TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS SEPTEMBER I940 Alumni Associations BERKSHIRE HUDSON VALLEY PITTSBURGH Pres.: George A. Hey, '2!l Pres.: Wm. R. O'Bryon. '37 Pres.: Hill Burgwin, 'O!i Sec.: llr)'ant W. Green, ':l4 Sec.: Rev. Paul Armstrong, '3U l'ire-Pres. : j ohn Ll. Moore, ' l:l Sec.: Joseph Buffington, Jr.. '18 1'reas.: J, G. Marks, Jr.. ':l3 BOSTON NAUGATUCK VALLEY RHODE ISLAND Pres. : Nathaniel T . Clark, '34 Pres.: B. B. Bailey, '15 Prts.: Louis VV. Downes, 'SB l'i.u-Pres.: Very Rev. j. l\'1. McGann, '9.J Sec. : E . S. Wotkyns, '2!l ·ec.: Sumner W. Shepherd, 'l!l Sec.: !\lorton S. Crehore, '14 1'reas.: P. E. Fenton, '17 CHICAGO NEW HAVEN ROCHESTER l'res.: Charles T. Kingston, Jr., ':l4 !'res.: E. G. Schmitt, 'IU Pres.: C. Edward Cram, '22 Sec.: A. Onderdonk, ':l4 Vict-Prt.s.: F. C. Duennebier, '35 Sec.: Harry C. Olson, '35 DETROIT NEW YORK SPRINGFIELD Pres.: Norton lves, 'IU Pres.: F. T . Tansill. '22 Pres.: Paul F. Herrick, '12 Sec.: James B. Webber, Jr., ':34 Vice-Pres.: A. J . L'Heureux, '1:l Sec.: Kenneth B. Case, ' 13 Dr. Jerome P. Webster, '10 Stanley P. Miller, '23 Robert 0. Muller, '31 Sec.: Fred C. Hinkel, Jr., 'O<i WASHINGTON IIARTFORO BALTIMORE /'res.: judge Alex. W. Creedon, 'tr.J PHILADELPHIA /'res.: Paul 1-1 . Alling, '20 l'iu-Pres.: Raymond A. Montgomery, '25 Pres.: R. E. Kinney, '1 5 l'ice-Pres.: I. Laucks Xanders, '011 Src.: llarr)' j. lllc Kniff, '2U Sec.: C. T. Easter by, 'Hi Sec.: Theodore C. Hudson, ' 14 Alumni Officers Alumni Association Term (Two year terms ending J unc 1942) Expires President: Robert S. Morris, '16 Junior Fellows !'ice-President: Eliot L. Ward, '13 George C. Capen, '10 1941 Trrasurer: Kenneth B. Case, '13 John A. Mason, '34 1941 Srrrrlury: Alex. W. Creedon, '09 Lispenard B. Phistcr, '18 1942 . lssistalll .')ec: Arthur J. Mullen, '18 Glover Johnson, '22 1942 Alfred J. L'Heureux, '13 1943 Ronald E. Kinney, '15 1943 Term Expires Alumni Fund Council Athletic Advisory Council Harold N. Chandler, '09 1941 Erhardt G. Schmitt, '16 1941 :VIclville Shulthi!'ss, '18 19-H Frederic T. Tansi ll , '22. Harmon T. Barber, '19 1942 1942 William F. Even, '28 1943 Harold L. Smith, '22 1942 Erwin Rankin, '11 1943 Bertram B. Bailey, '15 1943 Executive Committee Committee for Nomination of Alumni Trustee Henry S. Marlor, '10 1941 (One year term ending J unc 1941) Louis F. Jefferson, ' 15 1941 Murray H. Coggeshall, '96 G. Keith Funston, '32 1941 Hill Burgwin, '06 William G. Oliver, '10 1942 Frederick C Hinkel, Jr., '06 L'aul II. \llin.:, '20 1942 John R. Cook, '10 David M. Hadlow, '25 1942 Norton Ives, '16 2 President's Message To Alumni One happy evidence of our stability as an educational institution is apparent through your alumni organization. A year ago, when the need for a new dormitory was acute, the Trust­ ees turned to the Alumni for help, and got it. The new dormitory, compact and well planned, will please you, particularly the Common Room. James L. Goodwin, a Trustee of the College, and his brother Philip have given for this room a French marble fireplace and the oak paneling from their father's house in New York, just torn down this year. It uplifts the entire building. Then too, the many alumni meetings I attend during the year are a healthy index of your in­ terest in your Alma Mater. Your Alumni Sec­ retary, active and efficient, is building up your Alumni Fund, and with the aid of some of you is doing a remarkable task in placing our young graduates as they leave Hartford. The gathering of the Alumni in the Auditor­ So it is with a feeling with some assurance that ium last June at Commencement time, which we begin what may be a hard year. We cannot happened to be close the of the twentieth year predict what is in store for our country or our since I became your president, gave me an oppor­ college, but we are ready. At the present writing tunity to report to you in detail as to the finan­ no definite plan for national defense has been put cial status of Trinity. I tried then to express and before us by the Army or the National Govern­ will repeat now my appreciation of the help given ment, but we are making such provisions as we by the Alumni in strengthening the resources can. We are organizing two units of students of the College through the raising of the Cen­ who will learn to fly this fall, with a ground tennial Fund eventeen years ago. Since that school at the College and training in flying at time the administration of your college has been Brainard Field. We have also applied for a able to balance the budget year after year, mak­ Naval R. 0. T. C. unit to be established on the ing possible normal growth in the number of campus. More far-reaching perhaps are our students and useful increase in the extent of the plans for letting our students realize what they plant. While it has been a pleasure to me, as I can do under conditions of mechanized warfare know it has been to you, to see our student body in terms of manufacture and supply of munitions develop. in quantity and quality and to note or by studying two-way radio and other necess­ that each one of our new buildings has a per­ ary adjuncts of combat and defense. fection that is all its own, it should be a still Beyond all that, we shall carry on as usual. greater source of joy to realize that the College, In times like these we should reconsecrate our­ in spite of depressions and hurricanes, has steadi­ selves to study, to prize highly and to defend the ly paid its bills, increased the size of the Faculty, ideals of civilization now so bitterly attacked made no cuts in salaries and more than doubled elsewhere in this world. You who owe so much its endowments. For the part many of you have to Trinity for implanting in you those ideals of played in this, I thank you. As I said to you beauty, goodness, truth, and freedom must last June, would that the United States during share with us here on the campus our endeavor those twenty years between war and war had to maintain in a changing world those eternal likewise set its financial house in order. ideals. 3 Commencement GovERNOR BALDWIN AT THE OPEN AIR SERVICE A new feature of the last Commencement was ly number gathered in the Dining Hall about the the Alumni parade which followed the Alumni newly elected alumni president who perspiringly Luncheon. Original plans called for a grand led them through the long list of Trinity songs and march around the campus with an eventual stop old favoi ites. Sufficient enthusiasm was gene­ at the Bishop for an Alumni Sing (another in­ rated to insure the continuation of the Sing as a novation). An ill-timed cloudburst threatened regular Commencement feature. to knock these well-laid plans into a cocked hat, By the time the repertoire of songs had been but Trinity spirit was not to be dampened even exhausted and tired voices were ready, though though the line of march had to be curtailed. unwilling, to call a halt, out popped the sun! Aided and abetted by the Governor's Foot There followed a general exodus to the south end Guard Band, returning alumni lined up in the of the campus where the stage was set for those order of classes and, with banners flying, did annual classics known as the Alumni Soft-Ball some fancy stepping and puddle jumping up and games. Mike Connor's Hartfordians took Bill down the college walk. Buchanan's New Yorkers into camp to the ac­ Nor was the Sing rained out. Enthusiastic companiment of the usual heckling and cries of vocalists had not had the barnacles removed from "ringer", thereby regaining the handsomly de­ old but willing vocal chords for nothing. A good- corated objet d'art which has become such a cov- 4 eted prize. Trustee Dan Web ter proved to be The return this year to the University Club the fastest base runner despite his gray hairs but for the Class of 1823 D:nner met with much the scorers are still trying to Jearn how Raymond favor. The friendly, informal atmosphere seem­ ( lats) Abbey of Worcester and Albert (Smitty) ed to enhance the spirit of good-fellowship that Smith of St. Paul, both stars of the Trinity team was very much in evidence. "Mose" Brines, of 1910, slipped into the New York lineup. In 1900, unearthed his latent talent as a male Act I I the classes of 1925 and 1930 came to grips chorus conductor and spark-plugged the gather­ in a contest, the outcome of which is still in ing through an endless number of old songs until doubt according to the 1925 men, all of which the early morning hours. From now on he'll would imply that 1930 probably did win. have a steady job at Commencement Dinners. CoLONEL W. E. A. BuLKELEY '90 SYDNEY D. PIN EY, '18 While celebrating his fiftieth reunion last June, Having served faithfully as Alumni Trustee for Colonel Bulkeley was appointed Trustee of three years, Mr. Pinney was reelected to that Trinity College. office last June. He is often seen on Campus and A graduate of Hartford High School, Colonel is known to many of the undergraduates.