Commencement Issue The Vol. LXXXII, Issue 25 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT May 20,1984 Honorary Degrees Awarded At Commencement Gill To Speak At Commencement Hartford, CT — Trinity College Bailyn's seven books include served as a curate in churches in will award six persons honorary two for which he received major New York before coming to Con- degrees at the College's 158th awards. The Ideologiacal Origins necticut as rector of St. Mark's Commencement Sunday, May 20, of the American Revolution won Church, Bridgeport, in 1966, 1984. the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes where he served until 1981. He The names of the recipients in 1968, and The Ordeal of was elected a Bishop Suffragan in were announced to the faculty Thomas Hutchinson recieved a 1981, and as such has pastoral ov- May 8 by President James F. Eng- National Book Award in 1975. ersight of the western part of the lish, Jr. Bailyn was president of the diocese, from Litchfield to Green- Those to be honored are: Dr. American Historical Association wich. Bernard Bailyn, Adams Univer- in 1981. He holds honorary de- Bishop Coleridge is a Diplo- sity Professor, Harvard Univer- grees from eight colleges and uni- mate of the American Association sity; The Right Reverend Clarence versities. of Pastoral Counselors and super- N. Coleridge, Bishop Suffragan of Clarence N. Coleridge will re- vises pastoral counselors in train- the Episcopal Diocese of Con- ceive a Doctor of Divinity degree ing. He is a member of the necticut; S. Herbert Evison '12, a (D.D.). A native of Guyana, he is Academy of Certified Social conservationist; Brendan Gill, the a graduate of Howard University Workers. He served on the board critic and author; William H. and holds a divinity degree from of Episcopal Social Service from Mortensen, a Hartford civic Drew Theological Seminary, a de- 1968 to 1972, and has been direc- leader; and Margaret E. Murie, a gree in social work from the Univ- tor of the Unicorn counseling conservationist and author. Bren- erstiy of Connecticut, and a service of ESS, a position which dan Gill will give the Commence- doctor of ministry degree from included administering a state- ment address, and Bishop wide network of professional Coleridge will preach at the Bac- counselors. calaureate service. In the Connecticut diocese, he Bernard Bailyn will receive a has served on the Social Concerns Doctor of Humane Letters degree Committee, the Venture in Mis- (L.H.D.). An American historian sion Education Committee, the and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Task Force on Hunger, and is Bailyn has been a member of the president of the standing commit- Harvard faculty since 1949. His tee. He was elected chairman of historical work centers on the his- the Connecticut Urban Caucus ifi tory of the colonies, the American 1980. revolution, and the Anglo-Amer- He was founder and adminis- ican world in the pre-industrial trator of St. Mark's Day Care Brendan Gill photo courtesy of Trinity College News Bureau era. Center in Bridgeport; a member uate of Yale. He joined the staff A native of Hartford, Bailyn is of the Board of the United Way a 1912 Trinity graduate, Evison of New Yorker magazine in 1936, a graduate of Williams College of Bridgeport; vice president of has had a long and productive ca- and at various times has been a and did his graduate work at Har- the board of Bridgeport Day Care, reer in the conservation move- "Talk" reporter, a fact wrtier, a vard. He was named a full profes- Inc., an agency supervising five ment. He is largely responsible for novelist, and short story writer, a sor at Harvard in 1961, Winthrop Margaret E. Murie day care centers; a member of the the creation of a park system in poet, a Broadway playwright, a Professor of History in 1966, and board of the YWCA of Bridge- the state of Washington. movie critic, a drama critic, an Adams Professor in 1981. Andover-Newton School of The- port, and an adjunct professotr of In 1919, Evison established the Natural Parks Association of historian and biographer. He is He was co-edtior of the journal, ology. He studied at the American Union Graduate School for doc- Washington, and organized grass- author of a dozen books, includ- Perspectives in American History Foundation of Religion and Psy- toral studies. roots support for a state park sys- ing the 1975 best seller Here at the from 1967-77, and editor of the chiatry for two years. S. Herbert Evison will receive a tem. Two years later, he took a New Yorker. His most recent John Harvard Library from 1962- He was ordained a priest in the Doctor of Humane Letters degree comprehensive state park bill to project is a biography of architect 70. Episcopal Church in 1962, and (L.H.D.). A New York native and the legislature. Today, the Wash- Stanford White. ington State park system is com- Gill wrote his first piece for the prised of more than 100 units. New Yorker in 1936. After the In 1929, Evison became execu- second World War, he was a fre- tive secretary of the National con- quent book reviewer and became ference on State Parks. With the the New Yorker's film critic in establishment of the Civilian Con- 1960. In 1968, he became the the- servation Corps in 1933, Evison atre critic, a post he still holds. was drafted by the National Park He was elected president of the Service as supervisor of the State New York Drama Critics Circle in Park Emergency Conservation 1981. Work. In 1936, he was named for- In addition to his writing, Gill est manager of Region One of the has for many years been a cham- National Park Service, with re- pion of architectural preservation. sponsibility for most states east of He played a part in campaigns to Mississippi. He became chief of preserve Grand Central Terminal, information for the National Park Radio City Music Hall, the U.S. Service in 1945, a post he held Customs House at Bowling Green, until retirement in 1958. and the Historic commercial block He played a key role in the which includes the Fraunces Tav- preparation of several important ern in lower Manhattan. He is land use studies including The former president of the Municipal Recreational Use of Land in the Art Society and chairman of the U.S. and a ten-year development New York Landmarks Conser- plan for the state park system. vancy. In 1980, he was awarded Evison is the author of an oral the Thomas Jefferson Award by history of the National Park Serv- the American Society of Interior ice, based on more than 400 per- Desigenrs which is "presented sonal interviews with early leaders each year to those who have made in the effort. A book based on outstanding contributions toward fifteen of these interviews is soon preserving the nation's cultural, to be published. intellectual of natural heritage." He was the recipient of the Dis- William H. Mortensen will re- tinguished Service Medal from the cive a Doctor of Laws degree U.S. Department of the Interior (Ll.D.). A native of Hartford, in 1958. Mortensen has had a distin- Brendan Gill will be awarded a guished career a s a civic leader. Doctor of Letters degree (Litt.D.). continued on page 2 A Hartford native, Gill is a grad- Page 2, THE TRINITY TRIPOD, May 20, 1984 Coleridge to Preach At Baccalaureate continued from page 1 He has been a director of Con- necticut Bank and Trust Com- He was named at the age of 25, pany, National Fire Insurance managing director of the newly- Company, Coca-Cola Bottling opened Horace Bushnell Memo- Company of Southern New Eng- land, Transcontinental Insurance of New York, and Hublein. He has been a trustee of director of numerous other organizations, in- cluding the Hartford Public Li- brary (President 1968-1970), Hartford College for Women, the Mark Twain Memorial, and the Connecticut Commission for Higher Education. Mortensen at- William H. Mortensen ment. She is the author of three books, Clarence N. Coleridge the wilderness classic Two in the rial Hall, a post he held for nearly Far North, Island Between, and forty years (1929-1968). Largely Wapiti Wilderness and was editor through his influence, the Bush- of her husband's book Journey to nell developed a broad and varied the Far North. Murie was ho- program which made it the center nored in 1982 by the Naitonal of the arts in Hartford, as well as Park Service as one of the all-time S. Herbert Evison a meeting place for political and greats of the conservation move- civic groups, Mortensen esta- tended Antioch College and has ment. She was the first women to blihed the Symphony series that an honorary degree from the Uni- receive the John Muir Award from Spruance Rerninsces About Tf brings orchestras from all over the versity of Hartford. the Sierra Club in 1982, and has world to Hartford annually, and Margaret E. Murie will recieve received other awards from the by Lea Spruance p.m. to imagine that you are Sesarr was a leader in founding the Con- a Doctor of Humane Letters de- Isaak Walton League and the Au- Crystal Carrington of Dynasty. of ski necticut Opera Association. gree (L.H.D.). A native of Seat- dobon Society. Murie is a member The reality of Trinity is living I know the reality of munching the o He was a state senator from tle, Washington, Murie grew up of the council of the Wilderness in High Rise and 216 New Britain.