The Trinity Reporter, Winter 1984

R E p 0 R T E R WINTER 1984 Mr. Peter J. Knapp 20 Buena Vista Rd. West Hartford, CT 06107 ------ --~--- National Alumni Association EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS President Victor F. Keen '63, New York Senior Vice President James P. Whitters III '62, Boston Vice Presidents Alumni Fund Peter Hoffman '61, New York Campus Activities Jeffrey]. Fox '67, Newington, Ct. Admissions Susan Martin Haberlandt '71, West Hartford Area Associations Merrill A. Yavinsky '65, Washington, D.C. Public Relations Wenda Harris Millard '76, New York Career Counseling Eugene Shen '76, New York Secretary-Treasurer Alfred Steel, Jr. '64, West Hartford MEMBERS B. Graeme Frazier III '53, Philadelphia Megan). O'Neill '73, Bristol, Ct. Charles E. Gooley '75, Hartford James A. Finkelstein '74, La Jolla, Ca. Richard P. Morris '68, Philadelphia Robert N. Hunter '52, Glastonbury, Ct., Ex-Officio Athletic Advisory Committee Term Expires EdwardS. Ludorf'51, Hartford 1984 Donald). Viering '42, Simsbury, Ct. 1984 Susan Martin Haberlandt '71, West Hartford 1985 Alumni Trustees Term Expires Edward A. Montgomery, Jr. '56, Pittsburgh 1984 Emily G. Holcombe '74, Hartford 1985 Marshall E. Blume '63, Villanova, Pa. 1986 New England Champs! Stanley]. Marcuss '63, Washington, D.C. 1987 Donald L. McLagan '64, Lexington, Ma. 1988 As this issue went to press, the T rin David R. Smith '52, Scarborough, ity basketball team had just completed its sweep through the E.C.A.C. New Ontario, Canada 1989 England Division III tournament. The Bantams completely dominated three Nominating Committee Term Expires tournament foes as they thrashed Bab John C. Gunning '49, Hartford 1984 son, 96-72, and Southeastern Mass., Wenda Harris Millard '76, New York 1984 97-69, before a convincing 99-78 vic Norman C. Kayser '57, Hartford 1984 tory over Connecticut College in the Peter Lowenstein '58, Riverside, Ct. 1984 championship game. The final game was played before one of the largest William Vibert '52, Granby, Ct. 1984 basketball crowds (more than 2,000 spectators) ever assembled in the Ferris BOARD OF FELLOWS Athletic Center. The fans were treated to more than a rousing victory as sen Dana M. Faulkner '76, Glastonbury, Ct. 1984 ior guard Jim Bates scored 27 points to George P. Lynch, Jr. '61, Hartford 1984 become Trinity's all-time leading Karen Jeffers '76, New York 1984 scorer. Bates completed his career with Michael Zoob '58, Boston 1984 1, 369 points, one more than Jim Bel fiore '66, the former record holder. JoAnne A. Epps '73, Philadelphia 1985 This year's team finished with a 24-2 Scott W. Reynolds '63, New York 1985 record, the best ever by aT rinity team. Ann Rohlen '71, Chicago 1985 The three seniors - Bates, along with Bernard F. Wilbur, Jr. '50, West Hartford 1985 classmates Tom King and Kerry Sulli Norman C. Kayser '57, West Hartford 1986 van - played on four teams that com Mary Jo Keating '74, Wilmington, De. 1986 piled a brilliant record of 81 wins Carolyn A. Pelzel '74, Hampstead, N.H. 1986 against only 19 losses. Charles E. Todd '64, New Britain, Ct. 1986 TrinlfyREPORTER Vol. 14, No. 2 (ISSN 01643983) Editor: William L. Churchill EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Associate Editor: Kathleen Frederick '71 Associate Editor: Roberta Jenckes Frank M. Child Ill Professor of Biology Sports Editor: Douglas Mannen Publications A ss istant: Kathleen Davidson Gerald J. Hansen, Jr . '51 Consulting Editor: J. Ronald Spencer '64 Director of Alumni & College Relations Dirk Kuyk Articles Associate Profe ssor of English MASTERPIECES FROM Theodore T. Tansi '54 VERSAILLES By Alden Rand Gordon '69 Susan E. Weisselberg '76 A member of the fine arts faculty tells the story of planning a magnificent exhibit of French portraiture for the Smithsonian's Publis hed by the O ffice of Public Rela,tions, T rinity National Portrait Gallery. College, Hartford, Connecticut 06106. Issued four 6 ti mes a year: Fall, Wi"nter, Spring and Summer. Second class postage paid at Hartford, Con necticut. PLAYING AT NUCLEAR WAR The Trinity Reporter is mailed to alumni, parents, By W. Miller Brown facu lty, staff and friends of Trinity College without charge. All publication rights reserved and con tents A war game provides a dramatic climax may be reproduced or reprinted on ly by written per to a freshman seminar on "Life, Death miss ion of the Editor. Opinions expressed are those of and Nuclear War," organized by two the editors or contri butors and do not refl ect the offi members of the philosophy department. 11 cial position of T rinity College. PULLING AN ALL-NIGHTER By Alan Sternberg The agony of final examinations is cap tured by a Hartford Courant reporter who spends an evening prowling the dormito- ries and campus lounges. 16 SPRING REUNION '84 Alumni planning to return to campus on June 7-10 will find something on the 2 weekend schedule for every taste. 2 Departments Along the Walk 2 Sports 22 Books 27 Trintype Cover: Jacques- Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing 28 Mount Saint-Bernard , 180 1 was a recent gi ft to the French nation from Napoleon's descendents. It was exhib Class Notes 29 ited publicly for the first time since becoming part of the collection of the Musee de Versailles at the Smithsonian's In Memory 36 National Portrait Gallery as part of the exhibition Mas terpieces from Versailles. For more see pages 6- 10. Photography by ]on Lester except as noted Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk MAJOR LIBRARY GIFT RECEIVED Trinity has been given a major natural history library by Mr. Ostrom Enders of Avon, CT. The library consists of some 6,000 volumes, predominantly ornithological, and is valued at more than $1.2 million. With the addition of this gift to the considerable holdings al ready at the College, the Trinity Li brary will become one of the larger and more important depositories of orni thological materials in America. On announcing the gift, Trinity President James F. English, Jr., said, "We are deeply grateful to Ostrom Enders for his generosity. His magnifi cent collection will become part of a general reference library on ornithol ogy and, as is his wish, will be access ible to the public in the Watkinson Li 2 brary at Trinity. The College will be SILVER AT TRINITY, an exhibition prepared by the students in Art History come a research center for students of 401, was displayed in the Widener Gallery in late fall. Done in conjunction with ornithology, with periodic lectures and the study of historical methods in art, the exhibition featured Trinity collections exhibits." in three categories: College regalia and ceremonial silver; Chapel silver; and A working library of considerable domestic silver from recent gifts. Shown above are two elegant examples from scope and depth, the Ostrom Enders the exhibit. On the left is a delicate rococo teakettle and stand made in London Ornithology Collection is rich in rare, about 1735 and attributed to silversmith William Kidney. It is the earliest piece colored plate books, strongly supported in the Trinity collection. The English silver teapot on the right is representative by scientific texts and periodicals. The of the King George Ill period. Created by Hester Bateman in 1787, the piece is ornamented by a delicate, bright-cut engraving, characteristic of her work. collection includes works by authors and artists from the early seventeenth century to the present. Among the his father, were the basis of this excep bibliography of the ornithology books most outstanding works are a chromo tional private library. and other Trinity ornithology holdings lithograph of The Birds of America, Mr. Enders, a Connecticut native, has been published in a volume, Orni From the Original Drawings of John attended Noah Webster School in thology Books in the Library of Trinity ]ames Audubon, issued in 1860 by his Hartford, St. Paul's in Concord, New College, Hartford, edited by Viola Breit, son, John Woodhouse Audubon; the Hampshire, and graduated from Yale rare book cataloguer. six volume Histoire Naturelle Des College in 1925. He joined the Hart The basis for Trinity's ornithological Oiseaux D'Afrique by Francois Le Vail ford National Bank (now Connecticut collection was laid in 1900 when Gur lant (1802- 1808); Georges Louis Leclerc National Bank) in 1926, became presi don W. Russell , Class of 1834, donated Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux dent and chief executive officer in to the College John J. Audubon's ele (1770- 1785); John James Audubon's 1947, and chairman in 1960. He retired phant fo lio edition of the Birds of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North from the bank in 1967. America, and subsequently 275 fine America (1845-1848); and Daniel Gi He was director of numerous corpo volumes by eighteenth and nineteenth raud Elliot's A monograph of the Felidae rations and non-profit institutions, century naturalists. The collection was or family of the cats (1883). including the National Audubon Soci further enhanced by gifts from John The collection Mr. Enders assembled ety, and was a trustee ofTrinity Col Hall Sage and the Rev. A. Palmore over a period of nearly fifty years re lege from 1956-1974. He received an Harrison '31. fl ects his particular interest in game honorary Doctor of Laws degree from An exhibition, "A Selection of Illus birds. In the 1940s, this interest ex the College in 1976. Enders has been a trated Bird Books from the Ostrom panded to the breeding of waterfowl, trustee of the Watkinson Library. Enders Collection," will be on view in and Mr. Enders became a highly re Trinity will maintain and augment Trinity's Watkinson Library through spected aviculturist. His early collec the collection by the proceeds of a fund April 30.

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