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Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues Trinity serial publications (1850 - present) 12-1-1963 Trinity College Bulletin, 1962-1963 (Report of the Dean) Trinity College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin Recommended Citation Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, 1962-1963 (Report of the Dean)" (1963). Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues. 257. http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/257 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Trinity serial publications (1850 - present) at Trinity College Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues by an authorized administrator of Trinity College Digital Repository. EPORT OF THE DEAN r the Academic Year 1962-1963 Corporation ALBERT CHARLES JACOB , LL.D., President* Hartford JAMES LIPPINCOTT GooDWIN, M.F. * Hartford MARTIN WITHINGTON CLEMENT, D.ENG., LL.D. Philadelphia Pa. RoBERT BARNARD O'CoNNOR, D.F.A. New York, N.Y. LYMAN BusHNELL BRAINERD, B.A., V ice Chairman* Hartford ARNOLD HENRY Mo E , B.A., Secretary* Hartford JEROME PIERCE WEB TER, M.D.* New York, N.Y. JOHN RicHARD CooK, B.s.* Hartford ROBERT SEYMOUR MORRIS, M .. Hartford KARL WILLIAM HALLDEN, C.D. * Thomaston JOHN REINHART REITEMEYER, B.A. Hartford THE RT. REv. WALTER HENRY GRAY, .T.D. Hartford GEORGE KEITH FuN TON, L.H.D. * New York, N.Y. RAYMOND JOHN WEAN, SC.D. Warren, Ohio HENRY SAMUEL BEERS, B.A.* Hartford OsTROM ENDERS, B.A.* Avon GEORGE MALLETTE FERRIS, B.A.* Washington, D.C. ALLERTON CUSHMAN HICKMOTT, LITT.D. West Hartford GEORGE WARREN WYCKOFF, B.A. Pittsburgh Pa. VERTREES YOUNG, B.S. Bogalusa, La. BARCLAY SHAW, LL.B.* Chappaqua, N.Y. GLOVER JoHNSON, LL.D.* New York, N.Y. PAUL WINFREY ADAM , LL.B.t New York, N.Y. HARRIS KING PRIOR, D.F.A. t Rochester, N.Y. CHARLES THOMAS KINGSTON, JR., B .. t Hartford ARTHUR H. HUGHES, PH.D., Vice President ALBERT E. HOLLAND, M.A., Vice President J. KENNETH RoBERTSON, M.B.A., Treasttrer and Comptroller TRUSTEES EMERITI EDGAR FRANC! WATERMAN, LL.D. Hartford THOMAS WRIGHT Ru SELL, B.A. Hartford JAME LEWI THOMSON, PH.B. We t Hartford GEORGE STANLEY STEVEN ON, LL.D. ew Haven JOSEPH CAMPBELL, LL.D. Wa hington, D.C. NEWTON CA E BRAINARD, LL.D. Hartford BERN BUDD, LL.B. New York, .Y. PHILIP JAMES McCooK, LL.D. New York .Y. * These members of the Eoard form the Executive Committee. t Ele ted by the Alumni. Report of the Dean TO THE PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE: SIR: As Dean of the College, I have the honor to submit herewith a report for the academic year 1962-1963. A GENERATION OF TRINITY ALUMNI In seeking fairly objective means of measuring the effectiveness of an institution it is easy to forget to have a look at the alumni. No matter what the College Catalogue may say about the aims of a Trinity educa tion, it is a fact that we have been turning out a product which can pro vide us with informative statistics. I realize, of course, that success and happiness in life are elusive and imponderable factors, but something can nevertheless be learned from the occupations which Trinity gradu ates have chosen for lifetime careers. Consequently, I have compiled a list showing the occupations of all alumni of this College from the Class of 1934 to and including the Class of 1958. This covers twenty-five years, a generation of our alumni, and I decided to end with the Class of 1958 because more recent graduates are still studying or temporarily in the armed forces and for one reason or another have not yet settled down in an enduring occupation. Changes in callings after five years are not numerous enough to affect the picture significantly. Making use of the Alumni Directory, supplemented rather frequently by the college ·files and various city directories, I checked the occupations of 5110 alumni of Trinity. These represent the total membership of the quarter century of classes indicated above and is based on the latest avail able information. It turns out that 195 members of those classes had died during the 25 years and 7 of them had retired. Their occupations, never theless, are included in the following summarization: 1 ACCOUNTING 50 INSURANCE 512 ADVERTISING 77 - administration (128) ARCHITECTURE 26 - accounting (8) ART 15 - actuarial (19) BANKING 149 - advertising (8) - administration (32) - claims and adjusters (41) - accounting or opera- - investments (12) tions (20) - personnel (7) - investments (25) - public relations (6) - mortgage and loans (57) - recruiting (2) - personnel (15) - sales and agents (182) BROADCASTING 43 - underwriter (99) BUSINESS 190 INVESTMENTS 108 CONSTRUCTION- JOURNALISM 59 CONTRACTORS 68 LAW 291 DENTISTRY 66 LIBRARY WORK 10 EDUCATION 511 MEDIONE - elem administration (16) - Physicians, Surgeons 334 - elem teaching (31) - Other related work 34 - sec administration (35) MERCHANDISING 85 - sec teaching (233) MILITARY SERVICE 235 - college administration (21) MINISTRY 214 - college teaching (175) MORTUARY 3 ENGINEERING 245 MUSIC 4 ENTERTAINMENT 26 PHOTOGRAPHY 14 FARMING 25 PRINTING AND PUBLISHING 86 FORESTRY 2 PUBLIC RELATIONS 26 GOVERNMENT SERVICE 150 PUBLIC SERVICE 16 HOTEL MANAGEMENT 14 PUBLIC UTILITIES 75 INDUSTRY 991 REAL ESTATE 79 - administration (270) SCIENTISTS 53 - accounting (29') TRANSPORTATION 60 - advertising (19) -air (18) - engineering (109) -rail (21) -personnel (28) - steamship (9) - public relations (16) - trucking (12) - recruiting (5) WELFARE WORK 11 - sales (425) WRITING 22 - scientists (90) NOT KNOWN 95 Although some of the categories above duplicate or overlap one another, it is possible to observe, for instance, more engineers (including industrial engineers) than ministers, a statistic I did not foresee. About seven per cent of our alumni list themselves or are classified as engineers, and they are obviously in most instances not products of our engineering curricula. Their activities must be closely related to those classed as scien tists or industrial scientists, who would bring the total in these categories close to ten per cent. Jobs in industry constitute the largest category, involving about one out of every five. It is gratifying to me to learn that one out of ten chose education as a profession, almost exactly the same number that entered the field of insurance. Medicine and dentistry are practiced by eight per cent and the law by almost six per cent. With these facts before us, it may be of interest to single out the occupational choices of our very best students. If one examines the situa tion as it affects Holland scholars, valedictorians and salutatorians in the same 25 years, one could theoretically be dealing with as many as 125 individuals, but the actual number is 91 after duplications have been eliminated. Here it becomes evident, actuarially speaking, that good scholarship pays off in prospects of longevity, for only one of the 91 had 2 died, a percentage only one-fourth that of the larger group. Thirty. per cent, almost, of the top students are in edu~ation as compared with ten per cent of all alumni. Medicine and the ministry are the only other categories comprising ten per cent or more: The occupations of the top ranking students are as fol~ows: BANKING 1 INSURANCE 5 - mortgage and loans (1) - administration (3) - actuarial (1) BUSINESS 3 - sales and agents (1) EDUCATION 26 LA\Y./ 6 - elementary teaching ( 1) LIBRARY WORK 1 - secondary administration ( 1) MEDICINE 12 - secondary teaching (6) MERCHANDISING 1 - college administration (3) MILITARY SERVICE 3 - college teaching (15) MINISTRY 10 7, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING 1 ENGINEERING SCIENTISTS 1 GOVERNMENT SERVICE 2 TRANSPORTATION 1 INDUSTRY 8 -air (~) - administration (2) WRITING 1 - accounting (1) NOT KNOWN 2 -sales (2) ::- scientists (3) TOTAL 9'1 STUDENTS A perennial bone of contention at institutions of higher education is to be found in the inevitable discussions concerning student participation in the life of the college. On my desk at the moment is an inquiry from another college where this subject is currently an issue, requesting a statement that reflects my judgment on the relevance as well as the right of student involvement in the life of an institution. This is a relative matter, to be sure, and perhaps the answer varies a bit even from year to year .. Undoubtedly, however, representatives of the student body learn as much from their participation in the processes of government as they learn in the classroom, and I am convinced that as much responsibility should be delegated to them as they can handle, which is usually a con siderable share. I believe, for instance, that students should assume com-: plete responsibility for administering extracurricular activities and the budgets that go with them. Student discipline should involve responsible and representative student groups as a matter of course. I have no objec tions to an honor system, if there is adequate evidence of willingness and intent to enforce its codes, which means specifically to report and act upon violations that come to the attention of any student. The curricu lum, honors programs, and such matters, on the other hand, are in the province of the faculty and should remain so. In the light of our recent, nationally publicized student evaluation of our faculty, my only concern is not that the evaluation took place, but that the publicity inadvertently included faculty comments that were made originally with the assurance that they were off-the-record. Students evaluate faculty members, in any case, whether formally or informally, and there is much less chance for malicious gossip and vindictive or ill-informed misstatements in a formal type of evaluation in which precautions hav~ been taken against untruths. 3 Dr. 0. Wilson Lacy, Dean of Students, in reviewing for me the year just passed, believes that the following events represented high lights in the eyes of the students: 1.