'I '; • TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 1, NUMBER 7 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT FEBRUARY 1971 Annual Giving At 68% of Goal In Eight Weeks of Campaign The College's current Annual Giving $150 to $999, and 24 alumni and 10 Program has reached 68% of its goal in parents have qualified as Founders eight weeks. Society Members with gifts or pledges of The Development Office reported as of $1,000 or more. January 15 that gifts and pledges toward The report noted a substantial increase the 1970-71 Annual Giving Program in giving from trustees and trustee totaled $238,864. This is 68% of the goal emeriti. This group; whose contributions of $ 3 50 ,000, which is the assessed are included in the totals of the other "margin of difference" needed in funds, has contributed to date $64,233, anticipated income to balance the current which is a most significant increase over operating budget. their final total of $25,100 given to the Both the Alumnai Fund and the 1969-70 Annual Giving Fund. Parents Fund show increases in gifts and Judson M. Rees, director of pledges over this time a year ago. development, said the results in all The alumni to date have contributed categories to date "are most encouraging. $154,261 or 77% of their goal of This positive response on behalf of $200,000, while the parents have reached trustees, alumni, parents, and friends of $48,084 or 64% of their goal of $75,000. the College indicates quite clearly they are In addition to these funds, the balance aware of Trinity's financial need to preserve the high quality of our academic of the needed $350,000 has been assigned NOTHING TO GET STEAMED UP ABOUT FOLKS! This is the message from the programs and are willing to support our to Business and Industry Associates appreciative but overworked switchboard operator at the College, who is periodically efforts to sustain them." ($50,000 goal), Friends of Trinity swamped with frantic reports that the Chapel is on fire. The truth is, what appears to ( $15,000 goal) and Foundations be smoke is actually steam coming from a defrosting system which prevents Rees noted the substantial increase in ($1 0,000 goal). The last three categories ice-buildup on the roof and buttresses of the 39-year-old Gothic edifice. are new this year to the Annual Giving giving from trustees with some gifts still Program. to come "as a real inspiration to others By mid-January, the Business and and a clear demonstration not only of Industry Associates had contributed their generosity but of their conviction in $29,188 or 58% of the goal, the Friends the value of a Trinity education and the National Science Foundation of Trinity Fund had reached $4,298 or wisdom to support the College's program 29% of its goal and Foundations annually." Awards College $167,ooo (non-corporate) were at $3,033 or 30% of However, ·Rees noted, "We must the goal. maintain our momentum. It is vital that The College has received a $167,000 portions of the grant for curriculum At this point, the average gift to the we reach the $350,000 goal by June 30 if federal grant for intensive curriculum development and for special Alumni or Parents Fund is up over a year we are to balance the current budget." review and development over the· next student-faculty research projects all of ago. To date, 175 alumni and 60 parents The College ended the last fiscal year three years of various science programs which will be conducted essentially over have become• Anniversary Club Members (June 30, 1970) with a $320,473 including refining an Urban and the next three summers. with individual gifts or pledges totaling operating deficit. Environmental Studies Program. The Sociology Department is being The grant, awarded by the National aided to provide for a general buildup in Science Foundation, is part of its this discipline, to allow for computer "College Science Improvement Program," rental time and to encourage student and is designed to "accelerate the experience in lab work. development of science capability of The Engineering Department and predominantly undergraduate institutions Psychology Department benefit from the and to enhance the capacity for grant which will help support a continued self-renewal" says the NSF cooperative research program of the two award. departments to verify a physiological Under the terms of the grant, some 35 theory relating activation levels to faculty members from seven disciplines performance levels in certain animals. and some 30 student research assistants The Biolo.gy Department will receive will come to grips with curriculum review funds to be matched by the college to and development or be involved in purchase equipment in developing an faculty-student research projects. ecology laboratory. The equipment Dr. Robert Lindsay, professor and specified is primarily to aid marine chairman of the Department of Physics, is ecology research. the overall director on campus of the Science Improvement Program. "This Uve r the next three years, 1971 grant," said Dr. Lindsay who was the through 1973, Trinity will receive major author of the original proposal sent approximately $55,000 each year to to the NSF two years ago, "will help finance these various programs and bring the natural and social sciences studies. closer together." He said he sees the Trinity began preparation of its "Urban and Environmental Studies proposal for the grant in the spring of program as encouraging this," as well as 1968 when the Albert C. Jacobs Life other projects funded by the grant. Science Center was dedicated which The departments which will benefit completed a $5 .5 million science building from the grant are biology, chemistry, program conducted over a 10-year period. engineering, mathematics, psychology The money, mostly raised from private and sociology. In addition, funds have gifts, provided for the Jacobs Center, the been providedjor an extensive study in McCook Mathematics-Physics Center and the summer of 1971 and 1972 by a improvements in the Kallden Engineering faculty-student committee for Laboratories. development and refinement of the With the exception of the $2,000 Urban and Environmental Studies provision for equipment for the marine FATHER AND SON-Peter Meskill, 7, son of Thomas J. Meskill, '50, new Governor of Program. ecology lab, the NSF grant is all Connecticut, watches as his dad starts paper work on his new job. Governor Meskill Three departments, mathematics, earmarked for curriculum renewal studies was inaugurated on January 5. (Photo courtesy of Hartford Times.) chemistry and physics will receive and research. PAGE 2 . Letters To The Editor Vale Amicus! Appreciation: Odell Shepard of happy and sad memory On behalf of the only organizations at Trinity wrote the memorable couplet "four years and formally established by and for graduate four years in unending rotation." One looks at students, we would like to express our the College catalogue of say 1888, and one appreciation for The Reporter's coverage of the reads of ghost-like names without bodies or activities of our organizations. meaning. So many toiled with reasonable dedication for Trinity, and now are names The Reporter staff has been most considerate, perhaps remembered only by their not only accepting material from us but wraith-colleagues or students. encouraging us to inform them of our events Fortunately for a brief moment in time, for and interests. We feel this has been quite several thousand students and colleagues, John important in informing the graduate students of Butler is a living memory. It is my feeling that our activities and encouraging their on a · person to person basis John was as participation in our organizations. constructive an influence as anyone in the last several decades. Again, thank you for these efforts. We would I'm sure, many of the Trinity family will appreciate continued assistance in the future. agree that one of the good fortunes of our lives was to have known John Butler. It is our A scene from "Journeys" by the National Theatre of the Deaf demonstrates some of the manual misfortune that we could not have known him Joseph Dunn, President longer. Vale Amicus! sign language used by the actors. The NTD, which will perform in the Goodwin Theatre on Trinity Education Graduate Alumni February 20, has made six national tours, two Broadway runs, two European and Asian tours, J. Wendell Burger Roland R. Kessler, President several films and many national television appearances. J. Pierpont Morgan Trinity Graduate Student Association Professor of Biology National Theatre of Deaf CAMPUS NOTES To Perform Here Feb. 20 Librarian, DONALD B. ENGLEY, reports company to perform in the U.S.S.R. The tour The National Theatre of the Deaf, On their visit to the Trinity campus that at the annual meeting of the trustees of the was extended to include the Paris Festival of which the New York Times called "a the NTD will present two plays. The first, Nations in Paris and London's Sadlers Wells Watkinson Library held in December, G. "Woyzeck," written by Georg Buchner, KEITH FUNSTON '32 of Greenwich, and Theatre. stunning form of new theatre," will THOMAS L. ARCHIBALD of West Hartford, * * * perform in the Goodwin Theatre of the is an examination of modern man and the were elected trustees. Mr. Funston was largely Dr. ROBERT A. BATTIS, professor of Austin Arts Center on February 20. absurdity of his existence within his responsible during his presidency at Trinity for economics, was nominated by the Democratic The group is being sponsored by the environment. "Woyzeck" is a precursor the merger of the Watkinson and Trinity Town Committee of Wethersfield to fill the Center, which attempts to bring to the to the theatre of the absurd dealing with Libraries.