed to H err Maurice 'Von' Guillet - it was typically Al Euliano - a great sense of humor, although I've often wondered if Amy Intelligence got suspicious. The card with a Ft. D evens scene read as follows: 'Mein Freund-Warun has du mir nicht geschreibt? Leben sie mir niche mehr? Wie gen t es bei ihnen nacht schule? D einer Freund Albrecht.' Private Albert Euliano, HDG Co. , Ft. D evens, MA. Translation: 'My friend, Why haven't you written to me? Don't you love me anymore? H ow are things going in school? Your friend Albert.' There it is - a great guy and funny fellow. Mush." Any errata in Al's German can be attributed to YOUR SECRETARY's inability to decipher his handwriting.

JARVIS BROWN has sent me a letter which was written to his mother and father by DIC K DEXTER from the Island ~f Corsica in the Mediterranean on Sept. 19, 1944 during WW II shortly before Dick died. It seems Your Secretary is devoting the entire column this month to dear departed classmates.

Jarvis felt that, as a tribute to Dick, many of us who knew and admired Dick when we were undergraduates, would enjoy reading this letter: "Corsica, Sept. 19, 1944. D ear Mr. and Mrs. Brown, I

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write this with hopes that it finds you both well and in good spirits.

If your address has changed I hope it follows you. It seems that the best way to determine our vote from here is by rather broad principles. Any detail we get is in rather one-sided articles in a few magazines - and hardly balanced. We have been given the opportunity to vote - if the plan functions well. I have already been made an elector and have my State Ballot.

Applications for Town and Federal ballots are in. As far as I am able to ascertain now, D ewey seems to be the man, by far. Town elections I know, or should know, all the choices. State elections are going to be difficult since information is almost non-existent. I think of you often when I ponder on a particular subject - being 'to what should I dedicate my life' - to pur it in a trite form. I have plans for work when I return, but I want more than that. It seems to me that a person wo uld be doing good for the nation, if he spent much of his time convincing people of a few basic truths, which are not heeded today. I have had occasion recently to read a thought provoking book (one of very few sent over), A Time for Greatness by Agar. I wish I knew more about the man, but, at any rate, 'he sets forth the basic causes of Democracies' shortcomings as they exist in the United States are within the people as individuals. T here must be a change in the hearts and lives of a large number of persons.

There is so much I should like to discuss with you that it seems h1tile to write more. I can't touch it anyway. People need more than just the economic things that society seems to feel should make folks happy. Man 'requires not only money, light, air, and water, but also such uneconomic goods' as tranquility, beauty, and affection.

How often this is disregarded in any plans for social reform.

Hearing from Jarvis is a real pleasure, as it always has been. He is certainly doing a w<mderful job. I also sincerely hope that at least this theatre will be at the end of hostili- 路 ties (I hesitate to say 'peace') by the time he is through training. I congratulate you on your letters. They are among the few that contain

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anything worth reading over something to think about. I thank yo u for them. 'Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift' (II Cor.).

There are so many of his gifts. All is well here. Sincerely yours, Dick.

P.S. 'Sergeant' Dexter, now. P.S. 2.

Please excuse the raindrops blurring the ink - bur occasionally a little leaks through the canvas of our tent. Dick. " DIC K C OBB writes that he and his wife, Barbara, are "living a healthy life in Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, CA. This is one of the finest retirement communities in the country - provides everything!

House on our golf course, active in Kiwanis. Handy to San Francisco for city life! Golf handicap still my clubs!"

John L. 'Bonee, Esq. The Bonee Law Offices One State St., Suite 1510 Hartford, CT 06103-3102 fax: 860-522-6049

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RICHARD HASTINGS writes that his wife, Lorain, died on June 7 after a long illness. Besides her husband, she leaves three children and four grandsons. We extend our syl:hpathy to Dick and to his family.

Robert Toland, Jr. 1333 Wisteria Dr. Malvern, PA 19355-9738 Class Agents: Harry R. Gossling Merritt Johnquest Elliott K. Stein Robert Toland, Jr.

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LEWIS FRIEDLAND '47 reports from sunny Delray Beach that he and his wife are enjoying the fruits of retirement in the sunny Florida sunshine or in whatever direction the travel bug points. After a stint in the Navy, followed by years as chief tax examiner for the State of Connecticut, and then private practice as a certified public accountant until1988, he is now a man of leisure, and a generous grandparent and baby sitter.

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rather than resting on his laurels in retirement. Paul, formerly a deputy sheriff, is now a detective, having played a critical role in forensic hypnosis in solving a notable rape case.

HON. JOHN DALY '47 gathered friends and family to celebrate the christening of his latest grandson. Although most of the Daly clan have the same flaming red hair color that at one time decorated grandfather John, this gene has apparently by-passed some of the third generation.

Arthur E. Fay '45 18 Gloucester Ln. West Hartford, CT 06107-1614 fax: 860-522-2390 Class Agent: Irving]. Poliner, M.D. '47 We've good news and sad news.

DON O'HARE writes of the records set in the past year: total cash contributions of $67,272 from 76 donors, a record for a 50th reunion and an amazing $429,472 contributed to the annual fund over the past five years (another record).

On the other side, news of the deaths of BRUCE N ICHOLSON and C OURTNEY PAGE (see In Memory).

Bruce was widely traveled, especially in the countries of South America. He specialized in the international aspect of public relations and recounted his experiences in several novels, one of which, HiHo, Come to the Fair, was filled with airplane crashes, poisonings, amb ushes and other adventures in the process of selling the South American pavilions for the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Courtney was a sports reporter fo r the New York Herald Tribune prior to joining the DuPont Co in 1956 as public relations representative. After that, he was a salesman with the John Wanamaker department store until 1986.

As I prepare these notes, words in the Episcopal Prayer Book come to mind: Father of all, we pray to you for those we love, but see no longer: Grant them yo ur peace; let light perpetual shine upon them; and, in your loving wisdom and almighty power, work in them the good purpose of your perfect will.

If yo u're on-line let me hear from you via e-mail at otis@sirius.com and I'll respond.

Let's talk before our obits appear in this column.

The Rt. Rev. Otis Charles 584 Castro St., #379 San Francisco, CA 94114 e-mail: otis@sirius.com fax: 415-522-1198 Class Agent: Donald J. O'Hare

Set these dates aside: June 10-13, the dates for our 50th Reunion. A committee has been picked or rather has volunteered. If anyone else wants to help, give us a call.

The committee is BOB BOWDEN, BILL COUGHLIN, JOHN GUNNING, JOHN PHELAN, and BILL WILSON. We all had a mini-reunion over Homecoming weekend and were joined by RON and Nancy U RQUHART. DR. DOUGLAS MCBRIARTY's wife informs us that her husband died Jan. 9, 1998. He had served as an elementary school administrator in the St. Petersburg, FL area for 35 years.

William M. A. Wtlson 43 Spring Glen Dr. Granby, CT 06035-2625 Class Agent: John F. Phelan

News has reached us of the death of two classmates, one of whom is JOHN KNEELAND MCNULTY of Highlands, N].

John served with the Navy during World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam wars. He retired as a commander from the Naval Reserves in 1983. He was a marine biologist at the Navy Marine lab in Sandy Hook, NJ before retiring in 1978.

Our classmate, WILLIAM H. CAREY, JR. of Wethersfield, CT, also died recently. He served with the third Marine division during World War II, and had taught in the Torrington and Hartford school systems, as well as at other schools in the area.

Homecoming was attended by HARRY KNAPP, FRANK SHERMAN, DAVE HADLOW, ROGER HALL, and BOB TANSILL. In November, a preThanksgiving lunch in Spring Lake, NJ was attended by ARNOLD BRUNDAGE, Frank Sherman, and Bob Tansill, as well as our wives. We caught up on news of classmates and friends in other classes.

Don't forget our 50th Reunion in 2000!

Robert Tansill

THREE BISHOPS of Trinity were photographed after the Service of Remembrance for the Class of '48: from left, The Right Rev. Otis Charles '48, The Right Rev. Steven Charleston '71 (Chaplain of Trinity College), and The Right Rev. Arthur Walmsley '48.

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DAVE HATFIELD and his wife, Sharon, saved us from getting shut out when they wrote the following: "We still love living just outside Zion National Park and doing archaeological monitoring/survey work as volunteers.

"I am kept busy in my retirement with civic duties. I was elected mayor last year and serve on our neighboring town's planing and zoning commission. Also, I'm president of a nonprofit organization, trying to restore and preserve a 'ghost town' within our town boundaries - a place called Graton, UT. Many Hollywood films from the 1920s to the present were made there, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. "I am in touch quite often with NICK CHRISTAKOS and DOUG ORMEROD- also with DEWITT TAYLOR '53.

"Looking forward to our 50th Reunion in 2002. Just hope the computers will be able to handle Y2K and beyond."

Please send your news to me for Class Notes.

William J. Goralski 49 Blueberry Ln. Avon, CT 06001-4012 Class Agents: Thomas F. Head John S. Hubbard Lyndon H. Ratcliffe David R. Smith RALPH DAVIS has been voted a life member of the Bloomfield Library friends in Bloomfield, CT. His daughter, Karen, is planning her wedding here for May 1999.

PAUL MORTELL wrote to say that he visited with PAT KELLER and DUSTY POLLOCK this sum-

mer. Paul says that both look great, and that Pat is enjoying retirement and was planning a trip to the East Coast.

We were saddened to hear of the death of ALLYN AUBREY MARTIN who died at home on May 31. Allyn received his D.M.D. degree from Howard Universiry Dental School. He practiced dentistry in Hartford until 1980 when he became the lead dentist for the Connecticut Department of Corrections. He retired in 1997.

Samuel H. Ramsay, Jr. 8 Greenwood Ave. Rumford,Rl 02916-1917 Class Agents: RichardT. Lyford, Jr. Joseph B. Wollenberger, Esq. Not much news from the Class this time around.

I went up to Homecoming with my grandchildren this year and watched Amherst topple Trjniry.

Unfortunately, they thought that was great, as both their parents went to Amherst!

I saw FRED MACCOLL at the luncheon. He reminded me that our 45th Reunion is fast approaching. Please mark the dates June 1013 on your calendar now, so we can have a good turnout in the spring!

Keep the news flowing!

Donald B. Read P.O. B~x784 Old Lyme, CT 06371-0784 Class Agents: T. Gerald Dyar Alfred M.D. MacColl

E. Wade Close, Jr. 622West Waldheim Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15215-1845 ' fax: 412-391-3052 Class Agents: Robert I. Hodes, Esq. JosephS. Michelson When you have news straight from the horse's mouth -in this case, JERRY PAULEY's - it has to be your lead story.

One hot night last August, Jerry called me from a pay phone on the St. Lawrence Seaway to ask for the telephone number of a classmate

he wanted to talk to (I can't remember whom, now), but I looked it up and he was on his way.

Later (in October), I got a more organized report on his trip (with pictures) . It seems that Jerry and Anita Pauley, HOWIE and Kathy GARTLAND, and STEVE and Mary Gail MONGILLO took a cruise together on the "Canadian Express." They sailed Aug. 18 from Montreal, went through the locks to the St. Lawrence River, and arrived in Kingston, Ontario on the 22nd. It was, in Jerry's words, "A nice reunion of three aging Sigma Nus, who did not win the shuffleboard tourney, but did manage to run up the largest bar bill ever known on that particular cruise line." I believe it.

KENNY WEISBURGER wrote to bring me (and by extension, his classmates) up-to-date on his life and "clan." His son, DOUGLAS '85, had his first child, a son, Joel, named for Kenny's deceased father-in-law. In addition, he informed me that he had moved his offices from N.Y. C. to Westport, CT. His new telephone number is 203-226-4850.

He feels it has made a tremendous improvement in the ql\aliry of his lifesryle. It is nice to give up the ryranny of commuting.

ARTHUR WALKER dropped me a line to tell me that he is continuing to live and love the lifesryle in Marin Counry (outside San Francisco). He wanted me to know that some of the wines from his vineyard, Stubbs Select, are beginning to find a market, but I don't think he is ready to give up his day jobas a partner in the law firm, Sillman, Perry & Lowell.

ED DALEY called me, also in August, to tell me he had been visiring one of his children who lives in Counry Kerry, Ireland, and that he fits into that lifesryle very well.

He also has children in Chicago, whom he visits regularly. Ed is now living full-time in Chatham on Cape Cod. He is a member of the Cape Cod Longlighters, a fishermen-supporters' group. The Longlighters donate their rime and advise the local fishermen on the business side of their profession.

He is also active in the local baseball league and still running in marathons.

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LAW, an ordained Episcopal priest, has set up, with his wife, Susan, an endowed fund with an outright gift for support ofTrinity's religion department. This generous gift was done through the means of a charitable remainder unitrust, and, hopefully, will result in funding a \ chair in that department. John is also taking a more active role with the Coll!7ge and will serve on the College's advisory board of fellows.

You bring honor to our Class, John!

Bruce N. Macdonald 1116 Weed St. New Canaan, CT 06840-4007 fax: 203-975-2897 Class Agents: Gerald E. Pauley, Jr. Henry M. Zachs Very little informarion has been received from classmates for this report, which means one of several situations has overcome our Class.

It could," of course, be that everyone is so busy with his various callings and in preparing for the holidays, that there was no time to communicate with YOUR POOR SECRETARY. Another possibiliry is that many of you died, but haven't realized it yet!

Another possibiliry is that many of you are retired, living on a fixed budget, and cannot afford the stamp, telephone call, or fax transmission to me.

There is, also, the distinct possibiliry that, after all these years, my charming, magnetic personaliry is dimming with age, and I fail to stimulate your communication skills. I am left to sit here alone and ponder the few items that mal<e their way to my doorstep.

Speaking of items that find the way to my doorstep, I heard from DYKE SPEAR who writes that, while putting on one of his theatrical road shows at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, CA, he ran into JOHN NYQUIST '55, who came to the closing performance.

John treated Dyke to a magnificent Bay Area dinner at The Penguin Droppings Restaurant.

WILLIAM J. MCGILL writes that he has officially retired from his position as senior vice president and dean of the faculry at Lebanon Valley College, and is currently writing fiction, mostly short sto-

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ries, which will be published in 1999. With his free time, he is pursuing his interests in acting, sailing, reading, and ~oing supply work at Episcopal churches. I don't know what he did when he was working, but this sounds like he is the only guy I ever heard of who is going to be working more after retirement.

As a tribute to his dedication to Lebanon Valley College, its board of trustees announced that the College's new baseball field is to be named "McGill Field."

Congratulations, Bill!

DON STOKES, FRED TOBIN, and I enjoyed a delightful tailgate and cookout at Homecoming. The campus looks great, and the redevelopment project on Broad Street is moving ahead at accelerated speed. For , those of you who haven't seen the campus with the Northam, Lower Long Walk, and new dormitory improvements, you will be amazed when you next visit the campus.

For those of you who hit your various state lotteries, don't forget the Class of '57 Scholarship Fund.

I hope this finds all of you healthy and happy and enjoying the holidays. I look forward to hearing from you.

Paul A. Cataldo, Esq. Cataldo and Associates 55 W. Central St. P.O. Box435 Franklin, MK 02038-2101 e-mail: jcataldo@aol.com fax: 508-520-0699 Class Agents: Neil M. Day, Esq. B. Graeme Frazier III

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Since our Reunion in June, the news has slowed to a trickle. For those who may not know, I am YOUR NEW SECRETARY and you can send me news items or send them to the College to be forwarded to me. Either way, you are the source and I need your input.

ARKYVAUGHAN reports that, after vacationing in Maine this summer, he took a detour through Trinity as he transited the Hartford area. While observing the beautiful Trinity campus he was "discouraged and dismayed" to see the area which surrounds the College. We hope, along with Arky, that the plans of the College to help revitalize the surrounding neighborhood meet with resounding success. Arky

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still works for the Boeing Company as a C-17 Globemaster instructor, teaching Air Force pilots in Charleston, SC. Congratulations to BILL SAUNDERS, not only for continuing to save his "no smoking" coins, bur also because his daughter, LORRAINE SAUNDERS WHITE '84, was recently elected as executive vice president of the National Alumni Association. Bill also reported that our Class had a 68 percent participation in contributing to the Alumni Fund, which ranked right up at the top.

Congratulations to all Class members.

We are happy to learn that ED SPENO and his wife, Marty, have moved into a new home. Ed's new address is 15 Ivy Reach Court, Hunt Valley, MD 21030. I'm sure Ed wouldn't mind hearing from his 'classmates.

That's it for now. As you can see, I need news!

Arthur G. Polstein 20 Bentagrass Ln. Newtown, CT 06470 e-mail: AGPOLSTEIN@aol.com fax: 860-297-5111 Class Agents: John M. Carlin, M.D. Joseph]. Repole, Jr. Edward B. Speno KEN and Debby LESSALL joined Linda and me for dinner at our home this August during their visit to Ken's sister who has a home in the Hamptons. Ken spent many months in Russia, training persons in the art of starting a business. He returned to California where he is a consultant.

PAUL and Chris KARDON also spent a long weekend with us this summer. Chris will be in Naples, FL for the winter, with Paul flying down every few weeks.

We will be with them Presidents' Week, during which time Paul and I will play golf in the memberguest tourney at "Olde Florida."

CHARLIE NICHOLS wrote me (yes, by hand) a chatty fourpage letter containing a great deal of news of his recent doings.

Charlie was one of the nicest members of our Class and I am sure many of you would be interested in how his life has progressed. It

seems that Charlie remarried five years ago and his wife's name is Linda. She has three children and Charlie has two. After four years of effort, Linda and Charlie have completed the building of a contemporary house in Newport, Rl overlooking the water. There they celebrated the wedding reception of Linda's daughter, Penny. In November, Linda's son was married, making him the last of the five children to make it to the altar.

He heads up a worldwide antique motor car business for Christies' auction house. You may remember that Charlie owned a 1931 Franklin roadster while at Trinity.

He presently owns a 1948 MGTC roadster. Linda has curatorial responsibilities in the American decorative arts and sculpture department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and is currently working on an exhibition of Native American art to be mounted at the Art Museum of Nagoya, Japan in 2000. She is a nationally recognized scholar on Native American art, especially as it relates to Southwestern pueblo pottery.

Charlie's children are grown and doing well in the professional world. For the past 38 years, Charlie has been a principal in Independence Investment Associates, Inc., which is owned by John Hancock He is responsible for their international marketing and spends much of his time abroad. Charlie attended TIM HORNE's 60th birthday celebration.

He also saw JERRY OLSON briefly in Seattle. He reports that Jerry's wife, Pat, died last year of cancer. We send our condolences to you, Jerry. Jerry is now retired.

He also reported that CRAIG "Bro" BROBERG has died. You will recall that "Bro" was SI LEVIT's and my roommate for three years. He was known to be among the group (LOU ''Amigo" CLARKE, ED SPENO '58, DAN LOURIE '58, MAC DERMOTT '60, ED "Pea Head" ANDERSON, and MOE DRABOWSKY '57), who, in response to the call of the cow bell, would leave geology class to play cards in Northam Towers. Bra was a great guy. We send our condolences to his family.

Charlie wrote that, upon learning of Bra's death, he realized how little he sees the people he cares about and how much he is looking

forward to Reunion to see old friends.

Don't forget that our 40th Class Reunion will take place June 1013, 1999. Make sure you show up!

Those of you who have not returned to the campus in many years should make the effort to attend this coming Reunion. Too many of our classmates have died.

Let us renew old friendships while we can.

Should you be in the Hamptons, be sure to call me.

Please write or call me with news of your doings.

Shepard M. Scheinberg, Esq. 1 Bayside Ave. P.O. Box 871 East Quogue, NY 11942-4227 e-mail: TNDJ69A@prodigy.com fax: 516-722-5093 Class Agents: Robert D. Coykendall Walter J. Graham

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I would have a little better report to submit if the football team had been stronger and the weather more accommodating for Homecoming. There, I have said it; I am a fair-weather fan and the fact that the Bants had played most of the season like mere mortals, coupled with some rotten weather on Homecoming Day, kept me, my wife, my blind lab, 48 pieces of fried chicken, and two gallons of my memorable, extraordinarily spicy, and oh-so-tasty bloody marys, at home and away from a chance to catch up with hot news from the Class of '60.

I tip my hat to the hearty ones, led by the indefatigable duo of the "joined at the hip" JOHNSON/BEECH twins.

BOBBY reports that the Class of '60 was, in fact, well represented by the usual suspects: DAVE GOLAS, and BUD and Ginna .ANDERSON, all getting wet together and sharing the misery of a loss to the hated and dreaded 路Lord Jeffs. As an aside, Bobby reminded me that Dave Golas still has one boy at Trinity who is an accomplished golfer. He joins two other sons who were more like their dad and earned their stripes on the football field. As I recall, there are at least a couple of those lads who, again like Dad, have become attorneys. Good job, David.

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KEN LYONS called the College to tell us that BARRY ROYDEN has been appointed chief of Latin American operations with the State Department. Career talk about Barry has always been tough to decipher, but the cognoscenti tell us that this is a very top hono r and that comes as no surprise to anyone who knows our man well.

Congratulations, Barry. Now, take a little time to tell me the real skinny for your classmates to see.

It's winter, so we should be talking hockey, and most of you know that MATT LEVINE runs just about everything for the San Jose Sharks. Well, he tells us that he was named co-chair of a workshop that took place in mid-October in N.Y. C., discussing the Web, and how to use it effectively to build your brand. The workshop, not surprisingly, was devoted to building professional sports teams' images, value, and general franchise worth. Matt is a first-rate marketing man and may be the person singularly most responsible for the unique and highly successful positioning, launch, branding and selling of the Sharks. We should have gone to the workshop.

Now Matt, how can you make the Teal Shirts find a way to have a few more nights on the ice with two points attached to them?

You may have heard from the College that LEE KALCHEIM chose Trinity as the site for the unveiling of his most recent play that was produced by National Public Radio.

ED C IMILLUCA (one of the fair-weather friends who, like me, took the easy way out of H omecoming) is still hard at it, working in the same building in N.Y.C. as I am ... the Chanin Building. He's running a bunch of money and a smal l investment company, Oak Hall Partners. I am just running. We grab a m idtown ' burger together about once a quarter or so. Actually see more of each other on weekends when the wives set something up.

SAKI GREENWALD and I were recently chatting and he, bless his heart, listened to me whine about lack of new material for this column, and he tracked down

JOHN let-me-see-your-occlusion BASSET somewhere in Colorado.

The report is that John is dealing well with the "turning 60 thing," and, in fact, just took on another partner in his thriving dental practice. T his enables John to keep his priorities straight and to get out to the links and tee it up even more often than before. Sounds to me like he works three or four days each week and plays the rest.

Always was a smart fella. Good for you, Johnnie.

John's son, Jeff, just joined Larry Ellison at Oracle and is married with a son named John. Nice.

Other son, Eric, is an entrepreneur and has begun his own advertising agency business on the Left Coast near the big waves. Specializes in electronic stuff, on-line advertising, site development, and lots of related technobabble communication toy; that old goats like us do not really comprehend. Wife; Marlene, continues to work at a real job as a school psychologist and continues to enjoy it. Where were the school psychologists when we were in school? Or was that what Rahars was there for?

BUDDY SAKI just keeps turning pages into new chapters. He is finishing school and satisfYing another urge of his which is to help others through a second career in social work. Sak has become certified and is a licensed, professional social worker inv:olved in a variety of different therapies and sites. He is also working some ori his own and appears to be truly happy and enjoying this new development. It should come as no surprise that he is just about impossible to catch as he is working harder than ever. You will be super at this, big guy.

In closing, just a fast word on YOUR SECRETARY. ...stillliving in the same house in Summit, now working as GM of one of fo ur divisions of Forbes Inc. in N.Y.C., spending as m uch time as possible at our home in Nantucket ('Sconset) and invite any and all Bantams to call and stop by from May through October and see Barb and me. I am generally there on weekends. We are in the phone

book. So, when yo ur next sailing, or whatever, adventure puts you into the harbor and you need a warm shower and a co)d drink, call us.

Back home in the real wo rld, we are truly blessed in that our three kids all live nearby and we see them all the time. Our daughter, Sallie, lives in Short Hills, the next town over, with attorney husband and two adorable little girls. RICK '9 1 is married to a great gal from Georgetown who works at the "Today Show." They live right here in Summit. And these two have actually just joined our club ... what's that about the acorn?

Our yo ungest, BOB '94 is single and works and lives in the City. He ran the New York City marathon this year and is in fighting good shape. An incentive to his chunky dad to lose some weight.

Stay healthy all, and let me know what is happening in your lives. Contact me at home, at the address below, on line per the email addresses below, or through the College.

Best 'till next time.

Richard W. Stockton 121 Whittredge Rd. Summit, NJ 07901-3709 e-mail: dofscon@aol.com (home) e-mail: rstockton@forbes.com (office) fax: 212-499-3563 Class Agents: George P. Kroh Curtis M. Scribner VIN STEMPIEN yet again did yeoperson service arranging the Class dinner at Homecoming. President Dobelle was on hand in the Thomas Reese Room to greet Vin, DALE PEATMAN, WARREN SIMMONS, DOUG TANSILL, and BILL KAHL. Taking full advantage of e-mail is TOM MUSANTE, who cyberspaced the news that he and wife, Pat, celebrated their 40th anniversary on the same day that daughter, Nina, was married. "Further adding to the excitement was the fact that the groom's parents were celebrating their 51 st on exactly the same day. We have accused the couple of meeting on the 'net with the requirement that their parents

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must have been married on that date.

"Not to sound too fatalistic, but we had diems aboard the downed airline and that certainly raises the consciousness of the fragi lity and shortness of time. Carpe diem, et al.

"H EATHER '83 married on my birthday. She is with !Jl.e in the firm and she has taken over much of the responsibility. I enj oy working at a pace that allows travel, summers on the Cape, and working with those people that I chose to. Really a nice place to be. We have plenty of time with the twO grandchildren and this blessing is one that is really the best untaxed dividend of my life.

"When I get the Reporter I always look to news from the Class and those aro und us. I dread looking then at the obits, but I still do.

So, I figure that it makes sense to get my comments in to the active side of the ledger, rather than to appear in the other section without a chance to reflect my own thoughts. " Well said, Tom. Classmates: go thou and do li kewise: Your grandS children will show you how.

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E-mail works!

T hirteen classmates responded to my Class-wide charge to send updated information on themselves and their fami lies to my e-mail address.

To those 13 - thank you! Toothers, please send me information for this column to either of my e-mail addresses.

I will share with yo u these updates in order of arrival. Some will have to be deferred until the next article.

FRANK CUMMINGS writes that he has recently received a faculty appo~ntment at The Boston University School of Medicine.

Frank still lives in Barrington, RI and works as a medical oncologist at Roger W illiams Medical Center/University Medical Group, Inc. in Providence.

DAVE GATES is still with Exxon, where he has spent the last

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30 years. Stable fella! He spends many hours "working on stuff" in Japan, China, and Southeast Asia.

He and Nancy have personally traveled throughout Europe, more recently, on vacations. Their chi!dren are in Boston and New Haven, so they are thinking of maybe retiring in the Northeast.

As of Jan. 1, 1999, ARNOLD FRIEDMAN's new address is 30 Hatemar St., Raanana 43571 Israel.

DICK GALLAGHER writes that he has joined Mobility Services International, a leading corporate relocation management company, headquartered in Newburyport, MA. He heads up product management, vendor relations, and quality initiatives.

His comment is "Ain't e-mail great?!"

It's been a while since we heard from FRANK KING. Mter he graduated from Trinity, he was an Air Force pilot for six years, flying B-52s for SAC. For the last 29 years, he has been with Bell Helicopter Textron. He is now executive director of marketing for Latin America. He is married to Myna, and they have six grandchildren. He comments, "grandkids are more fun than kids." They live at 7016 Shadow Creek Ct., Fort Worth, TX 96132. Frank: please come back to the 40th Reunion in 2002.

We have not seen you since graduation.

Would you believe that OLIVER PERIN and wife ran into a 500-plus-pound bear while hiking near M t. Lassen in the Sierras. Oliver's heart rate climbed. He tried to stare down the bear from about 25 yards.

Both parties then retreated.

Finally, PETER BARTOL reports that he just retired from First Chicago after 23 years. He spent the last 10 in the loan syndications area of capital markets subsidiary. He and his wife, Rose, have now moved to Keswick, VA, just outside of Charlottesville. He is active in triathlons, and continues to enjoy traveling to the West. He has a son, Perry, with JP Morgan in San Francisco, and a married daughter, Elisabeth, with J &H Marsh McLennan in Chicago.

Frederick M. Pryor TFC Financial Management Inc. 176 Federal St. Boston, MA 02110-2214 e-mail: barbfred@aol.com (home) fpryor@tfc-financial.com (work) fax: 617-951-0274 Class Agent: Thomas F. Bundy, Jr. As you go through these notes, you may be struck, as I was, by the number of times the Internet is referenced. I'm impressed by the fact that we old guys are still on the cutting edge!

ELI KARSON trumpeted on our TrinNet63 "gab page" that "Homecoming '98 was another rerrific one for our Class: with 51 members returning with family and guests to bring the total to 70 at our class dinner - a great turnout!

We all toasted those of you who could not make the occasion.

There is always Next Year!" Eli, thank you!

Our Class Scholars continue to shine out in their own individual ways.

Several classmates had the pleasure of seeing two of them in action during Homecoming. The College's department of music presented Colette Collage: Colette and Witly as part ofTrin's !75th-year celebration and its theme: Women at the Millennium. Playing Colette was JENNIFER NOAKES, our '0 1 scholar, and Willy was played

by ERNESTO ANGUILLA, our '99 scholar. Both leads sang and played to a standing ovation after the production Elizabeth and I saw.

Both thespians, Jennifer Noakes, with her parents, and Ernie Anguilla, joined us at the Class dinner. It was truly a great evening for all to enjoy. And enjoy we did, too old to compete but wise enough to enjoy and reflect on our wins and losses through the years.

Is that what mellowing is all about?

Well, to do it together is a great experience - not looking back as much as enjoying the moment with one another, and then looking forward to the next time we gather again.

TONY CANATA, ESQ '93, our first Scholar, returned for Homecoming and his Fifth Reunion and was with us for dinner as well. He continues with his legal slot at Testa Horowitz, et a!.

in Boston. At dinner, he gave us a brief update on other '63 Scholar whereabouts. All of them have a lot to be proud o£ And, so does our Class, whose Class of '63 Scholar Fund is close to being fully funded!

Our legacy to the College and to the bright young recipients is almost completed. Continued contributions will serve to strengthen it at this point. So, your generosity is still welcome.

Those present at this year's happening came from far and wide.

HAROLD VICKERY and Dode logged extra miles from Thailand while the rest of us hoofed it from New Jersey to Marblehead, where JOHN and Kathy ST. CLAIR have been living all these years, but to return to campus twice this year after being away for 35! They say, "wow," we've been missing this all these years. HARVEY and Patty THOMAS, JIM and Clair DAV1SON, LEE and Jane CHIRGWIN, WINN and Marilyn RICHARDSON are other recent repeat homecomers after a long time away.

Others especially noted at the dinner were CARL and Karen LUNDBORG who have been to the Homecoming football games of previous years, but have been unable to attend our evening highlight because of their children's activities in some form or another.

It was nice to have them, as well as JOHN and Pat RICHARDSON who were unable to make our 35th for reasons well beyond John's control. By the way, John is still a banker and he says he is, "as mean as ever." PETE and Judy LANDERMAN report that their sixchildren collective has currently produced three grandchildren.

Other regulars present were LARRY and Pat ROBERTSON, HUNTER MARVEL, VIC and Jeanne KEEN - who missed the June 35th to celebrate their fifth anniversary alone -Assistant to the President ofTrinity College, SCOTTY REYNOLDS, and wife, Peggy, who had former Montclair, NJ neighbor, Meg Schneider, as a guest. PETE HASKELL enterrained us with the story about hunting for another Yugo-type car to import, while wife, Burl, enjoyed the chuckle with the rest of us.

BILL and Martha HOWLAND attended this year without any of the four children and with the news that no new babies were on

the way. We all agreed to leave that issue open to our newlyweds, TOMMY and Linda CALABRESE and LLOYD and Lee REYNOLDS (whose older ones, Kyla and Nicholas, were also with us at the dinner) ... hmm, you should have seen the twinkle in Tommy's and Lloyd's eyes.

In the deja vu department, Lloyd got up and told the crowd that he and LOCKETT PITMAN, roommates of yore, were again once more roomies for six weeks this past summer in Mystic, CT, while they both attended a maririme history course at the Maritime Academy. Next stop, boys, is Elderhostel! I, subsequently, received a note from Lloyd via the College, further opining: "To top that, both men had retired two years earlier; both are enrolled as full-rime students (Lockett at U of Austin; Lloyd at U of Del.); both got credit for this course at their respective schools via Trinity, since Pro£ Sloan ofTrin Coli Sane was a prime author and lecturer of that history course." Ah, the Triniry connection is truly a lifetime one.

JOHN WARDLAW, who did make our 35th last summer, sent along several prints, e;ch, of pictures he took over Reunion weekend. They were made available for those who wanted them after dinner. Thank you, Johnny, for your thoughtfulness. Great candids, especially those taken during our river lunch cruise!

In the way of testimonials: those of you who remember young CHRISTOPHER GOODRIDGE '91 at our 25th would smile to hear him now, as a teacher with a doctorate degree, get up and tell his dad (JIM's) classmates that "the commitment that your Class has to each other and to the College is, indeed, inspirational." Coming from a fifth-generation Trinity alumnus, such witness to our Class dynamic was also, indeed inspirationa!. Thank you, ·too, Lucy!

DAVE and Barbara RAYMOND can now boast 36 years!

Barbara is happily still teaching for now it's the third grade!

STAN MARCUSS was basking from the glow of a successful presentation as guest lecturer for the season's Ferris Lecture two days before our gathering.

ROD and Margarine MATTISON brought son, James.

JIM and Elaine BLAIR report

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that son, Jonathan, is finishing up school, and daughter, Julia, is now a headhunter in GARY KNISELY's Boston office.

By the way, Gary Knisely was touted in the August 24th issue of Crain's New York Business Magazine as being the "HitHunter." Gary, whose executive search firm, Johnson Smith & Knisely and now part ofTMP Worldwide, Inc., one of the world's largest recruiters and owner of monsterboard.com, says that his firm is now on the cusp of seniorlevel career placement on the Internet, which he predicts will surge from three percent today to 25-30 percent in five years.

Awesome! That means that we can now let our fingers do the jobshopping through Gary's Web pages!

Zibby Tozer has won THE trophy in my book. Her great interest in people, especially her friends, has really rubbed off on JIM. By this, I mean I am getting a plethora of clippings regularly from Jim regarding anything written about our classmates. Actually, this has been happening for years but it is getting more frequent and, now that he is tied to the Internet, more voluminous. Besides, maybe it's because we're getting into the news more these days. Anyhow, you can credit Jim for the above information about Gary since Gary was too 'shy' to send it in, himself We were also delighted to have TONY and Ann SIRIANNI from Staten Island join the troops during Homecoming. They are now in their 35th year of bliss, loaded with four grandchildren. Earlier, Jim Tozer sent me the following ramblings regarding Tony's activities: "I recently saw Tony Sirianni's name on the list of new members of the University Club of New York and gave him a call. It turns out that he missed Reunion because he and Anne were in the midst of a move back from Bedminster, NJ to an old Tudor house on Staten Island, where his two children and the four grandchildren live (ages 11 to one). It's also a short commute from his two dental practices in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Tony's new home address is 2 Emerson Drive, Staten Island, NY 10304." When Jim asked Tony for an e-mail address he responded, "I hope to die before I have to use e-mail." Tony,

you'll never know what you're missing! Read on.

In the course of trying to round up a few '63ers for our 35th Reunion Gift, Jim picked up some additional information about other classmates. STARR BRINCKERHOFF is still working for PaineWebber but working (parttime?) out of Charlotte, VT. Starr mentioned that he was in regular contact with three of our other less visible classmates: DUDLEY CLARK, STEVE FARRINGTON, and PETER STANLEY. He said that all four of them actually discussed coming to Reunion. Let's hope it happens at our 40th, if not sometime before then.

DON HERSEY is retiring from teaching and moving to Vermont.

His and Judy's address: 62 Wildfire Circle, Williston, VT 05495.

JOHN SIMZIK is still with PricewaterhouseCoopers but in Atlanta. John and Peggy live in Atlanta, too.

JOHN PITCAIRN is managing a couple of retail running stores in Dallas and running marathons in his spare time.

BILL REESE has recently retired from ]. P. Morgan and is spending more time in Florida. He and Sonia still have an apartment in New York.

While I was driving to downtown Boston one early December morning and having my way on the road, all of a sudden I was tuned in to the "blithering" on the radio! That was Julie Korsmeyer they were quoting! Then I actually heard Julie's voice as she completed the news blurb! Julie is an assistant district attorney in San Diego and she was part of the subject piece, warning of credit-card fraud during the holiday season. Qulie is SAM WINNER's wife.)

Also from Jim was a note to the '63 Netsurfers in October regarding his being on the board of directors with DICK FIELD oflendingtree.com. Check it out. It is an Internet site which helps people borrow money, anything from first mortgages to credit cards. Jim says it is designed to help the browser find financial institutions which will compete to commit by e-mail to make the loan on terms favorable to the borrower. Jim predicts either great "success in this revolutionary venture" or he and Zib will, in the end, "be staggering about in a somewhat smaller retire-

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Which brings me to our Class "gabpage" which is being shepherded by ELI KARSON. We now have about 50 classmates on our network. If you wanna join in on the informal, loosely driven '63 Web mail fun, e-mail Eli! [elikarson@mci2000.com]. It's a great new way to keep current and "chat" with your classmates in an "easy chair" way. To wit, WILL FILES sent an e-mail to Eli (who forwarded it to me), using his Web-TV hookup in Alaska, 220 miles from Anchorage. Will and family will be spending Christmas in San Diego with his sons.

Again, while I had a lot of notes to transcribe for this tome, I am always refreshed whenever I hear from those of you who come out of many years of silence to share your news with the rest of your Class. I am easy to reach: call or fax me: 800-557-7560 (free!); email me: gcreighton@mba1970.hbs.edu; or mail me notes, clippings, etc. at: 117 Lincoln Rd., Lincoln, MA 01773. Or, if you're shy like Lloyd Reynolds, you can send your news directly to the College. But, please let us hear from you.

G. Alexander Creighton 117 Lincoln Rd. Lincoln, MA 01773-3812 e-mail: gcreighton@mba1970.hbs.edu Class Agents: Scott W. Reynolds W. James Tozer, Jr.

Bloomington High School, where he was a star athlete in football, swimming, and track. He participated in all three sports at Trinity, captaining the Bantam swimming team, winning three varsity letters in each sport, and becoming a blanket award winner. Fred recalls that "it was not a complementary grouping of athletic events" because each sport demanded different weight requirements. His high school and collegiate athletic accomplishments are, therefore, all the more noteworthy. Incidentally, Fred's wife, Judy, a Bloomington High classmate, won city diving championships in swimming, and their four children also participated in sports.

As of this路writing (December 1998), YOUR SECRETARY and his wife, Anne, are putting the final touches on Trinity College in the Twentieth Century, a History. The book will appear in 1999 and will be approximately 500 pages in length with numerous illustrations.

Watch forthcoming issues of the Trinity Reporter for publication details.

That's all for now, and remember to keep me posted on news of note. E-mail messages are always welcome.

Peter J. Knapp Watkinson Library Trinity College 300 Summit St. Hartford, CT 06106 e-mail: knapp@mail.trincoll.ed fax: 860-297-2251

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NewYork,NY 10022-6474 e-mail: tedpet tus@aol.com fax: 212-867-5177 Class Agent: Kenneth R. Auerbach A recent issue of The Pantagraph, the Bloomington, IL city newspaper, carried an interesting feature on FRED PRILLAMAN, an attorney specializing in environmental law and a partner in the Springfield, IL law firm of Mohan, Alewelt, Prillaman & Adami. Fred graduated from

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YOUR SECRETARY is gratified that the availability of e-mail through personal computers linked to the Internet has increased the volume of news he is receiving!

It was by e-mail that I learned that BOB STEPTO would engage in the laborious task of autographing copies of his new book at a Washington bookstore. I raced to the bookstore and found Bob hunched over a desk, penning his name and a brief message in his virtually indecipherable hand.

Before a sizable crowd, Bob read a passage from his book and took a few questions. A photographer took pictures. Standing there with a huge, floor-based microphone a few inches from his mouth, Bob looked for a moment like the quintessential Washington politician,

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Serio:ttsly, Bob's new book deserves attention. Published by Beacon Press, it received a favorable review in The New York Times Book Review for Sunday, O ct. 11, 1998. Altho ugh billed as a memoir, the book's account of six generations of Bob's fam ily contains some fictional details that provide body to the tale, without straying far from what likely happened. T he passage Bob read was touching, so much so that it neutralized the typically aggressive Washington audience. No one even asked, "How can you write books when you're supposed to be teaching those young college students?"

Bob was accompanied,to Washington by his wife, Michele, whom he met at Stanford while working on his doctorate. Not to be outdone by her husband and his lengthy tide, Michele teaches American literature and advanced expository writing in Yale's English department. I didn't ask her what she thought of her colleague/spouse's new book, but I can guess the answer.

Speaking of writers, CURT SUPLEE continues to write and edit at the Washington Post. His specialty is science, and he edits Horizons, the p\fpular weekly science supplement. Recently, the Post's management informed Curt that he would be transferred to the South Pole for a while in early 1999. Although Curt smells a rat, he looks forward to writing some stories on scientific inquiries into the ice cap and global warming.

ROGER HEDGES is living in Marietta, GA. Some time ago, he and his wife, Kristi, moved there from California. To be precise, Kristi's employer relocated her to Georgia, and Roger went along a "trailing spouse." Roger now works in marine finance, and Kristi is with Electronic Data Service, trying to correct Ross Perot's mistakes. One of their daughters lives in Ardmore, PA, and another is on the faculty at Oldfields School, north of Baltimore. This daugh ter, Stephanie, not a slouch like her old man, is quite an athlete. At O ldfields, she coaches hockey, lacrosse, and riding, and for kicks, recently took up rowing. Now she is hoping to qualifY to compete in the "Head of the Charles" in Boston.

In his leisure time, Roger is heavy into shooting, and he tries to keep his shotgun pointed in the right direction as an active member of the Amateur Trapshooting Association and the National Skeet Shoocing Association. He says there's a lot worth seeing in Georgia that Sherman didn't burn, and he invites everyone to descend on him next October for pheasant and quail hunting. As he explains in his newfound South Geo rgia twang, "It doan' git no bettah, besides ... t'ain't about quail ... it's about beer and barbecue!!"

Roger's e-mail address is kilikina@mci2000.com.

JOE HOURIHAN is on the road, in a serious way. After practicing law for 29 years in West Hartford, he and Antoinette decided to em bark on an auto trip around the U.S. and Canada, lasting an incredible 14 weeks.

Leaving Connecticut on July 25, they traveled due west through Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, and on to Minneapolis. There they were wined and dined by ED LANDES, Joe's former roommate and fraternity brother, and h is wife, Nancy. Joe is pleased to report that Ed looks about the same, a claim Joe feels he cannot truthfully make about himself Leaving Minneapolis, Joe and Antoinette continued across the Great Plains to Bozeman, MT, where they spent some time with Melva and BOB GUTZMAN '68.

Melva has a part-time job, giving tours ofYellowstone National Park for all the various people she entertains in their new home, which has the most beautiful sunsets one can imagine. The Hourihans then headed north through Glacier National Park to Calgary, the Canadian Rockies, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Portland, and down the coast to the San Francisco area. Cathy and RICH RISSEL were the next victims, and they performed admirably. Rich is a great tour guide. Moving on, the Hourihans swept through Tahoe, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Zion National Park, Grand Canyon, Page, Flagstaff, Sedona, and Pleasant Valley, where they were hosted by Judy and BILL BRACHMAN. Bill is enduring some minor inconveniences, stemming from his ongoing battle with M.S., but he is still his active, crazy, witty selÂŁ Not only were Bill and Judy entertaining, but their extended fami ly (five

dogs, five horses, fo ur cats, two rabbits, and a parrot) put on some great shows as well.

Leaving the Brachmans, the Hourihans headed east to Santa Fe, where they met up with BOB DUNN and Pam, his companion, with whom they had a very enjoyable dinner. It had been 25+ years since they had seen each other, so reminiscing was in order. Upon leaving Santa Fe, the Hourihans slowly wound their way home through Colorado Springs, Denver, Kansas City, Branson (where's that?), Memphis, Nashville, Asheville, Roanoke, Atlantic City, and back to the boring old confines of Connecticut.

For Joe and Antoinette, this was truly a trip of a lifetime, with many highlights and many pleasurable experiences with classmates. Joe recommends such an excursion to all those with the time to do it.

Remember, 14 weeks!

DENNIS DIX acquired his second grandchild last July. He and his wife, Penny, were on hand in Augusta, GA, to assist, but since both their daughter and son-in-law are doctors, it's more likely Dennis got in the way. Nevertheless, it was a grand success. Dennis' e-mail address is WorldwizDix@aol.com.

A photograph of a grinning BRUCE BODNER standing next to DAVID CHARLESWORTH's wife appeared in a College update on The Trinity College Campaign .

Just how much Bruce pledged to obtain a photo next to the lovely Jane Charlesworth has not yet been revealed.

Anyone worried about computer viruses should e-mail DAVID PEAKE at dpeake@netreach.net.

Although David wasn't able to join a large Trinity Club of Philadelphia group for a tour of the Delacroix exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art last November, he claims not to be culturally deprived.

Your Secretary recently arranged an evening tour for the Trinity Club of Washington of the Phillips Collection's exhibition, "Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige. " Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Caillebotte, Renoir, and Gauguin were represented in this landmark exhibit exploring the painting of winter landscapes. More than 50 alumni and parents ofTrinity students turned out for the event. T he Phillips Collection is a special place, little known outside

Washington, but with an impressive collection of European and American paintings.

Keep me posted, by e-mail or any other means, on your activities.

Ford Barrett 3822 Fordham Rd. NW Washington, DC 20016-1936 e-mail: ford.barrett@occ.treas.gov Class Agents: David C. Charlesworth, M.D. Richard C. Risse!

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To create something that is simple is a rare act. To create something that is simple, elegant, and moving is so rare it often endures. Our friend, RICHARD RATZAN, has done just that, in a wonderful memorial dedicated to an institution, but in its essence homage to all of us. Twenty-seven words. The first 13 (of which five are Greek) set the historical context. The final 14 words are profound. Even the casual reader senses that Rich's words are not for a few, but for all Trinity men ... and women.

T he Cro H ouse, condemned and in irretrievable extremis, was torn down. The land was sold to Trinity for a dollar. On the site is the new Vernon Street social center and dormitory. In addition to the dollar, Trinity makes available two scholarships per year to the sons, daughters, or grandchildren of erstwhile Alpha Chi Rho brothers.

And Trinity gave Alpha Chi Rho the honor of a small plaque on the new building. Richard Ratzan was given the writing assignment.

These are his words to us: "Here stood, from 1945-1995, the Phi Psi chapter of Alpha Chi Rho, a fraternity of scholars and athletes, all of whom were men who loved Trinity."

Good job, Richard!

Also on the subject of elegance, our ever-dapper JOE BRAND was spotted recently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He and his wife, Gail, were checking out the Delacroix exhibition. T he Brands are a medical and scientific couple.

Joe's Ph.D. is in biophysics, and Gail is a psychiatrist. In addition to his day job as associate director of R&D at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Joe is also a professor of biochemistry at the School of Dental Medicine at Pe~n. Megan, Joe's oldest, lives

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in Santa Fe, NM, and son, Andrew, lives in Atlanta. Joe's stepdaughter, Lisa, is still in college. So what does a biochemist actually do?

For 27 years, Joe has been conducting basic research into the molecular and neural mechanisms of taste and olfaction. Imagine those experiments! Joe's nose has been in some nasty places. You can discuss the difference in aromas by contacting Joe at brand@monell.org.

TOM MCLILVERY's e-mail address is arrete@aol.com.

You can plead your case to His Honor, Judge RAY GRAVES at jrrg@aol.com.

BOB BRICKLEY's consulting business servicing the insurance industry - is going great guns. If you own a big or little insurance company, Bob can help you increase revenues and lower costs.

Number one daughter, Lisa, is in the Big Apple, and number two, Sam, is in Boston. If you need to talk policies, call Bob at 404-8164803. But if you want a more interesting conversation, call Nancy at 404-252-3469.

Saving souls, ministering to his flock, counseling the needy; and saying prayers for his Class Secretary is the daily job of our Rev. BERNARD MAGUIRE. Bernie's parish is in Plymouth Meeting (of course), PA. It is said that Bernie's sermons are never more than two hours long, but he only passes the plate three times (Note to CHARLEY KURZ: Bernie is a reunion reupper and could be one of your apostles).

Bernie is hearing confessions at 610-260-0820 (and you don't have to be Episcopalian).

Sue and BILL ROTH are moving their kids into the world. Tim is in Indiana University Medical School. Andrew works at the Darlington School in Rome, GA. Melissa, when she leaves Trinity, is hoping to go to into the advertising business in the Chicago area.

Meanwhile, our aged Roths are running Culver Academy (in a way) and are running around the country for Trinity and for Culver.

Drop in on Bill at 1108 Lakeshore Dr., Culver, IN. "Growth slowdown, yes; global meltdown, no," so saith our economic seer in Burlington, VT. BOB BOSE's Green Mountain Asset Management Corp. is still taking care of money, and consistently, accurately, and bravely pre-

dieting the financial markets. You should get on Bob's mailing list.

Call Bob at 802-658-7806.

The rector's parish bulletin from St. Thomas Church (N.Y.C.) includes the following tribute: "Thanks also go to CHRISTOPHER DOYLE, a faithful communicant who has recently stepped down from being the coordinator of the Soup Kitchen Volunteers.

Chris has been at the heart of the ministry for 15 years, and he is in no small way responsible for the success of the ministry, its good spirit, and its healthy prospects for years to come. Thanks to you, Chris, for all you have done to make this so. Well done!"

Chris's Soup Kitchen Volunteers was no small deal. T hey fed over 250,000 homeless people in the last 15 years! Chris is managing director of Select Information .

Exchange, and will be happy to chat with you at 212-247-7123.

The Class of '67 is known for getting and breaking records. Let the record books show that the first surgery performed by a classmate on a classmate took place in May 1984. This was an unplanned occasion which has led to a renewed and special friendship.

Our AL HICKS and Gloria were concerned that no little Hicks were forthcoming. So Al schedules an appointment at Duke's urology unit and meets his doctor, a prominent surgeon. These two guys are talking business but eye each other curiously. CULLEY CARSON finally breaks the ice, "Did you graduate from Trinity College?"

After a jovial reintroduction, Culley performed his magic and then Al performed his. Now we have Michael, 13, and Jenna, nine.

Culley and Mary Jo live about 20 miles from Al and Gloria, and the two couples are great friends . Al is vice president of marketing for Week Closure Systems, a division ofTeleflex, Inc (NYSE). Al sells Culley; and other doctors, ligating clips. If you don't know what a ligating clip is, get in touch withAl at alhicks@weckclosure.com. Or drop in at 111 Draymore Way; Cary, NC 27560.

My apologies that this column is so much about good guys doing good things. In the future, we will try to revert to our usual tasteless approach to the lives of one-time elm tree huggers. Fax or fone all frivolous and fatuous facts or fal-

lacies to Fox at 860-677-4318, 860-677-5349, or foxcompany@aol.com.

Jeffrey J. Fox Fox & Co Inc. 34 Dale Rd. Avon, CT 06001-3659 e-mail: foxcompany@aol.com 路 fax: 860-677-5349 Class Agent: Alexander H. Levi GORDON MARTIN dropped me a line. He matriculated with the Class of 1960, left college to serve in the Army; and then came back to Trinity, and was graduated with our Class. He says he is glad to be a member of the Class of 1968.

WALT HARRISON has been doing wonders as president of the University of Hartford. The Hartford Courant has called him a "campus agitator" who has pumped life into the University. One University of Hartford professor has called Walt's approach refreshing and unpretentious. "My first chat with him - he was just finishing cleaning his own windows," the professor said.

William T. Barrante P.O. Box273 Watertown, CT 06795-0273 Class Agent: Lawrence J. Slutsky, M.D. The DON REDERs have moved - trading city elegance for country charm, though still in West Hartford.

Their house is a construction site, but promises a comfortable future. Don especially likes the first floor bedroom and central air.

Edward S. Hill, Esq. 251 Greenwood Dr. Cheshire, CT 06410-4113 e-mail: ehill@rc.com fax: 860-275-8371 Class Agents: H. Graham McDonald, Esq. Brian K. Titus, Esq. Are You Sitting Down? YOUR SECRETARY wishes to report that he has just gotten married! On Sept. 12, 1998 to Jeanette Mansson of Stockholm,

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Sweden. Needless to say; it has been somewhat frenetic for what had become a rather sedate bachelor. As I am sure some of you gathered, that was the reason for my prior repqrted traveling to the island of Gottland and Paris. I have been in touch with many of you about these adventures and hope to hear from more of you.

BEVO BIVEN sent me a really nice happy Labor Day card this year to avoid the"Christmas frenzy and to get a jump-start on the year.

Of course, when one lives in paradise, seasons have a different meaning. Life continu~s to treat him, Marita, and their children, Racey and Marcela, well. They had a great time visiting Bevo's brother in Edwards, CO, a far cryi"rom Honolulu, where the Aloha family was able to get in some great skimg.

JON GRANOFF was among the 540 guests at the United Nations Association's Global Leadership Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in October of 1998. He was fortunate enough to have a picture caught of him engaging Ted Turner and Michael Douglas in some of his phenomenal conversation. Here's hoping he is able to get the original blown up and framed! lt is amazing how this can happen.

YOURS TRULY and his new bride happened to be standing next to Governor John Rowland at the right moment at a political fund raiser this past fall and it ended up in The New York Times! Oh well, there have been worse wedding announcements.

DALE REED has a bit of exciting nostalgia for us! Remember the American Blues Exchange, to which we had such a great time dancing? Apparently they did a recording back in 1969 that was discovered by a pirating group and being marketed on the Internet without permission. All the pieces were original, so Dale's group got right on it and demanded a contract. They landed it. You can now get "ABE Blueprint" via the Internet on amazon.com! It's an alloriginal CD of classic rock and blues from our wonderful 1969 era. Get it, you will love it. (See the story on the group in this issue of the Reporter.) Dale by the way sold his drums for cab fare long ago in Pittsburgh and is now vice president for marketing for an electric company in Malibu, CA. Just one

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n 1977, when William K. Marimow '69 was a City Hall reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer investigating allegations of physical abuse and intimidation by Philadelphia police officers in the interrogation of homicide suspects and witnesses, winning a Pulitzer Prize wasn't foremost in his mind; being accurate was. "[When you're] accusing the police of committing crimes and you're a 29-year-old kid in a city where the mayor was the police commissioner and had been a cop on the beat and had risen through the ranks for 28 years - almost longer than you've been alive - you worry about getting it right," Marimow asserts. , To get it right, Marimow and fellow Inquirer reporter Jonathan Neumann pored over files and records covering four years of challenged homicide interrogations, studying trial transcripts, judges' rulings, medical records, photographs, and documents. In parallel, they managed to pursuade several detectives to talk about the cases in question. As a result of their investigation, Marimow and Neumann published a series of stories describing a police interrogation system in which suspects were handcuffed to metal chairs and beaten with lead pipes, blackjacks, brass knuckles, and chair and table legs - practices that one former detective himself called "a return to the Middle Ages." The duo's work triggered a civil rights investigation which led to the indictment and conviction of six homicide detectives for conspiring to violate the civil rights of a suspect and witnesses in a fatal firebombing. And their investigative reporting earned the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1978.

Skillful probing, thoroughness, and accuracy have been the hallmarks of Marimow's 29-year career in journalism. He readily acknowledges that a career in journalism can "really make a difference in people's lives." Marimow's own ability to make such a difference was recognized again in 1985, when his reporting for an expose that revealed Philadelphia police dogs had attacked more than 350 people earned him a second Pulitzer Prize.

Marimow spent 21 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, working as a reporter covering labor, city government, the courts, and economics, before becoming an editor, city editor, and then assistant to the publish- . er. He left Philadelphia in 1993 to become metro editor at The Baltimore Sun, a Times-Mirror newspaper he described as a "sleeping giant of a newspaper that needed to be woken up." He served as associate managing editor of the newspaper from the fall of 1993 to 1995, when he was named the managing editor, responsible for overseeing the work of 400 employees.

Dissectzng, debating, & discussing l;t-pâ&#x20AC;˘"tt-ture Marimow, who admits to being "determined and tenacious," describes these as highly desirable journalistic traits and in himself traces them back to the analytical and writing skills he developed as an English major at Trinity. "The English courses we took emphasized analysis," Marimow recalls.

"The professors really urged us to dissect and debate and discuss literature." Especially memorable was Professor of English Hugh Ogden, who had just joined Trinity's faculty and with whom Marimow took a course in American literature. "H e was a very inspiring, invigorating

professor who had a real feel for the kids. In his comments on papers, he didn't write just 'B+, good work.' His was an expansive commentary on the writing, the thinking, the analysis."

Marimow, it seems, also left a lasting and positive impression on Ogden. "Bill had an incredibly rich response to literature," recalls his former professor. "Because of his sympathetic nature Bill was able to empathize with the situations in novels that characters were going through. He was gifted verbally and wrote beautiful papers. " Marimow's achievement in English and his other classes earned him a place on the dean's list five out of eight semesters. When he graduated, he headed back home to Pennsylvania and worked briefly in Bala Cynwyd, PA for a trade magazine, Commercial Car journal, published

by Chilton Co., before being hired by the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulletin in 1970 as the assistant to its economics columnist. He joined the Inquirer as a reporter in 1972.

Marimow's reportorial excellence has earned him, among other accqlades, two Silver Gavel Awards from the American Bar Association, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award, and awards from journalism's honorary society, Sigma Delta Chi. In 1982, he was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a highly prestigious and coveted honor awarded annually to only 12 U.S. journalists for a year of independent study. In 1984, Trinity College recognized his achievements by naming him the recipient of an Alumni Achievement Award.

For anyone who is interested in people and likes writing, journalism is a good career path to follow, Marimow says. His daughter, Ann, 23, has followed in her father's footsteps and is a reporter at the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. His son, Scott, 19, is a first-year student at Pennsylvania State University, and his wife, Diane, is an artist and art teacher.

What are Marimow's future goals? He says he has several: To make The Sun a newspaper that "really illuminates the city, state, nation, and world for our readers," to teach English or journalism someday, and to write a book. "I've always tried to concentrate on what I'm doing," he notes. "It's my belief that if you can do what you do excellently, you'll be able to do what you want to do. " -Suzanne Zack

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:e that have synapsed in you since I last wrote, and how much you wrote! I am just getting my wind back from my first climb to the top of the glorious Chapel bell tower on the Quad with my daughter, so I will try to capture the essence of your thoughts, lest I succumb to writer's cramp, and drain our strong gene poo,l!

HERMAN ASARNOW was given the James Culligan Award for his distinguished English and foreign language chairmanship at the University of Portland, where his wife, SUSAN BAILLET '7 4, also chairs the department of social and behavioral sciences. They enjoy watching their children play multilingual musical chairs.

PETER BLUM, who is really our number-one Class persona (and the last one still dancing with Outerspace on the Quad) and who dreamed up the entire blue card scheme you have all seen, left Salomon after 22 years, after traveling, and then swallowing hard. He is now at Grantham Mayo von Otterloo, where he is having a great time on the waterfront!

BOB ELLIS has a daughter, Sarah, at Clark University; a son, Zachary, playing varsity soccer and basketball, as a junior in high school; and another son, Nicholas, who is recovering from having tonsils and adenoids yanked out (as my daughter, Katrina, just did after back-to-back bouts with strep throat).

BAYARD FIECHTER says he's getting old, but would like to applaud our illustrious Class. As an investment adviser, he has his

hands full "coping with a worldwide vacuum of competent traders." Let's all send him all our investment advice and see how he copes.

MIKE GERMAN has been promoted to "EVP and COO of NYSEG," so if you live in New York State, send him your electric and gas bills, and he'll take care of them for you.

STEVE GYLLENHAAL makes movies and works in television.

"Honeygoing" just hit the video stores. His two guys are at Columbia, even though one, Jake, had a great evening with Hugh Ogden, but went to eat big apple, anyway.

KEVIN HAILS is still chief of consultation/liaison psychiatry at Albert Einstein Medical Center, kicks soccer balls with all the children, and is not afraid to publish papers on psychosomatics.

JIM HALL specializes in product liability and domestic relations litigation at Taft Law in Cincinnati, and is happy that I am writing about his career, rather than vice versa (not much to write about mine, anyway)!

OLIVIA HENRY covered the entire United States this summer, from Skyline Drive, to every national park, Indian reservation, and cave, from coast-to-coast.

Hubby, Tim Gurshin, sang in Nashville. She's school counselor at a middle school in Concord, NH, vice chair of New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, juried photogra- . pher in New Hampshire Art Association, and should be路the next woman to orbit the earth on the shuttle.

JOHN HEPPE has finally cleaned up his act, after all those days in the dungeon at AD. He - finally has a respectable job in New York City and summers in chichi Blue Hill, ME. STEPHEN HILL is a boardcertified vascular surgeon general in Roanoke, VA. His wife has no varicose veins, after producing two kids: Andrew (13) and Leslie (15).

JIM KENDRICK only has a new address: 875 West End Ave., #SA, New York, NY 10025. Let's all write him.

WENDY KRAVITZ wants daughter number two to go to Trin, and has been volunteering as a mentor for an inner-city teenaget. She's going to see daughter number one in Stockholm where

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A sizeable Trinity contingent was on hand for the October ceremony installing Susan M. Haberlandt '71 as the seventh Head of School of Providence Country Day in East Providence, Rl. Jel'l'y H,ansen '51 deliv路 ered the official citation of greetings from the College and President Evan Dobelle. Photographed at the event were, from left to right: David Bazar '80, Trinity College Professor of Psychology Kal'l Haberlandt, Bill Ungard '72, Phil Nash '55, Brian Grimes '66, Je"y Hansen, Lee Levison (former lfl'aduate assistant at Trinity), Susan Habel'landt '71, Kathleen L. Frederick '71, and Peter McCalmont '65.

she's on junior semester abroad.

She wishes they had those back in our days (we only got as far afield as Platonic, VT to ski, and let it be).

DOUG LAKE, who still pulls a mean oar on the Connecticut River, has gone west - Western Resources, that is, in Topeka, KS, as EVP and CSO. He will be rowing between there and Bronxville, and his focus will be on M&A. Doug, Jr. is a freshman at Trin!

Daughter, Jessica, is just out of Georgetown, heading to Saks.

Doug is the national alumni fundraising chairman at Trin, and he says, "keep giving!"

ALBERT LUCAS has accepted a position as VP, western operations, Forte Software. Oldest daughter, Stephanie, is married; second daughter, Alison, is a sophomore at the University of Colorado; and son, Marry, is in junior high.

PHIL MANKER hopes that by writing about his Class he can get a credit towards an M.A. in creative writing. He also is an arborist, building a collection of conifers and weeping deciduous specimens to rival the Arnold Arboretum. His company, PM Designs, Inc., has a new building in Hyde Park, MA, where his artistic bent is focused.

Recently, he has been carving giant monsters and painting murals of them for The Monster Board, building functional art tables (check them out at www.pmdesigns.com, e-mail phil@pmdesigns.com on the Web), and trying to revert back to his crazy youth so

he can go to college again and major in art with his daughter, Katrina, and son, Lorenz.

JOHN MOSES had a blast playing with Outerspace at our 25th and is tuning up for the 30th.

Let's all get out our dancing shoes now! He's hoping to retire from teaching at the middle school in New Canaan (14 years), so he can play for us groupies full-time.

TOM REGNIER was elected to the Libertarian Party platform committee and wrote several new planks. He is now vice chairman of the L.P. of Florida and was campaigning to get Constitutional Revision II passed (did it?). I hope so, since it would "get rid of the most exclusionary, discriminatory ballet access laws in the free world."

PETER ROBINSON had a great time at the 25th and plans to get the 30th on cable TV with Time-Warner, his latest venture. He does start-up ventures now. He's a board man: on that of Cranbrook Schools, Detroit Institute of Arts, Gilda's Club, etc., and also on the squash boards.

DUNCAN SALMON is director of the Heart Failure Center in Baltimore, MD. Eldest son, Morgan, is at Trin and loves it!

Wife, Heidi, and youngest son, Dylan, are happily growing exotic Habernero peppers and ginger plants (are extracts of these the final cure for heart disease? Watch "60 Minutes" and find out).

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nothing in common. He felt both excited and grievous when dropping his daughter off for orientation at Ohio..Wesleyan, and wonders if his pa~ents felt the same way about him in '68. Let's hope so.

LAURA SHAPIRO specializes in family law in Denver. She is also involved in the rescue of horses from slaughter by introducing a bill in the legislature, but the bill was killed by the cattleman's association. Let's work on breeding a horse that's tasry to eat, so the go! dang cattlemen will prize them.

CHARLES SHAW endures some stress, but remains exhilarated as dean of faculry at Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, M I where he occasionally sees Peter Robinson (see above).

Sent rwo of his triplets off to college this year. (Where's the thi;d one? Actually it's not great to keep them together, as the Canadian quintuplets can attest.) Charles wants to hear from TOM KENNEDY. (Why haven't I?) LAWRENCE SICHEL gets the kudos award for responding from farthest afield. He's a Zen monk, living in a Buddhist temple in Seoul, Korea. He teaches in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, and is now in South Africa. We should ask him to come teach us how to face the 2000 glitch with greater inper tranquility.

COTTER SMITH recently appeared in Craig Lucas's new play, The Dying Gaul, at the Vineyard Theatre in New York. He resides in Nyack, near the Hudson.

GENE STAMELL is in his 22nd year teaching in an elementary school, and still enjoys it.

(Note: please send in a kid's letter describing why he/she enjoys it, too.) Daughter, Emmie, is applying to Trin and I believe she will get in.

Sons, Jesse and Will, and wife, Jan, all reside in Arlington, MA. GEORGE TRAVER made a career change after 20 years in insurance. After going to Marist College, he is now a school psychologist, working with emotionally disturbed children at the residential program of The Astor Home for Children in Rhinebeck, NY. I think getting those kids into crafts would be a great way to get the once great Rhinebeck fair going again, in a new direction!

PETER WHEELWRIGHT is still practicing architecture and teaching at Parsons School of

D~sign in New York Ciry. I still remain impressed by the wonderfully attuned art gallery space you created for Victoria Munro when she was in SoHo! (Personal note: check out my Web site- I'd enjoy working with you to create special details/fixtures/furniture to harmonize with one of your designs. Let's talk!)

I quote ROBERT WHITEHEAD directly: "On March 1, 1998, I retired as an assistant attorney general for the State of Connecticut, six years early, at the ripe old age of 48! It is only in retrospect that I now realize how utterly ghastly and incredibly stressful the practice of law is. I threw away a quarter century of my life to cope with pompous judges and arrogant lawyers, and accomplished absolutely nothing of any meaning. To all grads: Tell your offspring to avoid law at all costs." Thanks, Bob, for finally vindicating my inabiliry to please my mother, who, as Secretary of the American Bar Association, wanted me to be a lawyer, but I didn't make the grade!

I am good friends with my Chicago grade school classmates, Robert Andersen and Catherine Olian, who are married, and who also are producers for Mike Wallace and Morley Safer, respectively, on "60 Minutes," still the be~t, and most insightful program on television, period! I am looking for potential story leads to refer to them, so let me know if any of you hear of anything that is noteworthy and verifiable, and worth their (and the nation's) time. I will run any leads you give me by them, and, if they are interested, have them contact you, and/or your sources, directly.

That's it for now, and I'm giving a one-time reprieve to all you other guys and gals out there who didn't respond to my letter, so respond for the next issue or I will mess with your genes, per DEAN HAMER's secret formula, to force you to be forthcoming.

Philip C. Manker, Jr. 1031 Canton Ave. Milton, MA 02186-2427 Class Agents: Jeffrey W. Hales Douglas T. Lake

PATTI MAN TELL-BROAD writes, "I am beginning my 24th year of teaching high school and I still love teaching. " Patti earned the equivalent of a second master's degree in the spring of 1998. She vacations with her family in Cape Rosier, ME each August. Cape Rosier is near Blue Hill (wherever that is!), but, if any classmates happen to be in that area next summer, she would love to hear from you.

Daniel M. Roswig, M.D. 3 Stonepost Simsbury, CT 06070-2511 e-mail: KNUCKA@aol.com fax: 860-651-0895 Class Agents: Patti Mantell-Broad Paul B. Zolan, Esq. With Reunion approaching, President Dobelle came to New York June 10-13 Ciry this October for a dinner with the Class of 1974.

In attendance were PETER KRAUS, CARRIE PELZEL, EMILY HOLCOMBE, ED FANEUIL, ELIZABETH MARTIN GREENBAUM, MICHELE MOYE MARTIN, CAROLINE ASHER WALKER (with her husband, John Walker), RICHARD WOLFRAM (with his wife, Christine Wolfram), and me.

The evening featured an update on developments at Triniry, including a video that showed Trinity's role in the Hartford communiry, such as work-in-progress in the Frog Hollow area and the opening of a Boys & Girls Club opposite the campus on Broad Street.

Homecoming, Saturday, Nov. 7, featured a table for Reunion classes.

Our Reunion co-chair, Emily Holcombe, was there, as was GREG BARISON. Emily continues in her ministry in Stamford, CT. Greg was joined by his son, Matthew, now a high school junior and an honor student at that. Greg dutifully noted that his daughter, Leah, turned 12 the week before; Greg practices law in Boston. Greg reported that STEVE SMITH has opened his own bookstore, the Mountain Wanderer, in Lincoln, NH and has published a book, Lakes and Ponds ofthe White Mountains.

I received news that ROBERT

EPSTEIN, Ph.D. has launched a new radio show, "Psychology Today with Dr. Robert Epstein." It is a call-in format radio show that "takes a hard look at real issues in mental health." As of Sept. 18, the show is heard nationwide on the Cable Radio Nerwork, on KFNX in Phoenix, and on WALE in Providence, and is available on the Internet at www.broadcast.com, and Cable Radio Nerwork was engaged in further syndication efforts.

I also got word that Operation Understanding, DC, "an in-depth program promoting dialogue and cooperation berween Jewish and African-American teenagers," opened an exhibition of photographs by LLOYD WOLF and Yaakov Hammer at the DC Jewish Communiry Center, 1529 16th St. N.W., Washington, DC, which will be on view through February 1999.

The alumni office notes that Partner Communications Group in North Branford, CT has chosen BARRY O'BRIEN to head up its new unit, partner consulting services.

ROB STARKEY has been artistically prolific, as ever. He had rwo one-person gallery exhibitions of his Impressionistic paintings recently: one in Wakefield, RI, and one in Summit, NJ. Rob is looking forward to showing his work once again in the Austin Arts Center during his 25th Reunion in June.

He still chairs the art department of Purnell School (an all-girls' school in Pottersville, NJ) and enjoys summer studio time in the mountains of Pennsylvania.

The deadline for this submission is Dec. 4. Just after, there is likely to be the flood of holiday greetings which will provide more news for the next edition. And naturally, with the 25th Reunion coming there will be more and more materials from the College. I hope to see many of you in the next few months and certainly at the time of the Reunion.

Matthew E. Moloshok, Esq. 1006 Prospect St. Westfield, NJ 07090-4221 e-mail: HudsonMolo@aol.com fax: 973-621-7406 Class Agents: Stacie Bonfils Benes Francisco L. Borges, Esq. Jon H. Entine Emily Goodwin Holcombe

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In November, the Trinity Club of Hartford presented its Person of the Year award to Charles E. Gooley '75, president and CEO of Yankee Energy Systems. The award is presented annually to an alumnus or alumna who has given outstanding service to the community or to the College, graduated within the past 25 years, and resides within the Hartford area. The Club honored Gooley for his accomplishments as a business executive as well as his dedication to community set" vice. Kathy Maye Murphy '78, left, a member of the executive co~ mittee of the Club, presented the award to Gooley.

John D. Howard Peter S. Kraus Carolyn A. Pelzel Charles G. Ward III GAIL MARDFIN STARKEY's graphic design business is steadily growing. She invites all to visit her site at www.plpgraphicdesign.com, where she promotes herself as specializing in "upstarting businesses." Gail and ROB '74 and their two kids, O'Nell (16) and Avery (13), are happy and well, living on the campus of Purnell School. They spent a week last Christmas in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico- the first out-ofthe-U.S. trip for the whole family.

CLAY DEBEVOISE's prints were exh ibited at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College in Purchase, NY as part of its fall exhibitions.

Christopher G. Mooney 626 Esplanade Pelham Manor, NY 10803-2403 fax: 203-353-6565

This column is being written for the winter edition of Class Notes, so I hope everyone had a happy holiday season!

On May 4, 1998, JOHN LEBEAUX was elected to the board of selectmen of Shrewsbury, MA. He finished first in a field of

six candidates for two positions.

John reports that his success in his first run for elected office was greatly aided by advice from his "secret weapon," Connecticut State Representative JIM ABRAMS '78.

Meanwhile, last fall, YOUR SECRETARY enjoyed two Trinityrelated reasons for weekends in the Northeast. At the volunteer leadership conference in September, I was able to see the beautiful enhancements to the campus (especially the lower Long Walk area), and catch up with HAL SMULLEN in between speakers and seminars. Just a few wee'ks later, at the Long Walk Societies dinner in New York City, I caught up on life with KAREN JEFFERS, recently retired from her role as an alumni trustee. Wonder which classmate I'll run into next? Please let me know whom you have seen lately!

Elaine Feldman Patterson 824 S. Ridgeley Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90036-4727 e-mail: elaine. patterson@uncal.com fax: 714-985-6350 Class Agents: John P. Clifford, Jr. Harold A. Smullen, Jr. Life in Beantown has been going well. My two-year rehab project from hell is entering its final phase. Hopefully, by the

time this is published, I will have all the electrical work completed and I can raise the rents on the two apartments in my building. (Ha, ha, ha, just joking.)

Almost everyone in Boston is concerned about the possible relocation of our professional football team to Hartford. However, my friend, PAT WEINTHAL '76, only recognizes a patriot if he's wearing a three corner hat and carrying a musket. But she did recognize a fellow classmate recently while participating in the Monet frenzy at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She ran into CC SPAULDING , known to us as CC CHICK '76, who reported she is in training to become a guide at the museum.

Not in training but in a new position is SCOTT MORRIS. He writes that, after working as a lobbyist at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities since December 1993, and living in New Haven for most of that time, he accepted a position in mid-October 1998 with the National League of Cities in Washington, DC, as a senior policy analyst in the areas of: 1) transportation and infrastructure; and 2) community and economic development. He's living in Arlington, VA across the Potomac River, and takes the Metro to the office, the only way to travel around DC. Scott, not knowing that I just might show up, says, ''Although I miss Connecticut and the northeast, it's great living in the DC area, as there is a lot to do. If anybody in the provinces gets down to DC, please contact m e. Here is how I can be reached: (home) 1600 North Quinn Street, Apartment 304, Arlington, VA 22209-2847, (703) 465-0463; and (office) Center for Policy and Federal Relations, National League of Cities, 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W, Washington, DC 200041701, (202) 626-3021 and (office e-mail) morris@nlc.org. " Moving a few miles away from his old home in "the Fan," HENRY RIELY is happy in his more suburban-style neighborhood of Richmond, V.A:.s West End. When he's not busy being an assistant corporate secretary at Old Dominion Resources, he spends the fall fighting the leaves in his yard. (As an apartment dweller, I have a vague recollection about this

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from my childhood.) Henry serves as president of the Richmond C hapter of the Alzheimer Association. In this capacity, he's able to help many families as they go through a difficult stage in a loved one's life.

GWYNNE MACCOLL CAMPBELL spends much of her time doing things for Trinity! She's in her sixth and final year on the National Alumni Association Board. As vice president for admissions, she actively participates in developing college admissions policies and oversees the process. I am amazed at how much she is doing for Trinity and her community. She also owns and runs a Sylvan Learning Center in Darien, CT where 120 students go after school for additional instruction. Her 15year-old son is happily attending Hotchkiss and, the night I spoke with her, she was helping her daughter, a middle-school student, write a paper. (I think Gywnne was actually typing the paper, not helping to write it.)

It seems to me that everyone was filentioning MARIAN KUHN's October wedding to Rick Browning. (Perhaps there will be a Reporter picture soon.) Scott Morris mentioned he had dinner with her on her last night as a single woman in Washington, DC. Henry Riely told me he saw the notice in The Times and Gwynne Campbell actually attended the event in Lakeville, CT. Gywnne said lots ofTrin alums were there, including SAM THAYER and Leslie Butterfield.

Congratulations, Marion and Rick, and good luck in your new home in Houston, TX! Congratulations also to ANDY FREIDMAN and Susan Freidman, nee Maloney for their recent marriage! Apparently Andy sent a message (very short) almost immediately upon return from their honeymoon. (If only all our classmates were so thoughtful...). A two Washington, DC-lawyer family, Andy is still at Covington & Burling and Susan is a tax lawyer at Miller and Chevelier. Andy and Susan are accepting congratulations at their home in Arlington, VA. To end, I would like to set the record straight about my two weeks this fall in Paris visiting PETER STOTT '70. Regardless of all rumors to the contrary, none of the parties we held caused any of his friends to consider a detox program.

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Gaining ground in the battle agaihst weight loss ood and our relationship to it, according to Dr. Louis]. Aronne "Getting Healthy PLAN fOR '77, touch every area of our lives. We PUM~NlHl WEIGH! tOMTROl celebrate with food, confront feelings of loneliness with it, and use it as a drug to relieve anxiery, he says.

"Food is everything," contends Aronne, a leading researcher and successful weight-control practitioner in New York Ciry. "Depending upon the ·pes • Simple menus • Easyrect person, it can be sustenance, love, or • Exciting food ideas. anything in between."

• Calorie-burning exerctses Since 1986, Aronne has been the LOUIS J. A.RO~.~~~J. ~,.;.~:- director of New York Hospital's ''""" ..w't:r.,Cil'...

Comprehensive Weight Control Center, where he has helped th<;msands of people achieve a healthier lifesryle and trimmer body. He also serves as associate professor of clinical medicine at Cornell University Medical College and is a visiting associate professor in medicine at the Laboratory of Human Behavior and Metabolism of Rockefeller University, where his research focuses on determining the response of the nervous system to weight loss and weight gain in an effort to understand how the body regulates energy intal<:e and metabolism. And he is known to television viewers nationwide through his frequent guest appearances on such programs as Today, Good Morning America, and The Late Show with David Letterman, where he is also the staff physician.

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Aronne is personally acquainted with now a person's relationship with food can become unhealthy. Aronne remembers that, when he was a child growing up in New York, his overprotective mother would telephone a particular restaurant in advance of his arrival so that an order of spare ribs would be waiting for him. As a teenager, he worked in the local sweet shop, where he rook advantage of one of the job's benefits free ice cream sundaes drenched in syrup and whipped cream. He describes his own battle with his weight and explains the physiological and psychological factors involved in talcing weight off in his popular book entitled Weigh Less, Live Longer, written with Fred Graver, the husband ofTrinity alumna Elizabeth Steyer '76.

By the time he enrolled at Triniry, Aronne says he was "rather portly," and he prepared to join the lacrosse team by going on a high-protein diet. He succeeded in losing 15 pounds within a week. "I felt terrible," he recalled in his book. "I could not concentrate on my schoolwork and my body ached ferociously.

"I decided that if I had to deprive myself of so much pleasure in order to get thin, I would just remain fat my whole life."

At Triniry, Aronne began to lay the groundwork for a career in medicine and excelled in his biochemistry major. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors in biochemistry and honors in general scholarship.

To acknowledge the importance of the study of biochemistry, Aronne and his family established The Louis .A ronne Prize in Biochemistry, which is awarded annually to an outstanding junior or senior biochemistry major at the College.

After graduation, he began to develop a more in-depth knowledge of weight control and began to eat more healthfully while studying at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned a medical degree in 1981 and then returned to New York, where he served as the

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow in Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center from 1984 to 1986. He spent a year as an internist treating people, many of whom were overweight, suffering from chronic ailments including diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis and coronary disease, afflictions often caused by obesiry. He then proposed the creation of a comprehensive weight control and health care program and the Weight Control Center was born.

One of the people who has reaped the rewards of Aronne's expertise is Lucy D.L. Curtis, a victim of a chronic metabolic disorder, who once weighed 663 pounds. Curtis consulted almost a dozen doctors in an effort to bring her weight under control and credits Aronne with helping her to shed 280 pounds. "Lou knows the research and science behind weight control and processes information so quickly," she says.

"Many doctors are authoritarian and dictatorial; he's more human than most doctors. He doesn't judge."

Since he became involved in the field of weight control, Aronne notes that enormous scientific strides have been made, including the identification of several of the genes associated with obesity in animal models a"nd the discovery of leptin, a hormone that seems to play a central role in weight regulation by reporting body fat levels to the brain.

He hails the development of new prescription drugs like Meridia, which amplifies the message of fullness in the brain, as an extremely useful adjunct to diet and exercise. He looks forward to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of other drugs like Xenical, which inhibits the absorption of fat from the intestine by binding to the enzymes, as another weapon in the weight loss arsenal.

Today; Aronne, who has used diet medications himself, still carefully monitors his own diet and lifesryle and his wife Jane's, aware that a genetic predisposition may put his children Allison, 12, and Louis, 10, at greater risk for becoming overweight.

Obesity, he says, can be compared with hypertension, which 40 years ago frustrated doctors in their attempts to bring it under control with only one or two drugs. "Now that we have 100 drugs, it's very easy to treat hypertension in all but the toughest cases. I think that the same thing is going to be true of obesity."

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Mary Ann Nelson 10 Gore St. Boston, MA 02120 e-mail: manelson@socialaw.com fax: 617-442-4620 Class Agent: Stephen M. Sunega June 4-7, 1998 brought our 20year Class Reunion.

It was really great to see fellow classmates throughout the weekend activities: Friday night clambake, Saturday morning meetings, Saturday afternoon on the Quad, and dinner and dancing Saturday evening, to name a few. Our classmate, DR. TRIP HANSEN, delivered an excellent presentation during a panel discussion on "Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cloning" on Saturday afternoon.

New Class Officers were elected as follows: Co-Presidents: ROBERT CAREY and VIVI DUNKLEE DUKE; Vice President: ANDREW TERHUNE; Secretary: KATHY MAYE MURPHY; and Class Agent: JIM SMITH. CONNIE BIENFAIT is vice president of Morgen-Walke Associates in New York City, one of the largest financial communications companies in the country.

Connie handles all aspects of investor relations for 24 technology companies, ranging from one of the largest semi-conducter companies in the world to some IT consulting companies like the Gartner Group.

Connie's son is 18, a senior at Kent School, and applying to Trinity. Connie writes that it was really eerie showing him around campus.

Connie's daughter is 15 and a freshman at the high school in Greenwich, where they live.

Connie had dinner with KITA REECE while in Boston on business last fall, and she has stayed in touch with ELLEN BURCHENAL and GITCH (ANN) WHALEN. I thought I'd share some personal news. I've had some pretty exciting opportunities arising out of music ministry affiliations with St. Andrew Church in Colchester, CT and the local chapter of the National Associa-tion of Pastoral Musicians.

Through St. Andrew Church, the Adult Choir, of which I'm an

active member, was selected to make a nine-day pilgrimage in October to the Vatican in Rome to sing for the 20-year anniversary of Pope John Paul II. After a full year of rehearsing and fund raising, 83 pilgrims, including 35 choir members, our Choir Director, Spiritual Leader, and Organist, made the journey!

For the Anniversary Mass of the Pope's Coronation at St. Peter's Basilica, we sang Gregorian Chant Mass responses from the "Mesa Degli Angeli" ("Mass of the Angels") in Latin. We sang the following hymns: Processional: "Sine Nomine" {"For All the Saints") by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Offertory: an organ instrumental piece, "Deck Thyself, My Soul" by Johann Sebastian Bach; Communion: "You Ate Mine" by David Haas; and Recessional: "Psalm 150" by Cesar Franck.

The St. Andrew Choir performed a free, 75-minute public concert for the City of Rome at St. Ignatius Church. A variety of international and intergenerational pieces included: "Laudate Dominum" by Robert Kreutz, "Ave Maria'' by Jacob Atcadelt, "Glory to God" by George Frederic Handel, "0 Bone Jesu" by G. P. da Palestrina, "Sanctus" by Franz Schubert, and "Soon and Very Soon" by Andrae Crouch, among other contemporary American compositions. I was given the opportunity to sing one solo and to accompany singing with guitar for five songs. We were quite honored by the attendance of approximateiy 500 people who stayed until completion of the concert and gave us an overwhelming standing ovation!

We had the opportunity to sing for the Pope for one minute during a public audience in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 300,000 worshipers. We sang "Canon Four in One," an early American piece

by William Billings. We were the only group to sing for the Pope that day. He acknowledged us with a wave and a smile!

Our group celebrated and sang for masses at the Church of the Trinity in Florence, the German Cemetery Chapel at the Vatican in Rome, and the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi during the course of our pilgrimage. It was quite an awesome and inspiring experience!

Through St. Andrew Church I

also have participated in the Chorus of the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar," by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, in 1997 and 1998; and acted as stage manager and assistant choral director for the Youth Choir's presentation of the musical "Godspell" by Stephen Schwartz, in 1997.

Through my affiliation with the local chapter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, I was invited, as a "Choral Friend of Connecticut Grand Opera & Orchestra'' to sing in a 225-voice chorus. Along with the Connecticut Grand Opera & Orchestra (CGO&O) Resident Chorus, the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut, the New Choral Society of Central Westchester, NY, the Choral Arts Society of Westchester, NY, and the CGO&O, I performed in Guiseppe Verdi's "Requiem" in 1998. That was quite a powerful experience. During the grand finale of "Libera Me," the final piece, I was so overcome with emotion that I almost was too choked up to smg.

All in all, 1997 and 1998 were very spiritually and musically rewarding times for me. I wanted to share the excitement with you!

Kathryn Maye Murphy 6 Kneeland Rd. Marlborough, CT 06447'-1225 Class Agent: James P. Smith

JENNIFER SMALL was in town and gave me a ring, so I took the opportunity to catch up on her life. A lawyer, she is now a special assistant for government litigation for the City Attorney's office of San Francisco. Jennifer says her office is "very much alive" with an issue in the news every day. She has been there for two years and deals mostly with policy issues, but has represented the mayor on everything from defamation cases to separation of church and state and tax issues, as well as issues of defending jurisdiction of agencies. Her "government team" of eight represents and advises departments and elected officials for the city of San Francisco, but is part of a group of . nearly 200 city attorneys. Jennifer

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says this work talzes her very much back to her Trinity focus which was on urban issues. She is enjoying the change from the large international firm of Morrison and Forester (500-plus lawyers) where she had become a partner, but left after nearly 10 years because she didn't want to "commit 200 percent to corporate law." However, many of her cases there were pro-bono and very much in the news since part of her job was criminal defense work. For example, she defended someone who had escaped from Belfast's infamous prison, The Maze, where the late Bobby Sands died from a hunger strike, protesting treatment of captured suspected Irish Republican Army members. Incidentally, it was from The Maze that he was elected to Parliament, although obviously he never served. After law school at New York University, Jennifer worked for the 9th circuit of the Federal Court of Appeals central office in San Francisco. And Jennifer has also worked on issues pertaining to the famous "savings and loan'' scandal.

More from the legal front: The Boston firm of Burns & Levinson elected environmental attorney DAVID ROSENBLATT as managing partner. "This is an exciting time for Burns & Levinson, as we add lawyers to our firm and expand our range of services," Dave says. "I wanted to do the job because of my 16-year investment in this firm and my belief that Burns & Levinson will flourish in the next generation and beyond."

Dave came to Burns & Levinson as an associate and a litigator in 1982 after graduating from Boston College Law School. He became a partner in 1989, the year he created the firm's environmental law practice. Dave is chairman of the firm's environmental group and has been heavily involved in such issues as Superfund litigation. He is also a member of the firm's real estate group. Dave appears in the 19951996 and 1997-1998 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. With branch offices in Hingham and Wellesley, Burns & Levinson has more than 100 attorneys. Dave lives in Newton with his wife, Ellen, and their three children.

Mind you, this is all information from the firm's PR office and an article in the Worcester Sunday Telegram, Dave's old "hometown

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Spent a lovely day with JANE TERRY ABRAHAM and her then four-month:,old baby, Nicholas Eli Abraham. Nicholas, who has Jane's cheeks and dad Joe's chin, clearly has inherited Jane's easy-going manner and started eating cereal in honor ofThanksgiving. He enjoys rice cereal and doesn't prefer oats.

And no matter what Jesse Helms may do next, it's clear this NEA will be flourishing. Sister Carrie is enjoying her new brother and her promotion to the "Munchkin Room" for older kids at day care.

Jane continues to work part-time from her home as a cyberworld u amer.

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and drove across Arizona, hiked the Grand Canyon, four-wheeled out from the rwo feet of snow there and headed across the painted desert to Monument Valley and up into Utah to the Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. Finally, I stopped off for a day of skiing at Vail before reaching my meeting in Denver to do another talk. What a great journey. For my next adventure, I'm off to the Amazon rain forest in Peru to do medical relieÂŁ work with the shaman, and do a seroprevalence study of HIV in the Amazonia in January '99. If all goes well and I avoid the piranhas, anacondas, and viruses, I'll be back to tell you more in the spring.

So ... send me your news!

Robert Orenstein, D.O. 102 Cyril Ln. Richmond, VA 23229-7737 e-mail: orenstein.robert@ric mond.va.gov fax: 804-675-5437 Class Agent: Richard P. Dahling

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e-mail: aspigulis@trinitynet.com Class Agents: Mark A. Leavitt E. Curtiss Smith Winter and holiday greetings to the Class of 1981! This appears to have been a quiet year for most of the Class as I've not received much news. I did hear from ANNE O'CONNOR who attended LEIGH MOUNTFORD's wedding on Block Island in October - apparently a wonderful time. Anne and her husband, Rick, recently had a third child, Colleen Grace, in November.

The alumni office notes that ALEX MAGOUN ran in the "alumni/current Bantams" crosscountry meet on Sept. 5, and joined his coaches from freshman year on the next day for a run from Professor Miller Brown's house in Glastonbury, CT. Your CLASS SCRIBE has had a busy fall, traveling for work and leisure. In early October, I gave a talk in Albuquerque and attended the International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta - a phenomenal sight ... and I thought all the hot air was in DC! In November, I gave a talk to a national nurses' meeting in Phoenix, then hopped into a 4WD

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LISABAILYN married Steve Parker this past September in North Andover, MA. CATHY ROCCA was a maid of honor. Steve and his partner, BRENDA ERIE NICHOLS, own a public relations firm (Parker, Nichols & Co.) that works with hitech start-ups. Lisa is a clinical psychologist in general adult practice and just changed employers to General Psychological Associates in Andover. Lisa is keeping her maiden name and they plan on living North Andover.

PARSONS (WITBECK) CLARK is a major gift officer for the Wharton School. Parsons interviewed my wife, Sandra, for a position at Wharton this past summer, which she later accepted. Parsons and DAVID live in the Philadelphia area where he works for a maritime company based out of Delaware.

MIKE SINS HEIMER responded to the challenge made in the last edition of the Reporter and reached me with an e-mail update on himself and all the other Bantams he's been in touch with. Mike and ANNE are currently living in Charlotte, NC and have rwo kids, Jake (nine) and Lucy (six). Anne is doing volunteer work and tutoring.

Both kids are brilliant, active, bright, yada, yada ... Mike started a

chain of bagel stores and sold the business after rwo years, right before the great bagel market "crash'' of the mid-90s. He now runs another company he started, Integrated Marketing Concepts, which consults companies on strategy and product development. He also holds a patent (#5,746,669) for an outdoor soccer training game that has been licensed by Wham-0 and will be on the market in 18 months. He is happy, busy, and claims to be in shape, but this latter statement is most likely a lie.

CRAIG VOUGHT (who is cringing at seeing his name in this column) is CFO of Speiker Properties in Menlo Park, CA. He and his wife have rwo young children. According to Mike, Craig is a permanent Californian whom we won't see moving back to the Main Line any time soon.

MATT PACE works for the sports marketing company, Kaleidoscope. He recently moved to Detroit to get closer to his largest client, GM. He is single, which is frightening, and has a house in East Hampton that he lent to Mike for a week this past summer. Mike has promised to sublet to me next summer.

TED AUSTIN and his family are living outside of Boston. Ted is general manager of Cranmoor Mountain in New Hampshire.

TONY FISCHETTI is living in Yorktown, NY. He and his wife had a little girl this past year and Tony left his law firm to be a stayat-home dad.

PETER GUTERMAN is still living and working in Hartford.

The proud father of three, he works directly for the chairman of Pratt & Whitney, which requires heavy travel.

Went to Homecoming a couple of weeks ago and saw AL SUBBLOIE. Saw on Business Wire recently that Al's company, IMA, recently won several software awards for product excellence and that he was also named chairman of the Connecticut Technology Council.

BILL LINDQUIST and family were also on hand. Bill and Lisa have moved to Long Island where he is working as marketing director for Cablevision.

JACK GREENE lives in Connecticut and refused to comment on his employment, but did

let on that he is looking for Mrs. Right. To help him out, we are spreading the word that he is producing films for HBO. JON STARR and his wife were at the game. He is working as a manufacturer's rep for a furniture company in the Maryland/ Delaware area.

Congratulations to JENNIFER PROST and her husband, Michael Laser. Their son, Alexander Prost Laser, was born April 15, 1998.

The family is doing well and send their best.

Working my extensive AD connections, I managed to find the open bar at the AD house. (Since the CROW House is now a plaque, it's challenging to set up kegs there any more.)

As of this submission, payload specialist ARMANDO PAOLINO, was awaiting liftoff of the space shuttle, in support of space station construction efforts.

BEN BARON, GDI, write me.

Things are good in Pennsylvania. My wife and I are expecting our first. Work is bountiful. Hope everyone had a healthy holiday. Send me the news of your life.

Carl D.A. Rapp 54 Silo Hill Dr. Richboro, PA 18954 e-mail: carl.rapp@isacs.com or cdrapp@earthlink.net Class Agents: Eric Mendoza-Woods Wufred J. Talbot III Greetings and congrats to '83ers from your new Class secretaries: WENDY FARNHAM SCHON, MARISSA OCASIO, and TINA TRICARICHI, who happily volunteered for this position late on the Saturday night of our 15th Reunion. Speaking of which, the congratulations part of this message goes to all of you, for we, the Class of 1983, broke the 15th Reunion attendance record with a whopping 82 attendees; the record had been a lowly 71, Class President TODD BEATI bragged.

By the way, Todd also told us that Class member, BRUCE ZAWODNIAK, played a big role in securing this record-breaking Reunion attendance!

Reunion highlights included a great Saturday night band in the Washington Room, where the following classmates literally closed

the house down: Todd and Erica Beati, Tom and RUTH FLAHERTY BEATON, RUSTY and SUE FISKE WILLIAMS, TRACY SWECKER (Class VP.), _MIKE BRIGHAM, and TONY SCAVONGELLI. Also at Reunion, it was great to see a match made at Trinity still going strong: BETTINA and GEORGE ABE and their rwo chi!dren! Bettina's father, a fellow Trin graduate, was also present for the Saturday festi~ities, as was George's bro, who married a member of the Class of 1988. Speaking of family members sharing a Trinity reunion, W KIRK REYNOLDS, who suecessfully runs his own advertising agency in Maine, attended our 15th, while his fai:her proudly celebrated his 50th Trinity Reunion!

Acton, MA must be a popular abode for '83 Bantams, as the Abes regularly see or run into PAUL MERRIGAN and his wife, and SASHA OPEL-DEMELLO and husband, Mark, there. The Demellos brought rheir rwo chi!dren to Reunion. They were a delight to meet.

Via the grapevine at Reunion, we learned that MARGOT BLATTMANN is back in the good ol' U.S.A. (DC more precisely) from a stint in Paris, France.

From another Reunion attendee, we learned that NANCY CHIRA on the other coast, not only moved back to Monterey, CA (her old stomping ground) from Hawaii, but also was planning a Labor Day '98 wedding on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula. Congrats Nancy, and send us more news of this happy event. CATHY COSGROVE made a move in the opposite direction, back to hometown Boston from sunny California. Speaking of notable disranees, ERIC FISHER and CHUCK PETRIDIS struck a tie for first place for coming from the furthest distance to attend Reunion. Eric hailed from Switzerland, where he works for Andersen Consulting, and Chuck came from his job and home in Italy to celebrate with fellow Bantams - rwo classmates from Europe is no small feat!

A couple of other attendees looked and reported that they'd been very busy recently: QUE DIEU HO WITIK attended Reunion with her husband, Paul, having recently given birth to a

baby girl, and ALICE SIMON ERICSON attended festivities as an expectant morher.

Alice and her husband, Tracy, greeted their second daughter, Julie Helen, on June 19, 1998. Alice says that Julie's rwo-year-old sister, Natalie Jane, has made rhe adjustment as well as can be expected.

Alice really enjoyed her maternity leave, but returned to her job as director of public relations for Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company (in Hartford) in the fall.

AL STRICKLER, presently in sales, was in attendance with his wife, Leslie, as was JAMIE KAPTEYN and his wife, Kirsten; Jamie reports that he continues to enjoy his teaching/coaching in Massachusetts.

Reunion brought DR. LAURIE FREDRICKSON, who is a New York psychiatrist and was married in the not-too-distant past.

Some news garnered about some other '83ers: TOM MERRILL is an AG in New York; TERRY LIGNELLI had planned on attending Reunion but could not in the end and is busy with family and her job at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; AMI CLYMER MARON has a little girl named Veronica; ELLEN SOFFIN COFFEY is back in Hartford, continuing her success as an attorney; MIKE ISKO continues to fight the good fight as a felony public defender, and son, Gabe, started school this year, and their entire family, including Mike's dalfghter and wife, Roberta, spent a super . summer vacation in Canada.

MICHAEL COLLINS is also a lawyer in Hartford as is PATRICK LYLE; by the way, Pat is a pretty mean dancer, at least he was at Reunion. LISA NEBBIA LINDQUIST and husband, Bill, were in attendance at Reunion as was WENDY STRAWBRIDGE COZZI 'and her husband, John.

DAN MOALLI and his wife, Mary-Ann, seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the Saturday night dancing at Reunion.

ELSPETH HOTCHKISS MOGOLLON came to Reunion from a fairly long distance: Miami Shores, FL; her family was planning to meet on the other side of rhe U.S., in California, for a sister's wedding. TERRY JOHNSON HARTSOE attended Reunion wirh her children but sans husband, ~

TED HARTSOE, who was in Texas, grading A.P. economic exams. The Reunion grapevine also revealed that ALEXANDRA ZOLAN deserves congratulations for recently having had a baby.

A particular group of Reunion attendees brought our Trin years to mind as they QULIE VEALE, PAULA RYAN, ANNE WARD, DONNA WEISSMAN) seemed the same tight group of friends now as rhey were in college!

LARRY GREENBERG came up to Reunion from Rocky Hill, CT and, among other things, tells us that he still keeps in touch with college roommate JIM GRENEN, who is practicing law successfully in Pittsburgh and enjoying an active family life with his wife and rhree (is rhat right?) little girls.

Some news about other '83ers who could not make it to Reunion: JANE MOODY RACHAL and husband, William (or is it Bill?), have just bought and moved into a new house in Fairfax County, VA; it's a big house with a pond - a great place to raise their rwo little girls - which is precisely what Jane is enjoying doing at home right now. Nearby, CARA BACHENHEIMER is doing well professionally in DC, where she lives with her husband and rwo kids.

Claire Williams and GARY PETROPOULOS are either enjoying life in New York state or London or both, and we think they may have one child (let us know the specific details!). JANE KLAPPER SYKES is staying at home with her rwo children in London; Jane, husband, and kids either just moved houses or are about to make a move.

WENDY GORLIN TAYER, husband, Mark, and daughters, Madeline and Melanie, are pleased to be back in California (San Diego area), having been East in Philadelphia for a stint a few years back; Wendy is building her counseling practice and their daughters are rhriving, involved in many activities.

We learned that ANN OBERHAUS, her husband, and their rwo children are living in the Cleveland, OH-area, when I (Tina Tric) ran into her at a Northeastern Ohio alumni function last summer.

It was great to see you, Ann. Finally a short bit about your rhree new Class secretaries: Marissa

Ocasio is still based in New York City and now works for Chaflon and Somerset there; Marissa was a blast to be wirh at Reunion, even providing/sharing some special bottles of wine at the Saturday night dinner. Wendy Farnham Schon and husband, Miguel, attended Reunion with their rwo adorable sons from Baltimore; both boys seemed perfectly content to attend the children's activities, sometimes oblivious to being apart from Mom and Dad, and when asked how she stays in such good shape (aside from having a good metabolism), we believe that Wendy pointed to. the boys. Tina Tricarichi is fighting a similar good fight to Mike Isko's, as a public defender in her hometown of Cleveland, OH, but is doing so on rhe municipal court level; her clients are usually n~t hardened to the system yet. Right now, she is also enjoying spending time wirh her rwo young nieces, each of whom received an initial-engraved field hockey stick (the smallest she could find) by rhe time they were one-year-old.

We, the rhree new Class secretaries, apologize in advance for any glaring omissions or mistakes.

While we did not get to mention everyone who attended Reunion, we really want to hear from as many of our classmates as possible, especially (but not only) from '83ers who have not been mentioned in a long time. We are determined to make future '83 Class notes as inclusive and interesting as possible, so contact any one of or all three of us and let's start making plans for a record-setring attendance at our 20th Reunion!

Marissa Ocasio 324 Pearl St., #4E} New York, NY 10038-1613 e-mail: Reserved491@aol.com fax: 212-251-8543 Wendy Farnham Schon 3722 Tudor Arms Ave. Baltimore, MD 21211-2245 Tina Tricarichi 1938 Wmchester Rd. Lyndhurst, OH 44124-3713 fax: 216-861-6679 Class Agent: Bruce C. Silvers, Esq.

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ART RICE has been named vice president of marketing at TAP june 10-13 Holdings, Inc. in D eerfield, IL. TAP Holdings, Inc. is the parent company ofTAP Pharmaceuticals.

Previously, he was marketing director for the company.

Jane M. Mattoon 827 NW 193rd St. Shoreline, WA 98177-2630 e-mail: jmelvin@halcyon.com fax: 206-682-7565 Class Agents: Salvatore Anzalotti III Stephen J. Tall

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TRICIA MAXON is srillloving life in Telluride, where she works at a small independent bank. She was expecting baby number two. She and her husband, Dave, enjoyed a visit from TED COXE and STEVE KISH, "dividing their time between the slopes and the spa."

DAVE SHERRJLL moved jobs, from Connecticut National Bank, where he has been since '8 5, to People's Bank in Hartford, where he is a commercial lender. H e writes that "life could not be better.

My wife, Jenny, and I are thoroughly enjoying our 14-monrh-old twin daughters, Anne and Elizabeth."

TOM BAKER has moved from Chapel Hill, NC ro Danville, KY, where he is a visiting assistant professor of history at Centre College.

Tom describes Cenrre as a small (smaller than TrinColl) liberal arts school with two claims to fame for having highest alumni-giving percenrages of colleges, nationwide, and for having beaten Harvard 6-0 in football in the 1920s. If that doesn't impress you, this should: Tom has written a book, Sentiment

and Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials ofLiterary Fame, that was scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in December 1998.

SANDY MONAGHAN and his wife, Corina, announce the arrival of a new son, Oliver, (see Births).

H e joins big brothers, Patrick (seven), and Quentin (four). Sandy was promoted to general manager ofTower Realty and has relocated to run Tower's Phoenix, AZ office.

As for me, I expect baby boy number three in March.

Meanwhile, at the rime I write, we're gearing up for a busy and festive holiday season and enjoying watching our two- and four-yearold delight in all that surrounds them. Hope rhe New Year finds you all healthy and happy!

Alison Berlinger Holland 2339 Delverton Dr. Dunwoody, GA 30338-5303 e-mail: daveandali@accessa lanta.com Class Agents: Marc A. Chabot John T. Wilson Winter is finally setting in here in New England, and as the temperature drops, we turn to the hearth for warmth and the latest news: BILL MACAULAY, M .D. reports that he is working at the Adult Reconstruction Hospital For Special Surgery in New York (affiliated with Cornell). In the meantime, Bill writes, "my wife Araxi and I had our lOth wedding anniversary July 31st, we have a son 5 112 and a daughter 2 1/2.

She is an epidemiologist working part-time on orthopaedic related stuff " Wow! Only 2 1/2 and she is already an epidemiologist. ..

Meanwhile, DREW CAESAR reports that he and his wife, Laurie, are now the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl, Sophia Anna Larson Caesar, born Sept. 22, with red-brown (auburn) hair, blue eyes, seven lbs. 12 oz., 21 inches long.

Drew reports that "Sophie ears like crazy, sleeps like a zombie, cries when she wants anything, wiggles like a grub, grunts with every feeling, then sirs quietly staring, sighs with impossible satisfaction, falls asleep nursing, yawns deep and wide - pure id, as Freud might say."

And speaking of pure id, KATHY GALLANT caught us up on her busy schedule. She writes that she "spent 2.5 weeks in London in October working on my Kellogg National Leadership Program grant from rhe W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, MI, and am getting ready to make my last trip, to Rome and Florence, in January. The trip will also double as our honeymoon, since I was recently (May 1998) joined in not-so-holy matrimony

to Peter Infante, magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University, media strategist exrraordinaire, fine arts woodworker, and jazz alto saxophone player. " One caution about all of this, however. Kathy also writes that "this is all grossly exaggerated to swell my own sense of my pitiful self" Bur, hey, that's OK- that's what we are here for. Need to swell your sense of self? Low self-esteem?

Tired all the time? Worried about hair loss? Write us - you'll feel better in no rime! Money back guaranteed!

James N. Mancall 65 Burbank St., Apt. 16 Boston, MA 02115-3655 e-mail: jmancall@fas.harvard.edu Jennifer Maloney Markey 280 Forest Park Ave. Springfield, MA 01108-2510 e-mail: pmarkey@robdonatty Class Agent: John C. Stratakis Greetings from our nation's capital!

This is a town full of news junkies and I'll confess that I too have fallen victim to the need for information. I'm looking forward to hearing from lots of you to find out your news and milestones, where you are and what you've been up to for the las t 11 yearsor the last 11 months! Feel free to call, send an e-mail or a postcard - I would love to hear from you.

And now for the news ...

I know this is a nonpartisan forum, bur I must send our hearty congratulations to two politically savvy GOP women from the Class of 1987 who won elections on

N ov. 3. JANE SWIFT now serves as the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and T HEMIS KLARIDES represents the 114th District in the Connecticut State Assembly. Way to go! Jane and her husband, Charles Hunt, also deserve a second round of congratulations on the birth of their new baby girl. Lots oflife changes going on there!

VIVIAN LEE-ANN HARRIS '89 wrote in with the happy announcement that her husband, MITCH HARRJS, just made partner at the Hartford law firm of Day, Berry and Howard.

JANET LANE DYE and STU DYE '89 are pleasantly situated on Peak's Island in Portland, ME. By the rime this is in print, the Dyes will be enjoying their brand new baby and first-time parenthood.

Stu ferries in daily to his job at UNUM Life Insurance. They are both very active in the island community.

Back in October, Janet and Stu hosted CARRJE LONG STAFF, her husband Guy, KATHY GRAHAM DUGGAN and JOHN DUGGAN, CERONNE BERKELEY DALY, and YOURS TRULY for a mini-reunion. We cheered on the Bantams at the TrinityBowdoin game and had a great time catching up with one another while soaking up tl1e Indian-summer sun.

Ceronne Berkeley and her husband, George, live in Boston where they both work on educatio n/youth issues. Ceronne started a new job in October with the Boston Public Schools to coordinate education reform , citywide.

John N. Fiske, Jr. '85 is currently immersed in planning for and promoting the "MS Rupert Challenge," a wilderness canoe trip of 24 days on the Rupert River in Canada. Fiske anticipates that the trip, which will take place this summer, will be demanding and difficult, but he has planned the Challenge as a fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Fiske, who was diagnosed with MS in 1.998, will undertake the trip in July and August with the help of three bowmen, one of them being his wife, Mary. After the trip, he plans to visit schools to talk about the history, ethnology, sociology, and environment of northern Quebec, the facts about MS, and the story of fulfilling a dream. To participate as a sponsor, call Fiske at 978-921.-5220.

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The Duggans are renovating their Victorian home in Mystic, CT. Carrie Staff and Guy left DC and moved back to Boston where they're both working in the financial industry. They're expecting their first child early in January.

BETSY BOTHWELL STEPP also recently returned to the Boston area. She and Dave are living in Stow with their son.

NANCY HOCHSTIM GOLDBERG and Michael have two children, Henry, almost a year, and Emily, three. They continue to live in the Lone Star State.

ANNE LIMA MCGRATH and Kevin also have two children, Courtney, one, and Matthew, four.

They live in New Jersey where Anne has been employed with the state criminal justice system for more than 11 years.

M.P. STEVENS was married in New Hampshire last August.

Attending the festivities were Ceronne Berkeley, ANNE SCRIBNER, RUSTY FEARING, and his wife, and rwo children. Rusty and his family live in Wellesley, MA. M.P. and her husband are living in Manhattan and she is finishing up her doctoral dissertation in education.

TED CURTIN '88 is working over in T bilisi, Georgia. He's there with the American Bar Association Center for East European Law Initiative (CEELI), working on programs to develop continuing legal education and the rule of law.

I saw DON HENRY '86 over T hanksgiving weekend. H e and his one-year-old golden retriever, Jasper, will be moving from Darien to Norwalk in January. We saw LIZ SOBKOV RABASKAS '86 and CASEY ELLIOT '86 at Liz's house in Wilton, CT. To fill you in on my activities, I've been living in the DC area for the last seven years and I'm now at my eighth job since graduation. I'll never say Trinity didn't prepare me for a lifetime of learning. After a nine-month stint at the Legislative Resource Center of the House, I quit in April and joined an informarion technology consulting firm as a business analyst. So far, it's been fun. I moved from the Hill to Arlington in July and am happily situated there.

T hat's it for the news this time around.

Joanne Gallo 177 North Troy St., #720 Arlington, VA 22201-3250 e-mail: jgallo@wavecon.com fax: 703-760-8818 Class Agents: Jeffrey A. Concepcion Gregory M. Hill Hi, everyone!

Once this edition makes it to you, winter will be undetway and it will be a new year, bur as I sit down to write this it is 70 degrees in Boston (a little strange but nice) and the holidays are in full swing. I hope everyone had a festive holiday season and a H appy New Year!

Thank yo u to those of you who sent me news and I look forward to hearing from more of you once everyone gets my e-mail address.

Once again I've had the help of a few research assistants in gathering news ...... GINA GEWANT DOYLE shared her information on some happenings ..... "I recently had a chance to get together with MARY AMBROGIO, JENNIFER GOFFMAN, WENDY CARLSON CATALDO, NANCY SPALDING GRAY, LESLIE CHVATAL WARD, and KRISTY GEPHARDT MACOY in New York City for the second annual girls' weekend. Missing were KIM COURSEN PARKER, who's expecting her second baby in May, and SUSAN TIFFANY, who has been living in South Beach, FL for the past few years. We had a great time and celebrated in true Trinity fashion .. ...Jennifer Goffman recently got engaged and is planning an August wedding in Newport, Rl. Kristy is busy with her two boys in Southport, CT, and Mary has started a new job as an attorney at Executive Risk in Simsbury, CT. Les ~i e works at J. Baker in Canton, MA, and I continue to work for Reebok. I also attended a baby shower for GREG '87 and JULIE SHUTT RICHARDSON, who are expecting their first child in January. Julie and Greg recently purchased a home in Medfield, MA and Julie continues to work for Harvard University. Also in attendance were Nancy Spalding Gray and BETH TERRY. Nancy and her husband, Scott, have been busy with their new home in Winchester, MA, and Beth has two children and lives in Cambridge."

ROB REISKlN wrote a quick

note to say that "my wife, Stephanie, and I recently relocated to Lo ndon with my company, Security Capital Global Realty. All is well with us, and we would love to hear from any Trinity grads in the area. My number in the office is 011-44-171-647-8866 and our number at home is 011-44-171259-21 30. " Other news from overseas ...... GREGG LESTAGE and his wife, Julia, welcomed a new baby girl on June 3; her name is Chloe Fulbright LeStage. Gregg recently completed his Ph.D . at O xford and is looking for a university job in the U.S., while negotiating the publication of his thesis as a book. Gregg also does some freelance literary journalism.

Also some updates from WENDY GOLDSTEIN ... LIZ CAHN GOODMAN is now working as a consultant to a law firm, Holland and Knight, in Florida and spending more time with her rwo children, Alex and Jimmy. Wendy is still working at Fidelity, and planning an April 10 wedding in Salem, MA. After his insightful reflections on the Reunion, I couldn't complete this edition without a few commems from BOB LOEBER and his Ode to the College View...... Bob reports...

"Sad news. For those of you who haven't heard, The College View is shutting its doors on January 15. No class is more affected by this than ours. T he View, as it will always be known, was much more than a local establishment. It was the place where many of our friendships began and grew. Much of our social life revolved around the View and one Marty Trial .

Being a close confidant and former employee of M arty's, I was told on more than one occasion that the Class of 1988 will always be his favorite. Although this is probably because we spent enough money at the View to put his kids through college, Marty always had a soft spot for us. So as you think back to your own personal memories of the View, I have put together a list of 10 things I believe we'll all miss: 1) Marty's designer white apron.

It brought out the blue in his eyes.

2) The fact your Saga meal card was acceptable identification.

3) The low-fat menu.

4) Watching the women walk down the hill after a snowstorm.

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5) Bartering with John the Hot Dog man. Who would have guessed whiskey was considered currency?

6) The smell of Marlboro 1OOs entrenched in yo ur clothing.

7) $3 pitchers of Milwaukee's Best on Tuesday night. A lack of class attendance on Wednesday morning.

8) The after-midnight romance.

9) The stimulating conversations. "Marcia Brady is much better looking than Laurie Partridge."

10) Marty's infamo us closing call of "don't you maggots have homes?"

Well, Marty, for fo ur years we did have a home. It was Trinity College and the View was our playroom. Times change and we must move on, but the Class of '88 will always remember the View for what it was. A great place to have a beer and a laugh.

With memories of the View Loebs."

Thanks, Bob, I know many of us agree!

And finally some closing news from our Class President, "DEANO" ANDREWS, and his first, but not last, contribution to the Reporter, "I have some news about some weddings this fall.

Everyone's favorite heartthrob, CLARK CAlv;IPBELL, has finally tied the knot to a lovely lady, Marti, from Iowa. He had his wedding out on Nantucket on Sept.

19, where the great orator, ED CROWTHER, was the justice of the peace. By the way, believe it or not, Ed did a great job and the wedding was a lot of fun. Some other notable Trinity celebrities who attended include TIM STEELE, TOM FITZGERALD, DAN SMITH, and TJ TURNER, and their respective wives and girlfriends. On Oct. 10, CURT ANDERSON also got married to a lovely lady, Cindy, at a posh hotel in Washington, DC. JEFF BASKIES, DAVE H UTCHINSON, Tom Fitzgerald, ED CROWTHER, and I had a great time there, dressed in our tuxedos.

Last, but not least, JOHN HAVlLAND, who was married in June, had a wedding reception/picnic with his new wife, Sue, on Oct. 17 in Farmington, CT. My wife and I attended this event with JOHN BURKE and his wife, and JOE

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hen Martha Stewart invited a select group of journalists to her home in East Hampton, NY, for lunch and a preview of her new line of merchandise for K:mart two years ago, colors and patterns were foremost in her mind. Allyn C. Magrino Holmberg '89, however, was concerned about patterns of a different sort - weather patterns.

"The event involved a lot of logistics that were worrisome," said Holmberg, who, as the co-founder and executive vice president of a Manhattan-based, public relations and brand development firm, worked with Stewart and her staff to organize the national press launch of Stewart's "Everyday'' line at K:mart. "The weather was a big concern because we were flying people in from New York City in small planes," Holmberg recalled. The location proved to be all-important. "The press were invited to lunch at Martha's house to see the product she created in the environment she had had in mind for it when she conceived it," Holmberg explained. The event not only provided the media with an inside view of Stewart's artistic sensibilities, but also produced nextday coverage in such important hews vehicles as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. It also let Americans know that Stewart's Living Omnimedia - a megabusiness consisting of a high-gloss magazine, syndicated television and radio shows, a newspaper column, books, and a mail-order catalog- was expanding once again.

In addition to having Martha Stewart as a client, the Susan Magrino Agency, which Holmberg operates with her older sister and 15 other employees, also represents such media giants as Harper's Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine. According to Holmberg, "We like to think that we represent people who are the best at what they do. For example, Harper's Bazaar is the best fashion magazine; Martha Stewart is the best teacher and the best source of information about things for the home and everyday living."

Holmberg considers Stewart not only a' client, but also a mentor and friend - one who made her wedding bouquet and drove her to the church when her limousine was delayed. "Martha's a real role model," Holmberg says. "She's been very supportive of my sister and me as women in business. We'll run ideas by her. She's just got a wonderful business mind, so she has been a great supporter in that respect, too."

Stewart is equally enthusiastic about Holmberg. "Allyn works with a thoroughness and an attention to detail that is very important to Martha Stewart Living," Stewart said. "She has been as conscientious in her business dealings as she is in her friendship. "

Liberal arts and entrepreneurial skills Holmberg discovered her aptitude for public relations while working as a campus tour guide at Trinity and while spending school breaks working alongside her sister in Crown Publishing's publicity department in New York. At Trinity, she majored in French but explored a variety of other disciplines. She credits Trinity with helping her to build the confidence necessary to become an entrepreneur. "To be an entrepreneur, you really have to believe in yourself, and I think confidencebuilding of this sort is a big part of a Trinity education," she contends.

Immediately following graduation, Holmberg bought a one-way ticket to Paris. There she got a job as a~ administrative assistant in the American law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton to test the waters before applying to law school. At the end of the three-month stint, she decided against law as a career and returned home to New York, where she was hired as an administrative assistant in Donald Trump's organization. The timing proved to be especially propitious.

"My boss was an attorney who often handled the press calls,"

Holmberg explained. "Since I worked for Trump during his divorce from Ivana, I saw crisis management from the front lines," Holmberg recalls. After six months at Trump, Holmberg followed her boss to Macmillan Inc., which had just been purchased by British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell. From this vantage point she continued to have a first-hand look at the world of big business. In 1990, she accepted a position as an account executive at the public relations firm of Clement-Petrocik Co. and for the next two years honed her public relations and language skills, leading journalists on trips to Guadeloupe, St. Barthelemy, and St. Martin in the French West Indies. When her sister, who was already successful in promoting books, expressed an interest in expanding her operation seven years ago, Holmberg gladly joined forces with her.

Operating her own business suits Holmberg perfectly. "Being an entrepreneur, you have no precedent to go by," she observes. "That's what I like about it. You really have to create things. The exciting part is that it's a little scary, too. Is this going to work or isn't it going to work? It gets back to confidence. If I put my best effort into it, what's the worst that can happen?"

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CATAlD0 and our beloved Class Secretary, Wendy Cataldo. That is all the gossip that I have to report at this time. Hopefully, a lot of classmates showed up to the View on the weekend of Jan. 9 to give Marry Trial a great sendoff and help us relive our glory days."

Thanks, everyone. As Deano mentioned, a farewell parry is being planned at the View for jan. 9 and I look forward to having more news to share with everyone or at least some that I'll be able to print!

Well, that's all for now. Keep in touch!

Wendy C. Cataldo 25 Wampanoag Dr. Franklin, MA 02038 e-mail: wendy_cataldo@BCBSMA.com Class Agents: Constantine G. Andrews Mark B. Davis Hello, Class of 1989! Our lOth Reunion is fast approaching and we hope every one has made plans to attend. It is June 10-13, 1999.

On-campus lodging is available at a very reasonable price. There are loads of things to do, lots of good food, and many friends who will be looking to catch up with you.

Some Trinity-related events from our life recently:. We drove up to Homecoming 1998 with Marilyn and MATT MAGINNISS. We met up with DAVE VALZANIA, Joli and DAN GOLDBERG, and MIKE MILLER. We had a great dinner in downtown Hartford, even though the Bantams were crushed by Amherst.

We also noted the many changes to the campus, especially in the north campus area. We barely recognized it. The Alpha Chi Rho house and I believe the former Umoja House are both gone (Editor's note: the Umoja House was moved to a new location on Vernon St.). There is a new campus center and.we almost didn't recognize the North Campus dorm (it looked good!). The Psi Upsilon house looked fantastic. Some major renovation work has been done. I didn't notice Boardwalk and Park Place; they may be gone or replaced as well. You really have to see it to appreciate all that has changed.

Later that same week I was working in New York City and ran into BOB MARKEE. Griffin and CIORSDAN were there and Bob mentioned he was going to an exhibit to meet up with IAN MURPHY '90. So we tagged along and caught up on the last 10 years or so with Ian. This past October, we were skipping out on the last day of a convention in San Francisco to go wine-tasting, and who walks into the V Sattui winery but STEVE WILLARD '91 and MARK DENU '90. They were on the West Coast leg of their monthslong, cross-country odyssey.

During the summer, we ran into JASON MANSKE and his wife.

They let us know that former Class Secretary, YUICHI LEE, and YANI KWEE just had their first baby. Congratulations, Yuichi and Yani!

MICHELLE MORRISSEY KIM and her husband, John, announced the birth of their son, James Matthew, on Nov. 20, 1998.

She was rumored to have said: '~though I'm not ready to turn around and do it all again just yet, it was an amazing experience."

PIKE PETERS and MARIANNE STILLWELL '88 recently celebrated the second birthday of their son, Julian. He is a "very easygoing toddler" and speaks very well. They will be heading up from Melbourne, Australia to Reunion! I'm sure they expect everyone closer to Hartford than they are to be in attendance.

KATIE SHERR BOGART wrote recently: "The good news is that my promotion to C&B consultant was confirmed. I will now be supporting a sub-region in Europe for Motorola. I will be working on process and projects for France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

"For a weekend last October, we managed to lure JENNIFER KEHL away from London where she is working for a couple of months. I recently was back in the U.S. for Thanksgiving and visited with some of my closest friends from Trinity, Ci and Rob, and of course I was amazed at how good their son, Griffin, was at the dinner table."

SEAN DOUGHERTY reports: "In October I purchased ~y first

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house in conjunction with my bride-to-be, Julie Atinaja. We own a three-bedroom in Clifton, NJ. "I continue to work days (and some nights) at The MWW Group, an East Rutherford-based public relations firm, providing business communications services to a range of clients, from small start-ups to major corporations like Continental Airlines and McDonalds. Our office is right across the street from Giants Stadium. It's a short commute from Clifton and I don't miss those New York income taxes one bit.

"Wedding plans continue apace, with maid of honor GINA LETELLIER performing the wonderful service of keeping both of us sane in the midst of chaos.

"We extend what I'm sure will be communal goodwill wishes to AIDAN PATRICK O'SULLIVAN." DOUG MACDONALD filled us in on a few folks: SUE KLUIBER and LIAM O'SULLIVAN '88 just had a baby boy. Also, DAVE RAVERA is engaged to Cathy Boucher.

CRAIG RASMUSSEN '88 wrote in to tell us of some great

BILL MONAGHAN '~9 and Alison Shackelford were married in Nantucket, MA on Sept. 27, 1997. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (front row, I. tor.) E. G. Woods '89, groom, bride; (second row, I. to r.) Alec Monaghan '78, Marney Faesy Hupper '90, Layne Pomerleau Fier '89, Katie Everitt Denious '91, Carol Monaghan Weir '76, Mimi Keller Drake '90; (third row, 1. to r.) Scott Zoltowski '91, Carl Fier '89, Peter Denious '90, Tom Drake '89, John Emery '89; (fourth row, I. to r.) Dave Hupper '90, David Confair '90, Gavin Freytag '89, Jim Beakey '89, Ned Rollhaus '92, Jerry Hansen '51, Jack Kirkpatrick '92; (not pictured: Sandy Monaghan '85).

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news! "I got engaged on Nov. 18 to Beth Lahr. We haven't set a date yet. We will be living in the South End of Boston. I will be done with grad school in four months and graduating in June. Work is going well. I am still at GeoTel and will be doing activeX, DCOM and java stuff I am still skydiving - over 500 jumps now. I met Beth skydiving, actually. So life is pretty good at the moment. I talk to MIKE MILLER often. He seems to be doing well."

AMY GULDEN updated us from her new home: "I moved from Boston, where I've been for the past eight or so years, to New York City in July ... during 1997 I finished up two masters' degrees I'd been working on for the past few years - an M.A. in English from the Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College) and an M.Ed. in arts and education (interdisciplinary program development and evaluation) from Lesley College in Cambridge. Currently I'm free-lance researching and eva!uating here in the city for a bunch of exciting arts programs and hoping to do some teaching artist work as well.

"I just saw EDIE SILVER WALKER the other day with her husband, Breaux- they've recently returned from Shanghai and are settling into San Francisco.

"S. LYERLY PENISTON is living in Chicago and just had a new baby girl, Daphne, (her second child). REGAN HOMANN HATFIELD and I are the proud teamgodmothers!"

CHRIS DICKINSON announced he left Andersen Consulting in July, just after Will (baby number two!) arrived. He and DONNA HAGHIGHAT are living in West Hartford.

MICHELLE MONTI wrote in that "Stephen Hartin and I were married on Oct. 3, 1998. We had a great honeymoon, driving around France for three weeks - seems like a dream now! Steve is starting a new job next week at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Boston, and I am looking for work in television production, promotions, marketing, etc. with an educarional slant." She would appreciate leads from fellow Trin grads!

Mike Miller writes, "I see Craig Rasmussen frequently. He has now developed an expertise in skydiving and has tried out for the national team. He is in excellent condition

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and has seen a great deal of progress, working for his company as a computer/software engineer.

"I keep in touch with JOHN SUCHECKI '86, frequently. He and his wife, Dr. Jeanine, have built an unbelievable home outside of Hartford. John is now working for The Hartford Courant as the director of information technology.

They have a fantastic dog named Dakoda or "Koda'' and he lives better than any kid on the planet.

"COLIN KISOR '91 has recently joined the Navy to go through their JAG program and get his law degree. I think he wants to get into the DEA or ATF eventually.

"MARK HADDAD '91 was married to a fine young lady not too long ago. He is finishing up his M.B.A. at Duke."

That's our news for now. If you need information about the upcoming Reunion, e-mail the alumni office at alumni.office@trincoll.edu, or call at (860) 297-2000 (askfor the alumni office).

Thanks for all of your letters, emails, and cards. Keep them coming! Hope to see you on the Quad in June.

Ciorsdan C. Conran Robert]. Cummings 1015 Washington St., #4 Hoboken, NJ 07030-5268 e-mail: ciorsdan@aol.com e-mail: robert@dbmscan.com fax: 914-273-4692 Class Agent: Sean A. Abbott Hello, Classmates!

I am writing this a week before Thanksgiving, and I am very thankful to be able to report so much good news about so many of you! Thank you to all of you who have heeded my requests for informarion. No doubt you've been checking your mailbox daily for the next Reporter. The good news is you no longer need to wait so long. You can get the Class n路ores sooner by accessing the Trinity web page. The address is www. trincoll.edu/ news/ pub_college/class_notes. To get the password, contact the alumni office at (860) 297-2400. Once again, much of my information is secondhand, so you may be surprised to find your name in here. If you want to amend the information in

any way, please contact me and I will make sure that your information appears in the next report.

I'll start my report with informarion supplied to me by SUZANNE DAVIDSON TALBOT who wins the award for the most voluminous information. She and her husband, David, live in Stonington, CT with their two daughters, Hannah (probably two by the time you read this) and Meghan (probably almost one by the time you read this). Suzanne is a school psychologist for the town of Groton. She loves it. Her husband is a research assistant for a plant genetics company. As Suzanne says, "Throw in the cat and the dog and we really have a hectic home!"

With so much going on, I was very impressed with the number of Trinity friends Suzanne has been able to keep in contact with. Last fall, she got together with BRIAN and Marjorie NUSOM and Brian's sister, MARYANN NUSOM HAVERSTOCK '92, and MaryAnn's husband, Dan. They are all doing well. Brian is a buyer for Filene's in Boston and Marjorie works for Fleet Bank in the Providence area. The couple live in Franklin, MA. MaryAnn and Dan live in Milford, CT. MaryAnn works for the Department of Environmental Protection. At night, she is pursuing her M.B.A. and teaching a graduate course in environmental science. Her husband, Dan, is a statistician for Bayer Pharmaceuticals.

Suzanne also saw MARY SABATINI RAMETTA '89 and her family in September. Mary works part-time as a Spanish teacher at South Windsor High School. Her husband, Dean, works as an electrical engineer and their daughter, Rachel, is almost two.

Suzanne also supplied me with information about KRISTIN CUMMINGS PALMER's daughter. Emily is already one year old.

Kristin works at Bank Boston.

DENISE CHICOINE and her husband, Bill Hoch, are both lawyers in Boston. They own a beautiful condominium on Beacon Hill. They have traveled quite a bit recently. They spent time in England and France in June and went whitewater rafting in the Grand Canyon in August. As if that weren't enough activity, Denise ran the Boston marathon again this year.

MARIE DEMPSEY also ran a marathon. Hers was in New York.

She lives in N.Y.C. and commutes to her job at GE Capital in Stamford, CT. She recently returned from a trip to Hong Kong and hopes someday to work there.

LINDA DIPAULO JONES and her husband, Mike, built a gorgeous home in Newburyport, MA a few years ago. Mike recently finished his M.B.A. and he works in banking. Linda works with computers in sales.

LIZ FLAMMIA ROSATO and her husband, Tom, live on Staten Island. She is an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is very busy with work.

She should have some interesting stories to tell at Reunion.

MATT RODRIGUEZ recently bought a condominium in East Hartford, CT. Although he is currently working in Michigan as a consultant, he attends many Trinity home football games.

In addition, Suzanne notes that in July, she and LYNN FRASClONE got together with a fellow Trinity Rome campus alumna and went to the Caravaggio exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. Lynn is a social worker for a school system in the Willimantic, CT area. She lives in an apartment with some roommates in West Hartford. She spent a lot of her summer in Newport, RI. Suzanne writes that Lynn looks great.

KIRSTEN BRAATZ IVIE recently moved back to the Atlanta, GA area from Kansas. She is still employed by the Centers for Disease Control. Her husband, Sonny, recently started a med school program in Florida.

LISA TOMLINSON returned from Poland last year and is now living in N.Y. C. Thanks for all of the news, Suzanne!!

I also heard from JOEY DUCEY AVANTAGGIO. She lives in Brunswick, ME with her husband, William, and baby girl named Sophia Caroline Avantaggio. Sophie was born this past summer. Joey decided to quit her job at a software company to stay home with Sophie. She may eventually do some environmental consulting, so if you know of any business, send it her way. In the meantime, she and her family are enjoying all of the activities (skiing, biking, sea kayaking) that Maine

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has to offer. Joey tells me that PAUL BRIAN got married about two years ago at Trinity. His wife's name is Heather, and according to Joey, she is smart, attractive, and very fun. Joey also ran into DAVE BATES, his wife, and adorable baby, Jimmy, at a wedding in October. By the time you read this, Jimmy will be almost one year old.

Other Maine alumni include LAURA TAYLOR, who was kind enough to send me a "since graduation update." She's been doing a lot of interesting things. Here's her story (straight from her e-mail to your eyes) . ''Afi:er my Watson Fellowship (which was an incredible experience that I still draw upon in my daily life), I went to graduate school for a master's in coastal environmental manag!"ment at Duke University. I graduated in

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1994 and started working at the Maine State Planning Office in their coastal program. I worked on projects such as the coastal cleanup (Maine's version of the annual beach cleanup) and design of a marine volunteer program. I was also responsible for managing an annual four-million dollar federal grant. In June of 1997, I moved over to the Maine Department of Marine Resources to become 'special assistant to the commissioner' (a nice promotion). I now work on marine policy issues and development of 'co-management' with the lobster and sea urchin fisheries. We are working to create a management structure that shares responsibility for the resource between the state and the industry. I'm living in Portland, but have plans to move to Falmouth (the 'burbs). I love Maine - its natural beauty and its people

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(especially the fishermen with whom I work)."

Laura ended her note with a random Trinity connection. At work the other day, she walked by a colorful calendar depicting lots of wildlife. She went over to get a closer look and noticed it was a Human-i-Tees product. She thought, "way to go Bantams"; T IM BOYLAN and STEVE KEMLER are the fo unders of the company.

I was really happy to hear from MICHAEL POE, who is living in Sydney, Australia. Over a year ago, he accepted a two-year posting with the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. He loves it. He reports that the weather is beautiful, the people are nice, and he lives near Bondi Beach (Sydney's most famous). He's also been able to take advantage of his close proximity to Southeast Asia. In fact, he recently went to Bali for the weekend. Anyone who is planning to try to go to the 2000 Olympics should get in touch with M ike. E-mail me and I'll give you his e-mail. World-traveler Mike also spent New Year's on St. Lucia with MEL and EDDIE OSBORNE '89'.

He says they had an absolute blast.

Other tropical visitors were LAURA COOPER and KATYWILSONMEYER who were both in Bermuda this past September.

SCOTT ENGLISH has all kinds of reasons to celebrate. He just finished business school and (as mentioned in the last article), he is now a married man. I think I received more news about the wedding of Scott English and OLIVIA BINGHAM ENGLISH than I did about any other event. Even my mother got into the act, sending me Olivia's wedding announcement. Everyone had great things to say about the wedding. SHANNON O'BRIEN summed it up the best when she wrote, "The wedding, in Greenwich, CT was amazing not only was it a ton of fun, but it was a very special experience. T he weather was perfect and you can't imagine a more beautiful bride than Olivia Bingham! Scott looked dashing, too." The bridesmaids were ALIX EWERT, NINA T IGER, LIZ HORN, LIZ U PHOFF '9 1, and Shannon. The maid of honor was JULIA POWER. JULIE HOLT was a reader. The groomsmen included ELYA SCHWARTZMAN, TIM CALLAHAN, and CHRIS HARGES '88. Other

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guests included JENN TESOROREESE '9 1, PETER LYONS, SARAH REED CARTER, and JENNIFER OSBORNE PRESCOTT. When not fulfilling her maid-of-honor duties, Julia was busy with business school and her new role as an aunt. Her sister, MELANIE POWER MCLAUGHLIN '9 1, had a baby, Cecilia Elaine McLaughlin (Ceci), in February. Julia also tells me that STEPHANIE RITZ has been promoted to agent at ICM (International Creative """ Management) in New York.

Congratulations! Julia路 graduates from Columbia Business School this spring and is busy looking for a job in the media/entertainment world. Hope I'll have a job update for her in an upcoming issue! Jenn Tesoro Reese and her husband, Mike, just bought a very nice house (complete with deer) in W ilton, CT. I mentioned in the last article that I would try to get more information about STEVE VAN PUTTEN's wedding. Steve was kind enough to e-mail me with the details. He married Carolyn Kelley in May. Attending the wedding were his senior-year roommates: BENNETT NOTMAN and his wife, Elizabeth; DAN GOLDMAN and his wife, Bettina; and DAVID LANDA, who recently got engaged. Hope I'll have more information on Dave's wedding plans in an upcoming issue. Steve and Carolyn live in Boston. Steve is a consultant with Hay Management Consultants.

MELISSA GOLD sent me great pictures of her wedding to Will Jelinek. It l~oks like everyone had a great time. Meliss;_ looked absolutely amazing! Here are the details on her September Cape Cod wedding (straight from the bride's e-mail).

"The wedding was simply splendid, the weather could not have been more perfect. I really had a great time at my wedding and even threw a lobster bib around my neck and ate an entire lobster (without getting any on my dress). CHRISTINE DISTEFANO MAWN and SHARON SIMKISS MERHIGE looked gorgeous, and T im Callahan also made it. The ceremony was especially meaningful for us. We got married under a beautiful wedding h uppah decorated with hanging ivy and curly willow wood with a billowing piece of organza acting

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as the canopy. Sharon and Christine held the huppah and so they were right beside me throughout the entirer.-ceremony. The rabbi was great and said some beautiful words. Will and I also circled around each other which is a very traditional Jewish custom. This was to show our new allegiance to each other. The honeymoon was fabulous. We spent rwo nights in Paris and then flew to Naples and went to the island of Capri for a couple of days and then went to the Amalfi Coast (Positano, Ravello, Amalfi and Praino) for the last eight days. " Melissa also told me that she ran into JP MARRA at her husband's high school reunion. He is married and lives in N .Y C. In the last issue, I also men- , tioned ANGIE HAN CULIN's wedding. I am happy to provide . you with the details so lacking in my last article. Angie got married on May 25, 1997 to Russell Culin, a friend of her brother's from Princeton. PAM HICKORY ESTERSON, Sarah Reed Carter, Liz Horn, Alix Ewert, ELIZABETH RIPLEY WHITE, MATT WELTON, and LYDIA FAULKNER attended. The wedding took place in Asheville, NC. The Culins live in Winston-Salem, NC where Angie is in her second

year of med school at Wake Forest University.

BETH CAPALDI e-mailed me to catch me up on her past few years. She is still working as a research associate at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

She welcomes any other prairie dwellers to look her up!

EMILY KNACK PORT and DAVE PORT '89 are doing well in Colorado. They have a new house and a new dog named Bess.

ELIZABETH HINES BIGELOW and CHANDLER BIGELOW '91 are expecting a baby this spring. Elizabeth, hope you'll send me information once you catch up on your sleep!

KELLY NASH QUINN is also expecting a baby. She is due in March.

Bennet Norman is a father! He and his wife, Elizabeth, adopted a six-month-old girl from Siberia. By the time you read this, she will be about one year old.

ALIX OGDEN and her husband, Evan Matthews, are also expecting. I saw Alix over Thanksgiving and she looks great. I also got a chance to meet Evan. He is a really nice guy. They told me lots of stories about their wedding, which took place earlier this year.

Trinity guests were JULIE VIRDONE (bridesmaid) , CHRIS

FINCH '92, PRISCILLA PAULIN, TYLER THORS '89, LEVI RICHARDSON, MARY TYLER '94, WAT TYLER '99, NANCY NEREO, and JOE CADIGAN. Joe brought his fiancee, Erin Gorman, with him.

Alix is a community planner for Seattle's parks and recreation department.

JEFF HENDERER and SANNA MARSHALL BENDERER have had their second son. His name is Parker. Their older boy, Christman, is three. The Henderers live in the Philadelphia area, just five minutes from Sanna's sister, LINDSEY MARSHALL '93. Jeff is doing a glaucoma fellowship at Wills Eye.Hospital in Philadelphia.

ALEXlS BRASHICH MORLEDGE is the acting director of development at the NightingaleBamford School. Her husband, LJ, is a partner in the multi-specialty medical group, Madison Medical LLP in New York. They have recently become parents. Louis Joseph Morledge, Jr. was born on Oct. 26, 1998 at 8:00. He weighed eight pounds, eight ounces. Alexis loves motherhood. Alexis is taking a hiatus from the professional world of development, but plans on continuing her volunteer commitments. She is a Class Agent, a Long Walk Societies volunteer, a

PAMELA HICKORY '90 and Robin Esterson were married on Oct. 18, 1997 on Hilton Head Island, SC. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (front row, 1. to r.)

Christom Larsin '87, groom, bride, Angie Han Culin '90, Alix Ewert '90; (back row, I. to r.) Laura Cooper '90, Jeff Barry '90, John Hickory '66, Wayne Hickory '73, Michael Petrucelli '90, Ginger Fairman Kelson '90.

member of the alumni board of her secondary school, co-founder and co-chair of the Junior Council of the American Museum of Natural History, a member of the Junior League, and of the board of the Ballamy-Ferriday House (a property owned by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society).

COURTNEY CIMILLUCA ZANELLI will be a third-time parent by the time you read this.

The new baby, due later this winter, will join rwo older brothers.

They live in Summit, NJ. Also in the Philadelphia area is GREG MILBOURNE. He is working toward a doctorate in clinical psychology and an MBA at Widener University outside of Philadelphia. The weekend after classes started, he married.

Needless to say, life has seemed pretty hectic for him lately, but he wanted to send a hello to all of his classmates.

VICTORIA (TORY) GARDNER COATES is a visiting assistant professor of fine arts at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. She recently completed her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Pennsylvania.

I received an e-mail from DAVE COPLAND. He is living in Chicago and filled me in on a

RAYMOND HANNAN '90 and Cynthia Anderson were married on March 1, 1997 in Simsbury, CT. Trinity alumni/ae attending from the Class of 1990 were: (front row, I. to r.) Jeffrey Proulx, Edward Troiano, Sarah Rafle, Neil Walsh; (standing) bride and groom.

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few of our classmates. WILL (BILL) THIMES has been in the Windy Ciry since last spring, working in investment banking.

ALEX PAIDAS visited Chicago recently during the NESN broadcast of the Trinity-Middlebury fo otball game. Alex graduated from business school in the spring and is now working in Texaco's special studies department in H ouston.

Also in Houston is PAUL N IKOLAID IS . H e is finishing h is radio!ogy residency. This <@mmer he'll start a fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. KIRK and ING RJD BOONISAR FITZSIMMONS '91 had a baby boy in October. Kirk graduated from NYU's Stern Business School last spring and is working in Northamp ton, MA. ERJ C '91 and ANN LUKE GAZIN have been in Belgium since last June with their dog, Linus. Eric is working for Sonoco and they will soon be moving to Poland, which is where Sonoco is building a new paper mill.

SARAH CODD sent me an email filled with exciting news. By the time you read this, she will have married John Gruen. She met him on a four-day mountain biking trip. The wedding, set for Dec. 6, 1998, will be in Baltimore, MD. ALISON ZWEIL (living in

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Georgetown, MA) will be a bridesmaid. CYNDY NAHABEDIAN MAMALIAN '92 will be the matron of honor. Cyndy got married last July and Sarah was a bridesmaid. Sarah also expects ERJN BLACK to attend the wedding. Erin is living in Olympia, WA and recently went on a twoweek vacation to New Zealand.

Sarah completed her graduate work at Harvard in psychology a few years ago. After several years working in Hospice, this summer she switched to Sinai Hospital in Baltimore where she is the coordinator of m edical staff Sarah wo uld love to hear from JEAN ELLIOTT. Also on her way to the altar is LYNN ANEIRO. She plans to marry James Stotler, Jr. on April 9, 1999 in West H artfo rd. The two met at a Whalers' game. James is a high school teacher and a varsity soccer coach at Portland High School in Portland, CT. Plans are for a honeymoon in Grand Cayman. Lynn is still working at Bayer as a senior medical research associate in the anti-infective area.

She completed an MHS degree in biomedical sciences a few years ago and in now working on an MBA. She still makes time to help Trinity with alumni interviews and college fairs in the southern Connecticut area.

I received an e-mail from RlCK DARRELL. He is living in Atlanta with his wife, Jill Jackson. They married on June 20, 1998 in Orange, CT. STEPHEN SONNONE was the best man. JAMIE MONGILLO, ROB SICKINGER, and SUE STENECK SICKINGER were guests.

Rick recently quit his research position at Emory so that he could go back to school full-time. He is pursuing his MBA with a major in computer information systems at Georgia State University. He hopes to have his degree by August of 1999 and move back to Connecticut. I'll keep yo u posted.

After graduating from Quinnipiac Law in May 1995, Jamie is an associate at Sperandeo and Donegan in New Haven. H e has been married to Barb McGovern for about three years. They just bought a house in Harnden and are busy fixing it up.

NEIL WALSH sent me an email full of exciting news: "ED TROIANO was married in May 1998 at the Trinity Chapel with several Trinity alums in attendance.

Ed and his new wife, Nancy Anderson, are living outside of Providence, but they are looking to move closer to Boston. Ed is working hard as an ATF agent to proteet the Constitution: JEFF PROULX flew in for the wedding

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from Minneapolis where he is monitoring the effects of severe weather on the human psyche and working at ReliaStar Financial Corp as a corporate and securities attorney. JIM MURPHY drove up from New York. PAUL DIAZ and ANA CARVAJAL flew up from DC where Paul is working for Uncle Sam and Ana was working for a telecommunications company, but will soon be caring for the couple's first child. RANDY HANNAN and his wife, C indy, hosted us at their home in West Hartford (brave souls). He is working at Executive Risk Inc. in Simsbury, CT, doing contract law and reinsurance. I am currently living in Boston and commuting to Los Angeles. I am getting married to Anne Mazzato on Nov. 14, 1998 on Cape Cod, MA (Falmouth) and relocating to San Francisco to open up a West Coast office for my employer, Tessera Enterprise Systems. C urrently, I am managing large-scale marketing data warehouse efforts at Fortune 500 clients across the country."

ALANA JEYDEL got her Ph.D. in political science in December 1997 and is now teaching at the State U niversity of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta. It is going well. H er husband is an applied physics graduate student at

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JOHN ULRICH '90 and Amanda Ells were married on June 27, 1998. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (kneelin/1/seated, I. tor.) Joe Cole '90, bride, groom, Richard Coleman '90, Norm Wack '51; (standing, I. tor.) Ken Hamblett '53, Lisa Hughes '87 (with daughters, Charlotte and Darcy), David Gerber '92, Lorenzo Blum '91, David Hughes '87, Jorge Rodriguez '91, David Wells '90, Rachel Totman '93, Doug Butler '91, Jim Dormer '90, Nick Christakos '52.

MELISSA GOLD '90 and William Jelinek were married on Sept. 13, 1998 in Provincetown, MA. Trinity alumni/ae attending from the Class of 1990 were: (1. to r.) Christine DiStefano Mawn, bride, Sharon Simkiss Merhige, Tim Callahan. The groom paddled to the ceremony in a kayak (see inset).

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Cornell. Alana has a 10-year-old stepson, Daniel, who spent the summer with them. They are neighbors ofJD CREEDON and his wife, Suzannah.

Also finally finished with graduate school is WENDY DUNN. She defended her dissertation in economics at Johns Hopkins in October and started a job as a staff economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in DC. She's working for Alan Greenspan, so look for her on the news. Do not write her about lowering the interest rates - she can't help you. Wendy married Mark Tramontozzi (but did not change her name) on Sept. 12, 1998. The weather for the Darien, CT-ceremony was wonderful and everyone had a great time, especially MIKE PANGAN and JOHN CLAUD '91 who scarfed down the raw bar before the bride and groom finished getting their pictures taken. Mike and his wife, Patty, live in Cleveland, OH. John Claud lives in DC and attends law school.

GUNNER FURGUESON also attended. He lives in Philadelphia and is a doctor of neuropsychology, specializing in brain-injured kids.

KAMRAN KOOCHEKZADEH couldn't make it as he is working hard in Lugano, Switzerland, and TODD COOPEE is in Canada (Wendy didn't mention whether or not he was working hard). Mark and Wendy live in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. SCOTT HADDAD is living in L.A., CA. He works for Strategic Planning for Toyota. He is having a great time exploring southern California. His brother, MARK HADDAD '91 got married last August.

MARY BRESCIA is living near Hartford. She works as a benefits administrator and part-time real estate appraiser. She is also working on her master's thesis in English literature.

PAIGE BAUMANN reports that she passed both the California and the Massachusetts bar. She isn't working as a lawyer, though. She works at Charles Schwab as a technical consultant. She ran the San Francisco Marathon in July. She plans on running several halfmarathons. She sees a lot of SCOTT GERIEN and KELLY DIXON '88. Both are lawyers in the Bay area. Kelly is a probate

attorney and Scott specializes in the trademark area. Scott is also vice president of the Trinity Club of San Francisco.

CAROLYN BOYLAN is still toiling away at med school. She is in her fifth year of an M.D./Ph.D. program at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, OH. She is hoping to graduate in the year 2000 and plans on doing a pediatrics residency and then a subspecialty (to be determined) fellowship.

LISA FREEMAN is planning a September 1999 wedding to Andrew Conner. The wedding will be a double wedding (with her sister Rhonda), and will take place in Aspen, CO. It sounds like it is going to be beautiful! Lisa is living in Denver, working as an interior designer and decorator, and attending art school at the Colorado Institute of Art for Graphic Design.

TOBY and COOlE STETSON BATES '91 are still living in Hawaii. They've been there since 1996. They moved to the Aloha State to open an office for Toby's company. They welcome any and all visitors to the Islands. Call or email before you land at the airport.

MARK HADDAD '91 and Kristen Polsonetti were married on Aug. 8, 1998. Trinity alumni attending were: (front, I. to r.) James Mackey '92, Scott Turner '91; (back, /. to r.) Richard DiPreta'91, Gabriel Handel '94, Colin Kisor '91, Christopher Shafer '92, bride, groom, Scott Haddad '90, Ernest Haddad '60.

You can get his e-mail address on the Trinity website or e-mail me and I'll send it to you.

We have enjoyed our life in Colorado. We were lucky to have a few Trinity visitors this summer and fall. WENDY SALUSTRO '88 and TASA NAGASHIMA '88 visited in August. They spent a few days with us and then went to explore the mountains. Wendy is working in the marketing department of Playtex and Tasa is a school psychologist in an elementary school in Connecticut. They have a new puppy, Max, who is very cute.

MARTHA WILLOUGHBY and her sister, Jennifer, stopped in on their way back from a Labor Day visit to Aspen, CO. We had a great time during their 12-hour visit.

We have moved to Charlotte, NC and are living in a corporate apartment while we look for a house to buy. Our e-mail address stays the same, so you may reach me that way. Or feel free to send any Class news to the alumni office until I can tell you my permanent address. I hope you all continue to do well. I would love to hear any and all news, big or small. If you don't send any information, you risk my harassing you at the Reunion .....

Sara Moorin Lang Class Agents: Suzanne E. Carroll Raymond T. Hannan, Jr. Alexis Brashich Morledge W. James Murphy, Jr. Aaron J. Sobel

Thanks to all who contributed to this season's column!

Hope your holidays were happy.

MARY MAGAURAN writes, ''Aloha! Hawaii has been a fantastic experience after grad school. I have been practicing as a D.C., teaching anatomy and pathology, and, believe it or not, I'm in the musical production of 'It's A Wonderful Life.' (I've become a semi-competent surfer and boogey-boarder, too, but maybe we should leave that out.) But real life is calling and I relocate to Boston in January 1999 to start a practice and hopefully teach, too. I've really come to love it. I'll move there with my four-year-old daughter, Jenny, and a beautiful black Lab. I visited BROOK MCWHIRTER in

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Chicago and she's doing well. I 路really look forward to seeing old Trinity alums back in New England and catching up. It's been too long!"

MONA MENNEN GIBSON writes that she and Jon Gibson were married on May 9, 1998 in Morristown, NJ. MAGOO HILDRETH was the maid of honor and BROOKE RORER BROWN was the matron of honor. PEYTON TAN SILL, ~TE STEARNS SYMONDS, and COURTNEY GEELAN were bridesmaids. Mona says, "Jon and I are living in Bernardsville, NJ. Magoo was married on Oct. 10, 1998 to Brandon Hemley in San Francisco, CA. They will be living out there. Brandy is a lawyer.

Peyton Tansill, Courtney Geelan, and Mona were bridesmaids.

Peyton is threatening to officially retire as a bridesmaid! Brooke and Eric Brown had a baby girl recently. Sarah Campbell Brown weighed seven pounds, four ounces.

Congratulations to all!"

MOLLY WHELAHAN writes that she is "still working at Calvin Klein as the director of public relations for the women's collection. I recently got engaged to John Ducker, who went to Bates, and we will be getting married next October in Virginia. JEN TESORO-REESE and her husband, Mike, just moved out to Wilton, CT. Jen is doing very well, still working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. KIMBERLY MARTH is in her second year at business school at Cornell and plans to move back to the New , York area when she graduates.

Speaking of weddings, DYLAN REMLEY's bachelor party was in Las Vegas on Nov. 6, 7 and 8, and was organized by TONY PARUSZEWSKI. In attendance were Tony, Dylan, the rest of the flying Remley brothers, JOHN CLAUD, ROB DELENA, MATT GREENBERG, ANDY NEWCOMB, REN WHITING, FRANK MONACO, BILL BRICK, and some of Dylan's friends from home. Indoor sky-diving and all the best Vegas has to offer were enjoyed by all in attendance.

SCOTT ZOLTOWSKI writes that "a bunch of us were in France this past summer for the world cup and took a picture of all of us in Trinity Square in Montpellier for

the alumni press. It was a blast, , reminiscing about our 'non-glory days and watching a ton of soccer in the south of France. Attendees: Scott, who lives in Colorado, JOHN RAMSEY from Boston, DAVE WRAY from DC, JOHN TWICHELL '92 from Chicago, JOHN KEHOE '92 from N.Y. C., and JEFF WARD '92 from DC. " LONNIE STEWART reported that he and his wife expected a child in January.

The alumni office notes that HERB THOMPSON was promoted to lieutenant, j.g. in the Navy, while serving in Jacksonville, FL. PAUL FITZPATRICK writes that he and Anne recently celeb rated their fifth anniversary and still live in Arlington, VA, just outside DC. He notes, "Anne is truly loving being a full-time mother to our son, Connor, who just turned one.

She is doing a bit of telecommuting with the Family Research Council where she worked for five years before having the baby." Paul has been with that organization for over four years. He is in fund raising and travels the country so you may see him in remote parts. They keep close contact with JOHN FRANCINI who is still in Boston, working as a financial analyst for a trust company. They also report that LIBBY STING MILLER had her third beautiful baby, a second son, this summer.

KELLEY CAMPBELL forwarded me the details from STEVE DRUCKMAN's wedding (to Vanessa de sa Pereira) in September '98 ... they were married at the Troutbeck Inn in Amenia, NY over the Labor Day weekend. She says, "Trinity attendees included me, husband ERIC TAUBENHEIM, STEVE SPAULDING, ANDREA HIRSHON SPAULDING, TOM WILLIAMS, DAN ALTER, TIM CALLAHAN '90, GREG DRUCKMAN '88, RICHARD DRUCKMAN '61, DITAS MAURICIO, MY LINH VUGREGOIRE, and MALCOLM MACLEAN '92."

CHARLIE CRISSMAN decided to step up to the plate and respond rather than leave it to his so-called friends to report on his life. He says, "Darden is going well and I just got picked in the lottery for the Western States 100-miler in June so it is time to start running , agam ...

Heather Nicole Watkins PricewaterhouseCoopers 1616 North Ft. Myer Dr. Arlington, VA 22209 e-mail: heather.watkins@us.pwc global. com fax: 703-741-2399 Class Agents: C. Brook McWhirter Jennifer L. Moran Susannah A. Smetana

Well, it's early December as I write to you all, and it's beginning to look a lot like... well, Memorial Day, actually.

Here in New York the temperature has been reaching the low 70s regularly, and frankly, it's turning me into a Grinch. There's a reason I don't choose to live on the West Coast!

Okay, once again I will regale you with nuptial news. Those wedding bells have been mighty busy, ringing for so many of our old classmates.

For starters, I recently received a note from NOAH ECCLES, who was actually a little late with his news: he married Sheryl Freeman in June of 1997. Many Trinity grads attended, including BRENDAN CAMPBELL, PETE CUOMO '93, TONY MACALUSO '93, JAMES O'BRIEN '93, MIKE RYAN '93, KEVIN RYCZEK '93, MAURA MARTIN '95, BRAD CUTTING '93, JOE GUGLIOTTA '93, DAVID RAYMOND '93, MIMI WOLFE, and KATHLEEN THOMAS (phew!).

Noah and Sheryl live in Brookline, MA, and Noah is working at Fidelity in Boston, having graduated from Wharton last May. Noah ' also mentioned that they had recently completed the "Pesky Serpent Triathlon" in Wilby, MA, organized by founders, TOM PRESZ and ERIC MCGRANAHAN '93. (Go, Granny!)

On a not-so-scary Halloween night, I attended KATHY KIMBALI.:s wedding in Springfield, MA, and got a chance to catch up with many College friends. Kathy and her husband, Russ Kadziolka, live in Farmington and honeymooned in the Canary Islands. As I mentioned, a lot of '92ers made the trip to Springfield, including BETSY STALLINGS WELP and her husband, Corey.

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Dallas, TX, because they brought their brand-new baby daughter, Meghan Kathleen, (Trinity Class of 2020, perhaps?) with them! We were all so thrilled to meet little Meghan, who was very well behaved (guess she takes after her dad - ha ha). Other wedding guests were a bit more rowdy, including bridesmaids, JO MARIE RUCCI MIELAUSKAS, PAULA CINTI, KAREN ISGUR, and Suzanne Braniecki ('92 College Exchange Program). BEE BENNETT was nice enough to let me hitch a ride up with her from N.Y. C.; Bee recently bought her own place on the Upper East Side where she hosted the bachelorette party for the aforementioned bride.

AMY CHIODO ALLEN and her husband carne in from Boston, and MIKE and BETH ALLEN also drove in from their new house in Connecticut. At the reception, I had the chance to talk with ANN REUTTER about her upcoming wedding next spring in North Carolina, which will take place just three weeks after Suzanne Braniecki's wedding to her longtime beau, Mike Matteo. Mike and Suzanne are planning to marry in Philadelphia, and they just recently moved imo their new house in Wynnewood, PA. It's going to be a busy spring, but I look forward to attending both weddings and filing a full report in the next Class Notes.

I also heard that congratulations are in order to ELIZABETH "IA" ANDREWS, who was recently married. NICHOLE PARDO served as a bridesmaid.

And in closing my wedding announcement section, let me make a simple request to all those future brides and bridegrooms: please, please, do not send me your wedding photos (not that I don't love seeing them). Photos should be sent directly to the alumni office instead. Otherwise, they may not be published until a later edition.

In other news: BILL SCHREIBER recently graduated from the Anderson School at UCLA with an M.B.A. and is working for the sports law firm of Steinberg & Moorad in Newport Beach, CA. In our nation's capital, JENNIFER LEACH recently began a new position as legislative counsel for Senator Robert Torricelli (D-

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NJ). Prior to that, Jennifer worked for Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).

CELESTE SNOW moved to Austin, TX and is working as an administrator for a restaurant group. She says, "Austin is a great city and a lot of fun. And warm!"

Pilot TAD HAZELTON began working for Cathay Pacific Airways in 1997, and is now located in Hong Kong. He spent last summer training in Australia at the Australian Aviation College, and then continued his training in Hong Kong. He mentioned that he ran into JASON MASI '93 in Hong Kong, when Jason was there on business.

Here's an update on one of our most musically talented alumnae, CHRISTINA FISCHER. Last we heard, she was performing with the Boston Brass quintet. You may remember that Christina served as assisting organist and organ scholar at the American Cathedral in Paris from 1994-1996, and was awarded first prize in the UFAM International Organ Competition Paris in 1995. (Sorry these kudos are so late, Christina).

Congratulations to Navy Ensign DRUMMOND BOORD who, last spring, completed the first round of intense training to

become a Navy SEAL. The Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training took place over the course of 25 weeks at the Navy special warfare center in San Diego, and involved long-distance swimming, combat diving, demolition warfare, land navigation, patrolling techniques, and military explosives.

(And I thought New York litigation was tough!) .

That's it for now. By the rime you read this, the holidays will be but a memory, so I hope they were enjoyable for everyone. 'Till I write again ....

Erin Kelly Galvin 135 E. 50th St., Apt. 3F New York, NY 10022-7514 e-mail: Egalvin@milbank.com Class Agents: Rachel C. Freeman David E. Gerber Malcolm F. MacLean N Matthew B. Woods

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I am starting to get the feeling that when people aren't sure what else to do, they get married or go to business school.

Not that there is anything wrong with that- it just seems to be something of a theme for the Class of 1993. Perhaps there is something peculiar about our generation

KATHERINE SHAFFER '93 and Kevin Kuehn were married on May 23, 1998 in Huntsville, AL.. Trinity alumnae attending from the Class of 1993 were: (1. to r., flanking the bride) L.ynn Wolff and Susan Olsen.

- the fact that we watched too much TV as children, had fluoride in our water, or something along those lines. Now that we have survived our fifth fall, not living in one ofTrinity's hallowed (residence) halls, let's take a peek at what everyone has been up to: NICOLE CRISCIONE reports in from Albany, capital of the great state of New York, with all kinds of marital news. She talked of heading our to San Diego, along with JEN THORNTON, DAVID BALTAZAR, and Tim and PAVINEE SAGUANSATAYA SHEA for the wedding of ANDY FIRTEL '92.

She noted that JEN NOVAK '93 and MIKE JOLIE are engaged and planning to tie the knot in June of 2000, and finally (getting to the point), Nicole was excited to announce that she had just gotten engaged herself, to Albert 'Boo' Szasnat. They are shooting for a fall 1999 wedding.

LIZ WEIGAND is srillj n Boston, working for MFS as a senior training and documentation specialist (she seems so young to be a senior... how time flies!). On winter weekends she has her hands full, teaching kids to ski in Stratton, VT. Liz mentioned that JILL MARKIEWICZ is in New York, working for a financial services company.

Liz calls New York often to talk to JAMIE (formerly Murphy) WEISBERG, but it was Jamie, herself, who wrote to say that she has started a new job as a production assistant with Sicurella and Associates, a music production company that writes music for TV' and radio commercials. "This is the opportunity I have been working towards since graduation," she wrote. "It's like a dream come true.

Let's just hope that I can pull it off." We know that she can do it, but just in case, why don't we all cross our fingers. Jamie attended the wedding of REN GETZENDANNER '92 in England, and had a great time catching up with old Trinity pals on the far side of the pond.

HARRY COHEN and his wife have pulled the plug on urban living and moved to the 'burbs; they recently bought a house in Sharon, MA. Buying a house is one thing, but what else happens after weddings? Ah yes - babies. LYNN WOLFF reports that DAl~A (Meachen) and CHRIS RAU had a

baby boy in October (I guess that I would be surprised if it weren't a baby). Lynn also mentioned that MCRAE WILLIAMS is starting medical school this fall, so he and his wife are moving to the sunny Caribbean.

JEN 'Nej' SIGLAG is program manager for VH1's Save The Music, a nonprofit organization that supports music education in public schools, and is living in an old brownstone in historic Brooklyn with "my soulmate Mathew and our two cats, dreaming of moving to Vermont to start our own business. On-line mailorder? Bed and Breakfast? The possibilities are endless ... " Sounds like a great plan. Put me down for two of whatever you decide to sell.

Another idea, though admittedly slightly less legal, would be to get involved in the lucrative business of smuggling Canadians over the border. Just a thought...

More New York news: GREG CREAMER is still living with MATT McCABE in the Union Square area, and is planning on getting married next summer.

No, not to Matt, but to his fiancee, Lynn. The two (Greg and Lynn, that is), who were engaged in August on Block Island, are moving to London in January, whilst Greg completes his Stern School (N.Y.U.) M.B.A. at the London Business School, and is hoping to return to Salomon Smith Barney. And what of the soon-to-be-abandoned McCabe?

He plans to travel around the world in the spring and start bschool come fall.

Young Miss AUDREY BRASHICH is an editor at YM (Young and Modern), and works diligently each day to help define the culture of today's teen girls. She notes that her sis', ALEXIS '90, had a baby boy named Louis Joseph Morledge, Jr. in Octobercertainly a big name for a small boy.

SARA TITUS SKELLY '94, personal secretary to PIPER SKELLY, notes that Dr. Skelly is swamped as usual and currently has his hands full at Cook County Hospital, while he spends two months on the trauma/ER rotation. Meanwhile, Piper is working on the script for a TV show pilot.

The concept is centered around one brilliant, handsome, young surgeon, and a group of skilled

doctors and nurses who keep up dramatic banter while saving lives and looking edgy. Starring Piper, himself, the show would be called mE-R. Sounds like a winner!

MAMIE ANDERSON writes in to mention that "our former fearless leader, ASHLEY GRAVES, just graduated from business school and is back in the U.S., looking for a job ... MARY BIRKEL JACKSON had her stateside wedding reception on Long Island in October, for chose people who couldn't travel to Northern Ireland for her wedding last June. It was a lovely event on a picture-perfect day." At the recepcion, Mamie caught up with JAMIE GAILLARD and ANN MARIE KRUPSKI, and notes that MARGARET GOLDEN has taken a job at St. Anselm College.

After graduating from Brown University with a Ph.D. in experimental psychology last May, MATT DRINKWATER is now living in Pittsburgh and working at rhe University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as a senior data manager. You mean that Trinity people are allowed to live outside of New York?

Closer to home, and similarly not in New York, E. C LIVE BARD has completed his third semester of law school at Boston University, and will be working for Sullivan and Worcester as a summer associate come May. He notes, with amusement, that TONY CANATA interviewed him for a spot at Testa, Hmwitz, and Thibeault. You know what they always say: Bantams are thicker than water, or thieves, or something like that.

RACHEL SCHREIER SCHEWE happily reported that she and CHARLIE SCHEWE were married on Sept. 12 in Chatham, MA. SARAH FRIDY is getting married Jan. 2 in Philadelphia (Happy New Year!), and JON PIPER, living in Boston, is engaged. The ever-informed Rachel also filled me in on JOANNA POLLIO ONORATO who passed the bar and is working at a law firm in DC, and STEVE CURLEY, who has started his M.B.A. at Tuck Business School at Dartmouth.

ANTHONY MACALUSO, along with DAVE RAYMOND, visited LANNY MILLER and FELICIA GOULET MILLER '94 at their "beautiful residence in Port

Aransas, TX. Lanny is pursuing his Ph.D. in marine biology at the University ofTexas at Austin, and Felicia has finished her master's in biology at Texas A&M. Lanny is the same happy-go-lucky, crazy man, and he did not hesitate to entertain Boggs and me. " During his action-packed summer, Anthony also made ir to two Trinity weddings, including MIKE RYAN's in August on Long Island, which included best man KEVIN RYCZEK and his then-fiancee MAURA MARTIN '95, PETE CUOMO, JIM O'BRIEN, BRAD CUTTING, JON HOLMES, MARCIA '94 and ADAM LAPUT, JOE GUGLIOTTA, NOAH ECCLES '92, the elusive TIM RICHMAN, and Dave Raymond.

"The same group and a whole lor more Trinity folk (including engineering professor, John Mertens, and Ann Marie Krupski) attended the Kevin Ryczek-Maura Martin wedding a month later in Springfield, MA. Kevin had a bit of bad luck as he had to gimp on the dance floor with one good leg he broke his foot a week prior to the wedding playing basketball.

Even with one leg, he was still the best dancer at the wedding. Mike Ryan was Kevin's best man, and vice versa." Another fine example of the long-term bonds formed during those four lazy hazy crazy years 'neath the ... etc., etc.

As for me, not much is happening. Nicola and I are now resident tutors in Harvard's Eliot House.

She continues working on her Ph.D., and though I am still at Fritz Companies, in my free time I dispense questionable career advice to overachieving undergraduates.

We headed to London for Christmas, and hope to escape to someplace warm during the winter.

After all, I will need my energy, since over the next few months, like any good Bantam, I am getting married and applying to business school. After all, I am a Class officer.

LIZ JOHNSON sent this update to the alumni office: "CLAUDIA CARTAGENES and KEVIN CHRISTIAN were married on June 13, 1998 in Darien, CT. SARA WEDLOCK, SHAUNA ANDREOLI, and LARISA DOLHANCRYK were Claudia's attendants. Sara lives in Columbia, SC and works for Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Shauna is a

portfolio analyst at Conning & Co. Investment Securities in Hartford, and is planning a July 1999 wedding. Larisa received her master's degree in public administration from George Washington University in December 1998. She manages an environmental research firm in the Washington, DC area.

We also have an update on the newlyweds. Claudia is involved with international clinical drug research at Hoffman LaRoche Pharmaceuticals, and Kevin teaches computer science at the University of Maryland where he is completing his Ph.D . in that same field."

Jonathan E. Heuser 500 Rutherford Ave. Charlestown, MA 02129 e-mail: jheuser@fas.harvard.edu fax: 617-886-0900 Class Agents: Stephen R. Curley K. Kelsey Hubbard Elissa Raether Kovas Prescott D. Stewart Hello, classmates!

I hope everyone is getting geared up for our Reunion! I know I am and I can't wait to see you there in June.

I know that we all have busy lives, but please try to make every effort to clear your calendar for it. From what I have heard about past reunions, you won't want to miss it.

Speaking of Reunion, I recently spoke with ANGELA LATINA, our esteemed Class President, as we were getting organized with what needs to be done. She is living in Hartford and reaching fourth grade in the public school system. Interestingly enough and I hope she doesn't mind my telling this -Angela has taught both of Marry's kids. (Marty, as in The View's Marty). Last I heard, the View was closing! Very sad news about such an important institution near campus.

In other news, SARAH PIKOR wrote to let me know what is going on with her and with several other people. Sarah has been living in Atlanta for three years and working for Turner Broadcasting, otherwise known as CNN. She works in training and development and is enjoying it. Sarah recently got engaged (Memorial Day Weekend), to someone named

Dave. They met during the '96 Olympics and are planning to get married on Jekkyl Island on May 8, 1999. Congratulations, Sarah!

Sarah said that STEPHANIE COPE is living in Washington, DC and working at the National Gallery of Art. Also in DC, JOHN DONAHUE graduated from American Law School and recently passed the Bar. MARGARET PRYOR is in her final year of law school at American.

MARY ROBINSON is living in Boston and is working in marketing at Linsco Private Ledger.

MICHELLE FALBO became MICHELLE FERNANDO when she married SANJI FERNANDO in Colorado last August. She and Sanji have settled into their new apartment in Boston's South End. MELISSA BERNENE is living in N.Y. C. and is working at Global Asset Management. She recently became engaged to John Almeida, brother of our own JEFF ALMEIDA! Melissa and John are getting married at the Trinity Chapel in July of 1999. Congratulations, Melissa!

BEN BRUNT received his M.B.A. from S.M.U. in Dallas, and moved to Atlanta. He is an analyst for Homestead Village. Ben said that MILO COGAN is also in Atlanta and just started his first year at Emory Law School. He and SUSIE DYSON '93, are engaged and getting married in June 1999.

Finally, Sarah let me know that ANNE DILLON FISHER and JAKE FISHER are living in Pennsylvania. T hey are also expecting their first baby in 1999.

Congratulations, Anne and Jake!

Thanks, Saral1, for so much news. I really appreciate it!

GRAHAM JOHNSTON replied to my e-mail pleas by letring me know that he is now working at Arthur Andersen in the business consulting group. He also reports that he ran in the Marine Corps Marathon this past October.

Congratulations, Graham. That is quite impressive. Graham said that JUSTIN OLIVER, who did not reply to my e-mails, is working for a law firm in DC (according to Graham, he works for "Joe, Schmoe, Phil and Bill" but I think it might be something else!).

Anyway, I guess everydllng is going well for Justin.

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say that he got married this summer - I might have reported this already - on Aug. 9, 1998, to Laura Blum \n Westchester, NY. He said that ADAM KREISEL and DAN MONKS were groomsmen.

Also in attendance were ERIK SCHWARTZ, his wife, Lisa Zawadski, and their baby, Ezra Robert! Congratulations, Erik and Lisa! Peter and Laura are living in Chicago where Peter is happily working as a law clerk on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Congratulations and thanks for writing, Pete.

Speaking of Chicago, SARA TITUS SKELLY is doing well there. She told me that she bumped into Pete in Chicago. She is working at the University of Chicago. She also said that she, heard through the grapevine that LUCY SMITH is working there, too, but at the Court Theatre.

Sara's husband, PIPER SKELLY '93, is working very hard in his residency, but they are definitely enjoying married life.

Congratulations to DEB WATTS on her recent promotion to senior physical therapist at Mass General Hospital. She is working very hard, as always, and still loves living in Boston. TASCHA KONTNY is still living in Boston and currently working at Mass General also. ..

Deb let me know about a few people she recently talked to during a fund-raiser phonathon.

KATHRYN HARKLESS GROVES recently started a new job at Playtex Apparel in Connecticut. She is still living in Manhattan and doing the reverse commute out to work every day.

BOB WITTIG has a new job, at Abbott Pharmaceutical as a drug sales representative. Deb also said that she enjoyed talking to MIKE CATALDO, especially because his three-year-old son answered the phone! She said Mike and his family are doing well.

ANITA SHIN is gearing up for her May 22, 1999 wedding in Cleveland, despite her crazy schedule at the Metro Hospital there.

She is doing her residency in dentistry and had many interesting stories to share with me! She and her fiance, Kevin Robertson, also a dentist, are currently weighing their options for opening or joining a private practice after this year.

LIZ DUNCAN is in Portland,

OR and also busy planning her March 27, 1999 wedding in Miami. Now, that is a challenge!

She is doing great and is getting excited for the big day.

BENNA LYNCH is doing great in her new house in Dedham, MA. She is still working at Deloitte and Touche.

STEVE KILLILEA sends an update on several alums.

JORDAN POLVERE recently switched from being a U.S. marshal to becoming a U.S. customs agent; he recently got engaged to Lisa Cohen, and they are planning an April25, 1999 wedding in New Jersey. He is currently living in northern New Jersey.

JOSH FREEDMAN lives in Paris, France where he works for an international auto parts supplier, gaining an incredible international business experience. Josh has been living there for almost two years now.

JOEAURILIO is currently living in Stamford, CT and working for Janney Montgomery Scott as an investment adviser. Steve thinks that Joe is playing a lot of golf MATT WALSH earned his master's in teaching from Boston College and works for First Call in Boston. (Coincidentally, First Call has nothing to do with teaching.)

As for Steve, he is still with Chase Securities' high yield finance group and "working way too many hours." He got engaged to Kim Arnold of Monroe, CT on July 4 and was married on Feb. 27, 1999 in New York City. They planned to continue living in the City.

Steve says that he looks forward to catching up at the Reunion.

MARLON QUINTANILLA PAZ and Holly Lynn Olson were married in October. Holly is a 1996 graduate of Allegheny College where she received her degree in psychology. She is a law student at the University of Pennsylvania. Marlon has an M.A.L.S. degree from Wesl~yan University and is also a law student at UPenn.

Well, that is about it for now, guys. As for me I am still teaching third grade in Armonk, NY and living in Stamford, CT. Can't wait to see you all in June!!

Molly D. Thiele 38 Pine Hill Ave. Stamford, CT 06906-1515 e-mail: mthiele@byramhills.org

Class Agents: Stephanie E. Cope Patrick F. X. Gingras Amy C. McGill W. Scott Saperston

Greetings, '95ers!

Well, the most important thing that has happened in my life is that the New York Yankees won the World Series and they resigned Bernie Williams! In other news ...

RACHEL SCHNEIDER was at the beach with ANNE MCQUAID and SABINE MARANGOSIAN in August of 1998. Sabine is working as an account executive at BBDO, a large advertising agency in N.Y.C., on the Visa account. She lives in Astoria, Queens with Anne. Anne is a sales executive at Vaughn Designs, an interior decorating showroom. Rachel moved to N .Y.C. about a year ago and lived with Sabine and Anne while apartment hunting. She finally found a place in Brooklyn Heights and is very happy there. Rachel is working in the education department at the Museum of Jewish Heritage- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, which opened in September of 1997.

SUZY STEVENS reports that JANNA ROOP was married to her beau from her semesters abroad in l Australia. They were wed in Hudson, OH in early December.

Suzy, AANIKA DEVRIES, and KRISTEN JOHNSON attended the service and said there was not a dry eye in the church. Suzy visited Aanika at Choate, and Kristen in Colorado over the summer. Suzy continues to teach at Lake Forest Academy outside Chicago.

CHRISTOPHER LESTAGE reports that he was married to Nathalie Appleton on Sept. 12, 1998 at King's Chapel in Boston.

In the wedding party were TOM LAZAY (best man), DUNCAN BANFIELD, DAN ROTH '96, and IAN SMITH. Also present at the ceremony were CHARLIE ADAMS, ROBERT BOYD, VIRGINIA COWENHOVEN '97, CHRIS ELIA '96, DAVID GERBER '92, RYEL KESTENBAUM, JOSH LAHEY, JOE LAPLUME, LUKE MADIGAN '97, GINNY ROSS, SEAN RUHMANN '96, and KATIE WADE '92. Aside from the wedding, Chris sees Tom, Dan, Duncan, and Sean quite a bit.

When he is not in Boston, Chris is on the Cape, duck hunting. Chris is currently employed by State Street Bank & Trust in the personal trust department.

ROBIN LEARY reports that SARAH CODY has accepted a job as a news reporter/producer at the Fox station in Hartford. CHRIS BOND is engaged to Gretchen Nelson and will be married June 26, 1999. LISSA SMITH has just had the book that she edited, Nike is a Goddess, published.

LARRY JACOB reports from campaign headquarters in Kansas City that for the first time in 42 years a Democrat was elected to this particular district. Larry worked on the Democratic campaign. Larry plans to stick around Kansas City and find employment with some left-wing organization or get back into theater. Larry reports that JAMIE KATZMAN is living in Fresno, CA and loves his new job at a small law firm which specializes in employment law.

SAM KENNEDY continues to handle corporate sponsorships for the San Diego Padres baseball club.

When he wrote to me they were just getting geared up for the playoffs. Now we know what a great showing they had! It was a pleasure to see them beat the Braves! Sam loves southern California but misses all his friends and family back East. After the World Series (of course!), Sam was married to Amanda Johnson on Nov. 7 in N.Y.C. Congrats!

Sam reports that CHRIS REH also lives in San Diego and has a great job in sales with Taylor Made Golf Sam saw BRENDAN MONAHAN who started law school in Boston in the fall. He visited with MATT MARRA who is living in N.Y. C. and working for BlackRock Financial Management, and JEN USDAN, who is working for Comedy Central.

BRYAN SATTER got to meet Dick Vitale and have dinner with him in November while he was in Albuquerque for a U.N.M. hoops game. Bryan says he is a very nice guy who loves to talk.

JENNIFER NISIVOCCIA has moved from Philly to Indianapolis.

When Jen told PAUL SULLIVAN of her impending move he said, "Did you lose a bet?" Jen is working for the medical division at Eli Lilly and Company. She is their newest clinical research administra-

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tor, which means she is writing clinical research protocols and designing clinical trials for new medications developed by the comparry for use in humans. Yes, the future of modern pharmacology is in Jen's hands! According to Jen, the Midwest has no sidewalks and no Starbucks. There are lots of strip malls, apartment complexes, and chain restaurants. Hmmm ... sounds like Atlanta, except we have Starbucks. Yahoo.

Jen reports that KATE KEHOE and CAROLYN BARRETT had a party in their new apartment in N.Y. C. in September which was very fun and a lot of '95ers were in attendance.

JEFF PENNINGTON is living in Philly (until recently with MARC IZZO and ALEX LADD).

They split up due to Mark's and Alex's "annoyance with my need to watch TV naked," Jeff says. Jeff is working for DOUG CONNELLY's father and taking some classes. He had a great summer at a beach house with ANDY PYPER, Kate Kehoe, Alex, Izzo, JAY BANGASH, KATHERINE MITCHELL, ALLISON GRUNER, and AMY FISHER. Oh and by the way...Jeff is engaged! He writes, "We met on horseback."

AMANDA SMITH '96 writes that she and THEODORE (Ted) ANASTASIOU have bought a house together in Dunellen, NJ. Amanda works at International Flavors and Fragrances as a consumer insights specialist and Ted is in the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Rutgers University.

I continue to work in the epidemiology and surveillance research department here at the national home office of the American Cancer Society. .I am using ACS data to do my own analysis of body mass index and breast cancer in post-menopausal women. With any luck I will submit the article that ~omes out of this analysis for publication in the next few months.

Once again, I am indebted to those of you who e-mailed or wrote to me with news. Next time I think it will be easier to report those people who are not engaged.

The list might be shorter! I really need more of your e-mail addresses so please write me a quick note sometime! Take it easy!

Jennifer M. Petrelli

1300 Briarcliff Rd., #11 Atlanta, GA 30306-2275 e-mail: jpetrell@cancer.org Class Agents: Ashley L. Gilmor Thomas J. Lazay Adam K. Ondricek Colleen M. Smith

Greetings from Baltimore.

I hope everyone had a great summer and fall. I am still working on the trading floor at BT Alex.Brown, and enjoying Baltimore very much. I manage to get down to Washington to see JONO LENZNER, MARNIE DAVIDSON, and JOHN DUGAN frequently. Jono worked on Congressman Sam Gejdenson's reelection campaign. He spent much of his fall commuting between Washington and Hartford"He ran into AUSTIN PERKINS numerous times in Hartford.

Austin is now working for an insurance company and living downtown. Mamie started a new job at a lobbyist firm and loves it.

Jon Dugan is teaching English, Latin, and religion at a private boys' school in Bethesda, MD. Jon claims the best part of teaching is the satisfaction he gets from helping the kids grow, but I know he really likes the three-month summer vacations the most. He spent the last two in Europe ... not too bad. Other Trinity alumni in the Washington area include DON JACOBS and JAY MYKYTIUK. Don is in his final year of路law school, and we ate all wondering what Jay is up to.

Congratulations to GREG CARTIN and JORYWALDMAN '97 who were married this summer in Hartford at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Trinity was very well represented at the wedding.

ELLIOT BROADFOOT won the iron man contest by flying in from London for the night. He is working for Merrill Lynch in their fixed income department. Other Trinity alumni in attendance were BILLY HOGAN, HALE EVERETS, KATIE ALTSHUL, KEARNEY HARRINGTON, LIZ PFLUG, MONTEY ATKINS, ROB NORTON, JEN SUMERGRADE, JEN MARTINELLI '98, JEN DAKIN, MATT SYKES, and ROBIN SHEPPARD M'76. Greg and Jory ate now working in admissions and coaching at the Loomis Chaffee

School. Another one of our classmates will soon be joining the married ranks. BO JAY TAYLOR was recently engaged to ROB1N LEARY '95. We wish them the best of luck.

While in Boston, I ran into ANNE CHICK, SAM BRICKLEY, TIM CHICK, SARAH HINKLE, and MIKE SCHNITMAN at the Beacon Hill Pub. Anne is working at an advertisement agency and often runs into MIKE "Hollywood" O'NEIL. Mike has been working at BT Alex.Brown for the past six months, and is currently in training for a strong man competition. Mike Schnitman is an analyst for Putnam. He claims to know what the next Microsoft is, so if you ate looking to make a fo rtune, don't forget to call him before you invest. BEE BORNHEIMER and KERRY ZUCKER see each other often in Boston. Although they are not exactly sure what they want to do, their good friend NORA MURPHY has decided to leave her mark on the world in medicine.

LUKE TANSILL finished the New York City marathon in less than four hours. Even though he is not a professional runner, he made out like a bandit due to his stellar finish. He is still living in New York with COBY BROWN and MARK REIS. Co by works in the music industry. Mark is going on his third year as an analyst for Chase. CHASE TOOGOOD and CAROLYN YOUNG just moved out of New York. Chase recently tore all the ligaments in his knee while playing in a pickup soccer game. We wish him a speedy and successful recovery. I ran into HANK FORSYTH at Homecoming. He is happy in New York and enjoys working at DLJ. He is living with BASIL SEGGOS and JAY CROSBY. Hank told me they were lucky enough to take in a couple ofWorld Series games, in person. CLAY SIEGERT is New York's newest resident. He recently moved from Boston to pursue a career in trading.

ANTHONY RUOCCO flew in fo r his first Homecoming. The proceeds from his last couple of acting appearances helped him get back East. He is now living with DAVE CLARKE in San Diego. Dave is working at Onsite and in his spare time he helps Tony balance his full schedule. JON GOLAS left

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California and is now attending law school. MICAELA HEEKIN and ELLEN KENDRICK are living in San Francisco and working as research assistants.

ROB COLEMAN just completed Marine basic training in Parris Island, SC. TYLER EDDY moved to Chicago and is working for a Mexican bank, trading futures. He is having a great time in Chicago and sees COLIN FITZSIMONS and ANNE GARDNER on a regular basis. Finally, we all need to chip in and buy ADRIENNE STONE a plane ticket to Florida.

She will need to get some sun after she spends the next year in the Russian Far East (that's past Siberia), working in the Peace Corps. Stay warm, Adrienne!

And speaking of Adrienne she wrote a lengthy note to the alumni office with lots of news of classmates: "Bee Bornheimer lives in Boston and still dreams of one day writing an encyclopedia. She presently works for some type of computer company - all very mysterious.

She often sees Kerry Zucker there who is also enjoying her time in that magical city - although Kerry, like most of us, is still undecided as to how exactly she will leave her mark on the world. Lucky for her, NORA MURPHY has no question that hers will be in the medical field as she begins graduate work in Boston.

"STEPHANIE MANDELL just ended her two-year relationship with MassPIRG. She is very arnicable with them and was last seen biowing ferry kisses to SARAH BENNETT, who has voyaged with PIRG to the environmental state of Colorado. ''Another not-to-be missed gal is CAROLYN MERRITT, who is working in an international school in Boston. In her free time she can be seen wandering in night clubs in search of a dancer as gifted as Adrienne Stone ... " ... KATYERSKINE is in Houston working for a children's shelter, helping ensure the best possible homes are given to the child.

"We mustn't forget those in California (such a tendency). I last heard that Micaela Heekin was in the windy city of the West - San Francisco, and that Ellen Kendrick was also there looking for a place to live while working in a laboratory helping with scientific research.

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''And why is NICOLE TATEOSIAN never hailed for all the amazing things she is doing in the Triniry alumni office?

"To everyone else I say a hello and [send] a request to know about STEPHANIE BORYNACK (I believe she is in New York) and SARA CALLAGHAN and ALEXA RAETHER. "Wow- well, all I can say is I sure hope this isn't my 15 minutes offame."

Nicole Tateosian notes that KEYNE BARRY is engaged to Rob Cahoon. The wedding is planned for the summer of 2000.

AMANDA SMITH writes that she and THEODORE (Ted) ANASTASIOU '95 have bought a house together in Dunellen, NJ. Amanda works at International Flavors and Fragrances as a consumer insights specialist and Ted is in the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Rutgers Universiry.

ANGELA DONATELLI writes that she is wo rking with the United States Marshal's Service, asset forfeiture office in Washington, DC. She occasionally gets together with other Triniry people, including JENN BORUS and C HRISTINA JACKSON. JOSH SANDERSON says that MATTHEW PRINCE worked in Salt Lake Ciry last summer for a "neat little law firm. " He's now back at the Universiry of Chicago Law School and has been selected to write for one of the law journals.

He also is editor-in-chief of the Law School's newspaper. He expects to be interviewing next summer for jobs in Seattle, San Francisco, London, and New York.

Thanks to those who wrote in.

Please send me updates as often as possible.

Kenneth A. Pouch III 640A N. Calvert St. Baltimore, MD 21202-3667 e-mail: kpouch@mail.trincoll.edu Class Agents: Tory K Haskell Elizabeth E. McFarlan Philip S. Reardon Heather C. "Wynne I hope everyone is doing well in the new year. It was a busy and interesting 1998 for me. I am still with the Food Network in New York as the talent coordinator.

I work primarily with our affiliate

sales and marketing departments to book our talent (chefs, hosts) for photo shoots, promos, demonstrations, etc. Any aspiring Triniry chefs out there? Let me know. I am living with AMIE DUFFY '98 on the Upper East Side. If yo u know the Upper East Side, you know that there is a 90 percent chance you will bump into someone from Triniry on the six train or even at the neighborhood bar on any given day.

Homecoming was great! The weekend commenced at The View.

We all decided to have a last hurrah with Marry on Friday and Saturday nights. I spoke to BEN RUSSO who is living in Boston with SARAH JUBITZ. MOLLY GOGGINS was sporting her beautiful engagement ring. Tailgating took place on the soccer fields. It was cold and rainy once again. But we all rallied despite the weather.

JIM WASHBURN danced the day away outside of his old stomping grounds, the Pike house. You still have the moves, Jimbo. Jim is still teaching at Tabor and loving it. I spoke to NED ABRAHAMSON who is living in Chicago.

WELLESLEY ALEXANDER is in grad school at Howard Universiry.

SCOTT ANDREWS was visiting from Japan. According to my sources, CHRIS SLAWSKY and MIKE POREMBA are throwing a welcome back parry for Scott in Connecticut.

I recently saw Chris, Mike, ROB NORTON, LEON SYLVESTER '98, and MATT SYKES when JONATHAN HAIME was visiting from Columbia. Matt just got a new place in Murray Hill in N .Y C. Rob ran the NYC. Marathon.

Jonathan is working for his family's textile and fabric company.

BOB AYER is teaching in Connecticut.

BILL BANNON is still with Grubb & Ellis. H e is living in Greenwich, CT. I spoke to JEN SUMERGRADE not too long ago. She is still living with LAURA BERNSTEIN. They live five blocks fro m me.

I have seen quite a bit of BILL BICKFORD lately. Bill is still with his architecture firm. He moved back to Boston at the end of February. H e will be starting grad school at UPenn in May. LISA SCHRAMM was in town

for the weekend. She was here on business. She and LAUREN KELLEY moved into a new place in Boston earlier in the fall.

I got e-mail from JOE D EANCELIS yesterday. H e is doing well.

I saw KIM ROBERTS during her visit to the States. She is still in Florence. There is talk of a move back to the States to attend graduate school.

MONIQUE DARAGJATI and ELIZABETH EAKELEY were Spice Girls for Halloween.

Monique just returned from Brussels with her boyfriend.

JESSICA LOPES, LYDIA FINCH, and JOAN KREIE are living together in Boston.

LANCE HARRIS and STAN SUNG are enjoying Los Angeles. I go t a call not too long ago from Stan at six a.m., my time. He was calling from a karaoke bar where BRIAN BYRNE '98, RYAN SAULNIER, and STEVEN SONE '99 were singing their hearts out.

Thank you again, Stanley, for the wake up call on Sunday morning.

ALYSON GUILD is teaching and taking classes. She coached Trini ry's women's soccer in the fall.

ASHLEY HAMMARTH got a new job at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Institute.

ALICE MCCARTNEY is approaching her last semester of graduate school at Columbia School of Social Work.

CHRISTOPHER WHITE, who completed a Connecticut teacher certification in biology/ earth science/ general science, is a teacher in Hartford.

I have a new mailing address so please feel free to drop me a line.

Or, e-mail me.

Tanya Jones 1376 Third Avenue, #5R New York, NY 10021 e-mail: tjones@foodtv.com Class Agents: Melissa L. Carlo Amily E. Dunlap Benjamin J. Russo Elisabeth G. Schramm NICOLE TATEOSIAN '96 notes that KATE RUBIN '99 and ROB WITHERWAX. are engaged. T heir wedding is scheduled for September 1999.

Also engaged are MARK STUCKENBRUCK and N . ALICE YAMADA who plan to be married in August 1999.

EMILIE SCHMIDT is in St. Louis, MO at Washington U niversiry School of Medicine where she is working on her master's degree in physical therapy.

JESSICA LOCKHART is attending Boston Universiry. She expects to receive her M .Ed. in elementary education and Massachusetts Teacher's Certification in September 1999.

CHRISTINA RIDEOUT is pursuing her master's degree in biomedical engineering at UConn. She works as a clinical engineer at Baystate Health System in Springfield, MA. Class Agents: Erin K Blakeley Jason M. Chung Alison M. McBride Emilie L. Schmidt

DR. D. HOLMES MORTON '79 has another honor to add to his name. Last fall, Triniry selected him to be the first recipient of a 175th Anniversary Award, presented to a select group of alumni during the celebration of the College's 175th anniversary. Holmes, who is the director of the Clinic for Special Children in Pennsylvania, has won national acclaim for his efforts to treat Amish and Mennonite chi!dren afflicted with a rare genetic disorder. His many honors include receiving the Albert Schweitzer Award for Humanitarianism for his pioneering research and his selfless dedication to treating these chi!dren. When he came to campus in October, he gave a talk on his work to students and other members of the campus communiry, as well as one for the general public. President Evan Dobelle presented the 175th Anniversary Award to Holmes, as those present heartily applauded.

T he College earlier presented Holmes with an honorary degree in 1991. Congratulatio ns to him on all his honors, which are so well deserved.

Michael L. Hanlon 26 Ridge Rd. Enfield, CT 06082-0357 e-mail: mlhanlon@erols.com fax: 860-253-9245 Class Agents: Barbara B. Brecht '91 Kathleen D. Catrini '93 Gwendolyn G. lfkovic '93 Joyce Mecartney '84

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MASTER'S 1955 DAVE BREWER worked the last three series of the NHL Stanley Cup play-offs, scouting for the Detroit Red Wings Hockey Club, which won the Stanley Cup for the second straight year. This made 20 seasons in the NHL as a special assignment scout for Dave - the 路perfect time to retire for the third and last time! Dave notes, "The first two years in the league with Detroit, they never even made the play-offs, so it goes to prove that if you keep at it long enough, you may just get to win the pinnacle of professional ice hockey supremacy.

It was a night I will always remember!"

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1978 RALSTON PARKINSON has returned to live in Jamaica to do research and write.

1985 GARY CRAFT, a research analyst with Robertson Stephens, has published the report, "Building Out A New Payments Infrastructure." He notes, "Banking has reached middle age, and it needs to get back in shape."

1998 THOMAS SMITH writes, "President Dobelle was gracious and included in the recent Reporter my historical connection to Trinity.

My grandfather was one of two African Americans to be a part of Chapel construction. He was a carpenter. He is among those listed on the south gallery wall."

EILEEN KRAUS, chair of Connecticut Fleet National Bank, is the 1998 recipient of the Laura A. Johnson Woman of the Year award presented by Hartford College for Women of the University of Hartford.

1974 SYDNEY ELKIN's law practice, which focuses on civil and criminal litigation, probate, and real estate, has relocated to 1007 Farmington Avenue, Suite 4, in West Hartford.

He is past president of the Greater Hartford Jaycees, the Emanuel Synagogue, and the Probus Club of Greater Hartford. In addition, he served for many years as a coach in the West Hartford boys' soccer and baseball leagues. He lives in West Hartford with his wife, Janice, and their sons, Michael and Andrew.

1975 STEVEN ADAMOWSKI was featured in the Sept. 1, 1998 edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer. He is the new superintendent of schools in C incinnati.

JAMES ANGELO CALANO I 1923 James Angelo Calano, 96, of Hartford died on Nov. 21 , 1998.

He graduated from high school in Hartford and attended Trinity with the Class of 1923. In 1933, he received a diploma from Hartford College of Law, now the University of Connecticut Law 路 School.

For 38 years, he was employed by the Hartford Insurance Group.

When he retired in 1967, he was superintendent of the judicial bond division.

He was a member of the Hartford YMCA for more than 50 years. He also served as the vice president of the Hartford College of Law Alumni Association.

A loyal Trinity alumnus, he was secretary of his Class and received the Outstanding Class Secretary Award in 1987.

He leaves two daughters and a son-in-law, Lucile Marvin, of Hartford, and Lorraine and Theodore DiLorenzo '50, of East Hartford; six grandchildren, including James DiLorenzo '86; three great-grandchildren; and a sister.

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JAMES MICHAEL CAHILL, 1927

M arius P. Johnson, 95, ofTowson, MD died on Aug. 27, 1998 of , congestive heart failure.

After graduating from high school in Hartford, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1925. At Trinity, he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He received his B.A. degree in 1926 and his M.D. degree in 1930, both from the University of Maryland.

He did his residency at the former Hospital for Women of Maryland, where he taught anatomy and physiology in the nursing school for more than 20 years.

When the Greater Baltimore Medical Center merged with Women's Hospital in 1965, he joined the staff and remained there until his retirement in 1975.

His professional memberships included the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the American Medical Association, and the Southern Medical Association. He was a diplomate of the National Medical Board.

He was a board member of the Annapolis Yacht Club and was post commander for the U.S. Power Squadron. He was a past president of the International Association ofTorch Clubs.

Among his survivors are his wife, Rosalie Jefferson Johnson, of Towson, MD; two daughters, Ann Matthews, of Cherry Hill, NJ, and Susan Bull, of Eugene, OR; a son, Dr. M. Pitkin Johnson, of Severna Park, MD; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

James M. Cahill, 92, of Livingston, NJ died on Sept. 28, 1998.

After graduating from high school in Hartford, he attended Trinity. Named valedictorian of his class, he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, Medusa, and captain of the track team, and received his B.S. degree in 1927.

Upon graduation, he began working with the Travelers Insurance Co. in Hanford. He joined the Compensation Rating Board in New York C ity in 1938 and progressed to the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters in 1944, where he was named general manager. In 1971, he retired as general manager of the Insurance Rating Board.

Surviving are two daughters, Susan Ramsey, ofWayne, NJ, and Barbara Melendez, of Phoenix, AZ; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

ANTHONY A. PARISI, 1926 Anthony A. Parisi of Wethersfield, CT died on Feb. 13, 1998 at age 94.

He attended Trinity with the Class of 1926.

Prior to retiring, he owned and operated the former Parisi Music Center in Hartford.

He leaves his son, Anthony S.D. Parisi, M.D. '67, of Bristol, CT; and two grandchildren.

KENNETH STANLEY PRATT, 1928 K. Stanley Pratt, 91, ofVero Beach, FL died on Aug. 31, 1997 after a lengthy illness.

He graduated from high school in Thomaston, CT and attended Trinity with the Class of 1928.

A specialist in pensions and annuities, he worked for 40 years at Equitable Life Assurance Society.

He retired in 1971.

He leaves his wife, O'Neil Wells Pratt, ofVero Beach;- FL; and a daughter, Kenna Childress, of Schererville, IN.

HENRY OSGOOD PHIPPEN, JR., 1932, M.A. 1935 Henry 0. Phippen, Jr., 86, of Wenham, MA died on Sept. 26, 1998.

He graduated from high school in Beverly, MA before attending Trinity. At Trinity, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Medusa, the football and baseball teams; he also served as president of the Senate. He received his B.S. degree in 1932 and his M.A. degree in 1935.

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at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, PA and at Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, MA, before joinin~t the investment firm ofN.W Rice Company in Boston.

He retired in 1977 and served the town of Wenham, MA as tax assessor. .

A loyal alumnus, he was president of the Board of Fellows in 1958 and received a 150th Anniversary Award from the College in 1973. .

He served Christ Church Ill Hamilton, MA as senior warden, and was a member of Salem Country Club in Peabody, MA. He leaves a daughter, Sandra Phippen Klein, of Fort Collins, CO; a son, Clark Phippen '60, of Centreville, DE; a brother; two sisters; seven grandchildren; and t;wo great-grandchildren.

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Edgar H. Craig, 86, died on Feb. 6, 1999, in La Jolla, CA. Mter graduating from high school in Falmouth, MA, he attended Trinity and joined Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He received his B.S. from Trinity in 1934, and, in 1946, his M.B.A. degree from rhe University of Chicago.

During his career, he held a number of executive positions in retail and related businesses in Chicago and New York City.

A loyal alumnus, he was president of the Trinity Alumni Association for eight years, served on the College's athletic advisory council, and as a director, vice president, and president of Scholarship for Illinois Residents, Inc. He was a member of the San Diego Yacht Club and the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. He was an active supporter of the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Diego, Scripps Memorial Hospital, and of America's Cup Yacht racing.

He is survived by a son, Roger P. Craig, ofWashington, DC; six grandchildren, including Jeffre; Craig '80 and Elizabeth Cra~g 88; four great-grandchildren; an~ a s~s足 ter. Memorial contributions m h1s memory may be made to the Philip D . and Douglas W Craig Memorial Scholarship Fund at Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106.

RAYMOND HOWARD ROSENFIELD, 1934 Raymond H. Rosenfield, 85, of Longboat Key, FL died on Sept.

11, 1998.

He graduated from high school in Hartford and received his B.S. degree from Trinity in 1934.

In 1937, he opened a metals refining business in Putnam, CT. During World War II, he developed machinery to produce magnesium powder. He managed the Metals Selling Corp. in Putnam for many years, and, subsequently, started Metalmist Marine to produce sailboats and sailboat hardware.

He leaves his wife, Maureen Rosenfield, of Longboat Key, FL; a daughter, Katherine, of North Andover, MA; a son, Charles '82, ofWoodstock, CT; and a granddaughter.

SAMUEL PARSONS, 1935 Samuel Parsons, 85, ofWest Hartford died on Nov. 16, 1998.

He graduated from high school in Hartford and attended Trinity, receiving his B.S. degree in 1935.

He owned Parsons Real Estate and worked in real estate and insurance all his life, except for the period from 1944 to 1947, when he was an assistant inspector for the Office of U.S. Naval Materials.

Surviving are his wife, Cecilia Testa Parsons, ofWest Hartford; two daughters, Nancy Coker, of Scotch Plains, NJ, and Linda Parsons, of Hartford; a son, Stephen Parsons, ofLeesburg,_YA; four grandchildren; and two Sisters.

FRANCIS VIZNER MANION, 1936 Francis V. Manion of Avon, CT died on Oct. 22, 1998 at age 81.

After graduating from high school in West Hartford, he matriculated at Trinity and joined Signa Nu fraternity. He receiv~d his B.S. degree in 1936 and h1s LL.B. degree from the .University. of Connecticut in 1940, the year Ill which he was admitted to the Bar. In 1941, he went to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he was employed until1947.

Subsequently, he set up two law practices, first in Hartford and later

in West Hartford.

He was a member of the Harrford County Bar Association and served as prosecutor for the Town ofWesr Hartford and also for Greater Hartford County. He was a communicant of Sr. Patrick's Church in Farmington, CT. In addition, he was a member of the Hartford Golf Club, the Madison Beach Club, the Farmington Woods Country Club, the Elks Club of Hartford, the Knights of Columbus, and the Society of Former F.B.I. Agents.

Surviving are his wife, Betty Madigan Manion, of Avon, CT; three daughters, Kathy Manion, of Collinsville, CT, Fayne Molloy, of Plainville, CT, and Lori Riley, of Longmeadow, MA; a brother; five grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren.

ROGER HENWOOD MOlTEN, JR., 1936 Roger H. Morten, Jr. of Deltona, FL died on June 22, 1998 at age 83. .

He attended high school in Wethersfield, CT, before matriculating at Trinity. At the College, he was named to rhe dean's list and joined Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. In addition, he was a member of the swim ream and established College and pool records in the distance swims. He received his B.S. degree in 1936.

Mter graduation, he was employed as a civil engineer for the City of Hartford. Subsequently, he worked at Pratt and Whitney Tools as a design engineer. In 1952, he was hired by Marathon Special Products in Erie, PA. He then worked as the chief designer in the electrical products division in Bowling Green, OH. He retired in 1978 and moved to Florida, but continued to work as a design engineer with A.P. Buck Co. A Little League baseball coach and scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts, he was also an avid golfer and member of several golf and country clubs. He was an active participant with the Elks.

He leaves two sons, Roger Morren III, of Casper, WY, and Richard Morten, of Bowling Green, OH; a brother, Clement '38, of Haverford, PA; and four grandchildren.

ROBERT PIPER HARRIS, 1941 Robert P. Harris, 80, of Melbourne, FL died on Nov. 17, 1998.

He graduated from Kingswood School in West Hartford, and, subsequently, received his B.S. degree from Trinity in 1941.

During World War II, he served as a captain in the Navy.

He taught school in Connecticut and in Fort Lauderdale, FL where he also coached football and baseball.

Recently, he was captain of the Jungle Queen in Fort Lauderdale, FL and a sightseeing cruise boat m Miami, FL. Survivors include three sons, Pete Harris, of Micco, FL, and Robert Harris, Jr. and Richard Harris, both of Fort Lauderdale, FL; three daughters, Linda Sullivan and Joan Harris, both of Tallahassee, FL, and Sue Arbuckle, of Jupiter, FL; a brother; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

ROBERT PAUL NICHOLS, 1942 Robert P. Nichols, 78, ofWest Hartford died on Nov. 15, 1998.

After graduating from high school in Utica, NY, he attended Trinity. He was editor of the Ivy, served on the staff of the Tripod, and was a member of the tennis team, and Delta Phi fraternity. In 1942, he received his B.A. degree.

Upon graduation, he served in the Air Force for four years.

He was president of the Bland Company and the H.P. Townsend Manufacturing Co., both in West Hartford. He retired in 1986.

His many community activities included leadership positions in the Hartford Rotary Club, which he served as president, the West Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the Hartford and West Hartford YMCA, the West Hartford Old Guard, and the Salvation Army. He was a member of the West Hartford Board of Education from 1959 to 1967 and was president of the Greater Hartford Jaycees in 1955 . In 1973, Trinity presented him with a 150th Anniversary Award, and, in 1985, he received the Paul Harris Award for outstanding individuals from Rotary. He was also a member of the

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He leaves his wife, Miriam Nichols, ofWest Hartford; three sons, Stoddard Nichols, of Farmington, CT, Paul Nichols, of Bristol, CT, and Stephen N ichols, of Rocky Hill, CT; a daughter, Zannah Richards, of N ew H ampshire; three stepdaughters; 10 grandchildren; and a greatgranddaughter.

ALBERT LOUIS EULIANO, 1943 Albert L. Euliano of Keene, NH died on Oct. 12, 1998 at age 77.

After graduating from high school in H artford, he attended Trinity with the Class of 1943 and received his B.A. degree in 1956.

Subsequently, he received his master's degree fro m the University of H artford.

A World War II veteran, he served with the Army in Europe.

For many years, he was employed by the Greater Hartford School System. He taught English as a second language.

He was a member of GordanBissell Post No. 4 American Legion in Keene, NH, the Keene Chapter No. 21 DAV, the Loyal Order of Moose, and Keene Lodge No. 478 .

H e was a communicant of St. Barnard's Parish in Keene.

He leaves two daughters, Lynn Ferraiolo, of Meriden, CT, and Janice Fuller, of Colchester, CT; a son, Albert Euliano, Jr., of Nashua, NH; and eight grandchildren.

ELLIOTT KALMAN STEIN, 1944, M.A. 1948 Elliott K. Stein, 7 5, of Newport, Rl died on Oct. 19, 1998 after a long battle with cancer.

He graduated from high school in Hartford before matriculating at Trinity. At the College, he was editor of the Tripod, manager of the baseball team, and vice president of the Interna-tional Relations Club.

H e received his B.S. degree in 1947 and his M.A. degree in 1948.

A decorated veteran of World War II, he served with the Army in Europe.

He began his career in journalism in Connecticut, working in radio, and then with the Southington News and The Hartford Courant. H e also taught

at the University of H artfo rd, and at Vernon Court Junior College in Newport, Rl. Subsequently, he joined the staff of the Newport Dairy News, becoming city editor, and, in 1978, managing edito r.

He was very active in the Lions Club and its Cancer in C hildren program.

A loyal and extremely active alumnus, he served for many years as Secretary of the Class of 1944.

He received the Outstanding Secretary Award at his 50th Reunion in 1994.

He leaves his wife, Josephine Horowitz Stein, of Newport, RI.

COURTENAY KELSO PAGE, 1945 Courtenay K. Page of C laymont, DE died of cancer on Nov. 18, 1997 at age 73.

After graduating from high school in Garden City, NY, he attended Trinity and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. H e received his B.A. degree in 1948.

He served with the Army Signal Corps from 1943 to 1946.

He was a sports reporter for the New York Herald Tribune for seven years prior to joining DuPont Co. in 1956 as public relations representative. Subsequently, he worked at John Wanamaker department store, retiring in 1986.

He was a member of the Episcopal Church of Ascension in Claymont, DE. Surviving are his wife, poris Herman Page, of Claymont, D.E; a daughter, D eborah Hamilton, of New Castle, DE; a son, Douglas Page, of Long Beach, CA; a sister; and a granddaughter.

BRUCE KIRBY NICHOLSON, 1948 Bruce K. Nicholson of Geo rgetown, SC died on Sep t.

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After graduating from high school in Franklin, TN, he attended Millsaps College from 1943 to 1944, before matriculating at Trinity. At Trinity he was a member of the Jesters, the Flying Club, the Spanish Club, and on the staff of the Ivy, the Tripod, and WRTC. H e received his B.S. degree in 1949 .

During World War II, he served in the Navy.

He worked for Pepsi Cola International, and was a partner in Southeastern Plastics Sales Company in Atlanta, GA. Subsequently, he specialized in international public relations.

He was the author of several novels.

Surviving are two brothers, Brad and Scott N icholson, and two meces.

HERBERT SCOTT SNEAD, JR. 1948 H . Scott Snead, Jr. of Fairfield, CT died on Nov. 4, 1998 at age 75.

He graduated from St. Andrew's School in Middletown, DE before attending Trinity. H e was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and received his B.A. degree in 1948.

He was an Army veteran of World War II. At the time he retired, he was director of pension funds and investments for Johnson & Johnson.

Among his survivors are his daughter, Katherine Snead, of Fairfield, CT and New York, NY; and a sister.

HARRY STAHL, 1951, M.A. 1952 Harry Stahl of Avon, CT died on Sept. 12, 1998 at age 77.

After graduating from high school in Long Island, NY, he attended Trinity. He was a member of the Brownell Club and received his B.S. degree in 1951 and his M.A. degree in 1952.

During World War II, he served with the Army and received many citations and medals, including the Purple Heart.

He worked at United Technologies fo r 26 years, retiring in 1977.

He leaves his wife, Frances Gindling Stahl, of Avon, CT; three daughters, Frances Stahl, of New York, NY, Janet Barefield, of Lawrenceville, GA, and Elizabeth Stahl, of Avon, CT; and a brother.

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COLIN ADAMS CARTER, 1954 Colin A. Carter of Bend, OR died on Sept. 9, 1998 at age 66.

He graduated from high school in Long Island, NY before attending Bates College from 1950 to 1952. In 1954, he received his B.A. degree from Trinity.

From 1954 to 1957 he served with the Army in Ethiopia.

H e was employed by Crown Zellerbach Corp. in Louisiana and in Oregon.

Among his survivors are two daughters, Didra Carter-Hendrix, of Salem, OR, and Pamela Adler, of Bend, OR: a son , Trevor Carter, of Boise, ID; a sister; and five grandchildren.

PAUL ANTHONY GIFFIN, 1957 Paul A. Giffin, 63, of Newport, Rl died on Dec. 8, 1998.

After graduating fro m high school in Sturgis, M I, he attended Trinity. He was a member of the Glee Club and the Canterbury Club. H e received h is B.S. degree in 1957.

H e did postgraduate work at Northwestern University.

For many years, he was a systems engineer at Electric Boat in Groton, CT. He was a member ofTrinity Church in Newport, Rl and sang in the choir. He was also a member of Friends of Newport Public Library.

Surviving are three brothers, Andrew, of Holliston, VA, John, of Yorktown, VA, and James, of Honolulu, HI.

EMILY TILDEN LEONARD, 1982 Emily T. Leonard of Elkins Park, PA, died on Christmas Day, 1998 at age 38 after a long struggle with ocular melanoma, a rare and incurable cancer.

She graduated from Lincoln School before attending Trinity.

She was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and spent a semester at Trinity's Rome campus.

A creative writing major, she received her B.A. degree in 1982.

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She worked with Ballantine Books and McGraw Hill in the publishing industry. Her first novel, Listen.~{'K In, co-written with her sister Amy under the pseudonym, Sorrell Ames, was published in June of 1998 by Penguin Putnam.

Emily was also a healer, practicing massage therapy, reiki, and therapeutic touch in Pennsylvania.

She leaves her husband, Anthony D. Shore '80, and their three children, Isaac Brown (11), Lucy Bailey (eight), and Abel Everett (five), all of Elkins Park, PA; and her parents, Shirley Brown and Everett Leonard of Hingham, MA. Contributions in Emily's memory can be made to the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study Group, 550 North Broadway, 9th floor, Baltimore, MD 21205-2010.

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Harriet R.C. Smyth of New Preston, CT died on Sept. 29, 1998 at age 72.

She attended Barnard College and graduated form Western Connecticut State College before receiving her M.A. degree from Trinity in 1975.

The author of Amphibians and Their \Vtzys, she taught English at Torrington High School for more than 20 years.

She leaves her daughter, Rux Martin, of Marblehead, MA; a granddaughter; and a brother.

Honorarii HENRY REGINALD ROBERTS, Hon. 1970 Henry Reginald Roberts, 82, of Hartford died on Sept. 23, 1998.

A 1937 graduate of the University ofToronto, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

In 1945, he began his career with Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, a CIGNA predecessor. He was named president and chief executive officer in 1961 and, in 1976, he left active

management to become chairman of the board.

He was a director of Southern New England Telephone, General Foods Corporation, and Emhart Corporation. He provided leadership to many community organizations, including the University of Hartford, Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, and the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce.

He held honorary degrees from Clarkson College and the University of Hartford, as well as from Trinity, which awarded him the honorary doctor of laws degree in 1970.

Among his survivors are his wife, Margaret Fisher Roberts, of Hartford; four children, Michael Roberts, Barbara Roberts, William Roberts, and Margaret Roberts Brenner; and eight grandchildren.

ROGER CARSON WILKINS, Hon. 1973 Roger C. Wilkins, 92, of Delray Beach,FLdiedonSept.17, 1998.

A graduate of the University of Maine, he received honorary degrees from the University of Hartford, Ricker Collegiate Institute, as well as Trinity.

From 1929 to 1973, he was employed at Travelers Insurance CGmpanies, rising to the position of president and chairman of the board.

During World War II, he served as a lieutenant with the Navy in the Pacific Theater.

He held many positions of leadership and was affiliated with several community institutions including: Allis-Chalmers Corp., United Technologies, Connecticut Bank and Trust Co., Connecticut Natural Gas Co., Wells Fargo Mortgage Investor, U.S. Chambers of Commerce, Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce, Hartford Hospital, Hartford Institute of Living, and St. Joseph College.

He belonged to country clubs in West Hartford, Gulfstream, FL, and Manchester, VT. Among his survivors are his wife, Evelyn Wilkins, of Delray Beach, FL; two granddaughters; a grandson; and five great-grandchildren.

Faculty FRANCA TRINCHIERI CAMIZ

Franca Camiz died at home in Rome, Italy on January 11, 1999, after suffering the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

A passionate, committed member of the faculty of the Trinity College/Rome Campus, Camiz inspired hundreds of students in her classes over the two-plus decades that she taught at the Rome Campus. She received a B.A. degree from Wellesley College and an M.A. from Radcliffe College, and completed course work for a Ph.D. at Harvard University. She began teaching at Trinity's Rome Campus in 1975 and lectured at the College in Hartford several times.

Throughout her career she served as a teaching fellow at Harvard College, and as a research editor for the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia ofWorld Art, and she taught at various American programs in Rome. She was a prolific scholar, noted for her publications on Baroque art and in particular Caravaggio's paintings. She participated at the symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990 on Caravaggio's rediscovered "Lute Player."

She leaves her husband, Paolo, a professor at La Sapienza, the University of Rome; two sons, Alessandro and Daniele; two sisters, Camilla Trinchieri and Carol T. Sutherland; and her mother, Cathleen Reeder Trinchieri. Her father was the late Alfredo Trinchieri, an Italian diplomat who had served as Counsel General in

the United States, first in New Orleans and then in Boston.

An endowed scholarship fund, the Franca Trinchieri Camiz Memorial Scholarship for the Rome Program, has been 'established at Trinity by Franca Camiz's friends and family members and with the support of the College.

The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of both need and merit to a student approved to participate in the Rome Program, with some preference given to students who plan to study art history. The award will be made in addition to regular financial aid and is expected to enable students to attend the Program who might otherwise not be able to. The scholarship will be perpetual, with a new recipient being selected each semester.

To contribute, send a check to the Trinity College Development Office, attention Roxanna Cistulli. In the memo line of the check, please specifY "Franca T. Camiz Memorial Scholarship Fund."

VERNON LEROY FERWERDA Vernon L. Ferwerda, 80, of Simsbury, CT died on Dec. 1, 1998.

He received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University and later became a professor at Trinity and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He was Executive Secretary of the National Council of Churches, a member of Immanuel Church in Hartford, the Lions Club, and the Boy Scouts of America. He was an ordained lay minister in the Vermont Conference of Churches.

Surviving are his wife, Anna Silva Ferwerda, of Simsbury, CT; two sons and daughters-in-law, Mark and Dianne Ferwerda, of Marshfield Hills, MA, and Neil and Joan Ferwerda, of Cobalt, CT; and five grandchildren.

Three cheers for Trinity, Title IX) and GIRL POWER

BY OLIVIA BROWN P A I NE

'78

Olivia Brown Paine gave the following remarks at a campus dinner sponsored by the Trinity athletic department as part of the College's 17 5th anniversary commemoration.

The event brought back to campus past w inners of the M cCook and Trinity Club of Hariford Trophies, presented annually to an outstanding male athlete and female athlete, respectively. Paine was the first recipient of a T rinity Club of Hartford Trophy. The next issue of the Reporter will feature coverage of 17 5- Year Anniversary events, including photos of the McCook and Trinity Club of Hariford Award winners who came to the dinner in j anua ry.

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want to th ank Rick Ha zelton, Robin Sh eppard, and the Trinity athletic department for organizing this evening. It is an honor for me to be h ere, and to b e w ith all of you , and to sp eak .

I come from Louisville, KY , from a fan1ily of four girls. I we nt to Collegiate School, a girls' school, kindergarten through 12th grade, and I played sports w here girls' participatio n was a given. Louisville and Collegiate School in th e '70s were a great place to be a female athlete and w h ere, as far as I was co n ce rned, "GIRL POWER," as m y 11..:. year-old son wo uld say, was in full force. The fi eld ho ck ey leagues we re strong in the public, private, and parochial sc hools, and before each game the comp e ting sc hools wo uld have parades thro ugh the parks, car horns honking and crepe paper strea ming. After each

gam e there was a "victory party," victory or n ot, and my senior year we were leagu e ch ampions . T en nis was also very big. As a state- ranked player, I found it exciting to b e in a con"lmunity that hosted several of the national junior tennis tournaments, both boys' and girls' .

But w h en I came to Trini ty in the fall of 1974, it was clear that GIRL POWER, as I knew it, had not yet arrived. Shock of sho cks, hardly anyone cam e to our games . Not only that, no one seemed to b e talking about th em. P eriodically, our ho ckey field doubled as a practice fie ld fo r the football team. And our uniformsl A t Collegiate, it was a proud ritual w h en you were told to "get a kilt" -this meant that you had made the team.

Freshi"lun year at Trinity, there were no kilts! Instead , we wo re used, Trinity m en's leftov ers: our tops were rugby shirts that were a little steamy during ea rly fall games, our so cks were b aseball socks that we would double back do w n our legs, and the shorts we re nylon stretch baseball trunks that were emb arrassingly ti ght in all the wrong places at a time when " tight and stretchy" were a cause for horror. So I had to adjust m y attitude, and anyone who kn ows m e knows that so m etimes that can be a tall order.

But T rinity h ad more to offer than uniforms or lumpy fi elds. When I showed up for m y first practic e, I h eard an unforgettable gravelly voice emanating from this dynamic blond who seemed to b e all over the place . Who was this?!

She was our coach, Robin Sheppard, w ho I believe was just starting her Trinity coaching career. And sh e turned out to be th e most damned fun!

Robin coach ed , cajoled , ch eered and laugh ed h er way into m aking us a dedicated, w inning team. She had a way about h er that drew p eople in and I knew that wherever sh e was, I wanted to be .

Much of the reason I lo ved sp orts at Trinity so much was because ofRobin, tho ugh I'm not quite sure I ever told h er. I

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liked being on h er team so much th at I spent fres h man w inter in the fi eld house learning how to play lacrosse with some of the guys on the men's team. I lande d on th e wom en 's team playing a combination of men's and wome n 's lacrosse w ith little finesse but a lot of drive. Robin recogn ized my efforts by starting me the first game of the season against Con n ecti cut College. In a panic I screamed, " I've n ever seen this game played! What do I do ?" She turned and said , "Just sti ck like glue to yo ur person and don't let h er sco re." I walked over to m y opponent, barely placed m y stick against her b ack (rememb er, w omen 's lacrosse is a non-contact sport) and followed h er step by step in the most annoying w ay possible. I'm sure sh e hated m e by the end o f th e game, bu t sh e didn 't score .

Sometime during the early part of m y Trinity years, I b ecame aware of changes brought abo u t by Title IX. Title IX federally mandated (my terminology is a little shaky h ere, so forgive m e) that women receive equal funding in sports. Thi s ch an ged wom en 's sports dram atically, but at first the only change I saw w as that we had gotten the coveted kilts (hurray) . But, more change was on the horizon. When I was interviewed about Title IX and ch anges at Trinity by a local televisio n sta tion, with then-athletic director K arl Kurth standin g w atchfully n earby , I realized that th ere was mu ch more involved.

As time passed, I saw that th ere was an acknow ledgement and recognition that women's sports were b ecoming an accepted p art of the school's athl eti c p rogram and culture . Trini ty was showing

that it was making a commitment to us as athl etes and memb ers of the College community, and this was gra tifying. By my se nior year mu ch more of a rhythm was established with all the women's sports. Several club spo rts h ad w orked their way up to the varsity level and I am pleased to see even more teams now.

And, of co urse, the first of the women's sports awards we re establish ed. So, in a relati vely short period of time we saw some large changes , and this was very exciting.

Looking b ack to my years at Trinity, I see that being a part of a ~eam w ith a clear, common goal is a tremendous exp erience and o n e not easily duplicated . When I see my so n play lacrosse, I am reminded of h ow incredible it feels for everyo ne to b e working as a unit, pr_? du cing much more th an an y one individual can - achieving a fine balance .

This is som ething I strive for in m y work and w ithin my family. It is the '90s woma n 's dilemma: H ow do yo u seek fulfillment in yo ur life w ith so many different interests pulling at yo ur time and at yo ur heart? M y husband , Fred, my son, Manton, and I all try hard to w ork as a team, and for that I am proud.

I see, to o, how th e years at Trinity h ave both shaped and changed me . But, T rinity itself went through a period of change in the acknowledgem ent, development, and advancement of won"len athletes. No sm all task. I look out tonight and see b o th m en AND wo m en - that wo uld not have b een tru e during m y time. The reason we are all here is to share and celebrate o ur con"lmon experiences at Trinity. With this com es the recognition that the su ccess of T rinity's athleti c program is a result of an evolvi ng and dynamic partnership of the College and its students. -.~.

Olivia Braum Paine works in PR and marketing for the Anne Arundel County Public Library in.Annapolis, NID, and coaches boys' lacrosse as a volunteer.

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* lively and informative presentations by Trinity faculty and alumni * a New England Clambake on the Quad * a Reunion dance 'neath the stars * a variety of alumni sports competitions including an alumni golf outing, a run with the faculty, an alumni row, and a round-robin tennis tournament

* special programs designed fo r children * a question-and-answer, session with Trinity President Evan S. Dobelle * time to relax on the Quad and reconnect with classmates and friends

While special celebrations will be held for class years ending in 4 and 9, all alumni are welcome to join the festivities.

To see a complete list of Reunion activities, click into the Alumni Relations home page (through the Trinity College web site at http:/jwww.trincoll.edu) for campus events.

For more information about Reunion '99, please call the Alumni Office at 860-297-2400 or send e-mail to trinity_reu nion@trincoll.ed u.

Reservation deadline is May 28th!

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