Tr, tuf·~ "7 /g' i~AR 3 1972 ~ fi ~ T'"'.T L ~'\:- '_;.. , , .. TRINITY ·REPORTE·R VOLUME 2 NUMBER 6 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1972 4 Area Colleges Unite To Improve Services The Hartford Foundation for Public Lockwood, Chairman; Dr. Archibald Giving has awarded a $60,000 matching Woodruff of the U of H; Sister Mary · grant to Trinity. College, the University of Consolata of St. Joseph College; and Miss Hartford, St. Joseph College and Hartford Laura Johnson of Hartford College for College for Women to fund a four-college Women. consortium in Greater Hartford, the first The $60,000 "seed money" grant will in the area. be spread over a three-year period, Basic objective of the consortium is to starting with the current year. It will be pool the resources of the four schools to supplemented by matching grants from avoid costly duplication, and to provide the four participating institutions. better services at lower· cost. In a sense, Membership in the consortium will not the consortium could be regarded as a be limited to the four charter members, "common market" in private higher but may be expanded to include other ·education·for Greater Hartford. institutions. CLARENCE WATTERS, Hor,orary O~ganist of the College, at the console of the new The arrangement will enable each of The Hartford Courant, commenting Chapel organ. the member institutions to offer students editorially on the project, said that "The a broader choice of courses. regional approach to commu.nity It is the outgrowth of a limited problems has frequently been promoted cross-registration program o-yer the past here, but seldom implemented. But 1, 000 Attend Recitals several years involving students from cooperation of the kind where there is Trinity, the University of Hartford, St. little or no foss of identity is certainly Joseph College and the Hartford soun<f--especially when money is Inaugurating New Organ Seminary Foundation. Under that conserved and services are improved. program, called the Intercollegiate Educators ... in Greater Hartford have More than 1,000 people-invited The organ has 4,720 pipes in 78 ranks, Registration Program, students from one indeed found important keys to such guests, Hartford residents and members three manuals and 65 stops. Located college were allowed to register at cooperation." of the College community-came to under the Rose Window in the Nave of another college for courses not available Trinity to hear Clarence Watters play two the Chapel, if is one of the largest organs - at the "home" college, and withQut recitals inaugurating the new organ in the in Connecticut. paying additional tuition. Chapel. It can be described as "Neo-Classic," a · The new consortium will expanq that Budge_t Balanced More than 350 attended the 20th-Century organ which employs the program in' three ways: -- --- - - - - invitation-only recital and reception on best principles of the past three centuries • By comb-ining enrollments, enabling - I~ -'71; Outlook January 21 and nearly 700 packed the of organ-building. The instrument was the four · Schopl~ to con:_til}Ue ; offering ~ Chapel for the public performance the built by Austin Organs, Inc. of Hartford, courses· which ' have: in - the individuaL following night. at a cost of $150,000. schools, -a s-mall a'nd· ~neco~onuc =~~ Con-tinues Good There were standing ovations on both Clarence Watters, Honorary Organist of enrollment. - evenings, and reviewers gave high praise the College, was consultant on the design • By joint planning of graduate level Trinity College balanced its budget to both the artist and the instrument. of the organ. He was head of Trinity's courses and programs. - during the fiscal 'year which ended June Theodore H. Parker, critic for The Music Department from 1932 until his • By exploring po~ibilities- of pqeling · 3_0; 1971 and appears likely to have a Coutant, credited Mr. Watters with a retirement in 196 7. In 1968 and 1970 he common resources in , administrativ~ = ·-: Q.alanced ~udget al _the end of the current "brilliant performance," and described was visiting professor of organ at Yale areas, ·su-ch · as · computer services ' and·- liscal'-year, .Treasurer J. Kenneth the organ as "splendid." Mrs. Dorothy University. specialized library resources. Robertson says. Stowe, writing in The Hartford Times, For his program he chose works of Initially, the governing board of the Total expenditures and transfers ·in called the recital an "auspicious beginning Bach, Reger, Widor, Franck and Dupre, as Greater Hartford Consortium for Higher 1971, Robertson said were $7,719,646 for a fine organ which will inevitably well as one of his own compositions. Education will consist of President (see BUDGET, page 2) become a mainstay of the community." Future events in the Chapel will Mr. Watters, she said, "played with great include a recital March 12 by John Holtz, style and unfailing good taste." She Chairman of the Organ and Liturgjcal observed that for him, the recitals were a Music Department, Hartt College of "crowning moment in a life devoted to Music; a concert for choir and organ the organ and to music at Trinity." March 17 and 18; by the Trinity Concert Warren V. Tanghe '70, writing in the Choir; a recital April 17· by McNeil Tripod, described the organ as "an Robinson, organist of the Church of St. important contribution to the cultural Mary the Virgin, New York City; "The life of the nation," and praised Mr. Bloomsbury Mass" on April 18, by the Watters' role in designing it and Choir of the Church of the University of demonstrating' it to be "a viable London, and music for pipe organ and instrument for a wide variety of musical rock instruments May 2, with Larry King, styles." organist of Trinity Church, New York The organ is a gift of the late Mrs. City, and the "Outer Space" band of Newton C. Brainard in memory of her Trinity College. husband, a trustee of the College for 41 years. A private service of dedication was Annual GiYing held in the Chapel on January 15. More Give Less Barclay Shaw Dies More contributors, fewer dollars is the current story of the 1971-72 Annual Word reached the College as this Giving Campaign when compared- with issue went to press that ·Barclay the giving record in the same period last - Shaw '35, Chairman of the Trinity year. College Board of Trustees, died The most"recent progress report shows February 20 at his home in Mt. 1, 634 contributors, an increase of 25%. Kisco, N.Y. Details will appear in However, in dollars, the $255,377 raised FRIENDS TOP GOAL-The Friends of Trinity Fund segment of the 1971-72 Annual the next issue of The Reporter. so far in gifts and pledges is Giving Campaign. has already topped its $1 5,000 goal. Shown, left to right, Ostrom (see GIVING, page 2) Enders, chairman of the Friends Fund, and Christopher_Percy '57, vice chairman. Page 2 CAMPUS .· NOTES The Trinity College Library has joined A new book "Pre-Professionals and the several other area libraries, including. those of Theory and Practice of Public Administration," the Am'erican Antiquarian Society, Amherst, coauthored by CLYDE D. McKEE, JR. and Dartmouth, Mount Holyoke, Wesleyan and SANDRA BILOON, M.A. '71, is the result of a Williams in the sponsorship of a scholarly research project conducted under a Connecticut bibliography of New England history. Dr. Research Commission grant. The study GLENN WEAVER, associate professor pf examines the problems created by employment history, a member of the Committee; says that of the disadvantaged as pre-professionals in publication is expected by 1975. The public service, and formulates guidelines to compilation of local history will consist of an assist administrators in dealing with these accurate listing of printed works dealing with problems. Dr. McKee, associate professor of the history of New England as a whole as weU political science, was the project planner and as the six individual states which comprise the director, and Mrs. Biloon, personnel region. administrator in the Employment Security * * * Division of the Connecticut Labor Department, Dr. JEROME P. WEBSTER '10, trustee was principal author and investigator. emeritus and the first president of the Trinity College Library Associates, was honored at the * * * annual dinner meeting of the Friends of the CHANGEZ SULTAN, a senior psychology Columbia University Libraries. He received major from Pakistan, who entered Trinity as a TREKKING IN NEPAL-With the Himal Chuli range as background, Presid¢nt their Citation for Distinguished Service for Strawbridge Scholar, was selected by the Lockwood pauses during the 25-day trek he and Mrs. Lockwood recently took in having established and maintained at the Connecticut Poeti:y Circuit as one of the "Four University the Jeroine P. Webster Library of Connecticut Student. Poets" to go on tour at Nepal. The expedition began at Katmandu, capitol city of the tiny monarchy in the Plastic Surgery, the largest collection -of its type area colleges in February. The four students Himalayas, and ended 225 miles later at Pokhara. They hiked the equivalent of 50,000 in the world. The collection consists of 5,000 were selected following competitions held at vertical feet up and down. books, including many rare first editions. Dr. colleges thr'oughou t the state last fall by a Webster has recently retired as president of the committee which included John 'Malcolm trustees of the Watkinson Library and H. Brinnin, Louis 'coxe, Richard Eberhart, David BACON COLLAMORE of West Hartford has Ferry, William Meredith, James Merrill and New Fund Memorializes been elected to take his place. Dr. Webster has Richard Wilbur. A grant from the Connecticut served as a Watkinson Library trustee since the Commission on the Arts will cover traveling 'transfer of the library to Trinity in 1952.