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Trinity CELEBRATING CINESTUDIO Reporter The student-founded movie theater marks WINTER 2020 50 years on campus

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Women at the Summit: 50 Years of Coeducation at Trinity College WINTER 2020 SPRING 2014 SPRING

CONTENTS

FEATURES

10 Women at the Summit: 50 Years of Coeducation at Trinity College Advocates for equality These alumni work to empower women

16 Celebrating Cinestudio The student-founded movie theater marks 50 years on campus

22 Breakthroughs in treating genetic illnesses D. Holmes Morton, M.D., IDP’79 dedicates career to Amish, Mennonite children

26 From student to staff member Young alumni pay it forward as Trinity employees

31 We are the Class of 2023 Catching up with six members of Trinity’s Bicentennial Class

38 The campaign for Trinity athletics Fundraising effort ‘will impact every student and team’

ON THE COVER A new, color-changing neon sign welcomes patrons to Cinestudio, the on-campus independent movie theater celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

PHOTO: HELDER MIRA DEPARTMENTS

03 ALONG THE WALK

06 VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

07 AROUND HARTFORD

08 TRINITY TREASURE

43 CLASS NOTES

74 IN MEMORY

78 ALUMNI EVENTS

80 ENDNOTE

THE TRINITY REPORTER Vol. 50, No. 2, Winter 2020 Published by the Office of Communications, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. Postage paid at Hartford, Connecticut, and additional mailing offices. The Trinity Reporter is mailed to alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of Trinity College without charge. All publication rights reserved, and contents may be reproduced or reprinted only by written permission of the editor. Opinions expressed are those of the editor or contributors and do not reflect the official position of Trinity College. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Trinity Reporter, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 The editor welcomes your questions and comments: Sonya Adams, Office of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106, [email protected], or 860-297-2143.

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ON THIS PAGE Acclaimed concert organist Christopher Houlihan ’09, right, John Rose College Organist-and-Directorship Distinguished Chair of Chapel Music, performs in the Trinity College Chapel with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra during the opening concert of the 2019 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford in September 2019.

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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 Adams, Office of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106.

MAKING PURPOSEFUL ADMIRATION FOR ALUMNUS BANTAM CONNECTIONS My name is Meaghan Race [’18, M’19]. So excited to read about Joe Catrino’s Still strange to think I’m an alumna groundbreaking work transforming since I’m not too far removed from my Trinity’s Career Development Center time at Trinity. I read the article on (“That Next Step,” spring 2019). Dr. Eric Manheimer in The Reporter Especially impressed with his inte- (“Sharing Patients’ Stories,” fall 2019) gration of design thinking from the and to be frank was overjoyed and Excellence. It was a most interesting set powerful Designing Your Life program impressed to have attended the same of discussions as the realities of going out of Stanford University. Helping college as an individual I have such coed unfolded. I was particularly fond students develop the tools to find more admiration for. I am currently work- of and respected President Lockwood’s meaningful connections between their ing in N.Y.C. at Mount Sinai Hospital leadership not only in guiding the near-term studies and their career while I apply for medical school, and board to the decision but also the tran- path is one way Trinity is setting itself I was unaware that I had a connection sitional controversies that followed. apart. This methodology resonates with Dr. Manheimer. … I simply want to I had planned to attend the celebra- with us alumni as well. As secretary for reach out to thank him. It might sound tion that occurred in San Francisco the Class of 1982, I have been hearing a little corny, but his philosophy on last year marking the start of the many fascinating updates from classmates medicine has played a huge part in events. Unfortunately, I was ill and exploring late-stage career transi- my journey toward pursuing this could not get there. The events planned tions. Whether prompted by personal career path. for the Women at the Summit program passions or triggered by forces beyond Meaghan Race ’18, M’19 this next month sound intriguing and their control, these alumni are forg- New York, New York appropriate. Alas, all are on the East ing new pathways. As someone who Coast, so I won’t be able to join but will has navigated a few career evolutions AT THE TABLE WHEN hope to see the streamed version. myself, I have come to appreciate the TRINITY WENT COED Marv Peterson ’60 help that a supportive circle provides— I may be one of the only living members Aptos, California especially the connections within our of the Board of Trustees at the time this Trinity Bantam Network. The Designing transition [to coeducation] occurred. Your Life program is a refreshing and Perhaps the only living one! I was an MORE WAYS TO CONNECT: illuminating approach. So grateful alumni trustee from 1969 to 1975 in the facebook.com/ Trinity has such an energizing leader period when the transition was taking TrinityCollege paving the way to help our students place. Interestingly, although I was and alumni forge more purposeful con- already nine years out of Trinity (Class nections going forward. of 1960), I was probably 20–25 years twitter.com/ TrinityCollege Thank you for another fascinating younger than the rest of the trustees. feature article. I had previously been president of the Ellin Carpenter Smith ’82 Boston Trinity Alumni Club and later instagram.com/ Windsor, Connecticut received the Trinity Alumni Medal for TrinityCollege PHOTO: NICK CAITO NICK PHOTO:

2 THE TRINITY REPORTER ALONG THE WALK News from the Trinity community

Senator speaks on gun reform

The Trinity College Democrats welcomed U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Igor Volsky, founder and executive director of Guns Down America, to a Gun Violence Prevention Forum on October 4, 2019, in McCook Auditorium. Murphy, author of The Violence Inside Us, a book about the history of violence in the United States that was set to be published in January, discussed the role he has played in the gun reform movement and answered questions on the issue of gun violence in America today. “We need to realize that gun violence is on the radar of politicians, and the Democrats are doing everything in their power to implement strict background checks,” he said. Volsky, whose tweets highlighting the amount of money politicians received from the National Rifle Association (NRA) went viral in 2016 and served as a cata- lyst for his larger gun reform movement, emphasized the difference between action and surface-level empathy exercised by politicians. “Lawmakers are quick to send thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but these lawmakers are the ones taking money from the NRA,” Volsky said. Guns Down America, which aims to move the country toward a future with fewer guns, focuses on driving corporate-based cam- paigns to encourage corporations, such as Walmart, to end sales of assault weapons and to advocate for gun reform. Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Thomas X. Lefebvre expressed appreciation for both speakers’ input. “Volsky’s creative campaign tactics bring a breath of fresh air and optimism to the gun control conversation, which, for far too long, has seemed hopeless in this country,” Lefebvre said. “It was also a rare opportunity for students to listen and exchange with Senator Murphy, one of the loudest voices nationally on the topic.” PHOTO: NICK CAITO NICK PHOTO: ALONG THE WALK

THOMAS CHURCH UPDATE The Digital Health CT Digital Health CT, the new digital health (or med- Brownell tech) accelerator run by Startupbootcamp, recently for TEACHING announced its inaugural cohort in Hartford. The 10 EXCELLENCE chosen start-ups exhibit a diverse range of health Prıze care technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), process automation, personalized medicine, Calling on Trinity alumni to honor the and virtual health. professors who made an impact on their lives The teams, selected from hundreds of start-ups by a selection committee that included Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney, relocated to Hartford in Did you have a teacher who changed the way you think? Influenced November for the three-month accelerator program, your career choices? Helped you to wake up intellectually? If so, you which gave them the sup- have a wonderful chance to pay tribute to that teacher. The Thomas port, resources, and industry Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes con- and investor connections sistently outstanding teaching by a senior faculty member, is awarded they need to help grow their annually at Honors Day. All alumni are invited to submit nominations businesses. Along with sup- explaining in 200 to 300 words why they believe a favorite professor port from Startupbootcamp, the teams gained access to deserves this prestigious award. Nominations should be sent to Sylvia an extensive range of part- DeMore via email ([email protected]) or postal mail (Office ners, mentors, and investors of the Dean of the Faculty, Williams Memorial 118, Trinity College, 300 from across the accelerator’s If you have questions Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106). The nomination dead- global network. about the Brownell line is Friday, March 6, 2020. For the inaugural year of Prize, please direct Associate professors, full professors, senior lecturers, and the Digital Health CT accel- them to Sylvia DeMore, special assistant to the principal lecturers who have been at the college for at least eration program, the start- dean of the faculty, at three years, will not retire prior to June 30, 2020, and have ups will work closely with sylvia.demore@ Digital Health CT’s partners— trincoll.edu. not previously received the Brownell Prize are eligible. A complete list of eligible faculty, as well as a roster of previ- Hartford HealthCare, Trinity College, and the UConn ous winners, appears online at commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. School of Business—and will The Brownell Prize was made possible by a gift from the late Paul H. ↗ For more about the 10 start-ups— be housed at Trinity’s down- Briger ’61, P’87. Robert Stewart (mathematics) was the first recipient, CompanionMx, Ellipsis, Clearstep, town space at Constitution and Adrienne Fulco (legal and policy studies) was the 2019 honoree. Encapsulate, MDI Health, QR Fertile, BrainCheck, Lineus Medical, Plaza, where the college’s DeepScribe, and Aiva—please visit Liberal Arts Action Lab also commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. is located. “The digital health domain ONE SMALL STEP DIALOGUES ONLINE is exploding with opportunity right now, and I feel Recordings from the fall 2018 visit to Trinity College by One Small Step, a confident that we are positioned to support serious national StoryCorps project that brings together Americans with differing entrepreneurs in hitting the market fast and hard,” political views, are available online at commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. said Gerry Roston, managing director of Digital Trinity was the first college to partner with StoryCorps on this ini- Health CT. Sonia Cardenas, interim dean of the fac- tiative aimed at listening and finding common ground. One Small Step ulty and vice president for academic affairs, noted discussions follow the usual StoryCorps format—two people, 40 minutes, that the accelerator “will provide cutting-edge oppor- and a facilitator to help guide the conversation. But the tunities for our students, exposing them firsthand to twist is that One Small Step conversations take place the world of start-ups.” between individuals who have not met before and who hold opposing political views. The One Small Step project is supported by a $1 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Founded in CORRECTIONS Due to a data maintenance issue, an obituary 2003, StoryCorps has recorded more than 75,000 facil- for Thomas O. Mitchell ’66 ran in error in the itated interviews with more than 150,000 participants “In Memory” section of the fall 2019 issue of around the country. With the permission of participants, full discussions The Trinity Reporter. He is not deceased. Xiangming Chen’s first name was from the college’s event are archived at Trinity’s Watkinson Library and misspelled in the “Positively Pivotal” feature become part of the national StoryCorps Archive, housed at the American in the printed edition of the spring 2019 issue Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Segments of The Trinity Reporter. We regret these errors. also may air nationally on NPR’s Morning Edition. PHOTOS: (LEFT) KELLY ANN OLEKSIW M’15; (RIGHT) JACK MCCONNELL JACK (RIGHT) M’15; OLEKSIW ANN KELLY (LEFT) PHOTOS: SURECK SHANA (RIGHT) PHOTO:

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NSF awards for faculty Two Trinity College professors recently received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support their scholarship.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Lina Ma was awarded a $100,000 grant from the NSF to support her independent research and her collaboration with colleagues in the field of computational mathematics. Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael A. Grubb spent the summer of 2019 on a three-month visiting researcher appointment WOMEN LEADERS Connecticut journalist Sarah Cody ’95 moderates “Women in at Yale School of Medicine funded by an NSF Research Leadership: A Conversation with President Joanne Berger-Sweeney Opportunity Award (ROA). and Board Chair Cornie Thornburgh ’80” on October 17, 2019. Ma’s project, “Consistent Multi-Scale Treatments of Ion The event, held in Mather Hall’s Washington Room, was part of Transport in Biological Environments,” is a mathemati- the three-semester celebration of Women at the Summit: 50 Years cal pursuit that can be applied to biology. Ma will study of Coeducation at Trinity College. diffusion, ion transport, and heat flow, which occurs in various ion channels throughout the human body. The ↗ To view a recording of this event, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. abnormal behavior of ion channels can contribute to health concerns, including Type 2 diabetes or adverse reactions from contact with poison- ous puffer fish. The biggest challenge, Ma said, is that biological processes, which usually happen in micro- WELCOMING NEW U.S. CITIZENS seconds, can sometimes be controlled by a few atoms. Using traditional differential equation systems to represent the processes may lose too “On our Trinity campus of 2,200 many details. However, she added, modeling undergraduates, we celebrate the things on the particle level and showing tremendous detail, such as protons and atoms, can have fact that our student body is more a high computational cost. Ma’s work will be directed toward developing a method that can international than it has ever been, Top to bottom: bridge the macro and micro scales. Ma and Grubb with students from 76 foreign Grubb partnered with Yale Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neuroscience Ifat Levy, countries. I tell our students all the principal investigator of the NSF grant being supplemented as part of the ROA, “Decision-making under the time that our diversity is our uncertainty across the lifespan: Cognitive, motivational, strength. I believe that’s true on and neural bases.” Grubb’s research contributed the larger goals of Levy’s grant, which aims to understand age- our campus, and I know it’s true related changes in learning and decision-making. Building on a project started in his lab at Trinity, Grubb’s of America as well.” research with Levy addressed new questions concerning the impact of selective attention on reward learning and Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Keynote Speaker decision-making. Grubb’s role in this study was particu- Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s Third Annual Naturalization Ceremony larly significant given the special opportunity for collabo- The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, October 12, 2019 ration between institutions like Trinity and Yale provided

PHOTOS: (LEFT) KELLY ANN OLEKSIW M’15; (RIGHT) JACK MCCONNELL JACK (RIGHT) M’15; OLEKSIW ANN KELLY (LEFT) PHOTOS: SURECK SHANA (RIGHT) PHOTO: by the NSF.

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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT BY CATHERINE SHEN Diane ‘Dede’ DePatie Consoli ’88, P’19, ’22

Growing up in a multigenerational Trinity family, it was natural for Diane “Dede” DePatie Consoli ’88, P’19, ’22 to stay “I feel very connected to my involved with her alma mater. “Trinity has always been very father through my fundraising important to my family. I basically grew up on campus,” she says with a laugh. “The experience was more than just getting for Trinity as that was his focus an education. It was about making connections and creating through his years as a trustee of lifelong friendships, which began with her service through Tri Delta sorority, now known as the Ivy Society. the college. It’s my pleasure to The strong Trinity family legacy started with her father, Thomas DePatie ’52, a former trustee of the college, followed continue that legacy for him.” by brother-in-law Robert Buffum Jr. ’77 and cousin Peter DePatie ’85. She married Victor Consoli ’87, and they are volunteer, an alumni interviewer, and an Elms Society ambas- Trinity parents to two daughters, Olivia ’19 and Grace ’22. sador. She currently serves as her class president, as a class For the first 15 years after her own graduation, Consoli, agent, and as a member of the Board of Fellows, the Women’s armed with a degree in economics, embarked on a career in Leadership Council, and the Parents Leadership Council. the garment industry, working retail and wholesale with She particularly enjoys being on the Parents Leadership companies including Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor Council because of the relationships formed among parents, in New York and eventually running the women’s division of students, and the college. “It’s important for families to know Nautica Sportswear. Over time, she launched her own busi- that we’re here for them, too,” says Consoli. “Being on the ness, Boxtree Interiors, serving a variety of residential and council is especially gratifying because I facilitate new families commercial clients. She also volunteers as a manager of mer- becoming connected with the college. Creating a welcoming chandise sales for her summer community of Quonochontaug, environment for them will help them see the work we do and Rhode Island, where she once served as town clerk. hopefully encourage them to become involved. The more new Since becoming a stay-at-home mom, Consoli says, her flex- parents are involved, the better work we can do.” ible schedule has allowed her to get more involved with com- Consoli says that philanthropy was a large part of her mittee work at Trinity. Throughout the years, she has served on upbringing, and she continues to value that philosophy. “I’ve the Trinity College Alumni Association Executive Committee been a donor to the college for a lifetime, and I can’t imagine and the Social Reform Charter Committee and as a member not helping our school,” she says. “When I saw there were of the Long Walk Societies. She has been an admissions specific improvements needed, that really spurred me on to become more involved. I love being the person who connects everyone and shows them what a wonderful place Trinity is. “It is gratifying to be the one who connects a new family with a passion to a need we have at the college,” she continues. “Most people donate to specific things that resonate with them, and Trinity has so many specific needs right now that it is all about [matching] the right people to the fundraising efforts for that need. I feel very connected to my father through my fundraising for Trinity as that was his focus through his years as a trustee of the college. It’s my pleasure to continue that legacy for him.” Kerry Smith, Trinity’s director of family giving, says Consoli plays an important role in creating a warm and friendly environment for parents. “She’s a valuable asset to the college through her ability to welcome and connect parents to one another,” says Smith. “Her advocacy and dedication to help

Dede DePatie Consoli ’88, P’19, ’22, second from right, with husband Victor Consoli Trinity become the best that it can be is an embodiment of all PHOTOGRAPHY SHAW D. RAY PHOTO: ’87, P’19, ’22 and daughters Olivia ’19 and Grace ’22 we desire in a volunteer. We’re very fortunate to have her.”

6 THE TRINITY REPORTER AROUND HARTFORD ALONG THE WALK

HartBeat Ensemble, founded in 2001, is an artist-led professional theater company in Hartford dedicated to creating provoca- tive offerings that build community partnerships. Housed in the Carriage House Theater, HartBeat engages with the local area through programming that includes commissions, pop-up perfor- mances, and community conversations, the latter involving the organization’s partnership with a civic or social group to spark dialogue on a particular topic. HartBeat collaborates with more than 50 community organizations as it trains young adults to create their own work, making the theater an incubator for developing individual passions. HartBeat also hosts education programs such as Startin’ Drama, which provides conflict resolution workshops for a positive school climate, and the Youth Play Institute, which offers paid internships in play creation.

↗ For more information on HartBeat Ensemble and its many programs, please visit commons.trincoll. edu/Reporter.

HARTBEAT ENSEMBLE 360 FARMINGTON AVENUE HARTFORD, CT PHOTO: RAY D. SHAW PHOTOGRAPHY SHAW D. RAY PHOTO:

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WGRAC Director Laura Lockwood M’95, right, TRINITY TREASURE and WGRAC Training and Program Coordinator Monique Daley, second from left, chat with Shaylee Boger ’23 and Posse Scholar Diante’ Dancy ’21 in the WGRAC Lounge and Library. WGRAC

EDITOR’S NOTE “Trinity The Women & Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC)—founded in 1977 as the Women’s Center at Trinity Treasure” highlights a College—is a welcoming space on campus that provides education, builds community, and promotes empower- person, place, or thing on campus that is just ment of students with a focus on woman-identified students. Part of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, what the name implies: along with the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Queer Resource Center (QRC), WGRAC accomplishes its a Trinity treasure. Do you mission through educational, social, and cultural programming and dialogue. Annual events that create respect- have an idea for what to showcase? Please send ful interaction among people of all genders and backgrounds include Take Back the Night, Breaking the Binary your suggestions to Photo Shoot and Open Mic, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, and The Vagina Monologues. WGRAC, led by Laura Lockwood [email protected]. M’95 and Monique Daley, supports five student-led organizations: the Big Sister-Little Sister program; Students Encouraging Consensual Sex (SECS); Promoting Healthy Awareness of the Body (PHAB); the Masculinity Project; and IGNITE, a leadership-development and empowerment group for women-identified students. WGRAC also ↗ provides required sexual misconduct education and prevention training for sophomores and oversees the cam- For more information puswide Green Dot violence-prevention strategy; the Sexual Assault Resource Team (SART); and first-year orien- about WGRAC, please visit tation programs on Title IX rights, resources, and reporting options. “WGRAC has been a safe haven for me,” says commons.trincoll.edu/ Jaymie Bianca ’21, who co-founded IGNITE with Sarah Donahue ’20. “It has been a space where I can voice my Reporter.

opinions and be heard. I found my passion for advocacy and activism here.” MCCOY SARAH PHOTO:

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Mellon grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Trinity College a grant of $114,000 to support the planning of a convening of women of color (WOC) leaders in higher education and other sectors. The funding will be used over approximately 16 months, culminating in a meeting of WOC leaders expected to take place in January 2021. Inspired by the Mellon Foundation meeting for Women of Color Presidents in Higher Education in 2017, Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney; Johnnetta Cole, president emerita of Spelman and Bennett Colleges; and Mariko Silver, former president of Bennington College and current president and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, became RECENT PUBLICATIONS convinced that to connect and create more leadership opportunities for WOC in higher education, it is important to reach The Promise of the Suburbs: Daily Life in the Industrial beyond higher education for lessons learned and for inspira- A Victorian History in United States, 1870–1900 tion. Berger-Sweeney is serving as the principal investigator Literature and Culture Julie Husband and Jim O’Loughlin ’88, for the project. Sarah Bilston, Professor of English; P’20; ABC-CLOI, LLC, 2019; 289 pages Yale University Press, 2019; 282 pages According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Kurt Vonnegut Remembered female students of color received 32.9 percent of undergradu- The Future of Catholicism Edited by Jim O’Loughlin ’88, P’20 ate degrees awarded in 2015–16, but only 5 percent of all colin America The University of Alabama Press, 2019; Edited by Patricia O’Connell Killen 242 pages lege and university presidents and chancellors are women of and Mark Silk, Director, Leonard E. color. The grant will be used to collect and analyze existing Greenberg Center for the Study of Why Will No One Play with research about the representation of WOC leaders in various Religion in Public Life and Professor Me? The Play Better Plan industries and study why there is a disproportionately low of Religion in Public Life; Columbia to Help Children of All Ages University Press, 2019; 368 pages Make Friends and Thrive representation of WOC in academic leadership, while devel- Caroline Maguire ’97, with Teresa oping ideas to identify and encourage WOC leaders who will The Future of Mainline Barker; Grand Central Publishing, create change in academia. Protestantism in America 2019; 355 pages Edited by James Hudnut-Beumler and Mark Silk, Director, Leonard E. Burn the Ice: Greenberg Center for the Study of The American Culinary The work produced by this grant Religion in Public Life and Professor Revolution and Its End of Religion in Public Life; Columbia Kevin Alexander ’03; Penguin Press, has the potential to generate University Press, 2018; 228 pages 2019; 371 pages

opportunities to develop a Turning Tides: A Frog Hollow Childhood: Caribbean Intersections in A Memoir of Hartford unique, cross-disciplinary the Americas and Beyond Lynn Davis M’85; Page Publishing, Edited by Heather Cateau and Milla 2019; 168 pages mentoring network for the future. Cozart Riggio, James J. Goodwin Professor of English, Emerita; Ian Randle Publishers, 2019; 344 pages If you have a recent book, CD, or The project aims to meet an unmet need, as no existing video that you would like listed in organizations provide a network to connect WOC in top- Bob Steele on the Radio: The Trinity Reporter, please submit a level positions across sectors. While a handful focus The Life of Connecticut’s copy to Sonya Adams, Office of on training, mentoring, and preparing WOC for leader- Beloved Broadcaster Communications, Trinity College, 300 Paul Hensler M’08; McFarland & Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106. ship positions, these organizations often focus on empow- Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019; Questions? Email sonya.adams@ ering WOC in a specific sector. The work produced by 186 pages trincoll.edu. this grant has the potential to generate opportunities to develop a unique, cross-disciplinary mentoring network for the future. Other potential benefits of the project include the creation of a list of best practices for mentoring WOC leaders and the forging of connections between WOC in The convening participants will include approximately 50 academia, who are teaching talented students, and WOC WOC who are presidents in higher education and leaders in in other sectors, who are able to offer jobs to those students other sectors, including government, nonprofit, arts and cul-

PHOTO: JOHN ATASHIAN JOHN PHOTO: upon graduation. ture, and media.

WINTER 2020 9 Women at the Summit YEARS OF COEDUCATION AT TRINITY COLLEGE ADVOCATES50 FOR EQUALITY These alumni work to empower women BY MAURA KING SCULLY • ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOEL KIMMEL

How do you measure the impact of coeducation at Trinity College? You could look at the facts: Trinity has 11,844 female graduates, constitut- ing a full 42 percent of living alumni. You could consider the difference coeducation has made on all graduates—no matter the gender—who have traversed the Long Walk over the last 50 years. Or you could, as we do in this issue of The Trinity Reporter, take a slightly different tack, looking at a small sampling of graduates who are working in the women’s empowerment space. Some focus their efforts on a specific industry or city; others pursue a broader agenda on the global stage. No matter their bailiwick, one and all demonstrate the power of a Trinity education as espoused in the college’s mission statement, that it prepares bold, independent thinkers who lead transformative lives. In the case of these nine graduates, their transformative lives are proving to be game changing worldwide.

10 THE TRINITY REPORTER DONNA HAGHIGHAT ’89 CEO, Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts

The daughter of Iranian immigrants, “I never took education for granted,” Donna Haghighat explains. Her mother, Parvaneh, was married at 16, at which time Haghighat’s grandfather insisted she drop out of high school. Thanks to her persistence (and with help from her mother), Parvaneh finished high school and went on to complete college in the United States while raising four children. Inspired by her example, Haghighat now leads the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, where she strives to elevate local women to take charge. The Women’s Fund does this through fundraising for two initiatives: grant making to area organizations that share the Women’s Fund’s vision and training women through its Leadership Institute for Political and Public Impact (LIPPI). To date, more than 250 women have completed LIPPI training, and 3 million women and families have been impacted through its grants. “I love making connections with people who share my passion for advancing women and girls,” she notes.

CHARLOTTE (FOUCH) FOX ’06 Director of Communications, International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF); Washington, D.C.

A tireless advocate of gender equity with a lifelong passion for the news, Charlotte (Fouch) Fox notes that she is “supremely happy” to have landed at IWMF. “My professional work is now my life’s work, which is incredibly validating,” she says. The IWMF is an organization that breaks barriers for women journalists, transforming global news media. The IWMF’s fellowship and grant programs support women in media—both freelance and staff journalists—helping them become experts in reporting in underserved regions, generate must-read stories, and bring critical issues affecting women and others to light. The organization is the sole provider of safety training, byline opportunities, and emergency support tai- lored to female journalists and photographers around the world. In addition to working directly with journalists, the IWMF studies why journalism remains dominated by men and advocates for inclusive practices that help pro- pel women and minorities into leadership roles.

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MARY KATE MORR ’12 Volunteer Coordinator, Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute (RMMFI); Denver, Colorado

Growing up in Denver, Mary Kate Morr watched the gentrification of the Mile High City unfold around her. After earning a master’s degree in social work, Morr decided she “wanted to work in a place where I was pushing back on that gentrification.” Enter RMMFI, an organization that helps people with an idea transform into serious entrepreneurs through personal, business, and financial investments. Through its 12-week business boot camp and mentorship program for under-resourced entrepreneurs, RMMFI builds community wealth by reimag- ining social and economic inclusion. Start-ups run the gamut from products like candles and soaps, to services like cleaning, as well as graphic design and food carts. “Part of our mission is to build up female business owners along with entrepreneurs of color,” says Morr, who recruits mentors for RMMFI. “Our entrepreneurs are diverse in every sense of the word, and part of my role is to build a pool of mentors with shared life experience reflecting that diversity.”

CHRISTINE QUINN ’88 President and CEO, Women in Need (WIN); New York, New York

What do you do after you’ve served as speaker of the New York City Council—the first woman and openly LGBT person to hold the position? Four years ago, Christine Quinn grappled with that question and decided she wanted to keep doing advocacy work for issues she cared about. WIN, the largest provider of shelter and services to women and families in New York City—with 11 shelters and more than 300 supportive housing units across the city—checked all of her boxes. WIN’s vision is to break the cycle of homelessness by providing safe housing and critical services to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives. “Homelessness is the significant crisis of our time,” Quinn says. “New York cannot be the greatest city in the world if 60,000 people have to sleep on the street every night. Our job is to stand with those experiencing homelessness and eradicate the underlying conditions that cause it.”

12 THE TRINITY REPORTER Women at the Summit YEARS OF COEDUCATION AT50 TRINITY COLLEGE VALERIA MCFARREN PIPER ’05 Co-founder, TheSheLab; Charlottesville, Virginia

“It’s amazing what happens when you bring women together from around the world and are able to form relationships built on trust and respect.” So says Valeria McFarren Piper about TheSheLab, a community of practice and women’s network that is committed to female empowerment and equality. Born and raised in Bolivia, Piper started the organization after spending a decade in Washington, D.C. There, she worked at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. foreign aid agency, where she oversaw strategic communications in 24 countries. Piper and a partner tapped into that global network to form TheSheLab; the 13 members on the organizing committee hail from countries ranging from the Dominican Republic to Tanzania. The project is starting small, hosting monthly TED-type talks—for women, by women—in Charlottesville, where she and her co-founder live. “We now have 400 members and plan to open 10 other chapters in the new year [2020],” Piper notes. “We are each other’s sounding boards, thought partners, and support system.”

MELINDA LEONARD REED ’95 Executive Director, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ); The Hague, the Netherlands

After graduating with a B.A. in public policy and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University, Melinda Leonard Reed worked overseas doing humanitarian aid work for many years. She then moved back to the United States and directed a domestic and sexual violence shelter in Helena, Montana—a position that she described as “domestic humanitarian aid work.” When the position opened at the WIGJ two years ago, “it was a way to take my slightly divergent career paths and marry them,” Reed says. The WIGJ is a nonprofit international women’s human rights organization that advocates for gender justice through the International Criminal Court (ICC). It also is active in individual countries around the world in peace negotiations and justice processes. The WIGJ works with victims of sexual violence in conflicts under investigation by the ICC and collaborates with more than 6,000 grass- roots partners across multiple armed conflicts. “This work is profoundly important,” Reed says. “Sexual violence is the most widely used weapon of war—and it’s perpetrated with total impunity.”

WINTER 2020 13 ADVOCATES

FOR EQUALITY

RICK ZEDNÍK ’93 Managing Director, Women Political Leaders (WPL); Brussels, Belgium

“For millennia, social networks have helped people get ahead—largely men,” explains Rick Zedník. “At WPL, we’re making our small contribution to changing that.” Headquartered in Iceland, WPL’s mission is to increase both the number and the influence of women in political leadership. An independent, international, and nonpar- tisan foundation, WPL bills itself as a global champion of equality between women and men. It is the only organization that brings together all female political leaders, seeking to tackle international challenges by harnessing their collective power. Through conferences, a summit, and advocacy, WPL builds communities of knowledge for thousands of women politicians everywhere: members of national legislatures, cabinet ministers, and heads of state and government. In all of its activities, WPL strives to demonstrate the positive impact of more women in positions of political leadership. And to Zedník, a feminist “at least since Trinity,” “it’s important to try and rebalance the equation.”

ZORAIDA LOPEZ-DIAGO ’03 Co-creator, Women Picturing Revolution (WPR); Beacon, New York

When Zoraida Lopez-Diago was growing up, dinner conversations swirled around gender equity, LGBTQ rights, and similar topics. With her mother heading up affirmative action for a Connecticut state agency, she says, “I always knew that I would do something that dealt with shedding light on issues that are overlooked.” Lopez-Diago, a photographer, curator, and consultant, has taught photography to female inmates at a maximum-security prison in Medellín, Colombia, lectured about her work at Harvard University and other institutions, and co-founded Women Picturing Revolution (WPR), an organization that brings to the forefront the work of female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolution. She and co-founder Lesly Deschler Canossi lead seminars and curate discussions in locales including New York and the United Kingdom. Lopez-Diago also is the co-editor of Representations of Black Motherhood and Photography, a book that gives voice to the intersection of photography, black motherhood, and the ways in which black mothers have navigated gender, race, and class. This edited collection is due to be published in 2021 by Leuven University Press in Belgium and distributed by Cornell Press.

14 THE TRINITY REPORTER Women at the Summit YEARS OF COEDUCATION AT50 TRINITY COLLEGE FINAL THOUGHTS … Without equal representation of women in journalism, there is no full story. The journalists I work to support are truth tellers who fight with their pens.—CHARLOTTE (FOUCH) FOX ’06

How do you keep empowering women and girls relative to the wider world? That’s a challenge, and I like a good challenge.—DONNA HAGHIGHAT ’89

I love spending time with clients. These are some of the toughest, strongest women you could ever meet. I find them endlessly inspiring and impressive. —CHRISTINE QUINN ’88

Entrepreneurs are skewed toward upper-class white males. We need to tap into the talents outside that network—in women, people of color, and working-class individuals—or we’re missing out. —MARY KATE MORR ’12

I don’t think I understood gender inequality when I was at Trinity. I felt relatively equal. But the world isn’t like Trinity.—MELINDA LEONARD REED ’95

At Trinity, I learned the importance of creating DYLLAN MCGEE ’93 space for conversations and building bridges Emmy-award winning filmmaker; Waccabuc, New York between communities. There was power in each of the communities I was involved in—international Throughout her career, Dyllan McGee has been dedicated students, minority students, and my sorority. to telling compelling and immersive stories. But good sto- —VALERIA MCFARREN PIPER ’05 rytelling isn’t enough. It also has to matter. Every project McGee has brought to life was born from a vision of a I was fortunate to have studied with faculty including fairer and more equitable world. With two Emmys to her Brigitte Schultz and Michael Niemann, two professors credit, she is founder and executive producer of McGee who have had a lasting impact on how I approach Media, a documentary film company whose recent projects my work and photography endeavors. Seeing Trinity include Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (PBS); professors, such as Johnny Williams and Vijay Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (Discovery); and Reconstruction Prashad, fight for social justice continually inspires (PBS). McGee also is the founder and executive producer me to deepen my photography practice and continue of MAKERS, a media brand that accelerates the women’s long-term projects.—ZORAIDA LOPEZ-DIAGO ’03 movement through the stories of real-life experiences. MAKERS has produced short documentaries on more than As a senior at Trinity, I was one of five men to 400 groundbreaking women from all walks of life, including Gloria Steinem, Oprah Winfrey, and one of New York City’s take ‘Women’s Studies 101.’ It was the first time first female firefighters. MAKERS hosts an annual confer- I experienced being totally outnumbered. It was ence that brings together more than 500 women for a three- instructive.—RICK ZEDNÍK ’93 day global event, which is subsequently viewed online by more than 20 million people. If you had asked me at Trinity if I was a feminist, I would have said ‘no.’ That’s changed. My two teenage sons have been calling themselves feminists since they could talk.—DYLLAN MCGEE ’93

WINTER 2020 15 CELEBRATING

Cines16 THE TRINITY REPORTER tudio Cinestudio patrons enjoy a “Moonlight Movies” screening of the 1986 cult classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

The student-founded movie theater marks 50 years on campus

STORY BY ANDREW J. CONCATELLI • PHOTOS BY HELDER MIRA

Cines tudioWINTER 2020 17 “I DON’T THINK THEY QUITE rom across Trinity College’s Main Quad, UNDERSTOOD WHAT WE HAD PLANNED” a gleaming new sign beckons. Entering an unmarked door in a hallway of the Clement Chemistry Building, James Inside, seating in the balcony offers a Hanley ’72 climbs the narrow staircase up to Cinestudio’s projection booth, as respite from the busy world. he’s done countless times over the last The grand golden curtain rises on the 50 years. “We had to take this door off its hinges to get into the booth for the first 37-by-16-foot screen as the projected image blinks time,” he says. In 1969, students in the Trinity Film to life and the film begins to play. Society—of which Hanley and his This is Cinestudio, the independent movie Cinestudio co-founder Peter McMorris ’73 were both enthusiastic members—had palace that celebrates its 50th anniversary this secured permission from the Chemistry Department to show films in the chem- year. And to its intrepid founders, dedicated stu- istry lab auditorium after finding them- dent volunteers, and passionate patrons, there’s selves without a screening venue. “I don’t think they quite understood what we had no other place like it. planned,” Hanley says with a grin. The

18 THE TRINITY REPORTER Left: Students meet outside the campus landmark. Right: James Hanley ’72 and Peter McMorris ’73, Cinestudio co-founders and co-executive directors, pose amid the theater’s new seats. problem was, nobody had a key to the booth, which had fallen into disuse. “We went at 2:00 in the morning and got in there. We found two 35mm projectors from the 1930s, when the building went up,” Hanley says. “Soon, students were hanging up bedsheets as a tempo- rary screen as we prepared for a theater that would serve both students and the community. At the time, there was such a whirlwind of activity here on campus, and this took on a life of its own.” The first public screening on February 16, 1970, was a double feature of Yellow Submarine and Alice’s Restaurant, for ments while engaging in a historical Hanley adds, “When we first started which the Film Society’s faculty adviser, mission, bringing back older film out, one of our goals was to show films Lawrence “Larry” Stires of the Modern titles, preserving a vital legacy of the in a much better setting than most the- Languages Department, put up $500 past, and showing the films exactly aters, with a high technical quality. Over of his own money to secure the pub- as originally presented to ever-new the years, we’ve been able to not only lic rights. “We sold out every night for audiences—all while staying true to maintain that but enhance it.” a week. We even turned away lots of its independent origins. people,” Hanley says. “We put on a big Hanley and McMorris worked at other “STUDENTS HAVE GOTTEN THEIR picture with really good sound, and we jobs at first and ran Cinestudio unpaid EDUCATION AT CINESTUDIO” always have; it just was the ethos of the for many years. “Everybody was doing Today—in addition to being an art house place. We hit at the right time and the it for the love of it,” Hanley says, “but at cinema open to the public—Cinestudio right place.” a certain point the students and alumni is a part of both the academic and social McMorris adds, “Trinity was going wanted to have a more permanent struc- worlds of the college, with faculty, staff, through huge changes in that time, from ture so they knew Cinestudio would and students all taking advantage of a one kind of college to another. We were continue for future students. The first special facility in the heart of campus. part of that change, part of the new. This stage [around the late ’80s] was to hire “Cinestudio has been the ground on space provided us a venue to express us and Larry Stires—we weren’t being which we’ve built the film program,” ourselves. Even today, if there’s a film paid much—and we provided an ongo- says Associate Professor of English out there that needs to be seen, we will ing presence and leadership.” Interest Prakash Younger, director of Trinity’s show it.” from donors in making tax-deductible Interdisciplinary Program in Film At first, the student-run organization donations directly to Cinestudio, rather Studies and a member of the Cinestudio was met with trepidation by some on than through a fund at Trinity, led to its Board of Directors. “We see film as a lens campus. “There were a few conservative establishment as a nonprofit 501c3 orga- into everything. We include philosophy, faculty members who were uneasy about nization in 2005. political science, and classical studies us,” Hanley says. “We were showing Today, the venue features approxi- courses in our curriculum,” he says. some political things. It wasn’t just enter- mately 450 new seats that were installed Milla C Riggio, James J. Goodwin tainment; we were showing films that in 2018 and is equipped with a legendary Professor of English, Emerita, who were enlightening people. And we did Dolby sound system and state-of-the- helped to create the film studies pro- things that shocked people, like paint- art digital projector, while retaining its gram at Trinity and now serves as sec- ing the lobby red. But [former Trinity 35mm and 70mm film projectors for clas- retary of Cinestudio’s board, taught President] Ted Lockwood [’48, H’81] was sic movie presentations. several film courses that made use of the a great supporter of ours and [former “It’s hard to describe this place,” theater. “I taught ‘Film Noir’ and ‘The Trinity Vice President] Tom Smith [’44, McMorris says. “I learn something new Western Film,’ among other courses. H’88] went to bat for us over our freedom every year. It’s an industry that is chang- James [Hanley] and I taught a first-year of speech.” ing constantly, and to keep this place seminar in Cinestudio, where we held In the ensuing 50 years, Cinestudio going, you have to anticipate those the classes, focusing on films shown at has embraced technological advance- changes and make adjustments.” Cinestudio,” she says.

WINTER 2020 19 Hanley works the projector, as he has for some 50 years.

Younger adds, “Students have gotten their education at Cinestudio. I was part of a very special first-year course that was taught there called ‘Thinking through Film,’ which helped to enhance the connection between Cinestudio and the academic offerings.” Connections are made at Cinestudio between Trinity and the Hartford community as well. “With Cinestudio as such an independent place—though very much supported by the college— it’s a portal into the broader culture outside of the campus,” Younger says. “It is truly a gem of the area in terms of the quality that generations of people both from Trinity and the community have enjoyed. Watching a movie there is like nothing else.” The theater hosts regular daily screenings and special film festivals, including the “Reel Youth Hartford Film Festival” for local high school and middle school students; the “Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival,” founded at Cinestudio in 1988 and presented by Out Film CT; and the “April in Paris [French] Film Festival,” organized by Trinity’s Department of Language and Culture Studies. Cinestudio also screens live events from Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet and London’s Royal Opera House and National Theatre. Trinity Film Festival (TFF), held at Cinestudio each spring since 2012, is a platform for undergraduate student filmmakers from across the country to network and see their films on the big screen. John Michael Mason ’12, M’14, now Trinity’s head track and field coach and chair of Cinestudio’s Board of Directors, founded TFF as an undergraduate. “Cinestudio was one of the reasons I chose to attend Trinity,” he says. “Seeing a film in a theater with other people is a profoundly different and better experience than watching in your own home, on a computer, or on a phone. The communal aspect of it, the darkness, and the clarity of image and sound are all things Cinestudio holds paramount, unlike any theater I’ve ever experienced.”

20 THE TRINITY REPORTER “It is truly a gem of the BEHIND area in terms of the quality that THE SCENES HOW DID CINESTUDIO GET ITS NAME? James Hanley: generations of people both from We liked the name because it sounded like a film production studio. There was Trinity and the community have a theater in New York already called Ciné Studio, so we decided to go with one word. We argued over whether to put an accent on the e, but [it] was tedious to do with an accent, and it unbalanced our logo and didn’t look right. We still enjoyed.” say Cin-ay-studio, but most people say Cin-ah-studio.

WHO OWNS THE BUILDING? PRAKASH YOUNGER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH John Michael Mason: It’s Trinity’s building, and the college allows Cinestudio to operate there in return for having this great resource that With Hanley, McMorris, and two Yellow Submarine. Alumni and past vol- attracts students and the community. part-time projectionists as the only paid unteers of Cinestudio also will be invited staff, Cinestudio is run largely by stu- to a reception on May 2 that coincides WHAT’S THE MEANING OF dent volunteers. Claire Pritchard ’20, with this year’s TFF. The gathering will THE LION SYMBOL? who is double majoring in biochem- serve as a recognition of all those who James Hanley: istry and theater and dance, serves as have helped the organization succeed We were inspired by the movie The Lion in Cinestudio’s lead student volunteer in its first 50 years. Winter [1968] and found a public domain coordinator. “Cinestudio is an amazing “I can’t say that I’ve ever regret- heraldic running lion to use as our logo. venue and opens people up to the fact ted it for a minute,” Hanley says. “It that movie theaters are alive and well,” started with a student impetus and WHO WRITES THE MOVIE DESCRIPTIONS FOR THE FLYER AND WEBSITE? says Pritchard, an Elizabeth Elting ’87 has remained student centered right Peter McMorris Bantam Bold 1823 Scholar. “I’ve learned down the line. I’m very optimistic that It’s a family affair. Christine McCarthy a lot about working on teams, communi- Cinestudio will continue as an integral McMorris [’79] was a student manager at cations, publicity, and being able to mar- part of the campus.” Cinestudio who moved to N.Y.C. to get an ket anything.” Student volunteers pro- As Hanley and McMorris begin to M.F.A. She moved back to Hartford, and gram the “Moonlight Movies” series one think about retiring from their roles as we got married, and now she works at Friday night per month. Sponsored by executive directors of Cinestudio in the Trinity’s Greenberg Center as well the college’s Office of Student Activities, coming years, plans are being made to as researching and writing up the Involvement & Leadership (S.A.I.L.), ensure that the organization they cre- movie descriptions. these movies are funded so they are free ated will go on. WHERE DID THE NEW SIGN COME FROM? to students with a Trinity ID. “We try to “The 50th anniversary is in many James Hanley: make it as accessible as possible for stu- ways a celebration of all that James An alumnus named Wilfred “Bill” dents,” Pritchard says. and Peter have done over the last five Talbot III ’82 reached out to us about Hanley adds, “It’s a very rare combi- decades,” Mason says. “We’re work- donating toward a Cinestudio marquee. nation for a college campus to have a ing hard as a board to put ourselves in He recommended acclaimed designer nonprofit movie theater open to the pub- the position to continue that legacy for Coco Raynes in Boston, and we hired lic, with students who actually manage another 50 years. Cinestudio could only her to design a sign that would be a it and also are a part of its future.” exist and grow because of what Trinity signature artwork in its own right and is: a place where people with ingenu- a fine enhancement to the distinctive “CINESTUDIO WILL CONTINUE AS AN ity are supported, where there’s a larger architecture of the McKim, Mead, and White [designed] building. It was INTEGRAL PART OF THE CAMPUS” community outside of the college, and installed last year, and people fell in love To celebrate its 50th anniversary, where students are given the room and with it right away; it’s become part of the Cinestudio will host special screenings encouragement to take their dreams campus already. on February 22 of the two films that and turn them into reality.” started it all, Alice’s Restaurant and

WINTER 2020 21 22 THE TRINITY REPORTER Breakthroughs in treating genetic illnesses

Pediatrician and geneticist D. Holmes Morton, M.D., IDP’79 could D. Holmes have enjoyed a lucrative career as a researcher at a prestigious teaching university. Instead, he found meaningful work among Morton, the Plain People—the Amish and Mennonites of Lancaster County, M.D., IDP’79 Pennsylvania—treating children afflicted with genetic illnesses. dedicates Morton is considered a leading authority on diseases that have career to plagued these sects for generations. Using cutting-edge technology, Morton and his team have discovered numerous genetic illnesses Amish, and developed novel treatments, says Joseph B. Martin, M.D., for- Mennonite mer dean of Harvard Medical School. “The care [Morton and his children team] provide for these families has no counterpart,” says Martin. Morton’s research also has influenced the mainstream medical BY MARY HOWARD community in the treatment of numerous genetic illnesses, partic- PHOTOS BY ED CUNICELLI ularly glutaric aciduria type 1 (GA1) and maple syrup urine disease (MSUD)—metabolic disorders whose study has consumed much of his professional life.

WINTER 2020 23 hanks in part to his work, these disor- Program, saw something in the 24- ders are recognized as more common year-old. “He was determined and and highly treatable if diagnosed early. self-directed, just the kind of student In fact, most newborns in the United we were looking for,” says Kirkpatrick. States and throughout the world are Morton thrived in the program, which Ttested for GA1 and MSUD as part of is designed for older students and routine screenings. “These are not focuses on independent learning. “He just curious diseases of the Amish,” was the talk of the department,” says says Morton. “They affect people all Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology over the world.” Craig Schneider. “We were always Morton has received numerous acco- impressed with his questions.” lades for his work, including the Albert Morton spent so much time in the Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism Trinity library that the college eventu- in 1993 and a John D. and Catherine T. ally paid him to work at the reference MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. He also desk. “Holmes’s goal was to learn as received an honorary doctor of sci- much as he could, as fast as he could,” ence degree from Trinity in 1990. “He is says Mace. His dedication paid off, one of Harvard Medical School’s most and 4½ years after his interview with remarkable alumni,” says Martin. Kirkpatrick, he graduated Phi Beta So, it may seem surprising that Kappa with honors in his majors of Morton, growing up in a small town in biology and psychology. West Virginia, did poorly in school. An He went on to Harvard Medical independent learner, he preferred study- School, graduating in 1983, completed ing literature, mathematics, and music his residency in pediatrics at Boston outside of class. “I thought of myself as Children’s Hospital, and was awarded a good student, but what I studied never a research fellowship in biochemi- quite matched what was going on in cal genetics at Children’s Hospital of school,” he says. Philadelphia. It was in Philadelphia The spring before his high school where Morton made a discovery that graduation, he dropped out to work as a changed the course of his career. boiler man on steam-powered ore boats A lab technician asked him to ana- on the Great Lakes. In 1970, during the lyze a urine sample from a 6-year-old Vietnam War, he was drafted and reluc- Amish boy from Lancaster County, tantly joined the U.S. Navy to do the Pennsylvania. The boy was mentally same work. alert but had no control of his limbs and But wherever he went, he contin- was confined to a wheelchair; his local outsiders is strictly forbidden in these ued his studies. “Holmes is far more doctor had suspected cerebral palsy. religious orders, resulting in shallow impressed with what he doesn’t know In examining the sample, Morton gene pools. The Plain People now in than with what he knows,” says friend instead found signs of GA1, a metabolic Lancaster County are descended from and mentor William Mace, Trinity pro- disorder that can inhibit the body’s fewer than 200 individuals who immi- fessor of psychology, emeritus. ability to process certain pro- grated to the United States from Europe Before coming to Trinity, teins. Children with GA1 are in the 1700s. This reduced genetic diver- Morton took correspondence born healthy, but when they sity makes these populations more sus- courses in geometry and develop a fever or com- ceptible to genetic disorders, including physics and studied at common childhood illness, GA1 and MSUD. munity colleges. After read- toxic chemical compounds In June 1988, Morton visited the ing an article in Scientific build up in their brains Amish boy at his family’s farm and American, he became fasci- and cause severe damage. learned that other children had similar nated by developmental psy- Those who survive are left symptoms. “The Amish called them chology and neurology, which led to with irreversible paralysis that ‘God’s special children’ and said they an interest in medicine. resembles cerebral palsy. At the time, had been sent by God to teach us how Still, he was an unlikely applicant to GA1 had been documented in only eight to love,” says Morton. “That idea deeply Trinity. “My grades were poor, standard- patients worldwide, none of them from affected me.” ized test scores were unremarkable, and Lancaster County. He began visiting these children neither indicated an aptitude for sci- Genetic researchers have long been weekly, rarely charging for his services. ence,” he says. But Professor of Religion interested in Amish and Mennonite Two part-time jobs—doing research at Emeritus Frank Kirkpatrick, then direc- families because of their closed com- Johns Hopkins University and caring for tor of the school’s Individualized Degree munities, says Morton. Marriage to newborns at Bryn Mawr Hospital—paid

24 THE TRINITY REPORTER These kinds of medical issues will always be here, and it’s important that there are people to replace me.

D. Holmes Morton, M.D., IDP’79, at the Central Pennsylvania Clinic—A Medical Home for Special Children and Adults in Belleville, Pennsylvania

cutting-edge research facility for rare genetic conditions. Over the years, the nonprofit has evaluated 2,600 patients from 34 states and 14 countries and with more than 150 genetic conditions. In 2012, Morton founded a second clinic, the Central Pennsylvania Clinic—A Medical Home for Special Children and Adults, in a rented space in Belleville, Pennsylvania; construction was completed on a new Belleville facility in August 2019. The Strasburg and Belleville clinics have the same mission: to provide general health care to those with rare, genetic disorders, says Morton. “But [the Belleville clinic] the bills. He discovered that untreated Frank Allen, then the Philadelphia news recognizes the fact that genetic disease GA1 caused the afflictions of many of bureau chief for the Journal, had spent affects people of all ages.” Carefully these “special children” but that the a day shadowing Morton as he made managing these disorders from birth disease was preventable. Children who house calls to his patients. While he was to death results in better lives for the were put on a protein-restricted diet overwhelmed by what he saw—“These patients, he says. supplemented with the vitamin ribofla- children were horribly damaged,” says Allen notes that Morton’s extraordi- vin rarely experienced the devastating Allen—he was greatly impressed with nary dedication and his successful clinic effects of the disease. Morton’s passion, gentleness, and sense model have inspired seven other clinics To continue this work, Morton and of humor. near Amish and Mennonite communi- his wife, Caroline, decided to open a By 7:00 a.m. on the day the story ran, ties throughout the United States. research and treatment clinic in the phone calls were flooding the bureau. Though Morton has affected thou- heart of Amish and Mennonite country, The numerous donations that followed, sands of lives in the 30-plus years of where their patients lived. They applied including two checks for $100,000 each, his career, he remains humble. “It has for numerous grants, but with little more than funded the equipment. “It been an interesting job, working in this success, they agreed to take out a sec- all worked out because of Frank Allen,” setting and culture,” he says. But with ond mortgage on their home to fund an says Morton. The two remain friends, an eye toward the future, he stresses the expensive piece of medical equipment and Allen, now retired, is writing a book importance of getting younger people that would allow Morton to test infants about Morton. involved in this work. “These kinds of for GA1 before symptoms developed. The Clinic for Special Children, once medical issues will always be here, and On September 20, 1989, just before dubbed “the little clinic in an Amish it’s important that there are people to they were to sign the mortgage papers, corn field,” in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, replace me.” an article about them appeared on the was founded that same year as a front page of The Wall Street Journal. combination pediatric-care clinic and

WINTER 2020 25 I feel as though I’m back with my family. I recently returned to Trinity College as the Summit Fellow for Communications, a position created to further the college’s strategic plan. FROM After graduating from Trinity in 2018 with a B.A. in English and spending a year in a job at the State Capitol, I wanted to work where people would listen to and nurture my ideas. I knew Trinity’s Office of Communications well; as an international student from Mumbai, STUDENT India, I worked part time there for 3½ years and found mentors who helped shape my voice as a writer. When the opportunity to return to work at the college arose, I seized it. Not long after being back on campus, I started to wonder TO STAFF how many young alumni worked at Trinity; within just a month of my employment, my wondering sparked the idea for this Reporter feature, a perfect example of how Trinity is giving me a platform to be a storyteller. MEMBER I learned that at least 22 alumni who graduated since 2004—including several graduate assistant coaches and Bantam Network Trinsition Fellows—work at the college. While I may be one of the most recent Trinity grads Young alumni among the group, David Andres ’04, director of pay it forward as analytics and strategic initiatives and a mem- Trinity employees ber of the President’s Cabinet, has been an integral member of the community since earning his B.S. in biology here. BY BHUMIKA CHOUDHARY ’18 I asked seven of our alumni staff to participate in a short Q&A so we could learn a bit more about them and their ties to Trinity. Here’s what they have to say. PHOTO: SHANA SURECK SHANA PHOTO:

26 THE TRINITY REPORTER JOHN MICHAEL MASON ’12, M’14 >> PHOTO: SHANA SURECK SHANA PHOTO:

WINTER 2020 27 JOHN MICHAEL is your life for this short time at with the college after leaving. Our college, and it is pretty special. young alumni are an important CHRISTOPHER MASON ’12, M’14 You can see the downtown skyline constituency, and I am excited to Head Coach for Men’s and Women’s from here. Hartford gives students continue engaging with this group Indoor and Outdoor Track and HOULIHAN ’09 educational, cultural, and culinary of friends and peers. John Rose College Organist-and- Field; Associate Head Coach for opportunities. When I think of Directorship Distinguished Chair Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Trinity, I think of Hartford. They of Chapel Music and Adjunct • B.A. in self-designed major of are inseparable for me. Professor of Music, ex officio classical foundations of American KAROLINA KWIECINSKA ’16 Special Assistant to the President culture history with minors • B.A. in women, gender, in music and medieval and and sexuality •>> B.A. in music with minor in Renaissance studies; M.A. DANIEL A. GARCIA ’17 Assistant Director of • Trinity staff member since 2017 writing and rhetoric; M.M. in in American studies Alumni Relations organ, The Juilliard School • Trinity staff member since 2012 • B.A. in human rights studies with Is there anything that you • Trinity staff member since 2013

minor in African studies appreciate as a Trinity employee (faculty member since 2017) Why did you want to stay at Trinity • Trinity staff member since 2018 that you did not recognize as a after completing your graduate student? My experience working at What makes you look forward to assistantship? I could have gone Is there anything that you Trinity has been entirely different work each day? I look forward to in many different directions, but appreciate as a Trinity employee from my time as a student on working with my organ students I had started to carve out a home that you did not recognize as a campus. As an employee, I’ve and The Chapel Singers. My at Trinity. It was easiest to recruit student? As an employee, I am gained a deep appreciation for students often ask me about here because I knew it so well, able to see all the work that goes the administrative staff that works what Trinity was like when I was and I believed in what Trinity is on behind the scenes. We only year-round to conduct college an undergraduate. I think they and could be. I also had other saw a piece of the pie when we business and ensure everything appreciate that I can share some things I was interested in, and were students. is running smoothly. As a student, of their perspectives on the life that morphed into my involvement I was unaware of how much time of a Trinity student and that I with Cinestudio [chair of its board] You started at Trinity as a Summit employees spend carrying out day- also have my own set of unique and Trinity Film Festival. Most Fellow, a short-term position in to-day responsibilities. experiences. importantly, I liked Hartford. I Alumni Relations and the Office felt like I had opportunities here of Communications. How did your What makes you look forward to Why did you want to work at and knew that if I was going to experience as a Summit Fellow work each day? I feel honored to Trinity? I had many extraordinary stay here, I wanted to have a influence your decision step foot on campus each day. opportunities as a student, community outside of campus. to continue working at To work for a historic and specifically because I came to

Trinity? My previous prestigious institution like Trinity. Trinity is one of the few As a student and as an employee, role allowed me to build Trinity is truly a privilege. small colleges where students you have been a key driver of many relationships with I am a Hartford native. As can study organ and choral music Trinity Film Festival. Why? I grew our current students and a kid, I would walk or drive within the context of an exceptional up in a family where we watched young alumni. I value these by Trinity’s campus every day liberal arts education because of a lot of movies, so I always loved relationships and want to do and stare in awe at the beauty our long history of distinguished film. Here I had opportunities with my part to help enrich the Trinity of the campus. To have had the Chapel music. I am proud to Cinestudio, like showing my own experience for all. My new role opportunity to attend Trinity and continue this program for our short films to a large audience in allows me to use these existing now work here still feels surreal. current and future Bantams. our beautiful theater. Meanwhile, relationships to educate and foster I had friends at film school who a sense of philanthropy within Why did you want to work at What are you most grateful for as a were working hard and were only our community. Trinity? I originally returned to Trinity employee? I feel very lucky able to show their films to a class Trinity to work in Community to make music in our extraordinary of 15 peers. I wanted more people Does being an alum affect your job? Relations. My goal was to chip Chapel and to play our magnificent to experience their films in the best It does, in the most positive and away at some of the barriers and Austin pipe organ. These are two of theater I have ever seen. That is fruitful way. I know so many people stereotypes about Trinity that Trinity’s truly world-class treasures. how the festival began. It’s a labor from my undergrad years that it has still exist within the community, I am also exceedingly grateful for of love. I love the theater and the allowed me to connect and educate utilizing my knowledge of the our brilliant students, whom I learn energy that comes from students my peers in a much more personal area as a resident. I also was from every day. seeing their films on the big screen. and informal way. drawn to the opportunity to

work with an inspiring leader You succeeded your former teacher What distinguishes Trinity from How does your newly created and incredibly dedicated team. John Rose. How do you carry on other schools? If I am speaking position fit in the college’s focus It was a full-circle moment for his legacy while forging your to a prospective student and we on young alumni engagement? me. Growing up, I was taught the own? I am certainly standing on are standing on the Long Walk, This position gives Trinity the important role higher education the shoulders of a giant. John was I paint a picture: Imagine opportunity to engage our would play in my aspirations extraordinarily dedicated to the yourself rushing from class young alumni before they and future. Trinity provided me Trinity community for 40 years and to practice. You are running even become alums. We with unique opportunities and a still remains actively involved in down the hill, and the bells hope that fostering a sense high-quality education. I felt that the life of the college. I am grateful are going off at the Chapel. of philanthropy in them coming back as an employee was to have learned from his example After practice, you are about while they are current students my way of paying it forward to and thankful for his continued to head back up the Long Walk will lead them to become young the other students who come from support and encouragement. to go to the dining hall with your alums who are eager to reconnect backgrounds similar to mine. team. Stop and look around. This PHOTO: JOHN WOIKE JOHN PHOTO:

28 THE TRINITY REPORTER PHOTO: JOHN WOIKE JOHN PHOTO:

WINTER 2020 29 Rosangelica Rodriguez ’15, M’18, Trinity’s sustainability coordinator, center, meets ROSANGELICA with Jaci Budion ’22, Green Campus co-president, and Amelia Huba ’22, RODRIGUEZ ’15, Student Government Association sustainability liaison and Green Campus M’18 co-president, on the Main Quad. Sustainability Coordinator as a student the degree to which >> every Trinity employee, whether • B.S. in environmental science faculty or staff, wants students with minor in Hispanic studies; to succeed. I always knew my M.A. in American studies professors were in my corner, but • Trinity staff member since 2015 I don’t think I knew as a student just how special that was. How does your position work toward the strategic plan’s goals? What makes you look forward One of the main goals of the to work each day? I think that Summit strategic plan is to build it’s the people who have always a sustainable future, and my made the Trinity experience stand position was created to help Trinity out. That was true for me as a reach that goal. When we think student, and it’s true for me as about sustainability, we should an employee. I work closely with consider social sustainability, alumni volunteers, and they’re financial sustainability, and such a passionate, dedicated environmental sustainability. group of people. I have the These three aspects have to work opportunity to meet students, together to drive all the decisions who always impress me with their that are made on a college campus. talent and drive. And I have a I am responsible for making terrific group of colleagues, both sure our decisions minimize our in the Advancement Office and colleagues now. It’s also reassuring Rights and Opportunities] and I are environmental impact and help across campus. us achieve a sustainable future. to know that Trinity and everyone both Trinity graduates, so this is a here who knows my story wants special place for our family. Why did you want to work at to make sure I succeed, and if What makes you look forward Trinity? I could wax poetic about I am successful at my job, then What makes you look forward to to work each day? It may sound how I believe in the power of we are all succeeding at driving work each day? Finding ways to silly, but saving the planet. I have education to broaden environmental sustainability interact with Hartford. My job the opportunity to influence not your horizons and forward. allows me to work with different only students but also the entire change your life for constituencies in the city, whether Trinity community to make positive the better (which it’s a local business that I might be change. Our immediate community is true). Or explain working with to source marketing may be only 100 acres, but our KYLE SMITH ’05 how my position was Senior Associate Director material for the Admissions Office actions here and when we leave a step I wanted to of Admissions or a community-based organization have a ripple effect worldwide. take professionally (also • B.A. in religion that serves the youth of Hartford. true). But in the end, I love Trinity, • Trinity staff member since 2017 I enjoy developing relationships Why did you want to work at and while I could have pursued a with people and organizations Trinity? I wanted to give back. position in higher ed somewhere Why did you want to work at throughout the city. As a student, Trinity gave me so else, I wanted to make a difference Trinity? It was an important time many opportunities: I did summer in education here, ’neath the elms. research; I traveled to Asia, Africa, in Trinity’s history to come back to Does being an alum affect your job? campus. There was new leadership I do have an added sense of pride and other parts of the United What are you most grateful for as and direction at the college. about the work our division does. States; and I made lifelong a Trinity employee? I’m grateful For the first time, Trinity had I think that I am also able to speak friends. I also saw the for the chance to contribute and an African American female with prospective students and changes that Hartford was make a difference on campus. I leading the institution. families from a unique perspective making, which made the was able to attend Trinity because With Angel Pérez leading because I was a student here. city more attractive for a of the scholarships and grants I enrollment efforts, it seemed young college graduate, so received, and those were made clear that Trinity was continuing I decided to stay. possible by the generosity of the work of breaking down barriers ELIZABETH PATTERSON ’05 Trinity alumni. The work I do every to higher education. I also was Associate Director of Annual Giving How does being an alum affect your day helps create those same kinds intrigued by what seemed like • B.A. in English with minor in job? I have an advantage when it of opportunities for students who Trinity’s improving relationship Hispanic studies comes to working with students, are on campus now and those who with the city of Hartford. I was • Trinity staff member since 2016 as I can easily relate. I also can’t will be here in the future. help but call my old professors by excited to return to help build new their last name. Professor Geiss classes of Bantams. And, of course, Is there anything that you will always be Professor Geiss— my wife [Jody Walker-Smith ’05, appreciate as a Trinity employee not Christoph—even though we’re a human rights attorney with the that you did not recognize as a Connecticut Commission on Human student? I don’t think I understood PHOTO: JOHN MARINELLI JOHN PHOTO:

30 THE TRINITY REPORTER WE ARE THE CLASS OF 2023

New to campus last fall, the members of the Class of 2023— Catching up Trinity’s Bicentennial Class—come to the college with diverse backgrounds and interests. Whether from down the with six members street or the other side of the globe, the students bring with of Trinity’s them a desire to explore the world and expand their hori- Bicentennial Class zons. Here, The Trinity Reporter catches up with six first- year students mere weeks into their first semester to learn

BY ANDREW J. CONCATELLI more about them and their goals for their time at Trinity. WE ARE THE CLASS OF 2023

RAY ALVAREZ-ADORNO WILLIAM J. NELSON SCHOLAR Hometown: Newark, New Jersey High school: Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire

Ray Alvarez-Adorno knows that goals and perspectives may change over time, so he tries to keep an open mind. “I went to high school thinking I wanted to be an engineer but came out wanting to be a senator and poet,” he says. “I’m open to anything that’s thrown my way. I feel that planning is an obstacle that people give themselves. I’ll have an outline, but you need to be able to give yourself leeway to explore different things. In my time here at Trinity, I want to focus on not only getting smarter but also becoming a better person and a more accessible person to talk to.” After taking part in the Promoting Respect for Inclusive Diversity in Education (P.R.I.D.E.) and first-generation pre- orientation programs, Alvarez-Adorno is jumping right into student life on Trinity’s campus. “I’ve been to meetings for La Voz Latina and the Trinity College Men of Color Alliance, and I want to be active in the Masculinity Project and Temple of Hip Hop,” he says. He enjoys playing games like Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. “I’d love to start a club for that, but my dream job would be to write for DC Comics. I love writing stories; I see myself naturally as a storyteller.” Alvarez-Adorno, whose family is Puerto Rican, says he will most likely major in political science. “I want to be a senator to represent perspectives of minorities and of people who grew up poor, raised by strong women like my mom, Griselle Adorno,” he says. “I have also thought of becoming a middle school teacher, and I may go for a Ph.D. eventually.” Anthropology is another area he may explore. “I love learning about people and looking at their culture, getting to know what the real story is,” he adds. PHOTOS: SARAH MCCOY SARAH PHOTOS:

32 THE TRINITY REPORTER AZKA HASSAN Hometown: Malé, Republic of Maldives High school: United World College (UWC) Mahindra College in Maharashtra, India

Azka Hassan is the first Trinity student ever from the Maldives, a small South Asian country located in the Indian Ocean. “As much as it feels like a burden to be the first Maldivian student at Trinity, it’s such a big opportunity, and I feel honored,” says Hassan. “Trinity has made me feel wanted and excited to be here. I already signed up to make my own booth at the Festival of Nations. It’s a lot of work representing a country by yourself, but I’m up for the challenge.” The InterArts Program is the perfect first-year opportunity for Hassan, who has been interested in the arts her whole life. “In high school, I learned theory of art and art history and got to experiment with different media, like sculpture, woodcuts, printmaking, and all types of paint,” she says. Hassan is interested in film classes and wants to look into double majoring in art and psychology for a possible career in art therapy, which she would pursue in the Maldives. “I like the idea of going back home to use my knowledge to help people there,” she says. To help make the transition to college, Hassan joined the Bantam Beginnings pre-orientation program “Hartford’s Architecture, Ethnic Culture & Cuisines” and took a walking tour of the city with P.R.I.D.E. “We walked 19,289 steps! I met so many amazing people, and I would love to get to know more,” she says. Hassan would like to become involved with Trinity’s International House and raising awareness about issues of cultural appropriation and racism. “I hope to participate in as many things as I can and make as many memories as I can before I have to officially be an adult,” she says. “I want to become the person that 5-year-old me would be proud of. In my future, I see a lot of growth, a lot of accomplishment, and, most importantly, a lot of hard work.” PHOTOS: SARAH MCCOY SARAH PHOTOS:

WINTER 2020 33 WE ARE THE CLASS OF 2023

MAGGIE POWERS PAUL E. RAETHER SCHOLAR AND HARRIET E. AND DAVID H. BROMBERG ’44 SCHOLAR Hometown: West Hartford, Connecticut High school: Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy in Hartford, Connecticut

Along with a dozen other first-year students in the new Global Start program, Maggie Powers chose to begin her Trinity experience by spending the fall semester living and studying in the vibrant capital city of San José, Costa Rica. “Studying abroad for my first semester in college sounded like an appealing challenge and an adventure,” says Powers, who likes to travel and has worked on a 4-H farm. “Plus, I was thrilled to learn that I would be living and studying on a farm for three weeks of the semester. Taking such a huge jump from high school to college in another country for my first semester has really pushed me toward huge personal and social growth, and being exposed to a completely different culture has opened my eyes to what goes on in the world outside of the U.S.” Powers is interested in restorative justice and may pursue the fields of urban studies or women, gender, and sexuality. She also hopes to get involved with Trinity student groups including the Entertainment Activities Council (EAC) Barnyard and The Homelessness Project. Among the reasons Powers chose Trinity were the college’s movement toward a more diverse student body and its active engagement with Hartford. “I’d like to help create a stronger connection between our student body and the surrounding Hartford community. My time at Trinity will hopefully be filled with growth that leads me to be engaged with my education and my community and to become more of an independent thinker who challenges our social and cultural norms,” Powers says. “I also hope to be able to connect with Trinity alumni to see how they have taken their time at Trinity and implemented change within their own communities to allow others to grow and have access to opportunities they might otherwise not be afforded.” PHOTO: KEVIN HESLIN KEVIN PHOTO: MCCOY SARAH PHOTO:

34 THE TRINITY REPORTER JAKE ARMENTROUT Hometown: Lyman, Maine High school: Waynflete in Portland, Maine

Even though he’s now part of the third generation of Bantams in his family, Jake Armentrout said his family didn’t pressure him to choose Trinity. “I just kept coming back to Trinity and could really see myself here,” says Armentrout, who follows his mother, Sarah Chappell Armentrout ’92, P’23, and grandfather, Tom Chappell ’66, H’06, P’89, ’92, ’97, ’06, GP’23, to Hartford. “It’s important to keep the family tradition going. Trinity wasn’t pressed on me very hard; I just ended up being really interested in it. Coming here as a legacy, there’s a pressure to be successful. I want to have a good academic career and not let my family down. My goals are to be true to myself and to continue the legacy in a strong way.” After graduating from high school in a class of about 75 students, Armentrout says that he feels comfortable in Trinity’s intimate environment. “I couldn’t see myself in a bigger school in a massive city,” he says. He may decide to major in political science or take a pre-law school route. “It’d be fun to intern in Hartford someday, especially if I want to pursue law,” Armentrout says. “That would be a really great opportunity to learn from someone in the city, not far from campus.” So far, he is enjoying the “City as a Work of Art” first-year seminar, which includes aspects of history and architecture, and plans to play club lacrosse, work for the Office of Student Activities, Involvement & Leadership, and serve as a stage technician for productions with the Theater and Dance Department. To start his own Trinity career, Armentrout embarked on a hiking and camping trip on the Appalachian Trail with the Quest pre-orientation program. “Quest is a great gateway,” he says. “You’re really close and smelly with everybody. You get to know people really quickly and become great friends with them. Everyone should do a pre- orientation program; it’s a leg up.” PHOTO: KEVIN HESLIN KEVIN PHOTO: MCCOY SARAH PHOTO:

WINTER 2020 35 WE ARE THE CLASS OF 2023

ETHAN YERKES Hometown: Chicago, Illinois High school: William Howard Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois

A Posse Scholar who started an engineering club at his high school, Ethan Yerkes is leaning toward studying mechanical engineering at Trinity. “I want to design car engines,” he says. “I want to make sure I have a job that I enjoy, and cars are something I’ve been enthusiastic about since I was a little kid.” One idea Yerkes has to connect his interests, studies, and possible future career is to start an on-campus mechanic shop. “Engineers can get hands-on experience on actual, operating automobiles, and students in economics and finance could be running the business end,” he says. The first-generation college student chose Trinity in part for its Engineering Department, but he’s also interested in math, biomedical science, business, finance, film, and photography. “I’m trying to figure out how to fit those all into my life,” he says. Yerkes enrolled in the “Designing Your Future Work” first-year seminar because, he says, “I enjoy designing and figuring out where I’m going. With a small liberal arts school, you have more control over where you want to go and creating your own future. Let’s see where I can go.” Yerkes has a passion for learning new things; his goals for the next few years include learning to play piano and to speak Spanish and the Indian language Gujarati. In addition, he wants to learn computer programming to take part in the annual Trinity College International Firefighting Home Robot Contest, and he plans to explore the Debate Team, ConnPIRG, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Investment Club. “And I will hopefully make short films for Trinity Film Festival, but we will see where my free time takes me,” he says. PHOTOS: SARAH MCCOY SARAH PHOTOS:

36 THE TRINITY REPORTER GIFT NOSAKHARE Hometown: The Bronx, New York High school: KIPP NYC College Prep High School in the Bronx, New York

“When I visited Trinity, I felt at home,” says Gift Nosakhare. “I stepped on campus, and there was something about the environment and the people that made me want to come here.” She applied Early Decision after a Preview Weekend visit. “I had a host who was a psychology and premed major—which is what I want to do, too—and she talked about how amazing the STEM fields are here,” she says. While she plans to take courses in her favorite subjects of math, science, history, and engineering, Nosakhare feels especially drawn toward psychology and medicine. “Ever since I was little, I’ve wanted to study medicine. I love kids, and I’m looking at the pediatrician path now,” she says. “I took psychology in high school, and it was my favorite subject. I want to go deeper into that field to see if it’s something I want to do.” New Student Orientation was helpful for Nosakhare, who is a first-generation college student. “If it wasn’t for the tour and the games, I wouldn’t have met my friends and I wouldn’t know how to get around campus. It really helped me adjust,” she says. “I hope Trinity can break me out of being so reserved and help me be more open-minded.” After moving from Nigeria to the United States with her family when she was 6, Nosakhare maintains a love of traveling and looks forward to studying away. “I love cultures and learning about how our culture differs from others. In the Bronx, there are so many people struggling or homeless, so I want to start a club here in Hartford where we can give back to the community,” she says. As the academic year began, she planned to explore the Trinity African Students Association, Imani: Trinity’s Black Student Union, the Trinity College Black Women’s Organization, and club volleyball. “There are so many things I want to do,” she says. “I don’t know how I’ll balance all of them.” PHOTOS: SARAH MCCOY SARAH PHOTOS:

WINTER 2020 37 The campaign for Trinity

Fundraising effort ‘will impact every student and team’

BY RHEA HIRSHMAN ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS BY PERKINS EASTMAN

38 THE TRINITY REPORTER The renovated Ferris Athletic Center athletics

WINTER 2020 39 eter Duncan ’81, P’13, ’14 is straightforward when Galbraith notes that endowing the athletics program is a key part of the asked about his time as a Trinity College student- campaign. “Our coaches serve as teach- athlete: “It’s really simple,” he says. “My experience ers, mentors, recruiters, and role mod- with Trinity College athletics was exceptional, and els,” he says. “By creating an endowment for athletics, we can remove it was made that way not only by my teammates but the burden of fundraising from them also by the coaching staff.” and let them concentrate their talents on the field, on the court, and in the The former member of Trinity’s men’s lacrosse and classroom.” ice hockey teams (and a captain of ice hockey) stayed Bill Luby ’81 played Trinity football for four years but concedes he was connected with the programs throughout the years fol- “mediocre at best” on the field. Yet, lowing his graduation. He says he was pleased “many three decades after graduation, Luby, a founding partner of the private equity moons later,” when daughter Hadley Duncan ’13 played field hockey firm Seaport Capital, remains deeply Pand lacrosse for the Bantams. “I was really happy to see firsthand devoted to the Bantam football team— which won the New England Small that Trinity athletics hadn’t changed,” he says. “If you look at the College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) entire athletic department, with very modest means, they are sure championship three of the past four and steady, get incredible results, and produce really good people.” seasons—as a donor and ardent supporter of head coach Jeff Devanney ’93. A member of the Athletics Campaign Committee, he is working with his for- Duncan, president and CEO of the commer teammates to endow the head foot- mercial real estate firm George Comfort ball coach position. & Sons, and Elissa Raether Kovas ’93, “I have a strong sense of what a good who runs her own clothing company, coach can do to help young people Shellkare, have stepped forward to lead become their best selves, and I’m con- an ambitious fundraising campaign for sistently impressed with Jeff,” says Luby. Trinity athletics, which aims to raise $65 “And, even though I was not a star on million by the college’s bicentennial in the field, the friendships I made as a 2023. That figure comprises $35 million player are my most important friend- for facilities modernization, includ- ships to this day.” ing additions to and renovations of the Athletics Campaign Committee mem- Ferris Athletic Center and upgrades ber and former varsity athlete Laurie to Jessee/Miller Field and Robin L. Fergusson Plumb ’80, who played field Sheppard Field; $25 million to endow hockey and women’s lacrosse and the athletics program; and $5 million squash, has carried into adulthood the in annual giving (to cover annual costs bonds she forged with her teammates, until the endowment is fully vested). particularly her three roommates, with “We have remarkably engaged whom she still gets together at least In every sport, our alumni, best-in-class coaches, and once a year. She credits her athletics student-athletes exceptional student-athletes,” says experience with giving her the confi- Drew Galbraith, Trinity’s director of ath- dence to succeed after college in sales, bring recognition to letics. “Building upon our rich tradition, advertising, and public relations, we can create a model NCAA Division III including stints at Comcast, Ogilvy & the college with athletics program to adapt to the future Mather, and Sports Illustrated. She and their efforts in the of higher education. husband Bob—also a varsity athlete “In every sport, our student-athletes from the Class of 1980—raised their classroom, on the bring recognition to the college with family in Boston, and she remains their efforts in the classroom, on the active in athletics there as a middle field, and in the field, and in the Hartford community,” school lacrosse coach, golfer, hiker, Hartford community.” he adds. “By enhancing our athlet- and runner. ics facilities, investing in our athletic “My involvement with the Trinity DREW GALBRAITH, TRINITY’S DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS endowments, and transforming our athletics campaign means a lot to me,” approach to student wellness, this cam- Plumb says. “The campaign has layers paign will impact every student and of meaning for all involved, and I want Above: Updated Ferris Athletic Center lobby; Right: New squash courts team at Trinity.” to convey the passion I have for Trinity

40 THE TRINITY REPORTER ATHLETICS CAMPAIGN COMMMITTEE

“Our committee includes alumni who are devoted to Trinity athletics, alumni for whom athletics has been instrumental in their careers, and alumni who athletics and the vitality of the mentoring and fostering generations of connec- are enthusiastic about the and teaching that continues to shape my tions. Galbraith says the athletics cam- opportunity to transform life, even after all these years.” paign will benefit not only varsity, club, Ferris into a welcoming With more than one-third of the stu- and intramural athletes but also the space for athletes and for dent body participating in varsity athlet- entire community. everyone who is interested ics and many playing club sports in com- The 15,000-square-foot fitness center petition with other schools and engaging will house cardio and weight equipment, in health and fitness.” in intramural activities on campus, the and activities such as spinning, yoga, —ELISSA A. RAETHER KOVAS ’93 impact of athletics on the community is and Zumba will be in one central loca- COMMITTEE far-reaching. tion instead of scattered around campus. Peter Duncan ’81, P’13, ’14, For Kovas, four years competing in “Students now are much more educated co-chair the club sport of alpine skiing taught about fitness,” Galbraith says. “A major Elissa Raether Kovas ’93, her valuable lessons about time man- part of the process has been designing co-chair agement and camaraderie. She remains for the needs and expectations of this Ray Beech ’60, P’94 involved with athletics in a sport that new generation.” Ed Berkowitz P’91 she didn’t play at Trinity: squash. That point resonates with committee Rohan Bhappu ’02 Persuaded by her husband and son, member Marc DiBenedetto ’13, whose Monica Iacono Boss ’95 both avid players, to take it up, she’s campaign involvement includes commu- Paul Broderick ’93, P’23 Clint Brown ’79 now a board member for MetroSquash, nicating with and representing the inter- Christine Smith Collins ’91 a program “enmeshed in the commu- ests of younger alumni. DiBenedetto has Phoebe Booth DePree ’01 nity” of the University of Chicago that a deep connection to Trinity athletics as Marc DiBenedetto ’13 combines academic support, competitive a club athlete (baseball), a member of a Todd DuBoef ’90 squash, and enrichment opportunities Bantam athletics family (father and four Derek Falvey ’05 for students from grade 5 through sec- brothers), and a reporter on the college’s Dan Good ’95 ondary school and beyond. teams through the student-run (but no Jerry Hansen Jr. ’51, P’78, ’84, ’88, With the Ferris Athletic Center expan- longer active) Trinity Sports Network. GP’12, ’16, ’20 sion plan including both state-of-the-art Now a video content producer for Billy Hogan ’96 squash facilities and dedicated space New England Sports Network (NESN), Sam Kennedy ’95 Mark Leavitt ’80, P’14 for Hartford’s own urban squash pro- DiBenedetto created for his senior the- Bill Luby ’81 gram, Capitol Squash, Kovas intends sis at Trinity a full-length documentary J.P. Marra ’90, P’23 to bring her experience in Chicago to called All In that chronicles the Trinity Brendan Monahan ’95 help deepen the relationship between men’s squash team’s road to the 2013 Jay Monahan ’93 Capitol Squash and the college. “As an national championship. Lisa Parker ’80 adult, I appreciate even more the posi- DiBenedetto says his mission is to Laurie Fergusson Plumb ’80 tive effects that athletics and mentoring persuade athletes and nonathletes alike Andy Rathmann-Noonan ’09 can have in young people’s lives,” she to support the current campaign how- Macey Russell ’80 says. “Enhancing the connection with ever they can. “Even though so much of Robin Sheppard M’76 Capitol Squash is a great way for us to what Trinity means to me is connected Kevin Smith ’87, P’21 Doug Tansill ’61, P’91, ’96 foster the college’s relationship with to sports,” he says, “half of my friends Mike Tucci ’82, P’16 our neighborhood.” were not athletes, and I know the posi- Bill Villari ’86 Athletics has long been a defining tive effects of the athletics program on Ginny Vogel Yonce ’87, P’23, ’23 strength of the college and has played a the school overall.” significant role in creating community

WINTER 2020 41 “It was important to us to support students who are leaders on the field and in the classroom, so we established an endowed scholarship fund through a charitable gift annuity. When the annuity matures, our fund will ensure that a talented scholar- athlete can make the most of Trinity’s liberal arts education. We made our gift so that special students can share their talents with Trinity and the world.” —Joanne and Tom Head ’52

HOW IT WORKS 1. You transfer cash or securities to Trinity. 2. You receive an income tax deduction and may save capital gains tax. Trinity pays a fixed amount for life to you or to anyone you name. 3. When the gift annuity ends, its remaining principal passes to Trinity.

Linda M. Minoff, Director of Gift Planning 860-297-5353 [email protected] legacy.trincoll.edu we have been doing since we last communi- cated. Our next deadline is February 12, 2020. And, as always, you can send me the information or send it to Julie Cloutier at Trinity. My CLASS NOTES email is [email protected], and snail mail is 3712 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX 77005. I am always ready to receive your posts. Secretary’s note: The New York Times REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 most extra points attempted by kicking and also Magazine issue on education, September 15, Class Agents: Robert M. Blum, best PAT percentage kicking of 1.000.” 2019, has a great and in-depth article on Trinity 1950 Esq., John G. Grill Jr. Jacques (Jack) Hopkins spends half the year College admissions. This is a must read! in Rhode Island and the other half in Florida. Jack Campbell writes, “Stan, I am getting Class Secretary: Richard G. His very attentive daughter and her boyfriend more involved with the National Veterans 1951 Mecaskey, The Gates Mill Club, live next door to him in both places. He was Memorial and Museum and am a tour guide 6759 Mayfield Rd., #611, Mayfield Heights, a longtime, enthusiastic cyclist but had to almost every Saturday. Other than that, it has OH 44124-2232; richard.mecaskey.1951@ give it up about five years ago after a bad bike been a quiet summer.” trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Gerald J. Hansen, accident in which he fractured his pelvis. The David Dean writes, “After 55 years of ministry Richard G. Mecaskey fractured pelvis healed after 30 painful days, but with the United Church of Christ, I am fully Trinity College, a college I will never forget. I he decided that it was time to give up cycling. retired and living at Covenant Living of Cromwell, will never forget the friends and discussions that He spends his days reading two newspapers Connecticut. It has been a great run, but I am meant so much to me; some of the great pro- (Providence Journal and The New York Times) happy not to be working on next Sunday’s fessors; my wife, Cathryn; traveling in Europe; and books, mostly novels. He also spends time sermon! Joan and I lived in Sarasota, Florida, the opportunity to expand and know more and visiting a curious website called Crazy Guy on for eight years, but the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s more; Julie Cloutier, who has helped me along a Bike, which consists of journals written by disease sent us back to Vermont, where she died in my elder years. These are my last notes for long-distance cyclists about their bike trips, in 2014. Life continues at Covenant Living, and Trinity. I thank Julie Cloutier, who has been a some of them of more than 5,000 miles. I have filled every post in our resident council. real friend over many years, and my wife, Cathy, Ben Wilmot reports, “After Trinity, I attended At age 88, life has really slowed, and my only who had worked so hard to get these notes done the University of Pennsylvania medical school, responsibility is to care for myself and to be the for the Class of ’51. Thank you! Thanks, Trinity, spent two years in the Air Force, and returned manager and sing in our chorus! I am close to for all! Dick Mecaskey to a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Trinity College, but neuropathy has taken hold of Philadelphia. After 37 years practicing pediatrics my legs, and walking is very limited. But life goes Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 in Alexandria, Virginia, I retired. Am now 90 on, and so do I. My best.” 1952 Class Secretary: The Rev. A. years old and in a retirement home in Northern Bud Toole writes, “Hello, Class of ’53. Finley Schaef, 87 Stoll Rd., Saugerties, NY Virginia. I do occasional gigs as a jazz pianist My health is OK, life is good. … Seven wonder- 12477-3022; [email protected] • and enjoy painting and needlework. I have fond ful children, 14 grandchildren (no great-grand- Class Agent: John S. Hubbard memories of the years ’neath the elms.” children yet). Visited campus last summer, Bill Vibert’s report was submitted by his wife, Phil Trowbridge writes, “Not much new fond memories. Fifty years of aviation due to Pat Vibert. “We became first-time great-grand- to report, but here’s a brief update: I enjoy air ROTC.” parents with the birth of Henry Monteith participating in the Avery Actors Guild here. We Jack North is completing some rehab on Vibert on July 1, 2019, in Denver, Colorado. Our perform several short plays every few months for his shoulder, injured in a recent fall. And all grandson Matthew ’10 and Chelsea Pearson our fellow residents here at Avery. We will begin the work seems to have paid off; good mobility Vibert are Henry’s parents. Matthew’s parents, working on our Christmas show in the next few results. Next week he has family visiting, two Mark ’79 and Betsy Kent Vibert ’79, became weeks. Fay and I also enjoyed celebrating our sons and his daughter at his “apple shed” to first-time grandparents. Is it too early to submit anniversary in Wellfleet on Cape Cod at the end enjoy the fall foliage with him. Henry’s Trinity application? Bill and I enjoy the of June. We had lovely weather and had a great Bill Bernhard writes, “Still fishing, hunting, Wednesday sunset carillon concerts on the quad time renewing our friendship with some special and traveling. Recently cruised from Tahiti to Fiji in July, and now we turn to fall Trinity football. friends whom we hadn’t seen in many years. It’s on Paul Gauguin.” Even though it’s difficult for Bill to climb into the wonderful to catch up! We’re looking forward to Sal and I rented a house this summer in stands (he has Alzheimer’s), we attend home having a family reunion at Thanksgiving, with Chatham, Massachusetts, for the first week of games and make the trek to Amherst, Williams, our children and families coming from near and August. The house was right on the water and and Wesleyan any Saturday those games are far. We don’t get to see them very often, so this slept 13, just what we needed. Three daughters, away. Bill always wears his blue baseball cap will be a really special time together. Hope you’re three husbands and four of our five grandchil- stating ‘Trinity Football/UNDEFEATED/1949.’ well. Wishing you all the best for a nice autumn dren; number five is a plebe at West Point. We Many classmates were on that team; this year and holidays. We look forward to reading the invited Joanne Moses to join us one afternoon. marks the 70th anniversary! After all these years, Class Notes update when they’re published.” She came over with her daughter and Fiona, Bill Vibert and Bill Goralski still have unbroken the exchange student from New Zealand whom records listed in the game-day programs. Under Trinity Fund Goal: $55,000 Joanne and Al had visited a couple of times and individual season records, Goralski in 1950 com- 1953 Class Secretary: Stanley R. was the inspiration for Sal to walk the Camino pleted 402 punt-return yards, with 14.9 average McCandless Jr., 3712 Rice Blvd., Houston, de Santiago three years ago, which Fiona had yards. He made a career record of 14.91 average TX 77005-2824; stanley.mccandless.1953@ done. It was great to see Joanne again and share punt-return yards in 1951. Under team game re- trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Richard T. Lyford Jr., some old memories. cords, most extra points made by kicking, 9 were Joseph B. Wollenberger, Esq. Thanks for the information you have passed completed by Vibert at Middlebury on October Once again, we, the Class of 1953, have the on to me. I will try to get it reprinted for the rest 22, 1949. Those 9 points are still the record of opportunity to share with our classmates what of us to enjoy. Keep it coming.

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From the Alumni Office:Sanford Dwight Zampiello, Joe Michelson, Bob Welsh, Bill competition. Any time left he fills with golf. The sent a card with the following news: “I am a Gardiner, and Bob Freeman. couple took a cruise to the Normandy region of lucky father of four children, two boys and two The surprise and untimely death of Bruce France in September, and I hope he writes to me girls; four grandchildren, twin grandsons and Whitman was reported in a previous edition about that trip, too. Finally, Bunny added some another grandson and granddaughter. Two sons of The Reporter. However, we were happy to thoughtful commentary on how the learning in the San Francisco Bay Area. One daughter learn that Bruce was posthumously awarded an environment and social interaction has changed is a registered nurse for 30-plus years, and one honorary doctorate by Trinity during the 2019 in America’s schools, colleges, and in life, but I daughter manages a VA office. I am turning 88 in Commencement ceremony. He was recognized will leave that for him to explain when we all get 10 days. My sincere hellos and best wishes to my as a pioneer and leader in the aviation industry. together at our next Reunion (2021). Class of 1953. I have enjoyed the pictures in the We were saddened to hear that classmate David Taylor again wrote that he and his alumni magazine with past students and their Stanley Filewicz passed on October 4 after a daughter, Ruth Taylor Kidd ’88, visiting from wives. Sincerely, S. Dwight” lengthy illness. Originally from New Britain, Connecticut, ran into Gigi Branford ’74 and he and wife Charlyn moved to Florida following her husband in a club on Waikiki. Gigi was in Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 a long and notable medical career specializing one of the first graduating classes of women 1954 Class Secretary: Robert A. Wolff, in orthopedic surgery. Fellow classmate Walter from Trinity. 527 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402-3145; Blogoslawski advised us that he and Stan Kenny Weisburger sold his house in [email protected] • Class Agent: were good friends growing up and continued Westport last March and moved to The Alexander J. Campbell II a close personal relationship at Trinity and Watermark in Bridgeport, a retirement residence I enjoyed being at our 65th Reunion and seeing through the years. Stan’s burial service included facility. He has developed a serious health condi- others of my class. Paul Assaiante, the school’s military honors. tion, but it has been brought under control, and fantastic squash coach and author of Run to the he is confident of the future. Roar, gave a great talk at our dinner. Personally, Trinity Fund Goal: $60,000 Finally, I’m sorry to report that Charlie Stehle in 2019, I have run, using the term loosely, three 1956 Class Secretary: Bruce N. lost wife Joanne last July. They had been married 5Ks, all in fun locations: around the Rose Bowl Macdonald, Stonehouse Farm, 1036 Zollmans 59 years. I knew her and enjoyed her spirit and in January, around Dodger Stadium in April, Mill Rd., Rte. 4, Lexington, VA 24450-7265; presence, and I (we/our class) extend our deep- and along the beach here in Santa Monica in [email protected] • Class est sympathies to Charlie, his sister, and their September. I took second place in all three races Agents: Edward A. Montgomery Jr., David Renkert, children. in my age group, from 80 to infinity.Bob Wolff David M. Taylor, Henry M. Zachs David Taylor wrote me to pass on a number Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 of interesting updates on our classmates. 1957 Class Secretary: Frederick M. Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 Arnold Persky and wife Amy moved last year Tobin, Esq., 771 John Ringling Blvd., Apt. F26, 1955 Class Secretary: E. Wade Close into Meadow Ridge retirement community, in Sarasota, FL 34236-1518; frederick.tobin.1957@ Jr., 65 Shoreline Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC Redding, Connecticut, and they are very happy trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Samuel Mac D. Stone II 29928-7139; [email protected]; fax: they made the move. With five children and nine Jerry Channell and Mary are well “for 84-year- 412-820-7572 • Class Agents: Hugh Dickinson, grandchildren, they must have to book their olds. Not much change … just aging gracefully.” Richard Ferraro visits with care and advance notice. Arnie was Dick and Joan Behr are enjoying life at their Our classmates have always stepped up and with the U.S. Air Force until 1986 and then prac- CCRC in the outskirts of Philadelphia. They put together a great effort for all of our past ticed law until a few years ago. David Taylor just returned from a 12-day trip to the Canadian Reunions. This upcoming June 2020 gathering for spent much of his summer in Connecticut and Rockies with Road Scholar (formerly known our 65th Reunion is no different.Don Mountford New England, including his regular trip to the as Elderhostel). Part of the trip was by train, and your secretary stirred the pot early and summer home of John Limpitlaw on Cape Cod which Dick recommends highly. They have five formed the Reunion Committee in July and had (in Wellfleet, I believe). We three also exchanged great-grandchildren. strategic discussions with the Alumni Office in emails on the subject of college costs today and Neil Day reports that he and Vivian are well. September. Our committee is composed of Don the changing face of those who go to college in He enjoyed reading Ward Just’s book Exiles in Mountford, Bill Laporte, Craig Mehldau, John this country. With two granddaughters in college the Garden. D’Luhy, Greg Petrakis, Irwin Meiselman, and at this time, I am well aware of the growth of Dave Murray enjoyed his visit with Mike and class agents Dick Ferraro and Hugh Dickinson. the cost of academia these days. Ron Boss Harriet Wallace in Pentwater, Michigan, where This is the driving force behind the effort to make had a cup of coffee with David in Long Beach, the Wallaces spend their summers in a beautiful this gathering our grand finale. Local Hartford California, in September, and David reports that community along Lake Michigan. Dave also had classmates Ed Yeomans and Dave Nelson also he looks great and they enjoyed taking pleasure the opportunity to travel around many other will contribute to the effort. in sharing memories of Trinity and life to date. lovely communities in Michigan. A specific barbershop-singing event will Carl “Bunny” Meister and I corresponded Carroll and I enjoyed lunch with Russell and be organized by Dick Ferraro and Irwin in July, and he reports that he and wife Linda Martha Partridge in Rutland, Vermont. They Meiselman and hopefully will include John are happy and healthy and enjoying life in West spend their summers along the eastern shore D’Luhy, Ron McGowan, Ron Moss, and Wade Chester, Pennsylvania. He still sells real estate of Lake Champlain. We were disappointed that Close, plus any others equally courageous to and serves on a couple of nonprofit boards. He Russ did not bring a pear tree. add their melodious voices. and his wife sold their farm but say the new Tom Doherty reports that things continue to Many will travel long distances to join owners will let them stay in the house as long go nicely. Boy, is that an understatement. Tom fellow ’55ers (all dependent on continued good as they desire; handy because the new owner and Tatiana took a cruise with their grandchil- health). We are expecting Lou Magelaner from plans to build a separate house and keep the dren from Rome to Venice with stops in Sicily, Florida, Tom Bolger from Wisconsin, Wade 130 acres intact. Bunny says he enjoys horses Malta, Greece, Slovenia, and Croatia. Tom Close from South Carolina, Fred Starr from even though he no longer rides and only misses Doherty Associates has won Nebula and Hugo North Carolina, and Warren Gelman from the fox hunting. His son is a trainer, and they Awards for best novel for The Calculating Stars. California, plus shorter-distance attendees Dick enjoy following the progress of his horses in Locus, a leading newsmagazine in fantasy and

44 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES fiction, conducts the largest reader poll in the As a defensive measure, I have taken up clock field, and Tom’s company has been voted best repair. I continue to shoot skeet and play the publisher for the 32nd consecutive year. Tom’s ukulele. And this winter, I plan to get a ham company has moved. He had been spoiled for radio license. Not sure what I will do with it, but LEAVE YOUR some 30 years, walking less than a block to it seemed it might be fun. We will see.” work. Now he has a commute of a couple of From the Alumni Office:Peter Webster rep- LEGACY. miles. This is too much of a burden, so he goes resented Trinity and President Berger-Sweeney to the office Tuesday through Thursday. Tom and as an alumni delegate at the University of Learn about gift planning Tatiana then spend the rest of the week at their Rochester’s presidential inauguration of Sarah C. with Trinity. place in East Hampton. That’s a solution. Mangelsdorf on October 4. Bryan and Marianne Bunch enjoyed a great [email protected] or cruise up the Mississippi from New Orleans to Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 legacy.trincoll.edu Memphis on the steamboat American Queen. 1958 Class Secretary: John L. Long car trips are becoming a problem for Thompson, 1121D Sand Drift Way, West Palm “us old folks,” so they decided to take a train. Beach, FL 33411-1852; john.thompson.1958@ They found three nights in roomettes on the trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Gary L. Bogli, Joseph squeezer theft. “Moe” Drabowsky ’57 no-hits City of New Orleans train somewhat difficult; J. Repole Jr., Edward B. Speno Wesleyan and signs $60,000 contract bonus larger rooms would be better for seniors. At October and your secretary screwed up by forget- with the Cubs. John Butler (Trinity’s placement home, the Bunches remain busy with gardening ting to solicit alumni notes. Often, I have sought director), senior interviews, the Recession of and many activities involving nonprofit organi- anecdotes from our Trinity days. Recently, a 1958, no alcohol, girls in rooms only on weekend zations. In his short spare time, Bryan works casual conversation with classmates became afternoons, maximum two fraternity beer parties on yet another book. just a simple series of one-liners from the backs and only with the dean’s permission, going to Ron Labella remains active in Sacramento of our memories. Print some of those, someone school with Korean War vets, “Rabbit” Slaughter with Camelot Realty, as does Dee with her real suggested. So, what might these conjure up from performing miracles in the trainer’s room, estate business. Next year, Ron will cut back your recollection of a half century ago? avoiding the Medusa, hanging out on the Long on his real estate responsibilities to work with The beanie, school songs, and other torments Walk, and construction of the Downes Memorial the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple A affiliate from upperclassmen, Bottle Night, the burning Clock Tower. Student: “Good morning, Dr. of the San Francisco Giants in the Pacific Coast couch, and cutting the fireman’s hose with his Hood.” Dr. Hood: “Who says!” Mitch Pappas is League. Ron and I were huge fans of the New axe, turkey croquettes once a week in Hamlin nuts—he thinks this Elvis guy will change music York Giants, which played in the Polo Grounds. Hall, Frank Marchesi (Ferris equipment man- forever. Classmate to Mike Zoob, “At 5-foot-6, The Giants went west to San Francisco, and so ager) running his athletic equipment room like 150 pounds, what the hell are you doing playing did Ron. I envy Ron. a medieval lord, President Eisenhower speaking football?” Zoob to classmate, “Somebody has to Don and Karen Stokes are coming to our from the outdoor pulpit at the fall Convocation, tackle Charlie Sticka ’56!” home in Vermont for a long weekend, during the late-semester rush to get the rest of those 30 which time we will see the Trinity football team Chapel credits, the annual IFC Sing, Dr. Naylor’s Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 play at Middlebury. dog that would not sit on the desk through his 1959 Class Secretary: Paul S. Campion, Carroll and I continue to split our time second lecture, afternoon coffee in the Cave 500 River Rd., Apt. 18, Cos Cob, CT 06807-1913; between our house at Bromley Mountain in with Dr. Cooper and administrators, the Jesters, [email protected] • Class Agents: Vermont (49 percent of the year) and our apart- Parents Weekend, and the old Alumni Hall the- Robert D. Coykendall, William H. Pfeffer ment in Sarasota, Florida (51 percent of the year). ater doing If Men Played Cards as Women Do. I wanted to touch base with Charlie Nichols I regret to inform you of the passing of Harold State Theater shows and the $1 Spaghetti because we noticed at Reunion that his wife, Johnson and Walt Shannon. Unfortunately, I do Palace on Asylum, Dr. Jacobs singing Pro Linda, was missing and discovered that she not have an obit on Harold. He passed away in Ecclessia et Patria, TRIN license plate. Was the had to go through back surgery. We’re happy to 2017, but the college received word of his death New Dorm really supposed to be called Jelke report that everything went swimmingly well, only recently. Walt died on January 9, 2018, at Hall? Sunday $1 steaks in the Cave. Louie (Cave and she is already gleefully bounding about on his home in Lakeville, Connecticut. He served in manager): “Hey kids, give us a break,” Deke, horseback. As I said goodbye, Charlie was off to the U.S. Coast Guard and was successful in the the Hall, the Nu, the Zoo, AD, Crow, Psi U and a classic car rally to exhibit his ’48 MG. Charlie’s insurance business. Walt served many charitable sophomore pledging, and Trinity’s postmaster other “beauty” in his garage is a magnificent organizations. He is survived by his wife of 53 “Hap” Moran. Dan Jessee quotes: “You have to 1934 Packard Victoria convertible four-door years, Celeste; children Tracie, Celinda ’88, and knock them on their pitichemer” (rear end), and sedan. You should check this one out on the Tod; and two grandchildren. I had the pleasure “John, you have to get through that hole like a Internet. It will remind you of St. Anthony Hall! of speaking with Celeste. She informed me that striped-ass zebra because Charlie is one step Joe Wassong sent us an email pertaining to her father was Trinity 1934. May Harold and Walt behind you!” our class and Trinity’s lecture series. Last spring, continue to rest in peace. UMT, AFROTC, the Ryan Navion, the gov- the 22nd annual Shirley G. Wassong Memorial From Donald Pillsbury: “Sue and I continue ernor’s DC-3, Monday parades on the quad as Lecture in European and American Art, Culture, in good health, age adjusted. We continue to Bill Macdermott ’60 played “Somewhere Over and History was held in McCook Auditorium. work on Sue’s 1930 Model A Ford (Emily got The Rainbow” on his stereo, Professor Henry The speaker was Lev Manovich, professor of new chrome bumpers this year). We went this Hood playing with the Bag Pipers (Professor computer science at The Graduate Center, CUNY. spring to see a grandson graduate from the Hood’s followers), senior year Asian flu turns His topic was “Volume, Variety, Velocity: The Naval Academy (quite a spectacle) and then the New Dorm into an infirmary and, incredibly, Data Challenges of Contemporary Culture.” The to California to be with my daughter and her even results in canceling football versus Colby. lecture was open to the public, and a reception family as her son graduated from high school. Sixteen straight wins in football and soccer and dinner was held in Hamlin Hall. He is now in college in Boston. We have nine voted number one in the country, faculty “My I would be remiss if I didn’t mention how grandchildren but no great-grandchildren—yet. Fair Laddie” Junior Prom skit, and 1957’s lemon many emails have been sent to me regarding the

WINTER 2020 45 CLASS NOTES superlative effort put forth byJon Reynolds as son, Tucker. We rented a house on lovely Lake Matt Levine sent another educational article our class secretary as well as the volume of notes Norman, just northwest of Charlotte, a huge by The New York Times, dated September 20, of thanks on behalf of our class. Thank you for man-made complex with a beach and a dock. 2019, and titled, “In the Salary Race, Engineers those wonderful and important gestures. Tucker owns a large powerboat and keeps it at Sprint but English Majors Endure.” Received a “signature salute” from Jim a marina close to where our rental was located. From the Green Mountains of Vermont, Canivan in his new permanent home in We had a fabulously diverse holiday and enjoyed Charles “Bud” Bergmann responded to both Charleston, South Carolina. Jim was able to seeing our son and grandkids wakeboarding, articles, “A high-quality ‘classical’ education establish a flexible estate-planning package for waterskiing, tubing, swimming, and kayaking! seems a good thing to me. If I had my way, col- his three kids so when he sold his Glastonbury, Tucker made dinner reservations for all of us leges would not teach about anything that is less Connecticut, house around Reunion time, he at the Lake Norman Yacht Club one evening, than at least 50 years old and thus avoid getting was able to retain “life use,” but upon sale, he and being on the lake at night under a starlit into all the so-called ‘current’ issues.” Bud also distributed the proceeds to the children. When sky made our “return to camp” so very special. commented on the Times admission article, “… the property was sold, Jim retired from his law Charlotte is a very cosmopolitan city, is the num- colleges such as Trinity are too much influenced firm. He is happily living in Charleston with ber two U.S. banking city behind New York City, by the ratings in U.S. News and World Report and his son and two of four grandchildren—a new and is a city whose population is friendly and its supposed influence on prospective student adventure and one that seems to be agreeing worth the visit. Y’all come back, ya’ hear? choices as to where to attend college.” As for the with him! admissions process at Trinity, Bud feels, “It is Also received some future and background REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 highly competitive and very expensive.” He feels news from Alan Miller, who is planning to visit Trinity Fund Goal: $80,000 even though Trinity has had such initiatives as the Naples, Florida, area in February to see Shep 1960 Class Secretary: Grosvenor the Learning Corridor, the surrounding neigh- Scheinberg and Paul Kardon. Alan retired in H.L. Richardson, 419 Indies Dr., Vero Beach, borhood makes an unfavorable impression. He 2005 as senior partner of his international law FL 32963-9513; grosvenor.richardson.1960@ hopes the college would play a more active role. firm in New York City, Weil, Gotshal & Manges. trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Bruce Stone George Kroh spent three weeks last summer He started a second career serving as an indepen- I want the entire Class of 1960 to know two sailing with friends in the Caribbean on board dent board member of some 29 different entities things: one, how much I appreciate their won- the Silver Apple, a 54-foot wooden ketch. It is to date, including Nine West and Toys R Us (you derful response for Class Notes, and two, with his friend’s boat, which they sailed across the can see where Alan’s specialty was—bankruptcy our 65th Reunion coming up, we need updated Atlantic in 2004. Wives have now put a stop to law!). He lives in New York City and spends week- email addresses. Email will be the major method transatlantic crossings … at least somebody had ends in Westport, Connecticut. Unfortunately, of communication to you, so please make sure to be sensible. He and Carolyn spent at least he lost his wife, Susan, in March 2017 after a the Alumni Office has your latest address. a month in Kansas City tending their gardens 15-year battle with metastatic breast cancer. He is Always one of the first responders for my and then visited grandchildren in Minneapolis. now a member of the Visiting Committee of the notes is Bud Anderson. Even though he has Another trip was to Haiti to visit the school their Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers at moved to Vero Beach, he and Gina have contin- church founded 30 years ago and with which Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Alan has two sons, ued to travel. Last October, they took a two-week they have been actively involved. The school one living in Irvington, New York, who has his tour of Sicily. I’ve never been there, but I know has grown to more than 400 students. George 12½-year-old granddaughter. His son in Irvington a few classmates have and enjoyed the people even had time to attend Carolyn’s Northwestern teaches in a New York City charter school. Alan’s and the food. reunion. During the fall and winter, he made other son lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is a Ray Beech, Dave Golas, and Bob Johnson time for his weekly mentoring of a federal successful photographer. plan to attend the Homecoming game against inmate at the USP Leavenworth. George has not Bob Harnish writes that they’re cruis- Williams on October 26. The college has moved been watching TV. ing along in Vermont, where he and Nancy the Homecoming contest to a later date to take Ken Lyons and Judy have been busy, too, (partners after both of their spouses died) live. advantage of traditional rivalries. I think it will visiting grandkids and one great-granddaughter They are active in the various nonprofits in make for a well-rounded weekend. in Colorado and New Mexico. They are espe- the Rutland, Vermont, area, including a food Jere Bacharach and Marv Peterson cially proud of their Santa Fe High grandson pantry, Habitat for Humanity, and two libraries, responded to The New York Times Magazine arti- who was valedictorian. They were busy but did etc. They have been spending winters in Arizona cle published on September 15, 2019, about col- have time to have a good visit with Jim Gavin and enjoy it but are beginning to look into lege admissions. Skip Morse brought the article and wife Robin. Florida for a winter place that has good biking, to my attention, and I had Julie Cloutier of the Charlie “Chuck” Middleton reports that access to the beach, and cultural attractions, as Alumni Office pass it on to everyone. The article now that he is retired, he is ready for our well as a small-town feel. They would love your explored the new admission policies colleges 65th Reunion. input about what to explore. Please reach out to are adopting. Trinity’s new policy was featured. Marv Peterson reports that oldest daughter Bob if you are a Floridian or a snowbird there, Jere called it a fascinating article. Marv brought Julia and husband are planning a quinceañera as he would appreciate your insights. His email firsthand knowledge. “I have the advantage of for their two severely disabled daughters. is [email protected]. seeing the original paper a couple of weeks ago A quinceañera is the Hispanic tradition of It’s good to receive such a recap from class- prior to the Times article. The person who did celebrating a young girl’s coming of age on her mates. Please take a minute and drop me a the original study (not the Times article) was a 15th birthday. They decided to hold the party line. Many of us would love to hear about what faculty member I had hired several years ago. even though the girls will not be aware of the is happening in your life. My email address is The phenomenon described in the article—the festivities. It will be a celebration of their living [email protected]; if you prefer, use of quantitative statistical probability meth- so far beyond their life expectancy. All the girls’ you can call me on my home telephone at ods—is not new. However, its use to predict the friends are invited. Marv’s sister and daughter 203-990-0528. probability of any individual student enrolling is will come from Des Moines as well as Marv’s Your new class secretary has some travel news a relatively new application. As described in the younger daughter and family from Colorado. As as well. Sue and I arranged for 13 of our family article, it has apparently led to the formation of Marv says, “It should be a great time for a good to go to Charlotte, North Carolina, to visit our firms that sell the service to colleges.” cross-cultural adventure.”

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Congratulations to Tony Phillips for entering His four grown children are fully employed and (also an artist, Deyan’s paintings were shown his 55th year of teaching, with 51 of those years taxpayers, with good traits Guy fully attributes in galleries in the early ’60s; I remember clearly at the Art Institute of Chicago. He reports, to their mother. His nine grandchildren range in his collages that seemed to be stained glass win- “Working with so many different young artists age from 21 years to a few months, so keeping dows, displayed at Trinity in our junior year). He from all over the world is lifeblood for me. I’m track of this healthy and active brood is time and also edited and published several local newspa- afraid to stop.” Last September, he was one of energy consuming. Guy has enjoyed great trips pers and books. More on Deyan can be found in the featured artists at Elmhurst Art Museum. to the Galapagos, Australia and New Zealand, the “In Memory” section of this issue. During last summer, Tony and Judy visited and Cape Horn and Patagonia; a hike around Finally, you probably heard that Trinity was Tony’s sister at Little Compton, Rhode Island. Mount Blanc; exploring the sights and sounds featured heavily in a New York Times Magazine As for me, Margy and I have settled into of the west coast of Ireland; and a 500-mile cover story (September 15, 2019) by Paul Tough; our new home in Vero Beach. Arrived in late walk to St. James de Compostela in Santiago, the college has received regular comments by October, came back to Rochester at the end of Spain, from southern France. The Camino was Tucker Carlson ’91, an alumnus, in his Fox TV May, and then migrated to Martha’s Vineyard for physically challenging, culturally enriching, his- broadcasts. The issues raised by both include July, August, and September. Now, that sounds torically enlightening, and spiritually renewing. change versus stability at today’s private col- wonderful, but, in the meantime, I’ve had a few Upcoming trip planned for January 2020 to view leges, efforts to balance a desire for increased medical challenges that necessitated five stays the northern lights from a Norwegian perspec- minority representation with schools’ tradi- in various hospitals. Thank goodness for great tive! Since moving to Florida, Guy has been tional values and class structure, and financial medical care; I’m on the rebound and look for- active in the sailing community. For 15 years, implications. Your secretaries would welcome ward to our 65th Reunion and seeing everyone. he has co-chaired the annual St. Augustine your reactions! As always, keep the spirit of the Class of 1960 Race Week and its predecessor event, attracting A note: I have begun phoning class members alive! Rick Richardson, secretary sailors from the southeastern coast of the United for updates on careers and retirement. Tell us States, raising funds to provide scholarships to what’s new in your lives! Trinity Fund Goal: $125,000 local sailing camps for underprivileged children. 1961 Class Secretary: William Kirtz, Additionally, Guy says, “I became addicted to Trinity Fund Goal: $125,000 26 Wyman St., Waban, MA 02468-1517; william. riding a road bike numerous times a week— 1963 Class Secretary: Michael A. [email protected]; fax: 617-373-8773 mostly flat land here in Florida. With a friend a Schulenberg, 89 Judson St., Canton, NY 13617; • Class Agents: George P. Lynch Jr., Vincent R. few years ago, we rode the 336-mile towpath of [email protected] • Stempien, Douglas T. Tansill the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany—also few Class Agent: William C. Howland As classmates go gently, kicking, or screaming hills and flat country.” Fulfilling a civic duty, Guy Dear friends of the Class of ’63, thank you for into our 80s, Bob Woodward enters octoge- serves on the Jacksonville Public Library Board notes and news for this latest newsletter! narianland with his usual aplomb: “Not that of Trustees. He reports that Jacksonville’s limited Vic Keen and wife Jeanne Ruddy share that many years ago, I celebrated my birthday economic recovery brought exciting times for their collection of outsider and vernacular art with a cross-country ski tour, road-bike ride, the 21-branch system. After some rough financial will be exhibited at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and and white-water kayak paddle. Come this birth- times for the city and library system, recent city Conference Center in Pueblo, Colorado, from day, my tri will be gym, computer time, and budgets have included funds for construction of October 5, 2019, through January 12, 2020. A mar- nap. In lieu of kind remarks on my natal day, another major branch, and Guy has taken on the velous book catalogs this unique collection and please cut a large check made out to The Aging challenge of chairing the Capital Improvement spreads the opportunity to view personally Vic’s Gaffer’s Leisure Fund. I promise to spend the Program, a worthy expenditure of his time. Guy artistic passion for work that “pushes the bound- money unwisely.” enjoyed our 50th Reunion, and assuming his aries of art” (Jim Richerson, CEO of the Sangre Gordon Pomeroy reports, “Phyllis and I health cooperates, hopes to attend the 60th! de Cristo Arts and Conference Center). Vic’s are enjoying retirement at Hearthstone Village Unfortunately, not all of us have enjoyed good generosity and love for Trinity has determined senior apartments in Latham, New York.” health. After a long illness, Deyan Brashich, who that the collection will one day benefit the future Peter Kreisel, Bill Scully, and Doug Tansill through his blog contributed so many stories of the college. saw the Trinity vs. Middlebury football game to our class’s section of The Reporter, died on From Lockett Pitman: “I won’t be able to be at Middlebury. Bill and wife Marlynn, enjoying August 30, at age 78. Deyan lived a full life, led present for Homecoming; activities of a grand- 53 years of marriage and 12 grandchildren, with a sense of adventure and good humor. Born son keep me close to home. I still manage to ride attended Homecoming. Bill and Doug will, as in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1940, Deyan arrived my bike over 20 miles per day and play hockey a usual, see Andy Forrester and Guy Dove in in this country with his family in 1949, refugees couple times per week.” (Secretary’s note: I want Vero Beach over the winter. And, as usual, your from communism. He graduated from Trinity whatever it is that Lockett drinks!) humble scribe and spouse visited with Jack School (New York City), Trinity College, New From Ihor Zachary: “My wife and I have been Angell, Peter Kilborn, and John Henry. York University School of Law, and The Hague blessed with three children and six grandkids, Academy of International Law, and practiced law all wonderful and who live 15–20 minutes from Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 in New York state for many years. Deyan also was our home; their activities bless us several times 1962 Co-Class Secretary: Paul J. an adjunct professor of law at Pace University each week. I am still spearheading shipments LaRocca, 82 Whiting Rd., East Hartford, CT (1983–89). He was a founding member of the of medical supplies to some medical facili- 06118-1549; [email protected] • Serbian-American Bar Association and was ties, especially in the conflict areas of Eastern Co-Class Secretary: Frederick M. Pryor, decorated with the Orders of Star of Karadorde’s Ukraine. I am still working as an ophthalmol- 221 Nobscot Rd., Sudbury, MA 01776-3389 • and St. Sava, as well as the American Selective ogist but down to four days per week, and I Class Agents: The Rev. Charles L. Hoffman, Service Medal. Deyan also wrote commentaries stopped eye surgery several years ago. I am Peter Meehan on domestic and international legal topics; grateful for all the college and class updates!” Hello, ’62s! Joy and sadness in this issue: Guy op-ed essays on political, legal, and social issues Bruce Davis writes, “My wife, Terrie Anderson writes that it has been a busy few of the day for his blog Contrary Views, from Bagnuolo, and I recently went on our first Viking years since he retired from active employment in which he allowed me to include excerpts here; Ocean Cruise to Alaska, joining friends from information services and marketing consulting. and magazine articles covering literature and art Texas. 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Q+A Louis A. Renza ’62

What led to your interest in the lyrics of How did your time at Trinity prepare you Bob Dylan? After graduating from Trinity, for your career? Trinity, no surprise, I heard some of Dylan’s early songs provided me with a sound intellectual while visiting friends. Once the album background. Do I need to recite the usu- Bringing It All Back Home came out and al “liberal arts” beatitudes that I experi- then the song “Like a Rolling Stone,” I enced there? (But perhaps the relatively knew then his was a special vision that recent IT co-option of what matters in went far beyond social protest. That a student’s education even at “liberal understanding led me to teach Dylan’s arts” colleges like Trinity and Dartmouth lyrics at Dartmouth College and, after re- requires one to keep repeating them.) tiring, to write Dylan’s Autobiography of The different courses I took at Trinity a Vocation. Thus I try to read the songs allowed me to map out the intellectual he wrote between 1965 to 1967 in terms zones that most mattered to me then of a comment he made in an early inter- and now. Also, the small size of Trinity’s view: “You’re going to die. You’re going student body led to many conversations to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could with peers from different social as well be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, as educational backgrounds—in short, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s to the stimulating collisions of ideas. DEGREES: B.A. in English; Ph.D. in English, going to go on without us. All right now. the University of California, Irvine You do your job in the face of that, and Did you have a professor who was partic- how seriously you take yourself you ularly influential? Who was it, and why? JOB TITLE: Full professor and former chair decide for yourself.” Among a short list of others, I had two in the English Department, Dartmouth College, 1970–2010; author, Dylan’s Autobiography of favorite professors: Paul Smith, hired a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965–1967 What did you most enjoy about teaching by our new English Department Chair and several other books classes on the subject? I enjoyed most Frederick Gwynn, and William Johnson, having students in different periods who taught in the Religion Department. FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: Certain come across Dylan’s songs for different Smith brought serious literary-critical serendipitous moments come to mind. One: in my senior year, I along with various friends reasons. I had no need to “make a case” thought into what had been a belle- would go “over the rocks” after studying up to for their value to students in the ’70s. tristic English Department. Johnson’s 11:30 or so and meet for beers in Phil’s bar on Later on, though, they had changed, and course in existential thought made a Zion Street. There we’d gossip over courses or I had to change how I taught the course, major difference in how I would think ideas or irrelevant whatnot, while in another booth, George Will (also ’62) was discussing which mostly consisted of discussions of about everything. His assignments and serious social issues with other students no individual songs. Those changes along lectures eventually influenced my take less socially and politically committed to with how the students raised issues and on Bob Dylan’s songs. turning the country in different, more humanly insights I had missed constantly chal- responsive and responsible directions. The lenged me to rethink my own interpreta- times were indeed a-changin’, even before Dylan’s song underscored it. Trinity itself tions of Dylan’s lyrics. “I enjoyed most would be changing its public agendas in a similar way, notably toward a more socially In what other areas have you fo- having students in diverse student body and an electronically cused your research? I taught cours- alert college. But that would also leave behind for me a therefore more memorably private es in American nonfiction prose. different periods and pre-IT Trinity—as if it were a “most Autobiography was my special area of distant, single color, about to change” academic interest, which in the early come across (Wallace Stevens). 1970s hadn’t yet attracted much serious critical consideration as a significant Dylan’s songs for literary genre. Beyond that, I taught different reasons.” seminars on the tales of Edgar Allan ↗ Poe and the poetry of Wallace Stevens, —LOUIS A. RENZA ’62 To read Renza’s essay on a Hartford poet whose daughter worked teaching Dylan’s lyrics, please visit commons. at Trinity while I was a student. I’ve trincoll.edu/Reporter. written and published works on all three of these subjects.

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Cruise for late October to France, beginning He spends a lot of time designing accessory I am set to take in a couple of country concerts in Avignon and then making our way to Paris dwelling units for young couples as housing and shortly, at Foxwoods with Carrie Underwood before heading home to California.” land are a shortage. and then to Neyland Stadium in Knoxville for And this update from Richard Birney-Smith: Jim Twerdahl just returned from a two-week Garth Brooks. They expect 100,000 people in “My dear Rosie has surpassed all predictions of trip to Northern England as well as London and Tennessee. Also, off to Clemson for the Clemson health failure and is still with us, though very the Cotswolds. Said they had a great time and vs. Boston College game. frail. But the toll has been great on us all, and I, had dinner at the Trinity restaurant in London. Please keep Jim and me informed on what all too, have some issues. I came down with pneu- Rob Rodner, retired for seven years, was a of you are doing. Thanks. monia in my right lung and lab work revealed urologist in Manchester, Connecticut, for 38 it to be a strain of Legionnaires’ disease. I am years. He still lives in South Windsor, near his son REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 now functioning at 70–75 percent. Your prayers, Craig, an orthopedic hand surgeon practicing at Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 greeting cards, and good wishes are a continuing UConn. His other son, Seth, lives in Mill Valley, 1965 Class Secretary: Thomas A. source of comfort and strength to us.” California, and is an attorney. Rob is president of Garson, 4301 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Apt. A note from Dick Gooden: “I retired from the local Rotary Club, a great way to stay involved 5002, Washington, D.C. 20016-5569; thomas. Wells Fargo Bank in April after 10-plus years with interesting people. He and Alice met recently [email protected] there. I joined Wells after retiring from Citibank with Don and Diane Levy in Forest Hills. No ten- The Reunion Committee, led by John Ellwood following 40 years, with assignments in the nis but a chance to reminisce about 1960–64. and John Losse, had its first planning phone United States, Latin America, and Asia. I’m It was great to hear from Dan Strammiello, call at the end of September. Twenty volunteers getting used to every day being a Saturday with who is still involved in real estate development had a lively session, full of exciting ideas to make only Sunday to remind me that another week in Denver. He said he is working on his last proj- our 55th Reunion very worthwhile to attend. The is beginning. Mariko and I plan to remain in ects, a 20,000-square-foot office building in a dates are Thursday, June 4–Sunday, June 7, 2020. Los Angeles to be near family. Reading history, historic neighborhood as well as a 5,000-square- Mark your calendars, and plan to participate! taking cello lessons, and daily dog walking help foot flex box in an industrial zone. Dan has a Henry Holt Hopkins has been leading the fill the days. Blessings to you all.” federal certification as an underground hard- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy in Baltimore. Starr Brinckerhoff writes, “In recent days, I rock miner from the Colorado School of Mines. It has restored its Washington Monument have discovered that a number of our classmates The classroom was one mile horizontally in an from long decay and lack of maintenance and have enjoyed a lively email fellowship. This is old gold mine prospected for minerals. Dan, I am is planning to restore the four surrounding exciting to me, as it exemplifies the love and sure you enjoyed years of fun. All the best. squares. Also, he is heading up Friends of Clifton concern broadly manifest for our alma mater. Jim Rowan still works for Hartford Steam Mansion, which is restoring Johns Hopkins’s If you have not joined in this memory lane and Boiler. HSB was one of the great old-line summer home, another Baltimore landmark that more, I would encourage you to do so. You will Hartford companies for decades. Things changed had been allowed to deteriorate. “Greatly enjoy- be amazed what old pals have done and are now when AIG purchased it in 2000, followed by ing retirement (if there is such a thing) and our doing (and thinking). I just read Unfreedom of the 2008 meltdown and forced sale to Munich three grandchildren, who keep us all young.” the Press and recommend it to you.” Re. Jim was managing five mutual funds and Brewster Perkins brought us up-to-date. He That is all from our good Class of ’63! I hope the main portfolio. In 2011, he ended up at has lived in West Hartford, Connecticut, since all of you who are able can make it (or made it) Navigators, which ultimately sold out to The 1961. He’s still in the insurance business with back to Homecoming 2019. Great excitement is Hartford. He is scaling back but still involved son Austin ’96 at a large insurance brokerage, brewing about how to extend our help to Trinity and taking care of his two dogs. A couple of his Smith Brothers Insurance in Glastonbury, and through the existing scholarships and legacies kids are nearby in Boston and Fairfield County. enjoys it very much. He is involved with non- already established as well as a new endeavor to Others are in Chicago and California. profit boards and committees in Hartford and help in the campuswide witness and restoration Richard DeMone, an English major at Trinity, watching the city strongly reemerge. He has been efforts of Trinity’s great Chapel. ultimately became a professional musician and trekking to many countries since 2003 with 10–15 Keep in touch. Starr is right! Blessings to you a church organist and choir director. He spent friends, reaching Everest’s base camp twice and all! Michael Schulenberg, class secretary, 32 years at First United Methodist Church in climbing a few mountains. He says it “keeps me [email protected] Melrose, Massachusetts. For the last 10 years, in shape, maybe.” Wife Judith retired after 38 he has been at Grace Episcopal Church in West years with emeritus status from the University Trinity Fund Goal: $80,000 Palm Beach, a multinational mixture of mostly of Saint Joseph. She concentrated in classics 1964 Co-Class Secretary: Thomas J. Caribbean people whom he says love to sing and and humanities. They have two other children, Monahan, 46 Dogwood Ln., New Canaan, CT worship in traditional and contemporary modes. Alexander, married with two young girls, who is 06840-3921; thomas.monahan.1964@trincoll. He did musical directing in professional theater a lobbyist and trade negotiator for Chrysler and edu • Co-Class Secretary: James S. Twerdahl, 214 and aided cabaret performers. Check out Richard has been heavily involved with NAFTA 2.0. He S. McCadden Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90004-1054; DeMone Publications. He had a great start in the and wife Jenn live in Washington, D.C. She works [email protected] Chapel Choir, the Glee Club, college band, the with a nonprofit concentrating on immigrants Charlie Francis says he is retired in Beaufort, Jesters, and the Chanticleers. coming from Mexico. Daughter Laela lives in South Carolina, working hard as a volunteer One of the summer highlights was Frank Montclair, New Jersey, and is married with two for the United Way of the Lowcountry. He gets McCann and a birthday party for his wife, Alex, kids. She heads up development (fundraising) time to focus on his golf game as well as enjoy- in Grosse Pointe and Detroit. It was so much at Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair. ing boating. fun to be together with many from Trinity days, Brewster has enjoyed taking Trinity’s Academy George Kellner and Bicky are off to Africa including Dick Brainerd, Jeff Chandor, Buzz of Lifelong Learning courses on campus. They for a two-week sightseeing trip but I assume Tompkins, Michael Feirstein, Thayer Bigelow are usually five to six sessions in the evening no big-game hunting. He is good with a squash ’65, George Robinson ’65, and Steve Golann’65. with no papers or tests. Examples include Greek racquet, but hunting would be another thing. Alex and Frank did so much planning to make and Roman mythology, medieval literature, art, John Day (Oakie) still enjoys his days as an everything work for a truly enjoyable weekend science, and all the courses “I should have taken architect, retired but not refusing an opportunity. full of great food and music. as an undergrad but didn’t. Almost 40 courses.

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Professors and students (our peers) are wonder- Rod Van Sciver tells of another glitch-free later. This, for me, demonstrates the bonding ful. Kind of like a new B.A.!” experience (sort of). “I have to report some real power of classmates, which is sustained over the Patrick Pierce wrote that he just installed news: Nancy and I took a two-week cruise down years. By the way, one of Petar’s sons accepted a large sculpture/painting project called to the Vineyard, up the Elizabeth Islands, and a position in the Watkinson Library at Trinity. I Imaginary Reef in the glass-ceiling atrium of a home … without incident! Well, maybe hitting received a terrific note from Tim. It turned out Massachusetts bank. It’s composed of 18 carved one rock coming out of Marion, but basically cri- that Petar helped him in “Math 101” when they and painted sea fauna and metal flora, with sis free. Water heater blowing up in the Vineyard both were in Jones dorm. Fifty years later, Petar surrounding walls painted to fill out the vision. only counts as a minor glitch. We had fabulous still remembered why Tim had difficulty learning If you are in the vicinity of Enterprise Bank in weather. Scott Sutherland and Terry joined us math from Dr. Poliferno. They reconnected a few North Billerica, Massachusetts, please be sure on the first leg down through the canal and had years ago, and among other things, Tim enjoyed to visit Patrick’s new work in the lobby. Patrick to jump ship to catch their flight to Alaska.” the great garden that Petar and Elisa planted. We added, “It makes me laugh to be working freely Brian Grimes, your tireless class president, will all miss Ken and Petar. these days, and I remain always grateful for the brought me up-to-date on his exciting life. “Not Finally, Tim reflected on an essay byBob mental preparation that Trinity provided me to much to report from here. Still schlepping into Stepto, “A Greyhound Kind of Mood,” from levitate through seasons and situations.” work (trying to stay out of the way) and going A Home Elsewhere. Bob recalled difficult pro- In a recent email exchange between your sec- to the Cape with Kathy when possible. The fessors and the challenges of freshman year, retary and a very helpful person on campus, the beneficial part is that Kathy and I get to see the including intimidation by a campus worker. Tim end was, “I’ll try to remember!” That triggered grandchildren—two boys, 5 and 3—more often. remembered Bob’s struggles. Bob wrote of many the following memory: “Try to Remember” is At this point in our lives, this is probably the best redeeming moments that made Trinity one of his a song from The Fantasticks, a long-running course of action.” “homes elsewhere.” Tim feels we are fortunate to musical off-Broadway that was performed by the Dwain Stone informed me he has retired after know him. Indeed, Trinity was a home elsewhere Jesters at Trinity in 1965 with soon-to-return-to- 31 years from a career in general and vascular for many, if not most of us. And that is what has campus classmate Bruce Jay in the lead role! surgery. He lives in Wisconsin with wife Pat, bonded us together for the past 50 years and will volunteering for various causes and doing some continue to do so. Stay well. Trinity Fund Goal: $60,000 traveling. Well deserved, Dwain. 1966 Class Secretary: David C. Frank Vincent, now of Grafton, Trinity Fund Goal: $220,000 Charlesworth, 5 Kittanset Rd., Bedford, NH Massachusetts, remarked on golf. “Reconnected 1967 Class Secretary: James L. 03110-4508; david.charlesworth.1966@trincoll. with Bill Morrison [’65] for the last couple of O’Connor, 325 W. 86th St., Apt. 4C, New York, edu • Class Agent: Joseph A. Hourihan, Esq. years, mostly on the golf course. The quality of NY 10024-3115; james.oconnor.1967@trincoll. Classmates, it is good that we get together every play is highly suspect, but we both suffer from edu • Class Agents: Alex Levi, James H. Oliver • four months because that is about how long our the standard golfer’s self-delusional hope that /groups/trinman1967 short-term memory lasts. As I look back on pre- maybe, just maybe, next time I’ll play like I did Classmates, thank you all for quickly answering vious notes, I see a comfortable rhythm from our 40 years ago.” Self-delusion is very healthy for my request for updates on your busy, productive, regular contributors. It becomes more like a TV us, Frank. interesting lives. Here’s what’s going on. series than solitary snapshots. Both, of course, Bob Scofield checked in. He and Carol Abbot Barclay reports that he had knee are welcome and necessary to create an image cruised in the Caribbean this summer cele- replacement surgery. They seem to like France of who we were and who we are now. First, I brating their 52nd. They are still working (on a a lot. “Beth is an artist, so Giverny was on her shared with you in October that Jane and I just reduced schedule) and have downsized after 44 bucket list, along with Paris, and Normandy returned from a trip in Scandinavia, incidentally years. He says that is daunting. Definitely is. was on mine. But, we went to Reims for a for sight-seeing and primarily to pick up a new Jeff Witherwax followed up on his planned Champagne tour, and the cathedral there was an Volvo. That prompted a number of Volvo stories. golf cruise. “We took a Danube River golf cruise, unexpected bucket list surprise for her. I do miss Bob Stepto has truly finally retired from Yale. playing in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the running—only a little—but I work with a trainer He has a colleague who lives in Norway whom Czech Republic. The Danube is a very crowded every week and still use the bicycle and elliptical he visited last summer. He writes, “Our Saabs river, but the scenery is special. We celebrated for cardio. It’s a process. Meanwhile, Beth and are getting old (the younger one is a 2007!), our 50th in September. We are back in Florida for I took a cruise through the Adriatic a couple of and, alas, we might actually buy a Volvo! So, we the winter.” So, Jeff hasn’t given up on golf. years ago. We loved Croatia—Dubrovnik, Split, might return to Norway next year (dear friends And now our own memorial section. Ken and Zadar. Beautiful, with good wine.” of 30 years are there) and do a Volvo adventure.” Geremia passed away last summer after a John Ray continues to tear up his softball He also has an alter ego as a thespian starring in successful career in public relations in New York league. “I just finished playing my 21st year roles in summer theater at the Bread Loaf School City and D.C. He retired to Newmarket, New of senior softball for Northern Virginia Senior of English in Vermont along with his wife, Hampshire, with wife Janet (married in 1967) Softball. Despite a new hip and two shoulder Michelle. Who knew? Now we all do. and became a neighbor of Joe Moore. Joe ran operations, I still managed to make the confer- Peter Koehn volunteered, “I had two Volvos. into Ken at a church supper, and Ken did not ence All-Star Team. Retirement is great!” I think Both held up well for many years (I do remem- remember him. Joe said that was a good thing. he’s our class Ironman. ber persistent muffler issues). All the best with In his time in Newmarket, Ken was very involved John Loeb reports that he and wife Anna yours! (Now driving a Toyota SUV).” with community and church. Belle are leaving the Big Easy and returning to Ellis Ratner continues his periodic luncheons Sadly, Petar Stoykovich passed away Philadelphia to be near their grandchildren. I in New York City with classmates Ron Diner and within a day of Ken. He also was a neighbor of understand. Jane and I keep talking about get- Rich Rothbard. Not to be outdone by my Volvo Joe. It happens that Petar was Joe’s son’s and ting a place in L.A. to be near both sons and our story, he alleged he “coincidentally planned daughter’s math teacher. Joe and Maggie went granddaughter. The problem is we’re not that a trip to Italy—on my bucket list—and will be to Petar’s memorial service, which was well crazy about L.A. renting a Lamborghini and having it shipped to attended, including Tim and Luvia Sniffen. Joe, Jesse Brewer is barely slowing down. “Went Connecticut when I return.” Tim, and their spouses shared fond memories of to a family reunion in St. Simons Island, Georgia, Other news from our class: Petar afterward. Elisa, Petar’s widow, wrote Tim and got to cook paella for everyone. (My stepdad

50 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES was a Spanish-born Cuban immigrant and a us, with our yearbook picture surrounded by master of paella; he taught me well. I’ll share the decades of great memories. Ben Jaffee and wife recipe if you ask.) Had two melanomas removed Mary traveled to Cotuit from their new home in in one year (that makes three altogether); the Amherst, Massachusetts. They relocated from MAKE second one had only a 2-millimeter clear margin, downtown Boston in summer 2019 to be closer and they like a centimeter, so I had to go donate to the next generation of Jaffees. Ben is fully PROFESSIONAL some more skin a few weeks later. Alas, I never retired from the practice of law but still offering ran the hurdles in competition this summer, but his help in his specialty area of immigration. CONNECTIONS I did better my pole-vault and high-jump marks Stu Edelman, still in his home of many decades on the Bantam in practice. I hope to go to the indoor worlds in in Wayland, Massachusetts, had to leave wife Edmonton in 2021. I’ll be at the ideal age, at the Susan at home to attend to their new and some- Career Network. bottom end of a new age group (M75).” what unruly puppy. John Vail and his significant https://bcn.trincoll.edu Bob Ebinger has been spending a lot of time other, Sue, live in New Hampshire, where they in Africa. “Robin and I have been traveling in are seeing all of the Democratic candidates for Africa this past year. Last September, we went to president. John came with his usual political South Africa on a safari to see rhinos (a favorite fervor and perspectives. Joe Saginor and wife to catch up on each of our three similarly aged of my wife, whom I had promised when we got Nicki, also based in New Hampshire, have seen children, as well as Rich and Lynell’s trip to married to see rhinos in the wild). We enjoyed their share of presidential candidates. Joe is Antarctica and Alaska. Rich is one of our few Cape Town and tasted some fine wines at their still counseling patients but fortunately keeps classmates still working full time. vineyards. We also went to Zambia to track rhi- them healthy enough so that he and Nicki I am pleased to announce that Cesira Barrett nos and see Victoria Falls. In February, we trav- could escape to Japan and the West Coast for ’23 has been named the Class of ’68 Scholar for eled to Sudan (between the social protests and three weeks. Ralph Oser and Katherine did the the Class of 2023. The primary criteria for the the regime fall) on a cultural trip to the Upper one-day drive to Cape Cod from Virginia, and we Class of ’68 Scholar are character, academic Nile cataracts, viewing remains of Sudanese, had them to thank for fabulous lasagnas. Kim achievement, school and community engage- Egyptian, Turkish, and British cultures. It is early Miles and wife Wendy had a great bumper crop ment, curiosity, leadership, and commitment to fall in Montana and hope to spend more time at Five Miles Farm in Onancock, Virginia, but “paying it forward.” Cesira is from Westminster, at our mountain cabins. Wish more colleagues left their harvests behind. Instead, Kim, worried Massachusetts, and graduated summa cum would come to visit.” more about our mental acuity than our healthful laude from Winchendon High School, where she Alan Weinstein is having new parts installed. diets, distributed to each a collection of brain was a three-sport varsity athlete and a service “Due for right hip replacement October 15. exercises, no doubt hoping we would use them learning leader teaching a class of 20 peers Cannot wait. Can’t walk more than 10–15 feet so that next year we could remember something about community outreach (emergency and due to pain now. Goal is back to golf this winter.” of what we did at this year’s gathering. Tom disaster response and mental health) and was Always great to hear from Chip Whitehead. Nary and Tamara—with Tamara wonderfully engaged in international community service “Barbara and I spent several weeks with our back to health and doing great—were able to join by traveling to Nicaragua to help build clean granddaughters at the beach this summer. Then us for the entire weekend, notwithstanding the stoves that prevented smoke inhalation. She took a cruise with several friends on the Rhine fact that Tom continues his full-time position as has a strong interest in public health and plans River. We enjoyed the Van Gogh Museum in director of health services at Boston College. Rod to major in neuroscience. If you are ever on Amsterdam and a visit to a winery in Alsace.” Cook joined us with spouse Charlie Brown. Rod campus, please look up Cesira, as well as our ’68 From Jim McCulloch: “Finally realizing the is still painting and teaching art in Baltimore. Scholar in the Class of 2022, Zach Yung. benefits of downsizing, Kris and I just moved. George Fosque and his friend Barbara elevated Finally, a book recommendation: The Road to Our new address: 1939 Sherman Ave., Apt. 2W, the discourse on numerous subjects. George is Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder. While of particu- Evanston, IL 60201.” a newly certified emergency vehicle operator in lar interest to history buffs, this is a fascinating Maine; he always has driven fast and now has look at consistent trends through history and is Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 the opportunity to do so with a siren going. Your extremely well written and insightful. 1968 Class Secretary: Daniel L. secretary and his BTW Donna rounded out the Goldberg, 53 Beacon St., #1, Boston, MA 02108- group. Plans are already in process for next year Trinity Fund Goal: $125,000 3531; [email protected] • to travel to a swing state at election time and 1969 Class Secretary: Alden R. Gordon, Class Agent: Barry Bedrick work on getting out the vote. Fine Arts Department, Hallden 09, Trinity College, Congratulations to classmate Bob King, serving On a sadder note, we have learned of the pass- 300 Summit St., Hartford, CT 06106-3100; alden. as U.S. assistant secretary of postsecondary ing of our classmate Paul DuVivier. Paul grew [email protected] • Class Agent: Nathaniel S. education in the Trump administration. While up in Sweden, France, Scotland, and Germany Prentice • /groups/trinity1969 many have found their reputations tattered as part of a diplomatic family, joined the Air Several classmates have sent reflections trig- from service in the Trump administration, we’re Force and was stationed in Thailand after his gered by their participation in our 50th Reunion confident that Bob will emerge with significant graduation from Trinity, and worked as an inter- in June 2019. achievements and a continued stellar reputation national logistics coordinator for PerkinElmer Larry Ach writes, “What a wonderful in higher education. Inc. after continuing graduate studies in Reunion; I was so impressed with the atten- Continuing an almost annual tradition going museum management. We also sadly learned of dance. Thank you, Nat and Mike. Without your back more than 30 years, your secretary and 10 the death of Fritz McClure’s wife, Bay. Fritz, Bill combined complementary efforts, it would have classmates, et ux, enjoyed a weekend together Schoo, and Ralph Oser were classmates in high been a dull, under-attended affair. And thank in early October. Joe McKeigue and wife Jeanie school in Indiana before joining our class, and you, Alden, for all you do for the class. Fun hosted the gathering at the Sullivan family prop- Ralph passed along the sad news. catching up with my senior roommates, Dewey erty in Cotuit, which readily housed 22 of us. Joe, Your secretary enjoyed a leisurely breakfast Loberg (congrats!), John Cooper, and John the photography chronicler of these gatherings, in Naples, Maine, with Rich Morris and his Stevens, as well as Herb Wigder, my comrade- prepared a poster of photographs for each of wife, Lynell, during summer 2019. We were able in-arms during our junior year in Paris. Keith

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Pinter brought back memories of a tumultuous Nat Prentice made a new friend at Reunion. from the Alumni Office at the college. As I write, freshman housing environment. Jeff Gordon “Having met our classmate Greg Mears quite the committee consists of yours truly and Ernie was kind enough to put me in touch with a literally for the first time ever at the 50th Mattei as co-chairs and members Joe Barclay, mutual friend from long ago. Bill Glahn and I Reunion and discovered that he works a couple Peter Brinckerhoff, Bob Broatch, Pierre de traded war stories of cycling up and down vari- of days a week close to where I live, I visited him Saint Phalle, Charlie Fenwick, Alan Gibby, ous European mountain passes. Other encoun- recently in his office at New York-Presbyterian Randy Gretz, Dix Leeson, George Munkwitz, ters included Marv Miller (Dr. Vitamin D), Ric Hudson Valley Hospital (NYPHVH) in Cortlandt Billy Peelle, John Robson, Andy Shaw, Hendee, Dave Pollack, Tom Tonoli, Larry Manor, New York. In addition to telling me more Richard Turk, and Dick Wyland. I believe you Whipple, and Bob Taylor (who made the effort about himself and his life after graduation, Greg already have received correspondence from us to come from Seattle). There were many others, helped me better understand the use of voice with respect to getting involved and saving the of course—this was the mark of a good social technology in the hospital setting (a theme I date. In addition, we have terrific subcommit- encounter; sorry it had to end.” have been working on in my investment advisory tees being organized and hope that more of you Ed Pospesil almost didn’t attend Reunion. He practice). Greg is ‘on loan’ to NYPHVH from can join them. They include a 50th Yearbook writes, “But for Mike Michigami’s persistence, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. An Subcommittee being organized by Richard Turk I almost did not attend our Reunion. I am so expert in blood-borne cancers, Greg has been that will be not only extremely fun and interest- glad I did. Judi, my wife, and I had a wonderful practicing for 44 years. He isn’t ready to retire ing for everyone but also a significant mem- time. Weather and fellowship were excellent. just yet but did admit that he doesn’t mind the ory for each one of us for the rest of our lives. Meeting so many former classmates and friends quiet drive from Connecticut to the Hudson Anyone interested in assisting Richard, please and learning their life histories were especially Valley rather than fighting the noisy traffic to be in touch with him right away. Dix Leeson is interesting. I was delighted by the warm wel- New York City. I look forward to visiting with organizing the Elms Society Subcommittee for comes, sincere interest, and gracious comments Greg again and getting to know him better.” long-term fundraising commitments. Additional from many of you. I regret not having the time We were deprived at Reunion of the com- committees include class dinner, class history, to connect with everyone. My Trinity years were panionship of Jim Robertson, whose life was and class identity. a period of self-discovery and one of my life’s caught up in the tragic California fires of October Billy Peelle has been appointed president defining experiences and prepared me for my 2017. He shared this compelling account: “Jim of the Board of Trustees of the Wadsworth diverse life thereafter, in ways I did not realize Robertson missed the 50th Reunion because of Atheneum in Hartford, the oldest continuously at that time. I just retired this summer after my his ‘homeless’ status (living in a rental home fol- operating public art museum in the country. fourth career. My careers included being a com- lowing the immolation of his entire Santa Rosa, It is a significant honor, and we are extremely mercial radio DJ and news reporter, USAF officer California, neighborhood in the October 2017 pleased on his behalf. We have requested that he for five-plus years, executive search consultant wildfire). As is the case for most affected Santa work with us to organize a dinner at the museum for 36 years, and executive career mentor/coach Rosans, rebuilding is taking an extraordinarily on the Thursday prior to our Reunion Weekend and résumé redeveloper for the past 10; the latter long time. On the fire’s second anniversary, rental (including spouses and significant others). Billy was simultaneous with being an adjunct profes- assistance from his homeowner’s insurance will has agreed and is working on the dinner and an sor with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. disappear, so he’s chosen to leave California for exclusive tour. It should be a memorable kickoff A few years ago, I was named the top résumé lower-cost living in Montana, where his archi- to our Reunion. writer in the U.S. for senior IT executives. I have tect son and family are also California wildfire Ernie Mattei and I are trying to spruce up the spent my career helping others succeed in their refugees. Jim lived in six different homes in Half-Century Lunch on Friday, June 5, 2020, in lives and hate to give it up. But now is the time to Sonoma County during his quarter century there, terms of menu options, presentation, and college let go. I never buy lottery tickets because I have and three of them disappeared in that fire! He is spirit. We will be working with two mentors from already won; I have a lovely wife and daughter, keenly aware of a certain fire-resistant, solar- the Class of 1969 at our planning meeting on the had a semi-successful career, benefited by the prepped, award-winning Santa Rosa home adja- Saturday morning of Homecoming Weekend, latest medical technologies and best providers cent to a championship country club that should Mike Michigami ’69 and Nat Prentice ’69, who through several surgeries, and live better than be available for purchase some time next spring.” did a spectacular job for their Reunion last June. many on this planet. What else is there? I am Jim is a resident of Hamilton, Montana. We are receiving many suggestions related blessed many times over. Judi and I agree that Andy Haynes sent some news worth celebrat- to speakers and lecture topics concerning the we hope to attend the 55th. Thank you for your ing: “Our class owes a great debt of gratitude to era, which we not only helped to create but also friendship; may you enjoy life in good health Mike Michigami and Nat Prentice for directing survived. Please get us more ideas. In addition, and with much love and happiness.” our wonderful, record-breaking 50th Reunion. Richard Turk is drafting good questions for Michael Beautyman writes, “The Reunion This summer, I was honored to be inducted into the questionnaire for the class book to elicit was a memorable opportunity to reconnect the Legal Practice Hall of Fame by the North your responsive comments regarding the draft, with classmates in a setting which transported Carolina Bar Association. My thought was, ‘If Vietnam, the changes in Trinity from when we me back a half century. I have been blessed in you stick around long enough,’ but I’m still not entered to when we left, etc. The more humorous my life to have had college friends of integrity ready to quit!” Congratulations to Andy. the anecdotes you can relate the better! and character serve as a springboard on which Peter Brinckerhoff has written that he got I have built my adult life. On the news front, Lt. REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 married September 28 and was in the process Commander Michael Beautyman Jr. received a Trinity Fund Goal: $570,000 of driving to Bend, Oregon, right after it. He is U.S. Navy Commendation Medal for organizing 1970 Class Secretary: John L. Bonee still, after 27 years in California, “blown away” and supervising the raising of an F-35 fighter III, Esq., 19 Scarsdale Rd., West Hartford, CT by the incredible diversity of the majestic Pacific jet from several thousand feet below the ocean 06107-3339; [email protected]; fax: Coast of the United States. Huge congratulations, surface. Daughter Alexandra Beautyman was 860-522-6049 • Class Agents: Joseph A. Barkley Peter! Just be careful on that surfboard with married in September to a Yale classmate from III, Esq., Ernest J. Mattei, Esq. those majestic waves. Kenya in a beautiful wedding for the ages. In Our 50th Reunion Committee has been ex- Carlo Forzani married this past September, other news, I did not receive a MacArthur genius panding at a rapid rate with the tremendous and he and his spouse have embarked on a award this year!” assistance of Theresa Kidd and Michelle Deluse fantastic adventure: growing and nurturing

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Nebbiolo grapes and producing top-flight wines every summer at my house in Weekapaug for Bill Reynolds reports, “Peter Moore, Bill from them in Carlo’s ancestral homeland in four days. Munk isn’t married, but the rest of us Reynolds, Tom Sasali, and Ed Karam saw Masserano (Piedmont), Italy, among beautiful bring our wives. They have all known my wife, Lou Slocum perform in Southern Comforts, a green hills with views of the spectacular Alps. Mickey, since college. terrific two-person play at the Broadway Theater Needless to say, many of us hope to visit them in Vista, California, just north of San Diego. in the not-too-distant future. Trinity Fund Goal: $150,000 Louis’s performance was top-notch; this was his Bob Franks has moved to Santa Fe and 1971 Class Secretary: David M. Sample, first play since appearing in On Golden Pond in hopes he can come to the Reunion, but it will 401 Ocean Grove Circle, St. Augustine, FL 32080- 2017. Wearing a Yankees’ cap at the outset of the be difficult. 8722; [email protected] show as his character lives in New Jersey, Lou Randy Gretz has been organizing classmates Philip Khoury recently stepped down after 19 ad-libbed as he exited scene one, ‘I hate Boston,’ from Phi Mu Delta living all over the country— years on the Trinity Board of Trustees, most of telling me (die-hard Red Sox fan) after the show Richard Turk, Howie Alfred, Steve Bush, which as its vice chairman. Just before he did so, that the line was just for me!” Bob Bingham, Larry Fox, Paul Herron, Steve he joined the board of Underwriters Laboratories. Peter Lawrence retired from Trinity’s Tody, and Bishop Bob Duncan—to attend the He and Beth met up in July in the Berkshires Board of Trustees this past spring. Current Reunion. Bob Franks and David Richards for their annual weekend with Bill Reynolds, Board Chair Cornie Thornburgh ’80 honored are maybes. He hopes Paul Herron and Dave Ron Cretaro, and Ed Karam, taking in theater Peter with a speech on his behalf. Peter had Gilbert will organize oldies music for us. and dance. This tradition stretches back many served on the board for two terms, heading the Dick Hoffman has gotten psyched for years. And Philip and Beth enjoyed a beautiful Committee on the Board and serving on the Reunion Committee work. He “can’t let Fenwick afternoon at Fenway in August to celebrate Investment Committee. be the only Baltimorean on the committee”! Tom DiBenedetto’s 70th with a number of his Howie Weinberg and David Sample had Although just retired, Dick is back in the class- friends from all walks of life. Linda organized a great visit with Bob Benjamin at Daughters room taking a graduate history course. the surprise party in Tom’s box, and their sons, of Israel in West Orange, New Jersey, where he John McKinney has gotten so enthusiastic all Trinity alumni, were present. Most recently, is putting up a courageous battle against ALS. about the Reunion he wrote a fabulous email Tom, Bill, Peter Blum ’68, and Prescott Stewart Howie brought the pastrami sandwiches, and we of so much he has done over the past 50 years. ’93 spent an evening at the new casino in Everett, enjoyed a laugh-filled lunch. Bob is Bob and has Unfortunately, The Reporter limits my word Massachusetts, which happens to be Tom’s taken over as mayor of his new residence. He is count. A few notes: ran a chairlift in Colorado ski hometown. Beforehand, Tom gave Bill and Philip the bright light for all, always with a smile and area right after Trinity, graduated from Wharton, a special tour of Everett, where he was a stand- chuckle! In addition, Bob is drawing on his Trin headed to San Francisco to work at consulting out student athlete. At the casino, the group major, religion, as he helps teach a Bible study. division of Arthur Andersen, went from consult- toured its remarkable art collection and then As Bob says, he is “now doing what he can do ing to management in health care and nonprofit dined at Sinatra, all of which was enormous fun. when he cannot do what he used to do.” Seems sectors, recently retired with his wife in Sonoma From David Pumphrey: “Tottering by gently, like a little Yogi in that one! If any of you are in County on seven acres of land producing red enjoying the quiet life on Nantucket, where we the area, give Bob a call; I am sure he would love wine grapes. Continues volunteer work, espe- live in a small but well-located apartment. This to hear from you. cially for Canine Companions for Independence, November, we’ll explore Dordogne from a base- Nick Booth shared: “It’s National Day in the largest assistance-dog organization in the camp farmhouse in Luzech. Debby Endersby Hong Kong and the 70th celebration of China’s country, elected national board chair. He was sad Gwazda ’72 and her husband, Ed, hope to come, independence. Molly and I returned from a to lose his good friend Tom Dight recently; Dave too. Then it’s back to Nantucket for the annual fabulous four months in Ireland and Paris with Shipman attended the service. He has been in Christmas stroll, where I lend a hand at Rafael short trips to Maine, Boston, and Chicago for touch with Pete Hayward and Bob Baker. John, Osona Auctions. Please give a shout if you’re in the 40th of Phoebe Booth DePree ’01. We will be please help Richard Turk with the yearbook! the nabe.” downsizing here next year to spend more time in Rusty Moody finds himself in pain every David Woolsey reports that he has retired Boston and Ireland. We do so with a heavy heart. time he sees beautiful photos of Maui from Steve from teaching piano at the University of Texas We look forward to the clean air and quality of Smith ’74. His only relief is to fire back overex- but remains in Austin and still has a few private life but will miss the security and buzz of this posed photos of snowdrifts beside an icy lake. clients. He continues to perform and has a con- great port city. The protests here have brought We all know the feeling. Hopefully, both of them cert in November. He recently took up portrai- Hong Kong to its knees. The reasons for protest will come to Reunion to tell stories of ice and ture; check out his site, timwoolseyart.com. are valid and have been compounded by local paradise. Rusty has retired twice from corpo- Jon Miller writes, “I retired as a Presbyterian government incompetence. The differential in rate IT work and is an ex-headmaster, sideline pastor after 40 years and have taken on a two- wealth is meaningful, as is the cost of housing beekeeper, occasional shipwright, and poor dirt day-a-week position within a pharmaceutical and average working wage. This is a complex farmer. He and Erin have finally been able to company. When the owner asked me to join story, which is not totally captured in the press. close their home school. The youngest, Rowan, the company (Tabula Rasa) a few years ago, I We had a great visit this summer on Dinish from is a freshman at Clark University. The oldest, immediately said I knew nothing about pharma- Joanne Berger-Sweeney, who is so eloquent and Sam, is a graduate of Clark with a B.A. and ceuticals. He said, ‘Perfect, I’ll take care of the doing a great job in addressing Trinity’s many M.A. and has traveled widely in Ecuador and product and the profit, you help me take care of challenges. Look forward to our next Reunion.” Colombia. The orchard of his eye, Erica, with a the people!’ I have been serving as the chief cul- David Sample writes: “I have been doing a B.A. from Mount Holyoke, is finishing an M.S. ture officer (only culture officer) ever since. It has bit of travel this fall. Starting with a bucket-list in GIS technology at Clark. Wow. Unfortunately, been a joy to pay attention to the way we do our item, I drove historic Route 66 from Arizona Rusty has reported the recent passing of our work and take care of one another. The owner, to Oklahoma, with many stops along the way classmate Scott Sutton. Please see further infor- Calvin Knowlton, has a remarkable vision and and a couple of great hikes. I then drove to Zion mation in the “In Memory” section. commitment to care for not only a product but National Park for a couple days of hiking, fol- Ernie Mattei, Andy Shaw, George especially his people. Some of the old football lowed by a short flight to San Francisco and time Munkwitz, Bob Broatch. These are my grooms- players know that Coach Don Miller is a man like in Northern California. After two days of hiking men and best man (Broatch). We get together that, too! Go Bantams!” in Yosemite National Park (and lots of great

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California reds), I returned to Florida in time to my division (single stack, if anyone recognizes catch a flight to Uganda, where I volunteered as what that is). I actually qualified for the nation- a lecturer/leader/mentor at an Entrepreneurship als this year, but I’m not ready for that level of Workshop for Scientists and Engineers, spon- humiliation yet!” 0s and 5s— sored by IEEE.” Great to hear from Dan Green! “All is well Jeff Clark writes: “In August, Margot and I here. After years of practicing law with part- IT’S YOUR had a nice visit with George Wheelwright ’70 and ners, I now have my own shop, where I focus his wife, Jackie, before Margot and I departed for on employment law, commercial litigation, and REUNION YEAR! a schooner cruise on the Maine coast. Excellent some divorce work. I like having to answer only Make your plans today. sailing and great fun!” to myself and still enjoy what I do; I wonder how I would fill the hours if I retired. Can only take www.trincoll.edu/ Trinity Fund Goal: $100,000 so much golf and tennis. Good news: Whitney AlumniAndFamilies/ 1972 Class Secretary: John R. Nelson, Cook has joined our Tuesday night tennis game, 55 Old Shore Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371-1936; and we play golf together as well. Also, fellow Reunion [email protected] • /groups/ Trinity graduate Peter Clark ’69 plays on the Trinity1972 • Class Agents: Archibald Smith, court next to ours. Small world! My wife, Terri, Will Whetzel just retired after many years of teaching in the the cowboy who rode his horse inside, picked up Rob Lawrence reports a touching Trinity event: public schools. We’re lucky to have our daughter a girl, and rode off into the sunset several years “In June, I attended a celebration and reunion of Annie living in Fairfield with our three grand- ago. We thoroughly enjoyed staying at Don and the 50th anniversary of the first Trinity crew to children and her husband, Lenny. We had a grat- Emily’s beautiful off-the-grid home, and they fed race at Henley. The invitation generously went ifying and busy summer with three weddings, us well, took us on a fun hike through the high out to all Trinity rowers to join the celebration a few days at the beautiful Sagamore Resort on desert scrublands, and were preparing for the at the boathouse. A major reason I attended Lake George, a visit to my sister in the North Lamy Woodstock 50 Festival as we were leaving. was to document the event for my good friend, Carolina mountains, and a cruise from Barcelona Thanks to Jay and Colleen and Don and Emily! Bob Benjamin ’71, who is suffering from ALS. into the Greek Isles in September. I remember For photos of our visits, the saloons, the hikes, Commendably, the row was in a shell named our Trinity years with great fondness—listening and the incredibly steep mountain Jay and Norm Robert Benjamin Jr. ’71 since Bob has been the to The Outerspace Band, watching the school Bardeen climbed and skied back in 1982, go backbone of the Friends of Trinity Rowing for go coed, campaigning against the Cambodian to our class Facebook page or email me at jack. many decades. Coach MacDermott invited me invasion, and learning from some wonderful [email protected]. aboard the launch so I could take pictures for professors. Sadly, I’m not in touch with many Bob. The highlight for me was being able to classmates, and I hope your efforts play some Trinity Fund Goal: $125,000 fill in for a rower suffering from cramps, and I role in allowing that to change. I hope all is well 1973 Co-Class Secretary: Diane Fierri thoroughly enjoyed rowing with these ‘legends!’ in your lives.” Dan and Whitney, come visit us in Brown, 62 Westwood Rd., West Hartford, CT The next day I visited Bob in his assisted living Old Lyme. 06117; [email protected] • Co- facility in New Jersey and showed him the My wife and I visited Jay Goodwin and Don Class Secretary: Robert P. Haff, 8 Riverbend Rd., pictures and messages from each rower. He was Viering on our vacation and enjoyed their Old Lyme, CT 06371-1428 • Class Agents: Jan very grateful for the visit and to vicariously be fascinating and incredibly scenic home turfs. Gimar, Ed Huntley, Patti Mantell-Broad a part of the celebration.” So Rob drove to New I pried a few stories out of Jay, who has been a Greetings, classmates! It turns out that 50 years Jersey after this Reunion to visit Bob? Then home ski instructor at Telluride since 1974 and gives have passed (yikes!) since the Class of 1973 to Boston? How nice. Don’t forget Rob rowed at expert-level lessons to skiers from all over the introduced coeducation to Trinity and set the Henley in 1971 when we came in second. world. He pioneered backcountry skiing with a tone for a (hopefully) better and (certainly) more Gary Smith sent a good update and wrote a lot of first descents. A typical ski trip: Climb an fun-packed school. And, as some … many … fun compendium of his technology experiences incredibly steep mountain, 2,000–4,000 vertical most agree, Trinity is a smarter and better place as an engineering student, but alas, no room feet, ski down incredibly steep face of moun- for the change. Trinity’s Board of Trustees voted here. Will add to our Facebook page along with tain, hike back to vehicle safely. Jay is a serious to become a coeducational undergraduate insti- other technical remembrances. “I’m still working mountain climber, hunter, and fly-fisherman. tution on January 11, 1969, and we matriculated and keeping commercial and military (shh …) He showed us some of the rugged and steep in September 1969 as the first class admitted as aviation safe with my contributions to testing areas he’s hauled elk out of. He hunts mostly a coed class. The 50 years have flown by, and pneumatic components and systems before they with local ranchers. Jay took us on a spectacular I think there may be current students of the reach the end user. The world of engineering has climb, and Colleen grilled us a tasty elk dinner. school who are not aware that the college was changed dramatically over my 46-year career, He was chief of the Telluride Village Volunteer ever a men’s college and that it all started with and deliberate design and validation processes Fire Department and was deeply involved us. As part of the recognition and celebration take a back seat to speed to the market for new in wilderness rescues as well as avalanche of the 50th anniversary, Trinity is sponsoring a products. Not that it’s dangerous; it’s just a par- protocol, education, and backcountry rescues. series of panel discussions throughout the year. adigm shift. My greatest satisfaction these days In the off-season, Jay is a general contractor On April 25, classmates and others gathered at comes from mentoring young engineers and and construction manager. He showed us a $4 the college for a discussion of experiences we challenging them to use their innate capabilities million log home he built for a crazy Texan. encountered in the early days of coeducation. to make intelligent decisions in the absence of Amazing! Donny has happily landed in Lamy, In attendance from the Class of ’73 were Marcy all the information they’d like to have. On the New Mexico, population 179. There’s no town Bonola, Barbara Brown, Diane Fierri Brown, personal front, there are three grandkids who hall and not even a store, but it does have an Scott Cameron, Suzie Fishman, Jocelyn Jerry- need spoiling and stepkids that look to me for old, Mission-style church, a railroad museum, Wolcott, Janice Kozovich, Joyce Krinitsky, advice and counsel. Recreationally, I’m a com- an Amtrak station (!), and two saloons, one Karen Fink Kupferberg, Lenn Kupferberg, petitive action pistol shooter and am seven- owned by friends of Don, the other the historic Sara Ladden, Patti Mantell-Broad, Jean Miley, eighths of the way to the next higher ranking in Legal Tender built in 1884. They still talk about Aron Pasternack, and Cynthia Parzych. In

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August, members of the Class of 2023 gathered Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 for their Convocation on the Main Quad beneath 1974 Class Secretary: Vacant the elms and the outstretched arm of Bishop Brownell to start their four-year adventure at REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 Trinity. Members of our class participated in Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 the opening day pageantry. Marcy Bonola, 1975 Co-Class Secretary: Steven E. Diane Fierri Brown, Janice Kozovich, Joyce Hirsch, 11 Ricky Beth Ln., Old Greenwich, CT Krinitsky, Karen and Lenn Kupferberg, 06870-1013; [email protected] Hallie Lee, Patti Mantell-Broad, and Phyllis • Co-Class Secretary: Christopher G. Mooney, Schienberg Jay processed with the incoming 303 Compass Point Dr., #202, Bradenton, FL first-years to welcome the latest coed class. 34209; [email protected] • Mike Battle writes, “My wife and I finally /groups/59654675586 made it to Bermuda, which has been on our With our 45th Reunion soon to arrive in 2020, bucket list for years. We are enjoying retirement we have interesting news from classmates: in Atlanta, Georgia. It is hard to believe that 50 Holly Laurent writes, “I am still happily years ago, the Class of 1973 began our journey retired and living in Boston. The big news in my beneath the elms of our dear old Trinity.” family is that my elder son, Wyatt, got married Per Jan Gimar, “Like most of us, I have my this year, completed his master’s degree in edu- 50th high school reunion this year, and it takes Mike Mitchell ’73 cation from NYU, and started a job as a Spanish place this weekend. We decided to hold it in teacher at The Dalton School in N.Y.C. My the fall so we could take in a football game. I’m where he has been teaching English for more younger son, Greg ’13, continues his coaching on my way back to Kansas tomorrow morning. than 28 years and 44 years total in classrooms with TOG squash in Boston. I will be taking a trip Since I’m on our own 50th Reunion planning from California to East Africa. On the horizon: this fall with fellow ’75 graduates Melissa Maier committee for 2023, I’ve been paying attention building a home in rural (very rural) southwest and Barbara McIver to Vienna.” to the prep process for this high school event New Mexico; visiting son Grady ’17, a “Jumbo” From Jack Miesowitz: “Hi, guys! I haven’t and looking forward to seeing how some of the graduate student at The Fletcher School at responded in a long time. I am a partner in a ideas play out. I’m hoping to pick up some ideas Tufts, and daughter Olivia, a nurse in the NICU law firm in Summit, New Jersey, specializing that might work at our college 50th. Other than at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, wherever in estate planning. My daughter, Sabrina, is that, I continue to immerse myself in various they decide to settle (grandkids, please!); and deputy general counsel to Lloyds of London and volunteer projects with church, scouting, and a lot of travel. “I joined other ‘Seabury Giants’ works in the N.Y.C. office. The joy of my life is my politics while squeezing in a lot of travel. Went for the wedding of classmate Barry Madden’s two grandsons, Leonardo, 5½, and Luca, 1½. I to Barbados last winter, and my summer trip son Graham in Boston in July. Gathering from all occasionally see John Cracovaner, who started this year found me a week in Scotland followed over the country, we marveled at the longevity at Trinity but transferred. He lives in Ocean City, by another week’s train-and-bus journey south of our friendship, now approaching 50 years. New Jersey.” through England so I could board a cruise ship We are closer—and older—than ever.” Jake still From Nancy Kasimer: “Reading about for a week in the fjords of Norway. Call it a does interviews of prospective Bantams in the Trinity on Facebook has reminded me about ‘heritage tour.’ Got to visit my Scottish roots Santa Barbara area, and he is proud to extol the some experiences that I don’t hear anyone at Clan Campbell’s home base in Inveraray virtues of Trinity under the visionary leadership talk about. My roommate, Eleanor Clements Castle and my Norwegian roots in my great- of President Berger-Sweeney! (now deceased), and I were two of the very few grandfather’s birthplace of Stavanger. Still John W. Tyler reports that he enjoyed 15 min- student women who got jobs in the cafeteria. need to work up a trip to southeastern France utes of fame after being interviewed by Malcolm We were harassed since the men who worked and western Switzerland to find out where the Gladwell for his July 4 Revisionist History pod- there (non-students) were very unhappy about hell the Gimars came from!” cast on the Boston Tea Party. women in the dish room. This included being John Gatsos is “delighted to report that this Laurie Cherbonnier writes, “I only lasted a put into garbage cans, locked in the meat summer my son Sam made the U.S. National year at Trinity, so I don’t expect to be remem- freezer and walk-in fridge, garbage thrown at Rowing Team and represented Team USA in the bered, but I rode my father’s coattails onto the us, being told to empty the dishwasher without men’s quadruple scull in Sarasota, Florida. As Trinity luncheons in Naples, Florida; they are gloves, etc. We stuck it out because we were part of his training journey, he was coached by always an interesting group with lively speakers. stubborn and we needed the money. It was an Ric Ricci at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in My father was Professor Edmond Cherbonnier, interesting time integrating women into Trinity. Craftsbury, Vermont, and also later interviewed who founded the Religion Department. I live Thanks for allowing the sharing. On a different for Rowing News by Andy Anderson ’75, aka with my husband, Chris Nielsen, in Winnetka, topic, I am still living in the Connecticut area Dr. Rowing.” outside of Chicago.” and have had a long career working for the State Ric Ricci writes, “On June 7, I had the oppor- Mike Mitchell reports that this year is his of Connecticut and the chronically mentally tunity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the “20th year cycling with a group of Lockheed ill in Hartford. I have five lovely grandchildren 1969 Trinity Henley crew that made the finals Martin guys that I worked with during my and a great husband. I am trying to plan my of the Ladies Plate. The ’69 crew was the first 21 years with the firm. Atlanta, Georgia, to retirement and what the next chapter of my life of many fine Trinity crews to race at the Henley Anniston, Alabama, round trip. Six guys, 202.2 will be like. I find it all a little scary.” Royal Regatta. The impressive coverage of the miles, four days, a few beers, lifetime friend- From Lou Tortora: “Living in Chapel Hill, ’69 crew in The Hartford Courant, my contact ships, many stories that will only grow in the North Carolina, with wife and daughters. Would with Coach Norm Graf, the academic reputation telling over time. Proud to show the Trinity col- be interested in attending our 45th Reunion! of the college, and my love of rowing were the ors out along the trail! I have had two photogra- [email protected]” (Secretary’s note: reasons I chose to matriculate!” phy exhibits this year—one was in the Maryland Lou shared a photo of his beautiful family.) Rod “Jake” Jacobsen is threatening to retire State House in Annapolis—with two more to go A quick shout-out from Janet Dickinson: “Re from The Thacher School in Ojai, California, before the end of the calendar year.” Reunion, sounds like a good idea.”

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Q+A Melissa Everett ’75

What is the aim of Sustainable Hudson Canyon and Vegas, did white-water Valley? Our mission is to speed up, rafting, and visited friends all over. Once scale up, jazz up, and leverage our I was picked up by a schoolteacher in region’s efforts to fight climate change. central California, and she drove me We work in communications strategy, through an orange grove, stopping so coalition building, and market develop- we could fill up our bags with fallen ment for electric vehicles and renew- oranges. Some of the trip was about able heating technologies. Some of our decompressing, but it became all work is in local and regional planning. about learning. I remember sitting in For example, we’re just wrapping up a small-town public libraries and reading planning process with a 5,000-person whatever looked interesting. When I community called Marbletown to plan got home, I was lighter, stronger, and how it will transition to 100 percent re- clearer. I also was determined to find newable energy over the next 10 years or a career of growth and contribution. I so (or get close). Other communities are started as a journalist and author, seeing already gearing up to make their own that as the way to learn and follow similar plans. opportunities. I wrote a series of profiles of dissidents, people who struggled to DEGREES: B.S. in biology; interdisciplinary What led to your interest in sustain- find their ethical path. Then I turned Ph.D. in sustainable development, Erasmus ability? My commitment grew out of those insights into a values-centered University, Rotterdam, Netherlands the experience of my generation. I was career guide called Making a Living in high school for the first Earth Day. While Making a Difference, which has JOB TITLE: Executive director, Sustainable Hudson Valley We had world-class speakers coming gone through three editions and just through, like the population biologist might see a fourth. The insight there FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: Paul Ehrlich. There was never a question was about how much people can soar Academically, we had study nights for physical for me that we have to focus attention on when they are working from a healthy chemistry where most of the class got together over pizza and worked out problems. how to create rapid change, change that commitment—and that’s a key to the That was huge. On the fun side, a friend and I lots of people can embrace. I tried to put work I do now. actually sneaked into the Chapel tower one my head down and just get a job—as a spring night with our sleeping bags and computer programmer—but I couldn’t do What do you enjoy most about your work? camped there. It was magical! it for long. In Boston, where I lived, there The people, the problem-solving, and was concern about the nuclear power the progress we make. plant being built at Seabrook, New you need a huge tolerance for ambiguity Hampshire, on a very-hard-to-evacuate What are the biggest challenges you and uncertainty, as well as an ability to peninsula; I got involved on that issue, face? Many nonprofit leaders will tell create mental models that are useful and which taught me about energy systems you it’s finding the money. In my view, compelling to others. for public safety and resilience as well as when you have the clarity and develop resource efficiency. Concern about -nu the right relationships, the money tends What was the most memorable course you clear power and weapons was my point to follow. The biggest challenge for me took at Trinity? Judo, because I learned of entry into the environmental move- and our organization has been finding to fall, and skiing, because I learned how ment, but I also was inspired by positive the groove of program and strategy that not to. All my bio courses were memora- innovation locally—community gardens, nobody else is working in, where our ble for the sense of wonder they brought. architects creating buildings run entirely unique strengths can come into play and by renewables, and so much more. create value. I was determined to be part of something restorative for the world, way How did your time at Trinity prepare you before I had any idea what it would look for what you do now? I chose Trinity like. I took time off and traveled. OK, for the flexibility. I was able to take I’ll tell you: I hitch-hiked 14,000 miles some of everything, from neurophysi- around the United States, Canada, and ology to dance. When you are leading Mexico by myself in 1980. Not recom- an organization that is pretty much mended, but worth it! I saw the Grand creating its road map while navigating,

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One of your scribes, Chris Mooney, spent having any of these adventures? Probably not. was there, too, but avoided arrest), and they much of 2019 on the road (Spain, Telluride, Shows how much we knew. Here’s what some of might be pleased to hear the fight continues.” Kenya, Abaco Islands) and assures all that our classmates have been up to during the past Thanks to Jack, Anne, and David, who con- Kenya’s game safaris and Swahili coast are still few months. tributed their stories from Facebook. Keep in preternatural, though Al Shabaab has made its Earlier in 2019, David Teichman accom- touch, and don’t forget to write! Till next time … lethal presence known on the coast and greatly plished something huge: an ascent of diminished the tourism there, south of the Kilimanjaro. From Facebook: “Jambo! Greetings Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 porous Somali border. Sad to know that Marsh from Kibo on the Roof of Africa. Dream. Plan. 1978 Class Secretary: Jory F. Lockwood, Harbor, from which Mark Cleary and Chris Prepare. Execute. Amazing journey. Asante 67 Scarlet Oak Dr., Wilton, CT 06897-1014; jory. sailed in May around the Abaco Islands in the sana, Tanzania!” He posted some breathtaking [email protected] • Class Agents: northeastern Bahamas, was pounded to pieces pictures, so check them out. Bob Carey, Vivi Dunklee Duke, Charles Glanville, in a summer 2019 hurricane. Jack Santos chronicled this on Facebook in Tom Lenahan, George Malhame, Andrew Terhune • Your other class scribe, Steve Hirsch, had a early October: “Big weekend. 50th anniversary /groups/TrinityCollege78 busy summer traveling, having gone to Banff of my first climb up Mount Washington. Never in Peter Crosby writes, “I’ve been in Beijing for National Park; the Calgary Stampede (highly my wildest imagination at age 14 would I have the last six months, so I didn’t see the last Trinity recommend it!); Charleston, South Carolina; thought I’d be doing it again at age 64. Yes, it’s alumni magazine. Wondering if my China update Pittsburgh for weddings; San Francisco to visit a reunion overnight hike with Mike Clapis. And ever got in. I’ll see the mag when I get home at the grandchildren; Pinehurst, North Carolina, two nephews Will and Tyler. Forecast is 40–50 Thanksgiving. Xièxie.” to attend golf school; The Hamptons; Fort mph winds and 28–40 degrees pre-wind chill. Carey Doyle writes, “You are a good person Lauderdale, Florida; and Turkey, which I highly And rain. And ice. Why? Because it’s there!” He taking on the responsibility of getting seniors to recommend for its history, beauty, food, and posted some fantastic pictures on Facebook. communicate. Sorry, but I’m going to be brief. lovely people. Check them out. I don’t follow Trinity closely; four alma maters, From Anne Levine Bradford: “Phil Bradford 10 degrees, four engineering, M.B.A., etc., top Trinity Fund Goal: $275,000 and I have been living in N.Y.C. for around 10 schools. I do appreciate your goodwill returning 1976 Class Secretary: Robert A. Gibson, years, and we are happy that two of our three to teaching. I am semiretired, helping a Native 84 Colony Rd., New Haven, CT 06511-2812; adult children also reside in town. Around six American tribe in North Dakota with large [email protected] • Class Agents: years ago, I wanted to jump-start a different kind energy holdings and environmental challenges. Mike Gilman, Terry Michel Gumz of retirement. I paired up with an NFL strength Home in Arizona.” As the coolness of autumn swiftly breezes by training coach and have been training with him This from Adam Hoffinger: “On the last and frosty winter fast approaches, the end of several times a week. Four years ago, I met a weekend of September, I saw Kenny Grillo ’77 2019 is imminent. The dawning of a glorious retired pro boxer, with whom I also began train- and Wicks Stires in Princeton, New Jersey, at new year offers hope for changing winds and a ing. Both of these young men have completely the wedding of Wicks’s son. Beautiful day, lovely needed breath of fresh air. May 2020 bring the changed my life. What a confidence builder, young couple. And Kenny and Wicks still have Class of ’76 bright prospects for the future, good especially in a city like New York, where you their hair!” health, happiness, prosperity, and the great joy always need to be on your toes. I am in better On a somber note, it is with great sadness of family and friends with whom to share it all! shape now than most men and women half my that Kathy Maye Murphy shares the news of From Chip Goode: “Laura and I hosted a age, and I realize how important this strength is the unexpected passing of her husband of 36 Class of ’76 long weekend gathering at our as I get older. A major plus factor: I am able to years, Jim, in June 2019 at age 63. Jim and Kathy Jupiter, Florida, home last March that included enjoy Phil’s spectacular cooking with abandon!” were married on June 4, 1983. Classmate Lisa several fellow ’76ers. David Rahm and wife We are all jealous of the thing with Phil’s cook- Passalacqua Burch was an attendant. Jim Yvette flew in from L.A.,Eads and Polly Johnson ing, Anne! Check out Anne’s Facebook page. worked as a behavioral health nurse practitioner from Connecticut, Andy and Anne Merz from You’ll see her boxing. You’ll see her doing pull- for many years. He was active in St. John Fisher Philly, Rick and Laurie Schweikert from Maine, ups, sometimes with weights attached. You’ll see Roman Catholic Church in Marlborough and Tommy Korengold from D.C., and Jim Solomon her and Phil at Yankees games. It’s all great. accompanied Kathy and the choir on pilgrim- from Toronto … lots of fun times and many Like Anne, I’m all in with strength training. ages to Italy, Germany, and Austria. His favorite laughs! Then, this Columbus Day weekend, Eads I’ve been working with the same young woman pastime was officiating basketball at the high and Polly hosted us at their beautiful Blooming for 3½ years, and I enjoy it so much and have school, college, and professional levels. He Grove, Pennsylvania, home in the Poconos, accomplished more than I could have imagined. also had a passion for cooking. Jim will be where we had Jim, Tommy, Rick and Laurie, and The confidence boost is massive. I am so grateful sadly missed but remembered with love. Kathy Mike Diefenbach ’77 and wife Michele. Again, for the opportunity to do this (at my daughter’s would love to hear from you. Please email her at lots of great memories of all the wonderful urging). Drumroll … I have an ambitious dead- [email protected]. moments we enjoyed at Trinity and of all the lift goal for the end of this year; I’ll let you know Scott MacDonald is alive and well in White years since we graduated. Very special place in how it goes. Plains, New York. He writes: “After many years all of our hearts! If any of you find yourselves in In other news, Jack Santos adds this: “I working in asset management for Aladdin the Jupiter area this winter, Laura and I would recently testified at the NRC on the Seabrook Capital and Mitsubishi Corporation, I have love to see you! ([email protected])” Nuclear Power Plant’s relicensing; Seabrook opted for consulting work dealing with eco- (near me on the Massachusetts/New Hampshire nomic issues and geopolitical risk. I also serve Trinity Fund Goal: $100,000 border) has significant concrete degradation, on the board of a nonprofit organization, El 1977 Class Secretary: Mary Desmond but the license has recently been (inexplicably) Centro Hispano, am a senior associate at the Pinkowish, 15 Lafayette Rd., Larchmont, NY extended to 2050. It brought me back to my Center for Strategic and International Studies 10538-1920; [email protected] days at Trin and our campus Clamshell Alliance in Washington, D.C., am scheduled to teach • /TrinityCollege 77 meetings that organized protests when it was European politics at a local college, and am “When I’m 64 …” When we were at Trinity, originally constructed. A few classmates got working on a book on the new Cold War in did we suspect that when we were 64 we’d be arrested in sit-ins at Seabrook in those days (I the Caribbean. I have had the good fortune of

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play the steel drum. That’s about a third of the sewage into the Pacific Ocean, lakes, wetlands, list. I was in Chicago last weekend for a family and rivers. reunion, which was just wonderful. This teach- Our 40th Reunion has left a positive afterglow. ing gig will end for me on Halloween, and there Jane Beddall and George Brickley each wrote will be a celebratory dinner as I reclaim 50 hours to say they had a great time. Plus they had other a week. My two dogs (Tay and Truant) will be news to share. happy to have my time more available for them. Jane adds, “In October 2018, I started to learn From the Alumni Office: Congratulations to how to host and produce a podcast. It is a blast! Deborah Buck on a successful showing of her The learning curve was steep at the beginning, work at Ille Arts Gallery in Amagansett, New but we’re supposed to embrace lifelong learning, York, June 22 through July 15, 2019. Deborah’s right? I launched Crafting Solutions to Conflict in paintings explore the interplay of surrealism and January 2019, and I publish weekly episodes that abstraction, romanticism, and the darker side of provide a positive and practical perspective on Deborah Buck ’78 fairy tales. Trinity also is pleased to announce conflict. The show expands on the type of work the establishment of two Deborah Buck ’78 I have done for years. Two weeks in a row, I have seeing Rob Meyer ’77 and occasionally share Studio Arts Fifth Year Fellows for the 2021–22 a short (about five minutes) host-on-mic episode communications with Rob Calgi ’79 and David academic year. Deborah lives in New York City on a particular topic or with specific tips. The L. Teichmann ’77. I also enjoy reading Randy and Sagaponack, New York. For more informa- third week, I talk with an interesting guest who Schwimmer’s The Lead Left. I should add that tion about Deborah and her work, visit www. has excellent insights, for 30 minutes or so. The my goddaughter, Alex Taylor, went to Trinity and deborahbuck.com. show is available for free on all the major apps graduated in 2010. Probably the best news is that and on the web.” I have been married to the same woman, Kateri Trinity Fund Goal: $175,000 George adds that in June he played golf Scott-MacDonald, since 1980. I don’t know how 1979 Co-Class Secretary: James M.G. at Hop Meadow Country Club in Simsbury, she does it.” Cropsey, 376 Sanborn Rd., Tilton, NH 03276- Connecticut, in support of the Trinity College Ann McNichol is back on our Bantam radar. 5729; [email protected] • Co- men’s ice hockey program. “I need some serious She writes, “Been a while. Just thought I’d men- Class Secretary: Kenneth C. Crowe II, 395 State work on my golf game, but a good time was had tion that I will be back on campus in February to St., Apt. 4F, Albany, NY 12210-1214; kenneth. by all.” More recently, George and wife Cindy give a Science for the Greater Good seminar talk. [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: ’80 traveled to the Tufts campus near their I’ll be giving a general talk open to the whole Diane Molleson, 4375 Kimberly St., Richland, WA Massachusetts home to watch the Bantams campus and then meeting with science students 99352-8477; [email protected] take on the Jumbos on opening weekend of during the day. Should be fun.” Let’s have our • Class Agent: Barlow Peelle NESCAC football. The Jumbos upset our beloved local Bantams attend and support Ann’s efforts. As usual, our classmates have been up to a Bantams in a close game. There’s more news Joe Patrina has a new focus of interest. Joe, variety of activities. Here’s a rundown of some about George below. the retired founder of Wall Street Systems, has of their achievements. Two of our classmates, Peter Davis and pursued a second career as an author and has Phyllis St. George writes, “My villanelle Nathalie Reverdin, celebrated significant pater- just published A Baby Boomer’s Encounters: ‘Last-Minute Temptation’ won third place in nal birthday milestones. Peter’s dad turned 90, How Contemporaries Taught Me. In it, Joe is a the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Tech Effect and Nathalie’s dad marked his centennial. They real-life Forrest Gump, reflecting upon his many Poetry Contest. I was accepted at and attended both had lots to celebrate. brushes with famous—Muhammad Ali, Bill in June 2019 the Juniper Summer Writing Lisa and Neil McDonough celebrated the Clinton, Madonna, Jackie Kennedy, etc.—and Institute at UMass Amherst.” For those in need nuptials of their daughter Kelsey McDonough other important people of his time. One telling of a poetry lesson (as I was), a villanelle is a ’10 to Brett Hershman on August 17, 2019, at the encounter describes “Professor B,” Joe’s eco- “19-line poem with two rhymes throughout, Annadel Estate Winery in Santa Rosa, California. nomics chair at Trinity back in 1977. The book is consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with Their other children, Darcy McDonough’13 and available on Amazon. Joe retired to Simsbury; the first and third lines of the opening tercet Shaun McDonough ’08, also attended. Shaun his daughter Codyann ’15 is in Manhattan. recurring alternately at the end of the other and wife Cait had their children, Landon and Kate Willens shares, “I’ve got some exciting tercets and with both repeated at the close of Monroe, on hand. Can’t help but wonder if news. I have become a singer-songwriter and the concluding quatrain.” they’re future Bantams. am just about to release my second album, my Jim Cropsey is a conservationist out of While we all have ties to campus, some of our first one out of Nashville! My artist name is Kate the Teddy Roosevelt school of protecting the classmates may have a stronger presence back Magdalena, and folks can find me on Spotify or environment. Jim’s been involved with Ducks along the Long Walk. George Brickley was to at most digital outlets. I’m an Americana folk art- Unlimited in New Hampshire and at the national be inducted into the college’s Athletics Hall of ist and just beginning to do shows and tour. Will level in the United States. It should be no sur- Fame during Homecoming. For those who were be traveling soon to Kentucky and Tennessee for prise that like those migratory ducks, he’s found at Reunion, you’ll recall George’s wonderful a country radio tour. I was a Trinity Pipe!” Kate, his way south into Mexico. Ducks Unlimited remarks about representing everyone in the class when are you scheduling a show for Harford? in Mexico, Ducks Unlimited de Mexico, aka when he was selected for the honor. You can see and hear more on her website, www. DUMAC, named Jim a life sponsor in recogni- Three of our classmates are on the Trinity katemagdalena.com. tion of “outstanding contributions on behalf Engineering Advisory Council (TEAC), which As for your secretary, I, Jory Lockwood, am of the conservation of migratory waterfowl in the college describes this way: [TEAC] is “a completely overextended and have once again Mexico and North America as a valuable legacy group of leaders from engineering industry and failed at retirement. I am about halfway through for future generations.” Jim was involved in an academia and serves as a professional resource a 10-week high school teaching gig that requires initiative to build sewage treatment plants and and advocate for the Trinity Engineering me to wake up in the dark at 5:30 a.m. What sewer lines around lakes and bordering wet- Program.” It’s hard to think of three engineers was I thinking? I continue to teach dog classes, lands and rivers along the west coast of Mexico better qualified for this thanFred Borgenicht, I am taking a writing class, and I am learning to to replace the existing system of releasing raw Nancy Davis, and Eric Fossum. Nancy and Eric

58 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES also serve on the college’s Board of Trustees with in our class to encourage them to attend. Also, Kevin Maloney. please contact any of us to share your thoughts And two can be found in the academic about what you’d like for speakers, events, and ranks at the college. David Duncan, founder the class dinner for our 40th. of Needham Duncan Architecture, is a visiting This is all to report, as I have not received assistant professor of fine arts, relying on his any other news. Please email me at oldlilacs@ more than 30 years of experience in architec- comcast.net to share noteworthy events about ture to teach architectural drawing and design. yourself or our classmates. Thank you. Dave’s also been finishing up a retreat in Maine. From the Alumni Office:David N. Bazar, Esq., Andrew Walsh is associate director of the has been elected 2019–20 president of the Rhode Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Island Bar Association. Religion in Public Life. He also can be found in the classroom as a visiting assistant professor of Trinity Fund Goal: $125,000 religion, history, and American studies. 1981 Co-Class Secretary: Susan Ken Crowe was elected vice president of Walsh Ober, 130 Skyline Dr., Millington, NJ Class of 1982 roommates Scott Cassie, Tom Tarca, and Jim the Albany Newspaper Guild in June and was 07946; [email protected] • Co-Class Dod are together once again at the wedding of Tom and reelected to a full three-year term in September. Secretary: Tabitha N. Zane, 1620 Kersley Cir., Sandy Tarca’s daughter, Megan, on September 28, 2019. Ken has served in a variety of offices; his last Lake Mary, FL 32746-1923; tabitha.zane.1981@ Other Bantams in attendance were Tom’s son, TJ Tarca ’11, and Sandy’s brother, John Senaldi ’86. It was a wonderful position was as a pension trustee in 2009 when trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Penny Sutter and fun evening! he negotiated a merger that led to the rescue of Grote, Alison Brennan Shutt, Topper Shutt • the pension plan for his Times Union colleagues /groups/391695640890482 Trinity Board of Trustees. We hope to share more represented by the guild. In addition, Ken won Robert Aiello writes, “I am a criminal defense insights about what these classmates are learn- first place for digital storytelling in the annual attorney practicing in the state and federal courts ing from their unique vantage point. contest sponsored by the New York State in New York City. I am also involved in real estate Carl Rapp wrote with news from the Philly Associated Press Association. Nothing like being management. I am pleased to report that I took a suburbs of a recent visit from Trinity’s leader- cutting-edge in the newspaper world. The story vacation to the Dominican Republic last winter ship team to discuss the school’s future. “I am appeared in print and online. It was a history with Faraj Saghri, Peter Whalen, and Mark impressed with Trinity’s direction and recent per- piece detailing how divorce files become public Madden ’79. I was also in Florida to celebrate formance.” He continues to travel quite a bit for records in New York state after a century. Yes, Tony Docal’s 60th birthday this summer with work overseas and still enjoys it, “despite living private eyes were taking surveillance photos of the same crew and some additional classmates in an age of misguided tariffs and trade wars.” He straying spouses a century ago. as well. I am happy to have maintained such managed to get on campus twice in the past year From the Alumni Office:David P. Rosenblatt close relationships with my Trinity classmates.” for events and agrees with Architectural Digest was named to the Board of Directors of Lawyers From Sue Walsh Ober: “Hard to believe that our quad remains one of the most beautiful Concerned for Lawyers, an independent non- we’re all turning 60. I find myself turning to the college settings in the country. profit organization that promotes well-being, obituary section of The Reporter first when it Two of our classmates have published new resilience, and mental health for lawyers in arrives, so I was saddened to read of the death of books that happen to share a common theme: Massachusetts. John Braskamp in the fall issue. On a happier boats. Dan Boyne has written a book called The note, I was able to celebrate my 60th birthday Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge, REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 with the much younger (by 20 months) Nancy and Redemption (Lyons Press/Rowman and Trinity Fund Goal: $500,000 Lucas. My ‘baby’ is a junior in high school and Littlefield), a humorous memoir of his freshman 1980 Class Secretary: Peter S. is starting to look at colleges and has an eye lightweight crew days at Trinity, when they won Jongbloed, 536 Boston Post Rd., Madison, CT on Trinity. I’m hoping to catch up with Kay the national championships. Over the last three 06443-2930; [email protected] Wyrtzen McManus when we’re looking at col- decades, he has been working and studying at • Class Agents: Scott Lessne, Harry Levenstein • leges in the Boston area.” Harvard in many different capacities, including /groups/112435390839 teaching rowing and yoga in the athletic depart- Mark your calendars, and plan to join your Trinity Fund Goal: $175,000 ment, studying and teaching in the education classmates for our upcoming 40th Reunion. 1982 Class Secretary: Ellin Carpenter school a bit, and recently taking classes at the Yes, it’s true. Reunion Weekend at Trinity will Smith, 932 Windsor Ave., Windsor, CT divinity school. A bit of Googling revealed that start Thursday, June 4, 2020, and continue 06095-3422; [email protected] • most of Dan’s writing has concerned itself with through Sunday. /groups/TrinColl1982 • Class Agents: Bill the interplay between sport and society, and Members of your Reunion Committee, work- Talbot, Tom Mathews he often has focused on groups or individuals ing with Trinity’s Advancement Office, are plan- Congratulations are in order. Bill Talbot who have used sport as a means to change their ning our exciting and fun Reunion, where we conveyed that our class was well represented social status. He has an M.Ed. from Harvard will gather, catch up, and reminisce. Committee in the Trinity Fund for the year ending in June and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his members are Cynthia Rolph Ballantyne, Lisa 2019. Participation increased by 26 donors over wife and daughter. Douglas Brooks is looking Block, William Bullard, Tom Casey, David the previous year! Tom Mathews returned as a forward to next year’s planned publication of his Clark Jr., Trish Mairs Klestadt, David Koeppel, class agent, and his charm must have made the fifth book about the vanishing craft of boat- Scott Lessne, Harry Levenstein, Tom Melly, difference. “We want to build on that positive building. Douglas has apprenticed since 1996 Suwathin Phiansunthon, Patrice Ball-Reed, momentum this year by adding another 20 do- with seven craftsmen throughout Japan. He is Elizabeth Curtiss Smith, Kathryn Youngdahl nors from our class. Thank you to everyone who the sole apprentice for six of his seven teachers. Stauss, Chuck Tiernan, and me. Keep an eye has already contributed.” More recently, he has traveled back to Japan this out for notices about this event as we’ll be trying In addition, some of our classmates are fall for his eighth and ninth apprenticeships to confirm and update contact information for contributing time and talents on Trinity advisory with Japanese boatbuilders. The book will be you and our classmates. Reach out to others committees. Great to see Craig Vought join the published by Tobunken, a division of Japan’s

WINTER 2020 59 CLASS NOTES culture ministry. For more about his work, visit Trinity Fund Goal: $75,000 www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com. 1984 Class Secretary: Salvatore I’m also hearing updates from classmates who GIVING DAY Anzalotti III, 13H Mansion Woods Dr., Agawam, have been navigating some interesting journeys MA 01001-2392; salvatore.anzalotti.1984@ of their own, personally and professionally. IS APRIL 2, 2020. trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Sal Anzalotti, Erin Steve Andsager retired in July after 37 years Poskocil • /groups/trincoll84 in the working world. “The first two months of Remember to make your gift! retirement have been awesome! I wish I had www.trincoll.edu/ REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 done this sooner! Lots of golf, concerts, and just Trinity Fund Goal: $400,000 spending some quality time with my wife and GiveOnline 1985 Class Secretary: Stephen J. adult children. Life is good!” Norton, 9 Ninth St. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003- Brook Messier Scott shared news of a 1333; [email protected] • Class career change that began with a breast cancer Najarian, and Terry Lignelli—who all went to Agents: Annette Boelhouwer, Bill Detwiler, Chris diagnosis several years ago that led her to a Wyomissing Area High School in Wyomissing, Doyle, Suzy Rittenberg Dyer, Ann Kezer Lazarus- call to ministry. Having graduated from the San Pennsylvania, together—attended their 40th Barnes, Angelo Lopresti, Steve Norton, John Francisco Theological Seminary, she serves as Reunion over the Fourth of July. Steve and wife Wilson • /groups/715110825227355 a hospital chaplain and is looking forward to Helen hosted brunch at their home before the Hello, everyone. We’re just a few months away her ordination as a pastor in the Presbyterian big parade, and Scott brought beer from his from our 35th Reunion. Let’s make it a big one. Church. Brook reports that her husband, Jack Hanging Hills Brewery for the alumni picnic. As your class secretary for many of these years, I Scott, loves his job with private equity firm Sounds like a great time was had by all. confess feeling a little awkward at times coming FFL Partners. They recently enjoyed dinner in Mark Dibble sure got around this summer, from out of the blue to ask for news. With rare Marin County with fellow San Francisco native visiting Algonquin Provincial Park (Ontario, exceptions, however, the awkwardness gives way Johanna Pitocchelli. Brook also met up with Canada); Martha’s Vineyard; Santa Fe, New to friendly banter and shared memories. (I admit Emilie Kaulbach Kendall, visiting from Boston, Mexico; Guatemala; Vermont; and Kerr County, one of our number responded to my outreach who shared that she had a nice visit with Texas. He highly recommends that everyone on with “get lost.” The candor actually made me Katharine Martin, who lives and works in the LinkedIn add Trinity to their feed to see other laugh a bit. Oh well.) I share this because I know South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. folks outside their circle. It has worked out great some of you might not be that into Trinity. It has Anthony Fischetti celebrated quite a mile- for him in his travels. been a long time, after all. You have created your stone. After 15 years practicing law, he transi- Lauren Niclas got married on September 12; own lives or chosen to maintain ties with an tioned to the world of education. This September she now goes by Lauren Waterhouse and lives intimate group of Trinity friends. Nonetheless, marked the beginning of his 20th year teaching in Bangor, Maine. Her daughter Cristina ’19 please be open to the serendipity of making new U.S. history and coaching basketball and golf at graduated from Trinity last May and has landed friendships from old acquaintances, rekindling Brunswick School in Greenwich. He also serves her dream job as a project scientist for environ- casual friendships, and nurturing old ones as as a middle school dean and head of the middle mental engineering firm EBI Consulting. Lauren a class, ’neath the elms. The Class of 1985 has a school History Department. Brunswick sends and husband Chris own a KOA Campground, genuine spirit. None of us is getting any younger, a couple of boys to Trinity every year. “It’s fun which Lauren says is a wonderful change from and reunions have a way of connecting us to our watching them matriculate and then hearing retail management, where she worked most of former selves and giving unique meaning and about their experiences.” Anthony shared that her career. She stays in regular touch with Ellen perspective to our current selves. There is my he still sees Peter Gutermann, Craig Vought, Tattenbaum and Allen Lepore, who still live personal pitch. Here now the news. Ted Austin, Mike Sinsheimer, Matt Pace, and in Hopewell, New Jersey, staying busy with John Henry Steele is a litigator at the law firm John Brady. “We remain astonished that we their respective careers. Lauren also visited of Dey Smith Steele in Milford, Connecticut. The have been friends for over four decades!” Marlene Arling Kurban and husband Tom firm was a client of his before merging with his And last but certainly not least, our class pres- in Florida in the spring. A lifelong resident of solo office in 2006. His youngest son graduated ident, Scott Cassie, shared the happy news of a Connecticut, Marlene left the cold for Florida from Kingswood Oxford and is in his senior roommate reunion with Tom Tarca and Jim Dod a few years back. year at the University of Connecticut. He was at the wedding of Tom Tarca’s daughter. As for me, my daughter is in her sophomore accepted to Trinity but wanted a bigger school year at Tulane. My wife, Ann, and I will be going experience. Another son works at Guilford Trinity Fund Goal: $250,000 down for homecoming in November. My son, Savings Bank. His wife was the general contrac- 1983 Class Secretary: Thomas M. Brian, is a junior in high school and having a tor for the house that they built 20 years ago McKeown, 2400 Winding Hollow Ln., Plano, great cross-country season. We all had a won- in Middlefield, Connecticut. It has an attached TX 73093-4109; thomas.mckeown.1983@ derful trip to Ireland back in July. After driving in-law apartment, perfect for his mother-in-law, trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Todd Beati, on the left side of the road for five days, I was who is 98 years old and as strong as ever. I recall Timothy Dillon Clarke, Lauren Griffen, David ready for that pint every night. I wasn’t able to his late father, H. McKim Steele Jr., was a history Walker • /groups/295955824253432 have my annual dinner with Trinity pals Tom professor at Trinity for 33 years. Jane Klapper Sykes reported for the first time in Merrill, Angelos Orfanos, and Ron Carroll Sue Pasieka heads up global strategic a while. Her daughter got married back in April, this year as my family’s New York trip was alliances for Project Ocean Watch (www. and despite having to hop through it on a bad consumed by my niece’s wedding. However, projectoceanwatch.com). Its global expedition knee, Jane says the event was fantastic. She also Tom will be joining me in a few weeks here in is committed to supporting the U.N. Sustainable started a new job running the cooking school Dallas at the annual Shamrock Shootout Golf Development Goals (SDGs) and is focused on at Sur La Table in San Francisco and had a nice Invitational benefiting the Integrated Education building ocean stewardship through research visit recently from Wendy Farnham Schon and Fund of Northern Ireland. and STEM programs helping to bring solutions Wendy Gorlin Tayer. That’s all for now, Bants. Have a wonder- to the ocean crisis. Her spare time is devoted Staying with the Wendy theme, Wendy ful year! to rowing with the women’s masters team at Kershner writes that she, Scott Stauffer,Steve Riverside Boat Club. “Feeling very lucky to be

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Baltimore for admiralty and maritime law. He is through the island, please get in touch. I stopped managing partner of Duane Morris’s Baltimore teaching and am a bit of a free agent now, which office and a partner in the Trial Practice Group. is awesome!” Rob is a lifelong resident of Baltimore with deep Doreen Rice has some exciting news to share. ties to the city. He practices in the area of com- “I am more than thrilled to share the news that plex litigation with a concentration on products I recently accepted a call to full-time ministry safety, maritime, transportation, and commer- as an Episcopal priest. My new parish, Church cial litigation. Rob has represented vessel own- of the Covenant in Junction City, Kansas, is ers and claimants in many significant marine the oldest church in the Episcopal Diocese of casualties and assisted marine businesses on Kansas. We will celebrate our 160th anniversary a multitude of issues, including vessel build, in fall 2019. The church was founded in 1859 by vessel finance, and Jones Act compliance issues. clergy and Army officers from Fort Riley, which Andy Merrill ’85, Bob Reichart ’84, and Eric Rosow ’86 He also has counseled clients in large-scale is located in Junction City. The church today is gather in August at the 2019 USRowing Masters National product recalls and reporting obligations under very active in addressing issues of poverty and Championships in Grand Rapids, Michigan. the laws enforced by the Consumer Product food insecurity in the community. Part of the Safety Commission. joy of my new position is living in the parish rowing and racing on the Charles River here rectory, built in 1883 and located within feet of in Boston,” she said. Daughter Katie is in her Trinity Fund Goal: $150,000 the church.” senior year at Yale studying economics and is on 1986 Class Secretary: Jeffrey J. Burton, Finally, a shout-out to my old roommate Jim the women’s crew team. Son John works in New 57 Chestnut St., Boston, MA 02108-3506; jeffrey. DiLorenzo. Jim has been working hard for the York City. [email protected] • Class Agents: Tom past decade to launch a consumer tech start-up The Rev. Bob Flanagan reports, “My wander- Madden, Molly Schnorr-Dunne, Philip Wellman and has lived through the ups and downs of ing journey continues to unfold in unexpected Greetings, ’86ers. Thanks to those of you who many entrepreneurs. About two years ago, he ways. After earning my doctor of ministry degree have sent updates. Look forward to hearing more pointed the endeavor in a new direction and has last year, I have begun teaching Christian from friends after Homecoming! started to enjoy some nice success and recogni- spirituality and pastoral theology at General My old friend and boatmate Eric Rosow sent tion. His company, RewardJet, was named 2019 Theological Seminary in New York City as an some terrific photos that provide further proof, International Business Awards Tech Start-Up adjunct professor. I still live in Bridgewater, if any were needed, that he is among Trinity’s of the Year in the services category and 2019 Connecticut, and work as an Episcopal interim most dedicated and accomplished oarsmen. He Stevie Award winner in the category of best tech priest in the Diocese of New York. My teaching says he wanted to forward “pics of Trinity alums start-up. Go, Jimmy D! position is just a new aspect of my work for that attended this summer’s USRowing Masters That is all for now. Hope to see you all soon. the church and an expression of my Christian National Championships, which were held in From the Alumni Office:Michael DiSandro, faith. I have just returned from Rome, where I Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 15–18.” senior vice president, commercial banking, attended the Society for the Study of Christian Long ago, my friend and fraternity brother Wells Fargo, has been named chairman of the Spirituality’s annual meeting. The conference Glenn Dworkin hosted a party for the brothers board of Children’s Friend, Rhode Island’s first helped me see new ways I can broaden my at his beautiful family home on the Connecticut child-serving nonprofit agency. Founded in 1834 research into religious experiences. Otherwise, shoreline. My recollection was that the home and guided by its mission, Children’s Friend is my family is well. My, son Dan ’16, lives in was in the Thimble Islands, but as I was trading an innovative leader in improving the well-being Astoria and is working as a senior software engi- emails with Glenn, he informed me that it was and healthy development of Rhode Island’s most neer in Manhattan.” in Woodmont, a borough of Milford. He shared vulnerable young children. Rick Hayber is “continuing the fight for this amazing story about the area. “The 10-home the working class at my law firm” (Hayber, area in which I live in was built to resemble the Trinity Fund Goal: $200,000 McKenna & Dinsmore, as of last September). Bay of Naples in Italy as the person who had 1987 Class Secretary: Michael G. The firm has offices in New Haven, Hartford, the homes built was Italian immigrant Sylvester Donovan, Esq., 94 Bowman St., Westborough, Springfield, and Northampton and represents Poli, who opened a string of movie theaters MA 01581-3102; michael.donovan.1987@ workers who are victims of illegal employer in the United States in the 1800s. He had 10 trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Robert M. Edmunds, practices. He lives in Cromwell, Connecticut, homes built for his family in the 1920s and built John H. Self, John A. Tucker, Bryant S. Zanko • has a dog (Bernie), and travels to the Dominican a mansion for himself. My parents were the /groups/trin1987 Republic a few times a year to visit friends. first nonfamily members to buy one of these Elise Kressley reports that she continues to love “I wish all of my Trinity classmates well!” homes. By June 2020, I will have lived in one of working in private practice as a child, adoles- he concluded. those Woodmont houses for 50 years.” What a cent, and adult psychiatrist. She enjoyed living That’s it for now. Hope to see you all in just great family story. Glenn and wife Katia live in this past summer on Cape Cod with daughters a few months! Woodmont, and he works as a mortgage origi- Emily, a college senior, and Caitlin, a college Two notes from the Alumni Office:Michael nator for Harbour Mortgage Group in Guilford, freshman. Elise and husband Andy are empty Jacobson was elected a fellow of the National Connecticut. nesters looking forward to visiting their children Academy of Public Administration. NAPA is Mimi Rodgers writes, “We are in our 13th in college and coming back to Trinity for field involved in some of the most important and com- year of living in Abu Dhabi and still love it. Our hockey events and Hall gatherings. plex public governance issues in the nation. As oldest son, Sam, just began his second year at Elizabeth McDonald can’t believe it’s been a fellow, he hopes to participate in NAPA panels WPI in Worcester, Massachusetts, and has made 32 years since graduation! She spent most of and projects and broaden his contribution to the the transition to living in the U.S. for the first those years teaching American history, English, field of public administration. time in his life. Our daughter, Sophia, took a and the humanities as a public school educator Robert B. Hopkins has been named by Best tour of Trinity this summer, so we’ll see where in Connecticut urban school districts. Later, Lawyers as a Lawyer of the Year for 2020. Rob she ends up next year! Our summers continue she moved into instructional coaching and has been selected as the Lawyer of the Year in to be spent on Nantucket, so if anyone passes worked as a district trainer supporting schools

WINTER 2020 61 CLASS NOTES in meeting the diverse needs of their learners. then-Vice President of Business Development calling it quits for good. Oliver is very happily Although she loved those years, as time passed, Bryant McBride hired him to focus on creating ensconced at Manhattanville, and we are excited her soul yearned to pursue a different passion, opportunities for kids who never had a chance to to see where Cooper lands. I suppose it is old and so, in May 2019, she began a start-up. lace up a pair of skates. In Willie, everyone from news for so many, but this empty nest thing is Today, Elizabeth works with clients, locally and his oldest friends to a new generation of players new—and hard to swallow—for us.” internationally, to provide freelance content/ come together to honor a man dedicated to It’s hard to believe it’s 2020. Wow. Sounds so copywriting, ghostwriting, proofreading, and improving the world through a sport he loves. In futuristic. I know this next decade will bring editing. She also serves writers in preparing April 2019, Willie finished second of 340 films for about much change for us professionally and manuscripts for publication or contest sub- the Audience Award at the Hot Docs Canadian personally. With that, I wish each of you a mission and coaches college students in their International Documentary Festival, the largest happy and healthy year ahead. I look forward to academic research skills, time management, documentary film festival in North America. hearing from you again soon and seeing you in and writing. In addition, she features new or Look for it on a streaming service or in a theater the next 10 ’neath the elms and beyond! Cheers! unknown creatives in her web gallery and offers near you soon.” Please remember to join the Trinity College social media promotion to newcomers. Her blog It was great to hear from Andy Pitts, who Class of 1988 Facebook page, and email Tara at focuses on personal memories of her interna- reports that he is “enjoying life and a cluster [email protected] with news you’d like tional travels, highlighting lessons learned, and of milestones: 20 happy years in Greenwich, 25 to share. she soon hopes to feature interviews with writers happy years of marriage, and 25 happy years From the Alumni Office:Nicholas Clifford and artists from the Trinity family and the local in the salt mines at Cravath (firm celebrating has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Connecticut community. Check out her website its bicentennial this year). Also, many years of The Best Lawyers in America for 2020. at www.thewordwrightsworkshop.com. varied emotions as a New York Rangers ticket From the Alumni Office:Peter Voudouris has holder (sorry, Whalers fans). Spend a lot of Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 been selected by his peers for inclusion in The quality time with Steve Lari ’94, president of 1989 Class Secretary: Andrew P. Walker, Best Lawyers in America for 2020. Middlesex School Board of Trustees, and enjoy 242 Kent Place Blvd., Summit, NJ 07901-1219; seeing other Bantams from time to time. Great to [email protected] • Class Agent: Trinity Fund Goal: $200,000 see Trinity getting good take-up by the children Jason P. Manske • /groups/trincoll89 1988 Class Secretary: Tara Lichtenfels of friends and alumni of our vintage. Seeing the Hello, classmates! It’s been a busy several Gans, 1712 Crestview Dr., Potomac, MD 20854- Chapel looming in the distance when crossing months for me with far too much work travel, 2630; [email protected] • Class the Charter Oak Bridge southbound always including most recently a two-week trip to Agents: Constantine G. Andrews, Diane DePatie elicits a smile and a random Trinity tale that Australia. While in Melbourne, I had a great Consoli, Tara Lichtenfels Gans, Bryant McBride, everyone in my family has heard before.” catch-up with Pike Peters, who’s been living Arthur F. Muldoon Jr. • /groups/Trinity1988 Jennifer Blum took a leap this summer and there for 28 years. He was winding down with Hello! Hoping you enjoyed a fabulous fall and a left her position as senior vice president for his prior employer and on the verge of starting a very happy holiday season. I sat to collect this government relations at an education company new position in business partner marketing and news in late September, so it’s hard to believe we to start her own law and policy firm focused on events at Porsche. He reports that he’s sorry he are reading this when it’s already February! higher education. As she begins that journey, missed Reunion—he was in Hong Kong instead— Matt Keator writes, “Ginny and I are doing she’s also found time to travel in the fall and but he recently had a wonderful visit from Amy well. Our two daughters are out of college and spend time with her husband, their two boys, Fiske not long after. working in Boston, and our youngest, a boy, is and her father, Robert Blum ’50, whom some of Farran Tozer Brown writes, “Robert and I a sophomore at Boston College and a classmate you know from past Homecomings. have been living in London for 12 years, and of Tara Tracey’s son. Ginny works as a baby Wendy Rawlings has been quite busy, not our daughter Farran ’22 was the first to migrate photographer at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. just as a professor at the University of Alabama back! She moved straight from London to Jones A very fun and creative job doing something but once again as an author. She recently at Trinity! Farran jumped straight into Trinity she loves. I am still working as a hockey agent published a collection of short stories, Time life. She joined the squash team and was elected representing upwards of 20 NHL players. In the for Bed. Released last fall, copies are available to SGA. Last year, my parents (Jim Tozer ’63), past few years, I have been fortunate to cross on Amazon or from your favorite bookseller. Robert, and I attended the squash nationals paths with hockey parents from our class, Bill This is a collection of “comic stories that and coach Wendy Bartlett’s induction into the Kenney, Mike Anderson, plus Wendy and Joe confront difficult and tragic events.” According CSA Hall of Fame. Several weeks ago, our twins Cataldo. All of their kids are very good players to Wendy, “a few of the stories are set in moved to the U.S. Charlotte started Duke, and and fun to watch!” Trinityesque colleges.” Maggie started Georgetown. I am still working Rounding out news from the world of More news from the world of higher edu- in real estate and enjoy serving on the boards of professional hockey, Bryant McBride recently cation, Lisa Alvarez-Calderon sends word the Cary Institute and Cure Blindness. Most of produced (and appeared in) a film documentary, from Santiago that she has begun working part my work is in Salt Lake City, so I spend a lot of Willie, on the life of Willie O’Ree. According to time as a professor at the University of Chile. time on airplanes. This year, Robert and I will be the film synopsis, O’Ree was the “first black She runs a team called the Centro Ingenaria moving back to the U.S.! If you are in Park City, player in the National Hockey League. Sixty Organizacional (loosely translated, the Center look me up!” years later, his induction into the Hockey Hall for Industrial Organization). “We do organi- After living for 19 years on a farm,Amy of Fame made history again. The youngest zational development and culture-change McPherson has relocated to Annapolis, of 13 children and a descendant of escaped consulting, as well as deliver courses to under- Maryland, and continues to run her own busi- slaves, O’Ree rose from humble beginnings in graduate and M.B.A. students in the Industrial ness creating financial management systems Fredericton, New Brunswick, to a 22-year pro Engineering Department. Super interesting and for nonprofits that she founded 12 years ago. hockey career that intersected with the civil a wonderful way to spend time as we wait for our She and husband Michael Curry are bracing for rights movement. His talent on ice was only a son Cooper to finish his senior year here in Chile. the transition to an empty nest, with daughter fraction of his impact on the game; in 1993, he We’ll see where we go next after that! Hoping to Elizabeth graduating from high school this year became the NHL’s diversity ambassador when make one more career and country move before and son Dayton in 2022.

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John Pendleton provided this update from school sweetheart. Their daughter is a senior the majority of my free time coaching/viewing Portsmouth, New Hampshire. “I live here and at the University of Maine and is completing football and baseball games and traveling to spend most free time coaching youth hockey. her business degree; she spent a semester in Ireland; Italy; Sunset Beach, North Carolina; and Can’t believe how quickly time goes by. My Australia and loved it. They continue to ski and Cape Cod.” wife and I just took my oldest daughter and snowmobile in the winter, and, she concludes, Scott Gettinger, M.D., writes that he has two her cousin on a tour of Trinity. She’s a senior at “Facebook has been a great way to reconnect boys, ages 13 and 16, and lives in Woodbridge, Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire. Visited the Psi with some of my former crew friends!” Connecticut. He is a medical oncologist who U house during the stop. Seemed like not much From Becky Hold Fine: “I’m loving run- treats patients and conducts clinical transla- has changed since 1989. Hope folks look up Beth ning around after my almost 2½-year-old tional research as a professor of medicine at the Cahill in the Trinity Development Office. She’s a Gabriel, who made a star appearance at the Yale School of Medicine. He is the director of friend from New Hampshire. Hope to get down to June Reunion. We enjoy tracking down active the Thoracic Oncology Program and associate a football game this fall.” construction sites and local Nyack playgroups, director for the Yale Clinical Trials Office at the Mike Miller still lives north of Boston with including a couple of days at the Waldorf pro- Yale Cancer Center. his wife, three kids, four cats, three dogs, two gram nearby. My husband, Scott, is the building Greg Johnson writes, “My oldest, Lindsay, chinchillas, and 35 koi. He works for a global inspector for South Nyack.” is a senior at Michigan State University, and my firm helping financial institutions with market Chuck Bunnell and wife Eva live in middle daughter, Lauren, is a freshman at James surveillance and the identification of fraud and Waterford, Connecticut. He writes, “Our young- Madison. Little guy, Mikey, is in seventh grade. money laundering. He reports the subject matter est is in his senior year at Tufts (premed), obvi- I made a serious career change after 26 years as is fascinating and the job takes him all over ously taking his study skills from his mother. He a CPA in the financial services and insurance the place, including Charlotte, North Carolina, is killing me with the Bants’ recent loss to the industries. I purchased a painting franchise— where he has stayed with Craig Rasmussen Jumbos. Ugh. Professionally I am still with the WOW 1 DAY PAINTING—in March 2018. It’s been ’88 the past two visits. “All is well, healthy, Mohegan Tribe and still loving it. Our business is an interesting ride but love the fact that I am employed, and I feel very fortunate.” growing around the globe, and its commitment building a business and employing domestic From the D.C. area: “Hi, everyone, Elizabeth to an exceptional corporate culture makes my workers instead of outsourcing to a foreign coun- Brown Bradley reporting in from Arlington, job a pleasure. Still doing tons of volunteer work try based on a purely financial decision. At 50, it Virginia. I’ve been volunteering for the National for nonprofits involved in children’s health in was not an easy decision to start over and hit the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Learning Ally honor of our late daughter and was just reap- reset button. With the support of my incredible while living happily with Doug Bradley ’88 and pointed by Governor Lamont to a second term on family, I was able to start this business and hope our two dogs, Sherman and Drake. For fun, I the Board of Trustees at UConn. As far as fellow that I’m able to build a successful local business. watch as much hockey as possible. Recently, Bants I am touch with, I work with Paul Mounds I realized I was not capable of toeing the corpo- Matt Ramsby joined me for a preseason game. ’07 often, see Sean McHugh ’88, and hear from rate line and trying to convince my direct reports Go, Caps, go. Becky Brainard Slater and I Dan Prochniak of what is going on in his life a why a 0.5 percent wage increase was ‘awesome’ recently celebrated turning 50 (two years late) few times a year.” when their benefits package was cut 5 percent. I with a trip to Alaska together. In the summers, look forward to catching up with my classmates you will find me in Sweden.” REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 in June and hope we get a huge turnout.” Jonathan Cox writes, “I’ve been in Houston Trinity Fund Goal: $100,000 Thanks for the updates! Looking forward to nearly four years now. Happily remarried two 1990 Class Secretary: Beth Clifford, Reunion 2020! years ago, and together we have three terrific 195 Cleveland Dr., Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520- From the Alumni Office: The Connecticut kids, 20, 17, and 13. I left Morgan Stanley in 2018 2412; [email protected] • Economic Resource Center (CERC) has named to join J.P. Morgan as global co-head of energy Class Agents: Michael T. Cavanaugh III, Peter L. Peter Denious its new president and CEO. investment banking and am having a blast. Saw Denious, Ronald J. Goodman Roger Underwood Wellington III last year Hello, Class of ’90. This past weekend, I had Trinity Fund Goal: $95,000 when he was in Houston for business. Just like the pleasure of seeing two of my favorite Trinity 1991 Class Secretary: Heather Watkins old times. Amazing how easy it is to pick back up people, Jen Schaefer ’91 and Tom Schaefer. We Walsh, 9740 Pleasant Gate Ln., Potomac, MD with fellow Bantams. Best to your readers every- went to watch their son, a college freshman, play 20854-5494; [email protected] • where. Please let me know if you are coming to in a football game. It was, as Jen said, a “full-cir- Class Agents: Brooke Rorer Brown, Robin Halpern H-Town … Tex-Mex and margaritas on me!” cle moment.” I expect we will have some more Cavanaugh, Brook McWhirter McNulty, Stephanie It was great to hear from Maria Walsh. of these stories come next spring and Reunion. Vaughn Rosseau, Ann Newman Selvitelli “I was a transfer student to Trinity after a Until then, here are some stories from classmates 12-College Exchange year. I am living in Fairfield, to tide you over. Trinity Fund Goal: $115,000 Connecticut, with my husband, Brian, and chil- Randy Parent writes, “I live in Southington, 1992 Class Secretary: Jennifer Murphy dren Chris, 17, and Emily, 15. I returned to work Connecticut, and have been married to my wife, Cattier, 1435 Lexington Ave., Apt. 5E, New York, in February 2018 after 17 years at home. I am Mary Beth (a sixth-grade schoolteacher), for 27 NY 10128-1630; jennifer.cattier.1992@trincoll. happily working for Save the Children, which is years. We have three boys: RJ, 23, who graduated edu • Class Agents: Campbell D. Barrett, Philip based in Fairfield (15-minute commute!).” from Roger Williams and is employed by Henkel Edward Rollhaus III • /TrinityCollege1992 Tracy Miano Chartier sends a wonderfully (Loctite); Zachary, 20, a junior at Endicott study- Hello, Class of 1992. Please see below for some newsy note. She is in her 16th year of teaching ing to be a veterinarian; and Ryan, 17, a senior notes from your classmates. elementary school since moving to Maine 20 at St. Paul Catholic High School specializing in Matt Duffy writes with some news about a years ago. Tracy and her husband of 26 years are baseball and PS4. I work for UnitedHealthcare as recent gathering: “A great group got together on their way to becoming empty nesters. Their a senior director in payment integrity opera- for a tailgate at the Trinity vs. Bowdoin game, son graduated from the University of Maine tions. I have been there since 1990 (August) as including Mike McHugh, Dave Devlin, Rick with a chemical engineering degree in 2016 they acquired the health insurance unit from Ducey, Matt Duffy, John Dauphinee, James and moved to Washington state. By the time Travelers, where I originally was employed in Lane, Jeff Luzzi (not pictured), Eric Mudry ’94, this goes to print, he will have wedded his high the management-training program. I have spent and Chris Prato ’94. Mike McHugh was in town

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Q+A Aina Williams ’96

How did you get started in the fitness What did you enjoy most about rowing for field?I started as a rowing coach and Trinity? Being pushed past my own per- personal trainer right after graduation. ceived limitations. Also, the road trips Rowing at Trinity was the beginning of to regattas. I was one of the drivers, so my fitness career. After coaching colle- hanging with my team on the road was giately for 15 years, I began creating the the best. Last, being on the water; the blueprint for what is now The Ride. Connecticut River is still one of my favorite bodies of water. I fell in love with Why is meditation important in addition birds and boats and the sound of nature to physical fitness?Meditation is an ac- along the way. tual lifesaver. In this fast-paced world, we are quickly overwhelmed. When we What was the most memorable course are overwhelmed, we turn to many un- you took at Trinity? I took a senior healthy things to cope. Meditation can seminar on intelligence. I took it my bring you back to your own center and junior year and loved every single class. allow you to make decisions for yourself I am a philosopher at heart and love that support your highest ideals. turning an idea, which is just taken as a given, on its head. We always think DEGREE: B.A. in philosophy, minor in What do you enjoy most about your work? intelligence is about academia when it cognitive science

Helping people. I am given the honor of is so much more. JOB TITLE: Founder of The Ride, a assisting people on the journey of life. boutique fitness studio, and founder of There is nothing more rewarding than What was your favorite spot on campus? Coach Aina, empowerment coaching and helping people choose their joy. The quad without a doubt. It is sur- personal training rounded by the beautiful buildings FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: My What advice would you give someone of Trinity, and it is where everyone favorite memory would have to be Senior who needs to start a fitness routine?Start crosses paths. I can recall hearing my Week. I have too many memories that are small … and with something that is fun. name from far off as I skipped around amazing and wonderful and stupendous, and If you like dancing, dance; if you like the campus. The quad is the heart of Senior Week was that time to reconnect to old loves and friends, and try, in vain, to hold circus arts, try that. Maybe you have al- the campus. on to the last time we would be able to share ways wanted to box; that is a great work- in this phenomenal journey we had been on out. Whatever you do, have fun with it Was there a professor at Trinity who was for four years. I loved my time at Trinity. I and start slowly. Lastly, having a work- particularly influential? Drew Hyland feel so blessed to have been there, during that time, with those people. My best friend out buddy who is motivated is a great and Dan Lloyd (I know, that’s two, but was one of my residents my sophomore year way to be held accountable. Personally, these were my faves). Professor Hyland (I was an RA). We now live a mile from each I love group fitness because you have to was so conversational in his teaching. other, and I am the third parent of her four make a commitment and sign up, and He never treated his students as any- kids. She and her husband are family to me. once a class is paid for, you are more thing but people. I appreciated that Trinity facilitated that … and so much more. Gratitude is what I have. likely to attend. If all else fails, you may confidence. Professor Lloyd opened need to hire a personal trainer. my eyes a bit more to a passion of mine, critical thinking … looking critically How did your time at Trinity prepare you at things that we are being fed, in the for what you do now? My time at Trinity media specifically. was filled with mentoring, rowing, connecting, and growing. It was where I saw “There is nothing what communities could do. As an RA, I more rewarding was allowed into my charges’ lives, and as a rower, I was pushed to be more than than helping what was known to me, daily. Trinity ↗ For more about gave me more than an academic educa- Williams’s studio and people choose tion; I was learning people, and people her coaching and are my work, my passion. training, please visit their joy.” commons.trincoll. edu/Reporter. —AINA WILLIAMS ’96

64 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES visiting family and for a gig, so it was great for us to see the Red Sox play and met up with a lot all to get together and tell stories until our sides of Bantams. We caught up with Elissa Raether hurt. It was also great to catch up with Coach Kovas, Jeff Devanney, Sam ’95 and Amanda SHOW YOUR Jeff Devanney ’93 after the game, which was a Kennedy ’94, Brendan Monahan ’95, Erik blowout win by the Bants.” Schwartz ’94, and a bunch of other alums there BANTAM PRIDE Matt Vaughn writes to share more news for the festivities. Too bad the Red Sox couldn’t about classmate Mike Allen, who became get a win for all of us. In August, Kiki Rainey AND VOLUNTEER! president of Barry University in Miami on July 1, Sizelove made a trip to Boston, and we had a 2019. Matt writes “Dr. Mike Allen’s official inau- fun dinner with Denise Tsiumus Gibbons and www.trincoll.edu/ guration will be held at Barry in mid-November, Sandy Silliman Giardi and their families.” AlumniAndFamilies/ and myself, fellow ’92ers Pat McKeigue and Matt McGowan, as well as Pieter van Der Heide Trinity Fund Goal: $150,000 Volunteer ’93 and Joe Reilly ’91, are all planning on going 1994 Class Secretary: Sanjeeva “Sanji” to Miami to attend the festivities. Congrats to Fernando, 414 N. Main St., Cohasset, MA 02025- Mike and his wife (the first lady of Barry), Beth 1208; [email protected] • sending our oldest kids to college, it sounded Truglio Allen!” Class Agents: Maureen A. McEleney, W. Scott like a very proud moment rolled up with Brent O’Leary writes, “After 15 years with Saperston, Deborah Watts Povinelli, Martha sadness to see them leave us. Mark and Janet Bloomberg L.P. as senior compliance counsel, Smalley Sanford • /groups/Trinity1994 survived, and Mark reports that Gus is doing I have left to follow my passion for commu- Hope everyone is having a great fall. I’m realizing great. Gus led his team to the semifinals in the nity service and am running for New York City how time flies as another notes update is due. Providence College Fall Intramural Cornhole Council. Will do my best.” Good luck, Brent! Peter Friedman recently was highlighted Championships! P. Thomas Scull III, who played hockey as a litigation trailblazer by The National Law Michelle and I also struggled with the (captain) and lacrosse, enjoyed dropping his Journal. Congratulations, Peter. departure of our oldest son, Ben, who left for daughter, Olive Scull, off at school this fall. Emelie East and her husband write that his freshman year this fall. But we still have his She is a first-year in the Class of ’23 and will they are getting their U.S. Coast Guard captain’s brothers, Lucas and Axel, at home. We were so play ice hockey at Trinity! Welcome to the latest licenses, circumnavigating Vancouver Island by proud of them; we returned home from dinner Bant legacy! sailboat over the summer (which was amazing!). the other night and learned how Lucas and Axel I really enjoy hearing from all of you, so Emelie continues to serve as an owner/partner of had sniped their friends from very long distances please feel free to drop me a note with your news a public affairs company, spending most of her in Call of Duty. I sleep well at night knowing my at any time, and I will do my best to include it in time working with NHL Seattle in bringing a new boys are ready to defend us, should America be The Reporter. Happy fall, Jenn NHL franchise to Seattle in 2021. As a Seattle- invaded via Xbox Live. native, her first-ever in-person experience with One correction from the last notes: Pete Lease Trinity Fund Goal: $50,000 hockey was at Trinity. She notes it is pretty wants you to know, “Be right, one time.” 1993 Class Secretary: James M. awesome to be part of the building of a new Hazelton, 215 N. Plymouth Blvd., Los Angeles, CA professional team from the ground up! REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 90004; [email protected] • Class Mike Robinson, Keil Merrick, Steve Lari, Trinity Fund Goal: $285,000 Agents: Randolph Barton III, Andrew W. Brick, Pete Lease, Dan Herbert, Ash Altschuler, 1995 Class Secretary: Paul J. Sullivan, Gregory M. Creamer, Stephen R. Curley, James Carter McNabb, and Joe Stein spent five days 142 Bridle Path Lane, New Canaan, CT 06480- M. Hazelton, Jennifer McArdle Hoppa, Elissa in Ireland on a golf trip this past September. 3907; [email protected] • Class A. Raether Kovas, Britt Stockton Lee, Matthew Mike, who organized the trip, informed me quite Agents: Amy Kerrigan Cole, Colleen Smith Hayes, Peterson, Rachel Schreier Schewe, Kristin Rainey clearly that no details were to be shared in our Alexander H. Ladd IV, Ashley Gilmor Myles, Sizelove, Jonathan M. Trevisan, Ashley G. Turney, Class Notes. Keil notes that Ash is refusing to Benagh Richardson Newsome, Lisa Koch Rao, Stephen J. Woodworth, Domenico Zaino Jr. pay his debts. Peter J. Tighe • /groups/trinityclassof95 I was fortunate enough to have breakfast with Rachel Brumberg reports that since the Class of 1995, this is it, the last Class Notes Pete Knight last month; we try to see each other Reunion, she spent the summer traveling before our 25th Reunion! Come June, we will be once a quarter. He is doing well; his son is play- (Mexico, Israel, Long Island, Mississippi) and those people walking around on campus, who ing lacrosse, and Pete is doing some coaching. trying to fit in as much summer fun as possible our 18-year-old-selves thought were so wise, dis- When I saw him, he was headed to the Emmys a before back-to-school time hit. tinguished, and witty. (I, for one, never thought few days later. Oh, the life of a TV writer! Sheila and Dan MacKeigan’s daughter people returning for their 25th Reunion were old. A couple of nice updates. Abbie Helman Sophie won an NCAA National Championship Not me. Not for one second.) writes, “I do have something special to share. My in lacrosse with her team from Middlebury! I’m grateful that many of you sent in notes this daughter is a very talented young vocalist and And Jeff Almeida’s daughter Ellie won the time around. Frankly, I can only pick on Evan this year at only 13 years old won a very presti- U14 National Field Hockey Club Championship Zall so much before I might—just might—feel gious talent competition in South Florida. She this summer! bad. I mean, the guy remade his already success- won several other competitions in recent years, Tom Corderman checked in with Will ful public relations firm into one that focused including Critics Choice for the entire state of Sargisson recently. According to Will, Tom has just on sustainable investments. The guy’s trying Florida in her Junior Thespian competition and become a very competitive badminton player. to save the planet! Wellington Idol, a spinoff of American Idol here Tom and his partner are nationally ranked and Now on to the news. in South Florida. I am certainly a proud mama, qualified for the Badminton World Federation Susan Gates Massey reports that she and and she is my only child.” That is so cool! World Championships in August, competing in husband Jon Massey have just sent their oldest My favorite classmate, the one who makes my Basel, Switzerland! daughter to Middlebury College. “We’ll be going job easier, Rachel Schewe, writes, “We had a Mark and Janet Kastrud dropped off their up to see the Trinity vs. Middlebury football great Trinity summer! In July, Charlie Schewe oldest son, Gus, at Providence College at the end game in a couple of weeks,” she wrote in the fall. and I were lucky enough to head over to London of the summer. Like many of us grappling with “Our other two girls are in 10th grade and second

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and saw he’d engineered something that was Brecky Beard Peabody: “I’m still in either a PVC-pipe-based warmer for ski boots Arlington, Massachusetts, and I get to see Julie or an elaborate system to serve beer at its opti- Dunn Swasey and Laurie Small Key all the CONNECT WITH US mal temperature. time. And, I just caught up with Alexa Zevitas One last story that took me back to senior this weekend playing with her adorable 1-year- ON SOCIAL MEDIA! spring. In August, my wife took our three old boy. Looking forward to our next Reunion daughters into the city for a girls’ weekend, in 2021!” so I did what I dream of doing many sunny Heather Wynne Ullman was just in L.A. as weekends: I went to our golf club with the part of a leadership program and was absolutely @TrinAlumni @TrinAlum intention of playing as much golf as I could. I privileged to spend time with Rhea Turteltaub stood on the first tee with a friend, who retired ’82, Trinity trustee, fellow alum, and vice chan- as a senior executive at Conde Nast, and his cellor, external affairs at UCLA. guest, who lived in New Canaan like me but Nicole Tateosian still works at Harvard and grade. Looking forward to our 25th Reunion!” graduated from Middlebury in 1995. As we were lives in Somerville. (Middlebury won that game, so it’s my under- walking off the tee box, I turned to him and Clay Siegert writes, “After 10 years in the standing that the Masseys will be seated by the said, “I bet we have a lot of friends in common” electric vehicle industry with a company called kitchen door at the class dinner.) and began to list names. (Viva Doug Connelly XL, I recently joined Formlabs, a 3D-printing Jose Lugo writes what he admitted was his and Tucker Maclean!) Then, getting misty for technology company, in Boston. I live in first contribution to Class Notes in 25 years! a time of infinite possibility and inexpensive Belmont with my wife and three girls, ages 10, 8, (But I was glad to receive it.) “I’m still living in but bad beer, I asked if he remembered a band and 6. I recently went on a fishing trip withJon Hartford, not too far from Trinity’s campus, so I called Waddalicious. It was a Middlebury band Golas, John Dugan, Kenny Pouch, and Ryan haven’t really gone away. Recently, I celebrated that played at Trinity a couple of times. The guy Hankard. I am also in regular touch with Tiger 10 years at Miss Porter’s School, where I work in nearly tripped into the fescue before wheeling Reardon, Mike Ranieri, Anthony Ruocco, Al the Alumnae and Development Office. I’ve been around: “I was Joshy Wadd,” he shouted. “That Carbone ’95, and Craig and Collen Moody (both maintaining excellent health, not to mention was me. I was the lead singer of Waddalicious!” ’98). Looking forward to our next Reunion in a an 80-pound weight loss. I took up running in At once I said, “Play our Reunion!” While he’s couple of years!” 2010, and since then, I’ve run over 100 races, now a senior executive at Dow Jones, Joshy Thank you again to everyone who contributed including three full marathons, a couple of Wadd got a bit misty at the thought of reprising to this round! Special thanks to everyone who Ragnar relays, and my 30th half marathon. I’ve his onstage persona. Let’s all get a bit misty in responded with some version of “I have no news also completed marathons in Chicago, Orlando, June and have a lot of fun together at Reunion! to report.” Philadelphia, San Juan, and New York, and with each stop, I’ve made it a point to meet up with Trinity Fund Goal: $65,000 Trinity Fund Goal: $25,000 fellow alumni in the area.” 1996 Class Secretary: Elizabeth “Bee” 1997 Class Secretary: Hai-San “Sam” John Brien sent in news of fulfilling a lifelong Bornheimer, 1132 Bush St., San Diego, CA 92103- Chang, 15 Daisy Ln., Ellington, CT 06029-3239; goal. He recently released his first album, I 2802; [email protected] • [email protected] • Class Agents: Don’t Think I Belong Here, with his seven-mem- Class Agents: Anne Chick Goodrich, P.J. Louis Jr. Melissa J. Prober, Benjamin J. Russo, Susan ber funk band. “I wrote all of the songs, most Remember those times in college where you Church Zibell of the lyrics, and play keyboard/piano on it,” found out that you had a paper due the very Another awesome bunch of updates! Keep it he said. “The album has been extremely well next day so you scrambled to pull together coming! We had a very busy and wonderful received, so much so that we’ve had local venues something sensible to hand in? That’s kind of summer. We spent a lot of family time together reaching out to us. It was a dream of mine ever what happened in this round of notes. Thanks around the house, on our boat, and in a few far- since I was in high school to create an album to everyone who responded to my last-minute ther-off places like Hawaii and Oregon. All that with all original music, and I’ve finally done it!” request for updates. said, the adults were happy that the kids have Congratulations, John. He has lived in Vermont Anne Slade Jacobs is supporting the chair gone back to school. Personally, I’ve been in a since 2002 with wife Kerri and their three chil- of the Department of Viticulture and Enology great personal growth period listening to and dren, Connor, 14, and twins Rose and Sophie, at UC Davis. UC Davis is the top wine program applying the teaching of John Maxwell. I would 11. After surgery in August, he said, he’ll be back in the world, teaching many of the world’s top highly encourage you to read some of his stuff. playing hockey. wine producers. It’s life changing. Hope all is well with you. And Marc Izzo writes, with an assist from Rich Coby Brown just was on a northern Cali tour, if it’s not, know that there are lots of people Gienopie, to report that their families survived a and Amy Fink Charles, Micaela Heekin, and (including me) that care and love you. Go be a 1,700 mile, seven-day trip in twin 32-foot RVs this Jessie Thiele Schroeder made it to his show. blessing to someone! summer. They visited five National Parks, drove From Carolyn Young Toogood: “Chase From Liz Donahue: “My husband, Tim, and over four mountain passes, and swam in one hot and I are living in Bermuda with our two kids, I have relocated to Denver, Colorado, with our spring. “In one of those great minds thinking Charlotte, 17, and Grayson, 15. I have my mas- four children, ages 13, 11, 9, and 6. I recently alike moments, Rich had made us matching ter’s in art education from the Academy of Art connected with classmate Josh Ayers, whose trucker hats, and I ordered the gang custom University in San Francisco, and I teach grade son goes to school with our older two daughters. T-shirts,” Marc said. “We sorta looked like a cult 4–8 visual arts at Somersfield Academy. Chase Would love to connect with any other Bantams when all nine of us wore our matching gear at the works at AXA XL and is really enjoying kitesurf- living in the Mile High!” airport.” The accompanying photographic proof ing and windsurfing in windy Bermuda during Caroline Maguire della Penna writes, showed Marc’s youngest son with a stare best his free time.” “I got to be in Hartford twice this month to do described as get me out of this monkey show. Kim Crespo reports that her twins, Brayden TV interviews for the launch of my new book, Hearing from Izzo made me wonder what’s and Colette, are turning 7 and are in the second Why Will No One Play with Me? I was in the going on with one of their other co-conspirators, grade. She still lives in Westchester and works old Hartford Courant building and drove around Jeff Pennington, but then I checked Facebook in Midtown. Trinity. I have been traveling all over the country

66 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES and hope to see some of my Trinity friends. Craig della Penna celebrated one full year as the owner of his own company, Aesop Partners, management consultants to private equity firms. He has more work than he can do, so he hired his first employees and is on his way. We spent most of the summer on the boat with our two kids, Lucy and Finn, and we are planning a trip to England for spring, where I can promote Why Will No One Play with Me? and can introduce my kids to Jane Austen and Winston Churchill.” From Chris Welch: “My wife, Lorna, and I Corinne Tuccillo King ’98, third from right, welcomes classmates to her Windham, New York, home in March 2019. Joining Corinne were Regan Farrar Cucinell, Amanda Tucker Dougherty, Amie Duffy Sandborn, Kate Reid Butterly, and Morgan Rissel are doing well, still living in Jacksonville, North Tarr. Nell McCarthy Gibbon arrived later and missed the photo. Carolina, on the coast. We’ve got three kids, and I think that has proved to be just right (if Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who share here as well. “Hi, Trinity fam, I wanted to not maybe a bit more than we can competently biographical volumes, individuals profiled are let everyone know that after 15 months of legal handle). I am proud to say that I recently was selected on the basis of current reference value. and development, the iTrust platform is now sworn in as a district court judge for the State of Factors such as position, noteworthy accom- live. iTrustCapital allows for 24/7 trading of North Carolina. After nearly 20 years of practic- plishments, visibility, and prominence in a field alternative digital assets within your IRA. What ing law (gosh, we are getting old), I am excited are taken into account during the selection this means is that for those of you who believe in for the new challenge. Hope your winter goes process. He also is a senior member of the IEEE cryptocurrency and alternative assets, you can well; thank you for keeping the class together Computer Society. IEEE senior membership is an now trade yourself within your IRA (i.e., tax-free and informed.” honor bestowed only to those who have made trading). We are accepting members to be a part Finally, if I’ve missed your update, I’m so significant contributions to the profession. of our flagship group of clients. Please check out sorry. Please send me another update. I will get it www.itrustcapital.com to learn more, or DM me in. I promise. Have a great holiday season! Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 about our flagship benefits.” Best of luck with 1999 Class Secretary: Alyssa Daigle your new venture, Morgan. Trinity Fund Goal: $40,000 Schoenfeld, 28 Woodvue Rd., Windham, NH It’s always great to hear from Terry Rifkin 1998 Class Secretary: Jessica Lockhart 03087-2113; [email protected] Wasserman-Lom, who is always up to some- Vincent, 8 Arborlea Ave., Yardley, PA 19067- • Class Agent: Allison Lanzetta Martaniuk • / thing fun with fellow Trin friends! This past 7406; [email protected] • Class groups/TrinColl1999 July brought Terry, Jeremy Rosenberg, Roland Agents: Levi D. Litman, Geoffrey R. Zampiello Well, 2019 is moving along like a freight train, “Chip” Riggs, and Sara Merin ’00 together for a Ryan Burch is the assistant shellfish and nat- and it will be 2020 before you read this. I hope crab fest in Manhattan. Thanks for always shar- ural resource officer in Brewster, Massachusetts. this issue of The Reporter finds you well and ing some news and writing to say hi, Terry. You He recently was the subject of an article in the wish you all the best in the new year! Here’s the are an MVP when it comes to loyal contributors! Cape Cod Times that reported on the town’s latest and greatest straight from your classmates. I, too, enjoyed a wonderful Trin mini-reunion effort to improve the water quality of the local This year brought a bundle of baby joy to at my house in July. Karyn Meyer Johnson, hus- pond by removing plants that cause excessive Katie Karlsgodt in Los Angeles! Katie welcomed band Tony, and daughters Taylor and Payton; amounts of phosphorus and cyanobacteria in son Jacob Erling Karlsgodt on May 16. According Allison Lanzetta Martaniuk and daughters the water. The plants are then being used for to mom, he was so excited to be born, he arrived Sullivan and Parker; and Tristin Crotty ’98 joined compost. six weeks early! (OK, you get a pass on Reunion!) us in New Hampshire for the absolute hottest Corinne Tuccillo King held a mini-reunion As though that wasn’t enough excitement for weekend of the entire summer! We did manage in March at her house in Windham, New York. one year, Katie is a professor in the Psychology to muscle in some time at Canobie Lake Park She reports that she was so lucky to spend time Department at UCLA and was granted tenure for water and amusement park fun before we with Regan Farrar Cucinell, Amanda Tucker in the Psychology and Psychiatry Departments. all started to melt and then cooled off later with Dougherty, Amie Duffy Sandborn, Kate Congratulations on the tot and the tenure, Katie. some night swimming, which the young ladies Reid Butterly, and Morgan Rissel Tarr. Nell What a fantastic year! thought was pretty cool … and it was! Hoping to McCarthy Gibbon joined the group later. The baby joy continues with the McAdams catch up with this crew again for some winter I’d like to thank Ryan and Corinne for their family! Stephanie McAdams and Doug ’98, fun on the slopes! contributions. As always, you can email me at along with their six children, welcomed baby That’s the news for now, folks! Remember [email protected] with any news you number seven to the family this summer! From to join the Class of 1999 on Facebook at www. would like to share with your classmates. Steph: “Doug and I welcomed baby Elizabeth facebook.com/groups/TrinColl1999 and on Two notes from the Alumni Office: Texas Claire on July 19, and we are all loving getting LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/groups/12256554. Scottish Rite Hospital for Children is proud to to know her. We moved to Lyme, Connecticut, Until next time, wishing good health and happi- announce that Division Director of Movement in May 2018, and it’s great to be back in New ness to all of you! All the best, Alyssa Science Kirsten Tulchin-Francis, Ph.D., has England for good after 17 years of adventures been selected as an AAAS (American Association in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. Doug’s REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 for the Advancement of Science) IF/THEN working at Naval Submarine Base New London Trinity Fund Goal: $35,000 Ambassador. IF/THEN, a national initiative of until he retires from the Navy in the next couple 2000 Class Secretary: Virginia W. Lyda Hill Philanthropies, seeks to further women of years.” Congratulations to the McAdams party Lacefield, 3504 Tates Creek Rd., Lexington, in STEM through empowering current innovators of nine, and welcome back to New England! KY 40517-2601; virginia.lacefield.2000@ and inspiring the next generation of pioneers. Morgan Steckler shared some news on our trincoll.edu • /Trinity-College-Class- Geoffrey Zampiello has been included in class Facebook page, which I thought I would of-2000-193274580990

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Q+A Andrew Hatch ’03

What do you do in your role at Uplands Wisconsin is losing two family farms a Cheese? Together with a business part- day, and if left unchecked, this trend will ner and about 10 employees, I own and permanently change our countryside in run our dairy farm and cheese business. the next few years. The class sizes in my We milk 200 cows and make cheese here kids’ school are shrinking, and some of on the farm. We’re a relatively small the little, village elementary schools operation, and I touch just about every- are closing. One of the principal goals thing—cows, cheese, sales, finance, of our business is to share what we’ve HR. I travel around the world to visit learned and help more farmers create customers. value-added products.

Did you always want to work in farming? I grew up in Wisconsin and was always attracted to farming, but my parents “One of the didn’t farm, so it was a bit of a leap. At first, I was in love with the adventure principal goals and challenge of it, and now that I’m a of our business little older, I really value the indepen- DEGREE: B.A. in anthropology dence and creativity it allows. It’s not al- is to share what ways easy, but it’s a rewarding lifestyle. JOB TITLE: Co-owner and operator, In the right circumstances, it can be we’ve learned and Uplands Cheese lucrative. I also look at value-added agri- FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: I played in culture as a way to help rural commu- help more farmers a rock band, and we all lived in a house on Allen nities develop financial independence. Place. I still have a band these days, but I don’t With internet-based sales and distribu- create value- think I’ll ever have that much fun playing music. tion, small, isolated farms can develop added products.” their own products and free themselves from unpredictable and unprofitable —ANDREW HATCH ’03 commodity markets. In 1970, American How did Trinity prepare you for the work farmers received 38 cents of every food you do? The Anthropology Department dollar spent in the county. Today, it’s What advice would you give to today’s exposed me to all kinds of different eight cents. Farmstead cheese making is students who might be interested in a information—ethnography, econom- a way to reclaim that margin and make career in agriculture? Work on a ics, law, politics—that helped me feel family-scale farming viable. half-dozen different farms before you conversant in lots of different business convince yourself that it’s for you. Most situations. Like a lot of small business What do you enjoy most about your farms are very personal businesses, owners, I have to be able to communi- work? Working with weather, land, and and each one is set up differently. It can cate with a wide range of people and animals is infinitely interesting. We’re be a great advantage to start farming information: suppliers, employees, law- constantly forced to learn and improve, without all the inherited habits of your yers, accountants, government officials, which is a fun way to live. Second, own family’s approach. After graduating customers all over the world, etc. because I live where I work, I’m able to from Trinity and failing to get a Watson spend a lot of time with my kids and [Fellowship], I went out anyway and Was there a professor who was particu- raise them on a farm, which is important spent three years working for different larly influential?There was a wonderful to us. Lastly, I travel to a lot of interest- farms and cheesemakers around Europe. group of anthropology professors: Jane ing places and spend time with great I came home to Wisconsin and went to Nadel-Klein, Frederick Errington, Beth people in the food world. The sales part the University of Wisconsin for dairy sci- Notar, James Trostle. They taught me of the job is a moveable feast. ence, where I started with a much wider how to be inquisitive and skeptical at perspective than most of my classmates. the same time—how to think critically What are the biggest challenges you face? I think that helped me approach milking about the world. Thanks to cheese, our farm is successful, cows and making cheese in ways that but so many neighbors are struggling aren’t common here, and that has made with the poor commodity milk prices. all the difference for us.

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Hey, guys and dolls! Hope everyone is cozy and I have received from my friends and family, warm this winter! The theme of this issue’s col- especially my dear friends Paul LaRocca ’62 umn is moves and transitions, but before we get and Tomoyo Wakamatsu ’93.” Sending love to that, I have a quick follow-up on Matthew to you, Frank. Wong, who received a brief mention in my last That’s all I’ve got for this issue. Send me column. Sharon Thor Werner reports that your updates at [email protected] or via Matt is doing great and living with wife Jenny Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and have a and their twin girls in Brooklyn, New York, lovely winter season! Till next time! where he continues to preside over the Dashing Whippets, a popular N.Y.C. running club that Trinity Fund Goal: $35,000 he helped create. I also have happy news about 2001 Class Secretary: Susanna Kise, Sara Merin, who tied the knot with Tom Stein 1301 Richmond Ave., Apt. 370, Houston, TX on October 12 at the Cherry Valley Country Club 77006-5494; [email protected] in Skillman, New Jersey. Congratulations, Sara! • Class Agents: Jay P. Civetti Jr., Ann W. Grasing, Hopefully, we’ll have a wedding photo to share David K. Kieve, Matthew J. Schiller • /groups/ in the next issue! TrinityCollegeClassof2001 And now, on to those transitions. First up, Nora Matthews started a new job teaching the- Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 To nominate someone for ater at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts 2002 Co-Class Secretary: Michelle the next Trinity Athletics Hall Middle School. She writes, “[I’m] still living in Rosado Barzallo, 40 Craig Ln., Trumbull, CT of Fame class, please visit Southington, Connecticut, and on my sixth year 06611-4406; [email protected] commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. as a licensed foster parent (kid numbers 25 and • Co-Class Secretary: Adrian Fadrhonc, 193 Buena 26 stopped by in July), but between the new job Vista Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941-1233; adrian. and fracturing my foot this summer, I’m plan- [email protected] • Class Agents: ning on taking a little break from that at least Nicole B. LaBrie, Ellen M. Zarchin Trinity Fund Goal: $17,000 until life gets a little less dramatic.” Congrats 2006 Class Secretary: Timothy Y. and good luck in the new position, Nora! Hope Trinity Fund Goal: $20,000 Fox, 2012 Kalorama Rd. NW, Unit 6, Washington, your foot heals quickly! 2003 Class Secretary: Alexander L. D.C. 20009-1458; timothy.fox.2006@trincoll. Fellow Trinity theater student Katie Wallack Bratt, 147 Milton Ave., West Haven, CT 06516- edu • Class Agents: Kim Galloway, Tory Hamilton also has been busy this year. Shortly after our 6713; [email protected] • Class McCarthy, Virginia Adair McCarthy, Nicole last issue went to print, she wrote to let me Agents: Descatur Potier, Suzanne H. Schwartz • Tsesmelis know that she had just spent six weeks in New /groups/trinitycollege2003 This summer, Henry Palmer went out on his York City representing Los Angeles commercial own and started LochTree, a company focused actors in a historic collective bargaining agree- Trinity Fund Goal: $25,000 on creating a marketplace for sustainable, ment for the Screen Actors Guild and began 2004 Class Secretary: Jake Schneider, eco-friendly, and upcycle products. The com- freelancing with communications company 59 Wallis Rd., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3174; pany wishes to create a better way to purchase Duarte as a speaker coach and presentation [email protected] • Class sustainable products that don’t make consumers developer. In September, after 10 years in Los Agents: Matt Glasz, Mimi MacKinnon, Jake sacrifice performance or lifestyle. Angeles, she and husband Art Dickenson pulled Schneider • /groups/485669531523501 Courtney Howe Cotto left her job as mar- up stakes and headed east to Texas so she could The Class of ’04 has taken a brief break from keting communications manager at The New start a new job as a manager of contracts and having babies, getting married, and changing England Center for Children to open Courtney’s member outreach at the SAG-AFTRA office in jobs to focus on contributing to the Trinity Cat Café on Newbury Street in Boston. Dallas/Fort Worth. Due to union rules, she will College Fund! Many thanks to the ’04ers who Discounted coffee and bagels to Trinity alumni not be pursing acting work while employed in contributed during the 2019 fiscal year. We who bring their feline friends. The café opens in this administrative role. Although this is a big reached an amazing 24 percent participation May 2020. change for her, she says she is really looking rate and raised more than $38,000 for our Erika M. Lopes and Jonathan McLeman ’07 forward to the next chapter in her life and is college. Cheers! are delighted to announce the arrival of their sure that her creativity will manifest itself in daughter, Wynter Bishop. Big brother Grey, 3, is a different way. While getting used to her new REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 thrilled to have a new best friend. They settled in job and new home, Katie will be completing the Trinity Fund Goal: $25,000 Chatham, New Jersey. Erika is a senior associ- last semester of her master’s degree in ethical 2005 Class Secretary: Diana Dreyfus ate attorney at Dentons, an international law organizational leadership and plans to graduate Leighton, Princeton, NJ; diana.leighton.2005@ firm, and Jonathan is a bank examiner with the from Claremont Lincoln University in December. trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Tim Kayiatos, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Congratulations, Katie! Andrea Leverant Minor, Saki Mori • /groups/ Besides a busy day job as the sole in-house In closing, please join me in offering sincere trinitycollegeclassof2005 attorney for a growing tech company in the condolences to Frank Stellabotte, who shared Alexander Devlen Brown, son of Julia Gomez Boston area, Colin Levy completed a one- the following sad news: “After many years of Brown and husband Gregory Alexander Brown year certificate program in legal innovation living in Los Angeles, my partner and I moved Jr., celebrated his first birthday on May 4. The and technology through Suffolk Law School. to New Haven, so that I could be closer to my happy couple of three (plus dog Amigo) live in Colin spent the summer frequently writing and parents. Sadly, while I was caring for my father New York City. speaking on legal technology and legal inno- at his home in Florida, my partner, Masayoshi It’s not too early to remind you about our vation, including at the 2019 Harvard Legal ‘Maco’ Matsumoto, suffered a heart attack and (gasp) 15th Reunion coming up June 4–7, 2020! Technology Symposium. He will be speaking passed away. A few days later, my father also Start making your plans to come back to the to the Ontario Bar Association when it meets in passed. I’m so grateful for the love and support quad. Details to come! Toronto in November. Colin celebrated his eighth

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Members of the Class of 2007 celebrate the wedding of Meredith McCormack ’07, center, and Mike Sayre in August 2019. The same group also gathered a week earlier at the wedding of Joanna Hecht ’07, third from right, and Lelabari Giwa. Others in Sarah Spiegel ’07 does a yoga pose with son Walden, who the group are Anita Gooding, Kristen Chin, Emily Caruso, Erin Close, and Sandi Gollob. was born on Valentine’s Day 2019.

Austin Berescik-Johns ’07, fourth from left, and Joanna Kornafel were married in spring 2019 at the Trinity College Chapel.

Laura Maloney ’07 and Matt Angoff were married at the end of August 2019 at the Castle Hill Inn in Newport, Rhode Island. wedding anniversary (11 years together) with husband Jared; they are enjoying life in Weston, Massachusetts.

Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 2007 Class Secretary: Devon Lawrence, 343 E. 30th St., Apt. 1P, New York, NY 10016- 6411; [email protected] • Class Agents: Joey Butler, Jenny Carson, Logan Gould, Devon Lawrence, Nile Lundgren, Jeb Rednor, Molly Carty Sparrow, Corbin Woodhull, Jennifer Paul Jarboe ’07 and Brittany Topper were married on July 27, 2019, in South Norwalk, Connecticut. Those joining the bride Wrobel • /groups/TrinityClassof2007 and groom included Drew Samuels ’07, James Sullivan ’05, Nate Gravel ’07, Matt Coraccio ’06, Tom Walsh ’06, Geoff Long Thank you to everyone from the Class of ’04, and Matt Termine ’06. 2007 who shared an update for this issue of The Reporter! This round of updates includes excit- Sarah Spiegel had a son, Walden, on have returned to the Northeast! Sarah and Todd ing news of marriages, babies, moves, new jobs, Valentine’s Day 2019. She also is opening a sec- (and sons Henry, 5, and Teddy, 2) moved to friend hangs, yoga, and trivia. Read on to hear ond yoga studio in Biddeford (this one is a hot Westport, Connecticut, and are excited to be from your fellow classmates. yoga studio) this fall. Her first yoga studio, Saco, closer to family, friends, and, of course, their Kate Clifford had a baby girl, Mary Mairead is celebrating its three-year anniversary. alma mater. Todd has joined a private orthope- Elizabeth Collin, on October 20, 2018. Kate’s Todd Morrison and Sarah Purvis Morrison dic surgery group in Fairfield, Connecticut. He father, John Clifford Jr. ’76, is thrilled to have ’06 have some pretty big updates! After spending specializes in hip and knee replacements, hip become a grandfather. a sunny year in Tampa, Florida, the Morrisons preservation, and trauma.

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Giwa at the Morris Arboretum of the University She teaches fifth grade social studies in of Pennsylvania, not far from their home in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Philadelphia. Meredith and Joanna were thrilled Karli Del Rossi and Alan Ashenfelter to be able to celebrate each other’s big days, (Wesleyan ’09) were married on September along with several of their classmates from the 14, 2019, at the Hildene estate in Manchester, Class of 2007. Vermont. Many Trinity alums and their other Austin Berescik-Johns and Joanna Kornafel halves were in attendance to help celebrate over were married at the Trinity College Chapel on a a lovely fall weekend! crisp day this past spring, and it was a splendid Alexandra Klestadt Patack gave birth to son ceremony. It was officiated by the Rev. Ryan Henry Bruce Patack on August 31 and moved Lerner ’03 and celebrated by retired college after 10 years in New York City to Greenwich, organist (and legend) John Rose, as well as Connecticut! The Chapel Singers and college carillonneur Ellen Dickinson. Joanna and Austin also were REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 delighted to have Rebeccah Eldridge ’00 and Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 Kyle Stone among their much-loved guests. 2010 Co-Class Secretary: Courteney Paul Jarboe and Brittany Topper were married M. Coyne, 2828 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Apt. Karli Del Rossi ’09 and Alan Ashenfelter were married on September 14, 2019, at the Hildene estate in Manchester, on July 27, 2019, in South Norwalk, Connecticut. 311, Washington, DC 20036-6306; courteney. Vermont. Joining the happy couple were Brian Marsden ’07, Congrats to everyone from the Class of 2007 [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: Emily Skipp ’09, Abbey Cecchinato Palesty ’09, Matt Carrier on all the exciting updates! To those who have Colin B. Touhey, 262 Garfield Pl., Brooklyn, NY ’08, Geneva Gann ’10, Kate Wilbur Smith ’09, Ben and Tani Nelson Herman ’09, Eleanor Worthy Shepard ’09, and news to share, feel free to reach out to Devon 11215; [email protected] • Class Alexandra Byus Doherty ’09. Lawrence to be included in the next issue. Agents: James Cryder Bancroft, Justin B. Barrett, Adam C. Dawson, Raquasheva Ramirez, Amye V. Erin Barclay hung out with classmates Trinity Fund Goal: $6,500 Waterhouse Sergio Jaramillo and Erika Safir when she was 2008 Class Secretary: Elizabeth Fritzer Congratulations to Amanda Furie Ndaw and in L.A. last March, but sadly there were exactly Dreier, 32 Elaine Dr., Simsbury, CT 06070-1625; husband Aziz, who welcomed a beautiful baby zero good pictures of them together to share! [email protected] • Class boy, Moussa David, into the world on April 26, Back home in Richmond, Virginia, Erin recently Agents: Nadia Zahran Anderson, Sasha C. Kravetz 2019. All are happy and healthy! They were started a new job with Joyner Law, focusing on Several classmates from ’08 have exciting career visited by Arielle Thomas Williams ’11, her hus- defense work for criminal and traffic offenses. and family news to share. band, and 1-year-old daughter in Michigan, and She also runs a small but lively trivia company, Michael Faucette just started a new job all enjoyed having the babies meet! Orange Cat Trivia (named after her orange cat, practicing law at Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, Congratulations to Kate Coughlin Maggiotto whose name is Orange Cat). Last year it was D.C. His work focuses on international trade and and Nathan Maggiotto, who welcomed voted the best place to play trivia by readers of national security law. daughter Molly in April! Kate writes, “Nathan Style Weekly, a local magazine. Erin also works Fatima Jafri has been staying busy with and I are still in N.Y.C. I’m working as the middle in the local theater community as a lighting her 14-month-old boy, Zayn, and just started a school dean at York Preparatory School, while designer. Her design for Lizzie: The Musical (a new role at Facebook as lead legal counsel for Nathan is a director at a fintech start-up called four-woman show about Lizzie Borden) was social impact and integrity, focusing on ethical LiquidX. We’ve been able to introduce Molly to nominated for achievement in lighting design use of data on a variety of Facebook platforms fellow Bantams Paul McBride, Mike Sarvary, for a musical by the Richmond Theatre Critics and products. Will Cleary, Kate Gibson Carey, Kate Barton, Circle, and she also received nominations for Haley Yaple has been approved for ten- Allie Burstein Kutnick, and Jillian Richard best play as part of the team for the shows An ure and promotion, officially making her an MacIntosh and her newest addition, Rory. Rory Octoroon and Pretty Fire. The awards ceremony associate professor of mathematics at Carthage and Molly are best friends already and look for- is October 27. College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Haley and ward to living in High Rise together in 2039.” Laura Maloney and Matt Angoff were married husband Rob welcomed their first child, Julian Nick Isbrandtsen shared: “It was a great at the end of August at the Castle Hill Inn in Charles Yaple, into the world on May 2, 2019! summer filled with weddings, vacations, Newport, Rhode Island. She was a gorgeous Congratulations to all! and big life events! Jim Martin is engaged to bride, and despite her new husband having Kirstyn Sotak, and Chris Birkhofer is his best attended Middlebury, her lady friends think Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 man. Grant Kunkel showed Jim a great time she’s met the perfect match. Jeanne Hayes 2009 Class Secretary: Caitlin M. in Scottsdale in October during Jim’s bache- Barber, Sarah Hensley Lapham Paisley, Brisson, 224 W. 16th St., Apt. 3, New York, NY lor party. Everyone had a great time at Justin Hannah Reynolds Webber, Molly Stumbras 10011-6190; caitlin.brisson.2009@trincoll. Levitas’s wedding to Tati Bird in Boulder, Donaher, and Elizabeth Maynard Chiu (said edu • Class Agents: Piper Klemm, Alexandra H. Colorado, where we all learned Justin does have lady friends) couldn’t be happier for the new Klestadt, Christian Montoya, Alexandra G. Wueger a heart and he can cry. Striking the perfect bal- bride! Eliza Skinner was the maid of honor and After a decade spent between New York and ance of humor and love, Mark Gordon was an delivered a touching speech; she also organized Los Angeles, Chelsea Naftelberg relocated entertaining yet humble officiant to welcome the the bachelorette party and, in true event planner to Burlington, Vermont, this year. There she new bride and groom. Mazel tov! Justin, his new fashion, did an amazing job. is continuing to manage her own digital wife, and their French bulldog Bruce left N.Y.C. Freshman-year roommates Joanna Hecht marketing consulting business from the Green and joined Nick Isbrandtsen and the mayor and Meredith McCormack got married within Mountain State. of Vail Mountain/Denver, ‘Big Mountain Bob’ a week of each other this August. Meredith Gina Policastro and Matthew Day were (Rob Key), in Colorado. Despite all this good married Mike Sayre, with whom she lives in married on September 14, 2019, in West news, it wasn’t all fun and games for the AD ’10 Silver Spring, Maryland, at the Arlington Arts Bridgewater, Massachusetts. They bought a men named Chris (Grosse and Birkhofer), as Center in Virginia. Joanna married Lelabari house in Raynham, Massachusetts, in March. both suffered injuries during intense games of

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Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 2012 Class Secretary: Mary Kate Morr, 4121 Knox Ct., Denver, CO 80211-1653; mary. [email protected] • Class Agents: James J. Armillay Jr., Esq., Charles McConnell, Mary Kate Morr, Nicole Lustig Pasternak, Lily Pepper Sommer, Kathryn T. Van Sickle, William A. Yale • /groups/trincoll2012 Lizey Korengold Bernstorf started grad school this fall and is getting her M.B.A. at American University. Gen Quinn successfully defended her Kelsey McDonough ’10 and Brett Hershman were married on August 17, 2019, at Annadel Estate Winery in Santa Rosa, thesis and completed her Ph.D. in political California. Joining the bride and groom were Dylan McDonough, Liz Johnson, Mike MacKenzie holding Mara MacKenzie, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie holding Sawyer MacKenzie, Darcy McDonough ’13, Matt Tesone ’13, Cait McDonough holding Monroe science at Oxford. McDonough, and Shaun McDonough ’08 holding Landon McDonough. Madison Helies and Sushil Trivedi were married on August 31, 2019, in a beautiful backyard games ahead of Nick Isbrandtsen’s ceremony at Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode wedding in Riverside, Connecticut, to Lauren. Island. Following the event, friends and family Nick will be having his unusual post-wedding celebrated with dinner and dancing late into bachelor party in Austin, where he hopes new the night at Glen Manor House in Portsmouth, Austin resident Alan Glass will show everyone Rhode Island. Madison and Sushil have been a fun time. Ian Malakoff and girlfriend Kelsey together since 2012. They live in Manhattan with continued their multiple sclerosis awareness their French bulldog, Louis. The wedding was advocacy with yet another grueling 70-plus-mile attended by many of the couple’s close friends bike ride to fundraise for BikeMS.” that they made while at Trinity. Molly McGlynn ’11 and William “Bill” Peek Jr. were married Thanks to all who have contributed to the col- Sarah Reingold and George Roberts on June 22, 2019, in her hometown of Sleepy Hollow, New umn this year. Please continue submitting notes (University of Michigan ’10) were married on York. They were surrounded by friends and family, including to us, and consider writing a “letter to the editor” July 20, 2019, on Lake George in New York. Many Trinity 2011 classmates Sarah Quirk, Lee Ziesing, Allison about items published in recent issues. You can other Trinity graduates were in attendance, Alekna Devine, Kristen Fahey, and Abigail Alderman. send your remarks directly to the editor at sonya. including Sarah’s two sisters, Rachel Reingold [email protected]. Thanks for considering! ’14 and Rebecca Reingold ’17, as well as Gianna Pica, Gabby Prescod, Molly Cohen, Nikki Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 Lustig Pasternak, Cally Bralver Sumpio, Jen 2011 Class Secretary: Remi L. Evans, 3 Low, and Vince Novelli ’13. Tamarac Ln., Englewood, CO 80113-4920; remi. [email protected] • Class Agents: Remi L. Trinity Fund Goal: $10,000 Evans, Joshua Stuart Growney, Rebecca L. Savage 2013 Class Secretary: Andrew C. The 2011 Bantams were a little quiet this Weiss, [email protected] • season, but we were happy to hear from Katie Class Agents: Lauren M. Aber, Perin B. Adams, Marinello, who has relocated from New York Caroline E. Brewster, Malcolm X. Evans, David City to Westminster, Maryland. In addition to D. Hill, Jesse L. Hunt, Megan A. Ingersoll, Ryan enjoying the “country” life, she has begun a McGuirl, Alexander C. Raffol, James C. Thaler, social media and digital marketing company, Dobromir G. Trifonov KT World Communications (www.ktworld Sushil Trivedi ’12 and Madison Helies ’12 (front row) were communications.com). We wish her good luck Trinity Fund Goal: $7,500 married on August 31, 2019, in Newport, Rhode Island. on this new adventure! Class Secretary: Chloe M. Miller, Second row: Ashley Burke ’12, Elizabeth Levine ’12, Alexa 2014 Parsons ’12, Sarah Weitzman ’12; third row: Gary Williams In addition, Molly McGlynn and William 420 E. 82nd St., Apt. 3E, New York, NY 10028- ’12, Greg DelGiudice ’12, Brianne Cowden Hanifin ’12, Liam “Bill” Peek Jr. were married on June 22, 2019, in 5957; [email protected] • Class Byrne ’12; fourth row: Eamon Hanifin ’12, Matthew Delconte her hometown of Sleepy Hollow, New York. Molly Agents: Nicole R. LeClair, Ann W. Murdock, ’12, Allen Even ’12; back row: Christian Helies ’08, Chike Madu ’12, Douglas Beyer ’12, Matthew Paskalides ’12 and Bill met in Atlanta in 2016 and moved to Katherine C. Weatherley-White Austin, Texas, in 2018 with their golden retriever, In May 2019, Nicole Soviero graduated pickleball (it’s hard getting old). We are expect- Teddy, to try all the tacos and queso they could from Columbia University Graduate School ing a full recovery, and they should be joining get their hands on. Molly, tri-captain of the of Journalism with an M.S. In 2018, she Rob Key, Nick Isbrandtsen, Derek DeSvastich, women’s basketball team, played a quick game graduated from Fordham University School Ian Malakoff, Harper Cullen, and Justin of horse with her dad after the ceremony! of Law. Levitas in Telluride this winter for their annual Brooke Teittinen and Jeff Ponder were Tyler Griffin and his high school sweetheart, trip. Harper Cullen had a beautiful wedding on married in June 2019 in Buzzards Bay, Elsia Schunkert, were married in summer 2019 the beach in his hometown of Rehoboth Beach, Massachusetts, with several of their 2011 Trinity in Lugano, Switzerland. In attendance were Delaware, where he married his lifelong best friends by their side. Those in attendance numerous Trinity grads, including groomsmen friend, Caroline. ‘I’m not crying, you’re crying.’ included Jillian Steckloff, Nicki Nardella, Jonathan Bryant and Thomas Stelle. Charlie Siguler and wife DeDe welcomed their Jessica Pellegrini Tobin, and Emily Fink. Requita Byrd reports that she is working first child, Henry, who stole the show when Happy fall from the Class of 2011! as an English lecturer at Alfaisal University in the Siguler family hosted everyone for a day of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and loving it.

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Manfredo Camperio has been all over the world since graduation, launching his own lux- ury hospitality consultancy working on projects from Dubai to Malaysia. Two notes from the Alumni Office: This summer, Catherine Rigoulot participated in Miami University’s Earth Expeditions global field course in Baja. Catherine is a graduate student in Miami University’s Global Field Program. Brian James Fracasso and Joanna Catherine Macca were married on July 6, 2019, in West Hartford, Connecticut. Caroline Healy ’13 and Charlie McLendon ’13 were married on August 17, 2019, at the Saddle & Cycle Club in Chicago. Bantams joining the bride and groom included Ted Harrington ’11, Annie Penfield-Cyr ’13, Daniel Morgan ’13, Leah Novak ’13, Whitney Ronshagen ’14, Duyen Tran ’13, JC Costello ’13, Aley Pickens ’12, Johnny Wick ’13, Greg Leitao ’12, Eli Cassel ’13, REUNION • JUNE 4–7, 2020 Molly O’Connor ’13, Tutti Davis ’13, and Emma Belluomo ’13. Trinity Fund Goal: $30,000 2015 Class Secretary: Peter J. Ragosta Jr., 43 Jane St., Apt. 1R, New York, NY 10014- 5120; [email protected] • Class Agents: Fiona Brennan, Taniqua K. Huguley, Peter J. Ragosta Jr., Stephen P. Sample, Marie Christner Stansfield, Sarah S. Wolcott, Robert D. Zindman Hello, classmates. I am pleased to share a few unsolicited updates with you. First, Dominic Carbone recently accepted a new position at Huron Consulting, a premier Chicago-based consulting firm. For now, he will be based in Washington, where he has Allegra Storatz ’13 and Chris Novick ’13 were married on September 7, 2019, in Southampton, New York. Bantams in attendance included Alex Bertles ’12, Caroline Melly ’14, Morgan Booker ’13, Caroline Brewster ’13, Dana Shaker ’13, Emma been since graduation. I am doing my best to Jesberg ’13, Josh Smith ’13, Chris Crovatto ’13, TJ Cholnoky ’13, Phoebe Massey ’13, Kelly Sutherland ’13, Tutti Davis ’13, convince him to move to New York. Carolyn Vahey ’13, Pantelis Constantinides ’12, Cristen Koufakis ’13, Erin Kinney ’13, Smith Alpert ’13, Ebbie Koelle ’13, Cody Patrina and Rob Zindman, New York Michael Pucci ’13, Drew Johnson ’13, Nick Stanley ’13, Alfy Fernandez ’13, Jordan Kemp ’13, Timothy O’Brien ’13, David Hill ’13, Rob Nogueras ’13, Elliot Stephenson ’13, and Drew Littlefair ’13. neighbors, are in new jobs. Cody recently left a successful stint at AllianceBernstein for Citadel, a hedge fund down the street. So far, she enjoys the new position, though I am still in search of someone new to have lunch with. Rob works at Poppin and describes his work as “rewarding.” Fiona Brennan is in Brooklyn for the fore- seeable future. She recently moved from Ralph Lauren to Williams-Sonoma, where she works in the West Elm brand. I hear there may be an employee discount involved. Carolyn Kimmick says she is still “back and Gerald Hansen IV ’12 and Madeleine Dickinson ’14 were married on July 5, 2019, at Appleford Estate in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Those joining the couple included Krista Hansen ’16, Garrett Hansen ’20, Gerald Hansen III ’78, Jeffrey Young forth to London” and living in Greenwich Village. ’12, Barclay Hansen ’84, Todd Hansen ’88, Gerald Hansen II ’51, Max deLone ’12, Austin Apanovitch ’12, Dave Menard ’12, I have seen Steph Taylor around the city Elizabeth Easter ’01, Tina Lipson ’14, Kaitlin Reedy ’14, Andrew Malin ’14, Gretchen Hansen, Macey Russell ’80, Roberta from time to time, mostly below 14th Street, at a Russell ’70, M’72, Molly Southam ’13, Julie Pesta ’12, and Cory DiBenedetto ’12. Bantams not pictured included Kristina party, and after midnight. Smithy ’14, Serena Elavia ’14, Marin Abernethy ’14, and Kathryn Van Sickle ’12. In other news, I heard from Maia Madison, who shared a terrific story. Maia works at Ram’s Gate Winery in Sonoma and answered a call from an 860 area code. It turned out to be Trinity alumna Ali Schwartz ’10, who ended up visiting the winery to “reminisce over a glass of rosé about how much we loved Trinity.” Finally, Henry “H.K.” Romeyn recently returned from an extended trip to Morocco, followed by an allegedly brief stop in Argentina. He reports that the trip was “fulfilling in every Tyler Griffin ’14 and his high school sweetheart, Elsia Schunkert, were married this summer in Lugano, Switzerland. Those in sense of the word.” attendance included groomsmen Thomas Stelle ’14 and Jonathan Bryant ’14 (not pictured), W. Hedley Jennings ’14, Merritt As always, please call, text, email, or write Piro ’14, Augustus Dangremond ’14, Caroline Melly ’14, Timothy Suspenski ’14, Nichole Soviero ’14, Christopher Kenny ’14, with any updates. Hank Meyers ’14, Olivia Anderson ’14, Tucker Callanan ’14, Thomas Stolarski ’14, Eliza Ziebold ’14, Catherine “Pell” Bermingham ’15, Caroline Picerne ’16, Dan Altman ’13, and Anastasia Edwards ’13.

WINTER 2020 73 Trinity Fund Goal: $10,000 a member of the Brownell Club, 2016 Class Secretary: Ashira E. Anderson, 701 the band, and the Hillel Society. St. James St., Unit 310, Richmond, VA 23220-3224; ashira. IN He went on to earn a law degree [email protected] • Class Agent: Julia E. Herr • from Harvard Law School. Rome /groups/Trinity2016 spent his entire career in Hartford, MEMORY including time at his own firm and Trinity Fund Goal: $15,000 at Robinson and Cole, and earned 2017 Class Secretary: Daniel A. Garcia, Alumni a national reputation in the field of Relations, Trinity College; [email protected] • Class 1944 Melvin L. Rutt, 97, of Potomac, commercial and bankruptcy law, Agents: Jake Bennett, Nicholas DiBenedetto, Katelyn Elinoff, Maryland, died on September 8, authoring the Business Workouts Daniel A. Garcia, Andrew Hatch, Kelvin Kaari, Clio Kammerer, 2019. Manual. Clare Knowlton, Kaitlin Lewis, Julianna Maisano, Ryan Miller, Rutt earned a B.A. in economics Rome is survived by his wife of 61 Andrea Nicholson, Kiley Nygren • /groups/Trinity2017 from Trinity. He went on to earn years, Sheila; children Adam Rome an M.B.A. from the University of (Robin Schulze), Lilly Feldman Trinity Fund Goal: $5,000 Michigan. Rutt was a dedicated (Steve), and Ethan Rome (Jennifer 2018 Class Secretary: Lauren Ollerhead, 474 W. alumnus who was a member of the Ng’andu); and two grandchildren. 146th St., Apt. 1 RW, New York, NY 10031-0778; lauren. Elms Society. [email protected] • Class Agents: Bassil Bacare, Rutt is survived by his wife, 1951 John S. Wilson, M.D., 88, of Nicholas DiBenedetto, Sarah Dolan, Justin Fortier, Louisa Frances; children Joseph (Barbara Silver City, New Mexico, died on Kammerer, Jamilah Ketcham, Elizabeth Koris, Molly Nichols Boroson) and Helen (Gil Ohana); September 9, 2019. four grandchildren; and brother Wilson earned a B.S. in biology Trinity Fund Goal: $5,000 Jack (Bobbi). from Trinity, where he was a mem- 2019 Class Secretary: William J. Duggan III, 10 Main ber of the Jesters and the Glee Club. St., Cheshire, CT 06410-2403; william.duggan.2019@trincoll. 1949 Saward J. Epps, 93, of He went on to earn a medical degree edu • Class Agents: Sophia Gourley, Debbie Herrera, Talia La Columbus, Ohio, died on July 13, at Columbia University College of Schiazza, Brooke LePage, Emily McLeod, Mary McGonigle, 2018. Physicians and Surgeons. Wilson Kristina Miele, Simran Sheth, Amber Stevenson, Stephanie Epps earned a B.S. in biology served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army Velarde, Michael Zarra from Trinity, where he ran track. He before embarking on a career as a went on to earn an M.A. in biology general surgeon. He was a dedi- Class Secretary: Lillie N. Lavado ’10, 50 Hillside St., from Hofstra University. Epps’s cated Trinity alumnus. IDP Presque Isle, ME 04769-2619; lillie.lavado.2010@ career included decades in the Wilson is survived by his trincoll.edu pharmaceutical industry. children, Maclean Wilson and Epps is survived by his wife Vanessa Wilson; one grandson; and Trinity Fund Goal: $35,000 of 63 years, Nancy; children companion Barbara Smith. He was Master’s From the Alumni Office:Lynn Davis Shelley Rossoll (William), Brian predeceased by his wife of 46 years, M’75 announces the publication (Page Publishers) of her book Epps (Joanna Rogers), Lisa Del Imogen, and son Stewart Wilson. A Frog Hollow Childhood, A Memoir of Hartford. The memoir Matto (Brian Beatty), and Amy is available from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Derenberger (Dean); and three 1953 William C. Bendig, 91, of Essex, grandchildren. Connecticut, died on July 14, 2019. Bendig earned a B.A. in studio 1950 William P. Boland Jr., D.D.S., arts from Trinity, where he was 90, of Cheshire, Connecticut, died manager of the Glee Club and a on July 9, 2019. member of the Canterbury Club. Boland earned a B.S. in biol- He also worked on the staff of the ogy from Trinity, where he was Ivy. Bendig served for nearly 26 a member of the Newman Club. years as editor and publisher of He went on to earn a D.D.S. from theArtgallery, an international mag- Want to submit a photo? Then read this! Northwestern University Dental azine on art and culture. He also School. Boland served in the U.S. founded The Hollycroft Foundation, We accept only HIGH-RESOLUTION wedding and Class Navy Dental Corps before launching which works to bring outdoor sculp- Notes photos (generally with a file size of at least 1 MB); a 53-year general dentistry career in ture and art education to coastal low-resolution photos, while fine for websites, will not Cheshire. communities in Connecticut. reproduce well in the magazine. For Class Notes photos, we Boland is survived by several ask that no more than one photo is submitted per person nieces and nephews and sister- 1953 John H. Larson, 88, of per issue and that the photo includes at least one Bantam. in-law Margaret Boland. He was Woodstock, Vermont, died on We can’t promise that we’ll be able to publish all that predeceased by his brother, David August 27, 2019. we receive, but we’ll do our best. We reserve the right to Boland. Larson earned a B.A. in econom- decide what is published based on available space, photo ics from Trinity, where he was a quality, and photo content. We invite you to email HIGH- 1951 Donald L. Rome, 90, of member of Delta Psi and Campus RESOLUTION photos (please send as attachments and not Simsbury, Connecticut, and Chest. He also played soccer and in the body of the email) and complete caption information formerly of West Hartford, died on lacrosse. Larson went on to earn (WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE) to your class secretary or June 15, 2019. a master’s in city planning from to [email protected]. Rome earned a B.S. in biol- MIT. He served in the U.S. Navy ogy from Trinity, where he was before working as a city planner

74 THE TRINITY REPORTER IN MEMORY in New Jersey and later start- 1962 Deyan R. Brashich, 78, of New 1966 Robert H. Cooley, 74, of was a member of the Economics ing a long career in the energy York, New York, died on August Moreland Hills, Ohio, died on Club and took part in ROTC. He industry. Larson was a dedicated 30, 2019. September 21, 2019. went on to earn an M.B.A. from Trinity alumnus whose volunteer Brashich earned a B.A. in history Cooley earned a B.A. in political Columbia Business School and to service included time as a Reunion from Trinity, where he was a mem- science from Trinity, where he was study mathematics at the gradu- Committee chair. ber of the Jesters and the French a member of Alpha Delta Phi and ate level at the University of New Larson is survived by his Club. He went on to graduate from played tennis. His career included Hampshire. Stoykovich taught children, Michael Larson (Linda), New York University School of time as executive vice president math for more than three decades Christopher Larson (Lynne), Law and The Hague Academy of at MCorp, senior executive at at Oyster River High School. and Cynthia Kline (Christopher); International Law and began a KeyCorp, and senior consultant Stoykovich is survived by his seven grandchildren; and one career in private practice with the with Antaean Solutions. wife, Elisa; sons Mark Stoykovich great-grandchild. He was prede- firm of Brashich & Finley. Brashich Cooley is survived by his wife, (Mary Biddy) and Trinity College ceased by his wife of 54 years, also was a professor of law at Pace Peggy; daughters Elizabeth Archivist and Manuscript Librarian Priscilla, and brothers Peter Larson University for several years. He Genzel (Robert), Jessica Russell Eric Stoykovich (Craig Harman); and David Larson. wrote on domestic and interna- (Robert), Jennifer Ralph (Derick), siblings Victor Stoykovich, tional legal issues for various and Kathrine Cooley; and eight Suzanne Beers, Christine Van 1956 Alfred J. Defalco, M.D., 84, of outlets and on political, legal, and grandchildren. Dongen, and Ellen Gibson; and an Friday Harbor, Washington, died social issues for his blog, Contrary aunt, Anne Rehr. on August 27, 2019. Views; he also served as editor of 1966 Kenneth P. Geremia, 75, of Defalco earned a B.S. in German several publications and self-pub- Newmarket, New Hampshire, died 1970 E. Scott Sutton, 70, of from Trinity, where he was a lished three books. on June 11, 2019. Fayetteville, Arkansas, died on member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Brashich is survived by his wife, Geremia attended Trinity, where September 13, 2019. the Interfraternity Council, and Patricia Tunsky-Brashich, and their he was a member of the Newman Sutton earned a B.A. in political the Republican Club. He also daughter, Arianna Evers (Austin); Club, the Jesters, and the Young science and sociology from Trinity, played lacrosse and participated in his daughters with first wife Democrats and worked at WRTC where he was a member of Theta fencing. Defalco went on to serve Catherine Sidor, Alexis Morledge before serving in the U.S. Army Xi, the Jesters, and the fencing in the U.S. Navy, including at the ’90 (Louis Sr.) and Audrey Sjoholm during the Vietnam War. He went team. He went on to earn an M.Div. Naval Medical Research Center. He ’93 (Christopher); six grandchil- on to a long career in public rela- from Episcopal Theological School focused on neuropharmacology dren; and brother Neboysha tions in Washington, D.C., and New and an Ed.S. in counseling from and urology at hospitals in Denver Brashich ’60 (Prunella). York City. the University of Arkansas. Sutton and Seattle, as well as overseas in Geremia is survived by his wife spent his career helping others as a China, Australia, and St. Vincent 1962 Steven J. Cool, 78, of of 52 years, Jan; children John, counselor, including time working and the Grenadines. Hillsboro, Oregon, died on August Ken (Elizabeth), and Jill; three at the Ozark Guidance Center and Defalco is survived by his wife, 1, 2019. grandchildren; sister Gerry; and in private practice. Barbara; children Jeffery, Jonathan, Cool earned a B.A. in psychology brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. Sutton is survived by his wife, Susan, Lesley, and Shaina; from Trinity, where he was a mem- Catherine Totten; sons Ashley and stepdaughters Melissa Dubail ber of the Jesters and Psi Chi honor 1966 Thomas S. Gulotta, 75, of Ethan; and brother Keith Sutton. and Hana Stevanovic; daugh- society in psychology. He went on Merrick, New York, died on August ters-in-law Renee and Melinda; to earn an M.A. in psychology and 4, 2019. 1973 Andrew I. Wolf, 68, of East sons-in-law Craig Grinde, Todd a Ph.D. in physiological psychol- Gulotta graduated Phi Beta Haven, Connecticut, died on July Esque, and Jonathan Long; eight ogy from the University of Illinois. Kappa with a B.A. in history. He 16, 2019. grandchildren; and former spouses Cool served as a faculty member at served as president of the senior Wolf graduated Phi Beta Kappa Beverly Defalco, Ellen Seldin, and the University of Texas-Houston, class and of the Clio Literary with a B.S. in political science and Dominique Savoie. Baylor College of Medicine, and Society, as a member of the Senate psychology. He served as president Pacific University. and of Phi Mu Delta, and on the of Cerberus and as a member of 1956 Gerald J. Flood, 84, of Cool is survived by his wife of 31 staff of The Trinity Tripod. Gulotta the Senate. He also was active in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and years, Molly McEwen; sons William went on to earn a law degree from Hillel and worked on the staffs of Portland, Connecticut, died on and Anthony (Jessica); two grand- Columbia Law School. He held The Trinity Tripod, the Ivy, and September 3, 2019. children; and siblings Patricia Cool several governmental positions, WRTC. Wolf went on to earn a J.D. Flood graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Howard Cool. including 14 years as county exec- from Georgetown University and with a B.A. in French and educa- utive in Nassau County on Long an M.P.A. from Harvard University. tional studies. He was a member 1963 John D. St. Clair Jr., 78, of Island. His work life included time as an of the Brownell Club, the Newman Marblehead, Massachusetts, died Gulotta is survived by his wife, attorney, president of the Pacific Club, and the History Club. Flood on June 18, 2019. Elizabeth; children Christopher Design Center, and marketing and went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. St. Clair earned a B.S. in engi- Gulotta and Elizabeth Amenbolare; regulatory adviser at Cedarlane in education from Johns Hopkins neering from Trinity, where he three grandchildren; and siblings Natural Foods. In 2014, he was University. He was a professor of worked at WRTC. He went on to a Frank Gulotta ’61 and Franca named New Haven’s director of education at Villanova University career in electronics sales. Rizzo. arts, culture, and tourism. for more than 40 years. St. Clair is survived by his wife Wolf is survived by his siblings, Flood is survived by his family. of nearly 47 years, Kathy; children 1966 Petar V. Stoykovich, 75, of Jimmy (Melanie) and Jan (Rich), He was predeceased by brothers Amy DiLaura (Peter), John “Tripp” Dover, New Hampshire, died on and six nieces and nephews. Peter and Ronald. St. Clair III (Lauren), and Julie June 10, 2019. Terkaly (Julian); eight grandchil- Stoykovich earned a B.A. in dren; and sister Mary Kimball. economics from Trinity, where he

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1975 Gregory Read, 66, of Tenafly, included 25 years at Berlin High Mary Ellen Taub and John Heslin was predeceased by her husband, New Jersey, died on July 12, 2019. School. In the late 1950s until her (Tracey); son-in-law John Laverty; Paul Norkin, and son Peter Norkin. Read earned a B.A. in American 1973 retirement, she served the daughter-in-law Cindy Heslin; nine studies from Trinity, where he was Meriden Public Schools as dean grandchildren; and six great-grand- DEATH NOTICES a member of St. Anthony Hall and of girls, school psychologist, and children. She was predeceased 1942 John R. Gardner played intramurals. He went on to director of pupil personnel. by her husband, Thomas Heslin; 1943 Kenneth M. Wallace earn a J.D. from Boston College and Le Van is survived by her neph- children Thomas Heslin Jr. ’77 and 1946 H. Franz Schurmann practiced law in Connecticut and ews, Christopher Schuetz (Faith), Joanne Laverty; and siblings John 1950, M.A. 1953 James M. Russell New Jersey. Gregory Schuetz (Mary), and Jeffrey “Whitey” Piurek, Stacia Holmes, 1952 James C. Perkins Read is survived by his mother, Schuetz (Nita Beck), and several Stephanie Plocharczyk, and 1965 Robert E. Graham Virginia; siblings Christopher great-nephews and great-nieces. Josephine Chupas. 1965 Ernest S. Hendry Jr. (Vicki) and Virginia (Terry Adams); She was predeceased by siblings 1970 Charles H. Chrystal Jr. a niece; and two nephews, includ- Malvern Le Van and Ethel Schuetz. 1969 Henry E. Agostinelli, 86, of 1974 Carolyn R. Cartland ing George Adams ’21. Manchester, Connecticut, died on 1976 Robert J. Demers 1947 Mildred M. “Timmy” Randazzo, September 2, 2019. 1976 Mary Keller Miller 2003 Erik S. Mazmanian, 38, of 97, of West Hartford, Connecticut, Agostinelli earned a B.S. in 1977 Meredith Dixon Finan Chicago, Illinois, died on August died on September 2, 2018. education from the University of M.S. 1968 Roderick H. Silva 12, 2019. Randazzo earned a B.A. in Hartford and an M.A. in political M.A. 1974 Charles F. McCarthy Jr. Mazmanian graduated Phi Beta English from Mount Holyoke science from Trinity. He was an Kappa with a B.A. in history. He College and taught English and educator who taught in public was a four-year lacrosse player history at Newington Children’s schools and at the Cheshire who twice was named to the Hospital for more than 40 years. Correctional Institution. NESCAC All-Academic Team. He Near the start of her career there, Agostinelli is survived by his also worked as a writing associ- she earned an M.A. from Trinity. wife, Adua; daughter Deborah ate. Mazmanian went on to earn Randazzo is survived by her Caputo; a grandson; a great-grand- an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s children, James Randazzo (Susan son; and brother Nathan Kellogg School of Management Pennington), David Randazzo, and Agostinelli (Elsie). He was prede- before working in positions in Susan Randazzo; two grandsons; ceased by daughter Susan. Washington, D.C., San Francisco, sister Ruth Cuprak; and brother-in- Boston, and Chicago, including his law Joseph Randazzo. FORMER STAFF most recent post as vice president Peter Jarm, 66, of Bristol, of FirstFuel, an energy analytics 1959 Carole B. Gornish, 88, of East Connecticut, died on August 19, company. Hartford, Connecticut, died on June 2019. Mazmanian is survived by his 8, 2109. Jarm attended the University of wife, Nicole; parents Brian and Gornish earned undergradu- Connecticut. He served as a Trinity Carol Mazmanian; twin brother ate and graduate degrees from College Campus Safety officer for Daniel; and two nieces. Simmons College and Saint Joseph four decades. College before earning an M.A. in Jarm is survived by his mother, 2005 Peter H. Canning, 36, of New educational studies from Trinity. Genevieve Jarm; siblings Paula London, Connecticut, died on July She worked as an analytical chem- Mazur, Janet Corey, Henry Jarm, 8, 2019. ist in New York City and later in Robert Jarm, and Jennifer Ross; Canning earned a B.A. in eco- accounting for the family business, and many nieces and nephews. nomics and history from Trinity. Carlton Supply Co. He went on to work as a financial Gornish is survived by her Olga Mangiafico, 94, of adviser at Morgan Stanley and daughters, Leslie Michelle and Wethersfield, Connecticut, died on as a member of the Canning- Alanna Mrlik, and two grandchil- June 12, 2019. Bergendahl Group. dren. She was predeceased by her Mangiafico worked as a cashier Canning is survived by his husband of 58 years, Sidney. in Hamlin Dining Hall; she retired parents, Bill and Suzie Canning; at age 92. brother Will Canning (Tracy); 1968 Mary M. Heslin, 89, of Mangiafico is survived by grandfather William Hill Jr.; and Hartford, Connecticut, died on June her children, Maria Elena several other relatives. 21, 2019. Mangiafico and Ernesto (Angel Heslin earned a B.A. in edu- Diaz-Mangiafico), and five MASTER’S cation from the University of grandchildren. 1947 Marie A. Le Van, 110, of Connecticut before earning an Meriden, Connecticut, died on M.A. in history from Trinity. Florence K. Norkin, 90, of Hartford, August 29, 2019. She served as Hartford’s deputy Connecticut, died on April 14, 2018. Le Van earned a B.A. from Saint mayor and was the city’s first Norkin worked as an admin- Joseph College as a member of its female Democratic councilperson. istrative assistant in the English inaugural graduating class. She In 1975, Heslin was appointed Department at Trinity. went on to earn an M.A. in edu- Connecticut’s consumer protection Norkin is survived by her chil- cation from Trinity and an M.Ed. commissioner by then-Governor dren, Mary Katherine Norkin and from the University of Hartford. A Ella Grasso. Andrew Norkin (Joy); five grand- lifelong educator, Le Van’s career Heslin is survived by children children; and sister Anne Linn. She

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The Trinity Reporter NEW TCAA EXECUTIVE Vol. 50, No. 2 Winter 2020 Editor: Sonya Storch Adams Vice President for Communications and Marketing: Angela Paik Schaeffer COMMITTEE MEMBERS Communications Office and Other Contributors: Ellen Buckhorn, Bhumika Choudhary ’18, Andrew J. Concatelli, Caroline Deveau, Tess Dudek-Rolon, Lizzy Lee, Helder Mira, Kelly Ann Oleksiw M’15, Katelyn Rice, Anita Ford Saunders, Annette M. Boelhouwer ’85 Stacy Sneed, Bonnie Wolters Class Notes Coordinator: Julie Cloutier Annette Boelhouwer is an attorney who specializes in all areas of Designer: Lilly Pereira/www.aldeia.design civil litigation, including professional malpractice defense, with a Student Contributor: Hamna Tariq ’20 concentration in products liability and toxic tort matters. She has vast expertise in the areas of complex case management and the BOARD OF TRUSTEES coordination of multiparty litigation, including the negotiations Officers: Chair: Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh ’80; Vice Chair: of multi-case global settlements. Boelhouwer is a Martindale- Michael J. Kluger ’78, P’13; Vice Chair: Kevin J. Maloney ’79 Hubbell AV Peer Review rated and certified arbitrator and mediator. She graduated Ex Officio: Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President and Trinity from Loomis Chaffee School and earned a B.A. in history from Trinity and a J.D. from College Professor of Neuroscience; Eric S. Estes ’91, President, New England School of Law. In the summer, Boelhouwer can be found in Wellfleet, Trinity College Alumni Association Massachusetts, with her mom and siblings Mark ’83, Elise ’87, and Pieter ’89 and their families. Charter Trustees: Lisa G. Bisaccia ’78, Scott C. Butera ’88, P’18 ’20, James W. Cuminale ’75, P’09, William E. Cunningham Jr. Thomas D. Casey ’80 ’87, P’19, ’21, Nancy M. Davis ’79, Peter S. Duncan ’81, P’13, Tom Casey was an American studies major and received a law ’14, Christine E. Elia ’96, Steven A. Elmendorf ’82, Elizabeth Elting ’87, Eric R. Fossum ’79, H’14, Michael Gary ’86, John S. degree from Georgetown after graduating from Trinity. He became Gates Jr. ’76, P’13, Walter Harrison ’68, H’18, Jeffrey B. active in the Trinity Club of Washington in the autumn following Hawkins ’92, H. Susannah Heschel ’73, H’10, Jeffrey E. Kelter graduation and served as president of the club on three occasions. ’76, P’18, Ling S. Kwok ’94, Kathleen Foye MacLennan P’17, During the mid-to-late 1980s, Casey was elected to two terms ’20, Pamela D. McKoin P’15, Daniel Meyer ’80, P’20, N. Louis on the Executive Committee of the National Alumni Association Shipley ’85, Kelli Harrington Tomlinson ’94, Rhea Pincus (which changed its name to the Trinity College Alumni Association [TCAA] in 2019). Turteltaub ’82, Kathryn George Tyree ’86, Craig Vought ’82, His varied career includes several government positions, including chief of staff to P’17, Richard W. Wagner ’83, P’18, Jean M. Walshe ’83, Shawn T. Wooden ’91 the secretary of Housing and Urban Development and chief counsel to the chair of a federal bank regulator. In the private sector, his experience includes co-founding G. Keith Funston Trustee: Adrian Lo ’12 MAXEX, the nation’s first exchange for trading residential mortgages. Since 2014, Casey has been an attorney and mediator in solo practice in Washington, D.C. TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Annette M. Boelhouwer ’85, E. Greer Candler Andrew S. Terhune ’78 ’76, Thomas D. Casey ’80, Gregory M. Creamer ’93, Amy McGill After graduating from Trinity with a B.S. in engineering, Terhune Dilatush ’94, John J. D’Luhy ’55, John H. Ellwood ’65, P’95, earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He spent most of President Eric S. Estes ’91, E. Gates Garrity-Rokous ’86, Daniel J. Good ’95, Patrick R. Greene ’07, Jawanza J. Gross ’94, P’12, his career with Toll Brothers, a national homebuilder, where he Jeannie Guzman ’10, Juan M. Hernandez ’13, M’15, Faculty reported to the president and COO and was in charge of cus- Representative Gabriel F. Hornung ’07, Taniqua K. Huguley ’15, tomer satisfaction and the company’s management development M’17, Monete G. Johnson ’11, Amanda Johnson Kennedy ’94, program. Since retiring, he has served on several boards, most Christine Kleinert ’82, Peter H. Kreisel ’61, P’91, Karolina recently as board chair of a private real estate holding company. He is president of Kwiecinska ’16, Student Representative Trinna T. Larsen ’20, the Holland Society of New York, a historical and genealogical organization. He and Maximillian A.D. Le Merle ’16, Rebecca Wenner Litt ’08, his wife winter in Naples, Florida, where he enjoys Trinity Club activities organized Victoria Hamilton McCarthy ’06, Christopher G. Mooney ’75, P’06, Peyton Tansill Muldoon ’91, Randolph R. Pearsall ’78, by TCAA Executive Committee member John Ellwood ’65. For leisure, he enjoys M’80, Kaitlin E. Reedy ’14, Jorge E. Rodriguez ’91, Louisa P. studying romance languages, travel, summers in New England, and a good round Rodriguez ’81, P’21, Hamill J. Serrant ’08, Jonathan P. Smith Jr. of golf. As a Trinity alum, he has been class agent and served on several Reunion ’03, Dede Seeber Stone ’81, P’14, ’16, Jamie Tracey Szal ’06, Committees and on the Board of Fellows. He also is a longtime member of the Long Andrew S. Terhune ’78, Rachel Freeman Zinny ’92 Walk and Elms Societies and looks forward to contributing to Trinity’s success as a member of the TCAA Executive Committee. BOARD OF FELLOWS: Hugh M.M. Anderson ’93, Wildaliz Bermudez ’04, Samuel H. Booth ’04, Crisanne M. Colgan M’74, Diane “Dede” DePatie Consoli ’88, P’19, ’22, Elizabeth A. Corbat ’11, Jennifer A. Cuminale ’09, Katherine Duckworth- Schachter ’98, W. Allan Edmiston III ’98, Pamela Hickory Esterson ’90, Luis A. Fernandez ’11, Tara Litchenfels Gans ’88, P’20, Michael F. Haberkorn ’98, Doug M. Macdonald ’89, Malcolm Fraser MacLean IV ’92, Rhoden B. Monrose ’09, Benagh Richardson Newsome ’95, P’22, David C. Provost II ’88, P’22, Lourdes E. Reynolds ’91, Paul F. Romano ’81, P’12, ’15, Eric Rosow ’86, M’88, Jacquelyn Santiago ’00, Edward T. Schiff ’01, Alan G. Schiffman ’81, Peter A. Schwartzman ’88, Maia Y. Sharpley ’89, Charles A. Siguler ’10, Isabelle Krusen Sodikoff ’03, Bill Talbot ’82, Madelyn Korengold Terbell ’09, T. Casey Tischer Jr. ’01, John A. Tucker ’87, Susan Granger Tyler ’85, David E. Walker ’83, P’19, Anne Patterson Wilmerding ’85, Pamela B. Wilton ’81, P’21, Bryant S. Zanko ’87, P’17

WINTER 2020 77 ALUMNI 1 EVENTS Out & About SNAPSHOTS

1. Women’s Leadership Council Summer Networking Night Brooklyn, New York JULY 18, 2019 Marin Abernethy ’14, Emily Llerena ’18, Melissa Bronzino Regan ’87, Annick Bickson ’14, and Kaitlin Reedy Malin ’14

2. Bantam Summer Reception 5 Chatham, Massachusetts AUGUST 4, 2019 Director of Athletics Drew Galbraith, Head Coach of Men’s Ice Hockey and Men’s Golf Matt Greason ’03, Head Coach of Women’s Lacrosse Katy Dissinger M’13, Laurie Fergusson Plumb ’80, Bob Plumb ’80, and members of the Class of 2023

3. Bantam Summer Reception Watch Hill, Rhode Island JULY 16, 2019 David Lloyd ’66, P’88, GP’23, David Lloyd Jr. ’23, and David Lloyd ’88, P’23

4. Venture Networking Dinner Hartford, Connecticut AUGUST 23, 2019 Ann Newman Selvitelli ’91, Patrice Ball-Reed ’80, Carmen Leslie-Rourke ’82, P’21, Shakira Ramos Crespo ’00, and Crisanne Colgan M’74

5. Bantam Summer Reception Washington, D.C. AUGUST 7, 2019 8 Bria Fuller ’23, Abbey Rodman P’23, Kathryn Martel P’23, and Charlie Martel ’23

6. Bantam Summer Reception Los Angeles, California AUGUST 3, 2019

7. Bantam Rugby Reconnect Boston, Massachusetts AUGUST 22, 2019

8. Bantam Summer Reception Nantucket, Massachusetts JULY 19, 2019 Eric Dolente, Mark Dolente, Andrew Dolente ’20, Jennifer Dolente P’20, ’23, Adell Williamson, Nicholas Dolente ’23, and Steve Dolente P’20, ’23

9. Bantam Summer Reception Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts AUGUST 7, 2019

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THANK YOU TO OUR EVENT HOSTS! Joanne Berger-Sweeney P’22 Katie Everitt Denious ’91 and Peter Denious ’90 Jennifer and Stephen Dolente P’20, ’23 Julie Mancuso Gionfriddo ’96, M’05 9 Jeff Kelter ’76, P’16, ’18 Patricia Mairs Klestadt ’80, P’09, ’11 David Lloyd ’66, P’88, GP’23 and Susan Lattner Lloyd P’88, GP’23 David H. Lloyd ’88, P’23 Kathleen and David MacLennan P’17, ’20 Laurie Fergusson ’80 and Bob Plumb ’80 Ashvin Rao ’95 and Lisa Koch Rao ’95 Kaitlin Reedy Malin ’14 Kierstie Clark Rucci ’97 Electra and Christopher Toub P’22

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Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney

Creating a curriculum with tomorrow in mind

The auditorium in McCook was packed. Some faculty members administrators, and students, most especially faculty. The stood along the edges of the room, and others perched on the new curriculum, which will be effective for the Class of 2025, steps at the ends of the rows. Faculty meetings aren’t always so is distinctive and forward-looking. It reinforces our core lib- well attended, but this one in November was especially import- eral arts academic mission and prepares students for the ant, and professors from all parts of the college and at all stages future by building a bridge to life after college. of their careers turned out. The occasion: a vote on the first I cannot stress enough to our alumni and parent readers major revision to Trinity’s curriculum in more than a decade. how meaningful this moment is in the life of the college. To those outside of higher education, this might not seem As an institution of higher learning, we have a responsibility like a big deal. But to those on the inside, especially faculty, to develop citizens who think critically, embrace complex- the curriculum defines the educational experience we promise ity, and engage across differences in building a free and and reflects our values and our identity as an just society. At the same time, our identity institution. The curriculum is at the very core of as a small, residential liberal arts college our mission as an educational institution. A cur- in a New England state capital allows us riculum’s strength is in its rigor, its depth and to provide a distinctive, rigorous education breadth, and its relevance to the world. That that gives students the perspectives, knowl- last part—relevance—was at the heart of the edge, and skills to advance society. That endeavor our faculty has undertaken over the dual sense of responsibility and opportunity past two years: to contemplate the curriculum was the spirit with which our faculty took in the context of the 21st century. up the work to achieve two of the main The work of the faculty, led by the Curriculum objectives of Summit, Trinity’s strategic Committee (whose members are faculty, admin- plan: to “connect the curriculum more fully istrators, and students), culminated in a pro- to the college’s mission, including its valuing posal thoroughly considered and eventually of guided self-reflection and experiential brought to the floor of the faculty meeting on learning, articulating clearly what defines a November 12. The proposal sought to revise the curriculum Trinity liberal arts education” and to “prepare students for to include 32 core academic credits; three additional credits success inside and outside the classroom in a dynamically known as the Trinity Plus, which can include co-curricular changing world.” experiences and the option of an experiential certificate (for I could not be more pleased by nor prouder of Trinity’s out- example, highlighting internships, summer research, and standing faculty. As the new curriculum now moves to imple- short-term study); and a wellness requirement, intended to mentation, many details remain to be worked out, of course. promote personal well-being. Also new: students who achieve And I believe the faculty see this vote as a big first step toward a 3.667 grade-point average in two majors from different divi- continued evolution of our distinctive Trinity educational sions would be able to earn a new distinction upon gradua- experience. All of us who love Trinity have a role to play in its tion, Honors in Liberal Arts. future. Faculty members, in this case, see one of their primary The faculty voted overwhelmingly (126 in favor, 6 roles quite rightly as stewards of the curriculum, responsible opposed, and 3 abstentions) to approve the new curricu- for attending to it today and for ensuring its strength for gen- lum. It was a model of effective collaboration among faculty, erations to come.

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