w1:iutty illn llr gr i\lftmttt Nrws ~ ~ ~ - _~ · · The Alumni News The Alumni Association is printed five times annually by the Alumni Association of Trinity College, Hartford, Con­ President: Eliot Ward, '13 necticut, and is edited by John Bard McNulty, Acting Alumni Secretary. Vice President: Alex W. Creedon, '09 Front Cover: Secretary: J. Ronald Regnier, '30 'Neath the Elms: looking south from near the Main Office. Asst. Sec.: James Henderson, Jr., '37 Treasurer: Harvey Dann, '32 Local Alumni Associations BERKSHIRE NAUGATUCK VALLEY William G. Oliver, '10, Acting President Paul E. Fenton, '17, President Eaton Paper Co., Pittsfield, Mass. Crest Road, Middlebury, Conn. BOSTON Bertram B. Bailey, '15, Secretary John A. Mason, '34, President 170 Grand Street, Waterbury, Conn. 33 Fairmount St., Brookline, Mass. NEW HAVEN Morton S. Crehore, '14, Secretary Raymond A. Montgomery, '25, President 30 State Street 76 Carew Road, Hamden, Conn. Francis ]. Cronin, '25, Secretary BRIDGEPORT 409 Norton St., New Haven, Conn. Louis F. Jefferson, '15, President Old King's Highway, Darien, Conn. NEW YORK Jerome P. Webster, M. D., '10, President CAROLINAS Meadowlawn, DodgeLane, Riverdale-on-Hudson A cling Officers Frederick C. Hinkel, Jr., '06, Secretary Arch W. Walker, '14 63 Church Avenue, Islip, L. 1., N. Y. 617 Woodlawn St., Spartanburg, S. C. PHILADELPHIA Chester D. Ward, '13 Ronald E. Kinney, '15, President Montgomery Building, Spartanburg, S. C. 401 Walnut Street CHICAGO Charles T. Easterby, '16, Secretary Edgar H. Craig, '34, Acting President 323 Walnut Street 2526 Hartzell St., Evanston, Ill. PITTSBURGH Hill Burgwin, '06, President CLEVELAND 1515 Park Building William G. Mather, '77, President Joseph Buffington, Jr., '18, Secretary 12417 Lake Shore Boulevard 1500 Peoples Bank Building David S. Loeffler., '26, Secretary 1197 St. Charles Avenue, Lakewood RHODE ISLAND Louis W. Downes, '88, President DETROIT 67 Manning Street, Providence Norton lves, '16, President 252 Moross Road, Grosse Pointe Farms ROCHESTER James B. Webber, '34, Secretary Elmer S. Tiger, '16, President 16913 Maumee Avenue, Grosse Pointe Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. Edwin J. Nugent, M. D., '28, Secretary HARTFORD 1325 Lake Avenue Nelson A. Shepard, '21, Vice President 39 Hickory Lane, West Hartford SPRINGFIELD Kenneth W. Stuer, '26, Secretary Kenneth B. Case, '13, President 82 White Street 1200 Main Street Sidney R. Hungerford, '17, Secretary HUDSON VALLEY 21 So. Park Avenue, Longmeadow Raymond ·c. Abbey, '10, Acting President Hotel TenEyck, Albany, N.Y. WASHINGTON - BALTIMORE Edward L. Sivaslian, '33, Secretary Paul H. Alling, '20, President 91 Delaware Avenue, Albany, N. V. State Department, Washington 2 President Ogilby Discusses New Navy Program The assignment to Trinity College of a V-12 basis of three terms a year of sixteen weeks unit under the Navy College Training Program each: the Michel mas term starting July 1st, not only gives us an opportunity to make a the Christmas term November 1st, and the concrete contribution to the war effort but also Trinity term March 1st. gives us a chance to do so at our best. The After careful and thorough discussion of Navy asks us to use our own faculty and to plan fraternity problems by the Board of Fellows our own courses, selecting text-books and giving and representatives from all our houses, an examinations according to our own standards. agreement was reached by which there will be We shall, of course, give especial attention to no rushing, pledging or initiation after May 16, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Drawing, 1943, until an interfraternity alumni council but beyond that the desire of the naval au­ shall cancel the agreement. This seems a wise thorities is that we should strive to give the move. \Ve have no guarantee that any of the young men committed to our charge as much as men coming to us will stay long enough to be we can of the heritage distinctive of the liberal indoctrinated with the traditions of any par­ arts colleges. This is a task we are eager to ticular fraternity. assume, for it partakes of the nature of a tribute. Upon the conclusion of the war, a burden of The expression, "The Navy is going to takeover heavy responsibility will be laid upon our alumni the college," is specifically repudiated by high to aid the administration of the college when we ranking naval officers. The college is not to be return to a peace basis. This was a real problem ~ transformed into a "little Annapolis:" it will in 1919 and 1920, but it can be handled better remain Trinity College. Our trainees will be next time because of the present efficiency of apprentice seamen, in uniform and subject to the Board of Fellows and our other alumni the authority of officers of the United States units. The leaders of the Class of 1943 before Navy assigned here, and will receive certain they graduated saw to it that all student or­ instruction to prepare them for service; but ganizations put their affairs in order, with all their course of study follows so closely our bills paid and the cash balances deposited with collegiate pattern that the Faculty stand ready the Comptroller of the College. It should be the to grant academic credit to such of the seamen responsibility of the Alumni by an occasional as achieve satisfactory grades. visit to the campus to see that the sacred fires In addition to our naval contingent we shall are kept alight, so that when the lights come on have a number of regular students, men not again they may be again blown into flame. We subject to the draft or deferred under special all must be alert to adjust ourselves and our categories. The naval authorities are ready to college to new conditions: we should not ex­ allow any such to attend Classes with the ap­ pect simply to reconstruct what has been. The prentice seamen. We are enrolling a Freshman new day will make new demands, to be met in class to start work on or about July 1st. To terms of the eternal ideal that has guided conform with the schedule required by the Navy, Trinity College for one and a quarter centuries. the college will operate for the duration on a R. B. OGILBY The list of Trinity Men with the Armed At the request of the Comptroller of the Forces which has been bound into the center of College, Mr. Roger R. Eastman, we are in­ this magazine is an up-to-date revision of the cluding a biographical form in each copy of this list which was distributed during the Com­ issue of the Alumni Magazine. The biographical mencement week-end. It is included here for record is for the official college file. It would be a two reasons: - first, in order to provide alumni help to this office if alumni, after filling out the with as complete an address list as we can forms, would return them to: compile and, second, in order to give alumni a chance to inform us of changed or incorrect Alumni Secretary addresses. There have been days on which the Alumni Office has received as many as twenty­ Trinity College five changes of address and one of our most Hartford, Conn. difficult tasks is keeping all these straight and up-to-date. It would be a great service to Trinity This will enable us to check our own files if alumni would let us know of any omissions before passing the biographical forms on to or errors in this list. Mr. Eastman. 3 Members of ~raduatin~ class smoke their corncobs at Class Day Exercises. This year the ~raduatin~ class was unable to procure the usual clay pipes for the occasion. and in helping to maintain the College's fine Commencement Week-end traditions. Col. Anson T. McCook, '02, pre­ sented the McCook Trophy to Arthur T. Heub­ The three-day Commencement activities took ner in recognition of outstanding leadership. place this year in warm weather beneath the The 1935 Football Trophy was also presented fresh green leaves of the elms. The more than one to Heubner. James D. Co!igrove, '35, made the hundred graduates who returned for the exercises presentation. enjoyed a good spring week-end. The activities At the annual meeting of the Alumni As­ were officially inaugurated at the Alumni­ sociation, Eliot Ward presiding, there were Faculty dinner on Friday at 6:30 p.m. held in reports by President Ogilby, by Tom Flanagan the Dining Hall, where forty-four guests were for the Trustees, by various representatives of welcomed by Dean Arthur Hughes. At seven­ the local alumni associations, and by Bard thirty in the evening Eliot Ward, '13, president McNulty, '38, Acting Alumni Secretary. The of the Association, and Allan Cook, '13, went Eigenbrodt Trophy was presented to J. H. K. on the air for half an hour over WTHT, rem­ Davis, '99, by George C. Capen, '10 .. Dr. Ogilby, iniscing about college days. who had just returned from a meeting of Navy Saturday morning's program started with authorities and educators in New York, threw Holy Communion at eight o'clock, the Rev. E. some light on the new Naval program to be C. Thomas, '03, celebrating. This service was adopted by the College beginning July 1st. The followed at nine o'clock by Morning Prayer. President told the alumni that the Navy wished The Rev. Joseph N. Barnett, '13, took the to make it very clear that Trinity was not service. Lispenard B. Phister of the class of being "taken over" by the Navy, but that the 1918 was the speaker at Class Day exercises. Apprentice Seamen were going to take advantage He told the members of the graduating class of the excellent educational facilities which that it was their duty after the war to pull Trinity, together with a number of other together in renewing their contacts with Trinity colleges, has to offer.