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The Trinity Reporter, Summer 1987 Mrs. Donna F. Montgomery 543 Ol<l La urel HiiJ Road Norwich~ CT 06360 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Frank M. Child III DirkKuyk 1rrr~mil(Cy Professor of Biology Professor of English Gerald]. Hansen, Jr. '51 Theodore T. Tansi '54 Vol. 17, No.3 (ISSN 01643983) Summer 1987 Director of Alumni & College Relations Susan E. Weisselberg '76 Editor: William L. Churchill Associate Editor: Roberta Jenckes M '87 Sports Editor: Timothy M. Curtis '86 NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION StqffWriters: Martha Davidson, Elizabeth Natale Publications Assistant: Kathleen Davidson Executive Committee Consulting Editor: J. Ronald Spencer '64 President William H . Schweitzer '66 Washington. D.C. ARTICLES Vice Presidents SUMMER FICTION ISSUE Alumni Fund Robert E. Brickley '67 With this issue the editors of the Trinity West Hartford, CT Campus Activities Jeffrey J. Fox '67 Reporter are pleased to offer three pieces Avon, CT of outstanding short fiction for your Public Relations Wenda Harris Millard '76 reading enjoyment. These short stories New York, NY Secretary-Treasurer Alfred Steel, Jr. '64 were written by award-winning West Hartford, CT faculty in the English department at Trinity, who also teach writing, and Members one young alumnus, whose work won Elizabeth Kelly Droney '79 Anne Knutson Waugh '80 a national writing competition. West Hartford, CT Brooklyn Heights, NY Thomas M. Chappell '66 Victor F. Keen '63 MISS OLIVE'S RETREAT Kennebunk, ME New York, NY, .Ex Officio By Fred Pfeil 12 DanielL. Korengold '73 Allen B. Cooper, '66 Washington, D.C. San Francisco, CA DAUGHTERS David A. Raymond '63 Karen A. Jeffers '76 By Thalia Selz 17 South Windsor, CT Westport, CT Stanley A. Twardy, Jr. '73 Jane W. Melvin '84 CHRISTMAS WINDS Stamford, CT Hartford, CT By Theodore Weesner,]r. '86 20 Athletic Advisory Committee PHOTO FEATURE Lawrence H. Roberts '68 Susan Martin Haberlandt '71 COMMENCEMENT 1987 26 Collinsville, CT West Hartford, CT Members of the Class of'87 ponder Donald]. Viering '42 Simsbury, CT words of wisdom imparted by Commencement speakers. Alumni Trustees By Martha Davidson Stanley J. Marcuss '63 Carolyn A. Pelzel '74 Washington, D. C. Hampstead, NH DEPARTMENTS Donald L. McLagan '64 Arlene A. Forastiere '71 Along the Walk 1 Sudbury, MA Ann Arbor, MI David R. Smith '52 George E. Andrews II '66 Books 11 Greenwich, CT Newport, RI Sports 32 Nom inating Committee Alumni President's Message David A. Raymond '63, Wenda Harris Millard '76 39 chairman New York, NY Class Notes 40 South Windsor, CT William Vibert '52 Victor F. Keen '63 Granby, CT In Memory 51 New York, NY Merrill Y avinsky '65 Jane W. Melvin '84 Washington, D. C. Hartford, CT COVER: Design by Camille Van Saun Photography by jon Lester except as noted Board of Fellows Published by the Office of Public Relations, Trinity Col­ Dana M. Faulkner '76 Norman C. Kayser '57 lege, Hartford, Connecticut 06106. Issued four times a Guilford, CT West Hartford, CT year: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. Second class pos­ George P. Lynch, Jr. '61 Victor F. Keen '63 tage paid at Hartford, Connecticut. West Hartford, CT New York, NY The Trinity Reporter is mailed to alumni, parents, faculty, JoAnne A. Epps '73 Robert Epstein '74 staff and friends of Trinity College without charge. All Glenside, P A Cambridge, MA publication rights reserved and contents may be repro­ Andrew H. Walsh '79 duced or reprinted only by written permission of the Edi­ Scott W. Reynolds '63 Hartford, CT tor. Opinions expressed are those of the editors or Upper Montclair, NJ contributors and do not reflect the official position ofTrin­ Ann Rohlen '71 Margaret-Mary V. Preston '79 ity College. Chicago, IL Baltimore, MD Postmaster: Send address change to Trinity Reporter, Trinity Bernard F. Wilbur, Jr. '50 Edward H. Yeterian '70 College, Hartford, CT 06106. West Hartford, CT Waterville, ME ALONG THEWALK TRINITY C 0 L L E G E The Campaign for Trinity Campaign was publicly launched. At confident in Trinity's future. Alumni, that time advance gifts and pledges who themselves have contributed more Reaches $27.1 Million totaled $17.9 million. than half of the funds raised so far, The Campaign for Trinity, the most The balance of the Campaign's goal should feel especially proud of their ambitious fund-raising effort in the is to be raised between now and June College. While we are closer to our College's history, moved forward 30, 1989. Major priorities include new goal than we expected to be at this rapidly during its first nine months and resources for faculty and academic time, there are still many out there reached nearly 65 % of its $42 million programs, financial aid and facilities, whose job it will be to sustain the great goal. and a stronger Annual Fund. momentum of this Campaign. We look By June 30, total gifts and pledges According to Constance E. Ware, forward to talking with them about stood at $27.1 million, up $9.2 million Vice President for Development, "This Trinity's important objectives." since September 19, when the wonderful response makes us all Area-based campaigns began in -1 A MOMENT OF CALM prevails before Commencement ceremonies. The story on Commencement begins on page 26. ALONG THE WALK several parts of the country this winter of Surrey, England. A book that she department. He began as a police offi­ and spring, including Hartford and has co-edited, To Work and to Weep: cer in the city in 1953 and adv.anced New York City. In the corning year Women in Fishing Economies, is to be through the ranks, his last position new localized campaigns will begin in published this fall from the Institute being deputy chief of the support ser­ areas around.Boston, Philadelphia, Los for Social and Economic Research, vices bureau. Prior to this, as deputy Angeles and San Francisco. Hundreds Memorial University ofNewfound­ chief, field service bureau, he was re­ of volunteers are being enlisted to assist land. sponsible for delivery of police service in these.efforts. The College's new director of secu­ on the midnight shift, and command of rity is Biagio S. Rucci, a veteran of more the Police Department. New Talents Join College than 30 years with the Hartford police Michael A. Gilkes has been named as- An assistant dean of the faculty and a cultural anthropologist are among the new administrators and faculty joining the College. Gail Hilson Woldu is the new assis­ tant dean of the faculty, chosen fol­ lowing a nationwide search. In this new position, she will work with the dean of the faculty and other chief ad­ ministrative and faculty officers to plan and coordinate efforts to attract and retain students of color and to help them utilize the educational re­ sources of the College. She will also teach part-time and be available to ad­ vise student organizations and indi­ 2 vidual students. W oldu graduated - magna cum laude from Goucher Col­ lege and received her M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. She has taught at Yale College, the University of California at Berkeley, and most recently at Bates-College, where she also served as assistant dean · of admissions. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she was a Yale University Fel­ low from 1977-81 and manager of the Yale Symphony Orchestra in 1982-83. Jane Hurwitz Nadel was selected for the four-year experimental position in cultural anthropology, funded by the College's Liberal Arts Enrichment grant from The Pew Memorial Trust ofPhiladelphia. Nadel received her A.B. from Barnard College and Ph.D. from The Graduate school, CUNY. Since 1980 she has been assistant pro­ fessor of anthropology at Clarkson University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole IN A CEREMONY complete with "secret service" agents, intrigue, suspense Oceanographic Institution, and ad­ and a foiled coup, Trinity's coveted 130-year-old wooden lemon squeezer was junct lecturer at Brooklyn College, passed from the Class of'87 to the Class of'89 at the close of Honors Day held CUNY, and Lehman College, in the Chapel on May 8. Surrounded by a protective entourage of sophomores CUNY. In 1986 she received an NEH in shades, class president Donna Haghighat '89 briefly displayed the prized lemon squeezer awarded to the sophomores who were deemed the "most stipend for research entitled "Politics, deserving class." Fearing that another class might attempt to usurp their prize Religion, and Protest Among the (a frequent occurrence in the lemon squeezer's long history), they quickly Scottish Fisherfolk." Her fieldwork placed it in a suitcase and handcuffed it to sophomore Todd Gillespie for has involved study of the social im­ safekeeping. An ambush under the Downes Arch by a feisty mob of25 freshmen pact of offshore oil development in was foiled - and the sophomores, lemon squeezer safely in hand, sped off in Rhode Island and in eastern Scotland, their getaway car. and social stratification in the village ALONG THEWALK sistant director of Mather Hall. He graduated from Cornell University in 1983, with a B.S. in human develop­ ment and family studies. Prior to com­ ing to Trinity, he held positions at Eastern Connecticut State University as assistant to the director of housing and program coordinator-minority student peer advisory program and as­ sistant area coordinator-housing of­ fice. He taught educationally disadvantaged pre-freshmen students in the Contract Admissions Program of the University of Connecticut, and served in the Upward Bound program at Rollins and LeMoyne Colleges as a tutor/counselor and resident assistant. He was a minority student advisor at Cornell and a guidance aide, black counseling services, at Ithaca High School. In the development office, Christopher ].
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