Mega-Cities founder, Janice Perlman, named to new post in urban studies
J Janet Faude
Douglas Tansill '61
and chair of its advancement and campaign steering committees. He also is a member of the executive, investment, and physical plant committees of the board. Tansill recently served as head ofThe Trinity College Campaign, which surpassed its five-year, $100million goal ahead of schedule. Because of this success and the momentun1 generated, the fund-raising goal was stretched by an additional $75 million. "Thanks largely to Doug's leadership on the fund-raising front and with major gifts in particular," Dobelle said, " the College surpassed its $25-million goal in the first year of this extended campaign by over $6 million." As a Trinity undergraduate, Tansill was a leader in student government and athletics. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and embarked on a successful career in investment banking. Today he serves as an advisory director at Paine Webber. His many awards from the College include the Eigenbrodt Cup, the President's Leadership Medal, and the Gary McQuaid A ward. The strategic gifts commit-
tee that Tansill will lead will be composed of trustees, influential volunteers, and senior administrators of the College, including Faude and Dobelle. Tansill and the committee will oversee the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of Trinity's leading philanthropic prospects.
anice Perlman, an internationally recognized expert on urban issues and the founder of the innovative Mega-Cities Project that seeks solutions. to problems faced by urban areas throughout the world, has been appointed as the first professor of comparative urban studies at Trinity. Perlman's 1976 book, The Myth of Marginality, which focused on the lives of the urban poor in Rio de J aneiro, established her as a major figure in urban development studies. In 1986, she left a tenured position at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley to establish the MegaCities Proj ect in New York and serve as its president. Her Trinity professorship is a fiveyear contractual post created through and funded by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Trinity will become the international headquarters for the M ega-Cities Project, and the 19 field sites will be coordinated through the Mega-Cities office on Trinity's campus. "Hartford is an ethnically diverse city of great cultural resources, and Trinity is seeking to capitalize on these resources and maximize its location by strengthening its city-centered instru ctional and co-curricular programs," said President Evan Dobelle in announcing the new ap-
In September, the College bestowed an honorary degree on acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who also gave a performance in the ChapeL At the ceremony, Ma showed his enjoyment as the citation for him was read by the Dean of the Faculty Miller Brown, second from left, as President Do belle, left, and Professor of Music John Platoff look on.
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