news from the national alumni association
Dear Fellow Bantams: Trinity alumni/ae are a very special group of people. We have gone forward from our years "neath the elms" to make a difference in the world in countless different ways. Our liberal arts education has made us flexible, curious, and innovative. The relationships we established with our professors and with each other have given us a superb network of personal and professiona l friends. The
broad range of experiences we each had at Trinity-study abroad, internships, scientific research, success on the courts and playing fields, involvement in the arts, and much more-has given us the ability to encounter life's challenges and opportunities with intelligence and determ ination. And so it is with great pride that I introduce to you the Trinity graduates who have won this year's National Alumni Association
awards, not only for outstanding loyalty to the College, but also for the lasting impact they have had on the world around us. Please join me in congratulating them.
program until he retired in 1989. He also founded Trinity's Elderhostel programs in Italy and the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Ita lian Culture. He created and continues to co-direct Trinity's Academy of Lifelong Learn ing, which offers noncredit courses to the Greater Hartford community. He received Trinity's A lumni Medal for Excellence, and in 1998, the College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. He has also received the honorary title of Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.
He has headed theater programs at the University of Ottawa and the University of Rhode Island, and in 1982, founded Emory University's theater program. He is t he founding director of its W.B. Yeats Foundation. Flannery is considered one of the foremost interpreters of Irish song, and his book and recording, Dear 1-/arp of /'v1y Country: The Irish /'v1elodies of Thomas /'v1oore, received an endorsement from Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Flannery is also the author of the definitive study, WB. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The farly Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice, and has written articles for The New York Times,
Alumni Achievement Award-
The Eigenbrodt Cup At his 60th class reunion, Michael R. Campo ~8. John J. McCook Professor of Modern Languages and Literature Emeritus, received the Eigenbrodt Cup Award, the most prestigious alumni award that Trinity bestows. Established by Sallie Eigenbrodt in memory of her brother, David L. Eigenbrodt, who graduated in 1831, the award honors a Trinity graduate of national or international prominence for outstanding contributions and service on behalf of the College. Campo, the son of Italian immigrants, arrived at Trinity in the fall of 1941. World War II interrupted his academic career, and from 1943 to 1946 he served as a staff sergeant in the United States Army, receiving a Battle Star for service in the Rhineland Campaign. Returning to Trinity in 1946, he completed his degree, majoring in modern languages and literature. Following graduation, he earned master's and doctorate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. From 1950 to 1951, he studied in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship, the first Johns Hopkins student to receive that award. He joined Trinity's faculty in 1952 as a member of the Department of Modern Languages and quickly rose from instructor to professor. He was chairman of the department from 1970 to 1976. In 1970, Campo founded Trinity's Rome campus and served as director of the
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James W. Flannery '58, the Winship Professor of Arts and Humanities at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, received the Alumni Achievement Award . This award is given each year by the NAA to a graduate who has ach ieved d istinction in his or her fie ld of endeavor. Flannery is a scholar of Irish music, poetry, and mythology, and an expert on W.B. Yeats. His accomplishments as an Irish tenor, stage director, author, and producer have received international acclaim, and he has been called "Irish America's Renaissance Man." Flannery grew up in Hartford and transferred to Trinity from the Hartt School in the fall of 1955, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in music and English. He also holds a master's of fine arts from the Yale School of Drama and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin.
With best regards, Virginia "Penny" Sanchez 77 President National Alumni Association
The Performing Arts Journal and The Irish University Review. From 1989 to 1993, he was executive director of the Yeats International Theatre Festival at the Abbey Theatre of the National Theatre of Ireland. He has directed more than 60 productions-including 22 of Yeats' plays-at professional theaters in Ireland, Canada, and the United States. Listed in Who's Who in America, Flannery has five times been named to Irish America /'v1agazine's list of the 100 most prominent Irish Americans. He received the prestigious Wild Geese Award for Outstanding Contributions to Irish Culture in 1993, and was awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Scholarship to work with the University of Ulster in Ireland to develop a school for the performing arts in 2001 . In 2002, the Georgia Humanities Council honored Flannery with a Governor's Award in the Humanities for his work promoting Irish culture and its connection with the culture of the American South.
The Gary McQuaid Award Andrew R. Taussig '73 is a Wall Street veteran. Until recent ly, he was vice chairman and head of global retail investment banking at Lehman Brothers, and has retained the same titles at Barclays Capital, which took over Lehman earlier this fall. Prior to joining Lehman in 2005, he spent more than 20 years at Credit Suisse First Boston. His clients include such well-known retailers as Reebok, Home Depot, JC Penney, and Staples. Prior to his work at CSFB, he was