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Trinity Reporter SPRING 2021

A NEW CURRICULUM FOR A NEW CENTURY

Real-world experiences, wellness program to complement academic core SPRING 2021

CONTENTS

FEATURES

12 A new curriculum for a new century Real-world experiences, wellness program to complement academic core

18 Compelling conversations Virtual alumni events help community members stay in touch ↗ For more on the Learning Corridor, please visit commons.

22 trincoll.edu/Reporter. Focus on fairness Fay Stetz-Waters IDP’01 works to ensure Oregonians’ civil rights

26 ‘Dancing Everywhere’ Performance project creatively tackles challenges brought by COVID-19

32 Empowered women empower women Trinity’s Women’s Leadership Council energizes alumnae

ON THE COVER Trinity’s new curriculum, which includes the introduction of a broad variety of credit- bearing co-curricular experiences and a wellness program, will go into effect in fall 2021 with the incoming Class of 2025. For more, please see page 12.

ILLUSTRATION: STEPHANIE DALTON COWAN

Editor’s Note: Some photos in this issue were taken pre-pandemic, prior to mask-wearing and physical-distancing protocols.

DEPARTMENTS

02 LETTERS

03 ALONG THE WALK

06 VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

07 AROUND HARTFORD

10 TRINITY TREASURE

35 CLASS NOTES

68 IN MEMORY

70 ALUMNI EVENTS

72 ENDNOTE

THE TRINITY REPORTER Vol. 51, No. 3, Spring 2021 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 The Trinity Reporter, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 The editor welcomes your questions and comments: Sonya Storch Adams, Office of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106; [email protected]; or 860-297-2143.

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ON THIS PAGE Hartford’s Learning Corridor, located across Broad Street from Trinity College, marked its 20th anniversary in 2020. Trinity was key partner in developing the 16-acre complex, which houses four interdistrict public schools, including Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy.

PHOTO: SARAH MCCOY LETTERS

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! The Trinity Reporter welcomes letters related to items published in recent issues. Please send remarks to the editor at [email protected] or Sonya Storch Adams, Office of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106.

‘JUST RIGHT’ WINTER ISSUE ABOUT MR. TRINITY, I thought the content of the winter 2021 JERRY HANSEN issue of the Reporter was just right, and It was so wonderful to see an article I appreciated the “Endnote.” about Jerry Hansen and his legacy at Allan Atherton ’64 Trinity [“Mr. Trinity Himself,” spring Louisville, Kentucky 2020]. However, I truly feel that there is no amount of words that can paint an REFLECTIONS ON FALL REPORTER accurate picture of how much impact Congratulations on a very nice piece of Jerry has had on the college, its student work [the fall 2020 issue]. I can’t recall body, and alumni, especially. such a set of intriguing articles and excit- I know I am only one among thou- ing and inviting graphics in a previous sands (and thousands) who got to know And, he’s still got his wit, humor, and issue (not that I’m saying there weren’t; Jerry while an undergrad at Trinity kindness. I had a lovely conversation I just wasn’t as intrigued as I am by this and who feels that he’s made a lasting with him just before reading this article. one). And for what it’s worth, I do have impression on their life. He made me laugh, he listened intently at least a semi-trained ear and eye: I I had the pleasure of interacting with to what was going on in my life, and, was a market- him as a tennis player, Alumni Office of course, we talked about Trinity. And, ing manager and student employee, class officer, member I’ll tell you, whenever I talk to Jerry, my copywriter early of an alumni club, and part of his staff in heart warms for Trinity all over again, in my career, and the Alumni Office. He was always warm and I am motivated to support the col- for 25 years, I and approachable, encouraging and nur- lege. In my eyes, there is no replacing was an artists’ turing, and gave great counsel and advice this man, ever. representative on just about everything. Most impor- Thank you for paying tribute to Jerry for photogra- tantly, he expected a lot out of me, so I and his family, and the honors he has phers and illus- learned to expect a lot out of myself. received over the years from the college trators, mainly He was instrumental in my career are well deserved. I am sure there will be in this area. In advancement at Trinity and beyond; he many more! fact, one of my wrote my business school recommenda- Karen Isgur Damon ’92 photographers, tion and made a personal phone call on Andover, Massachusetts Robert Reichert, my behalf. He didn’t have to do that—I shot the cover portrait and accompany- don’t even think I asked him for that ing candids for The Reporter when Jimmy assistance—but he did it with pleasure Jones was introduced as president. … and with conviction and never made me Specific aspects I especially like: the feel that I owed him anything for it but cover photo; the outsize headlines, to be happy and successful. which nonetheless remain readable; the While I moved on from Trinity “Lessons from History” article, both copy and lived up and down the eastern and graphics; and dedicating a full page coastline, Jerry and his equally to “The Connecticut River.” The photo amazing wife, Georgia, tried is a bit wan, IMHO, but then again the to keep up with me the best poem [by Caroline Richards ’22] is about they could, through holiday industry, and that’s captured by the cards, phone calls, and let- photo. Great piece of writing. ters. He’s never given up on Thank you … the presentation literally me from a personal or pro- encouraged me to read more. And the fessional standpoint. I am grate- copy encouraged me to keep reading. ful that Jerry has been in my life now Chip Caton ’71 for close to 35 years as a mentor, a friend, Bloomfield, Connecticut and a father figure. PHOTO: NICK CAITO NICK PHOTO:

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SETTLING IN FOR SPRING Jackie Frank ’24 takes part in the age-old rite of moving in for a new semester as she totes belongings to her residence hall in late February. The move-in dates were a bit later in 2021 than in previous years, given the changes in the academic calendar in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The spring semester started remotely in early February and in person on March 1.

↗ For more on how Trinity has adapted to the pandemic, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. PHOTO: NICK CAITO NICK PHOTO:

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FACULTY UPDATE MEMBERS RETIRING Campus climate The end of the spring 2021 semester also marks the As Trinity continues to aspire to be a community completion of the final year that is truly inclusive, welcoming, and safe for all, of teaching for six Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has shared sev- College faculty members, eral updates on progress and next steps regarding listed below. For more on the college’s work to address systemic racism and these distinguished individuals, please visit sexual misconduct. commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. Key developments include the establishment and ongoing work of the Campus Climate Task LUCY FERRISS Force, led by Berger-Sweeney and Anita Davis, Writer-in-Residence vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the retention of a law firm to review and RONALD KIENER assess issues and to offer recommendations in Professor of Religious Studies response to matters raised on the @trinsurvivors and @blackattrin Instagram accounts. MICHAEL O’DONNELL In a January letter to the community, Berger- Principal Lecturer and Laboratory Coordinator Sweeney emphasized the importance of these in Biology endeavors. “This work is urgent but unending, and it requires the commitment of every one of SHEILA M. FISHER us if we are to achieve for our Professor of English campus something that has so Neuroscience far eluded broader society,” ↗ DAVID A. REUMAN she said. “We take this aspi- To learn more about Associate Professor Trinity’s ongoing of Psychology knowledge ration seriously; ultimately, at efforts, including Trinity and at every college, specific recommenda- Trinity College President and no amount of racism or sexual tions and action steps, JAMES A. TROSTLE Professor of Neuroscience please visit commons. Scott M. Johnson ’97 misconduct is acceptable.” trincoll.edu/Reporter. Joanne Berger-Sweeney Distinguished Professor of Anthropology teaches “Neurons, Learning, and Memory,” a fall 2021 J-Term offering that marked her first opportunity to instruct a full course at the college. The overall objective of the Assaiante named to hall of fame course—entirely remote due Trinity College Head Men’s Squash Coach Paul Assaiante recently was named to the College Squash to adjustments made to the Hall of Fame Class of 2021. The College Squash Association (CSA) paid tribute to Assaiante and academic calendar because fellow inductee David Slosburg, an avid squash supporter, during the livestreamed College Squash of the pandemic—was to Awards show on March 25. provide students with a During his 27 seasons at Trinity, Assaiante guided the Bantams to 17 CSA national titles, including basic understanding of the 13 consecutive crowns from 1999 to 2011, and 252 wins in a row, giving Trinity ownership of neuroscience of learning the longest-known winning streak in the history of intercollegiate varsity sports. Assaiante, the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Coach of the Year in 2008, and memory. 2009, and 2013, holds a 438–16 all-time record as the Bantam head coach, including 14 consecutive conference titles. Inducted into the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2016, Assaiante twice was named the U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year and was hailed in 2000 by The Hartford Courant as one of Connecticut’s top sports coaches of the 20th century. From 1999–2003 and again from 2010 to the present, Assaiante has coached the U.S. Squash Team and the USA Men’s Team. He also coached the Trinity men’s tennis squad for 19 seasons, notching a 188–97 career record with the Bantams. Assaiante, Paul D. Assaiante Professor of Physical Education and associate director of the athletic endowment, was the recipient in 2002 of Trinity’s Arthur H. Hughes Award for Achievement in Teaching, which recognizes excellence in teaching by a junior member of the faculty. He also is the co-author of two books, including 2012’s Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear. PHOTOS: (LEFT) SARAH MCCOY; (FAR RIGHT) NICK CAITO NICK RIGHT) (FAR MCCOY; SARAH (LEFT) PHOTOS:

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Tech-Edge in second year

Trinity College’s Tech-Edge, a summer pro- While Tech-Edge originally was envi- gram that bridges the liberal arts and the sioned as being held in person, the COVID- future of digital technology, launches its 19 pandemic forced a shift to remote learn- second annual three-week session on June 7 ing in 2020. That format continues in 2021, with the addition of a Future of Work Forum with participants acquiring basic technology focused on preparing students to adapt to the skills—including programming and software new, changing landscape of work via panels development basics, cybersecurity fundamen- with companies and industry professionals. tals, and data analysis and visualization— Part of the Trinity-Infosys Applied Learning in remote sessions taught by Trinity faculty Initiative, an unprecedented collaboration members. Business innovation fundamentals between the college and the global tech giant, are led by industry experts in the fields of Tech-Edge is designed to give liberal arts accounting, marketing, finance, operations, undergraduate students and recent college and strategy, as well as Infosys-powered digi- graduates with little or no STEM background tal technology. the core skills in technology and business Innovative sessions include a Design Paul Sullivan ’95 innovation necessary to prepare them for the Thinking boot camp, which introduces par- future of work. ticipants to a human-centered process for Beyond Trinity Trustee Lou Shipley ’85, a three-time creative problem-solving. That process is then tech CEO and a lecturer at Harvard Business put to use in a two-day real-world challenge, School and MIT Sloan School of Management where participants solve a business problem the Summit who also was a 2020 Tech-Edge instructor, for a company or nonprofit. Trinity College’s new podcast noted the benefits of the program. “Tech- Participants who complete the Tech-Edge series—Beyond the Summit— Edge provides a good balance of important program—led by faculty directors Takunari features accomplished Trinity business and technology fundamentals and Miyazaki, associate dean for faculty devel- alumni in conversations about concepts that are quickly grasped by liberal opment and associate professor of computer their journeys to and beyond arts students whose skills include creative science, and Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, faculty the college. thinking, problem-solving, and effective com- director of innovation initiatives and asso- The inaugural season, munications,” he said. Shipley added that ciate professor of history—receive a digital launched in January 2021 and his own daughter, Vanessa, a current student badge that can be published on social media, hosted by New York Times at Colgate University, took part in the pro- including LinkedIn. columnist and author Paul Sullivan ’95, showcases five gram, along with participants from several Applications for other colleges and universities, including next year’s program ↗ entrepreneurs: David Schnadig For more information ’86, co-president of Cortec Middlebury College and Colby College, as well will be available in about Tech-Edge or the Group and Trinity trustee; Danai as Trinity. early 2022. Trinity-Infosys Applied Pointer ’07, communications Learning Initiative, please visit commons. strategist and founder of trincoll.edu/Reporter. TruNude; Elizabeth Elting ’87, founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation and Trinity trustee; Rhoden Monrose ’09 founder and CEO of CariClub and Board of Fellows member; and Ross Buchmueller ’87, president and CEO of the PURE Group of Insurance Companies and Trinity trustee. Planning is underway for season 2 of the podcast.

↗ To listen to the podcast series and to learn more about Sullivan, please visit

PHOTOS: (LEFT) SARAH MCCOY; (FAR RIGHT) NICK CAITO NICK RIGHT) (FAR MCCOY; SARAH (LEFT) PHOTOS: commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter.

SPRING 2021 5 VOLUNTEER SPOTLGHT

a recent grad, which I think translates well to prospective students. I get to talk to people from all over the world and be a positive face for the college. It’s also a way for me to give back to Trinity.” Ben Haj Frej considers the latter to be an imperative. “All of the opportunities I’ve had are because of Trinity,” she says. “I try to pass that on.” For example, after taking part in a Multicultural Affairs panel, “Hijabs and Hoodies,” Ben Haj Frej began communicating on Instagram with a graduate who works at the United Nations. That led to her involvement in a 2019 conference, “Women’s Resistance to State and Secular Violence: Indigenous and Muslim Perspectives.” She now volunteers as a grant writer with the U.N. in Uganda. “Trinity was the reason I got my first job at Dana-Farber [as a research technician] and my second job,” she continues. “I connected with alumni on LinkedIn who worked at Dana-Farber. They read over my cover letter and for- warded my résumé.” “Doing admissions interviewing is different from anything else I do,” she says. “It’s new, fun, and exciting—and I get to share my love of Trinity with prospective students. I still remember doing my alumni interview with Trinity when I was applying.” Senior Associate Director of Admission Courtney Roach ’16, who chairs the admissions volunteer program, appreciates the energy Ben Haj Frej brings to volunteering. “When I send out a Khaoula Ben Haj Frej ’18 communication, I know Khaoula will be one of the first to respond,” Roach says. “I love to see that enthusiasm.” Khaoula Ben Haj Frej ’18 is an enthusias- volunteer with the Office of Multi- Ben Haj Frej looks forward to keeping tic alumni interviewer for the Admissions cultural Affairs. And that’s not all. up her involvement with the Admissions Volunteer Program. Since starting in At different times during her Trinity Volunteer Program even with some summer 2020, she has interviewed more career, she worked at the Underground upcoming life changes: she will be start- than a dozen students, sharing her love Coffeehouse, in the office overseeing ing medical school in fall 2021. “I’ve of, and answering their questions about, residential life, and at the front desk in already been accepted into a number the college. the Raether Library and Information of schools and will be making my deci- “I was very, very involved on campus,” Technology Center. sion this spring about where to attend,” she explains, in perhaps more than a “I go after opportunities I enjoy,” she concludes, adding, given the sum bit of understatement. A neuroscience explains Ben Haj Frej, who is a clinical total of her experiences at the college, major with minors in English and biology, research coordinator at the Center for “Trinity was the reason I got into medical Ben Haj Frej worked as both a neuro- Cancer Therapeutic Innovation at Dana- school, too.” science and biology research assistant. Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. As far —Maura King Scully She was a resident assistant and an active as admissions interviewing goes, “I’m PHOTO: JOHN MARINELLI JOHN PHOTO:

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ELIZABETH PARK 1561 ASYLUM AVENUE WEST HARTFORD, CT

AROUND HARTFORD

About four miles northwest of Trinity College’s 100-acre campus lies the similarly sized Elizabeth Park, which features the new Garmany Visitor’s Center, a recently constructed permanent stage for performances, an accredited arboretum, recreational facilities including tennis courts and walking loops, and more. The park’s centerpiece is the oft-photographed Helen S Kaman Rose Garden—with elegant arches in full bloom from mid-June to early July—billed as the oldest municipal rose garden in the United States. Opened to the public in 1897, Elizabeth Park honors Elizabeth A. Pond, wife of Hartford businessman Charles M. Pond, who bequeathed the property to the city under the stip- ulation that the space be associated with his beloved’s name in perpetuity. While more than 80 percent of the park is physically located in West Hartford, it is owned by the City of Hartford, which has a public-private partnership with the Elizabeth Park Conservancy to ensure its continued maintenance and restoration and to oversee events. While COVID- 19 forced the cancellation of most park happenings and the temporary closure of the Pond House, the on-site café and banquet venue, the Conservancy continues to assess the feasibility of future events. All the while, the park continues to provide an important outlet during the pandemic, serving as a popular destination for walkers, joggers, and safe outdoor exercising. For up-to-date information about Elizabeth Park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter or www.elizabethparkct.org. PHOTO: JOHN MARINELLI JOHN PHOTO:

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A meeting that saved democracy

Trinity Trustee Michael J. Kluger ’78, P’13, retiring from the board adhered to the charter’s points and principles, and the nations of this month, said he has wondered why so few people know the world have avoided another world war.” about the historic Atlantic Conference. After a 40-year career on After Trinity, Kluger earned an M.B.A. from the University of Wall Street, the Trinity history major thought perhaps it was time Chicago and built his career in private equity, focusing on health to write a book. care industry investments. He and his wife, Heidi Roosevelt and Churchill, The Atlantic Charter: Greene ’78, P’13, reside in Palm Beach, Florida, A Risky Meeting at Sea that Saved Democracy, by but maintain a home in Redding, Connecticut. Kluger and his British co-author, Richard Evans, The hour-and-a-half drive from Redding to the was published in January 2021. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and “Over many years, there has been this relation- Museum in Hyde Park, ship between Great Britain and the United States New York, meant invalu- ↗ To see a Virtual Long Walk that has been mutually beneficial, and beneficial able access to a trove event with Kluger and to to the world,” said Kluger. “There’s nothing better of material. Likewise, learn about his thoughts on his writing mentor, to show what good things have happened from Kluger’s co-author had Milla Riggio, James J. that relationship than the four days in August 1941 important access to the Goodwin Professor of that FDR and Winston Churchill spent meeting at Churchill Archives Centre English, Emerita, please visit commons.trincoll. sea off the coast of Newfoundland. at Churchill College, edu/Reporter. “I felt it was timely—particularly with the resur- Cambridge. gent ‘America First’ movement—to remind people Kluger’s keen interest in history was sparked of what the two leaders accomplished in the very by the captivating lectures of then-Northam dark days prior to the United States entering World Professor of History George Cooper. Kluger said he War II. They met 120 days before Pearl Harbor and was surprised at Honors Day 1978 to be awarded discussed many issues related to defeating the Nazis. At the con- the George B. Cooper Prize in British History. clusion of their meeting, they issued a joint proclamation, which “Cooper’s focus was 18th-century Britain, and he was amaz- came to be known as the Atlantic Charter. A little more than 200 ing,” said Kluger. Cooper passed away in 1995, but Kluger sus- words, it covered eight points outlining how civilized nations pects he would have been pleased about this book. “Other than should act. Since its release, most democratic nations have my mother, George Cooper would have been the proudest.”

Newman Civic Fellow

Trinity College student Karolina Barrientos ’22 had attended only public ConnectiKids, a nonprofit youth recently was named a 2021–22 Newman Civic institutions until she began development organization that Fellow, an honor awarded this year to only 212 studying at Trinity. focuses on educating, enriching, students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., “My schools were mostly and empowering Hartford’s youth; and Mexico. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a composed of marginalized participated in Trinity’s Community one-year fellowship experience for community- students and lacked the resources Action Gateway program to develop committed students from Campus Compact many of my current peers had in their and implement a social change project in member institutions that support students’ [pre-Trinity] experience,” said Barrientos. Hartford; and served as an EMERGE fellow in personal, professional, and civic development. “When I enrolled in education and sociology the program designed to empower and prepare The fellows are leaders on their campuses who courses, I learned the systemic causes of high-performing students from underserved demonstrate a commitment to finding solutions those injustices. Fortunately, I was lucky communities to attend and graduate from for challenges facing communities locally, to have mentors in my schooling experience selective colleges and universities. nationally, and internationally. that led me to opportunities like attending Barrientos is the fifth Trinity student to Barrientos, a sociology and educational Trinity College.” receive this honor. Those who preceded her are studies major, said she has a passion for Barrientos said it is important to pay her Tiana Starks ’21, Matthew Rivera ’20, Marlén researching and studying educational experience forward and help other students Miranda ’20, and Rachael DiPietro ’15. injustices. The Houston native attended the who are from backgrounds similar to hers. Houston Independent School District and She has mentored elementary students in PHOTO: JOHN ATASHIAN JOHN PHOTO:

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The Soviet Writers’ Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin Carol Any, Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies; Northwestern University Press, 2020; 318 pages

The Way of the Platonic Socrates Shane Montgomery Ewegen, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Indiana University Press, 2020; 158 pages

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume Nine, Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973 Edited by Samuel D. Kassow ’66, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, and Jacques Rancière David G. Roskies; Yale University Press, und die Literatur 2020; 1,014 pages Erik M. Vogt, Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Philosophy, and Michael Methods in Enzymology: Manfé; Turia + Kant, 2020; 243 pages Volume 628; Enzyme Activity in Single Cells Vegetables for Breakfast from Edited by Nancy L. Allbritton and A to Z: Change Your Breakfast, Michelle L. Kovarik, Associate Professor Change Your Life Berger-Sweeney of Chemistry; Academic Press, 2019; Nancy Wolfson-Moche ’77 307 pages Pomegranate Gallery, 2020; 116 pages ON LUCE FOUNDATION BOARD

Vodún: Secrecy and the Roosevelt and Churchill, Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney was The Atlantic Charter: Search for Divine Power elected last fall to the Board of Directors of The Henry Luce Timothy R. Landry, Assistant Professor A Risky Meeting at Sea of Anthropology and Religious Studies; that Saved Democracy Foundation, which seeks to enrich public discourse by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019; Michael Kluger ’78, P’13 and Richard promoting innovative scholarship, cultivating new leaders, 201 pages Evans; Frontline Books, 2021; 203 pages and fostering international understanding. The foundation Our Sixties: A Question of Freedom: focuses on grant-making and leadership programs in the An Activist’s History The Families Who Challenged fields of Asia, higher education, religion and theology, art, Paul Lauter, Allan K. Smith and Slavery from the Nation’s and public policy. Founding to the Civil War Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor Luce Foundation Board Chair Margaret Boles Fitzgerald of English, Emeritus; University of William G. Thomas III ’86; Yale Rochester Press, 2020; 287 pages University Press, 2020; 418 pages said in announcing the appointment that she was confident of the value Berger-Sweeney would bring to the foundation’s Rethinking Urbanism: The Last Caucus in Iowa work. “Her professional credentials are stunning; so, too, is Lessons from Postcolonialism Jim O’Loughlin ’88; Ice Cube Press, LLC, and the Global South 2020; 171 pages her life history, which mirrors the diverse aspirations and Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether goals of leadership, scholarship, and global engagement to Distinguished Professor of Urban Migration, Mobility, and which the Luce Foundation has aspired for over 85 years,” she Sojourning in Cross-Cultural International Studies and Director of said. “Dr. Berger-Sweeney adds a gracious and strong voice the Center for Urban and Global Studies; Films: Interculturing Cinema Bristol University Press, 2020; 227 pages Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith to those of our directors, staff, and grant-making partners Williams ’02; Lexington Books, 2021; around the world as we further our mission and strive for 166 pages Prospective Memory in programmatic excellence.” Clinical Populations Edited by Sarah Raskin, Charles A. It Is Wood, It Is Stone Berger-Sweeney said that she was honored to join the Dana Professor of Psychology and Gabriella Burnham ’09; One World, board. “The foundation’s mission aligns with my own and that Neuroscience; Routledge, 2020; 308 2020; 228 pages of the institution I lead,” she said. “As a global community pages If you have a recent book, CD, or of learners, we provide an innovative learning environment Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics video that you would like listed in built on a foundation of a traditional liberal arts education. and Femininity into the The Trinity Reporter, please submit I look forward to bringing that perspective to bear in service Twenty-First Century a copy to Sonya Storch Adams, Office of Communications, Trinity College, to Luce, an exceptional organization that has advanced our Alyson K. Spurgas, Assistant Professor 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT understanding and appreciation of the world.” of Sociology; The Ohio State University 06106. Questions? Email sonya. Press, 2020; 273 pages [email protected]. PHOTO: JOHN ATASHIAN JOHN PHOTO:

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COVID-19 Testing

TRINITY TREASURE Center

Someday, Trinity College students number of faculty, staff, and affiliates and Harvard (in the spring, couriers were will tell future generations about liv- tested weekly—750; and total tests con- expected to do all the driving). Trinity ing through the COVID-19 pandemic, ducted—54,000. More of the same was staff spend hours on the phone—follow- and their stories will include being on anticipated for the spring. ing up on test results, conducting contact Trinity’s campus. Everyone is wearing Teamwork makes the testing center tracing, and isolating active cases—to masks, and the Memorial Field House in tick. Athletics staff and coaches join limit the spread of the virus and to keep EDITOR’S NOTE Ferris Athletic Center has been trans- individuals from Student Life, Health the community safe. “Trinity Treasure” highlights a person, formed into a COVID-19 Testing Center, Services, and other offices to keep the Trinity Athletic Director Drew place, or thing on with coaches and staff directing everyone operation going round-the-clock, much Galbraith, who with his team oversees campus that is just to stop at each station: Blow your nose like a continuous relay race. In the fall, the testing center, says, “Creating a what the name … disinfect hands … register … wait … assistant coaches shared responsibilities positive environment is essential. We’re implies: a Trinity treasure. Do you swab … cap sample … disinfect hands … with courier-service drivers in making there being supportive and friendly and have an idea for drop off sample. Stats from the fall 2020 11 weekly car runs (twice each weekday helping everyone have a little bit bet- what to showcase? semester include: approximate time and once on Saturdays) to Cambridge, ter day. It’s challenging, but everyone Please send your MIRA HELDER PHOTO: inside the center—five minutes; number Massachusetts, delivering samples for understands—we’re in this together, and suggestions to sonya.adams@ of students tested twice weekly—1,920; processing by the Broad Institute of MIT everybody has an important role to play.” trincoll.edu.

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NSF grad fellowship Resilient river turtles Trinity College senior Alisa Levin ’21 recently was selected to receive a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Trinity Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Biology Amber Pitt (GRF), which will fund three years of her studies and and two of her students recently published a scientific paper that sheds light research work in graduate school. Levin, a computer on how different threats impact river turtle populations. Based on research science major and models and data minor, plans to begin a Ph.D. program in computer science in the fall, they conducted in Ozark County, Missouri, in 2019, the paper can help to focusing on neural computation. inform conservation strategies for river turtles. This NSF fellowship recognizes and supports Pitt said that turtles are one of the most highly threatened taxonomic outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full- groups in the world. The paper, published in the ecology journal Acta time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees Oecologica and titled “Short-term impacts of a record-shattering flood in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and dam removal on a river turtle assem- (STEM) or in STEM education and have demonstrated blage and population placed within the their potential for significant research achievements. context of a 50 year study,” highlights “I’m so excited about this fellowship,” Levin said. research that is part of one of the longest- “It means so much to me because it’s hard to get as running turtle studies in the world. an undergraduate, when you don’t already have the support of a lab. [It] … will allow me flexibility in Joining Pitt in her research were envi- my graduate research. It brings me a certain level ronmental science majors Myles Little ’21 of autonomy and means I don’t have to be tied to a and Ellie Tate ’21, a Dorothy A. and specific grant.” Glover Johnson Scholar and a Thomas As a first-year undergraduate coming to Fisher Scholar. The three and their Trinity from New York City, Levin was part of the co-authors—Trinity Physics and Interdisciplinary Science Program (ISP), a Gateway Environmental Laboratory Manager Little and Tate Program for top students interested in the sciences. Joseph Tavano and Max A. Nickerson “Being with a small, close-knit group of students from the University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History—explored with a shared passion for science and a desire to how turtles’ population and species composition change over time and in learn about research was an incredible introduction to college,” Levin said. “Connecting with students response to shifts in their habitat because of a 1,000-year flood. who also cared about research, science, and learning Little, Tate, and Pitt worked together as a team. “We snorkeled the North was inspiring.” Fork of White River, hand captured the turtles, and collected the data on Alison Draper, director of the ISP and Trinity’s the turtles and their habitats,” said Pitt. “We also co-authored a presen- Science Center, noted, “It is very unusual tation which we presented at the prestigious International Congress for for a student to win a GRF before Conservation Biology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 23, 2019, as well they begin their graduate work. as this publication.” The win speaks to Alisa’s Pitt said they found that most of the turtle species were able to cope with incredible intellectual curiosity the flood. “We also concluded that flooding was less of a threat to the turtle and hard work.” populations than exploitation,” she said. “This means that conservation Last year, Levin was one of three Trinity juniors to efforts should focus more on addressing exploitation of turtles.” receive the Barry Goldwater She noted that conservation and sustainability are essential topics for her Scholarship, awarded to students students and her to discuss in their work. “As members of the Trinity College who wish to pursue careers in community, we are actively participating in the broader, global conserva- the natural sciences, mathematics, and tion and sustainability discussion and process by doing critical research engineering. In addition to her interests in science, and outreach to ensure effective conservation programs,” said Pitt. “We are Levin is a member of Trinity’s equestrian team. demonstrating by example how to be bold, independent thinkers who lead “At Trinity, what I’ve appreciated most is the level transformative lives and work toward the greater good.” of support I’ve received from all of my professors. Working in [Professor of Engineering] Taikang Ning’s electrical engineering lab for the last four years has taught me so much about the research process, and my adviser, [Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Associate Professor of Computer Science] Takunari Miyazaki, has supported me every step of the way through my computer science education. They’ve all helped build my confidence when I needed it and gave me advice that helped me stay on the right path.” PHOTOS: (LEFT) ERKIN VERBEEK ’21; (BOTTOM RIGHT) ALEXEY STIOP/SHUTTERSTOCK ALEXEY RIGHT) (BOTTOM ’21; VERBEEK ERKIN (LEFT) PHOTOS:

SPRING 2021 11 12 THE TRINITY REPORTER A NEW CURRICULUM FOR A NEW

Real-world experiences, wellness program to complement CENTURY academic core BY ANDREW J. CONCATELLI ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE DALTON COWAN

SPRING 2021 13 We believe this 21st-century curriculum will prepare Trinity students who are both thinkers and doers.” So says Sonia Cardenas, acting dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, about the most significant revisions to the Trinity College curriculum in more than a decade. The changes—including the introduction of a broad variety of credit- bearing co-curricular experiences and a wellness program—will go into effect in fall 2021 with the incoming Class of 2025. The complex process of revising the curriculum, led by the faculty Curriculum “The new curriculum reflects so much Committee and the Office of the Dean of of what makes Trinity distinctive,” says the Faculty, has taken place over sev- Cardenas. “It reflects our identity as one eral years, with the changes overwhelm- of the only selective liberal arts colleges ingly approved by the faculty in fall in the country that is also in a capital city, 2019. Associate Dean for Curriculum and and it highlights the power of a liberal arts Associate Professor of Theater and Dance education that also takes seriously real- Mitchell A. Polin ’96, who chaired the world experiences and overall wellness.” Curriculum Committee, says that the new In the updated curriculum, students requirements reflect a different approach will complete 32 core academic credits to learning, with an increased emphasis on and three additional credits known as experiential components and the need to the Trinity Plus, which can include a connect more to a postgraduation world. personalized, exploratory option—with “What takes place in the classroom is all co-curricular credits, all academic directly related to what takes place out- credits, or any combination of both—or a side of the classroom,” Polin says. “The more integrated option through a faculty- students carry with them their experi- designed experiential certificate. The new ences from the college—internships, fel- Fitness classes could satisfy the wellness curriculum also incorporates a wellness lowships, community partnerships, and requirement. requirement, intended to promote per- research positions—which all contribute to sonal well-being. the important conversations taking place

14 THE TRINITY REPORTER A co-curricular experience at the Wadsworth Atheneum could satisfy part of the new curriculum’s Trinity Plus.

“[The new curriculum] … highlights the power of a liberal arts education that also takes seriously real-world experiences and overall wellness.”

SONIA CARDENAS, ACTING DEAN OF THE FACULTY AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

The experiential certificate—which is one way to earn the Trinity Plus credits—combines integrated sets of courses in the classroom. This curricular revision of Hartford—including the Legislative on a specific topic to prepare students for acknowledges that they are whole individ- Internship Program—already were credit- their next steps after Trinity. Each cohe- uals, and we need to treat them as such.” bearing experiences for Trinity students, sive certificate program would include at Working closely with the Dean of the the new curriculum offers even more least one academic course and at least Faculty Office and consulting with stu- ways to earn academic credits outside of one co-curricular activity. Polin says that dents about changes they wanted to the traditional classroom. These include proposals for experiential certificates were see, the Curriculum Committee crafted a teaching assistantships, peer teaching gathered from departments across campus detailed proposal motivated by carefully and mentorships, internships outside in the winter and spring. articulated goals. Brendan W. Clark ’21, a the major, summer fellowships, unpaid “The opportunity to have a coherent double major in public policy and law and research with a faculty member, paid sum- experience is one that’s incredibly excit- history, served as a student member of mer research, and January Term courses. ing,” Polin adds. “Classes taken outside the committee. “It is difficult to weigh the “These are ways to link what’s happening of the major don’t have to be random. consequences of a decision, especially an at Trinity with the world and a student’s This option can help students think fur- academic one, without having the voice professional aspirations,” Polin says. “Our ther about how they organize their time of those who directly experience the aca- students are already engaging in a number at Trinity and connect to what they’re demic, curricular, and intellectual fruits of of activities—service, research, and more— passionate about. We want to make a stu- courses,” Clark says. “Student represen- and we believe these activities should dent’s time at Trinity as dynamic an expe- tatives bridge that gap and offer a crucial count in the students’ education. We can rience as possible, both inside and outside perspective on how students react to and connect the students to Hartford and to of the classroom.” interact with the curricular changes.” the Trinity community through this new Brendan Lynch ’20, a computer science While some co-curricular learning curriculum in ways we have not previously major who served as a student mem- opportunities in the college’s home city done to this extent.” ber of the Curriculum Committee, says

SPRING 2021 15 Internships, such as one at NASA (above), will continue to complement the liberal arts academic core (right).

“College is obviously about learning and growing intellectually, but it’s also a time for

students to learn it’s important that the new curriculum explicitly and in more focused ways for the embraces the breadth of experiences of future of work and community.” how to transition to today’s students. “The world changes, Likewise, it was the idea of embracing a and so the curriculum changes with it,” holistic view of students cultivating their the world beyond he says, adding that he appreciates that best selves in and out of the classroom that the curriculum will reflect how learning led to the wellness program. Polin says our campus and to can take place in highly interconnected that this part of the curriculum will help ways. “The experiential certificate in par- students establish and sustain positive think deeply about ticular offers an excellent framework that values, habits, and behaviors during their encourages faculty to explore how their time at Trinity and beyond. “It’s our hope the part they can areas of expertise interact with the work that the wellness requirement will give stu- of colleagues across departmental and dents the skills to balance their social, aca- play in building a divisional lines and allows for students to demic, extracurricular, and professional connect their work in the classroom to life commitments,” he says. caring, responsible beyond our campus,” he says. Professor of English Sarah Bilston, community.” Cardenas notes, “That’s the purpose a Curriculum Committee member who of the experiential certificate—to bridge worked on the wellness program, says SARAH BILSTON, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, academic and co-curricular experiences that it aims to help students build healthy CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEMBER around a single theme, preparing students habits to sustain happy, balanced, and

16 THE TRINITY REPORTER THE BASICS

32 core academic credits

3 additional credits— THE TRINITY PLUS meaningful lives. “We hope the require- says. Each wellness experience requires a (co-curricular and/or ment will encourage students to make minimum of eight hours of direct engage- time and space for wellness; they can have ment and provides an opportunity for stu- academic credits or an fun, try things out, and meet new people,” dent reflection. experiential certificate) Bilston says. “College is obviously about Cardenas says she believes that the learning and growing intellectually, but wellness program and other elements of it’s also a time for students to learn how the new curriculum add up to provide + Wellness to transition to the world beyond our cam- students with an exceptional range of pus and to think deeply about the part real-world learning that takes place out- requirement they can play in building a caring, respon- side of the traditional classroom. “These sible community.” experiences, alongside their core liberal The wellness program comprises arts education and our incredible network three categories: Mind, Body, and Spirit; of global alumni, are what will prepare Community Health and Responsibility; students for lifelong professional and per- and Civic and Environmental Engagement. sonal success,” she says. “Students will participate in four wellness experiences, including at least one from each of these three categories,” Bilston

SPRING 2021 17 ILLUSTRATION: OLGA BOEVA OLGA ILLUSTRATION:

18 THE TRINITY REPORTER compelling conversations

Virtual alumni In a typical year, many alumni, families, and events help other members of the Trinity community community make their way to campus for different occa- members stay sions. Family Weekend, Homecoming, and in touch Reunion are among the top draws. Some visit to attend a lecture, performance, or film; par- BY KATHY ANDREWS ticipate in a panel discussion; catch up with a professor or coach; accompany a family member on an admissions tour; or cheer on a

ILLUSTRATION: OLGA BOEVA OLGA ILLUSTRATION: favorite Bantam team.

SPRING 2021 19 BUT STARTING IN SPRING 2020, when COVID-19 ushered in habits of hunkering down and social distancing, Trinity events had to transition from in person to virtual. Tansill also attended “Hospitality Disrupted,” which focused on how Since then, thousands of members of the the hospitality and restaurant indus- Trinity community, regardless of location or try is grappling with COVID-19 challenges. World-renowned restaurateurs time zone, have embraced the opportunities David Chang ’99, founder and chef to get together, to learn, and to find a sense of of Momofuku, and Danny Meyer ’80, P’20, founder and CEO of Union Square connection by participating through computer Hospitality Group, joined moderator screens via Zoom videoconferencing. John Molner ’85, co-founder and CEO of KCM Media. “Obviously they’re at the epicenter of industries dramatically and negatively Varied presentations and topics have impacted by the virus,” Tansill says of AUDIENCE included a series on U.S. presidential pol- Chang and Meyer. “The discussion was BREAKDOWN itics; a discussion of Albert Camus’s The terrific and really fun.” At one point, Plague; a conversation between Trinity journalist Katie Couric, who is married to President Joanne Berger-Sweeney and Molner, Zoombombed the conversation. Kristine Belson ’86, president of Sony She popped in to say hi and to tease her 59% Pictures Animation; a series showcasing husband, noting how nervous he had alumni alumni musicians; a talk with Andrew been to preside over the discussion. Aydin ’06, co-author of MARCH: Book Steve Donovan, Trinity’s director of Three, the first graphic novel to win the alumni relations, said that as of April 1, 24% National Book Award; a look at the legacy 2021, live attendance for virtual events parents of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and a talk with surpassed 5,700 total audience mem- Kayak founder and CEO Steve Hafner P’22. bers; 45 percent of the individuals had Trustee Emeritus Doug Tansill ’61, P’91, not attended a Trinity event in person in 12% ’96 was among hundreds of virtual attend- the previous five years. “We’ve expanded students ees of “At the Top of Their Game,” with on our traditional attendance, including Robin Sheppard M’76, veteran Bantam significant participation from alums over- coach and athletics administrator, moder- seas,” says Donovan. 5% ating a discussion with five alumni from The audience is continually grow- faculty, staff, the professional sports realm on how the ing, too, as recordings of the virtual friends, others pandemic has rocked their world, as well presentations are viewed by thousands as how their Trinity education helped more via Trinity’s website. A search for them achieve their professional goals. “Virtual Long Walk” provides access to the presentation archive and other content intended to help Trinity community members stay connected. “The world becomes very small “The ease with which people can attend the events from the comfort of when we’re able to all be on a their homes or offices is a big part of the positive feedback we’ve had,” says Zoom screen together.” Donovan. “Also, people have been blown away by the talent of the speakers. The remote format makes it a bit easier for some very busy, high-profile folks to “It just made you swell with pride to share their stories virtually instead of hear these accomplished alumni talk in person.” about their experiences at Trinity being, After attending “The College frankly, as wonderful as mine were,” says Admissions Landscape in a COVID-19 MITCHELL A. POLIN, Tansill. Panelists included Jay Monahan World,” Jessica Lockhart Vincent ’98 felt ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ’93, commissioner of the Professional Golf better informed to help her son with the CURRICULUM AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Association, and Sam Kennedy ’95, presi- college search process. “The biggest thing OF THEATER AND DANCE dent and CEO of the Boston Red Sox. was hearing how much it has changed

20 THE TRINITY REPORTER Left: Adrienne Amador Oddi, Trinity’s dean of admissions and financial aid, in “The College Admissions Landscape in a COVID-19 World; below: Tom Safran ’67 in “Right at Home: How One Trinity Alum Built a Career in Real Estate Development and from what I went through 20-something Affordable Housing”; bottom: Associate years ago, including how many schools Professor of Legal and Policy Studies now are test-optional,” says Vincent, who Renny Fulco, Youlan Xiu ’15, and Thursday Williams ’23 in “The Transformative Legacy lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania. of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” Vincent says one concern she had was how pandemic restrictions have limited sports and extracurricular opportunities. But Adrienne Amador Oddi, dean of admissions and financial aid, and Julia Naclerio ’08, M’20, associate director of experiences impact the work college counseling at the King School, they do,” says Donovan. shared alternate ways for students to During the discussion, demonstrate goal setting and productive which dealt with the twin use of their time. “They described one pandemics of COVID-19 and applicant who, when lockdown hap- systemic racism, panelist pened, decided they were going to watch Karraine Moody ’01 addressed the top 100 movies of all time,” says her personal experience as a Vincent. “I would never have thought of parent raising Black children that as something that would be appeal- in America. She also spoke ing in an admissions application. It really of Trinity experiences and helped me adjust my thinking.” mentors who helped lead her For Barbara Johnson M’89, a self- to “fulfill my purpose” in her described “proponent of lifelong learn- work as the CEO of Hartford ing and the use of technology” who lives Area Habitat for Humanity. in South Dakota, the virtual events have “It was such a healthy reconnected her with Trinity, where she conversation, taking place earned a master’s in English. A human- in a nonjudgmental zone,” ities scholar, Johnson has attended sev- says Moody. “There are some eral virtual events, including a Trinity real down-to-earth but critical College Chapel service. conversations being held on Johnson remembers attending the Trinity’s platform. It speaks to Festival of Lessons and Carols in the the gravity of the college,” she question-and-answer session was Chapel every winter when she lived in adds. “We might be a small liberal arts “The Vaccine Pipeline,” in which Connecticut, and the virtual Chapel college, but we come with such power, Kari Sweeney Efferon ’03, associate gathering brought back the feeling of we come with such influence, in having director at Pfizer, addressed both the being part of the campus community. these conversations.” challenges and cautious processes “Regardless of whether you were study- While many of the virtual events that figured into accelerated developing literature or science, that sense of us are spearheaded by Donovan and col- ment of a COVID-19 vaccine. all being together came up in my memory leagues in the Advancement Office, “What we’ve seen from alumni par- during the service. I thought of all those others are produced or co-sponsored ticipation is that it’s primarily people really neat people at Trinity; it was a good by academic departments and centers who have an interest in learning,” community, and we all worked together.” and by alumni organizations. For many says Polin. “And that’s the greatest Donovan says that some virtual events, events, extensive technical support was compliment Trinity could ever get, to notably “Alumni Leaders Building provided by Information Technology have an alumni group that’s excited Stronger Communities,” have been mov- Services, says Donovan. to be part of an academic conversation ing, with attendees commenting—either “I think there will always be a need for and wants to engage important, some- by live chat during the event or by email and benefits from in-person events,” says times difficult, questions.” afterward—on how poignant the discus- Donovan. “But we’ve recognized just how Polin notes that alumni from many sion was. “The panel with alumni leaders effective a medium this is, and I expect different class years and from around of nonprofit organizations really tugged we’ll continue with virtual event program- the country and the world are participat- at your heartstrings because it followed ming long beyond the pandemic.” ing in the virtual events based on their on the heels of all the social and racial Mitchell A. Polin ’96, associate dean interests in topics and presenters. Says injustice issues that came to the fore- for curriculum and associate professor Polin: “The world becomes very small front this summer. The panelists all told of theater and dance, says an espe- when we’re able to all be on a Zoom raw and emotional stories and how those cially timely virtual talk with a robust screen together.”

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SPRING 2021 21 Fay Stetz-Waters IDP’01, director of civil rights, Oregon Department of Justice

22 Fay Stetz- Waters IDP’01 works to ensure Oregonians’ Focus on civil rights

STORY BY MARY HOWARD PHOTOS BY fair-KATHRYN ELSESSER

nessSPRING 2021 23 hen she was a child, Fay Stetz- Waters IDP’01 was often blamed a multistate lawsuit that challenges for her twin sister’s antics—like changes to the U.S. Department of Labor’s joint-employer rule. The rule, the time her sister broke Stetz- part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, defines who or what is considered Waters’s sunglasses by sitting on an employer. Until January 2020, the them. “Before I could say a word, rule stated that an employer must be held accountable to its workers for she tattled to my mom, saying, minimum wage, overtime, and child labor protection, whether the work- ‘Look what sissy did!’ ” When ers are engaged directly by the corporation or through an intermediary. Stetz-Waters professed her inno- But last year, the Labor Department made changes to the law that cence, her mother ignored her. “My mom was would leave workers vulnerable. In pretty strict, and if she couldn’t identify who September 2020, 18 states, including Oregon, sued to stop implementation did it, it was usually me, the outspoken one, of the rule. Though she has achieved a high- who got in trouble,” she says. “I spent a lot of level of success, Stetz-Waters’s journey was not easy. She grew up in time in punishment, alone in my room, think- Baltimore in the 1980s, amid rampant violence. Her mother suffered from an ing about fairness.” undiagnosed mental illness, and her father died during her senior year of high school. These childhood experiences laid the foundation With her mother “checked out” and her father for Stetz-Waters’s sense of justice and foreshadowed sick, she enrolled herself in Western High School, her career as a lawyer and judge. Now, as director of one of the country’s oldest public all-girls’ secondary civil rights for Oregon’s Department of Justice, she schools. “It was a place where academics were taken works on issues that impact the state’s most vulner- seriously, where I could see what a college trajectory able citizens. looked like,” she says. Her responsibilities include advising state After graduation, with no money for col- agencies and defending state actions lege, she joined the Marine Corps and pur- that involve the people’s rights, such sued her education at her own pace. “I as access to clean water and health have never bought into the idea of late care and the ability to earn money. starts. People are on their own trajec- “If there is an equity piece missing tory,” she says. from any legislation, I’ll work with Though Stetz-Waters enjoyed the [state’s] attorney general to get working as a field radio operator that added in if I can,” she says. in the Marines, her outspokenness Outreach is important to Stetz- meant she often was “moved around.” Waters, and she creates opportunities She notes, “Women who complained for people in her state to speak up and be of sexual harassment were reassigned, heard. Last summer, she facilitated Oregon’s and investigations of sexual harassment were Community Conversations, a series of roundta- minimal. People like me, who spoke out about rac- ble discussions that give people affected by inequity ism and sexism, were [also] reassigned.” opportunities to share their experiences of hate and After four years, she decided not to reenlist. “This discrimination. The program has led to substantive was before ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ and I was in a rela- governmental changes, including increased culturally tionship with a woman,” she says. When her partner specific resources for crime victims. She also manages moved to Connecticut, Stetz-Waters went, too, and a Bias Response Hotline for Oregonians to report bias began working as a 911 dispatcher for the Manchester incidents and crimes, the first in the country to focus Police Department. on the needs of the people, she says. She also studied at Manchester Community Stetz-Waters also advocates for change on a College. “I was enjoying education as an exercise, national level and coordinated Oregon’s response to taking a bunch of classes,” she says. Her intellectual

24 THE TRINITY REPORTER curiosity and high GPA caught the attention of an Over the years, Stetz-Waters has served as an administrator, who suggested she try for a scholar- administrative law judge for the Oregon Employment ship to a four-year school. Department, a hearings officer for the state’s Board of Stetz-Waters says she chose Trinity because of Parole, and a circuit court judge in Linn County. She its excellent reputation. And as a self-supporting began working at the Oregon Department of Justice in student in the Individualized Degree Program, the 2019, and Naucler says it is a position for which Stetz- college’s location near her employer was a plus. She Waters is particularly suited. “She’s not a pushover, worked nights at the police department and took a but she isn’t unpleasant to anyone,” says Naucler. She full course load during the day, majoring in history. says she feels that Stetz-Waters’s civility in the face of “I would finish my shift, drive to Trinity, and sleep conflict is particularly necessary right now, with the in my car for an hour before classes started. Then I country so divided. would go home, sleep for a couple of hours, and go Stetz-Waters’s wife of 22 years, writer Karelia Stetz- to work.” She did this for two years before graduating Waters, agrees. “Though she is very passionate about with honors. civil rights, she is very rational when others get polar- Along the way, she says, she benefited from ized. She always sees both sides and strives for the Trinity’s talented and encouraging faculty. She cred- middle ground,” she says. its her adviser, Barbara Sicherman, William R. Kenan Stetz-Waters’s work in law enforcement has Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values, informed her position on one particularly polariz- Emerita, with teaching her how to dig deeper in her ing issue: police reform. As a 911 dispatcher, she saw research and analysis of materials. During her senior what police officers experience. “There are mental- year, she served as a teaching assistant for former health risks that occur [when officers] repeatedly history faculty member Jeff Roche’s class on the respond to people in crisis, take lives, and see death. 1960s, which strengthened her interest in civil rights. It can make you see the worst in people, rob you of One of her favorite courses was “Protest in Music,” your compassion, and leave you viewing people as taught by Professor of Music Gail Woldu. “It’s where threats instead of humans,” she says. I first heard Debussy and Ravel, and it gave me an Instead of defunding police, she advocates for appreciation for rap and hip hop that I didn’t have,” rewarding officers who establish a rapport with those says Stetz-Waters. in their community and providing anti-bias and Though they’ve had no contact in 20 years, Woldu equity training to all, not just a select few. remembers Stetz-Waters for her keen insight during a “Her integrity, her ethical compass, and her pas- class discussion. After listening to a recording of Ma sion for justice paired with her incredible work ethic Rainey’s “Prove It on Me Blues”—with the refrain, really is changing our state for the better,” says “Went out last night with a crowd of my friends. They Karelia Stetz-Waters. “I hope more people follow in must have been women, ’cause I don’t like no men”— her footsteps.” Stetz-Waters made an observation that even Woldu hadn’t considered. “We had been arguing about the boldness of such a line and the boldness of a record company … to market a song about lesbianism,” says Woldu. Stetz-Waters suggested that the record company was bold because they knew it had an audience of les- “Though she is very passionate bian listeners who understood. “She helped us see a potential market for music outside the mainstream,” about civil rights, she is very says Woldu. “I use her comment every time I teach that piece.” rational when others get After Trinity, Stetz-Waters earned a J.D. in 2005 from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, where polarized. She always sees she wrote about marriage equality, transgender rights, and crime victims’ rights. Her first job out of both sides and strives for the law school was for Legal Aid of Oregon, where she provided representation for underserved residents middle ground.” of Linn and Benton Counties. “She has a heart for KARELIA STETZ-WATERS the most vulnerable people,” says Mitzi Naucler, who was her supervisor at Legal Aid. The two remain close, and Naucler has enjoyed watching the growth of her friend’s career.

SPRING 2021 25 Aarti Lamberg ’24

THE TRINITY REPORTER Performance project creatively tackles challenges brought by ‘Dan-COVID-19 cing where’

STORY BY

PHOTOS BY NICK CAITO

ANDREW J. CONCATELLI

SPRING 2021 27 every- ust a dance concert be presented on a stage? Must a rehearsal be held in a studio? M With large performance halls on campus shuttered and “It’s time to think and dance outside of rehearsal studios converted into the box!” That’s how Assistant Professor of classrooms last fall during the Theater and Dance Peter Kyle and Assistant Professor of Theater and COVID-19 pandemic, Trinity College’s Theater Dance Rebecca K. Pappas pitched and Dance Department confronted the their idea for “Dancing Everywhere,” the yearlong performance project challenge of how to create art and present it that began in fall 2020 as part of their THDN-309 “Stage Production” course. to an audience without gathering groups of “ ‘Dancing Everywhere’ is a think tank for movement and performance people in person. experiments that began by developing ideas in a creative laboratory,” Kyle So exactly where can dancing take place? says. Students and their professors worked on site-specific performances, For two faculty members, the answer is dances for the camera and for Zoom, simple: everywhere. and any other means by which members of the class could dance together while remaining apart. “Our goal was to make a big show, knowing that it would have to likely exist in a variety of different platforms that we wouldn’t otherwise think of as venues,” Kyle says. “We turned Zoom and all our spaces into rehearsal halls. We have gone beyond the studio and have made the leap to thinking about dance as being able to occur in other places.” Pappas adds, “ ‘Dancing Everywhere’ refers to site-specific, nontraditional spaces, but it also means dancing together in digital space, in virtual ways, and in analogue spaces that digital portals take us to—in our homes, dorm rooms, the lobbies of buildings.” The uncertainty of whether any kind of live performance would be possible during the pandemic turned the focus away from the final product and inward toward the process. “It was really just about dancing all the time, no matter where,” she says. “You’re not in rehearsal for something else, you’re just doing it now, and we’re all doing it together. That’s a different way to think about what a performance is and what a rehearsal is.”

28 THE TRINITY REPORTER Far left: Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance Peter Kyle with students; left: Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance Rebecca Pappas; above: Ugnė Tumonytė ’24

The class met in person outdoors and remotely via Zoom to work on student- and faculty-designed performance pieces. An open rehearsal held on the Main Quad and online in November showcased the work in progress, followed by a final performance in the spring. Working collectively on pieces allowed the parallel development of dances that took different formats, including short films, projec- tion, and live outdoor performances. “Normally a concert would have six pieces in a program on the stage,” Pappas says. “This year, the pieces are all different.” Kyle’s piece involving slow-tempo movement used the Main Quad as its venue, while Pappas filmed memory- inspired dances in the Crescent Center for Arts and Neuroscience. Associate Professor of Theater and Dance Michael Preston, chair of the “Our goal was to make a big show, department, says that he appreciates the adaptability of Pappas and Kyle’s project, knowing that it would have to which adjusted to changing weather conditions and to heightened campus alert likely exist in a variety of different levels that occasionally precluded any in-person work. “Rebecca and Peter had platforms that we wouldn’t a great concept because we wanted to do some type of performance, but we needed otherwise think of as venues.” to stay nimble,” Preston says. “I think they came up with a nice approach to still PETER KYLE, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATER AND DANCE do dance at this time without putting the

SPRING 2021 29 pressure on having to be in person. We genuinely free to experiment,” he says. are all learning to embrace flexibility.” Even though many students had never The unique approach to this course choreographed anything before, the typ- also offered a structure like no other. It ical hierarchy of a studio seemed to blur, met for four hours on Friday afternoons, with community building coming to the giving class members time to warm up forefront, and students leading the work and become deeply immersed. Ugne˙ on their own pieces. Tumonyte˙ ’24 says, “I would always look “Everybody could create their own forward to Fridays. It was my last class piece in their own process. There wasn’t of the week, and it would feel so good a ‘correct’ process,” says Clare Donohoe and so freeing after being confined to my ’22. “My piece was focusing on the little computer space all week. Everybody in joys of quarantine, with a film focusing ‘Dancing Everywhere’ was just so happy on isolated, specific parts of the body. to be there and was willing to experi- I gave everyone a framework of what I ment with what dancing is. I think of it wanted them to do, but then they could as a kind of escape, like a safe place and improvise their own dance,” she says. a happy place to go to.” “Having 10 weeks to create one piece As a first-year student, Tumonyte˙ was really freeing. It was a great expe- says, the project helped her connect rience and was helpful to have a way to with peers at a time when interactions express myself in these times.” were limited and introduced her to new Instead of dwelling on limitations, possibilities in the field of dance. “I had the project’s participants embraced new only done dances on a stage with live opportunities. “It’s so easy, during the audiences. With Zoom, you don’t have pandemic, to focus on what we can’t OTHER DEPARTMENT PROJECTS to think about the stage but about the do: we can’t be on a stage, we can’t be screen,” she says. “My project looked together as much as we’d like,” Pappas “Performing Hartford” Pappas partnered this year with Jasmin Agosto into how movement could appear says. “ ‘Dancing Everywhere’ explored ’10 of SageSeeker Productions to create this different from different angles of the what do we have? What is possible?” Community Learning course and performance camera. I would never have thought of Adds Kyle, “Rebecca and I share a series connecting students with Hartford that if it wasn’t for COVID. I learned so delight in dance as an expression of artists through discussions, virtual perfor- much from this project—and I had never movement writ large, not limited by mances, and question-and-answer sessions. danced outside before! This changed my what people think qualifies as dance “This was a great approach to the community perspective of dance, even though I’ve or where it should occur. This project building that I think we’re going to need more been doing it for a long time.” blasts open the notion of where dance of going forward,” Preston says. With only six students in the class, is expected to occur. Dancing is living. InterArts Gateway Kyle says, the collaborative atmosphere Maybe the project is asking, when aren’t Preston invited artists from around the world encouraged student agency and creative we dancing?” to talk to students in the first-year program inquiry. “I was impressed by the level about what it is to be an artist. Students met of ownership they brought to their work remotely and created their own art. “They and how individual it was. They seemed forged this incredible community,” Preston says of the students. “They encouraged each other to be more honest and more generous as a class than I’ve ever seen.” “It’s so easy, during the pandemic, to Quarantine Complex “Director Terrell Sledge’s docu-style perfor- focus on what we can’t do: we can’t mance project looks at the pandemic and its effect on us,” says Preston. “Students be on a stage, we can’t be together interviewed real people in the fall and are creating a final spring project that’s partly as much as we’d like. ‘Dancing filmed and partly happening live. It’s using the current limitations to see what else we Everywhere’ explored what do we can do and flex some other muscles. I hope the flame that makes me love theater—and have? What is possible?” makes our students love it—is still flickering, being fanned at times, and will come out even stronger when we get through this.” REBECCA PAPPAS, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATER AND DANCE

30 THE TRINITY REPORTER Caroline Frederick ’24, a John and Gertrude Donovan Term Scholar

SPRING 2021 31 BOLD FROM ITS START—on the heels of the college’s Trinity’s Women’s 40th anniversary of coeducation in 2010—Trinity’s Women’s Leadership Council Leadership Council (WLC) continues to focus on a clear mission: shape the future of the college and give a voice to Trinity energizes alumnae women through the work of motivated alumnae. Now, just a

BY TESS DUDEK-ROLON few years before the college celebrates its bicentennial, the WLC has become an even more active, energetic, and ambitious force in the Trinity community, both on and off campus.

32 THE TRINITY REPORTER The original idea for the WLC came from establishing the Marjorie Butcher Circle, college, and we want to see it succeed and founding members Emily Latour Bogle a new group focused on philanthropic move forward in a way that’s more inclu- ’79, Nina McNeely Diefenbach ’80, P’18, leadership. sive and open-minded.” Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh ’80, and In many ways, the WLC is defined by the In its commitment to equity, the WLC WLC Chair Patricia “Trish” Mairs Klestadt generosity of spirit of its members, who has leveraged what is perhaps its most ’80 P ’09 ’11. “The WLC was formed to share so much with the college and with powerful asset—the voices of its members. amplify the women’s voice in Trinity’s one another. Diefenbach, a former trustee, “We were able to have an open and hon- affairs and network with recently gradu- says, “Having a place where women can est discussion, and the DEI group came ated women and those about to graduate,” talk about how they want to give to the together from what the WLC members were says Thornburgh, who this month retires college and affect the student body is so talking about and feeling at the moment,” from her role as chair of Trinity’s Board of important. They’re giving in their own says Ramos Crespo, who on July 1, 2021, Trustees. “We have such talent among us.” right—they have a place where they can will take over as WLC co-chair alongside The four women found a contingent address the needs of the college and Julie Mancuso Gionfriddo ’96, M’05. of alumnae eager to come together. “Our demonstrate impact.” goal was to engage alumnae in ways the Bogle underscores that the WLC is about OVERCOMING ADVERSITY, TOGETHER college hadn’t before,” says Bogle. When fostering ties within the community. “We During COVID-19 times, the WLC’s respon- she graduated, the college had been coed are here to stay connected with each other siveness was again valuable, thanks to for several years, “but there was still a and stay connected with the college, to existing support systems for Trinity women gender imbalance.” The WLC was a way help the school and give back,” she says. in their home cities to nurture relationships with one another “Everybody is welcome.” and nationally through WLC and with Trinity. For Bogle, the WLC was virtual programming. BY THE NUMBERS a place “to have the fellowship and cama- LIFTING EVERY VOICE The pandemic has raderie with other women and to share Recently, the WLC began the process of disproportionately experiences, whether it was what we ensuring that the sentiment about all impacted women’s $2.3 learned at Trinity or things we’ve taken being welcome rings true for everyone in employment, accord- MILLION into the world. A lot of it was just for us the Trinity community. In June 2020, after ing to U.S. Bureau of total donated to get together and engage. And the other the murder of George Floyd brought racial Labor Statistics, and to Trinity in FY20* part was trying to help the college, by giv- justice into stark relief across the country, the deeply connected ing back and mentoring.” the WLC took account of its membership network of working 47% and purpose. Among the 728 members of professionals in the of members gave to BUILDING A NETWORK the WLC, 18.5 percent are women of color. WLC, who span a mul- Trinity in FY20 In only 10 years, this sense of service has The months to come were an opportunity tigenerational range developed into robust programming that to address critical concerns and recom- of experience, has 250+ is responsive to the ever-evolving needs mendations for representation, program- become an even more programs since 2010 of women of the college. For example, ming, and governance of the WLC. important venue for the WLC was involved in developing the For all members, it was a moment of finding support. Venture Trinity program, which brings reflection. “We had to step back and do a Karen Fink Kupferberg ’73, P’07, a mem- first-year female students together with lot of listening,” says Klestadt. Born from ber of the first fully coeducational under- alumnae. The WLC also has created local, that moment is a new WLC working group graduate class at Trinity, also is a member informal connections for women at any dedicated to creating diversity, equity, and of the WLC. In a moment when issues on stage in their working life. The group has inclusion within the larger organization the minds of alumnae may be drastically hosted more than 250 events, including and promoting these values at the college. different from what they were a year ago, hikes in Boston with alumnae and a Trinity Shakira Ramos Crespo ’02 is leading this she says, “The challenges of women in biology professor, brown-bag lunches for effort, working with alumnae women of the workplace are not diminished by the public policy professionals in Washington, color and allies to forge a path forward to progress we’ve made. There continues to D.C., and partnerships with Trinity groups lift all women’s voices—including those be a benefit to the WLC as a place to have including the Society of Women Engineers of women in the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ these conversations. It’s important to have and the Women and Gender Resource communities. a safe place.” Action Center. In January, the WLC held its first event Klestadt, who has served as WLC chair tailored to alumnae of color, “Breaking since the group’s inception, says one of the Silence: Amplifying Our Voices: A the group’s achievements that made her Conversation for Women of Color with Dr. particularly proud was working with mem- Yndia Lorick-Wilmot ’99.” Ramos Crespo bers to create a scholarship fund. The WLC says she’s hopeful about the future of the recently named its second female scholar. WLC. “We’re honest that we don’t have all The group also has the power to inspire. the answers right now, but we are working In 2019, a handful of alumnae who recog- on this. I’ve been very honored to lead this nized and appreciated WLC programming group because it shows the power of the For more on the WLC, please visit sought to celebrate Trinity women by amazing women who have come out of the ↗ commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter.

SPRING 2021 *($1.7M+ to Trinity College Fund, $550,000+ in restricted gifts) 33 Trinity gave Neil Pfanstiel ’38 the ability to grow intellectually throughout his life, and the scholarship he established with his bequest ensures that current and future students will have that same opportunity.

“I knew that I could study multiple subjects over my four years at Trinity. In the spirit of the liberal arts, most students I know are double majors, often in two subjects that seemingly have nothing to do with each other! I am grateful for my scholarship, as it has given me the opportunity to put all of my focus into my academic studies while at college.” —Vanessa ’21, biology major and classical antiquity minor

“My main aspirations revolve around establishing a law career, but I also find politics as an important pathway toward making helpful change available to the American people. … My scholarship motivates me to learn as much as I can and build the path for the career I choose to have for myself.” —Kent ’23, public policy and law major, with concentrations in law and society and human rights and international policy

To learn more about bequests and other planned gifts, contact Linda M. Minoff, director of gift planning. 860-297-5353 [email protected] the sack at 10:30 p.m. What more can I say? Since I’m 89 years young and have a chronic health issue, I qualify to receive a vaccine. To find a dispenser is another matter. Wish the CLASS NOTES Class of ’53 success in navigating through the pandemic. Think of the good times we had at school. It will make you feel better. Best to all.” mementos from my 40 years of teaching and I talked to Jack North on the phone. He coaching at Kingswood Oxford mostly—that sounded great but told me about getting over WE’RE SEEKING I couldn’t get rid of. My housemate Bubba is a tick bite early last fall. He thinks he picked both a comfort and a nuisance. He barks at it up working in the garden with his son. He NOTES FROM every noise he hears, real or imagined, and was in the hospital for 20 days and had to saves his best and loudest barks for the mail do some rehab after that. His ski instructor THOSE WHO carrier. Just for him, he also throws in a few neighbor says the snow is the best she has growls. These days, I spend most of my time ever seen, but the temperature has not gotten GRADUATED listening to lectures from The Great Courses. out of the single digits. His granddaughter is I even tried the course in calculus and am a junior and loves Trinity, works in the café PRIOR TO 1952. ashamed to admit that I still don’t under- in the library, and thinks that her first-floor Email julie.cloutier@ stand it. I also listen to audiobooks (I have suite in Jarvis is the best. Jack suspects it is AMD, so reading is difficult) as well as DVDs the same suite that he, Joe, Tex, and your trincoll.edu or sonya. from PBS that are interesting.” secretary occupied during our 65th Reunion. [email protected]! Sal and I, like the rest of you, have been Trinity Fund Goal: $55,000 dealing with COVID-19. We are fortunate to 1953 Class Secretary: Stanley R. have gotten our first shots two weeks ago. McCandless Jr., 3712 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX Our lifestyle has not changed, but it gives REUNION • JUNE 2022 77005-2824; stanley.mccandless.1953 us a secure feeling. Sal shops early Monday Trinity Fund Goal: $25,000 @trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Joseph B. morning for groceries every other week. She 1952 Class Secretary: Rev. Finley Wollenberger, Esq. works from home updating teacher-training Schaef, 87 Stoll Rd., Saugerties, NY 12477- Once again, “ ‘The time has come,’ the materials for Neuhaus (teaching students 3022; [email protected] • Walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes, with dyslexia). Our Rotary Club is meeting Class Agent: Vacant and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and once a week via Zoom. West University Place From Bob O’Brien: “So, when we weren’t kings.’ ” The first above all is what we, mem- Senior Services Board is meeting via Zoom. looking, most of us turned 90 this year. I had bers of the Trinity College Class of 1953, have I try to work out twice a week. I have two just finally learned how to spell octoge- been doing recently and in the past. Anytime Zoom classes—“Domestic Problems” once narian. Now I have to work on nonagenar- during the year, I’m ready to receive a note a month, and “Foreign Problems” once a ian. At first, I thought that it was spelled via mail (3712 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX 77005), week—for an hour and a half each. We have ‘nonogenarian,’ which made sense since phone (713-669-1830), or email (stanmac1@ made no travel plans for this summer. I will the first four letters are ‘no no’ and the word sbcglobal.net). be 91 on February 19. My very best to all of is defined as a person who, having reached Bill Bernhard wrote, “Made it to age 90. my classmates, Stan. the age of 90, is no longer allowed to do Not sure how much longer, as I have IPF. anything he or she enjoyed doing in prior Still fishing and hunting. Hope to travel some Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 years. Oh well, I never thought I would like this year.” 1954 Class Secretary: Robert A. to try skydiving anyway. My son Steve died Joe Wollenberger wrote, “Hi, Stan: Like Wolff, 527 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402- suddenly of a heart attack at age 54, far all good citizens, we are regularly tested for 3145; [email protected] • too young. He and his little dog, Bubba, a COVID-19 and will be vaccinated next week. Class Agent: Alexander J. Campbell II rescue dog with a Napoleon complex, had So far, all is well. Mostly we are staying My classmates failed the spring 2021 Reporter been staying with me in the house that my inside except for necessary trips to the mar- exam, except Gordon West, previous class late wife, Ceil, and I had bought before he ket, bank, etc. We are catching up on lots of secretary. No notes, no updates. I received was born. Steve did everything—cooked, good old movies we have not seen in years. my first vaccine and am awaiting the second mowed the lawn, cleaned the house—every- Great fun! And we regularly repeat, as old one. The news I have to report is the loss thing. After his death, my daughter Bobbie folks normally do, ‘They don’t make them of two of our classmates. Janet Goodhart and her husband, Al, were very generous like that anymore.’ Hope you are well and contacted me about the loss of her husband, in filling the gap, coming from Simsbury a happy as one can be these days.” Bill Goodhart, on Thanksgiving after lengthy couple times a week, and my daughter Jane Tex Coulter wrote, “Hi, Stan. Don’t have battles with multiple illnesses. Janet can be regularly traveled from the Boston area to much to say, but here goes. The COVID virus reached at [email protected]. help out, but it was clear this couldn’t go on has limited the activities of all of us, includ- Dave Mackay passed away last July. Dave forever. I looked at Bubba, and he quickly ing Pat and me. Our daily routine consists of was a pianist extraordinaire and one of the barked out his unwillingness to take over reading, walking, grocery shopping, and TV. first blind graduates of Trinity. His further the household chores, so I sold the house We talk to our family and friends a lot, listen studies and musical influences were with and moved into a two-bedroom apartment to the Sunday church service online, keep the Margaret Chaloff, Bill Evans, and Lennie across town. The second bedroom is not for birds fed, haul the garbage to the compost Tristano. In the 1960s, he played with the Bubba—he rules the entire roost. The room pile in the backyard, go to the transfer sta- Don Ellis Orchestra and a variety of other art- is where I keep all the stuff—books and tion, attend doctor’s appointments, and hit ists, including Bill Henderson and Lori Bell.

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He also performed with Sonny Stitt, Chet noon to 2:00 p.m. (his time zone), spinning EMF family.” It is the best of times for ’55ers Baker, Bobby Hackett, and Kai Winding. I the great music from the ’40s and ’50s. to give thanks we had a friend and classmate was lucky to hear Dave play many times at Starting with his experience and popularity named Fred Starr. the bar at the Heublein Hotel, sometimes on WRTC, he has not lost his touch for inter- accompanying Ray Moylan. A few years ago, esting commentary, put forth with a smooth REUNION • JUNE 2022 a group of us alumni gathered to hear Dave professional personality, plus constructing Trinity Fund Goal: $75,000 play at a Beverly Hills hotel. a well-planned radio musical show. Google 1956 Class Secretary: I hope all are well, getting their shots, WLHA some Saturday, and catch Tom in Bruce N. Macdonald, Stonehouse Farm, and planning on jotting down a note for the action. His kids have been in touch with 1036 Zollmans Mill Rd., Rte. 4, Lexington, next Reporter. Guinness World Records, and it might be VA 24450-7265; bruce.macdonald.1956@ that Tom is the oldest active disc jockey in trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Tom Guertin, Trinity Fund Goal: $55,000 America or even in the world. Edward A. Montgomery Jr., David Renkert, 1955 Class Secretary: E. Wade Close Craig Mehldau’s son, Brad, continues David M. Taylor, Henry M. Zachs Jr., 65 Shoreline Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC to amaze his contemporaries as the 2019 Rodney Smith wrote that he is persever- 29928-7139; [email protected]; Grammy Award winner for classical piano. ing during the pandemic by competing fax: 412-820-7572 He has generated a vinyl record of his newly in national pickleball championships, all All of you know the start of the classic A Tale composed music and has proceeded to pro- while living in the California desert. What of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was duce the platter; sold 1,200 for $1,000 each triumphs? Our Rod won silver in the USA the worst of times.” Well, writing this issue and gave total proceeds to a fund to assist National Pickleball Championships last of our Class Notes in the midst of the ongo- out-of-work musicians. Wow! November as well as a gold medal in doubles ing pandemic, we are surely experiencing The best of times also has been gener- for seniors over 80. In addition, he has one of the worst of times of our generation. ated by classmates deciding it is the time improved his golf handicap significantly. We have lost several of our Bantam buddies to move to be closer to sons and daughters Bravo, Rod. over the past 12 months, some from the and the bonus of watching grandchildren Our man in London, Don Anderson, came hideous coronavirus, starting with Fred Starr grow. Bob and Jean Freeman have relocated home for part of last summer. He reports that way back last April 2020. Our latest victim is to the Raleigh area and couldn’t be happier. the trip was difficult, thanks to the controls John Hodge, who passed this past January. They can literally walk to their daughter’s needed for the pandemic. Don had to deal He was in a nursing home but was doing home. In the process of moving near family, with chaos, delayed flights, and cancella- well until COVID-19 invaded the facility. His Greg Petrakis has identified Charlottesville, tions. Yet, despite all the above, he is glad he obituary gave detail about his love of singing Virginia. Barbara and Irwin Meiselman did it, spending quality time at his summer and specifically mentioned his participating probably will settle in the Philadelphia area, cottage in Vermont. as a tenor for the Trinity Pipes. John and where their daughter resides; she is an M.D., Skip Beardsell called me in late October— wife Nina settled in the Syracuse area after plus the mother of two grandchildren in partly as the result of my email being hacked his successful career as a senior auditor in local medical schools. This will give me a and partly to catch up—and we both enjoyed the insurance industry. Connie and David chance to see Irwin, along with Phil Truitt it. He reports that he and wife Libby are in Dimling successfully fought the dreaded and Dave Roberts, when I’m there to visit my good health and are living a quiet life in disease (including a week in the hospital for brother, who resides in a North Philadelphia Clinton, New York. He remains active with David), but they are considered survivors nursing home. Bob Riley lives in Goodwin the EMT group in his town, but they don’t today. Personally, as a member of a 275-per- House in Falls Church, Virginia. In the call him out for night duty since he is said to son retirement community, I have been 500-resident facility, he is near two sons and be the oldest EMT in the county. We talked of quarantined twice (two weeks each) because four grandkids. our mutual love of Martha’s Vineyard, where I had been near individuals who had tested One final note: It is truly the best of times he once owned a house. Last year, he took a positive. So where is this “best of times”? when we can reflect on a classmate such pleasant trip with Viking Cruises, boating on During the past 12 months, I have been in as Fred Starr. He was the epitome of what a the Seine from Versailles to Rouen, then by contact with more Trinity classmates than good friend is and does. He became a leader bus to see the Normandy beaches. any previous year. I phone visit with Don within our alumni group and succeeded Gordie Wood had a long conversation with Mountford almost weekly and regularly chat in everything where others counted on David Taylor in November. David learned with Tom Bolger, Bob Freeman, John D’Luhy, his leadership. He and wife Sue lived for that after Gordon’s seven years with the Irwin Meiselman, Charlie Gardner, Frank many years in Greensboro, North Carolina, Air Force, he started his own commercial Cerveny, and Craig Mehldau. I have discov- and Fred’s significant involvement in local aircraft business with just three aircraft. He ered Chuck Leonard is alive and well, and we not-for-profit organizations and political got his sons into the company as well. Most have been in touch at least a dozen times community efforts was almost countless (he pleasurable for Gordon have been the many over the past two months. What joy to recon- couldn’t say no). To say he was a successful trips he and his wife have made together all nect with a long-lost classmate. Recently businessman almost would be misleading. over the world. having moved to Huntsville, Alabama, His leadership resulted in the tripling of Alan Schaertel had been a hard man Chuck contacted me, searching for the nec- sales for a major corporation; he was asked to track down, but David finally did it. essary info so he could have phone reunions by the mayor of Greensboro to run its annual His life was colorful and interesting. He with Hank Scheinberg, Lou Magelaner, and PGA golf classic. After “retiring,” he accepted spent many years as a broadcast journalist Bob Welsh. It is indeed the best of times the board chair position of the Eastern Music with the Associated Press in Europe (mostly to reconnect with old friends and to share Festival orchestra and led it through a reces- Germany). Regrettably, Alan died recently sweet memories. sion rebuilding effort, literally saving the but used to live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tom Bolger is reliving his past by being organization. The EMF maestro reflected that His daughter is married and living there a regular disc jockey on station WLHA in Fred was “extraordinary, brilliant, thought- and is a chemistry professor at a nearby Madison, Wisconsin. Every Saturday from ful, a gentleman, and a friend to the entire university.

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Finally, I have to report that Peter Turner We, aka Fred and Carroll Tobin, con- who says ancestry.com shows that one of his died last March. In addition, I am very sad tinue to split our time between Sarasota, ancestors came on the Mayflower. Barry is to report that John Limpitlaw died in January. Florida, and our home in Bromley Village in looking forward to a grandchild’s May wed- In retirement, he and wife Susan lived in Vermont. However, this year we are staying ding. Second, Joe says the Reporter note that Naples, Florida, but had a summer home on safe in Vermont. The population high up in says he rode 2,600 miles last year should say Cape Cod, where David Taylor usually spent a the mountains in southern Vermont is small, 3,600. Now it does. week each year. John had a very full and suc- and there are signs along the roads warning Bernie Moran writes on. He still hopes that cessful life, which included working in per- that masks are mandatory in buildings. circumstances allow for a Trinity production sonnel at Marine Midland Trust and as vice Carroll and I have vaccinations scheduled of his play Fight For Life, and he is writing president for human resources at Macmillan for February. We might return to Sarasota in a movie script, Green Card Marriage, about Publishing. After retirement, he went to Yale the spring. a couple who do just that. He laments that Divinity School, where he earned an M.A., Don and Sue Pillsbury are doing well weather and COVID-19 have curtailed most and served as vicar of the parish of Christ in this lockdown period. They are strictly of his usual travel to see family. Church in Easton, Connecticut. When I lived maintaining their quarantine. Don’s Model In response to my charge to classmates in Connecticut, I saw him often and enjoyed A is doing well. It was in a movie filmed in who have not regularly written, Ridge him a great deal. I will miss him big time. Newport in December 2019. Don has received Satterthwaite sent an informative and his ham license and is trying to figure out fascinating mini-autobiography. He wrote: REUNION • JUNE 2022 what to do with it. In his dotage, he has “Since graduation, my journey has been one Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 taken up clock repair. Finally, Don had a of constant change but always in work as a 1957 Class Secretary: Frederick triple bypass in August. He finished rehab teacher and/or administrator of educational M. Tobin, Esq., 771 John Ringling Blvd., and feels great. programs. Latin America has been my prin- Apt. F26, Sarasota, FL 34236-1518; Stephan von Molnar passed in Tallahassee, cipal focus. I have been a community devel- [email protected] • Florida, in November 2020 after a short ill- opment volunteer in El Salvador, Cuba, and Class Agent: Samuel Mac D. Stone II ness. I am grateful to Bryan Bunch for inform- Mexico; been a field-studies program direc- Dick Behr reports that he and Joan sold ing me of Steve’s death. Born in Leipzig, tor of geography, Macalester College, with their house in Cape May, New Jersey, after Germany, during the atrocities of World a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin; 25 summers and a few winters. It was not War II, Steve left Germany for New York City done Fulbright field studies in El Salvador; easy for them to leave as they made many in 1947. He married late wife Jean in 1956. taught Spanish at Westtown School and friends there. Actually, they could visit the When we were at Trinity, Steve and I battled Dartmouth College; and done a three-year Cape and have their friends put them up and for the first-place trophy in table tennis. He stint as director of Central American pro- give them some free meals. Don Finkbeiner was the master on offense, and I specialized grams for the Experiment in International is an expert freeloader. The Behrs are in on defense as a backboard. He won most of Living.” In 1977, Ridge relocated to Vermont semi-lockdown at their retirement place 20 our matches by something like 35–4. After to head the Farm & Wilderness Foundation. miles west of Philadelphia. They have been Trinity, “the Baron,” as he was called during He has since been tied to Vermont and for relatively safe. Dick sadly reports that his his college days, joined the IBM Research the past 26 years has resided in Thetford. In Delta Phi “grandfather” John Limpitlaw ’56 Center, where he commenced his career as the early ’90s, he directed volunteer training passed away in January. a brilliant physicist. Thereafter he lived in in Swaziland and Cape Verde for the Peace Jerry and Mary Channell are well and stay- England, France, and Germany and served Corps. Instead of retiring, he has worked as ing careful with an easy lifestyle. as a visiting professor at Cambridge and then a financial adviser to Vermont seniors and Russell Jones still lives in Chester County, at Grenoble in France. He finally landed at directed hiking and canoeing for a nearby Pennsylvania. After 75 years, he gave up Florida State University, where he continued summer camp. There are three children, fox hunting. Yikes, what a span. He is fully his work on the faculty. Steve became a fan three stepchildren, four grandchildren, and retired but remains active in thoroughbred of the Seminoles football team; he once told five step-grands. He and Sally remain in breeding and racing. For the benefit of me that he might become an assistant coach. good health, and he happily reports having our esteemed classmate—the emperor of Steve loved coming back for Reunions. He been COVID vaccinated as an essential Franklin, Massachusetts—Russ is not a baker; had a great sense of humor and liked music. worker, not as an old man. he works with horses. He has been married May he rest in peace. Pete Smith got cranked up re some of his to Donnan Sharp for 15 years. Russ is grateful life’s most challenging endeavors and career for walking and being in good health. Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 highlights. He cites some high spots as Jim Kenefick continues to bang his gavel 1958 Class Secretary: John watching their children and grandchildren softly but with authority as a Connecticut L. Thompson, 1121D Sand Drift Way, succeed as students, athletes, and perform- Superior Court judge. His honor just might West Palm Beach, FL 33411-1852; john. ers, as well as skiing in the Alps, being a remain on the bench until he is 90. [email protected] • Class Trinity football “unsung hero,” front row Neil Day says, “When I chose Trinity, Agents: Gary L. Bogli, Joseph J. Repole Jr., at JFK’s inauguration, and a great 60-plus my dad said Robert Day of England was a Edward B. Speno year marriage. founder of Hartford. Vivian and I were wed Have you noticed that every time the next Reasonably good health, good friends, in 1964, and both of us are well. Best wishes issue of The Trinity Reporter comes, the and good food were COVID-tempered to all.” Class of ’58 notes are a page closer to the pleasures for Dean Uphoff, who continues David and Connie McCracken tested posi- beginning of the section? Even though we to do pathology at Hartford Hospital. While tive for COVID-19 on January 12. Dave had a are collectively creeping toward page 1, it is he does get more time in his garden, he has few mild symptoms, but Connie had a rough reassuring that we can still creep! So, let’s missed several pandemic-canceled cruises. time for a week. They ended their quarantine get on with it. He has his fingers crossed for a fall 2021 on January 25, and it appears that they are Joe Repole wrote a two-piece note. First, 21-day cruise down the West Coast, through out of the woods. he reported that he heard from Barry Elliott, the canal, and on to Miami.

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Mike Zoob says that fundraising to keep his regimen of hiking and biking as he awaits privately owned firm in the country, cover- Road Scholar afloat, 310 miles on his rowing the vaccine sessions. He mentioned that he ing states surrounding Ohio. He reports that machine, and a successful vaccine hunt would like to hear from fellow Florida ’59ers business has been brisk due to low mort- help keep him going. When all else fails, as he is new to the Sunshine State. gage rates. as usual, he reads. Occasional mindless I received a note from Bill Lukens, who From Jon Reynolds: “Emilee and I are still fiction and heavy-duty historic and current informed us of the sad passing of Larry here in Bethesda, Maryland, and have no perspectives keep his mind going. Despite Morgan last fall from respiratory complica- plans to move or travel. Bill and Pat Abeles his eternal optimism, he is confused by how tions. Luke is still actively painting and has are closest Trinity neighbors. In closing, we can go forward as a country when so enjoyed successful exhibitions. while our president has indeed noted that many seem unable to distinguish facts from Paul Kardon touched base with us to report this is not just any year at Trinity College, it alternative facts. Further, he cites our curse that it was a somber winter season in the is indeed a year with many milestones. Just of the original sin of racism and laments the Naples area. Paul lost his brother Alan ’65 as there was a first person who walked onto lack of evidence that we can purge it from due to leukemia. Also, the Trinity Club of the campus and became our first donor. Who our culture. He regrets that our youngest Southwest Florida has been unable to meet. and how much will the next donor(s) bring?” generation is being shortchanged by so much Linda and Shep Scheinberg came down school online. He closes by noting that his with COVID-19 at year’s end. Shep had a Trinity Fund Goal: $150,000 supply of Beefeater is sufficient to what end severe case and was semiconscious for four 1960 Class Secretary: Edward he knows not. days. Both are doing fine now, but it was a M. Cimilluca, P.O. Box 5157, Wakefield, It is new world, opines Gary Bogli. He and long and difficult road to recovery. RI 02880-5157; edward.cimilluca.1960@ Bette got their vaccines, and he has had a I received warm greetings from Emilee trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Robert G. Johnson, few family gatherings, regrettably via Zoom. and Jon Reynolds, in Bethesda, Maryland, Charles J. Middleton, M.D., Bruce Stone Fishing and skiing have not happened, near neighbors Pat and Bill Abeles, whom As I pen these notes in the winter of 2020–21, but he still engages in serious fly tying as a they see on a random basis, usually on we are full-throated in the midst of COVID- pastime. He does read; he says he did not at a rendezvous on the Delaware shore. All 19, and almost all of my discussions with Trinity. No way, Gary! are feeling well and in the waiting period classmates center around the pandemic Frank Kury wrote in February that while between their shots. and vaccine availability. Fortunately, a he and Bet are locked down from COVID-19 Denny Hoag emailed me that there was no fair number of people have gotten at least and a major snowstorm, they are in good “earth-shattering” news to report but urged the first shot, and many are in registries health. He has finished The Constitutional us to stay resilient. awaiting notification. The pandemic plus the Question to Save the Planet, scheduled for I heard from Michael Palmer, who went vitriol surrounding the presidential election April publication by the Environmental Law to Sarasota, Florida, to stay with his young- have made this one of the most challeng- Institute of Washington. The book marks est and did not return to Connecticut until ing periods that any of us can remember. the 50th anniversary of the Environmental last summer. Michele Palmer has estab- Compounding the angst that seems to be Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania lished the University of Connecticut’s Malka hanging over us, we unfortunately have Constitution. Frank authored and led the Penn Award for an outstanding children’s had two deaths in our expanded family law to enactment when he was in the State book that addresses human rights issues. that likely will touch many of us. First, we House of Representatives. As a result, she keeps busy reading lost Roger LeClerc in January 2021 at age Personally, I still serve as a trustee of a this year’s children books. Mike is with 84. Roger was certainly one of the most regional independent school and continue JewishGen to produce in English the renowned of our classmates, having spent to preside over the neighborhood HOA. I Holocaust book Pinkas Krynki, the town in eight years in the NFL, mostly with the have enjoyed rereading some books from the Poland where his father’s family lived before Chicago Bears; he then taught mathematics ’50s, especially Edwin O’Connor’s political coming to America. for 30 years in Agawam, Massachusetts. piece The Last Hurrah. Shirley continues Kenny Lessall tuned in from Palm Beach, Also in early 2021, Bob Johnson’s wife, Faith, her struggle with Parkinson’s and a recent where he has finished his vaccine process. died. Although Faith didn’t go to Trinity, stroke. Between that and the pandemic, He endured the long lines and in his talks she was a loyal and rabid fan of the school we maintain a low profile. However, it is with Shep Scheinberg was glad to hear that who attended many football games and February and Florida. The strange and he was feeling much better. He sends his college functions. Her biggest contributions sometimes bizarre is happening. A recent best to all of his classmates and hopes every- to Trinity were sons Greg ’90 and Chris ’92, phenomenon finds wealthy New Yorkers one is being safe. both proud Trin alums. buying and moving to the Palm Beach area Karl Scheibe continues to have an office On the news front, we have had seven by droves. Some of the locals are not happy at Wesleyan University’s Wasch Center for Zoom meetings with classmates, with our that one former New Yorker has moved into retired faculty; he is director emeritus. He next one scheduled for mid-February. All Mar-a-Lago. Even though he is a nuisance maintains a small practice as a licensed told, we’ve had 42 people participate at one down the block, personally I am delighted clinical psychologist and has a few students time or another, which is about 30 percent that he has moved out of Washington. in tutorials and directed study. Karl and wife of the class. These meetings have been a Wendy recently moved to a new development good way to stay in touch, especially in these Trinity Fund Goal: $100,000 in Middletown and remain busy with their trying times. 1959 Class Secretary: Paul S. two married sons and seven grandchildren. I had a nice note from Dave Rutherford, Campion, 500 River Rd., Apt. 18, Cos Cob, CT Arne Englehart continues to stay in touch who lives in Florida and is the “proud 06807-1913; paul.campion.1959@trincoll. from Akron, Ohio, where COVID-19 is the owner” of a pacemaker. He recently spent edu • Class Agents: Robert D. Coykendall, main consideration. Arne and wife Sandra some time with Ned Chalker and wife Bev. William H. Pfeffer have been following the rules, and the vac- Rich Brenner reports that his daughter was It is always fun to hear from Bob Harnish from cine rollout has been smooth. Arne is with elected to the Maine State Senate on her first Amelia Island, Florida, who continues with Howard Hanna Real Estate, the fifth-largest try at public office. Congratulations to her.

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I have had several fun email exchanges behind his no-less-wonderful wife Barry and with Tim Baum, who unabashedly proclaims family—and us.” his disdain for technology and refers to him- SUPPORT When pressed for news on what his life self as dinosaur and Luddite. Attaboy, Tim. has been like, Lou noted that he is retired Marv Peterson reports that plans to return TRINITY professor emeritus at Dartmouth College, to Montana for some skiing are on hold having chaired its English Department. As because of COVID-19. In the meantime, he’s STUDENTS. another emeritus professor (in the human- doing a lot of neighborhood walking in ities), I asked how he has seen education Santa Cruz, California. MAKE YOUR GIFT evolve. He said, “I’m out of the loop now. Spoke with Dick Stockton, who is safely A former student of mine (with whom I ensconced in Vero Beach but getting very BY JUNE 30. had regular lunches before COVID-19 took tired of being cooped up. Hopefully a vac- www.trincoll.edu/ hold) keeps me abreast of things.” (I have to cine will soon be coming his way. GiveOnline add that one of the real rewards of teach- Lastly, Tony Phillips is in his last year ing at any level is the regular contact with teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago, former students, with their recollections of a career that has covered an amazing 52 classroom hours, those words of “wisdom” years. Also, one of his paintings, Woman five-year cancer survivor. Still playing bridge that meant a great deal to them and yet that with Cigar, has been added to the museum’s and tennis a couple of times a week and in we barely recall saying. What they’ve done collection. Well done, Tony. Please stay safe May will have been happily married to Pam with the seeds we planted—successes and and well. (Wiley) for 59 years.” failures—makes them almost second families We regret to report the death of Bill to us.) Lou reports that Dartmouth still pulls REUNION • JUNE 2022 Sullivan, of Williamsburg, Virginia, who in top-notch students, but more frequently Trinity Fund Goal: $185,000 died in October 2020. In college, he was a with a higher focus on job-related vocations: 1961 Class Secretary: William Kirtz, philosophy major, president of Pi Kappa computer studies, government, economics, 26 Wyman St., Waban, MA 02468-1517; Alpha, a member of the Senate, and active in and the sciences. Consequently, subjects [email protected]; fax: 617- debate. A Columbia Law School graduate, he in the humanities like English and many 373-8773 • Class Agents: George P. Lynch Jr., was appointed chief enforcement officer for European foreign language and literature Vincent R. Stempien, Douglas T. Tansill the Environmental Protection Agency. Later, courses have taken a hit in enrollments and When you read this, we’ll be in virtual he pursued investment projects in Africa majors. I found the same pattern holds at Reunion mode, with hopes to get together in and Europe. Bill leaves his wife of 53 years, Goodwin. I’m sure that many of you from person before too long. Anne; children Bill IDP’03 (Nancy ’89), the non-teaching fields have mentored As the ’61 Reunion Committee and college Kate Richards (David), and Sean; and four new entrants to your fields, with rewarding officials coped with the changing situation, grandchildren. updates from them as they developed their our February Zoom meeting heard some careers and personal lives. good news: so far this year, our class has REUNION • JUNE 2022 As Trinity in our days reflected classical raised about $1.4 million for the college. We Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 education, you might find interesting The met our Class of 1961 Scholar, Lily Ryan ’24, 1962 Co-Class Secretary: Paul J. New York Times Magazine article “The from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, who started LaRocca, 82 Whiting Rd., East Hartford, CT Iconoclast” (February 7, 2021, p. 36), by Trinity online in the fall and on-campus 06118-1549; [email protected] Rachel Poser about Professor Dan-el Padilla February 19. Lily is studying education and • Co-Class Secretary: Frederick M. Pryor, 221 Peralta and the role of the classics in educa- public policy and law and was active in track Nobscot Rd., Sudbury, MA 01776-3389 • tion today. and debate in high school. Class Agents: The Rev. Charles L. Hoffman, Lou also published Dylan’s Autobiography While we chipped ice up north, we’re Peter Meehan of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics, delighted to report that our Vero Beach con- Greetings, Class of 1962, 1965–1967; a check of the Internet revealed tingent enjoyed 81-degree weather. We did not have a rousing response to the purpose: “a critical detour from the Frank Morse recently celebrated his 55th our request for news for this issue, but your ‘probable’ as … an attempted ‘possible’ wedding anniversary with Nina, moved to ever-resourceful reporters will attempt to explanation of Dylan’s songs between 1965 Vero last fall, and for some reason “doesn’t rise to the challenge. Fortunately, Lou Renza and 1967 … an extended surmise about miss that dreaded term ‘wintry mix.’ ” did write: “I’m sorry to say that Dave Post ’63 Dylan’s existential unconsciousness as a Consumed with home improvements, he’s hit the ground late last year. I’m sure many songwriting self. One can summarize the “on a first-name basis with all contractors of my fellow ’62 Crow members and other book’s thesis using any number of lines from known to man. Still working on putting Trinity contemporaries remember him well his songs. I prefer ‘Someone else is speakin’ deals together. Had all vaccines and ready and will equally mourn his loss—and the in my mouth, but I’m listening only to my to party.” same goes for Danny Romanos ’63, who also heart.’ ” Lou and his wife live in Hanover, Faithful correspondent Doug Tansill passed last year. Dave risked his life during New Hampshire, where Lou continues writ- writes, “Dhuanne and I had a wonderful din- the Vietnam War navigating photo jets over ing, with a focus on poetry. ner in Vero this week with Bill and Marlynn Hanoi, in a war with which he never agreed, Speaking of literature, especially in this Scully and Andy and Betsy Forrester. We all but he did what he did given his Trinity age of COVID-19, I reread Tolstoy’s War and hope to catch up soon with Guy Dove and ROTC commitment. He was a wonderful Peace after first watching a BBC-TV version Connie Gage and their spouses, who also friend and not just to me (cf. George Guiliano (and, having finished the novel, the Henry have homes in Vero.” ’63 and Anthony Sirianni ’63), a lively Fonda-Audrey Hepburn film). As a kid, I Randy Ryan also is keeping warm, in raconteur, someone with humor, a good found the variations of Russian names hard Tucson, Arizona: “Twenty-one years retired father, and talented in carpentry, music, to cope with; this time they gave me no prob- from flying for United Airlines, I am now a and spontaneous deep thought. He leaves lems. The late Yale professor Harold Bloom,

SPRING 2021 39 CLASS NOTES in a final book attempting to define great keeping a narrow focus on updating one From Scott Reynolds, this good note: “My literature, called War and Peace the greatest another about goings on. Topics like politics brothers and I are engaged in a project to novel of the 19th century. I found it a medio- (particularly in these days just past), reli- celebrate the lives of our parents, who died cre tale of family angst and romance, larded gion, and sex (what was that?) mostly have some 30-plus years ago. The centennial with some good war scenes and loads of been avoided out of courtesy for the points marker of their births causes us to collect easily summarized philosophy: “Great” men of view of all attending. Members of the pictures and news clippings, yearbooks, and do not make history; instead, it is the individ- college staff also have joined on occasion to the like, even joining ancestor.com to get ual and his spur-of-the-moment decisions. give the current state of campus life during information on their lives and their history. However, as professors love to say, “You do these days of COVID-19. Our monthly Zoom We have not found anything startling, so our not judge great books: they judge you.” meetings are poignant times to remember little effort won’t make good TV, but we are Since literature is our topic, I thought you classmates who are beginning to pass in having a lot of fun. The final form of our work might be interested in books recommended ever-increasing numbers as we cross the bar is not yet decided. It may be a mixed-media in a Trinity English course. Here are several into octogenarian status. video or a Shutterfly book. If any of you have titles from a recommended booklist, a gift It’s always good to hear from the Class of tips on all this, I would love to hear from you. from one of my former students: Joshua ’63! Here is what they share as most of us are All this has been a great way to fill the time of Ferris, Then We Came to the End; David entering into our 80th year: quarantined isolation.” Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest; Nicholson From Tim Lenicheck, our hardworking And this from Stan Marcuss: “I am a Baker, The Mezzanine; Michael Crummey, class president: “For what seems like an member of an organization called Lawyers Galore; and George Saunders, The Brief and eternity, I’ve been semi-isolating, masked at Defending American Democracy, formed by Frightening Reign of Phil. all times, and carrying a tape to measure the a group of us at our 50th Harvard Law School Will I get some feedback from you on any distance between me and the nearest fellow Reunion. We now have something like 6,000 that you read and enjoy? Fred and I did get a human, who, like all humans, is a potential supporters. Our purpose is to identify and try comment from John Densem, reporting that existential threat. Now I can say, ‘I want my to deal with threats to American democracy he had nothing to report. You may recall that vaccine!’ ” (Secretary’s note: Tim has done and the rule of law. As part of that organi- John has written about his extensive travels. a super job of giving us ample opportunities zation, I have been drafting open letters to I remember his train trip across Australia. to stay informed with the state of the college Congress, public statements, op-ed pieces, In my youth, a close friend and I both loved and engaged with the activities of the Class and letters to the editors of various news trains: he bought beautiful models (HO of ’63.) outlets dealing with activities we believe to gauge, exquisite reminders of the great From Steve Perreault, written in mid-Jan- be threatening the rule of law and American passenger and freight lines of those times). uary: “Best wishes to all for a happier democracy. Our work can be viewed at law- I bought railroad stocks instead; we have new year. Jean and I continue to cocoon yersdefendingdemocracy.org. All the best to derived great pleasure from our choices. cautiously at home while awaiting our you all, Stan” But I still love the rails, regularly expressed first COVID vaccinations next week. Also, I And this last good note from Steve Imrie: in purchases of old VCR tapes of trains. My recently learned that Debbie Winfield has “We’ve been trying to not be too depressed latest included shots of the great Australian reported the news that her husband, Don by the ongoing lockdown here in California. lines, with their stations and bright colors, Winfield, died in June 2019. He was a close Fortunately, our youngest daughter has traveling along vast dry lands with stops friend to me during our Trinity years and become comfortable that we can spend at stations and festivals organized for rail after. I recall shooting baskets with him and time with our grandchildren, so Christmas fanatics. I could picture John among them! others in the old Alumni Hall, a habit we was one of the best ever. Susie and I have Fred Pryor also wrote to me: “Our class- continued into the late ’60s. Following grad- remained healthy and as active socially as mates must be getting old—no responses to uation, Don entered his career in banking possible. We are working and helping out my five or six emails!” Then he received the and finance (see the obituary recently sent as we can, Susie as a consulting physical news that Tom Johnson has had successful out by Tom Calabrese to the entire class).” therapist at Stanford and I with the VA doing triple bypass surgery and is recovering nicely And speaking of Tom Calabrese, he writes: orthopedic outpatient clinics and helping in sunny Florida. Given Lou Renza’s thoughts “Since retiring, I have been doing a lot more at a VA COVID-19 vaccination clinic. I also on his fraternity brothers, here’s a special reading, and I am loving it. I wish I had done have volunteered to do maintenance work request to the officers of our Trinity fraterni- more when I was younger. I recently finished at the Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad outdoor ties: What do you hear from your members? a two-volume history written in 1920 by H.G. museum. Best wishes in this new year to all.” To wrap up, let us hope that we all are Wells and twice updated, in 1931 and 1940. To all of you, blessings and peace. Don’t healthy and looking forward to the end of He says, ‘Humans always want war; they forget that we have a class Zoom gathering this 21st-century plague! cannot live without it.’ ” But, writes Tom, the first Wednesday of the month at 2:30 EDT. Wells, like others, has no real answer as to ’Tis a good way to see friends and stay con- Trinity Fund Goal: $125,000 why this has to be. nected! Michael Schulenberg, class secretary 1963 Class Secretary: Michael From Lloyd Reynolds: “In spite of the A. Schulenberg, 89 Judson St., Canton, NY virus, winters on Cape Canaveral are pretty Trinity Fund Goal: $170,000 13617; michael.schulenberg.1963@trincoll. good. This winter, we’ve met up a couple 1964 Co-Class Secretary: Thomas edu • Class Agent: William C. Howland of times with Sandy and Starr Brinckerhoff J. Monahan, 46 Dogwood Ln., New Canaan, Members of the Class of ’63 have been for fun lunches; they live nearby. There are CT 06840-3921; thomas.monahan.1964@ Zooming monthly since last spring. We meet not too many other social activities at the trincoll.edu • Co-Class Secretary: James S. at 2:30 p.m. EDT on the first Wednesday of moment. But, I called the VA to see about Twerdahl, 214 S. McCadden Pl., Los Angeles, the month so that classmates from Maine, getting the vaccine, and they said, ‘Come CA 90004-1054; james.twerdahl.1964@ Alaska, and Hawaii as well as those in South right over.’ A half-hour drive later, I had my trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Vacant America can make it during relatively sane first dose. Here’s hoping others are as fortu- Phin Anderson remains settled in Sutherland waking hours. Discussion centers around nate. Warm regards to all.” Valley outside of Tucson, Arizona. He has

40 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES been very active raising money to award to colleague I met while consulting for USAID outstanding K–12 teachers in the city. When in Indonesia. We have homes in Los Angeles the world reopens, he hopes to travel to and Jakarta.” GIVE BACK TO Croatia and then to attend the World Expo in Fred Born and Nic Cantor have been Dubai. Optimistic about the Olympics, plan collaborating with an unnamed third party THE TRINITY B homebound … (perhaps a travel agent) on post-COVID travel Tony Milbank is one of few still going to ideas. At this writing, the top choice is a COMMUNITY— the office every day for the past 11 months. single-malt distillery, Ardbeg, on the island His group of 12 is down to two showing up of Islay, Scotland. It may be a long visit. VOLUNTEER! daily. Tony shares the same concern we all Sam Coale: “At Wheaton College since www.trincoll.edu/ do about business in N.Y.C. and in the rest of 1968, I’ll retire in June 2021 due to COVID the country. As you would expect, three- ‘reforms.’ New book last year: Pursuing the AlumniAndFamilies/ fourths of our class have had to adjust their Sublime in the Digital Age. Now working Volunteer schedule and relocate to the Hamptons while on The Abyss of Origins on cultural origin we await a reopening. I recommend that you stories, what they have in common.” Son listen to the Trinity podcast series by Paul Sam’s film, Bad Drones, will be out soon—“a Sullivan ’95, Beyond the Summit. One is a smashing sci-fi tale!” Sam reports that he is be the restoration of the Gardener’s Cottage great story about David Schnadig ’86 and still vertical and taking nourishment! and the North Lawn. Our website is www. his private equity firm Cortec Group and David Graybill: “Weather permitting friendsofcliftonmansion.org.” how they invested in YETI coolers—a great outside, I continue to love playing in the dirt Vincent Lombardo: “We just moved to a product that needed direction and supervi- in our Connecticut woodland home. Inside, I larger house on the golf course in our 55-and- sion. They invested $65 million and sold it fight my addiction to MSNBC. Always, I smile over gated community in Florida, now our for $1.8 billion … 26 times. Sullivan writes and chuckle at John Ellwood’s frequent email permanent residence. It is called Summit a wealth management column for The New jokes that remind me of Peanuts’ good coun- Greens. We are in Clermont, Florida, in York Times. sel: ‘A good laugh and a good night’s sleep Central Florida, a half hour from the Orlando Ward Ewing, former dean and president of will solve every problem.’ ” airport and Disney/Universal. Clermont is the General Theological Seminary and chair Since we cannot go anywhere, Phil Hopke home of Olympic training centers and is of the Alcoholics Anonymous General Service has taken on several additional assign- called the ‘Choice of Champions.’ It is really Board, has just finished writing Twelve Steps ments. He is now a co-editor-in-chief of the only hilly town in flat Florida. I am newly to Religionless Spirituality, a model for apply- the natural science journal, Science of the elected to the board of our homeowner’s ing spiritual principles in our increasingly Total Environment (STOTEN), as well as association. I’m keeping busy, which is the secular world. He notes that the spirituality being a co-editor-in-chief of a handbook on key to being happy.” of A.A. is based on experience, is inclusive, indoor air quality. STOTEN handled more Phil Parsons “highly recommends Jill and is powerful for healing brokenness. than 31,000 submissions last year and is Lepore’s history of the United States, These Our class poet, David Curry, has a new starting this year at a similar rate. However, Truths. At 900 pages and so well written, it poem, “Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Phil is hoping we can all get vaccinated in has special appeal during the time of COVID.” Moore at the Circus,” which will appear in time to actually meet in person this year. COVID life for Jon and Charlene Simonian Atlanta Review, an international, award- It would be good to have something more in N.Y.C. is taking care of their beautiful winning poetry journal based in Atlanta. than Zoom interactions. 2½-year-old granddaughter, Charlotte, and Henry Hopkins: “Now in my 12th year of her 2½-week-old brother, Jon David, while Trinity Fund Goal: $150,000 retirement, after completing 36 years at their parents work; cleaning out 10 years 1965 Class Secretary: Thomas A. T. Rowe Price. I continue to enjoy serving of clutter from closets; going to medical Garson, 4301 Massachusetts Ave. NW, on various boards, including the Brown appointments; and daydreaming about golf. Apt. 5002, Washington, D.C. 20016-5569; Advisory Funds, Calvert School, the You’ve got to love the golden years. [email protected] • Maryland Center for History and Culture Dave Williams, M.D.: “On the personal side, Class Agent: Vacant (previously Maryland Historical Society), I am getting tired of COVID. Our two sons and For many years, Dave Barkley was involved Garrison Forest School (emeritus), The Boys’ their families are nearby, but we have been with Virtlab (a virtual laboratory), but it Latin School of Maryland (emeritus), and St. abiding by restrictions related to contact. is closing this year. “While it is sad, it had Christopher by the Sea. Have served as presi- Unlike my wife, Carol, my social network is a long run and had a positive influence dent of the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy small, and in the absence of golf, contact on educational technology over several Board since it was formed in 2008. To date, with others is limited to clinical activities. decades. The only book I ever wrote on my we have completed the restoration of the Even in the hospital setting, physicians are life experiences was The Only Real House of Washington Monument in Baltimore City. separated, as meetings and conferences are Mirrors. It has a tiny but enthusiastic audi- We are now gearing up to commence the Zoom based. Nevertheless, for we seniors, ence, and it explores the inner journey of a restoration of the North/South Squares and the key is to remain safe. Fortunately, I have professional scientist attempting to recon- then the East/West Squares. Our website is received the vaccine. Here in Massachusetts, cile his scientific and religious views of the mvpconservancy.org. Have also been head- availability to those not involved with patient world. All might be interested to know that ing the efforts of Friends of Clifton Mansion care has been limited to nursing home resi- Professor Theodor Mauch, in the Department to restore Johns Hopkins’s summer home. To dents. Hence, I am the only one in my family of Religion at Trinity in our time, was the date, FCM has restored the Grand Stairway, who has been inoculated. It will be some inspiration for the first two chapters. After Tower, and the Dining Room. FCM also has time before vaccination is widespread, thus decades of medical research and consulting, completed the restoration of the South Lawn isolation remains important. Everyone needs I finally retired and married Medias Hening and the South Porch and the renovation of to remain cautious. Look forward to seeing Pratiwi. Meidy is a longtime friend and the Reception Room. Our next projects will everyone in person!”

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Tom Jansen passed away on January 2. Bill Eakins signed off the Reunion down. They were understandably spooked. From Tom Wells: “Tom was my roommate Committee because he and Hope were So, Bill’s favorite horse was trying to tell him at Trinity, fellow Pipes member (he was headed, once again, on another around- that he was spooked by this crashing tree. a wonderful tenor; I was the business the-world cruise. I guess that is one form When Bill did not appropriately respond to manager), and fraternity brother. Tom was of social distancing. his horse’s tugging, the horse turned around one of the nicest and kindest men I knew.” Our two Trin professors have been busy. and kicked him. Bill did not disclose where Tom’s life revolved around music. Living Randy Lee spoke at the Trinity Club of he was kicked. But he showed up to the in Boston after graduation, he was active Hartford on the “Psychological/Emotional committee meeting in good spirits. in numerous choral groups. He served as Impact of COVID-19” on January 13, That about wraps it up. Until next time, music manager, among other leadership 2021. Meanwhile, Sam Kassow spoke on be well. positions, at Trinity Church there. Later, after “Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973” for a returning to Westport, Massachusetts, while virtual event on December 1, 2020, that was REUNION • JUNE 2022 continuing his singing, he sailed, bodysurfed sponsored by the Posen Library of Jewish Trinity Fund Goal: $220,000 with his grandchildren, and was active in Culture and Civilization and the United 1967 Class Secretary: James L. the Westport River Watershed Alliance. John States Holocaust Memorial Museum. O’Connor, 325 W. 86th St., Apt. 4C, New York, Losse added, “Tom is fondly remembered by While all of you were wondering what NY 10024-3115; james.oconnor.1967 his brothers at Theta Xi as a gentle friend and you were going to do differently today @trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Alex Levi, an especially surly waiter in the fraternity’s from what you did yesterday, your fully James H. Oliver dining hall. But it was all in fun.” engaged Reunion Committee met by Zoom You may remember that I emailed all of you on February 9, assisted by our new favorite asking, “How is the Class of 1967 weathering REUNION • JUNE 2022 Trinity admin people, Theresa Kidd, Caitlin the COVID-19 pandemic?” The answer: as Trinity Fund Goal: $130,000 Gasiorski, and Michelle Deluse. Present well as could be expected. Some had mild 1966 Class Secretary: David C. (with nothing better to do) were George cases of the virus, which, according to Nate Charlesworth, 5 Kittanset Rd., Bedford, NH Andrews, Randy Lee, Lindley Scarlett, Rich Rath, was “like a bad flu.” Others, like John 03110-4508; david.charlesworth.1966 Rissel, Bill Roos, Bill Carlson, Jeff Dierman, Loeb, spent a week or more in the hospi- @trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Joseph A. and Mase Ross. This was a very serious meet- tal. But so far, no classmates have died of Hourihan, Esq. ing, as you can imagine. Importantly, using COVID-19 (as of mid-February 2021). Well, on the surface of things, not much the college’s accounting methods for class John wrote, “Other than our contracting has changed. We are for the most part in giving, Jeff pointed out that our class had and surviving COVID during our move from personal and national lockdown grinding pledged more than $1 million. That doesn’t New Orleans (to Philadelphia) and my through the winter months of social distanc- leave us off the hook. We still would like all weeklong hospitalization, fortunately with ing, mask wearing, and hand washing. As of of you to consider giving something to raise no long-term effects, taking long walks, and this writing in February, the economy is still the giving percentage. Very important for running a few errands to find something struggling, COVID-19 is still rampant with college rankings. One important thing we not available from Whole Foods, there is new strains materializing, and the country learned was that Lindley and Randy went to little to report.” is divided into two political tribes. On the the same Sunday school. They learned that Gil Campbell checked in. “Greetings from upside, a massive economic package is work- they would be saved from any future epidem- the pandemic capital of South Carolina. ing its way through Congress. And COVID ics. Jeff observed they were referring to the Mariett and I are doing great and have tested vaccines are now widely available with most 1918 flu. Meanwhile, George opined that if an negative for COVID-19 twice. We celebrated in our cohort already vaccinated. What could elder 43-year-old football player could win our 50th wedding anniversary on November possibly go wrong? his seventh Super Bowl, then it was time to 28, 2020, by spending two nights in a highly I did hear from a few classmates. Rich bring back Rich Rissel for the Super Bowl. sanitized Best Western hotel in Beaufort, Rissel dropped me a nice note, as he says, Jeff thought that for Rich, a Super Bowl was South Carolina. Two sons tested positive and “a little news from the left coast.” (That’s a bowl of pablum … I guess you had to be had COVID bouts. One granddaughter and rich, Rich.) He writes: “I fully retired the end there. The best story was from Bill Carlson. two grandsons also got sick. But no one suf- of September and then embarked on a two- As many of you know, Bill has retired to the fered unduly. We ate at the all-time greatest week road trip, kind of like going to Bennett. farther outreaches of Cape Cod, where he seafood restaurant in the world, Dockside, Went up through Bend, Oregon; Eastern and Lonni keep horses, among other things. in Beaufort. It is open, believe it or not, for Oregon and Washington; the Bitterroot First, on the subject of COVID vaccines, he indoor dining. Anyway, clam chowder and Valley in Montana; and Sun Valley and had not received his yet because they were crab cakes were ceremoniously consumed Twin Falls in Idaho. I fished along the way so far out in the boonies, and the infra- with social distancing. I believe there is a and caught up with a number of old Marine structure had not been set up. He said no grandchildren competition in our class. We Corps buddies. Since then, COVID-19 has worries because it was not hard to socially hope to win. We are now the proud ‘owners’ dictated life at home. Until it got too cold, distance in his small town of 3,000. On the of 11 grandchildren. They are happy and five or six couples got together every Friday second subject, Bill was nuzzling with his growing taller.” night for socially distanced cocktails and favorite horse while he was feeding it. The Luke Terry reports, “Vaccination lines are munchies. Now it is golf three or four times horse had kept tugging at him, which Bill very long here in Florida despite the state a week and Netflix at night.” You’re showing misinterpreted as nuzzling. Backstory: The having above-average efficiency in getting great adaptability, Rich. day before, there had been a huge nor’easter. through this challenge.” Joe Hourihan, in his inimitable taciturn With the surf crashing, the storm howling, Steve Griggs got his first shot on February style, observed, “We are bored, but thank- and the warm fire crackling inside, Bill didn’t 4. “We were supposed to go to the Bahamas fully still working—which gets us out— hear the tree being blown down between the to celebrate my 75th, but that was postponed that and the casino.” You still have that barn and the paddock. The horses, however, until March. Yes, like everybody else, we Irish luck. did see the tree come violently crashing have been itching to travel. We feel fortunate

42 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES to be in a position to take these trips, and so serving as interviewers. It was fascinating to hopefully not shorten—our final innings in far, we have been healthy enough to at least hear about life on campus during this unique ways we never expected. Stay well. dream that we can do so.” school year, and all of our scholars seem to John Ray has abandoned his Washington be flourishing. Thanks to all who worked Trinity Fund Goal: $150,000 area softball league. “With the ongoing on the logistics of the meeting, in particular 1969 Class Secretary: Alden R. COVID pandemic, my wife finally decided to Gerry, who handled the technical aspects Gordon, Fine Arts Department, Hallden 09, fully retire from teaching. Her first request and the editing of the video interviews. Our Trinity College, 300 Summit St., Hartford, was to move closer to our daughter and her scholars are an impressive group, and if you CT 06106-3100; [email protected] family. We succeeded. Twenty-eight houses missed their interviews, you can see them at • Class Agent: Nathaniel S. Prentice • away from them. We are in Chesapeake, mytrinnet.trincoll.edu/1968. I am pleased to /groups/Trinity1969 Virginia, with a small house on a small lake report that we have raised sufficient funds Coronadiaries Edition: As your class secre- and enjoying the change from all the traffic since the Zoom to ensure we can add another tary, I usually don’t make my own contribu- in the D.C. area.” Class of ’68 Scholar in the incoming Class of tions to the Class Notes nor subject you to Besides Gil Campbell, several other ’25. Thanks to all who gave, and particular my soliloquizing. But as submissions were classmates recently celebrated various 50th thanks to Carl Levitsky for generous gifts to very light, I am using my editorial license anniversaries: Jeff Fox got the ball rolling by the current-use fund and the scholarship-en- to record here what the experience was of noting his 50th wedding anniversary and dowment fund. During the meeting, we also teaching at Trinity during the first outbreak 50th reunion at Harvard Business School. heard from Adrienne Oddi, Trinity’s dean of of the coronavirus in spring term 2020. Alex Levi says, “I qualify as well: Trin 2017, admissions and financial aid. Adrienne pro- As I write this in February 2021, we are all Columbia M.B.A. 2019, married 50 years May vided great insights regarding Trinity’s cur- pretty bored with isolation and COVID-19. 31, 2020. In 2023, will be 50 years for Adelphi rent financial aid situation and objectives. Seniority is finally having its benefits as we M.A., and in 2025, 50 years since my Ph.D.” Having received such favorable responses queue up for the vaccine and hope that we Rob Boas: “2017 Trinity 50th Reunion, 2020 to our seminal class-wide Zoom, we hope to are nearing the denouement of this ordeal 50th wedding anniversary and 50th law plan two or three a year. Hopefully, we will by contagion. I kept my own Coronadiaries, school at UVA.” Rich Ratzan was succinct as have had one between the writing of these begun last year on March 15, 2020, exactly 11 always: “December 11, 2020, was #52 going notes (in February) and their publication. months ago. Eight days before, my Trinity art on #53. Deo volente. Ciao. P.S. I was in Jeff Your topic suggestions for future Zooms history students had taken the “Art Bus” to and Marlene’s wedding. Poor Marlene! God would be appreciated; send them to me. meet me at the Metropolitan Museum of Art bless her!” Among the reconnections the Zoom in New York. Only about half the students While looking at Instagram, I came across meeting triggered was one between Parker made the trip. We looked together at original some very colorful, impressionistic drawings Prout and Steve Peters, who worked together works in their real physical scale and three of New York City. They are the work of Peter at Lehman Brothers in the early ’80s. The dimensionality. I hadn’t yet grasped what Heller. He tells me that he began drawing Trinity bond as co-workers expanded to risk we were taking; fortunately no one was lessons at New York’s 92nd Street Y a few sharing family dinners and other excur- infected, and everyone returned safely to years ago. He works in watercolors and col- sions back in what Parker refers to as the campus. That was the last time I met my ored pencils and takes classes two or three “Jersey Days.” Parker and wife Diane live in students in person. In days, they were all in times a week. “For classmates unfamiliar Pawling, New York, where he continues his isolation and scattered across 11 time zones with the 92nd Street Y, there are wonderful “third career” as a Methodist pastor for two and desperate to salvage their semester and Zoom classes—in art, music, and literature, churches in Dutchess County. This year also complete their course credits. I had never inter alia. Taking two great classes there now marks Parker’s 15th year as an on-air clas- heard of Zoom except as an onomatopo- on the blues and on the Beatles and Bob sical music broadcaster on FM radio, with etic word for speed. The second half of the Dylan.” If you have Instagram, be sure to a weekly live gig on Thursday mornings on semester was a rescue mission to coach look for Peter’s paintings. WMNR. You can catch that at wmnr.org, and students through individualized writing If you have celebrated any 50ths, let me Parker is happy to take your music requests! projects custom tailored to their places of ref- know, and I promise you’ll be in the next I, Daniel Goldberg, your secretary, am uge all over the world. By the end of March, Class Notes! pleased to report that I have caught up with we had all been drilled in online meetings Remember our 55th coming up in 2022. We David Chanin and am in regular contact with and beginning an isolation that has been want to see everyone there, so please wear him. David, among our non-retired contin- longer than anyone knew, punctuated by a mask, practice social distancing, and get gent, continues his litigation law practice a cascade of political and social tensions vaccinated. in Philadelphia. If your COVID routine has mixed with natural disasters that made exhausted the movies and series you can 2020 a surrealist global nightmare. Students Trinity Fund Goal: $350,000 think of, and if you long for more infor- managed pretty well and were even creative. 1968 Class Secretary: Daniel L. mation on the GOAT (yes, Tom Brady has We had to be nimble to find art history topics Goldberg, 53 Beacon St., #1, Boston, MA eclipsed even our class’s football stars) on that worked in China, India, Australia, and 02108-3531; daniel.goldberg.1968@trincoll. the manipulation of science for hire and all across North America. The worst was not edu • Class Agent: Barry Bedrick on the non-scandal of deflategate, you can having access to the college library and real We held our first class-wide Zoom get-to- stream Four Games in Fall on Amazon Prime books. Contrary to popular myth, everything gether on December 7, 2020, emceed by our and other streaming services. It also marks is not on the internet. In fact, very little is fearless leader, Larry Roberts, and attended my film debut and finale. on the internet, and we simply allow what by about 40 classmates. The Zoom featured Hopefully by the time this is published, all is available to shape the results and quality video interviews with all three of our current of our classmates will have been vaccinated of research. It was deeply frustrating for Class of 1968 Scholars, Zach Yung ’22, Cesira and we will, at last, be rounding the corner the Class of 2020, who were robbed of their Barrett ’23, and Julia Cheesman ’24, with on this most difficult and tragic worldwide senior spring and graduation. There were Gerry Pryor, Walt Harrison, and Mike Lestz pandemic. It will no doubt affect—but some silver linings. For us personally, having

SPRING 2021 43 CLASS NOTES our children and their families as resident will enable us to even have our own special contributions, and we definitely hope to refugees for months was a continuing house Reunion once the State of Connecticut break all attendance records by having at party of childcare and marooned dinner permits a gathering such as ours. It is least 100 of us make it to our unique in-per- parties. Still teaching full time and writing potentially extremely exciting for us, and as son Reunion, possibly in the autumn before lectures proved to be a bonus to guarantee soon as we have more news, we shall do our the leaves fall. Let’s keep our focus, and that I was busy. As an academic used to best to communicate it to you. The college hopefully we shall be there! doing research and needing uninterrupted definitely recognizes that the 50th Reunion Finally, if you cannot get out there to time to write, I found quarantine was a is a unique and special event. All I can say party with Ernie, consider the possibility of hermit philosopher’s refuge. Now I am an is it will be not only memorable but also getting into some truly creative and engaging accomplished Zoom lecturer, but I can tell truly great. European soaps available on Netflix, such as you all the reasons that teaching live and in We are most excited about the oral history The Restaurant (family internecine chal- person is the best and what we should all project about which you recently received lenges to keep the restaurant going for gen- remember as a special privilege. an email. If you didn’t, please get your email erations) from Sweden and Spiral (a cop life/ Leighton Smith also made good use of his address to the Alumni Office right away. criminal justice system thriller) from Paris. time. Leighton writes: “Maybe some of you Classmate Richard Turk and the director of Jeanette and I highly recommend them. classmates don’t recall, but I was while at the Watkinson Library are working together Trinity and continue to be a really big base- on it. It’s a great endeavor and will generate REUNION • JUNE 2022 ball fan and have followed my favorite team, tremendous memories for all of us. I imme- Trinity Fund Goal: $650,000 the Yankees, since 1954. Matt Birmingham diately start thinking of the experiences we 1971 Class Secretary: David M. ’71 and I used to drive down to the Bronx lived through culturally. Remember how, all Sample, 826 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine, almost every Sunday to go to games at the of a sudden, our generation dispensed with FL 32080; [email protected] • original Yankee Stadium. I recall having last names and insisted on being on a first- Class Agent: Vacant great fun on the quad playing stickball with name basis with everyone so that we could Thank you for the memories and notes for a broken hockey stick and an old tennis truly be unified and the American melting this issue of the Reporter. I hope that you ball, maybe the same one that doubled as pot could come to its ultimate fruition? We enjoy reading them and will be inspired to the ball we used playing ‘spud’ on the lawn then could march off to San Francisco as share yours for the next issue. Please do of St. Anthony Hall when George Will ’62 idealistic flower children having our dreams not wait until I write; simply send me an came to visit. George is also a very big base- of peace and prosperity last forever. Then email ([email protected]) whenever you are ball fan, by the way. So, after many decades we encountered the horrors of the Vietnam inspired. We all will enjoy hearing from and of watching and playing baseball, I decided War and its effect upon all of us and our about you! to write a book about playing baseball: How families. Our intelligentsia began to focus Mel Kendrick wrote before the pandemic: to Play Smart Baseball. It was published on multiculturalism, and the inevitable “I am having a retrospective of my artwork in October by Dorrance and can be bought divisions and arguments ensued. No matter opening this April at the Addison Gallery of through that website or through Amazon what our political orientation, it became a American Art in Andover, Massachusetts. on paper or as an e-book. I have written gut-wrenching experience as our loyalties The show is titled Seeing Things in Things seven other books so far and hope to have were torn and ripped asunder. Many of us and will cover my work from 1982 to the pres- them published as well—assuming that my escaped the cultural stress by succumbing ent. It is quite an honor for me to return to baseball book is successful.” to wanderlust and traveled all over Europe, Andover with this show. It covers my career Our next deadline for Class Notes will be the Middle East, and lands even farther away since Trinity, where I spent most of my time on June 14, by which time I hope everyone only to discover that all Americans have at the Austin Art Center. My teachers were where you are is vaccinated. Maybe other much more in common with one another Terence La Noue and Dieter Froese (both countries will begin to readmit Americans so than they do with the indigenous locals in commuted from New York each week). They we can begin traveling again before the end any other region or nation. The effects of opened up the whole New York art scene to of 2021. the conflicts were profound, and we were us as students. Rizzoli is publishing a mono- indelibly imprinted with the status of the graph on my work (Google Rizzoli Kendrick). Trinity Fund Goal: $380,000 late ’60s generation forever. Our individual In the book, I am interviewed by my friend 1970 Class Secretary: John L. Bonee stories and experiences should be recorded and classmate Carroll Dunham ’72.” III, Esq., 19 Scarsdale Rd., West Hartford, CT for posterity and for historians to research Bill LaPlante: “Fifty years after evenings 06107-3339; [email protected]; as primary sources. It truly is a worthwhile at Trinity, across the rocks on Zion Street fax: 860-522-6049 • Class Agents: Joseph A. project. We should do our best to give our visiting ‘Phil’s’ aka College View Tavern, I’ve Barkley III, Esq., Ernest J. Mattei, Esq. heartfelt memories to the recorders. managed one marriage, two fine children, Ernie Mattei and I along with our spectacu- Hopefully by the time you read these two incredible grandchildren, five Emmys in lar 50th Reunion Committee of 21 classmates notes, you will have had at least one of the television news, start-up of the world’s first (and growing!) continue working diligently shots and possibly both. Ernie Mattei told all-live 24-hour news channel, owned by with Theresa Kidd of the Advancement me that he is so excited about the liberation ABC-TV. Professionally taught tennis and ice Office to have the best Reunion imaginable he has felt as a result of having had the hockey, now working on two books, build- despite the pandemic. Theresa’s wisdom second shot that he can barely contain his ing custom waterfront homes in Southwest and calm enthusiasm have been a guiding urges to get out there and travel and even Florida. Survived a decade as HOA presi- force throughout the challenges we have party. He is thrilled that another grandchild dent astride the Caloosahatchee River, with confronted. One thing upon which our has just been born. On a more mundane trips to 20-plus foreign lands on writing committee has agreed unanimously is that level, he is extremely pleased to report that assignments. Trin did not teach me all the it does not wish to have a remote Reunion, our class has raised more this fiscal year answers. It did help me realize I could find and we are doing everything we can to avoid than ever before. Further, we are on track them, if I looked in enough places, which I that occurrence. It may be that the college to pass the alumni participation record for continue to do till this day. Now authoring

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without disease, we will still need to be con- director of government relations for The cerned about large groups coming together Nature Conservancy’s Connecticut Chapter. for long periods of time.” For the past several years, I’ve also served CHECK OUT A From Margot Clement Clark: “I came to as a diversity and equity trainer for the Trinity in January 1969 as an exchange stu- Conservancy’s global organization and VLW VIRTUAL dent with 16 other women from Vassar with have started working with a consulting the idea of being there one semester. I imme- firm doing diversity trainings and planning, EVENT! diately felt welcomed by Trinity students and which I will continue in ‘retirement.’ After bit.ly/VirtualLongWalk faculty, and doors were literally opened for living most of my life in Connecticut, my me! It was a refreshing contrast to my Vassar wife and I have recently moved to the Outer experience, and I ultimately transferred.” Cape in Massachusetts. In my free time, Jeff Clark shared a memory: “After one of I’ve enjoyed singing, playing guitar, and my personal memoir, Warsaw to Woodstock those good old major New England snow- bicycling, including riding cross-country and White House.” storms, I remembered that some enterprising in 1974 with Peter Jessop, who later became From Kevin Sullivan: “Not much news and energetic students packed the Cook my stepbrother after we each lost a parent. when the big events are breaks from COVID archway with snow, completely blockading We both still spend considerable time ‘in isolating for in-auto medical visits and a the passage between the Long Walk and the saddle.’ ” haircut. But hope and the vax are on the way. Mather Hall. A marvelous prank! I wonder Ham Clark is back at international head- Did a lot of work virtually here and in other if students these days ever consider such mastering again and offers an open invite to states for Biden-Harris. Also have enjoyed imaginative activities.” classmates to visit him in Dubai! “I retired catching up and doing some work with Bill David Casey shares: “I think during our from heading schools just before COVID Reynolds. Reunion memory: Dorming in junior year, WRTC played the top 1,000 last December, and since then, Ceci and I Elton and that moment outside when first music hits of all time. I recorded the whole have been splitting our time between the experiencing ‘Bottle Night.’ ” thing on reel-to-reel tapes and still have it. ocean in Massachusetts and the Wasatch From John Stevenson: “Phil McGoohan The news updates on Vietnam and the pro- Mountains in Utah while working part time passed away on January 1, 2021. After Trinity, tests are fascinating. When the number one for a small educational search group, RG175. Phil went to Tuck. In 1976, he moved to hit was played, it turned out to be ‘Theme This August, I will get back to the school Milwaukee, where he had a long career in from A Summer Place,’ and there was almost world for one more year when I will become banking and financial services. He leaves a riot on campus. I have played it for some of the interim head of the American School of behind three sons and two daughters.” our classmates over the years when they visit Dubai. Perhaps I have failed retirement! All Michael Trigg writes: “What a contrast San Diego, and they really enjoy it.” classmates are welcome to visit to take in between this past week with the protest in Bob Towner writes, “I’m still preach- the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the D.C. and the late ’60s march in D.C. to seek ing, writing calligraphy, promoting the world, or to enjoy some indoor skiing. See an end to the Vietnam War. The latter, while resistance.” you in Dubai!” we were at Trinity, had nothing to do with Judge Rory Cameron sent me a fun tearing down the Capitol or murdering the REUNION • JUNE 2022 anecdote from Wisconsin. “In 2016, I leaders of the country. The tumultuous times Trinity Fund Goal: $100,000 retired as a circuit judge in Chippewa while at Trinity with the war, draft dodging, 1972 Class Secretary: John R. County, Wisconsin, after 33-plus years. the draft lottery, the standoff with the trust- “Jack” Nelson, 55 Old Shore Rd., Old Lyme, In 2009, I had a case in my courtroom ees, the elimination of basic requirements, CT 06371-1936; john.nelson.1972@trincoll. and remembered from a previous hearing the admission of women, and the transfer edu • Class Agents: Archibald Smith, Will that the Washington, D.C.-based lawyer of my best friend to Vassar all are forever in Whetzel • /groups/Trinity1972 Jack Maitland was a star running back for my memory. I didn’t wear a cap and gown to A wonderful update from William Schaeffer: Williams in 1968. Trinity lost to Williams that graduation as a protest to the war, and my “After graduation, I attempted to be a year, so I did a quick search on my judicial parents were quite angry with me. However, photographer and an artist, and after failing laptop and before the hearing started made I made up for it by wearing an elaborate cap rather miserably, I became a dealer in 19th- a courtroom announcement: ‘Trinity 21, and gown at my medical school graduation. and 20th-century photographs, founding Williams 14 last Saturday!’ He laughed. I Because I coordinated all the photography William L. Schaeffer/Photographs in 1974.” plan to attend the 50th Reunion in 2022.” I for the 1970 Ivy and the 1971 Ivy and because Will has been collecting and curating emailed Rory, researched a bit, and found he I was never without two or three cameras, American historical photographs since 1974, was appointed judge at age 33 (elected sev- I have about a dozen pictures of Trinity first in N.Y.C. and now in quaint Chester, eral times since) and has run 15 marathons activities and buildings all around my home Connecticut. He sent a link to a press release since 1999, including Boston. You’ll find a in Tampa. Finally, and somewhat sadly, as that states: “The Met receives promised gift nice article if you Google Chippewa Judge an expert on immune function and immune of over 700 extraordinary photographs from Cameron prodigy. incompetence, on unusual viral infections the 1840s to the 1910s from the William L. Tom Robinson shares news, past and and acquisition of immunity, I would caution Schaeffer Collection.” The collection was present: “Harvey Zendt and I have been us not to plan any type of Reunion in person purchased by a Met trustee from Will specifi- celebrating the 50th anniversary of the epic for this year … not because all of us over cally for the Met. Fantastic accomplishment, summer of 1970, thanks to Mike Sooley, who the age of 70 will not have yet been immu- Will, and congratulations on a lifetime of sent us some old photos. Classes ended early nized with one of the COVID-19 vaccines but painstaking collecting and preservation. (I’m that year, and everyone made a quick exit because we will have incomplete data on looking forward to visiting Will’s studio soon from Trinity. I spent a few months working the duration of the immunity that we have after deadline.) for an anti-war Senate campaign. Then, gained. In addition, until we know for sure David Sutherland writes from the Cape: mid-July, Harvey and I hitched to California, that the vaccines protect us from infection “I’ve retired from a 30-year career as the down to Ensenada, Mexico, and then up the

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Q+A Holly Hotchner ’73

the president and CEO for two years, opportunity is that shockingly there is with the charge, as the first professional not another women’s history museum museum director, to find and create a in the country. We have hundreds of physical space and to grow visibility contemporary art museums, we have through exhibitions, education, and a museum for ice cream, a museum outreach. Although federal legislation for stamps, but there’s not one that has been approved to establish a focuses solely on women’s history, women’s museum on the Mall, the despite the fact that women make up building is decades away. We’re more than 50 percent of our population. investigating starting to do exhibitions I feel strongly in the value of creating a and public programs at another venue community and space where people can in D.C. so we don’t lose another 25 years see and experience inspiring women’s waiting for this to happen. stories. It’s a journey; I’ll try to take it to the next step, and hopefully others will What led you to this position? I’ve come along. always worked in museums. I spent the first chunk of my career at the Museum What was it like to be part of Trinity’s of Modern Art (MoMA). I then decided first fully coeducational class? I had the to be an art conservator to bring idea that the men would be overjoyed together my interests in studio art and to have us there. But what I found, and art history. I spent a number of years at what many of my classmates in the The Met, the Tate, and the Hirshhorn arts found, is that the men didn’t want Museum practicing conservation. It’s us there at all. They preferred seeing an amazing field, but it has a lot of women only on the weekends, and health hazards [because of chemicals somehow we were disrupting the peace. DEGREES: B.A. in art history and studio arts; M.A. in art history and used in restoring art]. I got to the Many of us were coming from coed certificate in conservation of art and point where I wanted to create a more schools, and the thinking of these men objects, the Institute of Fine Arts at significant impact on preserving the seemed so incredibly immature. We New York University larger disciplines in arts and culture had to prove ourselves in every way. On JOB TITLE: President and CEO, rather than one object at a time. I the other hand, we had a lot of positive National Women’s History Museum, went on to be museum director at the encouragement from the faculty all the Washington, D.C. New-York Historical Society, New York’s way around. There was a great deal of oldest museum. Later, I was recruited enthusiasm for thought leadership, and FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: to the American Craft Museum, where that really helped shape my willingness I had my dog with me at school. Her name was Mistress Quickly, from I served as director for 16 years. We to experiment and to test new creative Shakespeare. She was a Bedlington created a truly interdisciplinary paths in my life and career. terrier, which looks like something museum—renamed the Museum of Arts between a sheep and a greyhound. She and Design—and built an extraordinary Which professors influenced you the was great; she attended every art history class. She went to Commencement, where space in the epicenter of N.Y.C. most? I was lucky enough to be there I graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and my A primary area of interest for at a unique moment in time, when friends made her a diploma. I also have me throughout my career has been the arts at the college were extremely the fondest memory of the second or third in breaking down the “walls” of a experimental and vibrant. The people student art show that we put together. museum to create interactive and who taught studio arts were all artists We all were serious about our careers, but there was a great deal of joy and inclusive environments and experiences who mainly lived in New York, and experimentation at the same time. that people are interested in partaking we were lucky enough to have two in, and by that, I mean everyone, not really inspired art history professors— just one type of visitor. Inclusiveness Michael Mahoney and Tom Baird— What is the status of the National has been a big issue in the cultural who definitely trained my eye and Women’s History Museum? Although the world and in the museum field, and I informed and nurtured my sense of museum is about to be 25 years old, it think we’ve all done a pretty bad job at connoisseurship and how to recognize remains a virtual museum, and we are that historically. excellence. I also found my voice for diligently pursuing a physical home in One of the great things about activism, which has stayed with me. Washington. It has been a long journey, my new position and the reason I like most women’s journeys. I’ve been was initially intrigued about the

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Pacific Coast Highway to Santa Cruz, surfing of our area. The exhibit opens Sunday, for the winter, having groceries and other most of the major breaks along the way. January 24, at 3:00 p.m. and will remain necessities delivered and supporting local Late August, with classes imminent, we online for 90 days. Visit at www.national- restaurants by ordering takeout directly made a marathon hitch directly to Hartford church.org/Art.” from them and tipping generously. We miss in three days and nights. Would I recom- Lenn Kupferberg writes that he and “Karen seeing our friends and look forward to the mend this to my kids? Not on your life! I am Fink Kupferberg are not doing much, other warmer spring weather and the vaccination still actively campaigning, doing volunteer than staying home and venturing out for rollout. We got our first dose two weeks work, playing pickleball, and spending as necessities. Karen’s younger brother, Mike, ago and are scheduled for the second on much time as possible in Sun Valley with died suddenly (heart attack, they think). February 7. Hooray! Meanwhile, we are my wife, Carla Murray, who leads the West That was a blow. We are fortunate to see grateful for seeing family and friends via for Marriott Hotels. Our daughter is in San our grandchildren and daughter with some Zoom and long phone conversations, being Francisco, and our son is a sophomore at regularity (they are in our COVID pod). We able to work full time from home, and the University of Colorado.” hope to be able to get vaccinated sometime realizing, after 33 years, that commuting to Harvey once told me of their hitchhiking in the next two months. Then maybe we can N.Y.C. via Metro-North wasn’t all that great! style: Tom would do the “thumbing,” as do something to celebrate our 45th wedding Finally, we are utterly delighted that we he was good-looking and clean-cut. Then anniversary, coming up in June.” have a new president and that competence, Harvey would sit in front and cajole the Ric Ricci: “Coaching men’s rowing at empathy, and belief in science are back in driver to their desired destination, espe- Connecticut College in fall 2020 went better the White House. Our next Reunion is only cially since he could stay up all night and than expected given our societal health two years away, and we’re already looking drive. Coming home from California, Harvey challenges. The cessation of all the fall forward to seeing many of you! Meanwhile: convinced the driver, who was going to regattas provided more time for the teams stay safe, stay strong, stay sane.” Chicago, that he should detour to N.Y.C.! to concentrate on improving the basics Susan Hoffman Fishmanwrites, “2020 Thanks, all, for your contributions! Jack of good rowing technique. Preliminary was an extremely challenging year for the plans to resume intercollegiate competi- art world. (And all worlds!) While muse- Trinity Fund Goal: $125,000 tion are underway for the spring. My wife, ums, galleries, and artists’ residences were 1973 Co-Class Secretary: Diane Fawn, retired in August and is enjoying mostly closed, exhibitions and residencies Fierri Brown, 62 Westwood Rd., West her weekly online watercolor classes. As went virtual. I participated in a number of Hartford, CT 06117; diane.brown.1973@ always, our two grandchildren who live these shows with my paintings and public trincoll.edu • Co-Class Secretary: Robert P. in Mystic are a joy and seem to change by art projects on water and climate change, Haff, 8 Riverbend Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371- the day! I am looking forward to our 50th including Global Conversations, spon- 1428 • Class Agents: Jan Gimar, Ed Huntley, Reunion in two years!” sored by Google Arts & Culture, the United Patti Mantell-Broad Art Baldwin writes: “Just finished Nations, and F.99; Culture of Contamination, John Gatsos writes, “Lamentably, I am watching a webinar with Kevin McMahon, sponsored by SciArt Initiative and resched- dull as dirt thanks to COVID and N.Y.C. Cheryl Greenberg, and Susannah Heschel. uled for 2021 at the New York Hall of lockdowns, etc. The family time has been Susannah described her Trinity experience Science in Brooklyn, New York; Darkness great with a muted Christmas celebra- as ‘four years of heaven.’ Pretty strong Before Dawn at the Ethan Cohen KuBe in tion followed by skiing in Vermont. I feel recommendation from a religion profes- Beacon, New York; Resilience 2020 at the like we have all turned back the clock sor. I feel the same way. I have been fine. I Garner Art Center in Garnerville, New York; to a different decade or something with rarely go out, other than trips to the park and the Cel Del Nord Virtual Residency in everyone home all the time doing all the in the morning to toss tennis balls for my Barcelona, Spain. In 2021 (so far), I will be household chores. Kind of like Leave It to daughter’s dog (she’s teaching chemistry in physical exhibitions (hopefully) at the 22 Beaver redux. Rest assured, it has caused in Indonesia … the daughter, not the dog). North Gallery in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and no craving for Wonder Bread or chicken à la When our governor closed the bike trails the Kingsborough Art Museum in Brooklyn, King. In the months leading to the elections last March, I started riding around the block New York. Here’s hoping that 2021 brings and immediately thereafter, I have been instead. It’s about a 7 percent grade, so I go you all good health and better days.” swapping emails with various classmates, tearing downhill with both hands on the Diane Fierri Brown: “Mike Mitchell ref- including David Bargman, Dirk Dreux, brakes, then chug uphill in the lowest gear erences his photography exhibit in these Aron Pasternack, and Robin Reif. All very on my bike. It takes about 10 minutes to do notes. Terrific exhibit! I am the proud owner thoughtful and civil despite the charged the loop, a bit more than a mile. It’s a good of one of his photos, a very coy, puffy owl topics and environment. A tribute to our workout. My best was eight laps. I handed tucked into and camouflaged by a gnarly … broader Trinity education.” in my laptop and badge in November, thus probably maple tree. He watches over our Mike Mitchell advises that his virtual officially retiring. I’d worked intermittently comings and goings in the kitchen.” photography exhibit at the National United since my intended retirement date of April “Get your facts first, and then you can Methodist Church in D.C. went live on the 30, 2018, but not for a year. I’ve been volun- distort them as much as you please.” church’s website and consists of 36 images teering, tutoring ‘Algebra I’ at Franklin High —Mark Twain from the C&O Canal National Historical in Seattle and ‘Algebra II’ (last year) and Park. Per the church announcement: ‘Geometry’ (this year) at a small parochial Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 “The Arts Council of the National United school for kids who haven’t been successful 1974 Class Secretary: Ty E. Methodist Church, which regularly offers in other schools. I’m working my way up to Geltmaker, 8742 Rangely Ave., West in-person music and art to the community, the ‘Calculus’ class I took 8:00 a.m. MWF Hollywood, CA 90048-1715; ty.geltmaker. now presents Virtual Travel in the Time of my first semester at Trinity.” [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant COVID-19 by local photographer Michael Aron Pasternack: “Hello, classmates. I Thanks to Rebecca Adams, putting up with Mitchell. This collection of images captured suspect my update will be similar to every- us recalcitrants for many years. Hoping all along the C&O Canal celebrates the beauty one else’s. Kate and I are hunkered down are staying safe amid the pandemic.

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Rabbi Ronald W. Kaplan says it all: Goldstein, retired management consultant, “L’Shalom.” and I have two children now in home, cour- Artemis Kent calls for calm: “I am loving tesy of COVID. Two silver linings. Daughter CONSIDER A retirement. I don’t know why it gets such Phoebe lived in Manhattan since graduat- bad press! Of course, I have my health. I can ing college in 2014, working in finance. To PLANNED GIFT do exactly what I want, picking a few hours avoid being ‘marooned’ in March 2020, we of work that I like, no responsibilities, and prevailed on her to stay with us. Son Scott TO TRINITY. only myself to please. It’s wonderful. I live has built his love of cooking while seeking near the sea in a beautiful spot in County to end COVID unemployment after using his legacy.trincoll.edu Wicklow, Ireland. I teach piano and music master’s in sports management in a D.C. area theory. All online, of course, in these strange trivia company until layoff. This unexpected times. Life has been good to me, and I time together has been great. We managed a “I haven’t written in years and thought remember my Trinity days fondly.” weeklong August trip to Maine, unable to see it was about time. Here goes. I’ve been Lloyd Wolf witnesses history: “I’ve been Bennett Freeman in 2019. Still in touch with retired now for four years. I loved working busy, a new book out (Transitions) doc- fellow lawyer David Bornn and retired Dr. as an attorney for 37 years, but I equally umenting ethnically diverse community Harry Heller, as well as Ben.” love being retired. Lew ’72 and I moved to in Arlington, Virginia, and four bodies Lise Gescheidt recommends community: Brooksville on the Maine coast in summer of my photographs recently acquired by “Now semiretired defense lawyer, still alive 2019. A wonderful old house where I tend archives. The work of the Columbia Pike and COVID free. Volunteering for the Rhode the perennial beds left by prior owner, mar- Documentary Project will be housed/ Island Responds medical team doing COVID veling at how beautiful Maine is. We have exhibited permanently at the Library tests in Providence. Hoping to get my vaccine room for our children and grandchildren to of Virginia in Richmond. Another older shots ahead of schedule.” join us, lots last summer after camps fizzled project photographing Deadhead fans of David Doerge engages old friends: “I’ve and I became a COVID babysitter. But, not the Grateful Dead that I did with Rebecca been in touch with Barry O’Brien, Mike a fan of the cold, my horse and I travel to Adams is archived in the Martha Blakeney Hoskinson, and Lise Gescheidt. Living in Aiken, South Carolina, for winter, sixth year Hodges Special Collections and University Scottsdale, Arizona, with wife Gina and hope now. I read, including audiobooks, mostly Archives of The University of North Carolina to meet up with Barry, Mark DeMeulenaere British murder mysteries. I am thankful my at Greensboro. Other photographs of mine ’73, and friends this summer in Utah or on life has been relatively sane during COVID recently placed in the Rosa Parks Museum the Cape. We’ll invite Trinity alums for a but know that is not the case for many in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Nikkei party once we know the location.” people. I hope by the time this article is National Museum in Burnaby, British Richard Wolframgets philosophical: “As published, we will have some relief from the Columbia, Canada. COVID-19 severely affect- for your letter to The Times, I evidently read upheaval it has caused.” ing my freelance practice, held on, as have Trump (aka, shameless-in-chief) into it Yours truly cautiously recovering from so many of us who are isolated. Hopefully (Google Ty Geltmaker NY Times opinion). Of Trumpian anxiety, knowing fascism is the advent of the vaccine and a new adminis- Frank Kirkpatrick’s religion course: I often always still around the corner, at work on tration will allow for a restoration of a sense heard about it, including from Lisa Carothers Ernesto Nathan: The Third Rome’s First of calm, safety, and a semblance of nor- and probably roommate Woody Bowman Jewish Mayor. malcy. I recently covered the January 6, 2021, (with whom I’ve kept up in pretty regular insurrectionist riot on Capitol Hill and was in communication); my loss not to have taken Trinity Fund Goal: $200,000 the thick of that howling mess. Thankfully I it. Same for George Higgins’s ‘Abnormal 1975 Co-Class Secretary: was not hurt (many journalists were beaten Psych,’ which, it seemed, everyone else Steven E. Hirsch, 2200 N. Ocean Blvd., by the mob), and the photographs have seen took. I studied philosophy: Miller Brown, Unit N1101, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305-1994; wide distribution. First demonstration I ever Drew Hyland, Richard Lee, Howard DeLong [email protected] • Co-Class covered was Nixon’s second counter-inau- … and quite a powerful professorial quartet Secretary: Christopher G. Mooney, 303 gural, for The Trinity Tripod back in January they were. I don’t think one could have done Compass Point Dr., #202, Bradenton, 1973, with Matthew Moloshok reporting. I’ve better at any of the other ‘Little Ivies’ for phi- FL 34209; christopher.mooney.1975@ covered scores of protests in succeeding losophy. I saw Miller a couple of years ago on trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Betsy Kellogg years, including many peaceful social justice campus; he was my adviser, and although Hamilton, Susanne Tilney, Richard F. Tucci • demonstrations this past summer in the Drew was the Plato scholar, Miller was the /groups/59654675586 D.C. area. This recent uprising at the Capitol most Socratic in his teaching.” He said this Hey, ’75ers! A limited response for this edi- was beyond any understanding and sadly all led to his career as an attorney focusing tion of The Trinity Reporter, but from Chuck unprecedented in American history; the vio- on antitrust counseling and litigation. Levine we hear the following. “I am happily lence was horrendous and shameful. Both Barry O’Brien links Trinity to life beyond retired and focusing on not-for-profit endeav- justice and healing are needed. I’m not ready the ivy: “With wife/high school love Sandy! ors. One of the groups I help lead generated for retirement yet. Life’s too precious and She went to Central Connecticut State the first operating agreement with California interesting. Best to all my classmates.” University for a B.S. and M.S. in special edu- State Parks. We have been operating Jack Doug Sanderson counsels family and cation and taught for 32 years as a special ed London State Historic Park for the past nine sanity: “Silver linings living under severe teacher in Connecticut; also doing alumni/ years. Our attendance has doubled, and restrictions this pandemic has wrought. Reunion work; remembering John Allen, we have been able to quadruple spending Since graduating law school in 1977, I have Mark DeMeulenaere ’73, and other North in support of the park, addressing some of resided in Northern Virginia and continue Campus High Rise mates; encouraging all to the backlog of capital projects as well as to practice commercial real estate and attend our 50th.” managing and improving trails and exhibits. family law through the pandemic, though Clare Hudson Payne contemplates COVID I also mentor entrepreneurs through SCORE, my workload suffered last year. Wife Audrey and horses from Maine to South Carolina: a national not-for-profit funded in part by

48 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES the Small Business Administration. Finally, fatigue. Two examples follow from Margo that I forgot to drop a course. The final is I publish a weekly COVID-19 newsletter. It is Halle and Deb Flower, but keep reading on Monday morning. But I convince myself focused on our local area, but I have readers because our classmates Gil Childers and Eric that if I study through every minute of the around the world.” Luskin offer a couple of potential solutions weekend, I will pass that test. That’s when I for your COVID-19-related ennui. jolt to consciousness. REUNION • JUNE 2022 Margo writes: “Happy 2021! Not much to Again, thanks to all for writing. Trinity Fund Goal: $400,000 report since we can’t do anything. I have 1976 Class Secretary: Robert A. managed to stay connected and reconnect Trinity Fund Goal: $225,000 Gibson, 84 Colony Rd., New Haven, CT 06511- with some Trin alumni via Zoom, text, 1978 Class Secretary: Jory F. 2812; [email protected] • and email. Thankfully we have technology Lockwood, 67 Scarlet Oak Dr., Wilton, CT Class Agents: Phil Bieluch, Roger Bowie, to assist! So many cherished memories 06897-1014; jory.lockwood.1978@trincoll. Mike Gilman, Chip Goode, Terry Michel Gumz, rekindled with special, irreplaceable friends. edu • Class Agents: Bob Carey, Vivi Dunklee Lisa Heilbronn, Hobie Porter My husband and I just got Moderna dose 1 Duke, Charles Glanville, Tom Lenahan, George From Charlie Kellner: “Under very difficult yesterday in Baltimore, which is akin, I imag- Malhame, Andrew Terhune • /groups/ circumstances, I was able to spend the better ine, to winning the lottery. Certainly hope TrinityCollege78 part of a weekend in January 2020 with Barry everyone has the opportunity soon so we can Dan Howe dropped by on the internet to Ehrlich, Paul Saner, and Mel Shuman as well resume our ‘normal’ lives. Stay safe!” share this with his classmates: “I hope to as Bob Pollak ’77 and Nancy Riemer Kellner And a tantalizing bit from Deb: “When I see Smitty and fellow Bantam Floyd Monroe ’78 as we all attended a memorial service say nothing is happening, I mean nothing is on Sunday in Lake Mary, Florida. They are for our friend David Hobbs, who passed away happening. We have weekly Zoom calls with coming to support me as I am being ordained in December 2019. While we had more than our two kids/partners, and this past Sunday, as a pastor in the Lutheran Church Missouri a few laughs over dinner on Friday evening we gave up on our call after about a half Synod. I have been studying for several reminiscing about our times together at hour of asking what was new (nothing), how years in a pastoral development program Trinity and for years thereafter, and while about you (nothing), and turning the camera at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and we all agreed that in countless ways David to our pets to watch them sleep. Hopefully, will serve at Wellspring Church in DeLand, was an inspiration to all of us, it is really as we all get vaccinated and things such as Florida. We will make sure we get a picture difficult to accept the fact of his passing. travel and gatherings are possible, I’ll have of us together for you when they are in town. The memorial service was a moving tribute more news in the fall.” Blessings to you.” to him. While it included numerous stories And Gil’s solution: “Anyone who is looking Donald S. Irish has joined those who detailing various escapades (thanks, Mel), for another thing to watch during corona contribute to the Reporter. Yeah! “Well, this it also included many poignant tributes quarantine could check out Fear City on is my first time sharing for Class Notes, but from people who knew David where he lived Netflix. It’s a three-part documentary series I’m happy to inform all that I retired on July and worked.” on an organized crime trial I was involved 2020. Thank you, COVID (no longer felt safe Two notes from the Alumni Office: with in the 1980s. For me it was a real trip commuting into Manhattan). Now looking Margaret E. “Peggy” Smith writes, “I’d like to down memory lane, and if you are inter- forward to writing my next life chapters!” extend a shout-out to my sorority sister, Soror ested in mafia lore at all, it is well worth Our class president, Tom Lenahan, has lots Kamala Harris, vice president of the United it. Personally, I enjoyed seeing pictures of of family joy. “I wanted to share that Carol States. We are members of the oldest Black myself when I still had hair.” and I were fortunate enough to have a couple sorority in our nation’s history, Alpha Kappa How about some music? Here’s what of very bright spots during this strange pan- Alpha Sorority, Inc. The AKAs were founded Eric offers: “Greetings, Trinity friends. It’s demic with the arrival of two granddaugh- in 1908 at Howard University in Washington, been a while since I’ve checked in. I’m still ters! Matt ’04 and Christine’s Eve arrived on D.C. Pink and green forever!” alive and well, still working in the public May 7, and my daughter, Karen Lenahan, Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) television world and still having occasional and Alex Esdaile ’06 (and Matt’s teammate announced that its president, Will Baker, nightmares where I forgot to turn in a paper on the football team) had Asa on December will retire at the end of 2021. at Trinity and thus never actually gradu- 19, making it a beautiful Christmas in spite of ated. My wife, Terry, and I downsized in not seeing either baby for much longer than REUNION • JUNE 2022 October and are now residents of Sherborn, normal. Eve joins 3-year-old sister Charley Trinity Fund Goal: $90,000 Massachusetts. It’s a bit more rural and thus and brother Matty, and Asa joins big sister 1977 Class Secretary: Mary easier to maintain social distance, which, Emi. So, our little world is growing, and Desmond Pinkowish, 15 Lafayette Rd., hopefully, will be of less importance as 2021 number 10 and 11 grandchildren certainly Larchmont, NY 10538-1920; mary. unfolds. Music continues to be a helpful made 2020 more memorable for us than how [email protected] • Class Agent: hobby. Check out sidestreettheband.com unsettling life has been for so many. Frankly, Stephen M. Sunega • /TrinityCollege 77 and ditchthemuumuu.bandcamp.com to having their births as our focal point with the Thanks to all who wrote! So good to hear sample some geezer folk rock and other prospect of getting the whole family together from you. I’m writing this in early February, peculiar delights. We happily spend money sometime later this summer or fall keeps us and of course, we’re all hoping that the we don’t have making music that few will going. We hope this fall brings with it the COVID-19 situation has improved markedly ever hear. Apparently, I should have taken return of normal activities for all families by the time you read this. some business courses back in the day. Stay and for some of us graying Bantams, who Rick Dubiel reports the birth of his third well, everyone.” appreciate the athletic events that allow us grandchild, born to his son Brian, who also To Eric’s point about the Trinity night- to celebrate life with old friends and their is a Trin grad. So, Rick is thinking maybe a mares and forgotten papers—does anyone families as we have for many years.” third-generation Bantam? Hmm … else experience this? About once a year, I Your class secretary—that’s me, Jory A common theme from our correspon- dream that while playing some pinball after Lockwood—is, probably like many of you, dents this winter has been social-distancing lunch at Mather on a Friday, it dawns on me ready for a vaccine and a return to something

SPRING 2021 49 CLASS NOTES closer to normal. I’ll turn 65 in July and virtual event ‘Season of Champions,’ which on the shelf. The music show is called The am just a bit envious of those who already was co-hosted by our own John Flynn and First Note, and the hosts take a lighthearted qualify for the shot(s). I am doing miles and Michael Foye. They were joined by former travel back in time to discover the origins miles of hiking in Connecticut and have coaches Rick Hazelton and Don Miller. It’s of some of your favorite songs. They travel completed the State of Connecticut Sky’s always a pleasure when the Bantams defeat through time in their ‘Laid Back Way Back the Limit Hiking Challenge, the Charles Ives archrival Wesleyan.” Time Machine’ to listen to many great ver- Trail Challenge, and Steep Rock’s 3 Peaks Michael wrote to say they expected to have sions of the song of the week. Every Saturday Challenge. Grinding those miles gets me several classmates join the event. He was night at 11:00 p.m., the show is broadcast outside in some very, very beautiful places right. George Brickley and Bill Hagan tuned on Homegrown Radio at www.homegrown- (there are a lot of those in Connecticut) and in. George said he enjoyed the virtual cele- radionj.com. If that’s past your bedtime, or helps me sleep better at night. I’ll be able to bration of the 1978 Trinity College football if you want to go back to listen to previous look back at the COVID years and say that I team. “It was fun to see so many of our class- shows, you can go to www.thefirstnotes.com explored the beautiful parts of Connecticut. mates remotely. Hopefully, we will all be able and select a song. Songs include ‘House of It’s not the same as a Broadway show in the to gather in person real soon and really enjoy the Rising Sun,’ ‘Black Magic Woman,’ ‘The city, but it will do for now. ourselves. Go Bants!” Thrill is Gone,’ and many more. We invite Two notes from the Alumni Office: But more importantly in the Brickley you to join our next adventure.” Deborah Buck recently continued her com- household (which apparently has more On a point of reflection, you may have mitment to supporting the arts at Trinity Trinity alumni per capita than any other seen in the winter 2021 issue of The Trinity by once again funding the Deborah Buck place in the world), they celebrated a Reporter that we lost Joy Tomlinson in July Post-Baccalaureate Fellows Program for wedding in California, heading there from 2020 and Christine “Nina” Wainwright in June 2021–22. During the winter, Trinity’s Widener Massachusetts. George and wife Cindy 2020. Please take a moment to recall them Gallery hosted an exhibition of the work of Higgins Brickley ’80 were in San Francisco and their time with all of us on campus. the Buck Fellows. The exhibition was high- at the tail end of 2020 to see son George ’10 Two notes from the Alumni Office: Peter lighted online at dsp.domains.trincoll.edu/ get married on New Year’s Eve to Maddy Ziesing recently retired from Chubb Tempest studio-arts-in-three/. Buck, a prolific artist McDonnell. George and Cindy’s daughter Re after a 41-year career in reinsurance. He and philanthropist, continues her ongoing Hannah ’14 and son Charlie also were in the and wife Jo have three grown children, all of generosity to the college with this renewed wedding party. whom were raised in New Canaan. A self-de- commitment. Back to football, Bill Hagan gave us the scribed “card-carrying library member,” Jim Shepard’s story “The World to Come,” basics for the game’s setting: “It was an Peter is a longtime New Canaan resident part of a collection in a book by the same away game; Trinity and Wesleyan were both and active volunteer. During the 1990s, he name, recently was made into a movie. The 6–1, and Wesleyan had painted on their field spent time on the board of the New Canaan film, with stars including Casey Affleck ‘7–1’ on the assumption they were going to YMCA, serving as chair (1999–2001) during (Oscar winner for Manchester by the Sea) and win! An object lesson in the value of humil- its 1999–2003 Capital Campaign. He also has Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), won the 77th ity.” Bill also participated in another Zoom served on the board of the Country Club of Venice International Film Festival’s Queer meeting organized by current football coach New Canaan in various roles. Peter observes, Lion Award for best LGBTQ-themed film. It Jeff Devanney that brought together football “The table has been set for the library’s also was shown at Cinestudio in March. alumni who went on to become lawyers and future by this talented group of profession- current Trinity players who are contemplat- als and volunteers. As a veteran of another Trinity Fund Goal: $175,000 ing going to law school after graduation. major capital campaign here in town and a 1979 Co-Class Secretary: James Here’s Bill’s account: “We shared some volunteer for Staying Put, which partners M.G. Cropsey, 376 Sanborn Rd., Tilton, NH of our stories, and the players asked very with the library to serve our seniors, I am 03276-5729; james.cropsey.1979@trincoll. thoughtful questions. These young men delighted to dedicate my experience to this edu • Co-Class Secretary: Kenneth C. Crowe made me even prouder to be a Trinity alum, historic project.” II, 395 State St., Apt. 4F, Albany, NY 12210- and I didn’t think that was possible.” Tom Knowlton writes: “I’m a Class of ’79 1214; [email protected] • The football team did more than win a Trinity alumnus and have only fond memo- Co-Class Secretary: Diane Molleson, 4375 championship in 1978. It also was a source ries of my time spent in Hartford. Since the Kimberly St., Richland, WA 99352-8477; of income for the minor sports like fencing. early ’90s and after getting an M.P.A. at the [email protected] • Class While the football team was on the field, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, my Agents: Barlow Peelle, Susan Tananbaum other teams were selling programs, refresh- career has been centered around corporate We always get some far-ranging news. Let’s ments, etc. social responsibility, working with Fortune start north of Hartford in Vermont, where There are many different ways to stay con- 500 companies to plan, implement, and Aldrich Wright took time to write as he starts nected to the college. Susan Tananbaum has measure their corporate citizenship initia- on his next adventure. “I’m retired and living taken on one of the more challenging roles tives. In January 2021, I launched my own in Brattleboro, Vermont, after working for by volunteering to serve as a class agent to firm in response to the growing need for 40 years in IT at various banks and other help in fundraising. Susan will help Barlow specialized talent that I saw among compa- financial institutions. I’m working part time Peelle, who became class agent two years nies of every size and industry looking to at a group home for autistic adults and trying ago at Reunion. We’re three years away from respond—quickly—to the unfolding of BLM, to start up my own software company (which our 45th in 2024. COVID-19, extreme weather, and beyond. I realize is a long shot). My third grandchild On an overseas note, Gus Reynolds wrote CSR Talent Group is the first global platform is due to arrive in July. I’m looking forward to from Thailand to say that he’s embarked in of CSR, ESG, and sustainability experts who becoming vaccinated so I can visit them. Our a new direction. “Our hotel, restaurant, and are helping companies with short-term, senior year’s championship football team in wine bar businesses in Thailand have been interim, or long-term corporate citizenship the fall of 1978 is a force of unity. In January, closed since last March, so I started back to needs. We’re the Upwork, Fiverr, etc. for the college celebrated the team with the work on a music project that had been sitting CSR—on-demand talent accessible through

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Trinity Fund Goal: $400,000 1980 Class Secretary: Elizabeth Davison Hyde, 8801 Cheltenham Ave., Wyndmoor, PA 19038-7125; elizabeth. [email protected] • Class Agents: William Bullard, Tom Casey, Scott Lessne, Kate Youngdahl Stauss • / groups/112435390839 NRBQ’s “Ridin’ In My Car” just came on Apple Music as I am writing this. Nothing like a space rocket to Trinity College, and Men’s squash boosters and 1980 classmates Steve Yarnall, Carol Goldberg, Beth Hyde, Steve “Slado” Slade, Rob I am 19 years old all over again! Lisa Parker, Dudley, John Burchenal, and Page Lansdale join Coach Paul Assaiante at the Trinity vs. Princeton match in February whom I follow on Facebook with her won- 2020. The Bantams were victorious that day in Princeton’s Jadwin Gym, with a 5–4 win. Beth said that Slado takes derful photographs and travels, reflected the lead in getting the group together and that his house, just off campus, is their “base camp” for meals and some overnight stays. on her trip to Argentina and Chile in February 2020. She described Patagonia as awe-inspiring and Buenos Aires as having enjoying the rain rather than all the Boston Bronsky ’83 and physiology professor John a heavy European influence with a wonder- snow. Her son had a very small COVID E. Simmons. Life propelled by Sigill Coll Trin ful Latin flair. More recently, she’s been wedding rather than wait another year, Sanc. Fortune’s Wheel.” staying close to home in New England, which she thought was a great thing to do Lisa Hunt is “safe and sound here in spending her retirement working as the even though they could not be there. As of Fairfax, California. Working in the bike grants chair for The Women’s Fund of Essex February, Cynthia was looking forward to industry, I’ve been extremely busy, as it’s County, a fundraising organization that seeing her three sons in person as they were been a booming time for bike sales!” grants money to nonprofits focused on the coming to visit in March now that she and Izzy Lerman has a clinical psychology needs of at-risk women and girls. She said Tom have been vaccinated. practice in Summit, New Jersey, and two it’s challenging and fulfilling, especially in We had hoped to have our 40th Reunion daughters living and working in N.Y.C., one these difficult times. June 10–13, 2021. Please keep in touch, and of whom is getting married in the summer Bill Engel, Nick B. Williams Professor of let me know what you are up to. Beth of 2021. Izzy is in touch with Isabelle English at Sewanee, The University of the Aronsohn, who lives in Boca Raton, and South, has been ensconced on the beau- REUNION • JUNE 2022 Donna Hunnicutt ’82, who lives in Laguna tiful 13,000-acre campus high atop the Trinity Fund Goal: $175,000 Niguel, California. Izzy would happily host Cumberland Plateau since the beginning 1981 Co-Class Secretary: Susan a Jarvis reunion on Zoom. of the outbreak in March 2020. He missed Walsh Ober, 130 Skyline Dr., Millington, NJ Sue Walsh Ober left the COVID-doomed his overseas conferences and deferred 07946; [email protected] • au pair business for the thriving mortgage his fall residential fellowship at Herzog Co-Class Secretary: Tabitha N. Zane, 1620 industry, joining Fairway Independent August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (in Lower Kersley Cir., Lake Mary, FL 32746-1923; Mortgage Corporation in November. Sue will Saxony). But on the upside, he has signed [email protected] • Class be an empty nester come September 2021, contracts on several volumes that will Agents: Rob Aiello, Liz Carrigan Boyle, Jo when her youngest leaves to become a fresh- be completed during his sabbatical. The Lauriello • /groups/391695640890482 man at Union College. Sue plans to look up Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet among Tracy Newman Benham wrote to say that she Barry Bergquist and Jean Hayden when she the Tombs (Palgrave Macmillan); The Death and her husband Bill’s son Jonathan married explores Salt Lake City for her retirement. Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Megan Cadena on December 27, 2020, in a She was especially sad to read of the death Anthology (Cambridge); and The Printer as very small but perfect wedding. Tracy has of Jim Corvino in the winter Reporter. Author in Early Modern English Book History for 21 years been the volunteer coordinator Wendy Melville Mains writes that the (Routledge), which was the subject of a seg- at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo and is happy highlight of 2020 was the birth of their ment on NPR’s The Academic Minute. to give private tours, especially to her Trinity second grandchild, Oliver Kenneth, in David Pfeifferwrote that they are in “lock- friends! Tracy says it combines her great November. Wendy and her family spent a down London,” where they have lived since loves: kids, animals, environmental educa- week at an Airbnb in Hilton Head in June. 2020. They have really enjoyed living there. tion, and community! “We self-quarantined and enjoyed each He’s still working a second career of running From Barry Bergquist: “What’s your other’s company immensely in our paradise a small trading company, currently from Trinity list? Mine—Frank Kirkpatrick, away from home.” Wendy noted that living home. His kids are in their 20s in the United Richard Crawford, Michael R.T. Mahoney, in Louisville, they have been focused on States and went to their house for December John Dando, Jay West, Ward Curran, George increasing their social and racial justice and January. He said thank goodness for Cooper—Trin professors who yanked me awareness. She is looking forward to getting Zoom as it’s allowed them to stay in close ahead into the diverse world, set me afloat vaccinated and being able to travel again, touch and even to reach out to friends he’s armed with a broad set of ideas to deal with hopefully in 2021. lost track of. life; they’re still very much a part of me. The Ed Theurkauf: “All is as well here as can Cynthia Ballantyne is happy in their meaning of Trinity: 42 years later, To Kill A be expected. Got my second hip replacement new retirement routine in North Carolina, Mockingbird, Broadway, selfie with Mark last year, so biking and cross-country skiing

SPRING 2021 51 CLASS NOTES can continue! Dave Conwell moved to Maine, continues to be our virtual meeting place. and current students, faculty, alumni, and joining Rob Pollien and Kristen West Grant I have been enjoying reconnecting with even our community. He outlined some of in the Pine Tree State. I hear from all of them old friends, including a round of special the external challenges facing liberal arts on social media, and when I’m lucky, have 60th birthday Zoom gatherings with Victoria institutions such as ours. Demographically, excellent visits from Dave and Kris. Things Lenkeit Scanlon (a few doors down in the number of potential college-aged young to resume post COVID. Family and work Windsor, Connecticut), Barbara Sherman adults is trending downward, especially are all good, so I count myself among the Levison (now in Florida), Lucida DiMaria in New England—which is a strong draw most fortunate.” DeLorenzo (also in Connecticut), Minnie for us—reducing the pool of applicants. Ginger Brennan lives in Morristown and Mahoney Hickes (in Massachusetts), and That said, Craig, who is serving on the is the mother of three. She has been in the Karen Miller Boudreau (in Seattle). Enrollment Subcommittee, shared encour- financial services industry since graduating Some happy news from classmate aging news about the success that our from Trinity and will be celebrating 40 years Margaret McCandless Evans, who received admissions team has been having attracting with Aetna (now Voya) in June. Several a Christmas Eve proposal and now is high-caliber students. Both he and Steve years ago on a trip to Europe, she sat next engaged to a wonderful man, Westford have spent considerable time meeting with to a gentleman on the airplane who had James Cosgrove Jr. Nuptials are planned faculty, and they were pleased to hear the immigrated to the United States 25 years ago for this December. The two will be moving positive comments from professors regard- from Lithuania and was returning home for to a lovely property in northern Litchfield ing the quality of the students in recent a vacation. It turns out they lived 30 minutes County. Nice to know that 2020 was marked years. Craig shared some interesting admis- from each other in New Jersey and had a by joyful moments. sions stats comparing Trinity today with lot in common. He asked her out, and they In a recent conversation, Ellen Lasch 42 years ago when we started. Class size are getting married on June 12 of this year. shared news of daughter Katie Sadé’s grad- is now around 575, which is up more than Ginger saw Susan Taylor-Leduc while in Paris. uation from Trinity in 2018. “It was special 150 from our arrival in 1978. He also shared Sarah Neilly: “I have been very busy all to refresh some of the lovely memories the success Trinity is having in attracting year working in a telemedicine position that I have from my time there and also a consistent balance of men and women at covering four hospitals’ ICU patients at night watch her fall in love with the college.” She a time when other liberal arts colleges are during the pandemic. It has been grueling has enjoyed hearing from Barb Sherman having some trouble attracting men. And and frustrating to say the least. Very hard to Levison, Gwen Illick Neumann, Annemarie he highlighted all the meaningful ways watch people dying from this disease when Brown Taylor, and Jennifer Prost. She also that the students of today are more diverse, you cannot help them. We all need to be has plans to Zoom with Peggy Kenton, not just ethnically and economically but very aware and careful about coronavirus Michelle Buonocore, and Megan White. On internationally. He credited former Trinity even though we are all tired of it! Masks a professional front, we learned that she Vice President for Enrollment and Student always outside your home. Get vaccinated. is immersed in an exciting new venture— Success Angel Pérez’s work in applying a Meanwhile trying to juggle helping my embracing the challenge of building an more holistic approach to evaluating pro- siblings caring for our aged parents at home. online start-up. Myrosycheeks.com lever- spective students. I really love hearing from my Trinity friends ages the growing field of telemedicine They also lauded the recent uptick in online; it’s such a boost to morale. I can’t to deliver prescription anti-aging skin giving during the pandemic, with strong wait to be able to gather in person. I also care without the need to visit a doctor or support coming from alumni and parents. have three kids, two of whom are in college. pharmacy. As always, Ellen demonstrates a On another note, mention was made of They are seriously getting ripped off if you willingness to roll up her sleeves and get the President Joanne Berger-Sweeney assem- look at their college experience compared to job done. “In my ‘glamorous’ role as CEO, bling a special commission on Trinity’s ours! We were so lucky. I have a lot of great I mostly can be found at home in Pelham, future. Trinity is offering a fascinating array memories from Trinity and hope you all are New York, hunched over my laptop fighting of educational programming through the healthy and doing well. My favorite hobbies with Facebook Ads Manager or down in the Virtual Long Walk (check out the latest at in the pandemic are walking my rescue dog basement boxing up products for runs to bit.ly/VirtualLongWalk). June with my husband and reading historical the UPS store.” We talked about the age-old parental novels. Best wishes to all!” Our class has the distinction of the most concern about job placement after gradua- David Giblin started in a new role as senior classmates currently serving on the Board of tion. With the rising cost of a college degree, strategic adviser at Alivia Analytics, part of Trustees. Steve Elmendorf, Craig Vought, and increasingly we see how prospective stu- the senior management team developing a Rhea Pincus Turteltaub have stepped up and dents are focusing on “outcomes,” the new suite of software to reduce fraud waste and also are serving on a couple of strategically term for postgrad paying jobs. Here, the con- abuse in health care payments. It’s an excit- significant commissions. Several of us had versation focused on value of internships, ing new start-up in the Boston area. the opportunity to get an update from Steve which always has been one of Trinity’s and Craig on a recent Zoom call. Matt Smith strengths, as an avenue for exploring career REUNION • JUNE 2022 and I were joined by Scott Cassie, Carl Rapp, interests early on. Trinity Fund Goal: $175,000 Andy Fox, and Sara Klocke Scarfone. During How encouraging it is to see our alma 1982 Class Secretary: Ellin this conversation, our trustees shared their mater prioritizing embracing experiential Carpenter Smith, 932 Windsor Ave., Windsor, experiences and discussed initiatives and and lifelong learning and professional CT 06095-3422; ellin.smith.1982@trincoll. work of the committees they serve as well as preparation. Bottom line, we are grateful to edu • Class Agents: Patty Hooper Kelley, a look ahead to Trinity’s future. have three dedicated representatives from Tom Mathews, Bill Talbot • /groups/ Steve chairs the Marketing and our class investing their time and talents TrinColl1982 Communications Subcommittee, whose to help our alma mater see a brighter way These past couple of months have given us task it is to help differentiate Trinity and through this most challenging of times. some glimmers of sunshine peeking through its unique value proposition in the minds this long tunnel we find ourselves in. Zoom of all of our stakeholders—prospective

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Trinity Fund Goal: $325,000 to [email protected]. You don’t for in-person learning during a worldwide 1983 Class Secretary: Thomas M. have to wait for my tortured email pleas! health crisis. Innumerable hours of planning McKeown, 2400 Winding Hollow Ln., Plano, Jim Kirby: “Steve Cook, Jim Streeto, Mike paid off in that my school has made it with- TX 73093-4109; thomas.mckeown.1983@ Ziskind, and I have been visiting via Zoom out a single case of COVID on campus since trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Todd Beati, Tim off and on for the last few months. Although welcoming students back in late August! I Dillon Clarke, H. Scott Nesbitt, David Walker • we haven’t solved all of the world’s prob- hope to be able to say the same in June. Hope /groups/295955824253432 lems, we have been discussing many of you and my fellow ’84 classmates are well Dom Rapini writes that his family is healthy them, along with a smattering of ‘dad jokes.’ and surviving with grace and a healthy sense with heads down working or schooling I don’t hear from any other Trinity alumni of humor.” from home via the dreaded Zoom. Dom is except through Christmas cards. I continue in his 24th year at Apple; as a fellow tech- working at Quinnipiac as an associate pro- Trinity Fund Goal: $375,000 nology worker, I can tell you it is quite an fessor of chemistry.” 1985 Class Secretary: Stephen accomplishment to be with one company Michele Rosner Saunders: “What a year J. Norton, 9 Ninth St. SE, Washington, D.C. for that long. He also continues pursuing 2020 was. I remain hopeful that 2021 will 20003-1333; stephen.norton.1985@trincoll. his favorite political issues when not selling bring all of us good health, happiness, edu • Class Agents: Annette Boelhouwer, Macs and iPhones. and success in every way. As for me, I am Bill Detwiler, Chris Doyle, Suzy Rittenberg Al Strickler continues to enjoy the benefits enjoying my work as a mindset coach, busy Dyer, Ann Kezer Lazarus-Barnes, Angelo of being a non-empty nester with his three launching my new coaching program for Lopresti, Steve Norton, John Wilson • adult offspring hunkering down with him women called ‘Reignite Now!’ (www.thrive- /groups/715110825227355 and his wife. Al also passed on the sad news 365coach.com). I coach ambitious women at We all continue to cope as circumstances that we lost another member of the Trinity a crossroads in their life who have lost their allow, taking added measure of how pre- ’83 family with the passing of Jim Frederick. confidence—after raising kids, going through cious family and friends are and hoping His AD brothers put out a nice tribute to him, a divorce, or taking an extended career break that the light at the end of the tunnel is and we all grieve with his wife, Doreen, and that they didn’t choose—to reignite their pur- not an oncoming train or, for that matter, a their four children. pose and passion and create their chapter torch-bearing mob. The University of Virginia Law School is three. It is truly inspiring work. My husband Just in the nick of time, Bonnie Adams the next stop for Jeff Bamonte’s daughter and I are still in New Jersey, and our kids Connors, Louise Williams Senopoulos, Toria Lauren, who will be attending in the fall are out in California: our son, 24, is in law Arvanitis Jenks, and Nany McKeown Aboyan following her graduation from Vanderbilt school, and our daughter, 21, is working in gathered at Bonnie’s condo in Florida in this May. Jeff still runs sales and customer the music industry. I must say the more snow early 2020. “We had way too much fun and engagement at Novocure in Tennessee. we get, the more that West Coast sunshine a lot of laughs. We are all doing well and are Continuing on the education front, my son is calling our name! I wish all of you all the very grateful for our (gulp!) nearly 40-year Brian will be one of 11,000 freshmen to begin best and hope to have an in-person Reunion friendship!” Nancy said. studies at Texas A&M next fall. Not that I not too far in the distant future.” With fingers crossed, Alison Berlinger thought our freshman class of 450 at Trinity Lisa Marinello Jones: “Life with the Holland is looking forward to a 2022 wedding back in 1979 was huge, but the size and pop- pandemic interrupted a Trinity couple for oldest son Blake, who lives in Seattle. ulation of College Station, Texas, continues getting married. Class of 2015 Trinity alums Her other two sons are finishing degrees. to amaze me. Samantha Jones (my daughter) and her She and husband Dave spend most week- Just got a last-minute submission from Jim fiancé, Brendan Oliver, were to be married ends in the Georgia mountains, getting Dooley, whom we’ve not heard from recently. in Boston on August 29, 2020. The ‘save the outside as much as possible. “I feel very He also was close to Jim Frederick and is date’ was then changed to ‘change the date’ lucky to have been able to stay close to my mourning his good friend. But on a lighter for July 31, 2021. We look forward to the family when so many have been separated note, Jim is bucking to be the oldest parent wedding (however it may be) and being with for months,” she wrote. “And honestly, in the car-pool line and recently took his many Trinity alum as we celebrate this very being stuck together, especially in those 9-year-old son to orthodontist Mark Bronsky. special couple.” early months, was really a balm to our too- My math may be a little hazy, but I think Blythe Bachmann Everett: “As you might busy schedules.” Her dad and both sisters Chuck Petridis has a 9-year-old as well, so it imagine, I could fill a book with reflections were part of their COVID bubble, while her might be a tie. Good energy, boys! on the considerable challenges of leading, brother was happily ensconced in London. That’s all we’ve got for this edition. working, and living at a boarding school She sells antique and vintage furniture Hopefully, in a few months, many of us during a pandemic. To summarize, we dis- locally. “It is fun and satisfies my shopping will have gotten the COVID vaccine and missed all students for the March 2020 break penchant while also being good to the envi- can begin traveling again to provide those and abruptly shifted to online learning for ronment, keeping pieces out of landfills,” ripping yarns of great adventure. Until then, the entire spring term. The ‘COVID soup’ of she said. take care, and stay safe. memory of the past 10 months—punctuated Peter Eisler continues to report for Reuters by the occasional vivid image of strange in the D.C. area, focusing more on long-term Trinity Fund Goal: $60,000 milestones like a first-ever virtual graduation investigative pieces. He said he and wife 1984 Class Secretary: Susan weekend—is more generally characterized Mimi (Hall ’86) were readjusting to a quiet M. Greene, 89 Staniford St., Apt. 3, by exhaustive communication with families house after having their two sons home from Auburndale, MA 02466-1128; susan. and employees amid a hazy swirl of endless college over the holidays. Like most of us, [email protected] • Class Agents: hours spent in Zoom meetings and webinars email and the occasional Zoom call have Sal Anzalotti, Erin Poskocil • /groups/ as we, other boarding schools, and the rest been his only contact with Trinity friends. trincoll84 of the education world tried to figure out He added, “We’re all mourning the loss last Just a not-so-subtle reminder: if you enjoy how to teach remotely, subsequently operate year of our dear friend (and my longtime reading Class Notes, please send your news safely, and somehow reconvene students musical partner) Chuck Caspari ’89. He’s at

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REUNION • JUNE 2022 assist Nancy’s parents in getting round one Trinity Fund Goal: $200,000 of the vaccine. 1986 Class Secretary: Jeffrey J. Michael Doyle, John Tucker, and Oliver Carr BECOME A Burton, 57 Chestnut St., Boston, MA 02108- got together in fall 2020 in Chatham for a 3506; [email protected] • successful offshore tuna-fishing excursion. CLASS AGENT. Class Agents: Lori Laub, Molly Schnorr-Dunne, The word on the street is that Erick Kuchar www.trincoll.edu/ Rich Stetson, Philip Wellman recently became a grandfather. Where has AlumniAndFamilies/ From the Alumni Office: William G. Thomas all the time gone? III’s new book, A Question of Freedom: Volunteer/Class-Agents The Families Who Challenged Slavery Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil 1988 Class Secretary: Tara War (Yale University Press), won the 2021 Lichtenfels Gans, 1712 Crestview Dr., Mark Lynton History Prize. The honor is Potomac, MD 20854-2630; tara.gans.1988@ the heart of a lot of our Trinity memories, one of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Dean Andrews, and it’s a reminder to treasure those old Awards, given by Columbia Journalism Dede DePatie Consoli, Tara Lichtenfels Gans, friendships.” School and the Nieman Foundation for Bryant McBride, Arthur F. Muldoon Jr. • Not surprisingly, one of our most musical Journalism at Harvard for the best in /groups/Trinity1988 classmates, Floyd Higgins, said he and wife American nonfiction writing. Thomas is Hello! As I sit at my desk, February snow is Gretchen have been frustrated not being an author, historian, and the John and on the ground, and there’s more to come here able to lead or participate in choral singing Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities in D.C. over the next several days. Thinking but are trying to stay busy with various and professor of history at the University that summertime seems far away. We’ll read home projects. Their son, David, who is of Nebraska. this in June, when the sun and warm air have 22, finished training for a position with arrived. Always welcomed after a long winter! Mercedes that will put him in Hartford for REUNION • JUNE 2022 And a long winter it has been. The college the next two years. Before the pandemic set Trinity Fund Goal: $200,000 continues to keep us engaged through the siege, they and several “musical friends,” 1987 Class Secretary: Michael G. Virtual Long Walk with programmed events including Ted Coxe, Mike Connelly, Diann Donovan, Esq., 94 Bowman St., Westborough, featuring profiles and conversations with Chamberlain Levin and hubby Roger Levin MA 01581-3102; michael.donovan.1987@ fellow alums. In this month of February, ’84, Maria Lavieri ’84 and husband, Ann trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Bob Edmunds, Bryant McBride will discuss his multiple Brown ’83, and a few others enjoyed a John Self, John Tucker, Bryant Zanko • award-winning documentary, Willie, about get-together at Professor Gerry Moshell’s /groups/trin1987 Willie O’Ree, the first African American place in Ledyard, Connecticut. Meanwhile, Lisa Van Riper is moving from Northern player in the National Hockey League. Floyd is building pipe organs full time at Virginia to Illinois in March for her new The documentary is streaming on NBC’s Austin Organs in Hartford. He recently role heading up communications for Knox Peacock and for purchase on Amazon Prime. installed an organ at DeSales University College in Galesburg, Illinois. She looks Check it out! Congrats again, Bryant! Later in Pennsylvania, where Mike Connelly has forward to connecting with Bantams in the in February, Eve Perugini, a psychologist, a child. Greater Chicago area. Lisa’s daughter is 15 will speak during the Women’s Leadership Two years ago, Rabbi Paul Kipnes, who and starting to consider colleges. Future Council: Mom’s Night In virtual program to lives in Southern California, took his syna- Bantam, perhaps? discuss wellness, resilience, and self-care. gogue, Congregation Or Ami, online when William Manger has had a very busy 2020. Timely topics for sure. Speaking about a form the Woolsey Fire forced them from their He is wrapping up his tenure at the U.S. of resilience, three determined guys refused building for a month. Thus, the growing Small Business Administration (SBA), where to let an annual tradition slip: Mark Palladino community was inadvertently well prepared he was head of the Office of Capital Access. wrote to say that “Galdawg (aka Mark Galley), for COVID. Earlier this year, Paul reflected In addition, for the last 10 months of 2020, Bill Carroll, and I continued our 36-year upon it all in an article that went viral from he also was assigned to be chief of staff. He tradition of attending every New York Giants his blog paulkipnes.com: “After 11 deaths was responsible for leading the team on the home game versus the Dallas Cowboys since in 11 days, I had it out with God.” He gets rollout of the Paycheck Protection Program, the fall of freshman year. Since COVID pre- together semi-regularly online with Trinity which helped 5.2 million small businesses vented fans from actually going to the games, roommates Jerome Kapelus ’86, Ben Rhodes hurt by the pandemic access $525 billion. we ‘attended’ the game and tailgated at ’86, and Erik Smith ’86. He reports that starting up a brand-new gov- Galley’s place in Westport. Didn’t skip a beat. As for your class secretary, I relish doing ernment program in such a short time frame Great day and Giants victory.” Well done, errands on Capitol Hill on foot because it is was quite a ride! guys. That’s quite a streak. the only chance to see people I know other Nancy and Lincoln Purdy dealt with One tradition that happens here in D.C. than my wife, Alison, an overworked and COVID by loading up their “kids” in the every four years is the beginning of a new highly principled self-employed lobbyist. family truckster and moving their bubble administration. At the time of this writing, (Not that I can recognize anyone’s half face to an Airbnb in Florida for a few weeks this one of our very own, Sarah Despres, has through my fogged-up lenses.) Like many winter, where they visited with Nancy’s par- been appointed as counselor to secretary of of you finding empty nesting interrupted, ents. They broke up the trip south with a pit Department of Health and Human Services I realized how much I love it when the stop in Naugatuck, Connecticut, where they nominee Xavier Becerra. Congratulations kids are home and how I love it when had a fun, socially distant visit with Kathy on your new position, Sarah! Another of our they’re away. Lawlor Morrissey and her family. The Purdys D.C. area classmates, Jennifer Blum, says report that their Florida stay was a much- she’s been very busy with the company she needed change of scenery from the New launched, Blum Higher Education Advising, England winter, and they were even able to providing higher education consulting

54 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES services to colleges, education technology the globe. Recently, a large research project as well. In normal years, we get together companies, and others. Jen’s “so tired of conducted with Penn State demonstrated in N.Y.C. once a year, and we try to build it the pandemic, but keeping up with Trinity that substantially more people than ever around a Belber show. That’s his incentive friends has been important and helpful before visited outdoor areas last year, a to keep writing and directing plays; other- in keeping spirits up!” Agreed! In fact, Liz trend that is expected to continue. The cen- wise, he’s a slacker. Most importantly, I’m Goodman, Corinne Coppola, Jen, and I try ter’s work with the National Park Service, looking forward to sane and stable leader- to meet outdoors occasionally when the Bureau of Land Management, and the Forest ship in the White House. I’m not a big fan weather allows. Service, as well as corporations such as REI of overturning elections, and living in D.C. Adding to her list of fundraising roles, and Subaru, informs visitors and inspires as I do, I prefer the Capitol to be occupied Diane “Dede” DePatie Consoli recently them to become better stewards of the by elected officials, not rioters. I served in joined the Westerly Hospital (RI) Foundation places we all cherish. More info at LNT.org. the Education Department in the Obama board. Dede will be raising awareness and Sophie Wadsworth also has been in the Administration and will be informally lend- resources for Westerly Hospital, which is nonprofit sector for years but recently ing a hand as the Biden team ramps up.” now part of Yale New Haven Health. Dede changed organizations. She reports, “I Sean Dougherty writes, “We have been also reports that Vic ’87 works from home for just finished a wild first year serving Camp staying with family near Boston since Avenue Capital. Congrats, Dede, we know Starfish in southern New Hampshire (www. the summer, enjoying having a pod with you will bring so much talent to the board. campstarfish.org). We provide summer 10 people in it instead of two for several In this last year during challenging times, camp and year-round respite programs for months before heading back to Las Vegas in I noticed common themes through conver- children who face significant emotional, mid-January. … We’ve had a few phone calls sations and email exchanges with class- social, behavioral, and learning challenges. with Trinity folks, especially Bob Markee, mates when preparing our Class Notes. We A 1:1 staff-to-camper ratio, with all the fun who has successfully kept his mother safe continued to flex and adapt while working of traditional camp and, for some campers, through this ordeal (her shot is scheduled in offices, working from home, and home- their first real friend. After having to close for later this month). I have finished my mis- schooling our kids. We cared for family and down for 2020, we’re counting the days until sion of reading all the books I accumulated friends. In our socially distanced free time, campers arrive in June! Meanwhile, my hus- but not read prior to retirement. I am look- we built backyard ice rinks; binged Netflix; band, Bruce, and I live west of Boston with ing forward to being told that the problem raised much-needed funds to assist our our lively 10-year-old, Hugh.” with our government during the past four college and other organizations; tackled Kate Reavey reports from Washington years is that the executive wasn’t powerful self-reflection; found new hobbies; delivered State’s Peninsula College, where she has or intrusive enough. We hope everyone is meals; and met for coffee, cocktails, and taught English for almost 30 years. She staying safe and very much look forward to conferences over Zoom. We found creative recently hosted author, musician, and reconnecting post-vaccination.” ways to have get-togethers and getaways. U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for a poetry Ridge Cromwell says hello from Fairfield, We assisted our communities in combating reading and conversation with students. Connecticut, where he has lived for the past COVID and addressing significant societal From a news clipping Kate shared about 25 years. “Our family is very grateful that crises. What’s the takeaway? We’re tremen- the event, “Harjo was appointed the 23rd COVID has had very limited impact on our dously engaged—on so many levels. What a United States Poet Laureate and is the life. I am working as CFO for a company in great bunch! While it’s too early in February first Native American to hold this posi- the home medical equipment industry that to know whether we’ll gather in person at tion. She is an internationally known is backed by private equity and working on Homecoming, hopefully we’ll all be able to award-winning poet, writer, performer, and an acquisition roll-up strategy. I am happy see one another again soon. Don’t forget to saxophone player of the Mvskoke (Creek) to network with those in the finance and join and participate on the Trinity College Nation.” What a fascinating person indeed. private equity sectors. My wife, Nina, has Class of 1988 Facebook page. Wishing every- Congratulations, Kate! her own consulting practice focused on one well over the next few months. Keep me Matt Gandal not only wrote but prodded third-party evaluations for nonprofit and posted with news, updates, and photos for others to send updates, too, for which this government clients that receive grant fund- the next edition. Until next time, cheers! secretary is very grateful. He writes, “Glad to ing. My oldest daughter, Maya, graduated have 2020 behind us. Despite the chaos our from Dickinson College in the spring and Trinity Fund Goal: $60,000 country has experienced and the suffering is preparing for a pending career in social 1989 Class Secretary: Andrew P. of so many, I’m doing well. The family is work and getting an M.S.W. Evan is a junior Walker, 242 Kent Place Blvd., Summit, NJ healthy, my education policy consulting at URI, and Keira is a senior in high school 07901-1219; andrew.walker.1989@trincoll. business is thriving, and I’ve been able to wondering what college will look like in edu • Class Agents: Jason Manske, Bill stay in touch with a good number of Trinity the fall. I recently started working with Jeff Monaghan • /groups/trincoll89 friends, nearly all of whom are making it Jacobson as his financial adviser and will Hello, ’89ers! We’ve got more great updates through the COVID gauntlet without major hold him responsible for not retiring sooner this issue, including a few highlighting the setbacks. My wife, Trina Pew Gandal ’88, versus later and my quality of life in the nonprofit efforts of some of our classmates is teaching virtually as her school is still future (haha, Jeff is great).” who have been working in that sector for not in person. Our daughter is a junior in Matt Cost continues to have success as years to make the world a better place. high school, also virtual. One of our sons an author. The first of his three-book Goff Please let me know if you’re doing nonprofit is a junior at the University of Maryland Langdon detective series, Mainely Power, work so we can all know about your organi- (virtual), and the other graduated from UMD was selected as the Maine Humanities zation, too. and is out in the work world. I’ve been able Council Read ME fiction book of the year. Mark Eller reports that his work with the to stay in touch with fellow Class of ’89ers Congratulations, Matt! Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics Jeff Jacobson, Jonah Cohen, Stephen Belber, Please send more news! helps protect resources in parks and natural Rich Maloney, Ridge Cromwell, Steve Brauer, areas across the United States and around and Steve Ryan. Hoping they’ll send updates

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Q+A Allen Katz ’93

Why did you decide on that focus? These are the classic spirits of America’s “I fell in love historic cocktail culture. During the last 45 years, our national gastronomy has with hospitality been an ongoing evolution—from the and made a name opening of Chez Panisse in 1971 promoting the farm-to-table movement to the for myself as rise of wine and then craft beer, the last remaining category was distilled spirits an authority on and cocktails. The great revelation is that cocktails, as much as barbecue drinks and of the South, are authentic American cocktail history.” gastronomy. It is a style and study that has reemerged around the country as —ALLEN KATZ ’93 we reclaim our taste buds and has been exported around the world during the last 20 years. If you look at the cocktails nature of my personal Trinity education and cocktail ephemera of the late 19th ingrained me with a desire to suck as century (up to Prohibition), they tend much detail as possible out of one topic to feature rye whiskey and gin. My aim at a time. These traits serve me every is to put a personal, original touch on day in my business as well as in how my these classic spirits and to make them as wife and I raise our two girls, especially relevant today as they were in the First through current remote schooling. Golden Age of Cocktails. What was the most memorable course DEGREE: B.A. in music What do you enjoy most about your work? you took at Trinity? “The Birth of JOB TITLE: Co-founder and master The distillery is a great creative outlet Modernism,” a class I took as part of distiller, New York Distilling Company for me. I get to make fun products to my my music major, was the epitome of a specifications and share them with the liberal arts education. Its primary focus FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: public through a distinct and historic helped me develop a passion for early Singing with the Trinity Pipes. The Pipes cultural lens—cocktails. 20th-century music. The surrounding in- had just celebrated their 50th anniversary the year before I arrived at Trinity, and, for fluences of history, politics, art, and some, it created a generational connectivity How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected cial science were made relevant to every to the group and the college. To this day, I your business? It is a calamitous moment piece of music we studied and transport- am in touch not only with classmates I had for the entire hospitality industry. Prior ed me to late 19th-century Russia, early the privilege to sing with but also with Pipes from long before and after I to COVID-19, our business was largely 20th-century Paris, Austria, Switzerland, graduated. It was a chance to grow with a predicated on nearly three decades’ and Germany. It was a glorious semester. tight group of friends who all loved music worth of relationships with bars, restau- and respected one another’s talents. rants, and hotels. They are closed, many Was there a professor at Trinity who was permanently. Fortunately, we are in a particularly influential?Gerald Moshell, reasonable position to retool our sales professor of music, was particularly in- How did New York Distilling come about? focus to retail and new direct-to- fluential. A generation later, I remember I always wanted to live in New York and consumer avenues that have been very great details of his classes and Concert moved downtown two weeks after grad- promising. When you make (and age) Choir and the immense and immediate uation. I fell in love with hospitality and whiskey, you are imbued with a strong satisfaction it gave me. made a name for myself as an authority sense of patience. It will, I hope, serve on drinks and cocktail history as the city me well as we overhaul our business What career (or life) advice would you and most of the country entered what’s plans to come out stronger on the other give to current Trinity students? been called the Second Golden Age of side of this challenge. 1) Follow your passions. 2) Make sure Cocktails in the late ’90s. The distillery, you leave room for art, music, and cul- based in Brooklyn, became a natural How did your time at Trinity prepare you tural pursuits. 3) Be confident in asking extension and fueled my interest to start for what you do now? The great range of others for help and advice. 4) Be ready my own business focusing on American classes and experiences created a path to help others whenever you can. rye whiskey and gin. of purposeful difference for me. The

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Trinity Fund Goal: $50,000 Mason University. I offer leadership coaching in California for 25 years and working for all 1990 Class Secretary: Laura Bailey on the side, in addition to my full-time job those years at Oracle. So, I feel a bit old but Brown, 302 Patterson Ct. NW, Leesburg, VA as a university library director. This was an extremely grateful. We have shifted north- 20176; [email protected] • important year to focus on my own well-be- ward and now live in Sonoma, but with all of Class Agents: Mike Cavanaugh, Ron Goodman ing and sharing what I’ve learned about the wildfire close calls, we are wondering if well-being with others. 2020 was definitely a it’s time to seek greener pastures. Everyone REUNION • JUNE 2022 year to build resilience and develop habits of please stay safe and sound!” Trinity Fund Goal: $175,000 self-care for the mind, body, and spirit!” Rob Stempien enjoyed a great round of 1991 Class Secretary: Heather So great to hear from people and keep golf with classmate Prescott Stewart at the Watkins Walsh, 9740 Pleasant Gate Ln., our connections strong! Keep in touch, and Concord Country Club, followed by lunch Potomac, MD 20854-5494; heather. stay safe! I played so much tennis over the with Nat Kessler on the upper deck. [email protected] • Class Agents: summer once the courts opened up that I got This update from Steve Skillman puts a Brooke Rorer Brown, Robin Halpern tennis elbow, so I spent most of the winter huge, warm (but concerned) smile on my Cavanaugh, Brook McWhirter, Jorge in PT, and now I am back playing. It is such face. “The Monahan and Skillman families Rodriguez, Stephanie Vaughn Rosseau, Ann a nice break from working from home and lost a bet this summer, so they had to dress Newman Selvitelli • /groups/49566326408 kids in school at home (eating every meal at up as cowboys and cowgirls and stand in Our 30th Reunion year is here! Not sure home). Hopefully everyone is finding ways front of a green screen that made it look as if what that will look like yet in terms of an to ease the stress! Heather Watkins Walsh, they were in Montana. Despite the humil- official Reunion, but hopefully we can all be [email protected] iation, they managed to have a wonderful together at some point this year to celebrate time together along with their children, who the friendships and bonds we made so long REUNION • JUNE 2022 frequently rolled their eyes at them. The ago! Here’s news from our classmates: Trinity Fund Goal: $165,000 beers were icy cold, and a good time was had Jen Williams-Bulkeley: “We moved back 1992 Class Secretary: Jennifer by all.” to England in August and are enjoying the Murphy Cattier, 1435 Lexington Ave., Giddyup, and roll Bants! English countryside but not our second Apt. 5E, New York, NY 10128-1630; lockdown in six months. We are living [email protected] • Trinity Fund Goal: $175,000 outside of Oxford along the Thames, so our Class Agents: Campbell Barrett, Laura 1994 Class Secretary: Sanjeeva daily walks are at least somewhat idyllic. I Weintraub Beck, Ian Findlay, Ned Rollhaus • “Sanji” Fernando, 183 Atlantic Ave., have launched another business called ALLY /TrinityCollege1992 Cohasset, MA 02025-1434; sanjeeva. Wines, bringing U.S. wines into the U.K. We From the Alumni Office: Hozefa “Havy” [email protected] • Class Agents: spent a few socially distanced moments with Haveliwala (pseudonym Harvey Havel) has Mo McEleney, Suzanne Cahill McNabb, Deb the Cavanaughs (Robin and Mike ’90) before published his 18th book, The Odd and The Watts Povinelli, Martha Smalley Sanford, we left, and when the world rights itself, we Strange, A Collection of Very Short Fiction. Scott Saperston • /groups/Trinity1994 are looking forward to a U.K. rugby tour with It is available online and in bookstores. He Matthew Longcore continues to work at Yale all of them.” remembers the fun times he had at Trinity University as the member services manager Eleanor Traubman: “It’s sunny and cold and sends fond regards to his brothers at Psi for research databases. He also teaches at here in Brooklyn, New York. A few months Upsilon and all the friends and professors he the University of Connecticut as an adjunct ago, I had fun standing on the steps of knew while there. faculty member for anthropology and Brooklyn Borough Hall as part of a group archaeology. Matthew is collaborating with of Brooklynites who received the Brooklyn Trinity Fund Goal: $50,000 fellow alumni to revitalize the Trinity Club COVID Heroes award from Borough President 1993 Class Secretary: James M. of Fairfield County, which he previously led Eric Adams. I received it for writing My Local Hazelton, 215 N. Plymouth Blvd., Los Angeles, as club president. If you live or work in the Heroes, a Facebook project that spotlights CA 90004; [email protected] Fairfield County region and would like to get Brooklynites who are serving their commu- • Class Agents: Ran Barton, Andy Brick, involved, please email Matthew at matthew. nity through activism, the arts, and entre- Greg Creamer, Steve Curley, Betsy Yahn [email protected]. preneurship. Through chatting with other Gillon, Jim Hazelton, Jen McArdle Hoppa, Scott Saperston writes, “As we enter 2021, recipients, I learned that many of them were Elissa Raether Kovas, Britt Stockton Lee, it feels more like 1991 with Dave Hetherington being honored for mobilizing resources Matt Peterson, Rachel Schreier Schewe, and I frequently communicating as the Bills to assist those who are food insecure. The Kiki Rainey Sizelove, Jon Trevisan, Ashley push through the first two playoff rounds pandemic has exposed the massive ineq- Turney, Steve Woodworth, Nick Zaino • and face the Chiefs this weekend for the uities in our society, and I look forward to /groups/522663641408997 AFC Championship game. As expected, my entering a new era where we work together Hi, Bantams! I hope this finds you all well. Psi U friends have used this opportunity to to create a society where every life is treated Scott Toth checks in: “Sending my update dredge up my misery of four straight Super as valuable.” from hotel quarantine in Victoria, British Bowl losses while we called Trinity home. Allison Carey: “I published a new book, Columbia (day 10 of 14). I am up here helping The COVID cloud refuses to dissipate, yet life Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and my eldest son return to boarding school after is still good. My son is thriving as a first-year Parents of Children with Disabilities (Temple the holiday break. Like many of us over the at Boston University, my daughter is starting University Press, 2020), which explores the last year, I turned 50, and so I tend to think to navigate the college waters as a junior role played by parents in achieving disabil- back on my life a bit more, including my in high school here in Buffalo, the wife ity rights. I am a professor of sociology at wonderful years at Trinity. I recently baked a continues to tolerate my lack of maturity, Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.” ‘Black Magic Cake’ using the original recipe and the text banter with Mark Kastrud, Jay Sue Erickson: “I have completed a certif- from Timothy’s Restaurant and remembered Turner, Brian Dufour, Harry Einbender, Todd icate program in leadership coaching for how many of those I served to my fellow Mills, Will Sargisson, John Donohue, Chris organizational well-being through George students and faculty! 2021 marks my living Golini, Gary Rafferty, Sam Kennedy ’95, Brad

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hoping conditions this fall will be favorable to attend. Hope everyone is staying safe.” I share Vinny’s sentiments and hope you’re all staying safe and that we can catch up in person someday soon! Until then, keep sending updates, as we’d love to hear from you!

REUNION • JUNE 2022 Trinity Fund Goal: $100,000 1996 Class Secretary: Elizabeth “Bee” Bornheimer, 1132 Bush St., San Diego, CA 92103-2802; elizabeth. [email protected] • Class Agents: Anne Chick Goodrich, John Dugan, Hank Foryth, P.J. Louis, Page Fairman Rich Hello, Class of 1996! It is always somewhat of a challenge getting updates for the notes, but this round was particularly sparse. Honestly, I can’t blame you. Normally we would be anticipating an in-person Reunion this year and getting excited about seeing old friends. Instead, many of us are logging in to our An old photo found by Mark Kastrud ’94 shows Jen Fox, Michelle Fernando ’94, TJ Libretto, Melissa Bernene Almeida umpteenth Zoom call of the week, worrying ’94, Chris Golini ’94, Larissa Mills ’93, Will Sargisson ’94, Todd Mills ’94, Sanji Fernando ’94, Mark Kastrud ’94, about our kids’ homeschooling, and feeling and Janet York Kastrud ’94 before a ’70s Night at the fabled Sazerac Grove in Kendall Square in the South End of general anxiety about the state of the world. Boston. That said, we do have some incredible creative and professional achievements to Strahorn ’93, and Josh Newsome ’95, among hockey team. Mark shared a photo that was celebrate among our classmates this year. others, ripens with age.” taken years ago in the South End of Boston First, Will McCormack’s animated short Michelle Fernando ran into Tanya Sokol (see above). film exploring the aftermath of a tragedy, Stevens, a fellow resident here in Cohasset, Mark also reports running into Tom If Anything Happens I Love You, is avail- Massachusetts. All of our kids went to Derby Corderman outside a hockey rink on the able on Netflix and is a must watch (albeit Academy in Hingham, and Tanya and Jeff North Shore of Boston. Tom reports he’s had a heart-wrenching one). Will reports that ’92, like many, are trying to figure out how to a renewed passion for fundraising for habitat it is Oscar shortlisted, among the many rebook spring break vacations put on hold conservation for endangered species. Years other accolades it has received so far. from last year. ago, Tom visited Brazil’s coast and saw first- Congratulations, Will, on a remarkable and A few days after Christmas, I had a chance hand how key habitats have been destroyed powerful film. In personal news, Will and to hike the Blue Hills Reservation outside as cities grew. He’s focused his efforts on wife Emily Arlook had a baby boy named of Boston with Graham Schelter. Graham raising awareness and protecting the habitat Sonny Martin McCormack on September 19. is doing well, with his daughters CeCe and of the maned sloth, a three-toed sloth found [Editor’s note: Will’s animated short film Sophie attending Noble and Greenough only in a small strip along the Atlantic Coast won the Oscar! Congrats!] School outside of Boston. We had hoped to of Brazil. Please reach out to Tom if you’d Also, congratulations to Jessie Thiele be joined by Jeff Sanford and Martha Smalley like to learn more and contribute. Tom notes Schroeder, who served as postproduction Sanford, but they took advantage of a recent that other two-toed sloth species are not producer on Pixar’s recent Golden Globe- snowfall to ski in the Berkshires. endangered and not the focus of his conser- nominated release, Soul. She worked closely Carter McNabb and Joe Stein hit Ocean vation efforts. on the music, sound, and finishing of the Beach in San Francisco for some surfing this film. Luckily, she says, they were done with spring. Carter had to borrow Joe’s wetsuit, Trinity Fund Goal: $75,000 90 percent of the film when COVID hit. and some debate how well it fit. Both could 1995 Class Secretary: Susan In the literary sphere, my dear former agree they hope to have Rob Weber out with Gates Massey, 18 Holden Ln., Madison, New roommate Micaela Heekin is the author of a them the next time they hit the waves. Carter Jersey 07940-2614; susan.massey.1995@ gorgeous and inspiring new book, Icons: 50 reports that Suzanne McNabb is more in love trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Amy Kerrigan Heroines Who Shaped Contemporary Culture. with Carter than ever. Suzanne and I also Cole, Colleen Smith Hayes, Mary Beth Parker This is an amazing celebration of women are planning our next trip to the Pilgrimage Jordan, Alex Ladd, Ashley Gilmor Myles, from different disciplines who are shaping Music & Cultural Festival in Franklin, Benagh Richardson Newsome, Lisa Koch Rao, our world and makes a fantastic gift for Tennessee, this fall. Peter Tighe • /groups/trinityclassof95 the girls and women in your lives! (A little Jeff Almeida has been working hard all Greetings, Class of ’95! I had the pleasure confused how I didn’t end up featured as an winter on his mullet; it looks like he can of hearing from Vinny Mase, who shared, “I icon. Micaela, let’s talk.) stand in for Barry Melrose, if needed. recently relocated back to Connecticut with Finally, from our D.C. correspondent, Mark Kastrud and Janet have spent most my family, having the opportunity to join the Jono Lenzner: “Not much to report with the of the winter outside hockey rinks across the thoracic surgery group at Yale. Vincent III, pandemic. I still live in the D.C. area with Greater Boston area with daughter Maija, a 13, Griffin, 11, and Wren, 6, are looking for- my wife and two daughters, Sophia, 11, and sophomore on the Marshfield High varsity ward to their first Bantam football game and Grace, 9, who are navigating the pandemic

58 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES with lots of soccer and playing the guitar. birthday to our annual road trip to the Hi, friends! I’m happy to be able to bring My wife, Matea, is at The Washington Post, Boston area during the holidays. This was you a jam-packed column this issue thanks where she runs the political investigations the first year I didn’t head home (much to my to everyone who sent in news and updates unit and oversaw the paper’s voting coverage wife’s consternation, I still refer to Canton, about their lives, loves, and occupations. A this past year, so my daughters ate a lot of Massachusetts, as home) for New Year’s, and year ago, Nora Matthews was working her their dad’s subpar cooking this past fall. it was hard. If I get a second option, I’ll echo way through Connecticut’s TEAM program (And I occasionally get to see our classmate you on the travel; going from traveling nearly for early-career educators, but she’s happy to Dave Clarke, who is also an editor at The every week in 2019 to screeching to a halt in report that she graduated last summer, “only Post, on my wife’s Zoom meetings). I am 2020 was hard on a lot of levels, including 17 years after I got my teaching certification!” still at the U.S. Department of Justice and trying to stay connected with my colleagues Nora is continuing to teach at the Greater will soon assume the position of acting U.S. (who are scattered across the country) and Hartford Academy of the Arts Middle School attorney for the District of Maryland. Most clients. My company’s CEO said it well: ‘I and fervently hopes that theater eventually importantly, I am pleased to announce that love my house, but not that much.’ Hope you will look like theater again. my godson Wes Tansill is crushing it in and your family are doing well and staying John Miecznikowski also reached an Portland and will soon be able to beat up safe. Still holding many fond memories of important career milestone last year when his dad.” Jones 1 in ’93–’94.” he was promoted to full professor at Fairfield Thanks to all who sent me news, including From the Alumni Office: Rhitu Siddharth University, where he’s been teaching chem- those who submitted under duress. Warmest was named one of 20 Outstanding Women istry since 2007. John’s research program wishes to everyone; stay safe and healthy! by the INDIA New England News. She was centers on synthetic inorganic chemistry, honored during the 18th Annual Woman of organometallic chemistry, bioinorganic REUNION • JUNE 2022 the Year Event, held virtually in March. Now chemistry, and innovative techniques in Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 based in Tripoli, Libya, Rhitu has provided chemistry education, and besides teach- 1997 Class Secretary: Hai-San humanitarian and political leadership as a ing his regular classes, he’s also mentored “Sam” Chang, 15 Daisy Ln., Ellington, CT U.N. official for nearly 18 years. nearly 40 undergraduate and high school 06029-3239; haisan.chang.1997@trincoll. students in laboratory-based research proj- edu • Class Agents: Cathy Sharick Clammer, Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 ects over the years. In 2020, he was named Jim Gilbert, Ashley Hammarth, Melissa Prober, 1998 Class Secretary: Jessica a Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Resource Ben Russo, Sue Church Zibell Lockhart Vincent, 8 Arborlea Ave., Yardley, PA Fellow and is participating in “an innovative From me, Sam Chang: We’re changing things 19067-7406; jessica.vincent.1998@trincoll. study to develop, test, and refine a flexi- up this time. The question is: What are you edu • Class Agents: Levi Litman, Geoffrey ble foundation-level inorganic chemistry excited for in 2021? For me, it’s going to be Zampiello course.” He also partnered with a colleague traveling more. I miss visiting new and old It’s another light news cycle for the Class of from visual and performing arts to design destinations. Cabin fever is for real. Also, 1998. In January, Ally Hurder Levy joked that a fun course called “Understanding Color one of my big goals is beating my sister in her childhood dream came true when she through Chemistry and Painting.” tennis this summer. I’ve been practicing all was mentioned in an article in Teen Vogue. Steve McFarland recently wrapped up five fall and winter. I still need to get better to The article, “Community College Enrollment years in Florida, where he was an assistant beat her, but I’m on my way. All the best to Plunges during COVID-19 Pandemic,” dis- professor of geography at the University you and your family. Stay safe out there! cusses the challenges community colleges of Tampa, was active in the Democratic Jessica Lopes: “What am I excited about face as a result of the pandemic. Ally is Socialists of America, and dabbled in perma- for 2021? Getting over to Florence to celebrate quoted because of her position as co-director culture gardening. Last summer, he packed the rebirth of our life out of the darkness of a of college inquiry programming at College his bags and moved “from the Sunshine pandemic. And where else to do it but in the Access: Research & Action (CARA). State to the Golden State to start a new job city that birthed the Renaissance out of the And that’s all for this edition of the as associate professor of labor studies at Middle Ages? Also, to hike a 4K in Maine.” Reporter. As always, if you have anything Cal State Dominguez Hills in the L.A./Long Courtney Zwirn: “Hi, classmates! In you’d like to share with your classmates, you Beach area.” He’s looking forward to learn- 2021, I’m looking forward to getting vacci- can email me at [email protected]. ing to garden with a whole new set of plants! nated, traveling with my family, hugging Hopefully by fall, life slowly will be getting A.J. (Ann) O’Connell is excited to announce my friends, and starting to plan our 25th back to normal, and I’ll have more to report! the publication of her third book, A Perfect Reunion for 2022!” Until then, take care, and stay safe. Facebook Life, a collection of poems, Stephen Gregg is starting his 17th year micro-fiction, and very short plays that all as executive director of SquashSmarts, Trinity Fund Goal: $45,000 began as Facebook status updates. As some- the Philadelphia-based after-school youth 1999 Class Secretary: Alyssa Daigle one who has been Facebook friends with A.J. education and fitness program that supports Schoenfeld, 28 Woodvue Rd., Windham, NH since the beginning, I personally can attest children and families. He is excited to cel- 03087-2113; alyssa.daigle.1999@trincoll. to her having a dragon’s hoard of hilarious ebrate the program’s 20th anniversary and edu • Class Agents: Allison Lanzetta, Amie material to mine for this book (and probably expand its community services into the new Margolis • /groups/TrinColl1999 a sequel or three), and I can’t wait to read (or $33 million Arlen Specter US Squash Center reread) every chapter! The book is due to be opening this summer/fall. Trinity Fund Goal: $35,000 released April 6, 2021, and it’s already begun Jim Gilbert: “Lots that I’m looking forward 2000 Class Secretary: Virginia W. receiving positive early reviews. A.J. contin- to in 2021 (fingers crossed), but I think the Lacefield, 3504 Tates Creek Rd., Lexington, ues to live in North Granby, Connecticut, with biggest is the chance to see friends and KY 40517-2601; virginia.lacefield.2000@ her husband, son, dog, chickens, and two family. Really took the annual and semi- trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Doug Borgerson, cats, one of which refuses to leave her attic. annual get-togethers for granted, from my Pete Collins, Peter Espy • /Trinity-College- Jackie Santiago lives in Hartford, where brother’s visits in May for my daughter’s Class-of-2000-193274580990 she is the human relations commissioner for

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Q+A Lucie Leblois ’00

What have you enjoyed most about your What is the DC Food Project, and what work in tech? After graduating from is your role in it? More recently and as Trinity, I settled in Washington, D.C. my children have grown, I have found My first job was working at washington- myself going back to some of my roots, post.com, establishing the online pres- peeling layers from an incident I came ence of The Washington Post. These were across at my children’s school: A peer of the good old days, when our job was to theirs was hungry, went home hungry, get readers online and election results and came back to school hungry, and I were still tracked by coloring U.S. maps thought, “Why?” What can be done to with markers (at the end of election help this student, this second-grader? night November 7, 2000, Florida was a What is being done for so many kids in purple-brown mess). Google, Facebook, this city who are deemed “food inse- and mobile were not even on the radar. cure”? It quickly became apparent that These were incredible days to work in the more could be done, and I dove in. With dot-com industry, learning and building two other amazing women by my side, as we went, gauging what worked and mothers like me, I launched DC Food what didn’t, creating a platform that was Project, a nonprofit aimed at reducing completely new and would ultimately food waste in schools while improving DEGREES: B.A. in law and minority movements (self-designed, interdisciplin- reinvent so much of our lives. weekend access to healthy food for ary); M.A. in communication, culture, and I quickly developed a passion around students in D.C. technology, Georgetown University journalism, technology, and how people accessed information. This would lay the What are the biggest challenges the JOB TITLE: Co-founder, DC Food Project; tech entrepreneur foundation of years in the sector where nonprofit faces because of the pandemic?

I eventually launched my own business, When COVID-19 hit, it quickly became FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: Crumbdrop, a technology platform that clear that it was no longer a matter of Well, I met my husband, Ramsey generates instant animated slideshows. scaling our program; it was a matter Baghdadi ’00, so that’s a pretty big start! I co-founded Crumbdrop in 2012 with my of addressing the immediate need I met some of my best friends to this day. That infamous fall of 1996, we all landed husband and our classmate Christian that took place as schools shut down. in Jones. Our freshman year … can I say Allen ’00, my husband’s former room- We launched an Emergency Weekend that freshman year was my favorite mate at Trinity. We brainstormed around Bag Program, and from the few dozen Trinity memory? where the internet was heading—and families we had been feeding, we began where it hadn’t been yet. Twitter and to fill hundreds of bags of food, and Instagram at that point were great ways then thousands. Since March, DC Food how to most safely reopen schools, are to tell stories, but the question remained Project has delivered more than 700,000 perhaps even more concerned about around how to tie those stories together meals to families in need, or to put it in how these families will survive. I always to create a deeper context and what perspective, more than 100,000 pounds say we have the opportunity to help, so would be the business plan behind it. We of food. we should. would spend hours iterating, drawing The harsh reality is that pre-COVID, on my then 2-year-old’s whiteboard, and Washington, D.C., had one of the What were your most memorable eventually built and launched an app highest rates of food insecurity, with academic experiences at Trinity? In look- in the App Store—no easy feat—while one in five children deemed as food ing back at my time at Trinity and having learning how to raise money. Those years insecure (it’s one in six nationally). It is had the opportunity to create my own could have served as my own master’s, estimated that food insecurity rates in major, I realize now that so many of the navigating the investor and tech worlds D.C. almost doubled between February courses I chose as an 18-year-old have as a woman, learning, and, as any entre- and May 2020, making this city one of come to be some of the greatest founda- preneur would appreciate, pivoting a lot the most impacted across the country. tions toward the work I am doing today. along the way. Crumbdrop landed in the Our greatest worry is seeing the demand Trinity also took me to South Africa, online travel sector, in a partnership with growing and the funding dwindling— as one of the first groups (all three of Bébé Voyage, a website and community there is no cavalry on the way. Federal us!) to attend University of Cape Town. for traveling parents where we built and local agencies are beginning to I volunteered in a township during my virtual slideshows, or “trails,” offering a shut down their operations, leaning on time there, mentoring children, in the fresh local perspective on a city. nonprofits such as ours. School admin- end learning more from them than they istrators, while attempting to focus on probably did from me.

60 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES the City of Hartford and CEO of COMPASS he taught for more than 14 years. He also was Youth Collaborative Inc., a nonprofit that a dear friend to many in our class, including focuses on helping high-risk youth succeed yours truly, and he will be deeply missed. in education, employment, and life. Jackie That’s it for this issue! Send me your news JOIN THE BANTAM was promoted to CEO in 2019 after having and updates at [email protected], worked for COMPASS in various other roles or message me on Facebook, Twitter, or BUSINESS since 2004. She writes, “I became a CEO Instagram. If you have ideas for online despite the fact I never dreamed I could ever Reunion activities, please share them with DIRECTORY. become one. After all, I could not aspire to be Johanna or any other member of the Reunion www.trincoll.edu/ something I had never seen. I had never met Committee: Class President Pete Collins, a poor, brown girl who became a CEO. I was Doug Borgerson, Peter Espy, Sara Merin, John AlumniAndFamilies/ lucky; I received the opportunity to attend Miecznikowski, or Jackie Santiago. Until we Connect/Business a private school that provided me with an meet again, stay warm, stay safe, and keep education that I would never have received in on keeping on! my neighborhood school. Now, I feel a deep sense of responsibility to provide opportu- REUNION • JUNE 2022 and the ease of life, despite COVID, and nities, hope, and direction to youth growing Trinity Fund Goal: $75,000 looking forward to a vaccine and being able up in poverty. My experience taught me that 2001 Class Secretary: Susanna Kise, to host people in the summer. There really is any youth can flourish if given exposure to 1301 Richmond Ave., Apt. 370, Houston, TX nothing like Maine in the summer (though as new experiences, positive relationships, and 77006-5494; susanna.kise.2001@trincoll. I write, fluffy snow is falling, but I still prefer the right opportunities at the right time. My edu • Class Agents: Jay Civetti, Lizzy Easter, summer). I was really hoping we’d have deepest desire is that youth see me and begin Ann Grasing, David Kieve, Matthew Schiller • our Reunion this year, but it looks like we’ll to dream about how they, too, can create /groups/TrinityCollegeClassof2001 have to think of a way to crash next year’s positive change in the world.” Friends, Bantams, Class of ’01, as you use Reunion instead. Hoping everyone is staying Another Trinity CEO, Alexander Drexler, your sanitizer-covered hands to turn the safe and healthy, and hope to see my Trinity has spent the last two years relaunching Alex pages of this issue, we already will have met friends soon.” Mill, the “timeless, not trendy” independent for our Reunion. Whether it will have been clothing company he founded in 2012. In in person or virtually remains unknown as REUNION • JUNE 2022 2019, he joined forces with former J. Crew/ of this writing. If it is virtually, then hope- Trinity Fund Goal: $35,000 Madewell designer Somsack Sikhounmuong fully we shall be able to gather in person the 2002 Co-Class Secretary: Michelle and expanded Alex Mill’s catalog to include following year. Fingers crossed! Rosado Barzallo, 40 Craig Ln., Trumbull, CT women’s items. More recently, the two part- Your secretary drove back to Houston in 06611-4406; michelle.rosado.2002@trincoll. nered with Jimmy Fallon on a limited-edition October from L.A., where I’d been working edu • Co-Class Secretary: Adrian Fadrhonc, line of COVID-inspired work-from-home remotely for a few months. On the circuitous 193 Buena Vista Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941- “P’Jimmies” pajamas with pockets, with 100 drive back, I got to visit with Carla Boecklin 1233; [email protected] • percent of net proceeds going to the hun- and her husband in Park City. It was great fun Class Agents: Shakira Ramos Crespo, Nicole ger-relief charity Feeding America. catching up and getting a tour of the area. Belanger LaBrie, Ellen Zarchin In family news, John Brigham announced I am crossing my fingers that I will be able that he recently has gotten engaged and is to road trip it to Maine this summer to see Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 planning a September wedding. I expect to family. Until then, it’s tax season. 2003 Class Secretary: Alexander L. have some pictures of the celebration for you In 2020, Matt Schiller launched his new law Bratt, 111 Westerly Terr., Hartford, CT 06105- in a future issue! Congratulations also are firm, Murphy Schiller & Wilkes LLP (MSW), a 1118; [email protected] • in order for Johanna Tighe Traven, who has full-service commercial real estate firm that Class Agents: Descatur Potier, Suzanne H. a new member of her family to introduce: consists of 14 attorneys, where he leads the Schwartz • /groups/trinitycollege2003 “Peter, Margot (age 3), and I welcomed a firm’s commercial leasing, distressed assets, baby girl, Eloise Charles, on June 13 (2020). and opportunity zone practice groups. Matt Trinity Fund Goal: $25,000 After five years in Eastern Europe, we live is a fellow with the American College of Real 2004 Class Secretary: Jake in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am on the Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and is the vice chair Schneider, 59 Wallis Rd., Chestnut Hill, Reunion Committee and cannot wait to see of the Real Property Trust and Estate Law MA 02467-3174; jacob.schneider.2004@ everyone next June at our 20th Reunion.” Section of the New Jersey Bar Association. trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Matt Glasz, Speaking of Reunion, I’m truly sorry that Matt and wife Laura live in Manalapan, New Mimi MacKinnon, Jake Schneider • we won’t get to see one another in person this Jersey, with their three kids, Brody, 8, Chloe, /groups/485669531523501 summer, but I do hope to see many of you 7, and Sydney, 7, and dog Winfield. The Class of 2004 is surviving and thriving virtually instead, including those of you who Michelle Theodat Waring has news to during the pandemic. We are keeping in wouldn’t have been able to travel to Hartford report! “After 18 wonderful years in N.Y.C., touch with drinks over Zoom, co-op video but who can join the festivities remotely. So we moved to Portland, Maine. I still work games, and sharing bread-baking recipes, all fire up your webcam, throw on a fun filter remotely for NRDC (Natural Resources while trying to ignore that our 20th Reunion or background, and let’s make this our most Defense Council) in New York and actually is only three years away. inclusive Reunion yet! got it approved before the pandemic (I guess Anthony Ribadeneira left WeWork and took In closing, I’d like to take a moment to I was psychic). We really wanted to be closer a role as head of procurement at 1010data in remember Patrick Nolen, who passed away to my family in Boston and have space for our N.Y.C. He also is working on a contemporary unexpectedly in October 2020. Patrick was a two girls (5 and 2) and our dog. We moved political thriller novel. much-loved and highly respected professor of into our house at the end of April and pretty Laura Anderson McGrath and husband economics at the University of Essex, where much haven’t left since then. Loving Portland Mike McGrath reached the next level of

SPRING 2021 61 CLASS NOTES adulthood in 2020, purchasing their first are navigating the dating world at this point home in West Hartford, Connecticut, much in time—as they say here in the South, bless to the delight (or trepidation) of neighbor your hearts. Some of you may have battled David Elwell. They also joyfully welcomed COVID yourselves or watched loved ones their second child, Lucille Hart, on January struggle with this terrible virus. Some of you 17, 2021. Brother Matthew, 5, is guarding his may have lost friends and family members. Legos. The McGraths are contractually obli- “Do you remember, Class of 2005, that gated to once again acknowledge that none day just weeks into our freshman year, when of this would be possible if not for Matthew we turned on our TVs to watch the events of Gallagher. September 11, 2001, unfold? Do you remember how we cried together, gathered in dorm Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 rooms and on the quad, and checked on one 2005 Class Secretary: Diana another, even though many of us were still Dreyfus Leighton, Pennington, NJ; diana. strangers? There was something so tragically [email protected] • Class Agents: beautiful about the way the events of that day Eileen Flynn, Devin Malay, Andrea Leverant brought us closer. Minor, Liz Hanusovsky Patterson • /groups/ “Now, we are scattered, isolated. We trinitycollegeclassof2005 cannot gather to grieve the ways in which our Since news from you was quiet over the past lives have changed. We have hope that things few months, I asked my friend, former room- will soon get better, but this has gone on so mate, and English major Jenny Dunn Pray to much longer than we expected that we just write a piece about life during the pandemic. don’t know anymore. When will we reclaim Enjoy! our lives? “Hey, Class of 2005, it’s Jenny Dunn Pray. “I want to bring you back to a moment Our class secretary, Diana Dreyfus Leighton, when I was a senior at Trinity, a student in asked me to use a little of our notes space to late professor Hugh Ogden’s poetry work- reflect on the impact of the past year. shop. A friend of mine had died recently, Gray MacDonald Huffard ’08 and husband Tate take to the beach with new addition Boone and big brother Wick. “Writing this, I remember fondly my days and I was traumatized and barely holding of writing Tripod feature articles, and I can’t on. When I tried to write about it, I couldn’t help but feel nostalgic. I think about the size handle the gentle criticism I was given. I of the desktop computer I was typing on—a left class with tears in my eyes, and Hugh REUNION • JUNE 2022 monitor I couldn’t even wrap my arms around followed me out, already taking a cigarette Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 and a whole separate hard-drive tower! I out of his breast pocket. “Jen,” he said to me, 2007 Class Secretary: Devon think about the broken thermostat in my and I’ll never forget it. “I’m holding you in Lawrence, 343 E. 30th St., Apt. 1P, New York, Anadama double, and the roll-down blinds the light.” It was his Quaker way of saying, NY 10016-6411; devon.lawrence.2007@ I’d pulled too far that would never snap back “I’m praying for you,” but to me it felt like I trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Joey Butler, Jenny up. The room was constantly dark and hot, a was being offered up to the sunlight, where I Carson, Logan Gould, Devon Lawrence, Nile kind of hellish environment all around, but could finally be warm and whole. It’s one of Lundgren, Dave Mason, Jed Rednor, Molly instead of following through with Buildings my dearest memories of Trinity. Carty Sparrow, Corbin Woodhull, Jenn Wrobel and Grounds, my roommate and I wore “And so, my classmates, though it’s been • /groups/TrinityClassof2007 shorts and tank tops and sweated it out. years since I’ve seen you and though I never “What did I have to worry about back knew some of you at all, I propose that, in Trinity Fund Goal: $7,000 then? If a broken thermostat was my biggest the absence of other alternatives, we hold 2008 Class Secretary: Elizabeth problem, what was there to complain about? one another in the light. When the world is Fritzer Dreier, 32 Elaine Dr., Simsbury, CT My life, at the time, was centered around as dark as it is right now, we could all use 06070-1625; elizabeth.fritzer.2008@trincoll. reading, writing, and having fun with my the support of someone wishing us well. edu • Class Agents: Nadia Zahran Anderson, friends. Did I have any idea how free I was? Wishing you all hope, happiness, and heal- Sasha C. Kravetz “Class of 2005, 16 years after our gradua- ing. Jenny” Josh Schwerin recently launched a com- tion, we find that the freedom of movement, munications consulting firm, Saratoga the spontaneity that we took for granted back REUNION • JUNE 2022 Strategies, specializing in crisis management then, has been taken from us. A year into Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 communication, message development, this pandemic, life is hard. If we’re feeling 2006 Class Secretary: Timothy and political strategy. nostalgic, who can blame us? Y. Fox, 2012 Kalorama Rd. NW, Unit 6, Marissa Zanno has been hard at work “Many of us have found ourselves working Washington, D.C. 20009-1458; timothy. as a hematology social worker caring for remotely, often with spouses and children [email protected] • Class Agents: Tory kids at Children’s National Hospital in occupying the same space in which we Hamilton McCarthy, Kim Galloway McHale, Washington, D.C. We would like to recognize are supposed to be productive. Many of Virginia Adair McCarthy, Nicole Tsesmelis her efforts in a health care setting, especially us—moms especially—have tried to face From the Alumni Office: Attorney Evan J. amid the pandemic! the closure of schools and childcare with Seeman was elected a 2021 Fellow of the Regarding personal updates, congrat- outward grace while on the inside wondering Connecticut Bar Foundation (CBF) James ulations are in order for several alumni desperately how we will ever get anything W. Cooper Fellows Program. who recently welcomed new additions to done again. Many of us have felt our mental their families. Andrew Maia and wife Steph and emotional health strained, as our usual welcomed son Owen into the world on July outlets have been closed off. Those of us who 10, 2020. Gray Huffard and husband Tate

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John Unghire ’09 and Lila Navarrete embrace on Trinity’s Jon ’09 and Madelyn Korengold Terbell ’09 pose with daughter Evelyn Louise “Weezy” Terbell, born on September 18, Long Walk after he proposed on New Year’s Eve 2020. 2020. welcomed their second son, Boone (joining already is shaping up as a solid candidate Kristen Liska, M.D., has fortunately big brother Wick), on September 30, 2020. for the Class of 2042! They live in Boston; received the COVID-19 vaccine, but that was Finally, Megan Borgelt Hill and husband Madelyn is an interior designer at Gauthier after a year of working in the emergency Chris are celebrating the birth of their second Stacy, and Jon recently spun out of his role at room at Cape Cod Hospital and treating daughter, Annie, born on January 21, 2021. the Babson College Endowment to co-found COVID patients throughout the pandemic. FourBridge Partners. Maggie Thomas recently started her new Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 Ashley Swiggett Sternal and Code Sternal position as chief of staff, White House Office 2009 Class Secretary: Caitlin M. ’08 now have not one but two boys— of Domestic Climate Policy. Brisson, 224 W. 16th St., Apt. 3, New York, NY Hamilton Chester Sternal, born May 14, 2019, Ben Gascoigne is involved with a start-up, 10011-6190; caitlin.brisson.2009@trincoll. and Boden Hunter Sternal, born January 15, Safety Skin, which was accepted recently edu • Class Agents: Alison M. Holmes, Piper 2021. They go by Ham and Bode. into the Comcast NBC Universal SportsTech Klemm, Christian Montoya, Kumud Nepal, John Unghire proposed to girlfriend Lila accelerator program. Alexandra Klestadt Patack, Terrance W. Navarrete on the Trinity campus this past Congratulations to everyone, and please Sullivan, Alexandra Purdie Wueger New Year’s, and she said yes! They plan to keep in touch! Jonathan Asen recently joined Bernstein marry in California this summer and will live Shur, a law firm in Maine, and specializes in Connecticut. REUNION • JUNE 2022 in government relations. Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 Perrin and Chauncey Kerr Hamilton are Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 2011 Class Secretary: Remi Dolan, still in San Francisco. They welcomed 2010 Class Secretary: Rebecca M. 3 Tamarac Ln., Englewood, CO 80113-4920; their second child, Perrin Coe Hamilton, in Herrigel, 29 Sawyer St. #2, Portland, ME [email protected] • Class Agents: September, and their daughter, Reese, just 04103-3408; rebecca.herrigel.2010@trincoll. Rachel L. Meddar, Abigail A. Smitka turned 3. Chauncey is a partner at a new edu • Class Agents: Nathaniel J. Kelly, Ryan Some new adventures and new additions to venture fund called XYZ, and Perrin’s lead- Flynn • /groups/777318939001542 celebrate this season for the Class of 2011. ing a strategy and planning team at Uber. Impatiently waiting for the vaccine up here Join me in congratulating two new Chauncey’s sister Samantha ’12 lives nearby in chilly New England, but I’m very happy to Bantam parents. Emily Harmon and husband and works at executive recruiting firm Rich report on the exciting updates and news of Sam Grossman ’12 welcomed their first child, Talent Group. our classmates! Charlotte Penn, on October 30. Carver Diserens is very pleased to report Becky Loeb got engaged on New Year’s This past summer, Andy Janiga got out of that he’s got a short film called The Little Eve, and they are planning to get married the Army, and he and wife Jo-Ann Jee ’10 Prince(ss) coming to Disney+ later this year, in April (fingers crossed that they will be moved to New Hampshire. Jo-Ann has been under the Disney Launchpad program. able to celebrate in person with their family teaching chemistry at Trinity for the past few Madelyn Korengold Terbell and Jon Terbell and friends!). semesters, and Andy recently joined a dental welcomed daughter Evelyn Louise “Weezy” Matt Sullivan and wife Cecilia welcomed practice in Nashua, New Hampshire. Terbell to the world on September 18, 2020. Milo Joseph Sullivan on February 12 (coming Please continue to share your stories and No pressure on her or admissions, but she in at 7 pounds, 19.5 inches). moments with us in The Trinity Reporter.

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Q+A Bryce Blum ’10

What do you do in your roles at ESG Law lucky in that the majority of our events and Theorycraft? I’m an esports attorney easily could move online. While most and consultant. On the legal side, my other forms of entertainment took work is a mix between sports/entertain- extended breaks or outright canceled, ment and general business law. We han- our show was able to go on. Combine dle general corporate, employment, and that with the fact that people were stuck other typical business matters, but we’re at home with limited entertainment also drafting player contracts, trades, options, and it created a perfect storm and sponsorships and negotiating the to expose new audiences to esports and formation documents for the inaugural gaming content; many games saw explo- franchised esports leagues. sive viewership growth as a result. On the consulting side, my clients are typically mainstream sports, media, What do you enjoy most about your work? and entertainment companies that are The esports industry is still incredibly looking to translate whatever they do young, but it’s growing so fast that we’re to the esports and gaming space. I’ve being forced to build the airplane while advised major brands, sports teams and it’s in the air. That means we get to in- their ownership groups, investors, me- novate, test, learn, and push the bounds DEGREES: B.A. in public policy and dia companies, and other businesses on on what the competitive landscape for a law and political science; J.D., George how to successfully enter and navigate sport looks like. It’s an incredibly chal- Washington University

the esports ecosystem. lenging and fun puzzle to wake up every JOB TITLE: Founding partner, ESG Law; day and try to help solve. co-founder, Theorycraft What do you think is behind the popularity of esports? People like watching What are the biggest challenges you face? FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: other people play video games for the The esports industry is a little overhyped My senior week. My friend group realized that we’d never really get the chance to same reason people like watching other at the moment. People see images of all be together like that again, so we people play sports: it’s aspirational, sold-out stadiums but don’t realize that made bucket lists and sucked every hour entertaining escapism. Juxtapose that we’re not selling out big venues for of fun out of each day. against the incredible growth of the regular-season matches just yet. They gaming industry, which is already gener- see the staggering viewership numbers, ating more than $150 billion worldwide, but they don’t parse through the data ities evolving week over week. His style and it’s not hard to see why esports are to realize that large percentages of that sparked so many good debates that the becoming more and more popular. With viewership tend to be in Asia. These class didn’t even feel like a class. that said, we’re still in the bottom half expectations have caused some people of the first inning in terms of our growth to get burned, whether it’s a brand that Was there a professor at Trinity who was and development. The most popular doesn’t see the ROI it expected from particularly influential?Professor Renny esport—League of Legends—is already its sponsorship or an investor who is Fulco, hands down. I took basically generating global viewership akin to surprised revenues aren’t growing as every Fulco class I could in my time at major traditional sports in the United quickly as she thought it would. Don’t Trinity and learned more from her than States; fast forward 30 years, when the get me wrong, I’m still a huge believer I could possibly recount. But her biggest majority of the global population will in the esports industry long-term—I impact on my life wasn’t in the class- have grown up in a world where video bet my career on it. But we’re shooting room; she spent so much additional time games are ubiquitous, and the most ourselves in the foot at times, and that’s guiding me in thinking through graduate popular sports in the world are going to making it harder to build the industry in school and my future career path. When be soccer and a video game (that likely a manner that is sustainable. I was leaning toward taking on massive hasn’t been created yet). amounts of debt to attend a top 5 law What was the most memorable course school, she encouraged me to consider How has the pandemic affected esports? you took at Trinity? “Bill of Rights” with the flexibility that would come from Like any entertainment-based business, Professor Ned Cabot. He taught us how taking a scholarship and graduating the esports industry took an immediate to think at a level far beyond anything functionally debt free. Without that guid- hit and had to adjust a wide array of I’d ever experienced by challenging ance, I never would’ve been able to take plans surrounding major live events every position, every assumption; you the risk I did to pursue my career in the throughout 2020. With that said, we’re could actually feel the students’ capabil- esports industry. I am eternally grateful.

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REUNION • JUNE 2022 Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 2012 Class Secretary: Mary Kate Morr, 4121 Knox Ct., Denver, CO 80211-1653; [email protected] • Class Agents: James J. Armillay Jr., Esq., Charles McConnell, Mary Kate Morr, Nicole Lustig Pasternak, Alberto Roldan, Lily Pepper Sommer, Kathryn T. Van Sickle, William A. Yale • /groups/ trincoll2012 Meredith Veach has been working in Los Angeles as a film producer and editor. She is proud to announce that her film, Threebound, is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video and to rent or buy on YouTube. Here’s the synopsis: “Newly single New Yorkers Sarah and Matt aren’t looking for love, but they may have found it, ready or not. To avoid the ever-clichéd rebound relationship, they devise a plan: sleep with three other people first, then give their relationship a shot. How many wrongs make everything right?” Make sure to leave a review on Amazon, IMDB, or Facebook; reviews help make it more likely that Meredith’s movie will stay on the streaming platforms. Rebecca S. Weintraub and husband Evan Preminger welcomed a son, Benjamin Henry Steiner Preminger, at the end of September.

Trinity Fund Goal: $35,000 2013 Class Secretary: Andrew C. Weiss, [email protected] • Class Agents: Lauren M. Aber, Perin B. Adams, Caroline E. Brewster, Kevin C. Clark, Malcolm X. Evans, Emily H. Gianis, David D. Hill, Jesse L. Hunt, Megan A. Ingersoll, Matthew H. George Brickley ’10 and Maddy McDonnell were married on New Year’s Eve 2020 in San Francisco. Joining the bride Mainuli, Ryan McGuirl, Christopher D. Novick, and groom were Hannah Brickley ’14, Cindy Higgins Brickley ’80, George Brickley ’79, and Charlie Brickley. Alexander C. Raffol, James C. Thaler, Dobromir G. Trifonov

Trinity Fund Goal: $7,500 2014 Class Secretary: Chloe M. Miller, 1014 H St., Anchorage, AK 99501- 3431; [email protected] • Class Agents: Brendan P. Bader, Carl M. Barreto, William A. Gray, Madeleine V. Hansen, Alexander S. Harvey, Sophie M. Katzman, Juan Diego Lopez Rodriguez, Ann W. Murdock, Nathaniel R. Nurmi, Benjamin B. Plumer, Maxwell L. Schaefer, Victoria C. Trentacoste, Katherine C. Weatherly-White William Morrison and Renée Swetz were married in October 2020 at the Asticou Inn on Mount Desert Island in Northeast Harbor, Maine, with a number of Trinity grads in attendance. Julia McGhee ’13 was a brides- maid, Connor Proctor was best man, and Nate Maynard was a groomsman. Annabelle Butash reports her engagement to Ben Greenberg (Reed College, 2009). The Jeremy ’14 and Emily Kleidon Rees ’14 enjoy the two were engaged in San Francisco, where Annabelle Butash ’14 and fiancé Ben Greenberg holidays with baby boy Declan Ira Rees, born on they live, in early January. celebrate their engagement. October 2, 2020.

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William Morrison ’14 and Renée Swetz ’14 were married in October 2020 at the Asticou Inn on Mount Desert Island in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Bantams joining the couple included Melissa Anderson ’14, Mollie Scheerer ’14, Connor Proctor ’14, Paul Swetz ’19, Alec Buffamonte ’17, Benjamin Plumer ’14, Frannie Bower ’13, Maggie Doyle ’14, Julia McGhee ’13, Nate Maynard ’14, and Alex Nakhla ’14.

Jeremy and Emily Kleidon Rees welcomed November 2021), all directed by and starring political skills needed to navigate every- a baby boy, Declan Ira Rees, on October 2, Erik. Erik is the youngest-ever recipient day life. The program was launched 2020. of the Trinity Club of Hartford’s Person of in Queensbridge Houses in New York City. Emily Johnson finished her first semester the Year Award and the Paul E. Raether ’68 Catherine Read: “I graduated from of business school at MIT, where she worked Alumni Achievement Award. Cardozo School of Law in June 2020, passed closely with Graham Skinner ’12. Emily is the New York bar exam, and started work enjoying being back in Boston and recon- Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 as an assistant district attorney for the necting with Trinity friends in the area, 2015 Class Secretary: Shaina N. Lo, Bronx County District Attorney’s Office, including Brendan Kelley and Brittany Viola. 10 Parkway Rd., Apt. 6, Brookline, MA 02445- Appeals Bureau.” She enjoyed surprise birthday celebrations 5405; [email protected] • Class with Chloe Miller and Joanna Wycech Knight Agents: Fiona Brennan, Margaret D. Ciocca, REUNION • JUNE 2022 this past fall. Cole A. D’Angelo, Taniqua K. Huguley, Zoe J. Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 Two notes from the Alumni Office: Ali Huschle, Julia G. Kelling, J. Wilson Laprade, 2016 Class Secretary: Ashira E. Caless was promoted from associate to coun- Stephan “Mac” Morse, Peter J. Ragosta Jr., Anderson, 1079 Firetower Rd., Colora, MD sel, effective January 1, 2021, at top-ranked Sam J. Ruddock III, Stephen P. Sample, Marie 21917-1502; ashira.anderson.2016@ IP law firm Cantor Colburn. She is an attor- Christner Stansfield, Sarah S. Wolcott, Robert trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Hollis U. Alpert • ney in the firm’s Trademark and Copyright D. Zindman /groups/Trinity2016 Department. Adolfo Abreu is a current candidate for the Kelly Vaughan ’17 and Evan Turiano are Ten Minutes to Midnight, directed, pro- New York City Council race in District 14, the thrilled to announce that they got engaged duced, and co-written by Erik Bloomquist, Bronx community. His platform covers just in November in Central Park, five years after hit theaters across the country in September and quality education, community health meeting in Professor Gac’s Civil War seminar. 2020 and VOD/digital on January 19. Starring and wellness, equitable economic develop- The two are planning to marry at the Chapel legendary scream queen Caroline Williams ment, safe communities, and more. in summer 2022! (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) and Taniqua Huguley recently won the U.S. Batwoman’s Nicole Kang, critics call TMTM State Department’s 2020 Citizen Diplomacy REUNION • JUNE 2022 “destination viewing” (Daily Grindhouse), Action Fund Rapid Response grant. This Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 “a nightmarish descent through memory, grant allowed her to launch Black Girls 2017 Class Secretary: Daniel anxiety, and futility” (JaredMobarak.com), Achieve, an empowerment program A. Garcia, 2967 N. 79th St., Milwaukee, and “as trippy as anything out of the mind of designed for Black girls. The program was WI 53222; daniel.garcia.2017@trincoll. Terry Gilliam or David Lynch” (HorrorBuzz). founded to assist girls with the tools and edu • Class Agents: Jake Bennett, Nicholas Other upcoming features include the roman- skills needed to thrive during the COVID-19 DiBenedetto, Alec Buffamonte, Katelyn tic dramedy Weekenders (theaters February pandemic and beyond; its core themes are Elinoff, Daniel A. Garcia, Andrew Hatch, Kelvin 12 and VOD/digital May 18), the horror film education, advocacy, health and wellness, Kaari, Clio Kammerer, Clare Knowlton, Kaitlin Night at the Eagle Inn (slated to premiere career readiness, and women’s empower- Lewis, Julianna Maisano, Ryan Miller, Andrea late summer), and the coming-of-age holiday ment. Black Girls Achieve aims to provide Nicholson, Kiley Nygren, Sean Orlando • film Christmas on the Carousel (releasing participants with the social, emotional, and /groups/Trinity2017

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I’m also preparing for the only share health information about Michael Zarra Connecticut bar exam.” yourself if you’re OK with it being Although the world has changed since we Daisuke Katsumata IDP’18: “I was published. have flown the coop, our class has gone accepted into the Cognition and Cognitive on to amazing paths to achieve their goals. Neuroscience Ph.D. program at Michigan • Avoid including information about Tiara Desire-Brisard is in her second year of State University in the fall of 2019. Since engagements or pregnancies; it’s law school at St. John’s University and has then, I’ve had a chance to co-author a better to report marriages and births. adopted a wonderful Russian dwarf hamster popular press science article, serve as a named Shaggy. Talia S. La Schiazza has been reviewer for a scientific journal, run a lab • For weddings, please include who, working in public affairs as an account group, and conduct my own research into when, and where information. manager in Washington, D.C., and is starting individual differences in how people choke at Georgetown this summer for a master’s under pressure. I also had the opportunity to Remember that we reserve the right in public relations and corporate communi- speak to students from the high school and to edit submissions for clarity, length, cations. Olivia G. Curreri has been working community college I graduated from about grammar, and appropriateness of as a developmental associate of princi- my research as a grad student and my expe- content. pal and major gifts at Boston Children’s riences leading up to grad school.” Hospital and began an M.B.A. program at For PHOTOS, we accept only HIGH- Suffolk University Sawyer Business School RESOLUTION wedding and Class in January. Nicole Towner is in her second Master’s Notes photos (generally with a file year of veterinary medicine at Colorado Class Secretary: William T. Dziura M’16, size of at least 1 MB); low-resolution State University. She conducted research 9 Conway St., South Deerfield, MA 01373- photos, while fine for websites, will on insects on local cattle and horses to 1001; [email protected] not reproduce well in the magazine. determine what vectors were present in Chris LaRoche M’93 recently celebrated For Class Notes photos, we ask that no the insects and then tracked the viruses 10 years of working at the Massachusetts more than one photo is submitted per throughout the summer and examined how Institute of Technology in Cambridge, person per issue and that the photo they changed. Massachusetts, and 20 years of part- includes at least one Bantam. We can’t The Class of 2019 has not only gone on to time teaching at Northeastern University promise that we’ll be able to publish all that we receive, but we’ll do our do wonderful things since leaving Trinity in Boston. best. We reserve the right to decide but also used the pandemic to keep learning Tom Reynolds M’94 earned an Ed.D. from what is published based on available how to stay connected. There have been Northeastern University in 2020 and was space, photo quality, and photo many small reunions between old room- appointed in 2021 as dean of institutional content. We invite you to email photos mates through Zoom, as well as old team- advancement at Manchester Community and complete caption information mates staying connected to the coaching College in Connecticut. (WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE) Amanda Niedbala Greenwell M’08 earned staff and cheering on one another. Other to your class secretary or to sonya. classmates have found their passion working a Ph.D. in English from the University of [email protected]. in the big cities of Boston, New York City, Connecticut in 2020 and is assistant profes- Los Angeles, and other locations across the sor of English at Central Connecticut State globe. Even though the pandemic has kept University. us from meeting in person, we are able to connect with one another in new ways that we never would have imagined. This has helped us keep our strong Bantam pride.

SPRING 2021 67 NEW TCAA IN MEMORY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Editor’s Note: Full obituaries for this issue may be found in our online edition at commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. MEMBERS

1938, HON. 1975 S. Prestley Blake MASTER’S 1949 Rigaud B. Paine Jr. 1957 Russell F. Doolittle 1951 Robert H. Wilson Jr. 1957 Charles H. “Chuck” Perret 1951 George H. Wittman 1969 Marilyn C. Schwedel 1952 Giraud V. Foster, M.D. 1982 John E. Radacsi 1952 Albert L. Magnoli Sr. 1953 Theodore A. Barnett HONORARY DEGREES 1953 Robert A. Barrows 1975 S. Prestley Blake ’38 1954 Paul E. Kennedy 2020 Roberta J. Russell ’70, M’72 1954 David O. Mackay 1954 Thomas E. Marriner FORMER FACULTY 1955 John J. Hodge Frederick K. Errington 1955 Richard E. McCrea Dirk Adriaan “Dutch” Kuyk Jr. 1956 Willis A. Diefendorf 1956 The Rev. John D. Limpitlaw FORMER STAFF 1956 Alan R. Schaertel Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz Kathryn “Lizey” Korengold 1956 Peter C. Turner The Rev. Ann Charles Miller Bernstorf ’12 1957 Stephan von Molnar After graduating from Trinity with 1958, M.A. 1962 William J. Kilty FORMER TRUSTEES a B.A. in political science, Lizey 1958 James B. Studley Eudora L. Richardson Korengold Bernstorf ’12 moved back 1959 Frederic K. Houston to Washington, D.C., and earned a master’s in social work from 1959 Richard T. Nolan DEATH NOTICES Catholic University while working 1960 Roger A. LeClerc 1959 William C. Riley full time. She works on the execu- 1960 Philip B. Temple, D.D.S. 1962 James P. Fox tive team of Ourisman Automotive 1961 William A. Sullivan Jr. 1966 H. Charles Vogel Jr. of Virginia while she completes 1963 Phillip W. Correll 1976 Bruce W. McKay an M.B.A. at American University. 1963 David M. Post IDP 1987 Ty Quell-Zemelsky Bernstorf joined the Trinity Club 1963 Donald C. Winfield of Washington, D.C., in 2012 and 1965 Thomas B. Jansen currently serves as club president. 1967 Joseph G. Brand III She also serves on the Holton-Arms 1967, M.A. 1968 Daniel J. Cruson III School Alumnae Board. She and 1967 Thomas W. McConnell husband Stephan Bernstorf ’10 have In Memory one child, Aiden, 1. 1970 David T. Hill Guidelines 1970, M.A. 1972, HON. 2020 Roberta J. Russell We will not announce the 1970 James B. Tully death of an alum without first 1971 Lady Victoria Schott confirming with a previously de Rothschild published obituary or direct 1973 Patricia B. Fargnoli notification from a relative. 1975 Peter G. Wiswall Also, alumni who passed away 1976 Holly Naka Walden more than two years prior to 1976 Zelma Yarber-Woodson the date of publication will be 1979 Steven J. Popkin listed in Death Notices, along 1983 James B. Frederick with alumni for whom we do 2000 Patrick J. Nolen not have enough information for a longer obituary. 2018 Mary B. Cherna

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The Trinity Reporter Vol. 51, No. 3 Spring 2021

Editor: Sonya Storch Adams Vice President for Communications and Marketing: Angela Paik Schaeffer Communications Office and Other Contributors: Ellen Buckhorn, Andrew J. Concatelli, Caroline Deveau, Tess Dudek-Rolon, Lizzy Lee, Helder Mira, Kelly Ann Oleksiw M’15, Katelyn Rice, Stacy Sneed, Bonnie Wolters Class Notes Coordinator: Julie Cloutier Designer: Lilly Pereira/www.aldeia.design Student Worker: Emma C. Sternberg ’21

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Officers: Chair: Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh ’80; Vice Chair: Lisa G. Bisaccia ’78; Vice Chair: Michael J. Kluger ’78, P’13; Vice Chair: Kevin J. Maloney ’79

Ex Officio: Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President and Trinity College Professor of Neuroscience; Eric S. Estes ’91, President, Trinity College Alumni Association

Charter Trustees: Ross Buchmueller ’87, James W. Cuminale ’75, P’09, William E. Cunningham Jr. ’87, P’19, ’21, Henry D’Auria ’83, Nancy M. Davis ’79, Peter S. Duncan ’81, P’13, ’14, Christine E. Elia ’96, Steven A. Elmendorf ’82, Elizabeth Elting ’87, Eric R. Fossum ’79, H’14, Michael Gary ’86, John S. Gates Jr. ’76, P’13, Walter Harrison ’68, H’18, Jeffrey B. Hawkins ’92, H. Susannah Heschel ’73, H’10, Susannah Smetana Kagan ’91, Ling S. Kwok ’94, Kathleen Foye MacLennan P’17, ’20, Daniel Meyer ’80, P’20, David L. Schnadig ’86, N. Louis Shipley ’85, Kelli Harrington Tomlinson ’94, Rhea Pincus Turteltaub ’82, Elizabeth McDonald Terrie S. Rouse-Rosario ’74 Kathryn George Tyree ’86, Craig Vought ’82, P’17, Richard W. Wagner Krebs ’92 Terrie Rouse-Rosario ’74 earned a ’83, P’18, Jean M. Walshe ’83, Damian W. Wilmot ’97 Liz Krebs ’92 earned a B.A. in his- B.A. in intercultural studies from tory from Trinity, where she served Trinity. She went on to earn an G. Keith Funston Trustee: Adrian Lo ’12 as president of Tri Delta during M.P.S. in Africana studies from her senior year. Since graduation, Cornell University and an M.A. in TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE she has worked in the financial African history and a School of Kathryn “Lizey” Korengold Bernstorf ’12, Annette M. Boelhouwer ’85, services industry, first with Kemper International Affairs certificate Thomas D. Casey ’80, Gregory M. Creamer ’93, Amy McGill Dilatush Financial Services, and later with from Columbia University. Rouse- ’94, John J. D’Luhy ’55, John H. Ellwood ’65, P’95, President Eric S. First Union Securities and Manulife Rosario, a recently retired arts Estes ’91, E. Gates Garrity-Rokous ’86, Daniel J. Good ’95, Patrick R. Financial. In 2004, she started her executive, serves as president of Greene ’07, Jawanza J. Gross ’94, P’12, Jeannie Guzman ’10, Juan M. own financial planning practice, Rouse Consulting. Her most recent Hernandez ’13, M’15, Faculty Representative Gabriel F. Hornung ’07, Krebs Financial Management, position was as a Mayoral Cabinet Taniqua K. Huguley ’15, M’17, Monete G. Johnson ’11, Amanda Johnson Kennedy ’94, Christine Kleinert ’82, Elizabeth McDonald Krebs ’92, LLC, helping a broad array of member acting as the executive Peter H. Kreisel ’61, P’91, Maximillian A.D. Le Merle ’16, Rebecca clients. Krebs has led the Trinity director of the DC Commission Wenner Litt ’08, Kaitlin Reedy Malin ’14, Christopher G. Mooney ’75, Club of Chicago and for the past 12 on Arts and Humanities. Rouse- P’06, Jorge E. Rodriguez ’91, Louisa P. Rodriguez ’81, P’21, Terrie S. years has served on the board of Rosario’s career also included time Rouse-Rosario ’74, Hamill J. Serrant ’08, Jonathan P. Smith Jr. ’03, Scholarship for Illinois Residents, as COO for the National Center for Dede Seeber Stone ’81, P’14, ’16, Jamie Tracey Szal ’06, Andrew S. Inc. (SIRI), where she helps select Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Terhune ’78, Rachel Freeman Zinny ’92 a deserving Illinois student to founding CEO for the Capitol BOARD OF FELLOWS receive a full-tuition scholarship Visitor Center at the U.S. Capitol Hugh M.M. Anderson ’93, Wildaliz Bermudez ’04, Samuel H. Booth to Trinity. She and husband Robert Building, executive director of the ’04, Kristen W.Y. Chin ’07, Chart Chirathivat ’96, Crisanne M. Colgan Krebs ’93 have two children. Atlanta Ballet, and director of the M’74, Christopher R. Delaney ’83, Diane “Dede” DePatie Consoli ’88, New York Transit Museum. She and P’19, ’22, Elizabeth A. Corbat ’11, Jennifer A. Cuminale ’09, husband Eliseo Rosario Jr., M.D., Katherine E. DeConti Duckworth-Schachter ’98, Luis A. Fernandez have two sons. ’11, Tara Lichtenfels Gans ’88, P’20, Mary Beth Parker Jordan ’95, Isabelle Krusen ’03, Douglas M. Macdonald ’89, Bryant S. McBride ’88, P’20, Rhoden B. Monrose ’09, A. Duffy Mudry ’94, Eric C. Mudry ’94, Benagh Richardson Newsome ’95, P’22, Alisa Coren Norris ’92, Toby Norris ’91, Lisa Koch Rao ’95, Lourdes E. Reynolds ’91, Paul F. Romano ’81, P’12, ’15, Eric Rosow ’86, Jacquelyn Santiago ’00, Edward T. Schiff ’01, Alan G. Schiffman ’81, Peter A. Schwartzman ’88, Bill J. Talbot III ’82, Madelyn Korengold Terbell ’09, John A. Tucker ’87, Susan Granger Tyler ’85, William J. Villari ’86, Charles Wallace II ’92, Bryant S. Zanko ’87, P’17

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Life along the Long Walk remains virtual, at least for alumni. We’re eager to welcome you [1] all back to campus as soon as it’s safe to do so, but in the meantime, we’re delighted that thousands of you continue to engage with us virtually through programs on the Virtual Long Walk. The relaunch of the Academy of Lifelong Learning has allowed us to feature star faculty, we’ve created a new Trinity Authors Series, and a series marking the 50th anniversary of the Trinity College Rome Campus has been a tremendous success! Thanks for joining us, and if you haven’t been able to attend, you’ll find most programs archived at bit.ly/VLWArchive. Please keep suggesting topics and speakers to [email protected].

[1] NOVEMBER 19, 2020 From Hartford to Hollywood: An Animated Conversation with Kristine Belson ’86 and President Joanne Berger-Sweeney

[2],[3] DECEMBER 16, 2020 Last Year Tonight with Professor Michael Preston, with guests including Amanda Guzman, Ann Plato Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies; Ellie Tate ’21; and Christina Bleyer, director of special collections and archives, Watkinson Library

[4] FEBRUARY 16, 2021 Willie: A Conversation with Bryant McBride ’88, P’20; moderated by Chandler Solimine ’19

[5] FEBRUARY 18, 2021 Magicians of the Movie Theater: A [2] Conversation with Cinestudio Co-founders James Hanley ’72, H’20 and Peter McMorris ’73, H’20; moderated by John Michael Mason ’12, M’14

[6] FEBRUARY 23, 2021 Tuesdays in Rome: A Visit to the Rome Campus, with Jennifer Summerhays, director of study away; Sophia Kyrou ’21; and Rome Campus faculty and staff members Stephen Marth, on-site director; Francesco Lombardi, student activities coordinator; Francesco Ciccarelli, IT specialist and librarian; Angela Lavecchia, immersion and engagement learning coordinator; Gaia Novelli, head resident assistant; and Elena Fossà, Italian [3] language courses

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Use it to connect with other alumni, list your own small business, or search for Bantam-owned businesses in a variety of industries.

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Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney

JOIN THE Celebrating two centuries, looking ahead to our third

One among many truly uplifting moments for me this institution if we take this opportunity to provide a fuller telling semester was the enthusiastic response we received from of Trinity’s founding and its evolution. To that end, the Primus our community to take part in planning Trinity College’s Project, launched in 2020 and named for Hartford native and Bicentennial Celebration. More than 150 people volunteered educational pioneer Rebecca Primus, is reviewing histori- or nominated someone to play a role in this effort. This out- cal research with a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation’s pouring was yet another sign of how proud we all are to be Directors’ Discretionary Grants Program made at my request. part of the Trinity community. The group’s work will add to our historical knowledge and There is pride in the college’s long history, no doubt: When inform our Bicentennial Celebration and the broader narrative we mark our bicentennial in 2023, the college will have persisted of the college. through domestic and global conflict, the Great Depression, Thorough, rigorous research is critical, and as an academic and not one but two global pandemics. And there is pride in institution, we value it deeply. As I also reported in March, we the enduring relevance of the college and the importance of a erred last year in moving too swiftly to a decision to rename Trinity education in advancing knowledge, culti- Seabury Hall based on work that later was vating leaders, and serving the public good. There found to be incorrect. I regret this error is no better occasion than our bicentennial to cele- and have apologized to members of Bishop brate our history, to lift up our values, and to set a Seabury’s family. The grant-funded Primus course together for our third century. Project research is one step in our commitment As we announced in a letter to the commu- to a full and accurate telling of Trinity’s history nity in March, we will kick off the Bicentennial and an honest consideration of our past on the Celebration in September 2022. The festivities occasion of our bicentennial. will continue throughout the year, including on Another step is the restarting of a com- May 16, 2023, the 200th anniversary of the state’s mittee established by the Board of Trustees granting of a charter to Bishop Thomas Church in 2013 under President Jimmy Jones to Brownell and a committee charged with the incor- assist in the naming of spaces on our cam- poration of a new college. pus. The Committee on Named Facilities and LONG WALK Our planning will begin in earnest this sum- Commemoratives, which until now was created mer. Philip Khoury ’71, H’21, former vice chair but not ever charged with specific responsibil- JARVIS of Trinity’s Board of Trustees and Ford International Professor ities, will begin its work in July 2021 and will help the college of History and Associate Provost at Massachusetts Institute develop a consistent, deliberate process for naming (or renam- CHAIR’S CIRCLE of Technology (MIT), and Kelli Harrington Tomlinson ’94, a ing) spaces at Trinity. current Trinity trustee who serves on the boards of numerous To be clear, this is not an effort to erase or change history. This NORTHAM educational and cultural organizations and as co-president of committee’s most important charge will be to create clear and the Tomlinson Family Foundation, will lead an overarching specific objectives and criteria for naming buildings and spaces. SUMMIT Celebration Group that will meet quarterly beginning in June. Those whom we choose to honor with named spaces should The Celebration Group will provide oversight and guidance to a exemplify Trinity ideals and signal to ourselves and to the wider PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE Bicentennial Steering Committee, chaired by Director of Major world who we are and what we value. We are not alone in grap- College Events Kate McGlew, and a number of to-be-determined pling with such questions, of course. Many institutions—pub- subcommittees devoted to specific themes or initiatives. All lic and private—are examining their histories, aiming to honor groups will include volunteers from every part of the Trinity what is noble and good while acknowledging past wrongs and community. Please join me in thanking all who have raised their paying tribute to those whose stories were previously unknown. hands to help in this grand effort, and especially Philip and Kelli This is critically important work of the academy. for their leadership. As we look toward our bicentennial at Trinity, we recognize Commemorating a milestone such as this affords us the that all histories are complicated, and, just as we do in our opportunity not only to celebrate but also to reflect on our work as educators every day, we seek truth, understanding, history in all its complexities. We will be a more enlightened and, ultimately, enlightenment. www.trincoll.link/LongWalkSocieties

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