Mr. Peter Kna·pp Ltbrary TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1976 Values." He resides in New York City. In 1964 and 1968 Blum was a New Look Seen Board Elects Two Trustees member of the U.S. Olympic Fencing Teams. He has served as legislative Two new Trustees were elected at a the American Academy of Actuaries. assistant to New York City Mayor for lOP Program recent regular meeting of the Board. Robert M. Blum graduated from John V. Lindsay and later as counsel to During January it was announced in Morrison H. Beach, president and chief Trinity in 1950 and from Columbia the Mayor. He has been special counsel the press that Dr. Alan Marvin Fink executive officer of The Travelers Law School in 1953. He is a member of to the New York State Assembly has been appointed director and Mrs. Insurance Companies, Hartford, the Association of the Bar of the City Judiciary Committee and executive Louise H. Fisher, assistant director of Conn. was elected a Charter Trustee of New York. assistant to the Council President of Trinity's Individualized Degree Pro­ and will serve until retirement. Robert Long active in Trinity College the City of New York. gram. It was also announced that M . Blum, partner with the New York alumni affairs, Blum has been vice Blum is a member of the board of tuition charges for the program have City law firm of Silberfeld, Danziger & president of the New York Alumni directors of the Association for Mental­ been reduced to two-thirds that of Bangser, was named a Term Trustee Association and is currently chairman ly Ill Children, and the French Poly­ regular tuition costs. and will serve for a period of eight of the national "Campaign for Trinity clinic Hospital and Medical Center. IDP is Trinity's innovative approach years. to the concept of continuing education. Beach, a native of Winsted, Conn., In this unusual program, designed for now living in West Hartford, has been non-resident as well as resident stu­ associated with Travelers since 1939. dents, participants are not required to He was elected 'president in 1971 and attend classes. Nor are they locked into chief executive officer in 1973. A a four-year track. Depending on their graduate of Williams College, Beach individual circumstances, students has also studied at MIT and in 1954 may complete the degree program in received the LL.B. degree from the fewer than four or as many as seven or University of Connecticut. eight years. Students may register at He holds directorships on several any time and graduate whenever they Hartford-area boards including Broad­ have satisfactorily completed examina­ cast Plaza, Inc., Hartford National tions and projects in a prescribed Co.r12oration, H<!r.tfQrq Natio ~ Bank numbel:'-> of '-Study- anits. -All work- is ana Trust Co., Arrow-Hart, Inc., and supervised by faculty advisors in the Veeder Industries. student's major and minors. Beach is also active in the Greater 'This program," President Lock­ Hartford Community Council, the wood observed, "represents Trinity's American Red Cross and the Health unique approach to the need for Planning Council and is a Fellow of the continuing education. Its flexibility Society of Actuaries. He is a member and its rigor distinguish the IDP from of the Connecticut Bar Association and Beach Blum other programs; its experimental na­ ture has already made an impact here and abroad." Currently there are some 35 students enrolled in the program begun in 1973 Massachusetts, Wisconsin, William Distinguished scholars have com­ and the first IDP graduation will take Hendel's Book and Mary and, even before Hendel mented very favorably on the book. place sometime next spring, probably Sidney Hook, for example, wrote that arrived on the scene, Trinity. (Continued on page 2) Nudges Spock's it was "far and away the best in its field." J. Roland Pennock calls it "one The publication in January 1976 of of the very best collections of readings Lockwood Named the eighth edition of Hendel and on American government." Bishop's Basic Issues of American Faced with these encomiums, Dr. Democracy, edited by Samuel Hendel, Hendel will only go so far as to say that Chairman of A.A. C. professor of political science at Trinity, "I guess it was the first book of its kind President Lockwood has been elected is a publishing event of the first order. to deal in an issue-oriented fashion Chairman of the Association of Ameri­ This textbook, with its reasoned with the affairs and theory of can Colleges. The AAC is the major analyses of opposing or variant posi­ government." spokesman for private and public tions on the fundamental values, The new edition of the book deals colleges and universities of the liberal conflicts and persistent issues of Ameri­ with such recent controversies as the arts and sciences, dealing with substan­ can democracy and politics, broke new balancing of power after Watergate, tive issues in higher education. There ground with its initial publication in compensatory or preferential treat­ are about 800 member institutions in 1948 when it was co-edited by Hillman ment in employment and education, the United States and Canada. M. Bishop, who had been Hendel's the fundamental premises and goals of In addition to expanding the pro­ teacher at The City College of New American foreign policy including grams of AAC, Lockwood will lead York. Indicative of the book's popu­ detente, and how pluralistic and negotiations for the establishment of a larity and wide appeal is the statement Hendel successful America really is. new educational organization, the of the political science editor of Professor Hendel is also the author Coming to Trinity in 1969 as visiting National Association of Independent Prentice-Hall who as early as March of Charles Evans Hughes and the professor, Hendel was appointed chair­ Colleges and Universities. NAICU will 1971 wrote Hendel, "You may be Supreme Court and of a number of man of the political science department act as the lobbying group in Washing­ staggered at the realization that since scholarly articles. He has taught in the the following year and served in that ton for private higher education. the book's initial publication in March graduate faculties of the City Universi­ capacity until mid-1973. He has long Lockwood has been a director of the 1948 it has sold approximately 338,000 ty of New York, Columbia University been active in the American Civil Association of American Colleges since copies. You're getting right up there and at the Claremont Graduate School. Liberties Union and curr.ently is vice 1973. His election as chairman took along with Dr. Spock and the Bible." During the Fall term he taught a course chairman. He practiced law in New place at the annual meeting of the Included in the hundreds of institu­ at the University of Connecticut Law York City for ten years before receiv­ association in Philadelphia February tions which adopted Basic Issues are School in the first professorial ex­ ing his doctorate from Columbia in 8-10. Dr. Paul F. Sharp, president of Columbia, Berkeley, Oberlin, Yale, change arrangement between the two 1948, the year Basic Issues was the University of Oklahoma, was Vanderbilt, U.C.L.A., University of institutions. published. elected vice-chairman. Page 2 Trinity Reporter January/February 1976 . Oxnam also found time during this Oxnam: Tvhe Sino-Whirling Dervish period to serve as special assistant to President Lockwood and as director of the Individualized Degree Program What does a Trinity associate pro­ sessions for producers and commenta­ and, hardly pausing for breath, to fessor of history do on sabbatical? If he tors at NBC and CBS. In early participate in activities of the Associa­ is Robert B. Oxnam he takes a November, Oxnam was in Washington tion for Asian Studies and the Commit­ year-long busman' s holiday. For Ox­ to provide briefings for key figures in tee on U.S. I China Relations, as well as nam, an authority on modern Chinese the Washington press corps, five in all. the Modern China Seminar at Harvard. history, this means serving as director Then, back to New York where four What is Oxnam's appraisal of the of the prestigious China Council of the days later the Oxnam group briefed current U .S./China relationship? Asia Society during a year when that reporters in the morning and followed Here's what he told some 2.8 million seemingly inscrutable country leaped up with a luncheon briefing for editors readers of the New York Sunday Daily into the headlines. and television commentators. News: "It appears that Americans will It meant writing articles for multi­ Meanwhile, Oxnam was directing a have to wait at least until 1977, after million circulation newspapers such as series of background studies in which, the presidential campaign is over, for the New York Daily News and being Oxnam says, "We are particularly new steps toward normalization. And interviewed by executive producer Ron concerned about exploring the value­ when these steps are taken, our Bonn of the CBS News Walter Cron­ laden questions that arise out of diplomats will be negotiating with the kite Show on the significance of the Chinese history and contemporary new cast of Chinese leaders. It is death of Chinese premier Chou En-Lai. affairs, and bringing a humanistic unclear whether those leaders will Prior to President Ford's trip to focus to the policy issues confronting share Premier Chou's deep interest in China late last year, Oxnam directed Americans as they consider Sino­ the U.S.