TRINITY TR Vol. LXXXI, Issue 2 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT September 21,1982 Davis Endowment Beati, Sullivan Sponsors Capture Top Seminars by Joy Kosciclniak SGA Positions The Davis Endowment, given Lowell, Massachusetts City Com- to Trinity College by Shelby by Marilyn Weiss mittee and in May, 1982, served as Cullon Davis, was to have funded Running on the platform of a delegate at the Massachusetts. a position in the Administration greater student involvement at State Convention in Springfield. at Trinity. However, the position Trinity, senior biology major Ted Hartsoe came in second in was not filled immediately, and Todd Beati was elected president the race for the presidency with the money doubled in amount, of the SGA last Thursday with a' 266 votes. Third place went to leaving extra funds available to total of 368 votes. Advocating the . importance of the students' voice Leif Fellinger with 231 votes. Ben the Internships Program. The En- Howe captured fourth place with dowment now pays the salary of in academic and social policies, Todd stresses the importance of a total of 115 votes. Fifth place Betty-Anne Cox, Coordinator of successful communication within went to Tina Tricarichi with 90 the Trinity Internship Program. the Trinity environment. By keep- votes, and Peter O'Brien came in The purpose of the Endowment is ing the majority in contact with sixth with 75 votes. to introduce free enterprise to the SGA and its policies, Todd Senior Chris Sullivan, elected those students at Trinity who are will strive to accomplish the vice-president, is far from un- interested in a career in business, necessary changes. prepared for the position to which or a career related to business in Beati's strong interest in stu- he has been chosen. Sullivan first some way, as the College does not dent government is supplemented became involved in student provide this in its curriculum. by his extensive background. Dur- government as a freshman when Another function of the Davis En- ing his sophmore and junior years he served as dormitory represen- dowment is to coordinate pro- he served as a dormitory represen- titive of Jackson Hall. In his grams and sponsor lectures, such titive, member of the Admissions sophmore year he worked as those being brought to Trinity and Financial Aid Committee, dilligently with former SGA during the Fall semester. and new student/faculty Sexual representive John Leisenring in The Dr. Scholl Foundation will Harassment Committee. During putting together the Sullivan- be sponsoring, in conjunction Leisenring amendment to the Newly elected SGA President Todd Beati and Vice-President Chris the 1981-82 term he was chairman with the Davis Endowment, a pro- of the Junior Class Committee. SGA constitution. This amend- Sullivan ment insuted each member of the gram of six intern seminars, which phoio by FrancesNorris He is currently a member of the will bring recognized scholars and at-large student body the oppor- successful executives to earnpus to...'•, tunity to elect the president and discuss different aspects of the vice-president of the school. In free enterprise system to small Newly Discovered Letters 1981, Chris served as vice- groups of students. These president of the SGA and con- seminars are open to all ributed to the organization of undergraduates of Trinity on a Trinity's first Awareness Week. Shed Light On Cole's Art Chris feels that his knowledge first come, first serve basis, sub- ject to the condition that students The Cole-Gilmor correspondence of academic and social resources College Press Service the Mohicans, Si. John in (he with current internships have was published in 1967. will aid him in improving relations A century-and-a-half after they Wilderness, and Roman Cam- priority'. The Cole-Wadsworth relation- between Trinity and the surroun- were written, nineteen letters by pagna (all now in the Wadsworth On September 23, Joseph ship as seen in the new letters was ding- Hartford community. His leading American romantic Atheneum), It is possible from the Finklestein, Professor of History close and warm. Wadsworth, concerns extend beyond the Trini- painter Thomas Cole have been newly-discovered letters to iden- and Director of the Institute of continued on page 5 discovered in the Watkinson tify the' exact locations where continued on page 4 Administration and Management, Library of Trinity College. They some of the pictures were painted, Union College, will speak about are the only known cor- the dates they were completed, the international business and new respondence from the period prices they sold for (about $50 a Pickering Deemed Technologies. 1826-1832 between Cole and his piece at the time), and the means September 28, Joseph R. wealthy Hartford patron, Daniel whereby Cole sent them from his Pickering, President of IDS Life Wadsworth. The discovery of the New York studio to Hartford (by Resident Executive Insurance, Minneapolis,, and steamboat), where his patron letters virtually doubles the by Amy Johnson tions had turned mainly to Trinity's "Insurance Executive in Wadsworth resided; known correspondence between This year, for the first time business schools to, recruit Residence" will discuss the ' In one letter, Cole tells Thomas Cole, and his early ever, Trinity is" hosting a employees. management of data processing Wadsworth of plans to paint a patrons. Cole was the leader of "Business Executive in Since 1973, the "Business Ex- and actuarial services. picture of the Garden of" Eden, what is widely held to be Residence," Joseph R. Pickering. ecutive in Residence" program October 28, Howard Eaton, America's first native school, of and an accompanying picture of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve The Economics Department, led has been sponeored by many col- Jr., Adjunct Professor at Yale painting, the Hudson .River by Professor Gerald Gunderson, leges in the Midwest and New University and Connecticut Col- from theGarden, which is now in . School. : has been trying since 1978 to bring England, including Colgate, Mid- lege and also an expert in advertis- : the Museum of Fine Arts in The letters were discovered: by. Boston. The Garden of Eden pic-, a representative of the corporate dlebury, and Princeton, all small ing and communications, will Dr. Jeffrey Kaimowitz, curator of ture is now lost, but Cole's letter world..to Trinity. ' liberal arts schools similar to speak. This seminar has already the Watkipson Library. They had details what he planned to show in The "Business Executive in Trinity. An average "of nine pro- been oversubscribed. remained unknown because they Residence" program was first grams a year are completed. On November 8, Alfred it.'• .'• . - " ." ' •"'• ;• • established in 1973 by trie Joseph Pickering, the executive were bound together years ago \ The letters also explain some Chandler, Straus Professor of American Council of Life In- Trinity is sponsoring, received his with a copy of an oration details in Cole's paintings which Business History at Harvard surance in order to increase the degree in Business Administration delivered at Cole's funeral by his apparently puzzled :his patron. University, and author of The In- close friend and admirer,1 the poet ties between the business world at the University of California at The yellow streaks shown,on a visible Hand, will speak. Pro- William Cullen Bryant. The and liberal arts colleges. At that Berkeley, From there, he went to mountainside were, Cole explain- fessor Chandler is one of the best volume had been filed under the time., the council, felt the University of Manitoba in ed^ mudslides, and the water in known scholars of large business name of Bryant, and so had undergraduate students to be par- Canada to procure his actuarial the cart tracks meant that,a storm organizations. escaped the attention of scholars ticularly hostile and distrustful of degree. Since 1979, Pickering has had just passed. November 17, Dominic Armen- looking for material relating to corporations. In turn, many cor- served as the President of the In- tano, Professor of Economics at ''. The letters reveal that Cole's poorate leaders, in the council's vestors' Diversified Services Life • Cole. ; relationship with Wadsworth was the University of Hartford and • • Plans for publication of the let- opinion, did not fully appreciate Insurance Company of Min- commentator on the radio ,: far different from the one he had the liberal arts student. Through neapolis, Minnesota. Under his ters are now underway at Trinity with his other principal patron in "byline" series, will discuss College under the editorship of the visitation program, the coun- leadership, the company, which government restriction of the 1820's, Robert Gilmor, Jr., of cil hoped that businessmen might, celebrated its 25th anniversary Dr.', J. Bard McNulty, Goodwin Baltimore. Gilmor, though business. r according to Professor Marjorie this summer, has experienced a Professor of English. •; ' • generous, was a demanding On December 9, Douglass C. Butcher, coordinator of the pro- period of phenomenal growth. The letters contain Cole's patron, arguing about the price of North, Professor of Economics at gram at Trinity, "gain an Pickering is a member of the detailed comments on some of his.. pictures and urging Cole to paint the University of Washington will understanding of the generations Board-American Council of Life pictures, as well as his aims, and after European models, even sug- speak. Professor North is known that might join their enterprises Insurance and a Fellow in the artistic ideas. They cover the years . gesting the angle from which a worldwide as an innovative 1826-1832, when Cole was pro- and in time, become top managers Society of Actuaries. scene should,be painted. Cole met themselves." Previously, corpora- economic historian. ducing some of his best-known Gilmor only three of four times. continued on page 3 continued on page 5 early masterpieces: The Last of Announcements missions accepted from all Seabury 9-17 and admission is American Studies at the Universi- members of the Trinity communi- free.