R E p 0 R T E R WINTER 1984

Mr. Peter J. Knapp 20 Buena Vista Rd. West Hartford, CT 06107

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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. The exhibit is comprised of tion of literature relating to aviculture established by Ostrom Enders and his some fifty books, and traces the various (the raising of birds), combined with brother, Dr. John F. Enders. methods used to transfer an artist's several fine volumes given to him by The collection is fully catalogued. A work to the printed page. Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk

DONORS HONORED mances and banquets, a symposium on honorary "coronation" ceremony in AT SOTHEBY FETE medieval drama and a gala outdoor fete the chapel. Spectacle, good music, and on the Quad. Sponsored by several a sense of being transported back Members of The President's Circle academic departments with support through time will characterize these and Founders Society were honored at from the Connecticut Humanities events. Seating is extremely limited, so a private showing of the "Important Council, the festival events are open to those interested in attending should American Painting" exhibition at the the public. Trinity alumni and parents place reservations early. Tickets for the Sotheby Gallery in New York City. in the Hartford area are particularly in­ banquet and performance are $15.00. Nearly 60 guests attended the gala affair vited to attend. With the support of the Connecticut which featured 300 pieces of prominent The lecture series began in February Humanities Council and Hewlett­ 19th and 20th century paintings, draw­ with a talk on "English Gardens." The Mellon funds, the Festival will sponsor ings and sculpture. series continued on March 7 in the a Wisdom Symposium, which will bring The highlight of the evening was a Faculty Club with Milia Riggio, a number of distinguished scholars on gallery talk delivered by William W. associate professor of English, speaking medieval drama to the campus on April Stahl, Jr. , a 1974 Trinity graduate and on "When Being Merry Is A Sin: 14. They include: David Bevington, Sotheby vice president. Stahl's enter­ Editing, Staging and Studying University of Chicago; Donald C. taining lecture provided the guests with Wisdom." On April 9, Professor Jill Baker, University of Colorado at a reference point for viewing the many Beck of SUNY will present a lec- Boulder; Gail MacMurray Gibson, and varied forms of American art on ture/ demonstration on "Early Tudor Davidson College; Alexander display. Masque Dancing" in the Washington Johnston, University of Toronto; and Also featured was a discussion by J. Room. The lectures conclude with a David Parry, Cambridge University. Bard McNulty, James J. Goodwin program in the Alumni Lounge on The morning session of the symposium professor of English, on the recent "The Question of Medieval Science" by begins at 9:30 in the Goodwin Theatre 3 discovery of Thomas Cole's correspon­ Robert Palter, Charles A. Dana pro­ of Austin Arts Center, and the after­ dence, in Trinity's Watkinson Library. fessor of the history of science. All three noon session at 2:30 in Hamlin Hall. President James F. English, Jr. lectures are at 4 p.m. Both sessions are open to the public. A thanked the honorees for their extraor­ The performances and banquets seg­ light breakfast and medieval luncheon dinary expression of loyalty and sup­ ment of the Festival commenced March may be purchased for $10.00; early port for the College. The President's 13, when the New Vic Theatre of Lon­ reservations are encouraged. Circle recognizes those individuals who don presents its adaptation of Canter­ The Festival's climax, an outdoor have made gifts of $2,500 or more to bury Tales in the guise of the "annual gala on the quadrangle at Trinity, will Trinity. Founders Society membership Geoffrey Chaucer Storytelling Com­ take place from noon to 5 p.m. on begins with contributions of$1,250. petition," telling "tales of love, lust and Saturday, May 5. The public is invited This year more than 200 alumni, of laughter." Tickets are $8.00 for the to attend all of the events of the day, parents and friends have joined these 8 p.m. performance in the Goodwin free of charge. "Wisdom" and other giving clubs. Theatre. medieval plays will be presented; there From Thursday, April12 through will be maypole and morris dancing GALA MEDIEVAL Saturday, Aprill4, "Wisdom and the and concerts of instrumental and vocal Coronation of Henry VII," a late FESTIVAL PLANNED medieval music. There will also be a morality play, will be offered at 7 p.m. crafts fair, food and drink, jugglers and A semester-long Medieval Festival by the English and Theatre/Dance acrobats, fencing and games. Sunday, offers varied fare for the campus this departments at Trinity as a banquet May 6, is the rain date for the gala spring including a lecture series, perfor- interlude in Hamlin Hall following an events. On the evening of May 5, the Trinity College Concert Choir will offer a con­ cert of music based on medieval and renaissance texts at 8:15p.m. in Hamlin Hall; general admission is $4.00. C losing the Festival on Sunday, May 6, in Trinity's Gothic Chapel, there will be a celebration of the Eucharist with full medieval ceremonial, at 4:30p.m. Highlights of the Festival will appear in the spring issue of The Reporter which will be devoted largely to the medieval theme. Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk

TV SURVEILLANCE community because we failed to employ the mathematics department. He has COMES TO CAMPUS a technology which, if well used, im­ published numerous articles on the sub­ proves security and poses no threat to ject of functional analysis. For some students it has overtones of an individual's privacy." Shults, who has been at Trinity since "Big Brother," but the new television In the past three years, according to 1957, teaches courses in physical educa­ surveillance system recently installed is Campus Security Director Michael tion and coaches men's varsity soccer, part of a continuing effort to maintain a Schweighoffer, crime has shown a junior varsity squash and baseball. Last high level of campus security. significant decrease at Trinity. Crimes spring, his baseball team won the Two television cameras and a against persons are a rarity and proper­ ECAC New England Division III cham­ monitoring system have been purchas­ ty incidents are declining. The most pionship. He is a graduate of Oberlin ed at a cost of roughly $37,000 to pro­ persistent problem has been automobile College and holds a master's degree vide coverage of walkways, parking lots break-ins, but Schweighoffer believes from Bowling Green University. and playing fields between Vernon even this problem can be largely Street and the library. Each camera can eliminated by expanding TV transmit a picture under very low light surveillance to cover all parking areas. conditions, and has a zoom focus capability for close-up identification FOUR PROMOTED purposes. The cameras are also TO FULL PROFESSOR equipped with microphones and inter­ coms for audio communication. Four members of the faculty have Security personnel and student been promoted to full professorships: workers will monitor viewing screens in Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, modern Mather Campus Center during the languages; Clyde D. McKee, political 4 evening hours. The surveillance is science; David A. Robbins, mathe­ designed to discourage assaults and matics; and Robert E. Shults, physical reduce the number of property crimes education. such as vandalism and thefts from Lloyd-Jones, a native of England, is a vehicles. Eventually, if the new system graduate of the University of Wales, proves successful, the College plans to '.Yhere he earned his doctorate in 1976. install additional cameras to cover all He came to Trinity in 1978 and teaches parking lots on the campus. French, Italian and Spanish language as Some students have questioned the well as French literature. He has Tolliver use of cameras on the grounds that they published numerous articles on topics might violate their privacy, especially if in the Renaissance, humanism and NEW ASSISTANT fellow students are monitoring the French literature. DEAN APPOINTED system. Others were fearful that the McKee, a member of the Trinity camera surveillance might some day be faculty since 1965, is a specialist in Joseph A. Tolliver has been ap­ extended to dormitory corridors if the American government, particularly pointed to the new post of assistant plan were carried to its logical constitutional law, and state and local dean of students at the College. conclusion. government. He is the founder of His responsibilities will include stu­ In view of these concerns, aired prin­ Trinity's legislative internship program, dent counseling and advising, with par­ cipally in the Trinity Tripod, the which has placed students with ticular emphasis on practices that will administration has worked out proce­ legislators at the State Capitol since improve academic achievement and en­ dures to ensure that student privacy is 1967. He is a graduate ofWesleyan courage faculty-student interaction. protected. Audio levels on the cameras, University and earned his doctorate Tolliver comes to Trinity from Bar­ for example, will be set in a range where from the University of Connecticut. nard College in New York where he has normal conversation cannot be McKee is the editor of Perspectives of a been director of college activities for the overheard by student monitors. As for State Legislature, the Connecticut General past six years. From 1973 to 1978 he internal dormitory surveillance, Vice Assembly, and author of numerous ar­ was associate director of student affairs President Thomas Smith has indicated ticles on issues in government and at Pace University, Pleasantville, New that there is no plan to install such a public administration. York. While at Pace he taught Afro­ system, either now or in the future. Robbins, who did his undergraduate American history in addition to his In a letter to the Tripod Smith said, work at Dartmouth College, holds a administrative duties. "As do most administrators in similar doctorate in mathematics from Duke Earlier in his career he was an admis­ positions elsewhere, I regret that we University and earned a master's degree sions counselor and graduate assistant devote as much of our resources and in computer science from Rensselaer at the State University of New York at staff to problems of security as we do, Polytechnic Institute last year. He has Plattsburgh. but I would have greater regret were been a member of the Trinity faculty He earned his B.A. degree in Afro­ serious harm done to a member of the since 1972, and is currently chairman of American and American history from Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk Along the Walk

SUNY, Plattsburgh in 1971 and an BLACK HISTORY some of the crucial intersections be­ M.S. in counseling in 1973. He also tween the lives of women and the lives holds an Ed.M. degree in student per­ MONTH OBSERVED of black people. This lecture was one of sonnel administration from Teachers February was Black History Month at a Women's Studies series on "The New College of Columbia University where the College, an observance highlighted Scholarship on Women and the Liberal he is currently a candidate for an Ed.D. by a lecture series sponsored by the Arts Curriculum." in higher education administration. Trinity Coalition of Blacks (TCB). The • The portrayal of women and blacks program, designed to foster awareness in the media was the topic of a talk by COLLEGE BUYS of and interest in black culture, Beth Rawles, executive producer at PERSONAL COMPUTERS featured appearances by a number of WVIT-TV in Hartford. distinguished black educators, artists • Poet Nikki Giovanni, author of Trinity has contracted with the and journalists. several books, including Black Feeling Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) The series began with a panel on Black Talk, read from her works at a for 100 Rainbow 100 personal com­ "Jewish Racism/ Black Anti-Semitism: campus gathering. puters, which will be made available to Toward a Renewal of Dialogue," jointly faculty, staff and students at a 70 per­ sponsored by TCB and Hillel. ALUMNI ADMISSIONS cent educational discount. As a result, Moderator was Pamela Hershinson of PROGRAM OFFERED the DEC computer that retails for the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union. about $5,000 can be purchased through Other events included the following: The annual three-day admissions Trinity for roughly $1,500. weekend for alumni daughters and sons About 30 faculty have already pur­ • African anthropologist, educator has been scheduled for September chased computers under this program, and author Dr. YosefBen-Jochannan 20-22. The purpose of the program is to and the College has an option on an lectured on "Caribbean Socio-history give prospective Trinity candidates an additional400 units if the need arises. and Political Developments." in-depth look at the College. 5 The Rainbow 100 is a complete unit • Gil Noble, host of the black public Those attending will have oppor­ with 256K memory, twin disk drives affairs series "Like It Is,·" discussed ex­ tunities to talk with admissions officers, and a 12-inch black and white monitor. cerpts from his Emmy award-winning go to classes and join with current Also available at smaller discounts are a show on famous black Americans. undergraduates in dormitory life and dot matrix printer and three different • Walter Williams, professor of various activities. Along with specific word-processing packages. Economics at George Mason Universi­ information on Trinity, participants Other educational institutions in ty, spoke on _"The State Against will also receive general counseling on Connecticut, both public and private, Blacks," a lecture sponsored by the college admissions procedures. have taken similar advantage of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment. All alumni will receive a mailing this DEC offer. All told some 2,500 com­ • The Artists Collective Dance and summer describing the weekend in puters have been ordered in the state at Percussion Ensemble performed more detail. Those wishing additional a savings of$4.4 million. DEC in­ African and Caribbean dance pieces in information should contact Gerald J. stituted the program as a means of a campus concert. Hansen, Jr., director of alumni and col­ building a share of the market which • Poet June Jordan, professor of lege relations, who is supervising the they entered much later than either English at the State University of New program. Apple or IBM, two of the leaders in the York at Stony Brook, spoke on "Black field. Studies/Women's Studies," describing SENIOR NAMED CONNECTICUT POET Idalia T. Mantautas of West Hart­ SUMMER EMPLOYMENT is a con- ford, CT is one of five Connecticut cern for all our students. In today's competi­ Student Poets for 1984, chosen in a statewide competition sponsored by the tive job market the value of substantial Connecticut Poetry Circuit. • summer jobs is indisputable. Additionally, the The students, all of whom attend col­ more contact students have with the working world, the lege in Connecticut, gave readings of more they know about the variety of opportunities there their works at campuses throughout the and the easier it is for them to set career plans. state in January. If you, a colleague, a family member or your organization A senior majoring in literary writing, Mantautas recently completed an ad­ have a need for summer employees, consider contacting vanced seminar in the writing of poetry Trinity. Please call or write Allison Dillon-Kimmerle, and has published in the Trinity Director of the Career Counseling Office, (203) 527- Review. Although she has written 3151, ext 228. Continued on page 29 Masterpieces from Versailles

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2 0 '------~ t The making of an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

By Alden Rand Gordon '69

he Palace of Versailles is situated eleven miles tion - be built on the hill at Versailles. From this T southwest of Paris on what was an arid and picnic retreat Versailles was to become the vast gov­ sandy plain unsuited for agriculture but a great natu­ ernment center of the ancien regime and the focal ral refuge for wildlife. King Louis Xlll (1601-1643) had point of French court life. hunted on the lands of the Baron de Marly in the To make the site suitable for habitation and con­ seigneurie of Versailles since he was six years old. In struction the land was leveled, water was brought by 1624 the king ordered that a hunting box- a small aqueduct from the river Eure, and an entire town was resting place not designed for overnight accommoda- created to provide the material wants and shelter for the army of contractors, suppliers, and workers. The ration Monarchs, Louis XVIII (1815-1824) and immense work on the chateau, the gardens, statuary, Charles X (1824-1830). fountains, stables, Orangery, chapel, theater, official It was the last king of France, the "Citizen King" ministries and the rest provided employment for thou­ Louis-Philippe d'Orleans (1830-1848), who trans­ sands over the long period of construction, embellish­ formed Versailles into a museum and began to reas­ ment and expansion which lasted from 1661 to 1771. semble its dispersed treasures and to commission new Beyond the main buildings, the park at Versailles was works celebrating French history and military prow­ the site of a menagerie of exotic animals brought from ess. Much is owed to the unfortunate Louis-Philippe, afar for study, an experimental farm, and three subor­ who is best remembered as the butt of Honore Dau­ dinate retreats - the Grand T rianon built by Louis mier's political satires. As the National Museum of the XIV beginning in 1688 on the site of the village of Chateaux of Versailles and ofTria non now exists, it Trianon, the Petit Trianon begun by Louis XV for preserves the foremost examples of ancien regime archi­ Madame de Pompadour in 1761 and the Hameau or tecture, interior decoration, furniture, garden design, hamlet built for Queen Marie Antoinette begun in sculpture and fountains in France. It houses addition­ 1783. ally, the official Museum of French History which The Chateau de Versailles underwent radical functions as the French equivalent of a national por­ changes following the French Revolution of 1789. It trait gallery. was gradually stripped of its furnishings and pictures. The Musee de l'Histoire de France possesses over The seat of government moved to Paris, and Versailles 6,000 paintings, the vast majority of which are never ceased to be maintained. Not long after, however, it on view to the public. It is a collection that is known was returned to active though largely ceremonial use to French scholars but which remains less well studied by the Emperor Napoleon (1804-1815) and the Resto- than the Musee du Louvre in Paris, the capital mu-

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The View of Versailles of 1772 by Pierre-Denis Martin LeJeune (far left) shows the chateau of Versailles as it appeared late in the rdgn of Louis XIV. The construction in progress in the fore­ ground is the stable com­ plex designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart be­ tween 1679 and 1686. Left. Versailles began as the hunting box of Louis XIII from which it grew into the symbol of the French monarchy. Stu­ dio of Simon V ouet, Louis XIII Between Allegories of France and Navarre, before 1643. seum of the nationalized French museum system. works on canvas for reasons of fragility. T here were Where the Louvre has twenty curators of painting for also restrictions on the maximum size of a canvas. its collection, Versailles has only one. The entire com­ None could be larger than the shipping pallettes on a plex is managed by its director, Monsieur Pierre Le­ 747 cargo plane, which meant I could not borrow any moine, and four curators. 1 It might best be described portraits whose short side exceeded 280 centimeters. as a goldmine of unseen and unpublished works of art. Regrettably, I had to decline the splendid group por­ In 1983, the museum initiated a major renovation trait of the Family of the Marquis de Sourches; it mea­ project to restore the eighteenth-century panelling in sured 324 by 284 em. - 4 centimeters too big! Other some 50 percent of the galleries. These circumstances than these constraints, I was free to request approxi­ prompted the director, Pierre Lemoine, to propose mately forty paintings. This, by the way, is an unu­ lending some of the portraits from the Versailles col­ sually large number of works for one museum to lend. lection for an exhibit in the United States. That sam€ An accident in transit could damage or destroy some spring, I was in Washington, D. C. as a fellow at the of the most important works in the care of the institu­ Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the tion. To reduce the risk, the pictures would be National Gallery of Art. Alan Fern, director of the shipped on three separate aircraft with works distrib­ Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, invited me uted in value, age and authorship so that no single to help prepare an exceptional exhibit of about 40 loss would decimate one entire aspect of the perma­ portraits from Versailles. My specific task was first to nent collection. define the goals of the exhibition, then to go to France From the viewpoint of a curator of an exh ibition, and select the appropriate portraits in cooperation however, the chief constraint was the Versailles col­ with officials at the museum at Versailles. lection itself. It is not a systematically complete collec­ From the outset there were certain obvious limita­ tion of the greatest French artists of the past; th at is tions. The choice of pictures had to be restricted to the role assigned to the Louvre. Instead, Versailles is a

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. Jean-Baptiste Belley (left) by Anne-Louise Girodet-Trioson, 1797, was elected representa· tive of the former French col· ony of Santo Domingo during the Revolution. The philoso· pher Raynal, against whose bust Belley leans, spoke out against slavery. Above right. Nicholas de Largillierre's 1718 portrait of Voltaire depicts the leading philosopher of the French Enlightenment at the age of 24. Far right. Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1749-1803) who painted this portrait of the Duchess of Parma was one of the leading women artists of the ancien regime. repository of works with some historical connection to around, I looked at about 600 canvases- barely 10 the chateau or to the great achievements of French percent of the coiiection - to arrive at my final group culture. Consequently the museum is organized of 44. My choices represented three centuries of around historical fact and personalities and not French portraiture in oil studies and finished official around style or artistic excellence. My personal goal, commissions, group portraits, court ceremonials, aiie­ 9 however, was to assemble the very finest quality paint­ gories and near-narratives. For a student of French ings so as to provide an American audience with a art, it was tantamount to spending a week in a Pari­ clear idea of the character of the French school of sian patisserie on someone else's expense account and painting and, at the same time, demonstrate the role with a guarantee of never gaining weight. played by portraiture in the history of France. The great tradition of the French school dates to This meant that the exhibition would neither be a the introduction of the ltalianate baroque style in the "gallery of kings" nor could it include artists who were early seventeenth century. As this was the period of not represented by portraits in the Versailles coiiec­ Louis XIII, the king who was responsible for the tion. Thus, the choice had to be made without choice of the site and for the first constructions at Poussin, Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Ger­ Versailles, his reign made a natural starting point. icault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Degas or the The artist responsible for bringing the baroque style Impressionists. Instead, it would represent those artists to France was Simon Vouet (1590-1649) and his pic­ most heavily patronized by the court. Therefore the ture Louis XIII Between Figures Symbolizing France and selection inevitably became a study of official art and Navarre was selected to open the exhibition. Com­ not of avant-garde art. Versailles is richly endowed in pleted just before the death of the king in 1643, this the works of masters of the seventeenth and eigh­ painting represents the tradition of aiiegorical teenth centuries with the quality of the artists repre­ portraiture so popular at Italian courts and in papal sented tapering off at just the moment in the circles in Rome. nineteenth century when official patronage ceases to Versailles also owns fine portraits by Philippe de favor artistic innovation. Therefore, the logical goal of Champaigne (1602-1674), the Fleming who became an exhibition drawn from the coiiections at V ersaiiies Vouet's rival and the favored painter of Cardinal would display the great wealth and prowess of its an­ Richelieu, and by Charles LeBrun (1619-1690), the cien regime holdings and continue up to the decline of premier painter to King Louis XIV. Monsieur Le­ the official style in the third quarter of the nineteenth moine was accommodating in making both of these century - a period better known to American audi­ available. But, Louis XIV was another matter. Natu­ ences for the work of the French Realists and Impres­ rally, I requested the Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) sionists than for its masters of official style. state portrait of Louis XIV painted in 1701 - perhaps On a one-week trip in April, I spent day after day the most famous royal portrait ever painted and noted sorting through the storerooms of the palace of V er­ for the elegance of the king's stockinged legs and the sailles where many pictures are leaning in piles twenty balletic pose of his feet in red-heeled shoes. Alas, this deep against the three-hundred-year-old walls. Often picture is indispensable to Versailles for exactly the covered in dust from the construction going on all reasons I wished to borrow it. It hangs in the state Brun (1755-1842), who produced dynamic images of women of integrity and independent bearing, to the tragic martyrdom icons of Jacque-Louis David's trib­ ute to one leader of the Revolution, Jean-Paul Marat, assassinated by Charlotte Corday in 1793. Following the intense idealization of the Napoleonic period, exemplified by David's Bonaparte Crossing Mount Saint Bernard, and the influence of the Roman­ tic idea which lingered into the 1830s, a reaction of temperament set in. This change demanded an em­ phatically undramatic, and intentionally mask-like idealization that makes the personality of the sitter inaccessible to the viewer. Versailles has a fine exam­ Installation view. Later works in the exhibition (left to ple in the graceful and beautiful Duke of Orleans by right) included J.-A.-D. lngres' posthumous portrait of the foremost nineteenth-century practitioner of the the Duke of Orleans, son of King Louis-Philippe; Du­ offical style,]. A. D. Ingres (1780-1867). bufe's Empress Eug{mie of 1854; Winterhalter's portrait The catalogue was written during the course of the of the Comte d'Eu, later hero of the Brazilian war with summer of 1983 with the assistance of Dr. Ellen Miles Paraguay; and J.-L. Gerome's Reception of the Siamese Embassy by Napoleon III and Eugenie in 1861. of the National Portrait Gallery staff, who wrote the individual picture notices. As if by magic, worked apartments and is eagerly looked at by thousands of most dramatically by the National Portrait Gallery's visitors every day. So I had to settle for an imposing, Curator of Exhibitions, Beverly Cox, the shipments of but less renowned, equestrian portrait of Louis XIV paintings began arriving in October; each accom­ by LeBrun's assistant Rene-Antoine Houasse . panied by a courier from Versailles. The greatest strengths of the collection at Versailles The inauguration of the exhibition MASTER­ are among the eighteenth-century masters. The final PIECES FROM VERSAILLES: THREE CENTU­ selection included some of the finest Nicholas de Lar­ RIES OF FRENCH PORTRAITURE on November gilliere (1656-17 46) portraits, notably his stunning im­ 10, 1983 was the occasion for a gala ball attended by age of the philosopher Voltaire at the age of 24. There one thousand guests. In tribute to the heritage repre­ were also two dramatic Hyacinthe Rigauds; one of the sented by the Palace of Versailles, the exhibition 10 great entrepreneur and self-made man, Samuel Ber­ opening evoked the lavish entertainments held at the nard, overseeing the fleet of the French East India chateau during the period represented in the exhibi­ Company; and another of the chronicler of the court tion, 1645 to 1865. The evening began with a spectac­ of Louis XIV, the Marquis de Dangeau in the ceremoni­ ular fireworks display done in the eighteenth-century al robes of the grand master of the fraternal Order of fashion, which is characterized by intense and bril­ Saint-Lazarus and Mount Carmel. liantly colored explosions and shower effects close to Some images of court ceremony were chosen to vary the ground and by pictures "painted" in colored the diet and to amplify the viewers' feel for the very flares. A delegation from Trinity College led by Presi­ public way in which the French monarchs lived their dent and Mrs. James F. English, Jr. and including lives, ever on view to any French subject or foreign Washington area alumni and parents took part in the visitor who cared to attend. Most striking of these celebration. Other guests included the French ambas­ portrait groups are the scenes of foreign emissaries sador, the Director of the Musee de Versailles and either arriving or being presented to the monarch. several dignitaries representing the Supreme Court, From this type were chosen one each from the reign of the Congress and Cabinet. Louis XIV (Antoine Coypel's 1715 Louis XIV Receiv­ The pictures, in many cases cleaned in preparation ing the Ambassador Extraordinary of Persia), Louis XV for the exhibition, were installed in the National Por­ (Charles Parrocel's Arrival of the Turkish Ambassador, trait Gallery's vaulted hall decorated in dark shades of Mehemet Effendi, on March 21, 1721), and from the blue, burgundy and green. Under the intense artificial very end of the span of the exhibition in the reign of light the canvases yielded up the most minute of their Emperor Napoleon III Oean-Leon Gerome's 1864 Re­ subtleties of coloration. Pierre Lemoine, who was used ception of the Siamese Ambassadors by Napoleon III and to seeing the pictures in Versailles' lofty salons where the Empress Eugenie). there is no benefit of electric light, was moved by the The collection has special strength in works from beauty of the paintings as works of art quite indepen­ the reign of the ill-fated Louis XVI (1774-1789) and dent of the historical importance for which they were from the time of the Revolution and Empire of Napo­ originally assembled. For me, having been able to con­ leon I. Selections from these periods provide a compel­ tribute to a fresh view of known works for someone ling impression of the dramatic change in French who knew them so well was a guarantee that the exhi­ culture, represented by a Romantic sensibility fueled bition would succeed for its American viewers. • by the cataclysmic upheavals in French political and military fortunes. Within a matter of five years, official Author Alden Rand Gordon is a 1969 graduate ofTrinity and earned his French portraiture moved from the enlightened world master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. A specialist in European art, he was a lecturer and curatorial assistant at the Frick Collec­ of great women painters such as Adelaide Labille­ tion in New York City before joining the Trinity faculty in 1978 as assistant Guiard (1749-1803) and Elizabeth-Louise Vigee-Le professor of fine arts. 0 Pia~ at Nuclear War

Seminar reaches summit in war game.

By W. Miller Brown

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t is said that shortly before the Battle of Midway, the Japanese general I staff decided to simulate the circumstances of a confrontation between Japanese and U.S. naval forces in the Pacific. Roles were assigned, toy fleets assembled, engagement initiated. Within a short time the Japanese lost three of their carriers and the battle. Insisting that the result was implausible, the war game was restaged, and this time, too, the Japanese lost three c~rriers and the battle. The game was finally rejected as poorly anticipating the likely outcome of a real battle; but in the event, the Japanese lost three carriers and the Battle of Midway, even, some believe, the war in the Pacific. War games have become commonplace in the strategic planning room 0 of military staffs and think tanks throughout the world. We read their outcomes as "scenarios" in novels, Congressional reports, government projections, magazine articles, and scholarly tracts. Games are used, too, to train government and military personnel to respond effectively to anticipated emergency situations brought about by war. PLAYING AT NUCLEAR WAR======~======

Last fall, as a culmination of a freshman course on what was going on. Of course, it could be argued that nuclear war, a colleague and I staged such a war game such confusion was quite realistic!) with the class in order to focus and vivify the rather The game itself began on the last day of classes abstract studies which we had pursued throughout the when the students received a preliminary intelligence semester. This article describes how we played the briefing from one of the monitors on the worldwide game and suggests some of the philosophical, pedagog­ situation. They were told to read the newspapers care­ ical and psychological issues which the game playing fully that day and to report at 9:00 a.m. the next raised for us. morning to the philosophy building ready to play. Preparation for the game began some weeks before Upon arrival they received their final briefing alerting the scheduled day of play. The class was divided into them to a crisis in the Middle East that would require six groups or "teams" representing different countries immediate attention from most of the teams. And so or regions of the world: the U.S. (six students); the the game began. It lasted until about 4:30 that after­ U.S.S.R. (six students); Europe (one student for each noon, mostly non-stop, and was followed by the inevi­ of West Germany, France, Great Britain, NATO, the table pizza dinner and efforts by the entire class to Peace Movement, and Sweden/United Nations); Mid­ assess the results. dle East (one student for each of Egypt, Syria, the In spite of several major crises in the Middle East, PLO, Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia/ OPEC); Israel (three Berlin and in the Mediterranean- between U.S. and students); and China (three students). Each team was Soviet naval forces - nuclear war did not break out. encouraged to consult with other faculty members No missiles were launched and although most of the who were experts on their country or region to deter­ Sixth Fleet and the Soviet forces were destroyed, it mine specific roles, current national interests and poli­ was rather in the form of a joint sacrifice play toward cies and the availability and deployment of weapon the end of the game when everyone was tired and the systems, both conventional and nuclear. This infor­ game had in some ways broken down. In the Berlin mation was compiled by each team into a team dossier crisis, rockets were clearly poised, but the prospects of which was copied and distributed to all other teams launching them so shocked the players that within a before the game was played. This research and plan­ ning constituted a major segment of the students' final 12 work for the course. The game was held in the philosophy department building, a former residence, where each team was assigned an office. The downstairs living room was designated "Geneva," the location of international conferences; the back stairs and kitchen were reserved for secret negotiations. Communication among the teams, and the rules of the game in general, were monitored by four adults - the two faculty members and two others with interests in strategic planning. The rules were fairly simple. Any player would act within the limits set by his or her role with the power associated with that role. The monitors would be final judges and arbitrators of these actions. The game clock ·was set at two weeks per half hour of real time. We slowed the game clock in crises so that game time could approach real time: one day per half hour or, for negotiations, game time and real time were the same. Each team was told to maximize its own interests and each player was to do what was most fitting for his or her role. When players represented a country, they could act in the interests of the country; but when a player represented a particular office or per­ son, say the president of the U.S., interests were to be construed in an obviously more complex fashion. (In practice, many of these arrangements, especially those for communicating among the teams and players, be­ gan to break down. The monitors often could not keep up with events; the students quickly began to use all available technology - for example, the phones, copy machines, etc., and we were forced to stop the STUDENTS from the American team, Chris Bressette, left, game once or twice just to let everybody figure out and John Shiffman, confer in the team's headquarters. Teaching the Unknowable very short time they had assembled in "Geneva." Professors of Philosophy W. Miller Brown and Richard T. Here, the "U.N.," until now a rather pathetic wraith Lee teach the freshman seminar, "Life, Death and Nuclear who had drifted through the game looking for a role, War," in which the war game described by Miller Brown suddenly became a dynamic force for compromise and in the accompanying article is a closing exercise. Reporter arranged a solution in 15 minutes. In these moments, associate editor, Roberta ]enckes, spoke with Brown and Lee about the history of the course at Trinity and some of it was vividly apparent that a semester's study of nu­ its objectives. clear weapons had come sharply into focus. What is significant about such game playing? Let's REPORTER: When did you first begin teaching the look briefly at three aspects - philosophical, pedagog­ course at Trinity, and how was it that it came to be ical and psychological - realizing that these consider­ taught at all? ations are also clearly interrelated in a variety of LEE: We first taught the course, "Life, Death and Nu­ important ways. clear War" - which is a freshman seminar- in the The game itself is, after all, a fiction, a dramatization fall of '82. So we have taught it twice now. whose roles, speeches, and plot are contrived, whose As to how the course came to be taught, both of production is staged, directed and observed, however our interests were kindled by an article by Jonathan Schell in The New Yorker, "The Fate of the Earth." much room there is for improvisation. And yet, the After that appeared I attended a conference in Wash­ purpose of the game is simulation, verisimilitude; it is ington, "Addressing the Issues of Nuclear War." designed to be as "true to life" as possible within the When I came back, Miller and I began planning late many obvious limitations imposed by the players and spring and did the course the following fall. circumstances. Nevertheless, it is crw:;ial to confront REPORTER: What was the Schell article? the question whether there is truth to be found in such fiction. The players in this case must create roles LEE: The Schell article is now in book form, also which are relevantly like the persons, offices, or, more called The Fate of the Earth, in which the author abstractly, national or political interests they repre­ paints as dismal a picture of the consequences of nu­ sent. Each of these roles presents very difficult prob­ clear war as you can imagine. It was a real shocker to lems for analysis. They hinge, it seems to me, on the a lot of people; for a mass audience it made quite an way in which generalized knowledge about particular impact. And he wrote very well, very persuasively. persons or particular offices, etc., can be used to sup­ ~ROWN: He talks about the probable consequences 13 port subjunctive or counter-factual conditionals. The of a nuclear war, but he also reflects on the moral and players must be able to defend judgments of the kind, · ethical imp1ications of it, which is also what got a lot this is how so-and-so would act if he were in these of people thinking about it. He concentrates on the circumstances, or this is how policy makers would likelihood not just of great damage, but of the death choose if such-and-such circumstances were to de­ of the biosphere - that is to say, the death of human velop. The defense is based on corresponding knowl­ life, and possibly of all animal life. He tries to reflect edge of persons and institutions. on what it means, not simply to die as an individual, If I am right, the same considerations arise for liter­ but to die as a species. And what sorts of responsibili­ ary fiction. Characters must behave as similarly situ­ ties one might begin to feel with that as a likely ated persons would behave. But a war game is also prospect. projectible, as my original example indicates. They REPORTER: It was after reading this that you started can be used to forecast and in this way we can learn to see it as a matter for philosophical inquiry? from them. We infer back from the game's outcome to LEE: I'll confess I was impressed by his discussion of features of the game which were hypothetical, con­ what it's like to live with the knowledge that you might firming beliefs about persons or institutions which be destroying yourself as a race. That day we began to were formerly uncertain. Thus, too, successful litera­ work on some readings and films that would work for a ture often alerts us to features of human life we had course. The Schell book, for example, is assigned for not noted or understood. In the game we played, what students to read over the summer. was most often called into play was moral and pruden­ BROWN: Also, you have to remember that this is in tial judgment. The circumstances which evolved in the Freshman Seminar program; it's not a philosophy the game offered novel occasions for the students to course. In fact, to a great degree we don't introduce apply and use their understanding of moral principles: philosophical notions. It's very technical and we talk a the game became a kind of case study for applied eth­ lor about the development of nuclear weapons systems, strategic planning, and the probable consequences of ics and thus tested some of the moral issues which had the use of the weapons. But, we don't spend all that been the focus of classroo"m discussion. much time talking about what people might think of as In mentioning this I am already touching on peda­ philosophical questions, possibly because there aren't gogical issues which have caused us much concern. that many new ones. You know everyone knows it's Did the students (or the teachers) learn anything? In bad to use these weapons. The issues - the philosophi­ regard to preparation for the game, the answer is cal or, some would say, the moral issues- themselves clearly "yes." But it is much less clear in regard to the don't offer interesting, philosophical subject matter. actual playing of the game. Much hinges, of course, LEE: Most of the issues have been raised by philoso­ on how we answer the questions I have already posed phers for generations. For example, the "Just War" TEACHING THE UNKNOWABLE REPORTER: What about readings and films for the course? Would you use "The Day After" in future years? doctrine has been around for a long time - what con­ LEE: Absolutely. As far as the recent television show- stitutes a "just war?" The facts have changed- is it ·ing of "The Day After" goes, most of the students in possible to limit combat to the armies involved? proba­ our class had seen many films that had similar themes. bly not - but, that's a changed factual circumstance. In fact, they had seen an older British film called "The There is no change of ethical intuitions. The facts are War Game," which was in that particular genre and more horrible, but if you are opposed to murder, then was a very good film. I thought "The Day After" was a you are opposed to having ants eat you up - or having we ll-done film. I had a higher view of it than some of someone slice you up with dull knives. the reviews I read. BROWN: The value of Schell's book is that he asks, "is BROWN:'-Some of the special effects were very good. there anything different about nuclear war?" H is an­ Although, as the producers of the fi lm themselves said, swer is yes, because a likelihood of destroying the earth the likely consequences of a war are going to be vastly and life on it, is so much greater. So he really tries to. more horrible than were depicted in that film. When reflect on what that means. the director of "The Day After" was trying to make the LEE: Yes, he does draw out implications from living fi lm, he kept asking scientists, "what would it be like with the knowledge of that fact right now, the most when you were near ground zero?" They said it extreme of which is that he advocates in effect that we wouldn't be like anything. You wouldn't be able to abandon the notion of national sovereignty. That is, record it. So they faced some of the problems of trying you can't afford nation states any longer. Now, the to depict something, which, if you showed it in its most proposition of abandoning nation states also has been realistic form, there wouldn't be anything to depict. around for a long time. It was the whole idea behind The screen would just show a wasteland ... dust or the League of Nations, the U.N. and the World Feder­ dirt or blinding light. The saturation of that area alist Movement. So while the idea is not new either, it around Kansas City, St. Louis to destroy the minute is given more poignancy and more urgency because of men missile fields would in effect cover the entire area the nuclear possibilities. with a radioactive cloud and dust. And that would be BROWN: So we take that view, which is a rather ex­ the beginning of producing the "nuclear winter," which treme solution to the problem, and the more conven­ would be just a perpetual, sort of subfreezing condition of tional view, which is that nation states are here to stay. the earth produced by the cloud cover. So there would And, the way to keep them from destroying each be no water, no food, no shelter and no people. other, along the lines that Schell says is li kely, is LEE: One of the limitations of this film was the title. through the maintaining of a system of deterrence People often confine their thinking to the day after, a 14 which frightens everybody enough so that no one will week after, but in many respects the most devastating come close to using their weapons systems. We talk a consequences wi ll be a month, a year or two years lot about the paradox of having weapons that you after. And then you have to consider about how you can't use, so their effectiveness lies precisely in their not save enough grain for the next year's planting, when being used. people are starving and want the grain. So you've got these enormous problems of having to resort to 15th or LEE: Another thing we try to do, which we fell into by 14th century agricultural techniques because of your accident really, is to examine the questions of strategic difficulty of getting machinery, and so on. You have to planning, strategic issues, military doctrine, the nature rediscover a lot of things that European peasants knew of weaponry. That sort of thing is done every day at a in the Middle Ages about how to plant crops with a war college, or in a service academy. It's not done at all degenerated seed stock. And you try to contemplate all at Trinity, or any other liberal arts college. We think of those long-range problems plus the difficulties of hu­ now that it should be done; the students need to be man health that are going to accumulate. The likeli­ exposed to what it is to form a strategy, how you inte­ hood of the decay of the human gene pool is very high. grate weapons with political objectives. And we're nov­ But these are longer term consequences that the film ices in this respect too, so we were learning as we went didn't discuss at all. along. REPORTER: How much do you bring contemporary REPORTER: Have you a sense as to how, and if, this history and politics into the class? is being taught at other colleges? BROWN: All the time. We tell the students to read LEE: I think Colgate has had for many years a program The New York Times and The Washington Post, News­ called a Peace Studies Institute. Other people have sim­ week, and all the latest periodicals. And many of the ilar programs or institutes that have done what I said is books in the course cover the development of the not done very often - that is, they do study issues of weapons and also the strategic military planning which war and peace. The people that I have talked to are grew out of World War II. We start with the history of doing, with some variations of readings, very similar the bomb, the building of the bomb, etc. things to what we are doing. BROWN: Courses like this one don't fit into the stan­ REPORTER: Do you see students' opinions change as dard curriculum, so in almost all schools it had to be the course progresses? done on some sort of interdisciplinary basis. There'll be BROWN: No, I don't think so. Some of the students a physicist and a philosopher, a historian and a politi­ come into the course hawk-ish, some dove-ish, some cal scientist, to bring the different strengths that bear for the freeze, some uncertain. My impression is that on teaching the course. Most colleges have, like T rin­ those who had strong beliefs to begin with tend to have ity, been offering the course for two, maybe three them confirmed one way or the other. I'm not sure if years. On the other hand, within a very rapid time, they were uncertain to begin with that they would be literally hundreds of schools began offering courses like any more certain at the end. Their uncertainty is far this one in the last two or so years. better informed. PLAYING AT NUCLEAR W AR====:=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::==~·IIIII.I~·,...-

A WAITING INSTRUCTIONS from Professors Richard Lee and Miller Brown are freshman seminar participants (l. tor.) Carla Gray, Melissa Bronzino, John Kail and David Jenkins. The bullhorn on the table is used to make announcements as the war game progresses. 15 far, our game had serious practical limits. I believe we "Life, Death and Nuclear War" all learned a good deal from it in ways I have indi­ cated; and at least once, as I have mentioned, the Suggested readings prospects of nuclear war generated real, not simulated, concern in our students. This, it seems to me, is a The Fate of the Earth, by Jonathan Schell result to be much desired. Our students entered the A World Destroyed, by Martin Sherwin game with considerable enthusiasm and over a long Living with Nuclear Weapons, by the Harvard Nuclear Study day became aware of the buildup of pressures, the Group force of fatigue on human decisions, the puzzles of The Prisoners of Insecurity, by Bruce Russett tangled communications, the limits of language, the The Soviet Union and The Arms Race, by David Holloway intractableness of conflicting interests. By late after­ The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, by Samuel Glasstone and noon they had no need to simulate psychic stress: it Philip Dolan (eds.) was pure method acting. We hoped, of course, to reverse some of the psychic numbness Lifton, Schell and others have mentioned, about the verisimilitude of the game. If the answers to which sets in as a result of living with the prospect of these questions are positive, then some learning was nuclear war, in the case of our students for their entire achieved in testing, confirming, and reformulating the lives. And yet - the game we played was a game, and underlying, often poorly articulated, hypotheses in­ our activities were truly a kind of play. There are, it forming the various individual and team roles. Game seems to me, two sides to such efforts, and the other is playing in achieving this function is, at its best, the acceptability of the commonplace. In making fa­ thereby simulating hypothesis testing in general and miliar, and manageable, at least imaginatively, the provides interesting examples of the place in human processes of strategic planning and international di­ inquiry of hypothesis formation, data and information plomacy, nuclear weapons and their deployment, collecting and collating, motivational infl uences and have we enhanced the prospects of rational judgment personality variables, peer pressure, and so on. It is and energized moral concern, or tamed these terrors the interaction of these processes, game research , through play? Perhaps it would have been better had game playing and reflection on its significance, that our students destroyed their "world." • gives it its special educational value and its philosophi­ cal character. Author W. Miller Brown is a professor of philosophy at the College. A The psychology of game playing, however, leaves graduate of Amherst with a Ph.D. from Harvard, he has been a member of me with many lingering doubts. For all I have said so the Trinity faculty since 1965. Pulling an All-N~hter

Taking Finals is Endurance Test

· By Alan Sternberg

hartly after 9 a.m. last Wednesday- while it Stinson and his 10 compatriots, most of whom are S was raining, while the Trinity College cafeteria sophomores, refer to their basement quarters as "The was full of students with puffy eyes who were huddled Pitts." The Pitts "has two t's," he explains, "because over coffee cups, while Malcolm "Steve" Stevenson, that lends a little class." who lived down the hall, was outlining the circulatory Additional class seems to be necessary, because system of a dead laboratory cat he had nicknamed dorm rooms at Trinity are rated by the college on a "Morris" - Paul Marden began his statistics test. scale from A to D minus, Stinson says, and those in Question 2 read: The Pitts just happen to be 0 minus. The accommo­ dations tend toward high ceilings, white cinderblocks, A bonds salesman visits 3 clients every day. He has an drafty windows and (the students claim) an occasional equal chance of selling each client either no bonds, $5,000 mouse. of bonds, or $10,000 of bonds. At 11:30, while others were working feverishly, Well, that wasn't bad, Marden thought. Even with Stinson, who has the title Resident Coordinator and only four hours of sleep over the last two days, he occasionally counsels other students, was listening to could follow that. a young woman who was sitting on his bed and com­ Then Marden read: plaining, "Well, I wrote a page and a half and there's a 16 a) Construct the probability distribution for the value of contradiction." the daily sales achieved by the salesman. "That's not a problem!" Stinson said cheerfully. b) Calculate the expected value and variance of daily "Well, I have to rewrite the paper. It doesn't make sales. any sense." "You know what you need?" Stinson asked. "You c) Using Tchebyshev's theorem, calculate the range need some sleep." within which at least eight-ninths of all sales will occur. "No kidding," the student said. "You're a big help." There were also parts d and e, but Marden had al­ Three rooms down the hall, Rudy Romain, who ready figured out that he was going to do better in faced calculus and computer exams, had temporarily Western European politics than in statistics. abandoned his books and was dancing with his room­ Provided he stayed awake. The politics final wasn't mate's girlfriend, who was yelling, "You're stepping on until the afternoon. my feet!" "I know sleep is in the future," Marden had said, At the end of the corridor, Joe Zoppo, an engineer­ rather numbly, at breakfast. "And since I know that, ing major, had no time for even that much frivolity. I'll be OK." He was facing tests in math, physics, circuitry and * * * programming. Actually, the worst was already over. It was the first Zoppo looked very tired. His room was quiet and day of finals, but for Marden and a number of other lacked the tapestries and beer posters most students students, the real crush had been the night before. use to cover up the cinderblocks. His "decorations" It went like this: consisted of three lamps shining on his desk and sev­ First of all, nobody in the basement wing of Jones eral open notebooks full of mathematical formulas. Hall slept very much. "I'll be up all night," he said matter-of-factly. "But In fact, nobody had slept much for four days - the then, so will most-people here." whole weekend and two "reading days," or days with­ So it went. out classes that are set aside for test preparation. Like At midnight, the library closed, disgorging a crowd college students all over the country, the 1, 700 at of students into the rain, where they slogged disconso­ Trinity, on the south side of Hartford, entered their lately through the puddles and past the sodden elm final exams exhausted, irritable and prone to bizarre trees to their dorms or to the cafeteria, which would behavior, explained Peter Stinson, a senior. be open all night. At 1 a.m., there were two dozen "You know you've got work you should be doing all IT'S 3:15 A.M. in The Pitts and freshman Corinna Roy year, but still you goof off. Then, at the last minute, takes some time out for sleep. Other students toil away in you go a little nuts." the background. 17

Photos by Kathy Hanley/ The Hartford Courant PULLING AN ALL-NIGHTER

students in the cafeteria, propped up like mannequins while a cleaning man dragged a giant, roaring vacuum cleaner between the tables. Around the college, dormitory lights flicked off over the next hour, but in The Pitts they stayed on. "That's what I mean about this place," Stinson said. "Nobody sleeps." At 2:30, Marden's roommate broke the pattern and went to bed, and Marden moved down the hall to a study room - more cinderblocks and a bare desk and chair. Marden, a tall, slim sophomore from Darien, explained ominously, "It's better here than in the lounge. It's quiet here." The lounge around the corner proved him right. It was a disheveled and curious sight: Six students were sprawled on couches and chairs. They seemed to be surviving on a diet of potato chips, Coke, Oreo cookies and cigarettes. Bags, bottles and ash trays were everywhere. There was a small puddle of soda on the floor, and a cookie had been squashed 18 into one of the floor tiles. There were frequent bouts of laughter, but the outbursts failed to disturb one young woman, who was sound asleep on her back with an open book on her stomach. Another, as she TIME IS 1 A.M. Sophomores Rudy Roman, left, and Mal­ studied, listened to the theme from "Chariots of Fire" colm Stevenson work on French and English papers. on a Sony Walkman. (Among women at Trinity, the My eat's a pretty nice cat. He's dead, of course, but preferred dress for all-night study was a sweater, sweat he's all right. He looks like Morris." pants and heavy socks pulled halfway up the calves, outside the pants.) Stinson surveyed the scene in the lounge and said, In the center of the room, Malcolm "Steve" Steven­ "These are the people who are really having trouble son was barefoot and kicking a styrofoam coffee cup buckling down to work." around, soccer style. The night went slowly by: At 3 a.m. a young "I'm halfway through the first question," Stevenson woman ran down the corridor with a pot on her head. said of his take-home exam in 19th Century Novels. (Marden, who had long ago switched from Western He had shoulder-length brown hair and was wearing a European politics to statistics, didn't bat an eye.) guerrilla-style, camouflage T-shirt. "I got four hours The pot was used to make coffee. The coffee was and a question and a half to go." made on a hot-plate in Stevenson's room. (Steven­ The test was due at noon, but Stevenson explained son's desk was not available for studying, it seemed, that he had to be in the biology laboratory at 9 a.m. because it was covered with pots, one of which con­ to "practice on my cat." tained remains of the creamed chipped beef he'd had That, it seemed, was to prepare for his afternoon the day before.) final in vertebrate biology. At 3:30a.m., Stevenson and Elaine Sack, a sopho­ "The professor's going to pull stuff out of a cat," more, ran out into the rain, had a mud fight, sprinted Stevenson said. "If you don't know what it is, you're through the lounge screaming and then disappeared in trouble. If I go in at 9, I get four hours of practice. into the shower to wash the mud off their clothes. I've got to know the whole damn circulatory system. At 4 a.m., more coffee was made. Marden emerged from the study room; announcing "I'm done." He said he could sleep for four hours. "This is a tough school," he opined, shaking his head. "A good one. I'm still kind of learning how to pace myself." At 4:30, the students in the lounge h ad "buckled down," as Stinson put it, and were quiet and hard at work. Posers That Cudgeled Their Brains

hese are some of the questions students at T Trinity College faced during their year-end examinations: English 395: 19th Century Novel • Marriage as a crisis in character has arisen as a hallmark of late 19th century fiction. D iscuss this idea with respect to the character of two of the following: Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina, Is­ abel Archer. Consider: a) What is the problem in the marriage and how is the woman implicated in it? b) How is the marriage seen as a social conven­ tion? As a private experience? Political Science 208: Western European Politics • Compare and contrast any two of four countries (Italy, France, England, West Ger­ many) with respect to their parties and party sys­ tems. 19 Religion and Intercultural Studies 281: Anthropology of Religion • Describe the principles in Claude Levi­ Strauss's theory of structuralism. What is the function of his theory? What are some of the ob­ At 5, Stinson went to bed. "I don't have any finals," jections that can be raised against it? he said. "I avoid them. I tend to have papers. Of course, one of those papers was due four days ago." Economics 107: Statistics At 6, Stevenson finished his take-home exam on • A firm is concerned with determining 19th Century Novels and began to rewrite it, "so whether or not a new personal computer, EVE, somebody can read it." will be preferred to existing systems. Suppose that At 7, Zoppo emerged from his room after studying the firm asks five people to test out their system. all night and washed his face in the men's room. If the probability that any one individual will pre­ At 8, Marden got up, showered, then went to the fer the new system is 0.8, what is the probability cafeteria and downed one fried egg, a bowl of Sugar distribution for the number of people in the Crisps and three glasses of apple juice. firm's sample of five who do not prefer the new "I'm surprised how much that sleep helped," he said system? woodenly. "Four whole hours of it." Engineering 2 21: After his two exams, he had an eight-page paper on the Old Testament due two days later, and then the • Design a digital system which carries out whole weekend to study for an exam Monday in Eng­ the information processing tasks described below. lish literature. Your solution should follow this outline: There was a reward waiting at the end of this, every­ a) Define the architecture, i.e., decide what one admitted: general form your system must take Christmas. Sleep. Few responsibilities. b) define operations, information transfers, and But right now that wasn't much consolation. The status signals next few days, Marden said, were going to be painful. c) design the control unit (a state table suffices) Tuition, room and board at this private, liberal arts college runs roughly $12,000, he said, "and they're d) design the logic networks. giving you your money's worth. Right now it's easy to budget time, because you know you have only so much time left." • SPRING REUNION JUNE 7--10

Preliminary Schedule of Events

t r ,, THURSDAY, JUNE 7 , 1 \ 1' 1 lr

11 am-8 pm Registration & Room Assignment Austin Arts Center Noon Welcoming Reception/Luncheon at the home of President and Mrs. English (By res­ ervation only) 1:30pm Campus Tour conducted by students, start­ ing from the President's home, following luncheon 3:30pm Exhibit of Illustrated Bird Books from the Watkinson Ostrom Enders Collection. Library­ With the addition of the magnificent gift 10:20-11 :30 am Mini-Course: Russia, Past and Present Trinity from Mr. Enders, Trustee Emeritus, the Trin­ McCook Session #1: Russian History: Through the Library ity Library is one of the largest and most Auditorium Eyes of the Architect important depositories of ornithological Professor James L. West, History materials in America. Assistant Curator Department Karen Clarke, who helped catalogue this This wil l be a brief survey of the major de­ outstanding collection, will discuss Trini­ velopments in Russian history from the 9th ty's ornithological holdings. century to the present, using the great cre­ 5pm Class of '34 Memorial Service, Chapel ations of Russian architecture as a guide. 10:30 am- Alumni/ae Golf Tournament, tee-off times 5:30pm Half Century Club Reception (Classes '05- 12:45 pm '37) Rockledge Country Club, 289 S. Main St., W. Hartford, with Golf Coach John Dunham Mather Campus Center 20 Take New Britain Ave. West to S. Main St.; 6:30pm Half Century Club Dinner (Classes '05-'37) right on S. Main St. approx. 8/10 mile; Club Mather Campus Center on left 6-8pm Reception/Buffet Supper (C lasses '38-'83) 11:30 am- Reunion Seminar #2: Congress and Special Hamlin Dining Hall 12:30 pm Interests McCook Professor Diana Evans, Political Science 9pm Movie - "African Queen" with Humphrey Auditorium Department Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, Life Sci­ ences Center, Room 134 One of the ironies of democracy is that the larger the potential membership of a group, 9:30pm­ Pub open with entertainment, Mather Cam­ the less li kely it is to attain its legislative Midnight pus Center goals. The reasons for that will be dis­ cussed. Additionally, the means used by different types of interest groups to attain FRIDAY, JUNE 8 their legislative goals, from lobbying - grass roots and professional - to cam­ 8-9:30 am Breakfast, Mather Campus Center paign contributions, will be examined. What works, what doesn't, and why. 9 am-8pm Registration & Room Assignment Austin Arts Center 11:45 am- Library Tour: A walk through Trinity's ex­ 12:15 pm panded facility with Peter J. Knapp '65, Ref­ 9 am-Noon All-Sports Camp and activities for children erence Librarian Ferris Athletic Center Noon Headquarters open for Reunion Classes 9 am-9:30pm Supervised Nursery/Childcare for pre­ On the Quad schoolers Funston Hall, ground floor lounge Noon-1 :30 pm Buffet Lunch, Mather Campus Center 9-10 am Campus Tour conducted by students, start­ 1-5 pm Children's activities contin ued ing from Austin Arts Center 1:15-2:25 pm Mini-Course: Russia, Past and Present 9:15-10:15 am Reunion Seminar #1: Heroes and Villains in McCook Session #2: East-West Relations: Dilemmas McCook the World of Sports Auditorium and Opportunities Auditorium Professor Drew A. Hyland, Philosophy Professor Samuel D. Kassow '66, History Department Department The world of sports has become the source The peculiarity of the American-Soviet re­ for many of our heroes in America. What is lationship is that it rests on a unique com­ it about sports that is conducive to the de­ bination of competition and cooperation. ve lopment of heroes? To what extent are How can this relationship survive the chal­ athletes replacing other cultural heroes, lenges of the '80s? from th e realms of religion, politics and the 1:30-4 pm Round Robin Tennis Tournament, College military? Why are we wil ling to accept as courts sports heroes individuals who are often se­ riously flawed personally? And what is the 2:30-4 pm Trowbridge Memorial Pool open for alumni/ significance of the sports villain? ae and families 2:30-3:30 pm Tour of the new Computer Center, Hallden Laboratory, with Professors August E. Sap­ ega and David J. Ahlgren '64, Engineering Department. Optional hands-on demonstra­ tion to follow. 4:00-5:15 pm Lecture-Performance: The Contemporary Austin Arts Musical Theatre Center Professor Gerald Moshell, Music Depart­ Goodwin Theatre ment and Director of Concert Choir From Hair (1968) to A Cf?orus Line (1975) to 11 :40 am The Annual Reunion Class Parade - As­ Cats (1981), the recent Broadway musical semble on the Long Walk has brought aesthetic and intellectual vigor Noon-12:30 pm Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association: to an art form grown stale on the outmoded Ferris Athletic Greetings by President English, and pres­ formulas of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Center Unit A entation of alumni/ae awards. Lerner & Loewe. "Musical comedy" no longer constitutes an appropriate term for 12:30 pm Buffet Luncheon on the Quad these works born of contemporary con­ sciousness and sensitivity. Excerpts from 2-3 pm Reunion Seminar #5: Franklin Roosevelt and recent Broadway shows will be performed McCook the New Deal: The Perspective of a Half and discussed. Auditorium Century Professor J. Ronald Spencer '64, History 6-8 pm Children's Cookout and Program on the Department Quad An examination of Roosevelt, the man and 6pm Reception/New England Clambake the President, as well as a critical analysis Class tents on the Quad of the New Deal's failures and successes and its continuing impact on American life. 8pm Children's Movie - " Star Wars" Life Sciences Center, Room 134 2:30-4 pm Round Robin Tennis Tournament continued College courts 8:30-9 pm Carillon Concert by Laura Dyson '84 2:30-4 pm Trowbridge Memorial Pool open for alumni/ 9 pm­ Jazz Concert by " Weeks Hornblowers" ae and families Midnight (Charlie Weeks '59) On the Quad 2:30-4 pm Reunion Track Meet for alumni/ae, spouses and children, featuring the Second Annual 9:30pm Children return to dorms for the evening Three-Mile Mini-Marathon 2:30-4 pm Alumni/ae Softball Game SATURDAY, JUNE 9 3:15-4:15 pm Reunion Seminar #6: Evolutionary Political McCook Realism in a Nuclear Age: The Bishops, the 8-9:30 am Breakfast, Mather Campus Center Auditorium Bible, and the Bomb Professor Frank Kirkpatrick '64, Religion 21 Registration, Austin Arts Center 9 am-6:30pm Department 9 am-2:30pm Trip to Mystic Aquarium for children- box An analysis of the arguments for and against lunch the freezing of the nuclear arms race. Leave from Ferris Athletic Center 4pm Organ Recital by John Rose, College 9 am-9:30pm Supervised Nursery/Childcare for pre­ Chapel Organist schoolers Funston Hall, ground floor lounge 4:30-5:30 pm The Challenge of College Admissions McCook Donald N. Dietrich, Director of Admissions, Auditorium will talk about the many factors that play a role in the admissions process.

6pm Children's Chic~en Barbecue 6:30pm Class Receptions and Dinners Individual Class locat ions to be announced 7-8:30 pm Children's Entertainment: Pandemonium Puppets and Magician Barry Moran, Austin Arts Center, Goodwin Theatre Movie for Teenagers: " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ," Life Sciences Center, 9:30-10:30 am Reunion Seminar #3: Finance and Investing Room 134 Life Sciences Professor Ward S. Curran '57, Economics Center Department 8:30-9 pm Children return to dorms for the evening A discussion of personal investment deci­ 9 pm-1 am Entertainment: Concert by the Trinity Pipes, sions in the coming decade and the effect followed by dancing to " Funky Butt" (Pete of Reaganomics on our lives. Campbell '53), Mather Campus Center, 9:30-10:30 am Reunion Seminar #4: Art and Adultery in Washington Room McCook India Auditorium Professor Ellison B. Findly, Religion Department SUNDAY, JUNE 10 A survey of the relationship between escap­ ist fantasy and social mores as depicted in 8-11-am Brunch, Mather Campus Center Indian painting. 11 am Reunion Eucharist and Commemoration of 9:45-10:45 am Campus Tour conducted by students, start­ Departed Alumni/ae, Chapel ing from Austin Arts Center The Rev. Lloyd A. Lewis, Jr. '69, Preacher, 10:45-11 :30 am Initiatives for the '80s and the Rev. Donald W. Kimmick '54, Cele­ Austin Arts President James F. English, Jr. will discuss brant, assisted by other alumni clergy Center the College's progress in its long range Coffee, Chapel Garden, following the Mem­ Goodwin Theatre planning programs. orial Service Sports

MEN'S BASKETBALL======

With three starters returning from last year's 22-3 squad, the outlook for this season was reasonably bright. A lmost no one, however, could h ave predicted the outstanding performance achieved by the hoopsters. With six games remaining on the regular season schedule, the Bantams now stand at 16-1, are ranked fifteenth nationally, and will most likely be one of the top seeds in the ECAC postseason tournament. Trinity started the season with a bang, winning its first thirteen games of the year, most in convincing fashion. The start was the best ever by aTrinity basket­ ball team, and the thirteen straight wins are also a new Trinity recm·d for basketball. Sandwiched in the mid­ dle of the streak was a victory in the Liberty C lassic as the Bantams got by Wesleyan in the opener and took Connecticut College. The Camels gained a measure of revenge, however, as they recently dashed Trinity's hopes for an undefeated season with a 72-56 win in 22 New London. There is a fairly good chance that the two teams will meet again in postseason play. In the four years since the arrival of this year's seniors on the Trinity campus, the Bantams have been establishing themselves as a New England Division III powerhouse. The four teams that Jim Bates, Tom King, and Kerry Sullivan have been on compiled an im­ pressive record of 73 wins against only 18losses. During that same time, Trinity has been to the finals of the ECAC tournament twice. Jim Bates, a four-year starting guard, is one of the most talented all-around players to have ever played at Trinity. His 1,202 career points place him fifth on the all-time list; at his current pace he could move as high as third. What stands out about Bates more than his scoring, though, is his passing. His seeing-eye passes through the defense are pure joy to watch. Moreover, fine passing has carried over to the whole t_eam and unselfish, team-oriented play has become the trademark of the 1983-84 Bantams. Bates' two classmates, Tom King and Kerry Sullivan, have also improved steadily during their four years here. King simply does it all in every game: deadly out­ side shooting, strong inside moves, court-length passes . to break the press, strong rebounding, and aggressive defense. He is near the team lead in every offensive category, but his worth to the team could never be ac­ curateLy measured in mere numbers. Perhaps more dramatic an improvement has been seen in the play of center Kerry Sullivan. One of the big question marks at SENIOR CO-CAPTAIN Tom King shows one of the many the onset of the season, Sullivan has flourished in his aspects of his fine all-around game that has made him a new role as a starter and is now one of the most standout player for four years. respected rebounding and defensive centers in the for the team's rise to such lofty heights. Plus, he has laid a solid foundation that should serve to perpetuate the successful Bantam basketball tradition for years to come. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL=:==:====:=

The Bantams were expecting big things this year with all but one player returning from last year's NIAC championship team. Also, 1981-82 MVP Chris Lofgren came back after a year abroad, and some outstanding freshmen joined the fold. Unfortunately, the pieces did not fall into place immediately. Lofgren and the freshmen needed time to adjust, injuries took their toll, and stellar point guard, Karen Rodgers, was studying in Europe as was rebounding forward Kathleen Soley. The Bantams stumbled to a 1-4 start. Since January, though, the story has been different as the team has climbed back to a .500 record. Rodgers and Soley are back and definitely making a positive im­ pact. Rodgers leads the team in assists and has been averaging better than 10 points per game while Soley has been a valuable contributor off the bench. Lofgren, too, is regaining her form of two years'ago and is the team's leading rebounder. Freshmen Sara Mayo and 'Betsy Jones are emerging as the stars of the future, and sophomore Sheila Andrus is making a strong comeback from early-season injuries after an outstanding freshman year. Two of the most important reasons for the team's resurgence have been the leadership and fine play of 23 four-year players Karen Orczyk and Debbie Priestley. While Orczyk's scoring has been off from past years, she has still been an extremely valuable performer with her defense and hustle. Priestley, a deadly outside shooter, is the team's leading point-getter and is shooting 55% from the floor. With their leadership and continued team improvement, the Bantams still have at least an outside chance of qualifying for the NIAC FOUR-YEAR STARTER Karen Orczyk, a member of two tournament to defend the title that they have held for NIAC championship basketball teams, takes it to the hoop the past two years. against Wesleyan. INDOOR TRACK======league. He, too, is an extremely good passer for a big man, and he can score when called upon. T earns of both men and women have competed for One of the main reasons that Sullivan has not been Trinity this winter on the indoor track circuit. The called upon more often has been sophomore forward sport is run on an informal basis, but serves as valuable Ken Abere. A threat to score whenever he has the ball, preparation for the outdoor season in the spring. Abere is the team's leading scorer and has been averag­ Coach Jim Foster has had six athletes qualify in­ ing well over twenty points per game in the last seven dividually for the New England Division III meet: Dave games. Freshman point guard Mike Donovan has cer­ Barry in the 1000 meters, Femi Obi and Dave Banta in tainly not given away his age by his on-court perfor­ the 55 meters, Steve Drew in the 55 meter hurdles, mance. He plays with a great deal of poise and has been Matt Harthun in the pole vault, and Steve Klots in the a steadying influence in running the offense. 1500 meters. Two relay teams will also compete for Sophomore Bill Pfohl has contributed greatly off the Trinity. Both Barry and Obi are among the favorites to bench, averaging over ten points and almost five re­ win their respective events. The women's team, made bounds per game, while third guard John Barton gives up largely of freshmen and sophomores, has also shown the team another outside shooting threat. promise. The middle distances appear to be a strong­ While one can only speculate upon the future of this point of the Bantam women with veteran Erica Thur­ year's team as they go into the stretch run, there can be man and newcomers Alix Woodford, Meredith Lynch, no doubt that this is one of the finest quintets ever and Alex Steinert all turning in good performances this assembled at Trinity. Head coach Stan Ogrodnik has winter. Freshman Leslie Berckmans has also looked done an excellent job and deserves a great deal of credit good in the sprints and the high jump. ICE HOCKEY======their quest for a spot in the playoffs. The defense ap­ pears to be solid, but the offense must get the puck in With any sort ofluck at all, the Trinity pucksters the net for Trinity to win. would have ten wins in the Division III and be a shoo­ in for the ECAC postseason tournament. Instead the Bantams, losers of four one-goal games that could easily WOMEN'S SWIMMING======have gone the other way, are just one game over .500 With its most recent win, the women's swim squad (6-5-1) and struggling for a berth in the expanded eight­ etched itself into the record books as the Trinity team team playoff format. Coach John Dunham's team with the longest winning streak in school history. This needs to win its four remaining division games, not an year's eight wins combined with last year's perfect 10-0 easy task considering that the Bantams have to travel record ran the streak to eighteen victories, eclipsing the to Wesleyan and Connecticut College and take on men's squash team's (1975-76) old mark of seventeen playoff contenders New Hampshire and Iona at home. straight. The women's streak, however, will be severely The strength of this year's team has been defense, as tested in the two final meets against New England evidenced by Trinity's giving up just 53 goals in seven­ powers Tufts and Amherst. teen total games. Junior Barney Corning, a forward for Coach Chet McPhee has had thirteen swimmers his first two years, has been described by some as the qualify for the New England meet, up from last year's best defe~seman ever to play at Trinity. He controls number, but to date only two women have met the play in his own end, clears the puck extremely well , and standards for national qualification as opposed to seven is an offensive threat as well. Sophomore Chris Lorenz last year. Four qualifiers of 1983 - Lulu Cass, Karen has improved greatly in his second season, and senior Hubbard, Barbie Brennan, and Laura Couch- are all co-captains Chip Farnham and Bill Stride have played close to qualification again, and Coach McPhee is hop­ well, also, just as they have for their entire four-year ing that the tougher competition of the last two meets careers. Providing the final line of defense has been will bring out his swimmers' best and get them into the sophomore goaltender Vince Laurentino, who has national meet. Diver Mary Ellen Foy also has a chance given up less than two goals per game, including only of meeting the national standards. six in his last four outings. If they do qualify, the five will join breaststroker Deb­ On offense, Vern Meyer, an aggressive sophomore, is bie Cronin and freestyler Dea Fredrick, Trinity's two leading the scoring race for the second straight year qualifiers thus far. Fredrick was third in the 50-freestyle with 22 points. Close behind him are juniors Mike a year ago, and she is shooting for a national title this Sload and Chris Downs and sophomores Bill Slaney year. She was only .08 seconds off the winning time in 24 and Rich Stetson. The return of sophomore center 1983, and is now swimming even better. Both Fredrick Reed Whitmore, who missed most of last year and the and Cronin are in their final years of eligibility, and early part of this season, has done much to bolster the McPhee must find replacements ifTrinity is to remain Bantams' attack. Still, it is on offense where the Ban­ one of the dominant teams in Division III swimming in tams need to improve if they are to be successful in New England .

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THE PLAYOFF-BOUND Bantam ice hockey team has been led by super defenseman Barnet Corning, perhaps the best ever to play the position at Trinity. NATIONAL CONTENDER Dea Fredrick (middle lane) will be shooting for top honors in the 50-yard freestyle at the NCAA Division Ill meet.

MEN'S SWIMMING::===::==::==::==:: some good individual efforts, the team usually had to 25 forfeit three bouts in a match - a major factor in the The men's swim team, now 1-6 on the year, has been eventual2-12 record. hampered by a severe lack of swimmers. There are only Trinity's top wrestler has been sophomore Joe Adam nine members on the team, and sickness has occa­ at 177 pounds. He finished the regular season with an sionally cut even further into the Bantam squad, forc­ 11-3 record and is looking for a high place at the New ing the team to swim with as few as six swimmers. England tournament where he finished fourth last Often, Trinity wins more individual events than its op­ year. Other strong wrestlers have been sophomore ponents, but the lack of depth prevents the team from Nick Veronis and freshman Ian Brodie. Mike Howe, picking up the _second and third places necessary for a the team's only senior, has been a solid performer for team victory. four years and his presence will be missed a great deal Rex Dyer, a national qualifier in the backstroke last next year. year, has again been Trinity's top swimmer. He, along with Tim Raftis, Chip Lake, and Jim Loughlin, will comprise the Trinity contingent at the New England SKI TEAM::=::=::=::=::=::=::=::= meet. Loughlin, only a freshman, set a new school The Trinity ski team, now in its fifth year as a club record in the 1000-yard freestyle. Another freshman, sport, has improved considerably this year. Skiing in Cameron Muir, is perhaps Trinity's best diving pros­ five meets in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the pect in fifteen or twenty years. Despite their promise, team made its presence felt in the Eastern Inter­ however, Coach McPhee feels he needs a very big collegiate Ski Conference, a league which includes such recruiting year if the program is to remain competitive. traditionally strong teams as the University of Massachusetts, Plymouth State, and Boston College. WRESTLING·::===::==::==::==::==::==:: Gates Garrity and Max Smith have been the top male skiers, with seniors John Hamblett, Mark Tiedemann, The wrestling team had high hopes for the 1983-84 and Will Washburn also performing well. Garrity season. Last year, Coach Mike Darr had been able to recently finished nineteenth in the combined slalom field a full team for the first time in many years, and the and giant slalom competition, the best finish ever by a team included a number of promising freshman Trinity skier. The women's team, while low in wrestlers. numbers, is competitive nonetheless. Mimi Gatchell, However, when this season actually began, the Maureen Hughes, Leslie Pennington, and Liz Sobkov Bantams were plagued once again by a problem of have all improved markedly as the season has pro­ numbers. Some of the veterans did not return, and the gressed. The team is coached by Margaret Benson and freshman prospects were fewer than expected. Despite Todd Marble. SQUASH TEAM LEADER Bill Doyle, a two-time ONE OF TRINITY'S FINEST All-America and this year's captain, is one of the female athletes ever, Nina main reasons for the team's high national ranking. Porter has been to the na- tional finals in squash three times and will again be chal­ lenging for the title in 1984. She was also Trinity's leading scorer in lacrosse last year.

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MEN'S SQUASH==:==:==:==:== WOMEN'S SQUASH======

With Trinity's recent thrilling victory over The women's squash team, coached by Rebec­ Williams, the Bantams guaranteed themselves of ca Chase and led by four-year star Nina Porter, at least a number three ranking in the final nine­ is again having an excellent season. The Ban­ man team standings. Harvard and Princeton will tams finished fourth in the Howe Cup, the be numbers one and two with Trinity, Williams, equivalent of a national championship, thus im­ and Navy (5-4 victors over Trinity but losers to proving upon their national ranking of fifth of Williams) fighting it out for the final spots in the last year. The consistent high finishes are even top five. The victory over Williams was more impressive when it is taken into account somewhat of a surprise as number two player that Trinity is the only Division III team com­ Mike Georgy was sidelined with an injury. With peting against Division I teams for the Howe most of the Trinity players having to play up the Cup. ladder from their usual spot, the Bantams were still able to pull out the win with many of the Porter, three-time runnerup at the national matches going the full five games. tournament, will be impossible to replace. Un­ First-year coach Steve Heath has the team questionably the finest female squash player ever playing extremely well and has a few individuals to play at Trinity, Porter was presented the Betty who will be in contention for postseason honors. Richie Award this year, a national honor given The top six Trinity players- Bill Doyle, Georgy to the player who best exemplifies sportsman­ (who should be back), ].D. Cregan, Bill Villari, ship, fair play, and excellence in squash. Porter, Doug Burbank, and Jerome Kapelus - will com- . along with teammates Kat Castle, Kathy Klein, pete at the season-ending six-man national tour­ and Laura Higgs, will be competing at the na­ nament at Navy. Doyle will be trying to regain tional tournament in March. Both Porter and his first-team All-America status of a year ago by Castle (ranked ninth in the country) were All­ finishing in the top ten. Georgy and Cregan Americans last year and will be trying to achieve were both second team All-Americans. that status once again. WINTER SPORTS WRESTLING (2-12) 12 Norwich 41 6 W.P.l. 42 12 Bridgewater St. 30 8 W.N.E.C. 36 12 Hunter 27 Boolls 18 Bowdoin 26 MEN'S BASKETBALL (21-2) 14 Amherst 31 94 Curry 45 2 7 UHartford 17 6 M.I.T. 47 79 Amherst 60 pulpit and sailed to England for ordi­ 60 Barrington 55 12 Central Conn. 21 ANGLICANS TO AMERICANS: 26 Williams nation in the summer of 17 32 and re­ 100 Queens 67 24 Trinity Episcopal Church, turned to organize Newtown's 80 Nichols 62 16 Plymouth St. 33 Newtown, Conn., 1732-1982 87 Wesleyan 65 9 Wesleyan 38 Anglicans into a parish. Gardner tells 72 Conn. College 70 14 R.l.C. 29 By Robert W. Gardner '64 the story of Beach and Trinity's early 79 Williams 68 (Walker & Co.; New York; 1982) years in a clear and lively style. Indeed 77 Kings Point 62 Beach's subsequent fifty-year ministry ICE HOCKEY (11-10-1) 63 Wesleyan 57 Reviewed by Borden W. Painter, ]r. '58 in Newtown is the focus of several chap­ 69 Coast Guard 52 1 Suffolk 2 ters. Beach, along with most Connecti­ 85 Tufts 77 4 St. Michaels 0 Robert Gardner has accomplished the cut Anglican clergy remained loyal to 96 W.P.I. 76 2 Wesleyan 8 difficult task of writing the history of the Crown of England in the Revolu­ 56 Conn. College 72 4 Conn. College tion. He died in 1782, just eighteen 79 Brandeis 72 7 Nichols 1 one parish and placing it within the months before peace was concluded. 89 Bowdoin 74 2 Westfield St. 7 broader context of state and national 75 Bates 59 8 Stonehill 3 history. Too often this genre of histori­ Gardner devotes about half his text 85 M.l.T. 61 Army 5 cal writing does little more than chron­ to the colonial and revolutionary pe­ 61 Coast Guard 42 2 Navy 1 icle the internal events of parish life: riod. His chapters on the nineteenth . 78 UHartford 63 7 Navy 4 who the rectors were, who served on century are clear and crisp, but less 83 Amherst 65 6 Framingham St. 6 the vestries, how money was collected compelling because the life of the parish 82 Westfield St. 66 7 Amherst 5 and disbursed, when parish halls and did not have the same interplay with 91 Wesleyan 80 4 UConn 7 churches were built, and who gave what state and national life so evident in the 1 Bentley 2 more turbulent eighteenth century. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (10-8) 5 Fairfield in memory of whom. Those sorts of facts Young men from Trinity Church served 2 deserve their place, and Mr. Gardner 72 Coast Guard 49 1 S.M.U. in the Union forces during the Civil 56 Conn. College 60 0 Assumption (OT) 1 includes them as part of the story, but war, but the Episcopal Church as an 54 Mt. Holyoke 69 7 Wesleyan 4 the strength of this well-written and 50 Keene State 78 7 N.H. College 5 handsomely published volume is its at­ institution locally and nationally did 52 Wellesley 69 4 A.l.C. (OT)S tention to how life in one parish in west­ not occupy the same controversial polit­ 71 Coast Guard 45 7 Conn. College 2 ern Connecticut relates to the larger ical and social position it had at the 55 UHartford 54 4 Iona 5 picture. time of the Revolution. Indeed, Gard­ 51 W.P.I. 62 The author states clearly and can­ ner points out that the "Episcopal 57 Mt. Holyoke 62 didly in his introduction how he has Church bent over backwards to avoid 67 Western Conn. 64 MEN'S SQUASH (15-3) chosen to go about his work. His ap­ taking stands on virtually any of the 37 Conn. College 61 9 Amherst 0 proach includes the "bricks, mortar and issues that divided the nation during 64 Wesleyan 46 3 Princeton 6 ministers" chronicle, but seeks to go be­ these times," including slavery. (pp. 74- 72 Bowdoin 60 3 Harvard 6 75) 67 Smith 54 9 M.l.T. 0 yond that, on the understanding that The growth of Trinity Church, New­ 67 Williams 52 8 Dartmouth 1 the history of a "particular parish should 79 Amherst 62 9 Rochester 0 be partly philosophic, partly institu­ town, into a relatively large parish took 83 Wesleyan 62 6 Yale 3 tional, and largely social." (p. 2) place after World War II and especially 57 Eastern Conn. 62 9 Wesleyan 0 Gardner writes effectively on the early during the 1960s. Here Gardner's ac­ 9 Bowdoin 0 years of Trinity Church, Newtown, count successfully integrates the story WOMEN'S SWIMMING (9-1) 9 Colby 0 during the colonial period. After ably of this growth with the social and de­ 9 Colgate 0 79 Fairfield 52 reviewing the English Reformation and mographic changes of the area and with 89 Holy Cross 51 8 SUNY-Stony Brook 1 some of the larger issues facing the 7 Geo. Washington 2 the founding of the Connecticut col­ 51 S.M.U. 44 country such as civil rights. 4 Navy 5 ony, he points out the difficulties Angli­ 75 Mt. Holyoke 56 We should not conclude our review 5 Williams 4 cans faced in organizing parishes in the 59 Wesleyan 27 of this fine parish history without not­ 73 Southern Conn. 39 7 Army 2 early eighteenth century in the face of ing that Trinity College finds its place 90 Clark 59 9 Vassar 0 opposition from established Congrega­ 86 Conn. College 45 8 Tufts tionalism. Over here the Established in the story from time to time. Both 63 Tufts 79 Church of England found itself a mi­ John Williams and Flavel Sweeten Lu­ 80 Amherst 54 nority, dissenting body. It only gath­ ther, presidents of the College, get men­ WOMEN'S SQUASH (8-3) ered some momentum in the early 1720s tioned, as do occasional events in the MEN'S SWIMMING (2-8) 2 Harvard 5 when a group of Congregational clergy, life of the College. 4 7 Fairfield 64 5 Dartmouth 2 led by Yale's rector, Timothy Cutler, 36 S.M.U. 58 2 Princeton 5 publicly declared their conversion to the Author Robert W. Gardner is a 1964 graduate of 4 7 Central Conn. 63 2 Yale 5 Trinity, where he also earned an M.A. in 1966. He is Church of England. currently chairman of the Social Studies Depart­ 53 Union 41 4 UPenn 3 In Newtown, the Congregational ment at New Canaan High School. Reviewer Borden 43 Wesleyan 52 7 Smith 0 W. Painter, Jr. graduated from Trinity in 1958 and 41 Babson 66 6 Wesleyan minister made a similar public declara­ received his M.A . and Ph.D. degrees from Yale. He 41 W.P.l. 54 7 Middlebury 0 tion for Anglicanism in the winter of also holds an S.T.B. degree from General Theologi­ cal Semmary and was ordained a priest in the Epis­ 55 Holy Cross 57 1731-32, and that is when the history of 7 Williams 0 copal Church in 1963. A member of the Trinity 35 Amherst 59 5 Amherst 2 Trinity Church properly began. The faculty since 1964, he is a professor in the depart­ 67 Clark 45 7 Brown 0 Rev. John Beach left his Congregational ment of history. Trintype Jim Miller has always resisted the notion of an academic as someone living a kind of ivory-tower exist­ ence. "I've never found it a com­ fortable model for me," he explains. "I don't think I want to live in a tower exclusively." An associate professor of English and member of the Trinity faculty for 11 years, Miller strives to bring a real-world flavor and his own life experiences to bear on the lively discussions of literature that char­ acterize his classroom. To a large extent, his academic career has been shaped and enriched by study and encounters with contemporary lit­ erary figures. As an undergraduate at Brown University, majoring in English literature, he dabbled briefly in writing for the Brown some kind of interaction with the program, an effort which he says he Daily Herald, was involved with the class. Now, the length of time that enjoyed although he does not "as­ student organizations of the civil it takes for that process to start up pire" to administration. At Trinity rights movement, and reveled in an does not bother me, as long as my he teaches American Literature of environment "where all kinds of sense is that the possibility of that the '30s ("a neglected period"), the human encounters were possible." engageme-nt is there. I don't want Southern Studies Research Project, It was there, he recalls, that he first my students to simply accept my poetry writing, and Afro-American met Leroi Jones, "who later became own conclusions. I want them to literature. the focal point of one area of my struggle toward truths of their Miller's current research inter­ research interests," and where a own." ests include work at the Stowe-Day "chance encounter" with author Miller's first teaching experi­ Foundation in Hartford on slave John Barth led him to apply to the ences came at SUNY at Buffalo, narratives, within the context of State University of New York at where he continued his studies after mid-19th century American liter­ Buffalo, where he earned his Ph.D. receiving his B.A. from Brown. At ary and cultural life. At the Foun­ At Brown, Miller also first began Buffalo his literary vision was fur­ dation he is also doing research on to pursue a long-standing interest in ther widened by meetings with Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle the theatre, acting in undergraduate writers of the Black Mountain Tom's Cabin, for a special exhibi­ productions of "A Taste of Honey" School of Poetry, and the beat and ton in 1986, which will take a ret­ and "Guys and Dolls," and later post-beat poets in their frequent vis­ rospective look at the novel and its taking a turn at playwriting. Para­ its to the campus. And, through his impact on American life. doxically, one of the reasons he first experience with the university's Outside of Trinity Miller has es­ became involved in theatre was that Council on International Studies, tablished himself firmly in the he was shy. "It was almost like a where he was research associate, he Hartford community, yet another challenge to overcome that sense of met key figures in the emergent East example of the careful interweav­ shyness that I had. I was terrified of African states. "I began to nourish ing which meld his life and work. the stage all the time. Once I was and formalize my interest in Afri­ Active in the Blue Hills Civic Asso­ out there and established in the can literature," he recalls, "because ciation in the Hartford neighbor­ character, I enjoyed it. I found that so many African writers were com­ hood where he lives, he has edited I was somewhat of a ham," he ing to campus. I invariably learned the community organization's laughs. from them. My basic concepts about newspaper and managed the recent Miller recognizes that his actor's African literature were shaped and campaign of Rudy Arnold, who was training sometimes finds its way molded by them." . elected to the City Council and into the classroom. "Teaching is For a time Miller was faculty served for a time as deputy mayor. often the function of audience," he member as well as graduate student "I find it very difficult to imagine observes, "because there is a kind at SUNY, when he directed its new myself not having some kind of ac­ of performance dimension to the Black Studies Program in the first tive relationship to a viable com­ business. If you feel that you are two years of its existence. He left munity," Miller says. "I believe that working with an audience that is Buffalo in 1971 and spent a year at it is important for people to be comfortable, then the scope of your the then-new Medgar Evers College grounded in the world somewhere own activity as a teacher really is in Brooklyn, NY, where he was as­ - one does not simply 'free flow.' larger. sistant professor of humanities. He It helps me to understand some­ "I'm most comfortable," Miller came to Trinity in 1972 as assistant thing important about the shape of says, "when I feel that a relation­ professor of English and intercul­ the world that I live in. If I'm going ship has been established that is fi­ tural studies, and for several years to talk about the world, I think I nally going to allow me to engage in directed the intercultural studies need that understanding." Along the Walk Class Notes continued from page 5 poetry for several years, she feels that "it was'. never really poetry until about a year ago." She notes that many of her poetry's themes come from her Lithuanian heritage . A Capital Area Scholar for all four years at Trinity, Mantautas received awards in the John C urtis Underwood Memorial Prizes in Poetry and Trinity Alumnus Prizes in Prose Fiction competitions. She studied in England during her junior year, and is a nominee this year for a Watson fellowship.

The Autumn Painting by Idalia M antautas '84

The small, fragrant leaves of the jasmine are tipped with yellow. Vital Statistics Berries in their beaks, blue jays lift 29 to fl y, weighted, from the rowan. ENGAGEMENTS 1931 T he paint fl akes easily , curling JOHN GOODING, JR. and Mary Molloy, 1974 October 29, 1983 away from the blade and down; JAMES A. FINKELSTEIN and Lynn Marie Gould 1967 in my mind a blue spruce PETER MILFORD and Katy Haight, July, 1976 1983 in rain, geese flying. A. HOBART PORTER and Pamela Joyce DeGraff 1972 NEIL H. BOBROFF and Maureen 1977 Stewart, May 7, 1983 You left , part-way through SOPHIE BAKER BELL and Warren Dillaway Ayres, Jr. 1974 the autumn painting: ELAINE AUSTIN and Philip Crossman, the paint uneven , stroked 1981 July, 1983 SUSAN LYNN GERACI and Scott BRUCE CHOLST and Judith Ann along one wall, and one wall bare; William Marhefki Moldover, August 28, 1983 JUDITH ANN (DE DE) SEEBER and NATHALIE M. POST and Andus Brandt, the rowan rich with berries David Parker Boyd February 26, 1983 and the boards rough, waiting 1981-1982 1976 FRANK NETCOH and NANCY WILLIAM C. BAKER and Mayer Martin to soak paint from the brush. KESSLER Roberts, October 1, 1983 PHILIP J. PEDRO and LISA A. MOUGALIAN 1977 BARB ARA CASTLE and Marc Ginsberg, "Snow in C anada. My love," 1982 June 19, 1983 J. DAVID MARDER and Margaret Ann on a November post card I still save. JOHN A. MEANEY and Rosemary Browne Mullarkey, September 24, 1983 What did you find there to call your own? SANDRA SMITH and Dion Coleman, 1983-1984 December 25, 1983 NANCY MOORE BOGLE and Gordon Webb Seymour St. John '84 1977-1978 Crickets move slowly in the grass, JAMES HAMBLETON ARNOLD and SANDRA P EARCE BUNTING, their song shrill with premonitions of frost. September, 1983 The paint falls easily from my knife. WEDDINGS 1978 BARBARA A. FISCHER and Michael P. Harder to scrape the debris of a life McQueeney, J uly 30, 1983 JONATHAN B. SE NDOR and Barbara and get down to the clean , dry boards. Ellis, May 29, 1983 AMEY WITBECK and Silas Witherbee, August 20, 1983 1926 HAROLD WARING MESSER and 1980 Katharine MacDowell Holden, WILLIAM L. ADLER and Ellen Kramer, November 12, 1983 October 1, 1983 1981 1975 fulness in writing to the Class of 1916. lished in Seal Cove, ME near her two KEVIN P. HALL and Lorna Soto, Mr. and Mrs. Damien Davis, daughter, Good luck and carry on. That is all for daughters and grandchildren. November 19, 1983 Emily Grace, July 16, 1983 now. Hope your holidays were fine! One final note on Trin Coli Sane's great Mr. and Mrs. Chester Derr, daughter, Class Agent: James F. English, Jr. 1983 football season. Your CHAIRMAN 1982 Emily .Jessica, May 10, 1983 and SECRETARY were in their usual places for the Wesleyan game - Section ELLIN M. CARPENTER and Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Hendel, son, Andrew The Rev. Joseph Racioppi MATTHEW P. SMITH, August 14, 1983 Jared, November 5, 1983 E, seats 13 and 14 at the fifty yard line - 264 Sunnieholme Dr. ready to enjoy the anticipated victory. Mr. and Mrs. David Kates (Ann Tulcin), Fairfield, CT 06430 son, Douglas Lawrence, July 12, 1983 17 However, from the north came gusty Ca· nadian Arctic winds that chilled us through MASTERS Your SECRETARY is looking forward and through, bringing the wind chill factor 1976 to the spring when two grandsons gradu­ Dr. Susan McGill Cross and Dr. Timothy down to you know what. At half time on ate - Gib from Trinity (he plans to do legs stiffened by the cold we repaired to 1981 A. Cross, son, Nathan, October 12, 1983 graduate work in the field of computer the car for a quick fix (Tab, of course), GEORGE E. BLAIR and Jane Elizabeth Mr. and Mrs. John Lebeaux, son, Benjamin medicine), and Chris from MIT. He will shivering and awaiting some warmth from Erasmus, July 24, 1982 Perkins, October 31, 1983 also go on to graduate school. His specialty the heater. It did not take us long to agree Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Maus, son, is metallurgy. Michael, Jr., October 27, 1983 that, discretion being the better part of valor, we were both too old to put up with 1977 Melville E. Shulthiess such nonsense. So off to Andy's abode to Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. ·Gerchman, Taunton Hill Rd. listen to FM 89.3 for the second half in daughter, Sarah Mary, October 4, 1983 18 Newtown, CT 06470 warmth and comfort! Let it be noted that Mr. and Mrs. John Ernst (Laurie Blair), it was the first and only time we had ever BIRTHS son, David Alexander, October 11, 1983 What news have I received from my few chickened out before the end of a game. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Willey (Valerie McKee), surviving classmates? Just none, which The result - you all made everyone happy daughter, Crissy, May, 1983 isn't surprising, since forty percent of them and eager to enjoy the beautiful meal set took off for the Sunny South years ago and up by our hostess, Annabel!. 1978 no longer brave our New England winter Class Agent: The Rev. Robert Y. Condit Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Clark (Susan E.), son, weather. 1967 Whitney Michael, May 25, 1983 Stopped in at Wethersfield not long ago Mr. and Mrs. Lynn M. Kirkby, son, Jeffrey to spend an hour with our industrious Class Royden C. Berger Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kehoe, daughter, Keri 53 Thomson Rd. M., June 24, 1983 Michelle, October 9, 1983 Agent, Louisa Pinney Barber, who has Dr. and Mrs. G. Theodore Ruckert, son, made reasonably good recovery from seri­ 2 8 West Hartford, CT 06107 Gustave Theodore, V, May 7, 1983 ous illness. MASTERS Must stop in West Hartford soon for an ART PLATT continues to play golf three 1968 hour with RUSS HATHEWAY with whom times a week in spite of cobalt treatments Mr. and Mrs. Ralph White, son, I was closely associated until he took early and a "less than satisfactory cataract sur­ Christopher Stephen, April29, 1983 1979 retirement. gical procedure." Art is active in the Car­ Mr. and Mrs. Briggs (Mary Amodeo), son, lisle, P A Kiwanis Club which raises money Class Agent: Louisa Pinney Barber 1969 Allen Michael, August 29, 1983 for charitable projects by sponsoring a col­ lege basketball tournament and an annual Mr. and Mrs. Mark Edinberg, son, Joel James A. Calano Russell, May 13, 1983 1981 scrimmage between the Baltimore Colts Mr. and Mrs. George E . Blair, III, son, 35 White St. and the Washington Redskins which this Mr. and Mrs. Alden R. Gordon, son, Hartford, CT 06114 Alexander William Arthur, June 3, 1983 George Edward Blair, IV, September 1, 23 summer drew 9,000 spectators. 1983 In November, GEORGE SALISKE, in Dr. and Mrs. William Rosenblatt, son, As requested by some of you I herewith Steven David, September 26, 1983 good shape following a triple bypass heart Robert E. Cross set forth a current class list: WALTER operation, headed for Robe Sound, FL, BERUBE, JAMES CALANO, LUCA CE­ 30 1970 208 Newbury St. where he keeps an Airstream trailer. This Hartford, CT 06114 LENTANO, MAURICE CRONAN, SER­ year he plans to do some surf-casting as Mr. and Mrs. George C. Conklin, son, 14 ENO GAMMELL, MARTIN GAUDIAN, Andrew Charles, July 19, 1983 well as fishing in the Intercoastal EDWIN BARTON was featured in are· CONRAD GESNER, CHARLES HALL­ Waterway. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dale, son, Geoffrey BERG, MAURICE JAFFER, JOSEPH Simons, December 9, 1983 cent edition of the Bloomsburg, P A Press­ Enterprise. A resident of the Bloomsburg MANION, STANLEY MILLER, CAREY Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lorn, daughter, MORSE, LAIRD NEWELL, PAUL NOR­ Stacy Elizabeth, July 2, 1983 Health Care Center, the retired educator and historian appears much younger than MAN, JOSEPH POST, DANIEL his 94 years. The article describes the var­ ROURKE, JAMES SEELEY, STEVEN­ 29 1971 ied historical pieces written over the years SON WEBSTER. On October 23, 1983 a Diocesan Service Mr. and Mrs. James C. Amis, son, Charles If you are interested in anyone's address by Mr. Barton, and tells of his many con­ of Evensong was held at St. James Epis­ Edward, September 27, 1983 please write me. Kathleen L. Frederick and Professor tributions to the activities of the residence copal Cathedral in Fresno, CA in honor of where he now lives. Eugene Leach, son, Joseph Daniel Class Agent: Sereno B. Gammell the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination Leach, December 8, 1983 Class Agent: Edwin M. Barton of The Reverend GEORGE R. TURNEY. Mr. and Mrs. G. Keith Funston, Jr., son, Walter J. Riley Class Agent: Morris J. Cutler, Esq. G. Keith Funston, III, October 23, 1983 Erhardt G. Schmitt 7 Pequot Trail Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Jennings, son, 41 Mill Rock Rd. 26 Westport, CT 06880 Tyler, October 17, 1983 16 New Haven, CT 06511 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Mittenthal, daughter, Inexorably, the Sands of Time take their Lauren Beth, October 9, 1983 Hey! "Howse" about our fine football toll. With the passing this year of GRAN­ 31 VILLE FRISBIE, GEORGE JACKSON Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Tingley, daughter, Julia team this year! A recent press release re­ JOHN F. CHILDS ran the New York and, in October, of BILL NICOL, the re­ Wheeler, August 30, 1983 ported that quarterback Joe Shield has won City Marathon in 4 hours and 39 minutes maining class members number some two post-season honors for his 1983 per­ - 10 minutes faster than last year!! twenty-four. 1971-1973 formance that included breaking the New Congratulations! Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Haas (Nancy England Division III season record for On a brighter note, HAROLD MESSER Townshend), daughter, Lydia passing. Joe, a senior from Brattleboro, was married (see Weddings) to Kathleen Class Agent: George A. Mackie Livingston, March 13, 1983 VT, was selected "Offensive Player of the Holden in West Hartford on November Year" by The New England Football 12th. For those who wish to felicitate the 1972 Newsletter. He also received the "Gold newlyweds, they reside at 1 Avery Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Tranquillo, son, Helmet" award, presented by the New Heights, Hartford, CT 06106. 33 Michael, February 20, 1982 England Football Writers' Association to Word just in from JIM BURR that Betty the top player in Divisions II and III. The and he are spending the winter at Winter HERBERT BELL has moved to a new 1973 Coca-Cola Co. will contribute a $1,000 Park, FL after a successful golfing tour of address: 1747 Haywood Rd., Apt. A, Hen­ Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Beaser, son, scholarship in Shield's name to the Trinity Europe with the American Seniors Inter­ dersonville, NC 28739. Andrew David, August 21, 1983 general scholarship fund. Too bad we were national team. Didn't think Jim was old Class Agent: Thomas S. Wadlow Mr. and Mrs. Alan Henson, daughter, not all at the games to reminisce about enough for that league. Emily Ann, October 10, 1983 other old Trinity, Wesleyan and Amherst Class Agent: Herbert J. Noble Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Neuner, son, contests. Reunion Class· June 1984 Timothy John, June 14, 1983 The Class of 1916 Memorial Scholarship continues to benefit four current students. Winthrop H. Segur 1973-1975 "From little acorns grow mighty oaks." Park Ridge, Apt. 516 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barrett (Diana Kirk), Here we have four fine students and "all 1320 Berlin Tpke. i Charles A. Tucker son, Benjamin Kirk, March 10, 1983 around" people - two men and two 27 Wethersfield, CT 06109 7 Wintergreen Lane women. I am sure you all feel as happy 34 West Hartford, CT 06117 1974 about it as I do. From time to time I hear As usual no word from any of you guys Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Hawley, daughter, from some of them telling me how grateful to help me out with my quarterly report to At Homecoming for the Trin-Wesleyan Maegan Bennett, January 5, 1984 they are for our help. I can only reply the Reporter! However, it was pleasant to game were Frances and BRUCE Mr. and Mrs. John Rioux (Pixie Holbrook), through this column, and I hope they real­ hear from STAN BELL's widow, Ginny, SCHNEIDER, ANDY ONDERDONK, son, Gabriel Ed, November 18, 1983 ize how thankful we are for their thought- and learn that she is now pleasantly estab- Irene and GUS UHLIG, CHUCK KINGS- TON, Phyllis Mason, JOHN KELLY in the hospital." Bill recalls scrambling around You've been given the word already that counted TED KNUREK, coach of the Pen­ press box, the ED ELYs and the TUCK­ the rocky shore sixty years ago. (To be '39 is planning a gala event this spring - ney High School football team. Penney is ERs. All of the above are planning to re­ continued.) our 45th Reunion. You'll be hearing more being absorbed into East Hartford High turn for the 50th along with the ED Lastly, your SECRETARY has had an about it soon from the Reunion Commit­ School and Ted, being near retirement age, CRAIGs, BOB DAUT, the GRAHAM uneventful recovery from a cataract oper­ tee, chaired by JACK WILCOX and ED didn't get the East Hartford coaching job. DAYs, HOFF BENJAMINs, BRYANT ation and eye implant in October. No prob­ BARRETT. Get our your calendars now Described by the Hartford Courant as "the GREENs and the BILL JACKSONs and lems, but a "be careful" recovery. and circle June 7, 8, 9 and 10 for the 45th State's winningest active high school coach many others. We expect a large turnout. Class Agent: Dr. Orson H. Hart Reunion at Trinity. (210-105-11)," he admits that he loathes Local committees are active and eager. Class Agent: Ethan F. Bassford the prospect of idle Saturdays. But he had Helping Phyllis celebrate her birthday one satisfaction denied to most victims of anniversary at Chatham, Cape Cod this fall merger. In the last Thanksgiving Day were the Tuckers and Benjamins repre­ 36 game between the traditional rivals Pen­ senting '34 along with many good Trinity 40 ney trounced East Hartford 20-13. friends such as the DON ENGLEYs, the T. LOWRY SINCLAIR and his wife, Class Agent: John T. Carpenter JOE RUSSOs and the DON VIE RINGs. Celina, enjoyed a three-week visit to main­ JOHN L. RITTER writes that he is "re­ Class Agent: John E. Kelly land China in May-June, 1983. "T.L." was tired and enjoying swimming at Trin at Martin D. Wood a member of a naval architects' delegation noon several times a week." 4741 23rd St. North Albert W. Baskerville on a technical mission sponsored by Peo­ Class Agent: Walter E. Borin 42 Arlington, VA 22207 P.O. Box 548 ple-to-People International. Travel by air, 35 Derry, NH 03038 train, bus, and boat took them to 6 cities DICK BESTOR has retired from the before leaving by way of Hong Kong. He Ted Wessner is the latest recipient of State Bank for Savings (now People's writes, "Trips to shipyards, research facil­ the Warner Scholarship. Ted has written Frank A. Kelly, Jr. Bank) and now resides at 40 Ridgewood your SECRETARY expressing his appre­ ities, and universities were embellished by 21 Forest Dr. Rd., Windsor 06095. ciation for the financial assistance being official receptions, technical sessions, 41 Newington, CT 06111 CHARLES FRESHER writes that his sightseeing, entertainment, and banquets afforded him. He is a sophomore hailing son, Charles M. , having graduated from from Durham, NH. His courses this year: at every stop. It was exhausting for all in Among executives whose positions have Assumption College and in May '83 from Computing, Calculus, American Political the group, but we had a wonderful time!" been eliminated by merger can now be Catholic University Law School, recently Parties, Microeconomic Theory and East "T.L." had spent his boyhood in China with Asian Civilization. Sounds like quite a missionary parents and attended the challenge. Ted is on the varsity hockey Shanghai American School as a junior be­ fore eventually entering Trinity. team which will use a little of his spare time from 8:00 to 10:00 each night. Long He writes further, "My work has been AREA ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES going well, though cluttered now with a range, he expects to major in economics and possibly a double major in English. series of talks we have to give on China as FAIRFIELD COUNTY- President Frederick M. Tobin '57, Tel: (203) 655- Next September he is scheduled for a two­ a result of the trip. I must admit that Celi­ 8482. credit internship at the State Capitol. na moves faster and does more than I, but I have learned long since not to try to keep On December 4th Carroll and Fred Tobin hosted a reception at their lovely This is a good time to put in my perennial up with women. I will probably never re­ home in Darien, Connecticut. President James F. English, Jr. addressed the plug for contributions to the Warner Fund. tire, but seem to have reached a peak fi­ lively turnout. Please forward whatever you choose to me. nally that will mean more relaxed I'll respond to every letter. Come on, make enjoyment of life including golf." me work! NORTHEASTERN OHIO - President Richard G. Mecaskey '51, Tel: (216) A note has come from BILL WALKER, STEW OGILVY and his wife, Avis, 371-3572. a nine-year councilman in Hopewell, NJ. spent a July week at Elderhostel on the The annual holiday party for prospective Trinity applicants, undergraduates, He ran unopposed and won with 438 votes. campus of the University of Southern alumni/ae and parents was held at the home of Dan Moore '63. This affair is a Bill must be doing something right. Maine. They were delighted to find that their professor for "The Literature of vital part of the College's effort to increase the number of students from BOB LAU has done it: he has retired Northeastern Ohio attending Trinity next fall. 31 from the Bureau of Veterans Services, Sport" was Trin (and Kent) classmate, Dr. New Jersey Department of Human Serv­ JACK HANNA. Stew writes, "Professor ices after 25 years. August, 1983 was when Hanna won appreciative acclaim from all PHILADELPHIA- President B. Graeme Frazier III, Tel: (215) 836-5682. Bob hung up his well-worn running shoes. his students for providing 7 V2 fascinating Susannah Hesche] '73, editor of a recently published anthology, On Being a But I'm sure he isn't through running his classroom hours. Before and after the .Jewish Feminist, was guest speaker at the first luncheon meeting on Decem­ extra-curricular activities. Bob considers week, he and his wife, Inga, entertained ber 13th. Her lively and interesting talk elicited many questions from the this early retirement as he is a young 72. us royally." audience. Stew sends news of classmates: His latest award - for outstanding com­ Isabel and BERT SCULL are !)OW re­ munity service was one presented by BALTIMORE- President Donald W. Carroll, Jr. '62, Tel: (301) 823-4202. the County of Mercer, NJ Board of Chosen tired and have been to Florida four times in the past year. They also traveled to Over 75 alumni/ae and friends attended a reception at the U.S. Naval Acad­ Freeholders. Bob occasionally lunches with emy Alumni House on January 14th, following the hockey game between BOB DAUT '34 and SIS SAMPERS. Re­ Maine, Newport, Cape Cod and Alaska. cently he heard from ED MAY '37 now SAL PIACENTE, M.D. has been ap­ Trinity and the Academy. · living in Canada. pointed to the Alumni Councillor Staff for the Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA, for three A missive from ERIC PURDON tells HARTFORD- President Donald B. Reder '69, Tel: (203) 233-4435. years. that he recently reached the three score The 24th annual Trinity Club of Hartford banquet was held on November ten mark. He had a real celebration - 86 Sally anCalifornia news. In May, FRANK dress or to the alumni office. Cia"- Juno 1984 west: ALLISON AKE in Kansas City, and HOLMES '77 and CLAUDIA PERRY­ BARBARA CASTLE GINSBERG was i"'""'"" WENDY BIDDLEMAN in Omaha. HOLMES visited L.A. for an American married in June 1983 (see Weddings) and Barbara Karlen Blitstein STEW ART BECKWITH is in the credit Library Association Convention, provid­ runs her own art business. She and her department at CBT in Hartford. ing the Pattersons a change to host a mini­ husband, a lawyer with Walker, Smith, & 587 Malvern Rd. Akron, OH 44303 SUE CARELLO is doing advertising for reunion. Karen and MIKE GILMAN with Palmer in New London, are building a 79 Sage Allen. daughter, Sara (born early '83), attended home in Stonington. MYRON GUDZ is a programmer at with Nancy and BOB SEARS '75. Mike is SANDRA SMITH wrote from Chicago LYNNE BAG DIS WILSON writes of her June wedding (see Weddings). Shere­ Hartford Hospital after graduating from now an institutional salesman with Smith to announce her wedding on Christmas RPI/Hartford Graduate Center this June Barney ("they eeern it!"). Elaine adds that Day '83 to Dion Coleman (see Weddings). ceived her MBA from Harvard in June, 1983. Currently she is a consultant with with a master's in biomedical engineering. in June she caught up with JOE KLUGER SOPHIE BELL has returned to First DEANNE MCKEE is assistant director '77 who was on tour with the Philharmonic Boston Corp. where she is an associate. Digital Equipment Corp. in Somerville, MA. "Enjoying hi tech immensely." of a new language school in Osaka, Japan. (SUSIE didn't get to join that trip west), She also noted that her wedding is sched­ After graduation from Trinity she went to and that the Pattersons' trip to Hong uled for June 1984 (see Engagements) and DAVID PARR graduated from Syra­ cuse Law School in May, 1983 and is now Japan to teach English to Japanese busi­ Kong, Macao and Hawaii was "sensa­ that DIANA LEE, MEREDITH MAIN­ nessmen. Since that time she and a Japa­ tional." Just south of L.A. in San Diego, HARDT GRAVES, LESLIE HYDE '76 an associate with Widett, Slater and Gold­ man in Boston. nese friend have created their own GREG SCHIEMAN, M.D. checks in from and CACKlE BOSTWICK '79 will be in language school. UCSD where he's a medical resident. the wedding party. Chairmen for '79's great 5th Reunion June 7-10 are none other than your SEC­ ROBERT PROCTOR is a software spe­ Back East, DAVE MERIWETHER PAUL DEFORD is now living in New cialist at Digital Equipment Corp. in writes that he's a resident in urological York where he is an investment specialist RETARY, LIZ KELLY DRONEY and TOM CHOLNOKY. Watch your mailboxes Bridgeport. He lives in New Canaan. surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. with the firm of Douglas, Elliman, Knight, ART STERN is presently working and He adds that two years of surgery at Van­ eta!. and look for a full schedule of events in this issue of The Reporter. living in Chicago. He is employed as a mar­ derbilt were a struggle, but now he's doing AL YSON HENNING wrote to say she keting representative for Warner's Lin­ kidney transplants. He also says, "Hello to has a new job with the Silver Palate, a Class Agent: Deborah Kunhardt gerie, a division of the Warnaco Group out BOB COX." gourmet food company in NYC. Her hus­ of Bridgeport. Two notes are in from Maryland. DEB­ band since July '83, Alex Walker, is with Charles A. Tiernan, III, Esq. ORAH CAMALIER WALKER reports Cunningham & Walsh, an advertising 7 Cypress Drive Class Agents: Richard P. Dahling from Potomac that she's-expecting a sec­ agency. 80 Branford, CT 06405 Sibley Gillis ond child in February, 1984, and that she Recently had lunch with SANDY WEE­ helped organize a local chapter of "make a DON and he is now in commercial lending Greetings! I hope this writing finds Tom Hefferon wish" - an organization that grants last with the Bank of New England in Boston everyone well. Our classmates continue to 42 King St. wishes to terminally ill children; and WILL and lives nearby in Chestnut Hill. Sandy be successful in their pursuits. Unfortu­ 82 Hartford, CT 06114 BAKER writes from Holy Beach Farm in passed along the following: JOHN KEN­ nately, we have not heard from many of Annapolis that he continues as president DALL is in his second year of the Babson our ranks. When you get a chance, scribble Back again with a quick edition of notes. of Chesapeake Bay Foundation and was College MBA program. JOHN KITCHEN a short note and send it to us. We look I left some of my material in Chicago, so married to Mayer Martin Roberts in Octo­ and others have started an ad agency in forward to hearing from everyone. there's not much news this time. Sorry ber (see Weddings). Boston. TIM GHRISKEY is at the Univer­ AMY POLAYES is in New York City Further south in North Carolina, STE­ sity of Virginia in their MBA program. with Prudential Bache Securities, Inc. What I do have is quite a mixed bag. PHANIE BORYK EVANCHO sent me an MARGO HALLE works in NYC with ABC DAVID SNYDER WINE is with Arthur New York City has attracted a few more address change in Raleigh where she works Sports Beat. Young and Company in Washington, D.C. '82ers for itself. CLAUDIA PIPER re­ as secretary to the purchasing manager A reminder that there is a lengthy lag A couple of our classmates have opted ports that she has a position with Chemical for Empire Brushes, while her spouse is between submission of news and its publi­ for the warm climate of California. SAN­ Bank on Park Avenue in the city. Also visiting artist for Pitt County as an opera cation. Also, I wrote this article while stuck DRA RUFF YOUNG is a sales coordinator banking on New York are SCOTT CAS­ singer. on a snowbound runway at Logan Airport with Bridgeport Textron of Fremont, CA. SIE at National Westminster Bank and Back up in Trinity's neighborhood, so the repeat of previously reported news Sandra writes, "Hi! I married Joseph A. DAVE CONGDON who is a relationship RICHARD HOTES got some press in the or use of improper grammar is hereby for- Young, Jr., November 20, 1982, who grad- manager at Chase Manhattan. BETH SHIPLEY notes that she is a draftsman LIZ EAGLESON is presently a trust ad· MCDONALD, the moonlighting musician, 1970 for William Tabler Architects downtown. ministrator in the trust department (where will be appearing on New Jersey Public CLYDE HENDERSON was promoted Finally from the Big Apple, DARYL else would a trust admin. be?) at Chase Television with his two bands in late De· to administrative vice president for H. FROELICH has landed a position as as· Manhattan Bank in New York City, and cember; and JIM GRENEN is studying at Pearce Company, Realtors. He also heads sistant to the vice president of Sotheby like JULIE VEALE, employed at Euro­ the University of Pittsburgh Law School, up the industrial commercial department Parke Bernet! pean American Bank, is "in the money" and is "spending a little more time in aca­ for the company. The Boston area has continued to pull in world. Other big business people are demic-related endeavors these days." its share as well. MARK MODICA, fresh DONNA SMUKLER who works in the tax In letters from LAUREN GRIFFEN 1973 from completion of an MS program at shelter department at Shearson-American (working at Kennedy Airport for an inter· KARLA HAMMOND's book of poems, Northeastern, is now a staff associate at Express; HENRY D'AURIA, who is not a national finance firm, Deak-Perera Inter­ No Namefo·r Season, is scheduled for pub­ Touche Ross in the city and lives in New· bio-chemist, not a brain surgeon, but an national, dealing in foreign currency lication by Linwood Publishers. ton. In South Boston meanwhile, CAROL auto-analyst for Paine Webber. (Henry was exchange and trading of precious metals) PASSARELLI is working for Camera recently quoted in the New York Times, and JIM MAFFIOLINI (an applications 1977 Graphics while she lives in the city. Just making him the first Class of '83 member programmer with the Hartford Insurance ROBERT A. LANDGRAFF is supervi· outside Boston in Norwood, home to JOE to be quoted in that paper, twice in one Group) I have learned about many more sor of information systems at Pratt & DIMARINO (who is doing fine with his new year.) members of our class. BRUCE ZAWOD­ Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford. job and choir), JULIE ASARKOF REECE After JOHN SWAIN duped me into NIAK works in technical services at the DONALD Y ACOVONE received a one­ checks in. Married to John Reece in Aug· thinking he was an assistant CEO (a CEO Hartford Insurance Group; PETER BAR· year appointment to the University of Ar· ust, she has a new job as a sales assistant is the equivalent of a president or chair­ ZACH is working at Pratt and Whitney in izona history department. He offers at WSBK-TV and is taking courses to· man of the board) he confessed that in all E. Hartford; RICK BARONE is an engi· courses in American political, intellectual wards her master's degree in communica­ honesty he was merely an account sup­ neer for a medical instrument firm in and religious history. tions. BRENDA ERIE is also in the area porter at Young and Rubicam. I don't know Stamford; RASHNE DESAI works for an - living in Concord and working at the what an account supporter is, however. international trading company in New 1982 Computer Museum which has been newly JIM FREDERICK is very successful York while pursuing a job in a New York PEGGY JACOBS KOURY has trans· relocated on the museum wharf in down­ working for Jones, Lang, and Wooton, a bank; GLEN D' ABATE is at the Hartford ferred from Connecticut National Bank's town Beantown. commercial real estate firm; LARRY Graduate Center for his master's and international division to its correspondent Joining me in Chicago, two members of GREENBERG was about to start a job works at St. Francis Hospital; P ANI­ banking department. our class have reported their new loca­ with Data Resources; MASON MCKEAN PORN PHIANSUNTHON is a program­ tions. CATHY ROCCA writes that she is is living in Spanish Harlem and working at mer at Quo Data in Hartford; BRUNO a researcher for the Commission on His· Lord and Taylor which she says is "not JUGOVIC is a programmer at Business tori cal and Architectural Landmarks. And, boring." She did not say what it is though; Computer Systems in Newington; FER­ as I reported before, ROB AHRENS­ ALEX BANKER is writing for a local NANDO VIDAL is at The Travelers in In Memory DORF has given up the sun of Florida for community paper in New York; and Hartford; DAVE WYNTER is a program· the books at Northwestern's Kellogg DAVID WALKER resides on Fifth Ave· mer at CIGNA and is still appearing on Graduate School of Management. nue, so I expect he has occasion to watch a WRTC's "Thought Power;" TIM YASUI In the Hartford area there are still a few lot of parades. is the manager of a record store out near SAMUEL NIRENSTEIN, 1919 more of us hanging in there. ALLISON Up in Boston, RUTH FLAHERTY is still Manchester; and MARLENE ARLING is living with SUE FISKE. Ruth is working working as a counselor at a halfway house Samuel Nirenstein of Jerusalem, Israel HOWE is a graduate student in clinical died on December 6, 1983. He was 84. psychology at UConn in Storrs. KAL in banking and Sue is a paralegal, and both in Torrington. are very happy with their jobs and their Still studying are LORENZO PINTO for Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from CHATURVEDI now has a job with Kaman Hartford Public High School before at­ apartment. SASHA OPEL is working with his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Berke­ Aerospace as a technical programmer in tending Trinity, where he received his B.A. retarded children in Cambridge, and is ap· ley; JOE RA V ALESE who is a research the research department in Bloomfield. degree in 1919. He was a member of Phi Although this report is sketchy, based on plying to graduate school for a master's in assistant at Harvard Med School; AMY social work. MARTHA PYLE is working JOHNSON at Duke Law and BOB MARK­ Beta Kappa. He was awarded the M.A. the Hartford phone number and what I degree from the University of Pennsylva­ have been told, HENRY CROPSEY is at at Harvard as a research assistant. KEVIN STEIN at Duke on an MBA program; EL­ ZITNAY, after ballooning in France this LEN TATTENBAUM is studying at nia in 1921, the Ph.D. from Dropsie Col· UConn Law School and lives in Hartford. lege in 1922, and the L.L.B. from Columbia 36 Finally, everywhere but really anywhere past summer with CHRIS HOLMGREN, SUNY Binghamton and ALLEN LE­ is doing research in vascular physiology in PORE is at Cornell Grad School. Law School in 1924. In 1973 he was the STEVE PEKOCK is a consultant for Ha­ r.ecipient of Trinity's 150th Anniversary ney Associates, a job which sends him all Beantown; and TIM MARTIN will be In a final note, I heard from SCOTT dancing with the Dance Collective in NESBITT who is still singing and search­ Award. around the country for temporary consult· In 1925 he began private law practice. ing jobs. Most recently he has been in Can· Boston. ing for work. He reports that ANDREA Living in and around Connecticut are: MOONEY and CHARLIE INGERSOLL He served as law secretary to New York ton, NY, reports KAREN PETERSEN Supreme Court Justice Philip J. McCook (still there working in development for St. MARISSA OCASIO who is an underwrit­ are happy working for the committee to er at CIGNA in Bloomfield; DANIEL re-elect the President. And I learned "from from 1933-1943, when he resumed private Lawrence University) who says that she practice. O'CONNER, who lives with his wife in the desk of BERT BANTA ... I quit my has seen quite a lot of him in the past few He was an instructor in philosophy at months. Farmington, was recently promoted to the job and returned to Los Angeles mainly position of consultant with the Lockridge because I did not like New York that the Hebrew Union College School, direc­ I'm anxious to hear of news from the tor of the Hebrew Teachers Training Head of the Charles, Homecoming and Group, Inc., based in New Haven; DAVID much." Well, it's the Big Apple's loss. BEREY is a credit analyst for Colonial I am still teaching and am hoping to be­ School, president of Union Orthodox Jew· Christmas visits. Surely everyone can take ish Congregations of America, consultant Bank in Waterbury; LESLIE LAUE is a gin a master's program at NYU this sum· a moment to let me know whom they saw for the Law Revision Commission for the stock analyst in the equity research de­ mer. I hope all is well and I hope you are so that I can spread the good news to State of New York, a member of the exec­ partment of CBT, thanks to a Trinity in­ all prospering - good luck in 1984. Send everyone else who is interested. Just drop utive committee of the American Jewish me a line when you get a chance. Mean· ternship; ALICE SIMON is a research me some Doublespeak so I can report to coordinator in economic development for Big Brother. Conference Welfare Board, and director while, take care, everyone. of Yeshiva University. the Greater Hartford Chamber of Com· Class Agents: Patricia Hooper Class Agents: AnneN. Ginsburgh Surviving is a son, Julius J., of Los An­ merce; DAN MOALLI is pursuing a form Steven Elmendorf Charles Guck geles, CA; and four sisters. of advertising as an agent with Creative LauraMecke Program Design in West Hartford; SCOTT Laura A. Wilcox KENNEDY is going for his Ph.D. in im· JOHN HILDER JOHNSON, 1923 11 '12 Huntington St., A6 munology at UConn Health Center; also MASTERS John H. Johnson of Irvine, CA died in 83 Hartford, CT 06105 studying at UConn (starting next Septem­ 1979. He was 82. ber) will be JAKE EDWARDS for a mas­ 1947 Born in East Boston, MA, he attended The holiday season is upon us as I write ter's in social work. He hasn't given up ART SEBELIUS announces the birth of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN this report, and while the snow flurries rock and roll, and continues to play, now a new granddaughter, Amanda Sebelius. before entering Trinity, where he at­ down, and I settle in for a brief vacation, I with Junction 1019; TRACY SP ARMER He writes that he and his wife traced their tended with the Class of 1923, and was a remember last year this time ... finishing is a free-lance audio electronics technician family roots in Sweden. member of Delta Kappa Epsilon frater· a paper in Goodwin Lounge in hopes of in the Hartford area. nity. He received his B.S. degree from the reaching home before Christmas Eve. Now As for mise-information, LISA CAR· 1949 University of Pennsylvania in 1923. I recall the panic as I am once again ROLL is planning to join the Air Force; DOROTHY DEARLE sends word of the He served as a sergeant in the Army in hunched over a typewriter trying to meet also joining the ranks will be STEVE death of her husband last June. World War I. He had been employed as a a deadline. I have received a tremendous MORRIS, who is signing on with the Navy; salesman. amount of news from our class since BO LEWIS is a staff engineer for the Vi­ 1969 Surviving is his wife, Ruth H. Johnson, Homecoming Weekend, so prepare your· tro Corp. in Silver Spring, MD. His job is Colonel ANTHONY SHOOKUS partici· ofirvine. selves for all sorts of juicy and not-so-juicy "to ensure the safety of nuclear weapons pated in a canoe trip in May. He writes, tidbits. systems aboard Trident and Poseidon subs "From Shin Pond, ME bush pilot flew us (one canoe) into Fifth St. John Pond. From GRANVILLE KIMBALL FRISBIE, Homecoming was a festival of old faces and associated sub bases around the U.S." 1926 transformed into new. It seems that every· Bo spent his summer in Calcutta living there we embarked on a 10-day canoe trip one, whether working, studying, or without beef. TINA TRICARICHI is down the St. John River in Northern Maine Granville K. Frisbie of Paradise, CA died searching, is happy with his/her post· studying at Oxford University in England; to St. Francis, ME. It rained for 7 days. on February 26, 1983. He was 79. college lifestyle. Playing the role of cub­ GINNY DODSON i~ moving from Wind· Although we received water in the canoe Born in Equinunk, P A, he graduated reporter, I scribbled notes in the cold, and sor, England to Wales, where she will be on many occasions, we managed to nego· from Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, while I couldn't tell you if we won or not, I working at an adventure camp; MARK tiate the many rapids, including the 2 Vz PA. He attended Trinity with the Class of spoke to many who were equally inatten· DIBBLE, after spending his summer trav· mile Big Rapids, Class IV, near Dickey, 1926 and was a member of Alpha Chi Rho tive to the game and more concerned with eling in Europe, is now working some· without too much trouble. Quite a trip- I fraternity. He also attended Pennsylvania the yearbook. where in New York City; MARC recommend it to the canoe buff." State University, Los Angeles City Col- lege and Palmer College, where he re­ Born in Vienna, Austria, he came from At the time of his death he was employed ceived his Doctor of Chiropractic degree. Hartford Public High School to Trinity as a chemist at the Lyndahl Chemical STANLEY OBERMAN HOERR, JR., He served with the Marine Corps and where he attended with the Class of 1929. Company in Lyndhurst, NJ. 1963 retired in 1938 as a first lieutenant. He He also attended Ohio State University and He leaves his wife, Virginia Fritz Fer­ Stanley 0 . Hoerr, Jr. of Fort Washing­ was an ordained pastor in the Church of received his D.M.D. degree from Tufts rante; two daughters, Alanae Scibienski, ton, PA died on November 17, 1983. He Religious Science and was a chiropractic University in 1937. and Alicia Cupo; two brothers and four was42. doctor for many years. Active in the Ma­ After his discharge from the Army fol­ grandchildren. Born in Boston, he attended the Hawken sons, he attained the 33rd degree. lowing World War II, he practiced den­ School in Cleveland, OH, Exeter Academy Surviving are his ,wife, Elizabeth K. tistry in West Hartford. He had lived in LORING CHANDLER PRATT, 1952 in Exeter, NH and the University School Frisbie, of Paradise,- CA; a son, Franklin the Florida Keys since 1965. Loring C. Pratt of Atlanta, GA died on in Cleveland. At Trinity he was a member He leaves his wife, Doris Lord Taute, of C.; a sister and a niece. October 26, 1983. He was 56. of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, director of Valhalla Island; five sons, Rudolph, of Or­ Born in Newark, NJ, he graduated from the Trinidads, and a member of the track lando, FL, Richard C., of Westerville, OH, BRERETON HARMON MUCKLOW, Mt. Hermon School in Massachusetts. At team. He received his B.A. degree in 1963. Michael, of Cairo, Egypt, and Marathon, 1926 Trinity he was a member of Delta Kappa He was awarded a bachelor of divinity de­ Jon, of Valhalla Island, and Robert R., of Epsilon fraternity and received his B.A. gree from the San Francisco Theological Brereton H. Mucklow of Glastonbury, Marathon; a sister and six grandchildren. CT died on January 8, 1984. He was 80. degree in 1952. Seminary in 1967 and was a doctoral can­ Born in Hartford, he graduated from He was an Army veteran of World War didate in philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. West Hartford High School before going JOHN DAMON FOTHERGILL, 1933 II. He had been a district sales manager Before coming to Germantown Acad­ on to Middlebury College and Trinity John D. Fothergill ofWestHartford, CT for Anaconda Metal Hose and was semi­ emy where he was Dean of Boys, he had where he attended with the Class of 1926. died on December 29, 1983. He was 72. retired at the time of his death. He was a taught at the Hawken School. He had been He entered the real estate business in Born in Hartford, he graduated from the member of the East Lake Country Club managing editor of the Review of Meta­ Glastonbury in 1931, opening a second of­ Loomis School before entering Yale Uni­ and the Atlanta Athletic Club. physics, a national magazine. fice there in 1945. For many years he versity. He attended Trinity with the Class He leaves his wife, Patricia Pratt, of At­ Surviving are a daughter, Hilary J.; a served the town of Glastonbury as second of 1933. lanta; a daughter, Leslie Bryan, of At­ son, Jason N.; his parents, Dr. and Mrs. selectman. Before retiring in 1973, he was an assist­ lanta; three sons, Steven, Robert and Stanley Hoerr; two brothers and two His affiliations included the Referral As­ ant secretary of the London-Lancashire Scott, all of Atlanta; and two brothers. sisters. sociates of Connecticut which is a service Insurance Company. for independent license holders, the An Army Air Corps veteran of World GEORGE SANFORD HAMEL Y, 1958 GEORGE E . KING, M.A. 1968 Greater Hartford Board of Realtors, the War II, he was a past president of the GeorgeS. Hambly of Wakefield, RI died George E. King of Simsbury, CT died on Connecticut Association of Independent Laurel Camera Club of West Hartford, a on November 15, 1983. He was 47. December 19, 1983. He was 79. Insurance Agents, the Connecticut Asso­ volunteer at the West Hartford Library, Born in Newport, RI, he graduated from Born in Norman, IL, he was a graduate and a member of the Royal Guard of the ciation of Mutual Insurance Agents, the Rogers High School there. He attended of the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval Royal Globe Insurance Company. Exchange Club, the Glastonbury Elks Trinity with the Class of 1958 and gradu­ Post Graduate School, and Harvard Busi­ He is survived by his wife, Janet Harris Club, the Glastonbury Chamber of Com­ ated from Albany Medical College in 1966. ness School A.M.P. Program. He received Fothergill, of West Hartford; two sons, merce, Republican Town Committee, and He was a resident in surgery at Rhode his M.A. degree from Trinity in 1968. Charles H., of Springfield, OH, and Don­ the Glastonbury First Church of Christ. Island Hospital until1972. Retiring after 31 years in the Navy, he ald W., of Toledo, OH; a daughter, Sarah He is survived by his wife, Emily Holt In addition to his work in private prac­ worked for Arrow Jet General Corpora­ E. O'Hare, of Wethersfield; a sister; sev­ Mucklow of Glastonbury; a daughter, Jane tice and at the hospital, he was the South tion in Sacramento, CA, and the Ensign­ eral grandchildren and two nephews. Chamay, of Glastonbury; a grandson, Ste­ Kingstown police surgeon. His other affil­ Bickford Company in Simsbury. He taught vens B. Chamay, of Bennington, VT; and iations included the Cancer Society and the at Weaver High School in Hartford, the a brother. .JOHN BARBOUR CARSON, 1935 Boy Scouts, which he served in advisory Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA, John B. Carson of Beaufort, SC died on capacities. and was assistant headmaster at Charlotte WILLIAM NICOL, 1926 August 6, 1983. He was 70. He is survived by his wife, Mary L. Ham­ Hall Military Academy in southern Mary­ William Nicol of Southbury, CT died on Born in Grand Rapids, MI, he graduated bly; a son, Michael; and a daughter, land. He also taught at A von Old Farms December 14, 1983. He was 80. from Sewickley High School in Sewickley, Joanna, all of Wakefield. School in A von and was adjunct professor Born in Scotland, he graduated from PA. At Trinity he was a cheerleader, a at the University of Hartford. His affiliations included the Simsbury Hartford Public High School before at­ member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the THOMAS DEAL REESE, JR., 1961 tending Trinity. A member of Alpha Chi Jesters, and the swim team. United Methodist Church, the Naval Acad­ Thomas D. Reese, Jr. of Gaithersburg, Rho fraternity, the College Senate, the He served as a captain in the Army from emy Alumni Association of Connecticut, track team, the basketball team, and cap­ 1939 to 1945 in the field artillery. He was MD died on December 6, 1983, as the re­ Retired Officers Association, Navy Lea­ tain of the tennis team, he received his retired from Rumrill Hoyt, Inc. where he sult of an automobile accident in German­ gue, American Legion, Squires Civitan town, MD. He was 44. B.S. degree in 1926. had been a public relations executive. Club, and the Simsbury Codgers. Before retiring in 1968, he was director Surviving are a brother and a nephew. Born in Lufkin, TX, he graduated from He leaves his wife, Georgina Damon high school in Houston. At Trinity he was of the budget of the New York Transit King, of Simsbury; two daughters, Mari­ vice president of Alpha Delta Phi frater­ lyn K. Bartle, of Simsbury, and Patricia Authority. He was a member of the ROBERT MURNANE KELLY, 1937 Professional Engineers Society. nity, senior warden of the vestry, captain Sell, of La Jolla, CA; a brother; seven Robert M. Kelly of Madison, CT died on A former Eagle Scout, he had served as of the freshman and varsity football teams, grandchildren and several nieces and January 16, 1984. He was 69. chairman of the organization and exten­ a member of the lacrosse team, president nephews. sion committee for the West Central Dis­ Born in Hartford, CT, he graduated from of the sophomore dining club, co-chairman Hartford Public High School before at­ of the Canterbury Club, and a member of trict of the Boy Scouts in Stewart Manor, ALFRED MAXIMILIAN tending Trinity, where he received his B.A. the student senate. He received his B.A. NY. GRUENTHER, Hon. 1959 degree in 1937. He was awarded his M.A . Surviving are his wife, Georgena Par­ from Trinity in 1961 and his M.B.A. from degree from the University of Connecticut Alfred M. Gruenther of Washington, sons Nicol, of Southbury; two daughters, George Washington University in 1973. in 1952. For many years he served as sec­ D.C. died on May 30, 1983. He was 84. Jean Lamm, of Pound Ridge, NY, and Ja­ He attained the rank of captain in the retary for the Class of 1937. Born in Nebraska, he graduated from net Trimble, of Atlanta, GA; a sister and Marine Corps where he served in Vietnam He began his 35-year career as a Hart­ and the Dominican Republic from 1961 to West Point. He received honorary degrees five grandchildren. ford educator in 1937, working as a substi­ 1970. He was awarded the Silver Star, the from 38 universities, including Harvard, tute teacher. Purple Heart and the Presidential Unit Yale and Columbia, and the doctor of laws CHARLES N. RODENS, 1928 He joined the Army Air Corps in 1939 Citation medals. degree from Trinity in 1959. Charles N. Rodens of Newington, CT and in 1945 returned to teaching at Hart­ Upon leaving the military, he joined the The youngest four-star general in Army died on December 25, 1983. ford Public High School. Soon afterward Postal Service as a congressional liaison. history, he served as deputy chief of staff Born in Hartford, CT, he attended Trin­ he became director of the school system's He became executive assistant to the Post­ under Dwight D. Eisenhower and was the ity with the Class of 1928. He was a grad­ adult education program which expanded master General in 1979 and director of designer of the plan for the Allied invasion uate of Boston University Law School. significantly during his 15-year tenure. He strategic analysis in 1981. Subsequently, of French North Africa. During World War II he served as a spe­ was appointed assistant superintendent of he was named a vice president of Ziehl In 1951 he became chief of staff of NATO cial agent in the Army. He worked for the schools in 1962 and superintendent in 1973. Associates, a Long Island, NY telecom­ headquarters. Upon retiring from the Veterans Administration Legal Depart­ In 1974 he was awarded the Alumni munications firm. Army in 1956, he was named president of ment. For many years he served as clerk Medal for Excellence from Trinity. Active in civic and community affairs, he the American Red Cross where he served for the Court of Common Pleas and upon He leaves his wife, Ann Mosher Kelly, of served as a commissioner of his town plan­ until1964. retiring, resumed private practice. Madison; two sons, Robert M., Jr., of ning commission and was a member of St. He leaves two sons, Donald A., of Falls His affiliations included membership in Ridgefield, and David, of Manchester; a Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, MD. Church, VA, and Richard L., of Cornwall­ Emanuel Synagogue, the Hartford daughter, Elizabeth, of New York City; He served as a member of the Trinity . on-Hudson, VA; 13 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. County, Connecticut State and American and a granddaughter. Club of Washington Executive Committee Bar Associations, and the Indian Hill and as a class agent for the Class of 1961. Country Club. He was also a volunteer at In 1969 he was awarded the alumni asso­ PAUL W. MEYER Hartford Hospital. GERALD ROBERT FERRANTE, 1949 ciation's "Achievement in Life Award." The College has received word of the He is survived by three sisters and sev­ Gerald R. Ferrante of Edison, NJ died He leaves his wife, Catharine C. Reese; death of Paul W. Meyer, who was a mem­ eral nieces and nephews. on October 30, 1983. He was 57. three daughters, Whitney, Courtney and ber of the faculty at Trinity during the Born in Hartford, he graduated from Tindal, all of Gaithersburg; his parents and early 1960s. A graduate of the University Bulkeley High School. He received his B.S. a sister. The Thomas D. Reese Memorial of Denver, Meyer came to Trinity in 1960 RUDOLPH JOSEPH TAUTE, 1929 degree from Trinity in 1949 and his M.S. Fund has been established at Trinity. as consultant to the library and lecturer in Rudolph J . Taute of Valhalla Island, in 1953. Those interested may send contributions government following a 25-year career as Marathon, FL died on December 22, 1983. He was a veteran of the Army, having in care of the Development Office, Trinity a U.S. foreign service officer. He was 79. served in World War II. College, Hartford, CT 06106.