LETTERS WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! The Trinity Reporter welcomes letters related to items published in recent issues. Please send remarks to the editor at [email protected] or Sonya Storch Adams, Oiffce of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106. AN EARLIER MR. TRINITY BRING BACK FULL ‘IN MEMORY’ Since you’re writing about Mr. Trinity It was with great surprise that I found [Jerry Hansen, in “Mr. Trinity Himself,” my hard copy of the spring Reporter with- spring 2020], my father, John A. Mason out the obituary section but just a list of ’34, also was known as Mr. Trinity. He the deceased. For those of us who are was alumni secretary, and he coached older, that is one of the most important two sports—golf and squash—and sections. Looking that up on the inter- restarted Trinity crew with the help of net, which is very diiffcult for me and Norton Downs. many older alums, is penny-wise and He was beloved by numerous alumni pound-foolish. Please return to printing over his many illustrious years at Trinity. the obituaries in hard print. Given you John A. “Sandy” Mason Jr. ’66 have 34 pages devoted to items not gen- Chatham, Massachusetts erally of interest to many older alums, certainly the few pages of death notices Editor’s Note: Thanks to Mr. Mason for could be returned to the print edition. writing about his father. Trinity College For older alumni (I am Class of 1967), in the Twentieth Century by Peter reading about classmates who are now Knapp ’65 notes: “In September 1960, deceased and whom we know, along John A. Mason ’34, formerly Associate with the Class Notes, is what we most Director of Development, became the need and connects us to Trinity. If there College’s Alumni Secretary, and proceeded is a future constraint, it is the feelin g Editor’s Note: Your point is to develop the potential of that position of people that I know that priority well-taken, and we’ll aim to keep through an emphasis on personal contact should be given to respectfully include obituaries in print. Please see with hundreds of alumni, an effort that those sections. the full section of obituaries— soon led to his informal designation as Al Elstein ’67 “In Memory”—starting on page 71. ‘Mr. Trinity.’ ” HANSEN ‘A ROLE MODEL FOR ALL’ I have just now seen the tribute to Jerry Hansen in the spring 2020 issue of The Trinity Reporter (Yes! A year later.) The Reporter has done a great service in rec- ognizing Jerry’s incomparable achieve- ments and dedication to the college and its alumni. There are few who have done so much for so many. Most moving is his complete sellfessness. Others, not Jerry, were always ifrst in his hierarchy of values. He is a role model for all. The very best in knowing what makes life most worthwhile. Stan Marcuss ’63 Washington, D.C. Y O C MC ARAH S : O T PHO 2 THE TRINITY REPORTER