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Reporter 2020 SPRING Trinity The The WestonianThe Trinity Magazine Reporter SPRINGSPRING 2020 2014 CONTENTS FEATURES 10 Women at the Summit: 50 Years of Coeducation at Trinity College 50 for the Next 50 Taking Trinity into the future 20 In and of Hartford Opportunities for students abound 24 ‘Mr. Trinity himself’ Patriarch Jerry Hansen ’51 leads the way in his dedication to the college 30 Finding solutions to real-world problems Seniors in engineering, computer science tackle research, design process 34 The Trinity College Chapel Historic space continues to be a key part of campus life ON THE COVER The names of the 50 for the Next 50 honorees—50 women recognized for their potential to have a lasting impact on the future of the college— literally make up the building blocks of this illustration of part of the iconic Long Walk. The 50 for the Next 50 initiative was part of the three-semester-long Women at the Summit celebration that marked 50 years of coeducation at Trinity. For more on the honorees, please see page 10. ILLUSTRATION: JOHN MAVROUDIS The editor welcomes your questions and comments: Sonya Adams, Office of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106, [email protected], or 860-297-2143. DEPARTMENTS 02 LETTERS 03 ALONG THE WALK 06 VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT 07 AROUND HARTFORD 08 TRINITY TREASURE 41 CLASS NOTES 71 IN MEMORY 78 ALUMNI EVENTS 80 ENDNOTE THE TRINITY REPORTER Vol. 50, No. 3, Spring 2020 Published by the Office of Communications, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. Postage paid at Hartford, Connecticut, and additional mailing offices. The Trinity Reporter is mailed to alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of Trinity College without charge. All publication rights reserved, and contents may be reproduced or reprinted only by written permission of the editor. Opinions expressed are those of the editor or contributors and do not reflect the official position of Trinity College. ↗ Postmaster: Send address changes to For more on the The Trinity Reporter, Trinity College, Watkinson’s photo 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 collections, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/ www.trincoll.edu Reporter. ON THIS PAGE A tableful of photos represents the Watkinson Library’s vast photo collections, which in the past few years have expanded greatly thanks to recent donations organized by Michael Mattis, a renowned photography collector. Mattis met Pablo Delano, Charles A. Dana Professor and Charles A. Dana Research Professor of Fine Arts, several years ago while visiting a friend’s daughter who happened to be in Delano’s class. Since 2015, when a set of photos from the collection of Stephen Nicholas came to Trinity, 12 other donors—including political commentator George Stephanopoulos—have come forward to donate to the Watkinson, all thanks to Mattis. Many of the photos were on display in February in the Austin Arts Center’s Widener Gallery in Change in America: 1940–1980, Recent Acquisitions from the Trinity College Photo Collections, an exhibit curated by Professor of Political Science Stefanie Chambers and Fine Arts Curator Felice Caivano. Delano notes that Mattis and other donors appreciate that Trinity’s collections are accessible to students and others doing research. The fair-market value of the gifts tops $3.8 million. PHOTO: NICK CAITO / Fall 2014 / 3 LETTERS WE WANT TO SALUTE TO CINESTUDIO HEAR FROM YOU! I just received my copy of The Trinity The Trinity Reporter Reporter in the mail. I want to thank welcomes letters related you for featuring Cinestudio on the cover (a beautiful shot!) and for to items published in the article. Well written, it captures recent issues. Please send Cinestudio’s history, its passionate sup- remarks to the editor at porters, and what it means to Trinity [email protected] and the community. or Sonya Adams, Office of Of course, I will readily admit I am Communications, Trinity somewhat biased. I serve proudly on College, 300 Summit Street, [Cinestudio’s] board as one minor cog Hartford, CT 06106. in this wonderful institution. Your attention to Cinestudio is well appreciated! Thanks! Mark von Mayrhauser ’73 Cinestudio Board Member and Treasurer West Hartford, Connecticut FLASHBACK TO FILMS Note from the Editor Loved the story about the origins and history of Cinestudio. Over the course As you read through this issue, you won’t find cover- of many, many evenings spent there in the early and mid-’90s, I never thought age related to the unprecedented coronavirus pan- to ask James Hanley and Peter McMorris demic, except, of course, in this note. Because of about the origins of the institution. It’s publishing deadlines, nearly all of the content within a great story, and reading it brought these pages was completed by mid-March, back a lot of memories of a lot of great films. I never took a film class at Trinity, before the coronavirus outbreak became but Cinestudio was at least worth a film a pandemic. As of this writing, Trinity minor. It’s hard to think of a filmmaker College was moving to remote learn- that I didn’t first encounter in the pro- ing for the remainder of the spring gram. Excited to stop by the next time I’m passing through Hartford and try 2020 semester, our study-away pro- the new seats. Long may it thrive. grams had been suspended, and Alexander Zaitchik ’96 contingency planning for the major New Orleans, Louisiana college events of Commencement and MANY THANKS TO MORTON Reunion was ongoing. I am a Trinity alumna (Class of 2011), With a primary focus on the health and and I just finished reading through the well-being of our campus community, especially our winter 2020 issue. In it, there was a pro- file on D. Holmes Morton, M.D. [IDP’79] students, we at Trinity continue to think about our and his work with genetic illnesses, alumni, parents, and friends—indeed, all who are especially GA1 and MSUD. Without his reading this magazine—and about how this pub- work, who knows when those genetic lic health emergency is affecting you and your loved disorders would have been discovered. I have a child with GA1, and I wanted to ones. While we recognize the gravity of the disrup- send him a note thanking him for all his tion and uncertainty we all face, we remain ever con- work, which led to newborn screening fident that those in our Trinity community will stand including GA1. Begaeta Nukic Ahmic ’11 together and care for one another. Rockville, Maryland PHOTO: NICK CAITO NICK PHOTO: 2 THE TRINITY REPORTER ALONG THE WALK News from the Trinity community Trinity Trinity College has opened the 13,000-square- foot Trinity Innovation Center in downtown Innovation Hartford as a space for boundary-crossing col- laborations and creativity. The new center— located on the third floor of One Constitution Center Plaza, directly across the plaza from Trinity’s Liberal Arts Action Lab at 10 Constitution opens Plaza—will house Trinity’s partnership with Infosys; Digital Health CT, an accelerator led by Startupbootcamp; and new innovation and entrepreneurship programming for students. The center was made possible by a $2.5 mil- lion grant from the State of Connecticut and was designed by SLAM Collaborative. (continued on page 4) A neon Trinity “T” marks the center’s entrance. PHOTO: NICK CAITO NICK PHOTO: ALONG THE WALK Sonia Cardenas, acting dean of the faculty program here in the Innovation Center in the and vice president for academic affairs, fall. Our role is to provide the space for them said that the new space downtown signals to work and meet with their partners and to Faculty that Trinity is part of the city’s and state’s provide Trinity faculty and others who have initiatives to build an innovation ecosystem expertise in the types of services and products members that will attract and retain talent. “We have that they are working on.” a strong pool of talent and are positioned With Stanley Black & Decker’s own inno- retiring to bridge the liberal arts with digital tech- vation hub also located at One Constitution The 2019–20 academic nology and innovation,” Cardenas said. Plaza and more start-ups coming to the city, year marks the retirement “We’re proud to have Trinity be a strong Giraldo said, there is a real energy building of 11 Trinity College faculty presence in downtown Hartford.” downtown. “There are a lot of people and members, listed below. For The Trinity-Infosys partnership, called organizations in Hartford all thinking about more on these distinguished the Applied Learning Initiative, moved innovation and how to make the city better. individuals, please visit into the center in February. New Infosys I think that being in downtown Hartford commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. employees in the Business Analysis for Digital provides us with easy, quick resources to build Transformation program are making use of partnerships and strengthen relationships,” MICHAL AYALON the large training room and the many flexible she said. “I’m excited for Trinity’s place in this Senior Lecturer in Language work areas and meeting spaces. More than movement of rediscovering what Hartford has and Culture Studies 150 employees have trained through the to offer and bringing in talent. We’re right in program, which during the past year had been the middle of it.” RAYMOND W. BAKER held at other locations on campus. Each group Cardenas said that the flexible space is open Professor of International Politics includes about 25 to 30 liberal arts graduates to all members of the Trinity community as a recruited from Hartford and across the country. place to create and collaborate with a cross WILLIAM H.