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CONTENTS FEATURES 16 ‘At the helm’ Julie Mason ’93 serves as chief of staff to country’s ifrst second gentleman 20 Aiming to increase diversity of voices Students help spark faculty hiring initiative 24 Plans with a purpose ‘Architectural Design’ students ‘rebuild’ storm-ravaged Bahamian town 28 What brings you joy? Reporter readers respond 32 Connecting with Puerto Rican culture Students engage with local community, history, and more 36 Trinity’s ‘unfailing champion’ Cornie Thornburgh ’80, retiring as board chair, plans to stay connected to college ON THE COVER Julie Mason ’93, deputy assistant to U.S. President Joe Biden and chief of staff to Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff PHOTO: STEPHEN VOSS Editor’s Note: Some photos in this issue were taken pre-pandemic, prior to mask-wearing and physical-distancing protocols.

DEPARTMENTS 02 LETTERS 03 ALONG THE WALK 08 VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT 09 AROUND HARTFORD 14 TRINITY TREASURE 41 CLASS NOTES 71 IN MEMORY 78 ALUMNI EVENTS 80 ENDNOTE THE TRINITY REPOR TER Vol. 52, No. 1, Fall 2021 Published by the Oiffce of Communications, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. Postage paid at Hartford, Connecticut, and additional mailing oiffces. The Trinity Reporter is mailed to alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and rfiends of Trinity College without charge. All publication rights reserved, and contents may be reproduced or reprinted only by written permission of the editor. Opinions expressed are those of the editor or contributors and do not relfect the oiffcial position of Trinity College. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Trinity Reporter, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 The editor welcomes your questions and comments: Sonya Storch Adams, Oiffce of Communications, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106; [email protected]; or 860-297-2143. www.trincoll.edu ON THIS PA GE A portion of the Hartford skyline shines in the glow of the partial solar eclipse of June 10, 2021. Photographer Nick Caito climbed the steps of the Chapel tower to gain his vantage point. PHOTO: NICK CAITO

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

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ALONG THE WALK CELEBRATING THE CLASS OF 2021 “The pandemic has taught us that we can’t Samantha McCarthy of Washington was ACCOLADES go back to the way things were, nor should named valedictorian. She earned a B.A. summa Trustee Award for Faculty we want to. You are too good, too smart, and cum laude with honors in sociology and a minor Excellence: Professor of too wise to go back to normal. You will make in community action. The salutatorian was Mathematics David Mauro, a future that is better than normal,” Hartford Thomas C. McKinney of California, who earned Professor of Engineering HealthCare President and CEO Jeffrey A. Flaks a B.A. summa cum laude in economics with a Taikang Ning ; Staff Excellence: said to the graduates of the Trinity College Class minor in history. Learning Space Manager and of 2021 during his Commencement address. In addition to Flaks, 2021 honorary degrees Media Technology Specialist To maintain low density and physical dis - also were presented to: Philip O. Geier, John J. Dlugosz; Assistant Vice tancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Trinity co-founder of the Davis United World College President for Construction, Facilities, and Operations Tom held two consecutive ceremonies on May 21. Scholars Program and creator of Projects for Fusciello; Associate Director of Following a year unlike any other at the college, Peace; Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for Athletics for Compliance and graduates receiving their bachelor’s or mas - The Nature Conservancy and Paul W. Horn Student-Athlete Welfare Kristen J. ter’s degrees were seated with up to two invited Distinguished Professor and the Political Noone M’07; History Department guests in separate groups spread out on the Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy Administrative Assistant Main Quad. and Public Law at Texas Tech University; and Georgene “Gigi” St. Peter; Flaks, who spoke at both ceremonies, has Philip S. Khoury ’71, associate provost and Student Excellence: Jaymie Dawn helped the state navigate the challenges of the Ford International Professor of History at the Bianca, Vanessa Ross, Jeffrey P. global pandemic by overseeing extensive testing Massachusetts Institute of Technology and for - Sagun, Ana Stambolic and vaccination outreach. In recognition of his mer trustee and vice chair of the Trinity College The Thomas Church Brownell distinguished career and contributions to the Board of Trustees. Prize for Teaching Excellence health care ifeld, Trinity presented Flaks with an Trinity also celebrated the 2020 honorands. for 2021: Professor of Political honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Last year, the pandemic prevented the college Science Stefanie Chambers, Giovanni Armani Jones ’21, president of from hosting a full in-person Commencement Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor when, in honor of the 50th anniversary of of Philosophy Erik Vogt; 2020: Trinity’s Student Government Association and Paul E. Raether Distinguished the graduate selected to be the student speaker, coeducation at Trinity, the institution was to Professor of History Cheryl L. said the Class of 2021 represented strength and have bestowed honorary degrees on the ifrst Greenberg resilience. “We’ve not only made it through four women to receive undergraduate degrees The Dean Arthur H. Hughes college, but we have also made it through a from Trinity, in 1970. They are: Trinity College Award for Achievement in pandemic,” Jones said. “COVID-19 has taken a Professor of Theater and Dance, Emerita, Judy Teaching for 2021: Visiting lot away from us but has also given us new per - Dworin ’70; Elizabeth Martin Gallo ’70; Judith Lecturer in Political Science spectives and lessons.” Odlum Pomeroy ’70; and Roberta Russell ’70, and Human Rights Benjamin C. In her charge to the graduates, Trinity who passed away earlier this year and was Carbonetti, Assistant Professor President Joanne Berger-Sweeney celebrated awarded the honorary degree posthumously. of Environmental Science and the triumphs and perseverance of the Class Other 2020 honorands are Francisco L. Borges Biology Amber L. Pitt; 2020: of 2021. “You all are bound together by the ’74, chair and managing partner of Landmark Assistant Professor of Psychology unusual circumstances of the year,” Berger- Partners; the Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Michael Grubb Sweeney said as she letf the graduates with the 27th presiding bishop and primate of the Charles A. Dana Research Professorship Award: Professor Y Episcopal Church (Curry received his honor- O questions to consider. “What effect did these of History and International C shared experiences have on the bonds you have ary degree in May 2020, when he served as Studies Dario A. Euraque MC with one another? During this time of COVID- Baccalaureate speaker); and James Hanley and ARAH S , 19, how did your relationships with others in Peter McMorris, co-founders of Cinestudio, Charles A. Dana Research O the Trinity community change? What shared the art house cinema on the Trinity campus. Associate Professorship Award: CAIT bonds will draw you back, 10, 20, or even 50 Plans are underway for the Class of 2020 to be Associate Professor of Language CK and Culture Studies Kifah NI : years from now, to reminisce with your class- celebrated during Reunion Weekend 2022, S O mates about these extraordinary times?” June 10–12. Hanna, Associate Professor of T Psychology Laura J. Holt PHO 4 THE TRINITY REPORTER

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ALONG THE WALK ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME New trustees Trinity College Director of Athletics Drew Galbraith recently announced the 2021 Trinity Athletics Hall President Joanne Berger-Sweeney of Fame class. The Hall of Fame, created to celebrate the rich history of athletic excellence at Trinity, has announced the appointment honors those who, through athletics participation, coaching, or service, have distinguished themselves of four new trustees to the Trinity in the ifeld of intercollegiate athletics, brought honor and acclaim to Trinity, and contributed to the College Board of Trustees. They success and advancement of intercollegiate athletics at the college. The group is slated to be oiffcially began their terms on July 1, 2021. inducted into the Hall of Fame at an in-person ceremony in September. The in-person induction All the new trustees are alumni, ceremony for the 2020 Hall of Fame class, postponed due to the pandemic, is set for October. and one also is the parent of an alumna. They are: LaTanya Langley ’97, H’17, Jamie Tracey The 2021 Trinity College PETER GRAVES ’07 (men’s ROBIN SHEPPARD M’76 (ifeld Szal ’06, William G. Thomas III ’86, Athletics Hall of Fame Class: rowing) was a top rower for hockey/women’s basketball/ P’20, and James Yu ’87. Read MARCUS COWIE ’00 (men’s Trinity crews that rose to No. 10 women’s lacrosse—coach/ more about them below. squash) was a four-time All- nationally among all collegiate administrator) served as In addition, Lisa Bisaccia ’78 American who won the College divisions; the Bantams won Trinity’s ifeld hockey and took over as chair of the board. Squash Association (CSA) numerous New England Small women’s lacrosse coach for Bisaccia, recently retired executive National Singles title in 1997 College Athletic Conference 25 seasons and later as an vice president and chief human and 1998 and led the Bantams (NESCAC) and Eastern College associate athletic director. resources oiffcer and member of to their ifrst CSA National Team Athletic Conference (ECAC) Her teams won numerous NIAC the Executive Committee of CVS crowns in 1999 and 2000. titles during his career. Graves and ECAC titles in both sports, Health, succeeds Cornelia Parsons He is a member of the College was selected as a member of and she led Trinity ifeld hockey Thornburgh ’80 (for more on Squash Hall of Fame. Team USA and competed in to two NCAA Final Fours. Thornburgh, see page 36), who the 2012 London Olympics as retired in June atfer seven years as RON DUCKETT ’74 (football) a member of the U.S. men’s CLAIRE SLAUGHTER JOYCE ’86 chair and 17 years on the board. holds numerous Trinity and quadruple sculls boat. (women’s squash/women’s Rhea Turteltaub ’82 and Craig New England pass-catching tennis) was a two-time New Vought ’82, P’17 have joined Kevin records and led the nation ALEX GUILD ’61, P’97, GP’11 England and Connecticut state J. Maloney ’79 as vice chairs. in receiving in 1973. He was (men’s soccer) is the Trinity tennis champion who was The new trustees are: an All-New England and All- men’s soccer all-time leader in Trinity’s No. 1 singles player American wide receiver for every statistical category and from 1982 until her graduation. LaTanya Langley ’97, H’17, vice the Bantams. was an All-American selection. She won every match she president, general counsel, He was selected to compete in played in 1982, 1983, and and corporate secretary of BIC YOLANDA FLAMINO ’99 the 1960 Olympics. 1985, and in 1982, she won Corporation (women’s cross country/ every set. Slaughter also was a women’s track and ifeld) was ISABEL IWACHIW ’10 (women’s varsity starter in squash. Jamie Tracey Szal ’06, an attorney a two-time cross country and ice hockey) holds several at Brann & Isaacson track and ifeld All-American. goaltending records and JAY WILLIAMSON ’89(baseball/ She holds multiple Trinity earned All-NESCAC, All-East, men’s golf/men’s ice hockey) William G. Thomas III ’86, P’20, records, including the highest- and All-American honors twice was a captain and star player associate dean of research and ever placing performance by each. She was the NESCAC for the baseball and ice hockey graduate education in the College a Trinity runner in the 1998 Player of the Year and NCAA teams. He also played golf and of Arts and Sciences at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Division III National Player became a professional linksman University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Championships when she came of the Year while leading the in 1990, playing on the PGA where he holds the Angle Chair in in 13th. Flamino won the San Bantams to their ifrst NCAA and nationwide tours. the Humanities and is a professor Francisco Marathon in 2007. Tournament in 2010. of history KARL KURTH (football/track and James Yu ’87, partner in EQT ifeld—coach/administrator) was Partners, a Sweden-based private an assistant football coach, the equity group head track and ifeld coach, and the athletic director from 1966 For bios of all trustees, please visit until his retirement in 1982. ↗ He played a prominent role ↗ commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. in bringing women’s varsity athletics to the college. 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ALONG THE WALK YENCHING SCHOLAR Ana Stambolic ’21 was named last spring as a 2021 Yenching Scholar and was awarded a full fellowship to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies at Yenching Academy of Peking University in China. Yenching Academy offers scholars a wide array of humanities and social sciences courses about China and aims to build bridges between China and the rest of the world. “Receiving this fellowship means a great deal to me because it will allow me to continue broadening my horizons culturally and intellectually,” said Stambolic, who graduated summa cum laude with majors in political science and human rights studies. “Because Yenching Academy is focused on interdisciplinary research Fulbright grant and collaborative work among an international cohort, it will allow me to deeply engage with my Esther Appiah ’21 was selected to travel to Côte d’Ivoire in January research interests in international relations and global governance.” 2022 through the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) pro- Hailing from the city of Užice (Sevojno) in the gram. The ETA program places Fulbright grant recipients in class- Republic of Serbia, Stambolic was attracted to rooms in foreign countries to provide assistance to local English Trinity by the college’s urban location and its teachers while serving as cultural ambassadors for the United States. academic and co-curricular offerings. “I wanted Appiah earned a B.A. in international studies with a concentration to attend a school that is located in a city and in African studies and minor in religious studies with a specializa- complete internships and fellowships while tion in African religions. She was involved in The African Students studying at Trinity,” she said. “Moreover, I was Association (TASA) and Do Shakara, the African dance team, certain that I wanted to pursue a human rights during her time at Trinity. “I’m all about Africa; my goal is to visit major, and Trinity is the ifrst [liberal arts] school all 54 countries in the continent. I already visited six, thanks to in the U.S. that started offering this major.” Before coming to Hartford, Stambolic graduated from UWC Trinity,” said Appiah, a native of Ghana. “My love for and desire to Robert Bosch College, a United World Colleges make change in Africa is so real because I had to leave to ifnd the international boarding school in Germany. opportunities that I have here, so I want to provide those opportu- While at Trinity, Stambolic conducted research nities without the need for students to depart from home in order with the Political Science Department, served as to receive quality education.” an international student mentor and as a Big Sister Equitable education is one of Appiah’s passions. She has taught in the college’s Big Sister-Little Sister program, middle school students from underrepresented communities at and worked in several campus oiffces. She studied Breakthrough Cincinnati, a summer program in Ohio, and sixth- for a year at Oxford University’s Mansifeld College grade English in South Africa with a program called One Heart and completed internships at the Embassy of the Source. She also spent one semester studying away in Ghana and Republic of Serbia in Washington, D.C., and the Hartford oiffce of U.S. Rep. John Larson. another in Senegal. In addition, Stambolic is a recipient Appiah said that her ultimate career goal is to start a school of the Trinity College Class of 1922 system that focuses on restorative education, mindfulness, healing Award for outstanding work in trauma, and teaching students how to identify and reconcile their her academic ifeld and of a Davis triggers. “There aren’t a lot of opportunities for students in sub- Project for Peace grant. Saharan Africa geared toward healing trauma, community building, When considering the and college readiness. I want to make more of these programs avail- possibilities for graduate studies able on the continent,” she said. atfer completing her bachelor’s Anne Lundberg, Trinity’s director of fellowships and adviser for degree this spring, Stambolic, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, noted, “Esther was a strong who is interested in a career in international relations and diplomacy, candidate due to her teaching experience, her study-abroad expe- was drawn to Yenching Academy’s emphasis riences in Ghana and Senegal, and her interests in ethnicity and on multiculturalism, interdisciplinary research, cross-cultural education. … She speaks Akan and French, along with and international cooperation. “I consider these English, and will thrive in a multilingual country like Côte d’Ivoire. things essential in responding to some of the most In short, Esther ifts the Fulbright proifle of a cultural ambassador for pressing challenges of the 21st century—the U.S.- the U.S. perfectly.” China relationship in particular,” she said. FALL 2021 7

VOLUNTEER SPOTLGHT Thomas D. Casey ’80 secretary, and acting assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity. During the 1990s, in what he calls his “hippie carpenter” phase, he took a break from government to work for him- self doing ifnish carpentry, renovation, and repair. But in 1999, he returned to Capitol Hill to conduct over- sight and investigations for the House of Representatives’ Committee on Resources. In 2001, he became chief coun- sel to the chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board (now the Federal Housing Finance Agency). In 2007, Casey co-founded the ifrm now known as MAXEX, described on its website as “the ifrst multi- seller, multi-buyer residential loan exchange.” Since 2014, he has been an attorney in private practice, specializing in mediation. Despite his busy professional life, Casey consistently has made his alma mater a priority. “He’s always there for Trinity,” says friend Charles Ingersoll ’83. Though the two met in college, their friendship grew atfer graduation when RECAPTURE they were both working in D.C. Casey has been active in the Trinity Club of Washington, D.C., since graduation and served as its president three times. “He’s very good at planning programs that are RIVERFRONT interesting and fun,” says Ingersoll, “like a picnic at the OF Potomac Boat Club or tours of local museums.” Y Casey is on his third term on the Trinity Alumni TES OUR C Association Executive Committee and serves as president of : O his class. Although he says he’s not wild about asking class - T A successful lawyer, entrepreneur, and mediator, Thomas mates for money, he’s also “pinch-hitting” as a class agent. PHO D. Casey ’80 says his four years at Trinity College helped set For many years, he was secretary for his class, which he the foundation for his life. particularly enjoyed. “He was just superb in this position,” “Institutions like Trinity will continue only if those who says classmate and friend Steven Stuart ’80. “He reached beneift from them give back,” he says. “The college affected out to everyone, not just his close friends, and created inter - me in a very positive way, so it’s important to me to give of esting [columns for The Trinity Reporter] that included sto - my time and resources so future generations can have the ries from many different alumni.” same experiences.” Of all of his service to Trinity, Casey is particularly proud An American studies major and lifelong history buff, to have helped orchestrate a letter-writing campaign to Casey particularly enjoyed classes with Professor of members of the Class of 2020. “It was the least we could do History and American Studies Eugene Leach, Professor of when they missed out on their graduation [due to the pan- Humanities Harold Martin, and Professor of English Paul demic].” Casey, along with David Clark ’80, gathered volun- Smith. “None of those men told me what or how to think,” teers to write personal notes of congratulations and support he says. “They showed me how to learn.” to all 504 members of the Class of 2020. Of the 88 alumni Atfer graduation, Casey worked for the Reagan-Bush who participated in the letter-writing campaign, 36 were presidential campaign and was part of the transition from the Class of 1980, more than from any other class. team for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Many of the volunteers received letters back from their stu - Development (HUD). From 1981–82, he was a special assis - dents, including Casey. tant to the secretary of HUD before enrolling at Georgetown “It is nice to know the letters meant something to the University Law Center. Atfer receiving a J.D. in 1985, he Class of 2020. My class certainly enjoyed writing to them,” returned to HUD in a series of positions, including dep - he says. uty assistant secretary for legislation, chief of staff to the —Mary Howard 8 THE TRINITY REPORTER

ALONG THE WALK RIVERFRONT SCULPTURES HARTFORD, CT << Emancipation, by Preston Jackson AROUND HAR TFORD A crisp fall day might be the perfect setting for a walk along Hartford’s riverrfont and an explo - ration of Riverrfont Recapture’s four connected parks, where sights include more than the city’s skyline and the calming mo- ve ment of the Connecticut River. Sculptures—including a series of 16 works dedicated to Abraham Lincoln—dot the welcoming banks. Riverrfont Recapture, the nonprofit that manag- es, main tains, and operates the parks and their riverwalks and trails, joined RECAPTURE the Greater Hartford Arts Council in collaborating in 2005 with Lincoln Financial—which awarded a $500,000 grant—to create the Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk. RIVERFRONT The ifnal sculpture was installed OF in 2011, and in 2016, Pulitzer Y Prize-winning presidential histo- TES rian Doris Kearns Goodwin helped OUR C : launch a mobile tour of the sculp- O T ture series that honors the coun- PHO try’s 16th president. ↗ For more information, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. FALL 2021 9

ALONG THE WALK New faculty New VP The following new tenure-track faculty began appointments at the college effective July 1, 2021. HEATHER L. BENNETT Ph.D., Anthropology, University Kristen Eshleman came to Trinity College in July as vice president for ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY of California, Berkeley; Dissertation: Library and Information Technology Services (LITS). As a key mem- Previous Position: Assistant Professor “From Island to Museum: Narrating ber of the college’s senior administration, she provides leadership of of Biology, Bard College Puerto Rican Museum Object the merged LITS organization and Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Cellular Itineraries” collaborates with fellow cabinet Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown M.A., Anthropology, University of University; Dissertation: “Loss of California, Berkeley members, faculty, staff, and stu - Notch or JNK Signaling Results in A.B., Anthropology, Harvard University dents to advance Trinity’s strate- FOXO Dependent Compensatory CHRISTINA HEATHERTON gic goals. Sleep in C. elegans” B.S., Biology, Stockton University ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Eshleman joins the Trinity OF AMERICAN STUDIES community from Davidson JORDAN T. CAMP AND HUMAN RIGHTS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Previous Position: Assistant Professor College in North Carolina, where OF AMERICAN STUDIES of American Studies, Barnard College, she worked for two decades. She Previous Positions: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University most recently served as director Charles Warren Center for Studies Ph.D., American Studies and Ethnicity, in American History, Harvard University of Southern California; of innovation initiatives, with University, and Lecturer, School of Dissertation: The Color Line and the responsibility for operational Public and International Affairs, Class Struggle: The Mexican leadership of innovation strat- Princeton University Revolution and Convergence Spaces of Ph.D., Sociology, University of Radical Internationalism, 1916–1946 egy, process, and projects for the California, Santa Barbara; M.A., American Studies and Ethnicity, college. Previously, Eshleman Dissertation: “The Sound Before University of Southern California the Fury: A Genealogy of Neoliberal B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, served as director of digital Racial and Security Regimes” University of California, Berkeley learning and innovation, director of instructional technology, and M.A., Sociology, University of California, KELLY M. PATTON instructional technologist in the humanities. Prior to her tenure at Santa Barbara M.A., Sociology, Humboldt State ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS Davidson, she worked in two start-ups. University Previous Position: Faculty Fellow, Eshleman holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North B.A., Sociology, University of Mississippi Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in social anthropol- O Colby College ELISE CASTILLO Ph.D., Physics, North Carolina ogy from the London School of Economics. She has written numer- CAIT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR State University; Dissertation: ous articles on topics such as complexity, innovation, and change CK OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES “Investigating Nuclear and NI : Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Astrophysical Systems management in higher education for Inside Higher Ed, EDUCAUSE O Using Neutrinos” T Professor of Educational Studies and Review, and other outlets, and she co-authored, with Joe Eshleman, PHO Public Policy and Law, Trinity College B.A., Physics, The College of Wooster Richard Moniz, and Karen Mann, the 2016 book Librarians and Ph.D., Policy, Organizations, SALLY B. SERAPHIN Measurement, and Evaluation, Instructional Designers: Collaboration and Innovation. University of California, Berkeley; ASSISTANT PROFESSOR She also has been active in service to Davidson and higher educa- Dissertation: “Progressive Education OF NEUROSCIENCE tion. In 2017, she led a project at Davidson to develop an inclusive, Meets the Market: Organizational Previous Position: Visiting Survival among Independent Assistant Professor of transparent, and collaborative innovation management framework Charter Schools” Neuroscience, Trinity College and more recently chaired Davidson’s Innovation Council. She M.A., Policy, Organizations, Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory Measurement, and Evaluation, University; Dissertation: “The previously served as a member of the EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting University of California, Berkeley Neuroendocrinology, Neuroanatomy, Program Committee, the Partnership for Liberal Arts Collaboration M.S., Teaching (Adolescent English), and Behavior-Pharmacology of and Exploration Steering Committee, and the Liberal Arts Pace University Dopamine in Juvenile Nursery-Reared B.A., English and Creative Writing, and Mother-Reared Rhesus Monkeys Consortium for Digital Innovation (LACOL) Advisory Council, where Barnard College (Macaca mulatta)” she helped launch the Undergraduate Network for Research in the M.Sc., Human Biology, Exeter College, Humanities. She was part of a team that won an $800,000 grant CHANDRANIL “NIL” Oxford University CHAKRABORTTII B.S., Psychology, University of from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a curricular ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Massachusetts-Boston model for digital studies, and she is co-founder of HAIL (Harvesting OF COMPUTER SCIENCE LENIQUECA WELCOME Academic Innovation for Learners), a community of leaders from all Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz; Dissertation: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR areas of higher education advancing institution-led innovation. “Performance Improvement of Storage OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Trinity President Joanne Berger Sweeney, in a May announce- Systems Using Machine Learning” AND URBAN STUDIES M.S., Computer Science, University of Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, ment to the community, noted, “The search committee and I were California, Santa Cruz University of Pennsylvania; impressed by Kristen’s agility and breadth, her ability to lead diverse Bachelor of Technology in Information Dissertation: “Where Life is Precious: teams collaboratively, and her passion for the liberal arts. She has Technology, West Bengal University The Terrains of Criminalization, of Technology, India Violence, and Freedom in Trinidad” a proven track record of designing inclusive processes to empower B.Arch., Architecture, University others to innovate. We know she will bring her vast talents to bear in AMANDA GUZMÁN of Arkansas ASSISTANT PROFESSOR leading digital transformation at Trinity and ensuring our library is OF ANTHROPOLOGY an intellectual hub for the campus.” Previous Position: Ann Plato Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies, Trinity College 10 THE TRINITY REPORTER

ALONG THE WALK Changes at Vernon Social CORNELIA PARSONS ’80 CENTER IN THE WORKS Recent visitors to campus may have noticed behind the stage is being remodeled as a Project Manager Patty Healey said that a buzz of construction at Vernon Social, hybrid space for meetings, workshops, and two existing entrances on Vernon Street will which soon will transform into the Cornelia classes, where students and presenters can continue to be the main building entrances. Parsons ’80 Center—or the Cornelia Center participate in person or remotely. “The Sol LeWitt work is obviously awesome, for short. The building will be the new home Catrino had numerous conversations and it’s not going anywhere,” she said of the of the Career and Life Design Center, formerly with students during summer and fall 2020 vibrant, multicolored, two-sided wall drawing the Center for Student Success and Career about how the space could best serve them. by the world-renowned artist. Completion of Development, and is anticipated to become a Input was sought rfom groups including renovations is anticipated before the start hub of student-centered activity. the Student Government Association (SGA) of the spring 2022 semester and possibly The Cornelia Center will be among the ifrst and Multicultural Affairs Council (MAC), as as soon as December 2021, said Healey, buildings on campus named for a woman, in well as through an online survey, to which “depending on availability of construction honor of Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh ’80, nearly 250 students responded. “We really materials, which has been a challenge who served for 17 years on the Trinity College want to ensure students will feel comfortable nationally, post-pandemic.” Board of Trustees—including since 2014 as its in the space to hold their own programming Added Catrino, “We expect the new center ifrst female board chair—until retiring rfom and to collaborate with us on our programs,” to be a great hangout space for students and the board in June. Catrino said. a place where they can collaborate. We’re Executive Director of Career and Life Along with 14 oiffces for staff, SGA looking forward to hosting all kinds of career Design Joe Catrino said his team—the will have an oiffce space. A variety of and life design events there, and we’ll be sure Career and Life Design Center, the Oiffce student interests and organizations will be to have alumni coming in otfen, too.” of International Students and Scholars, accommodated by an open lfoor plan, said and Retention Strategy and Transition Catrino, who noted that some details are Programs—is excited about relocating rfom still being determined. “Our welcome desk, For more on Thornburgh, O the Admissions building. Previously, the which will be staffed by students, will have please see page 36. team otfen used Vernon Social for events, sight lines to all entrances so that everyone CAIT with the stage a perfect backdrop for panel will always be welcomed into the space,” CK discussions with employers and alumni. The said Catrino. NI : O renovated building will continue to host T PHO these and other events. In addition, an area FALL 2021 11

ALONG THE WALK Virtual Reunion 2021 A gathering in cyberspace! Classes originally slated to cel- 4. Make Ahead Summer ebrate their Reunions last year got together online June Salads and Side Dishes 2 10–13 for Trinity’s Virtual Reunion Weekend. Alumni rep- for Picnics, Potlucks, and BBQs: A Cooking resenting seven decades of Trinity’s history came together Class for the Class of for 20 events during the course of the weekend, including 1980 with Lee Clayton class-speciifc functions organized by Reunion Planning Roper ’80. Lee Clayton Roper ’80, cooking Committees and All-Reunion speaking programs and on- instructor and author demand contests. Classes originally slated to gather in 2021 of the award-winning also were invited to join in on the fun in advance of plan- cookbook series A 3 Well-Seasoned Kitchen, ning for joint in-person festivities with the classes celebrat- and one Roper’s dishes ing in June 2022. 5. A Shifting Admissions Bantams logged on from 27 states and six countries to Landscape: Current take part in the weekend, which featured the expertise of Trends and Future Issues alumni across numerous industries and current and retired in American Higher Education. Clockwise faculty members. Alumni competed in a Virtual Reunion from top left: Lee 4 5K and Virtual Reunion Trivia Contest, connected with one Coffin ’85, vice provost another in virtual class lounges, and more! and dean of admissions and financial aid at Dartmouth College; Ann Newman Selvitelli ’91, director of college 1 counseling and leadership at Suffield Academy; Adrienne Amador Oddi, Trinity’s dean of admissions and financial aid; and Zee Santiago ’09, college and career planning 5 manager in the Office of Postsecondary Readiness in the NYC Department of Education 6. A View from ’Neath the Elms: Reflecting on the Year and Envisioning the Future. Clockwise from top left: Mitchell Polin ’96, associate dean for curriculum and associate professor of theater and dance; Drew 1. Making a Mark: 2. The Art and Science 3. Fighting for the Galbraith, director of Bantam Experts on of Memory: How Do Underdog: A athletics and chair of Building a Brand. We Remember? with Conversation with physical education; Clockwise from top left: Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Civil Rights and Joe DiChristina, vice Jess Sims ’10, Peloton president and Trinity Employment Attorney president for student 6 instructor, in-arena College professor Lisa Banks ’90. Adrienne success and enrollment co-host of the New York of neuroscience. “Renny” Fulco, director management; and Joanne Liberty, and Reebok Joanne Berger- of Trinity’s Public Policy Berger-Sweeney P’22, athlete; Chris Hatch ’80, Sweeney P’22 and and Law Program and president and Trinity CEO of Food Banks Arko Ghosh ’04, associate professor of College professor of Canada; Paul Sullivan assistant professor in legal and policy studies, neuroscience ’95, New York Times cognitive psychology and Lisa Banks ’90 ↗ columnist and host of the at Leiden University View recordings of the Trinity podcast Beyond and co-founder of All-Reunion presenta- MARINELLI the Summit; and Bryant QuantActions tions at commons. McBride ’88, P’20, CEO JOHN of Burst and producer of trincoll.edu/Reporter. ) the acclaimed film Willie GHT RI ( : O T PHO 12 THE TRINITY REPORTER

ALONG THE WALK Safeguards for snow leopards For more than 20 years, Shafqat Hussain, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian Studies, has dedicated his work to protecting the snow leopard species in Northern Pakistan. In 1999, Hussain created an insurance plan that provides eco- nomic incentives to regional farmers; the insurance safeguards snow leopards, one of the world’s most endangered species, from being killed in response to an attack on a farmer’s herd. Project Snow Leopard, launched in Hussain’s home country, promotes the coexistence of humans and snow leopards. The project has three goals: to create compensation for farmers, reducing economic loss; to construct predator-proof corrals for farmers; and to monitor the snow leopard’s population through COLLEGE CHAPLAIN NAMED genetic analysis and camera trapping. In 2006, with the help of a grant provided by the Rolex The Reverend Marcus G. Halley joined the Trinity College Awards for Enterprise, Hussain—a trained economist and envi- community in August as college chaplain and dean of ronmental anthropologist—expanded the project to 10 addi- spiritual and religious life. He provides the campus tional valleys across Baltistan, impacting approximately 15,000 community with spiritual and pastoral care and counsel people. Today, the insurance plan has been adopted in India, and leads a diverse team in Spiritual and Religious Life Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and China. Through Hussain and representing Buddhism, Judaism, Protestant Christianity, his team’s work, the snow leopard population is now stable. Roman Catholicism, Islam, and interfaith communities. Halley comes to the college from the Episcopal Church in Hussain’s efforts have won numerous other awards, includ- Connecticut, where he had served since 2019 as the dean ing the United Nations Equator Prize. In 2009, he was named a of formation. In that role, he supported the formation of National Geographic Emerging Explorer. all baptized Episcopalians in Connecticut, as well as the formation of new clergy. He worked collaboratively with the Commission on Ministry to streamline and provide oversight for new and existing programs. He also served as the priest- in-charge for the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, where he provided missional pastoral leadership for members of the congregation while working collaboratively with leaders within the parish to develop new models of leadership. Halley previously served as missioner for evangelism for the Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, rector at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church on Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, and associate priest for young adults and families at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds a master of divinity degree from Left: Shafqat the Interdenominational Theological Center and a master Hussain, George of sacred theology degree from the School of Theology at and Martha Kellner the University of the South, where he also is completing a Chair in South doctor of ministry degree. Asian Studies Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney wrote in a ↗ Inset: A pugmark MARINELLI For a video on Project Snow of a snow leopard June announcement to the community, “We, along with the Leopard and on Hussain, a Rolex search committee, were impressed by Marcus’s passion for JOHN Awards Laureate, please visit lifelong learning and his ability to build and maintain strong ) commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. collaborative relationships with diverse populations.” GHT RI ( She added, “He will be a positive, compassionate, and : O T energizing member of the Trinity community.” PHO FALL 2021 13

ALONG THE WALK 98 , M’ 96 ↗ For more about Trinfo.Café, please visit commons. trincoll.edu/ pinosa ’ Reporter. los Es ar C TRINITY TREASURE Growing up in Hartford, Carlos Espinosa ’96, M’98 loved accompanying his dad to the Friendly’s on Broad Street for ice cream. For the past 21 years—ever since the former Friendly’s became the home of Trinfo.Café—Espinosa has been retracing the steps of his childhood outings as he heads to work each day as director of community relations and Trinfo.Café. Atfer earning a B.A. in educational Initiative, with a goal to bridge the com- at Trinfo.Café, he is especially ener- studies and sociology and an M.A. in munity’s “digital divide” through com- gized by a student leadership initiative. public policy, Espinosa worked in com- puter technology and internet access. “All our student workers organize and munity organizing with Connecticut non- Today, Espinosa says, “Technology is still put on events open to the community.” proifts and in Washington, D.C., before at the core of Trinfo, but we’ve become Examples include yoga sessions, a joining his alma mater. He is known for a much broader community space.” His portrait-painting event, and a Halloween his devotion to strengthening connec - role has expanded, too. Within a few celebration, when neighborhood tions between Trinity and Hartford; years atfer his initial job reaching out to children visited the Trinfo.Café EDITOR’S NOTE developing community partnerships; col- organizations to offer internet access, he Community Garden to pick out and “Trinity Treasure” laborating with professors, staff, and stu- became Trinfo.Café’s director. In 2018, decorate pumpkins before enjoying highlights a person, dents; and creating a welcoming experi- he was promoted to his current position, snacks and cartoon movies. place, or thing on coinciding with the creation of Trinity’s Espinosa learned long ago that a good campus that is just ence for all at Trinfo.Café. His longtime what the name colleague, Instructional Technologist Center for Hartford Engagement and community organizer works behind the implies: a Trinity Dave Tatem, says, “Carlos looks for ways Research (CHER), which brought together scenes most of the time. “I’ve never treasure. Do you O to improve things. Even when some- several community engagement pro- wanted to be in the limelight.” Instead, have an idea for grams at the college. he says, “I’m happy being a good con- what to showcase? CAIT thing’s really challenging, he’s always Please send your CK Espinosa is a parent of two, along with tributor to a variety of institutional suggestions to NI cheerufl.” Trinfo.Café opened in 2000 as : O the hub of Trinity’s Smart Neighborhood wife Luiselle Rivera M’08. These days efforts to make this a better place.” sonya.adams@ T trincoll.edu. PHO 14 THE TRINITY REPORTER t t

ALONG THE WALK Tenure for five Goldwater Scholar The Trinity College Board of Trustees voted in April 2021 to approve the promotions to the Trinity College neuroscience major Alicia Camuy position of associate professor with tenure of ’22 recently was selected from an estimated pool of Molly Helt in psychology and neuroscience, more than 5,000 students from across the country Peter Kyle in theater and dance, Timothy Landry to receive the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The in anthropology and religious studies, and scholarship is among the most prestigious awards Robert Outten in psychology. The board also for students interested in pursuing careers in the voted in June to appoint Priscilla Meléndez, RECENT natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. who previously was professor of the practice in PUBLICATIONS “[Receiving] this scholarship, language and culture studies, as full professor with tenure. Burakku Raibuzu especially as a ifrst-generation “Our newly tenured faculty represent a range of Mataa Kaisoo-roku: college student, is a huge foot liberal arts disciplines, but they are all passionate Terorisuto to Yobarete in the door for me,” said Camuy. about connecting their work to the real world Translation and notes by Rieko “It will afford me the opportu - and to their students,” said Sonia Cardenas, Wagoner, Principal Lecturer in nity to do the research I love and acting dean of the faculty and vice president for Language and Culture Studies and International Studies, Emerita help me attend a Ph.D. program academic affairs. “This is a highly accomplished, Seido-sha, Tokyo, 2021; 333 pages atfer I graduate from Trinity.” energetic group of faculty. Each of them boldly (When They Call You A Terrorist: In Camuy’s ifrst year at crosses boundaries in their scholarship, and A Black Lives Matter Memoir; all inspire engaged forms of learning in their Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha Trinity, she took part in the students. We congratulate them on their bandele; St. Martin’s Publishing Interdisciplinary Science numerous achievements and wish them long, Group, 2017) Program (ISP), an academic distinguished careers as Trinity professors.” The Constitutional Question program for ifrst-year students to Save the Planet: The that links scientiifc disciplines MOLLY HELT People’s Right to a Healthy to their connections in the world. Through ISP, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND Environment Camuy participated in research with Charles A. NEUROSCIENCE Franklin L. Kury ’58 Trinity faculty member since 2014 Environmental Law Institute, 2021; Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Ph.D., clinical psychology, University of Connecticut 224 pages Sarah Raskin. M.S., psychology, University of Connecticut In Raskin’s ReMIND Lab (Rehabilitation B.A., psychology, Smith College The New York Times’ 1619 PETER KYLE Project and the Racialist of Memory for Individuals with Neurological ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF THEATER AND DANCE Falsiifcation of History: Diagnoses), Camuy has been researching the Trinity faculty member since 2018 Essays and Interviews Memory for Intentions Screening Test (MIST), M.F.A., dance, University of Washington Edited by David W. Green ’71, under which evaluates prospective memory, or the ability B.A., dance and German area studies, Kenyon College the pen name David North, and Thomas Mackaman to remember to carry out a future task. “Through TIMOTHY LANDRY Mehring Books, 2021; 339 pages my research, I have discovered that the MIST ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND Functional Variations assessment isn’t necessarily appropriate for all pop - RELIGIOUS STUDIES in English: Theoretical ulations, speciifcally Spanish speakers. As a result, Trinity faculty member since 2015 Ph.D., anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Considerations and I applied for a Student Initiated Research Grant, ini- M.A., anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Practical Challenges tiated the Institutional Review Board process, and M.A., anthropology, University of Houston Edited by Ram Ashish Giri, Anamika B.S., anthropology, University of Houston Sharma and James D’Angelo ’81 created new assessments on my own,” said Camuy. PRISCILLA MELÉNDEZ Springer, 2020; 340 pages Camuy also is a leader outside of her course- PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE STUDIES Funadaiku Nasu Seiichi work; she’s active in La Voz Latina and Trinity’s Trinity faculty member since 2012 To Nagaragawa No Ubune Multicultural Affairs Council and serves as a Ph.D., romance studies and Hispanic literature, Cornell University Wo Tsukuru (Building the ifrst-generation peer mentor, a big sister in the Big B.A., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Nagara River Ubune with Sister-Little Sister program, and a student worker at ROBERT OUTTEN Boatbuilder Seiichi Nasu) Trinfo.Café. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY Douglas Brooks ’82 Camuy is enthusiastic about continuing to Trinity faculty member since 2015 Tokyo National Research Institute for Ph.D., social psychology, Simon Fraser University Cultural Properties, 2020; 131 pages develop her research and follow her passions. M.A., social psychology, Simon Fraser University “When we are little, science is so otfen presented B.A., psychology and history, York University If you have a recent book, CD, or as facts that we already know,” said Camuy. video that you would like listed in “However, I’ve begun to learn that science is a lot ↗ The Trinity Reporter, please submit about what we don’t know. I am learning how to For more on these faculty a copy to Sonya Storch Adams, members, please visit commons. Office of Communications, Trinity be skeptical and how to explore the fascinating trincoll.edu/Reporter. College, 300 Summit Street, unknowns of the world and want to continue to do Hartford, CT 06106. Questions? so in my future.” Email [email protected]. FALL 2021 15

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‘At the ’ helm Julie Mason ’93 serves as “Walking through the White House chief of staff gates never gets old,” says Julie to country’s Mason ’93, whose third White House ifrst second tour of duty began in January 2021. gentleman As deputy assistant to the president and chief of staff to the second gen- STORY BY KATHY ANDREWS PORTRAITS B Y tleman, Mason brings invaluable STEPHEN VOSS experience from more than 25 years in federal and state government, political campaigns, and the business and nonproift sectors. Her chief responsibility is overseeing the contributions of the ifrst second gentleman in U.S. history, Douglas Emhoff. She appreciates the “fresh eyes” Emhoff brings to his role and is excited about helping him to deter - mine which initiatives he’ll focus on as he supports the administration and, in particular, the work of his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris. FALL 2021 17

arris is breaking barriers as the ifrst woman, the ifrst Black American, and the ifrst South Asian American Hto be elected vice president. At the same time, her husband has become a national role model for male spouses of powerful women. Videos of Emhoff, such as one where he is blowing kisses to Harris before President Joe Biden’s ifrst address to Congress, have gone viral. “He has been surprised, I think we all have,” says Mason, “at what seems perfectly nor- mal, supporting one’s spouse, getting so much attention.” Emhoff, Mason, and team hit the ground running in the initial months of the Biden-Harris administration, supporting pandemic response and economic recovery efforts. “The focus has been on making sure we can get Americans healthy, building conifdence in vaccines, and sharing news about the president’s initiatives to help families get back on their feet and build back the economy,” Mason says. Emhoff’s Twitter feed (@secondgentleman) offers a glimpse of his cross-country travels, including vis- its to small businesses and to vaccination sites at community centers and mobile clinics and on tribal lands. Emhoff, who has led an accomplished career as an entertainment lawyer, cares deeply about access to justice, notes Mason. “As a lawyer, he is passionate about advocating for justice and fairness, which aligns well with the president’s commitment to equity.” you call when you want something to Mason, M.D., ’60, and uncle, Robert Amid the whirlwind of second- get done,” says Regan, the assistant vice Mason, M.D., ’62, are alumni. gentleman duties, Emhoff says, “As a chancellor for research and innovation at “I think there’s a lot to be said for a ‘newbie’ to D.C. and politics, I’m lucky to the University of Colorado Boulder. “Julie school like Trinity,” says Mason. “A small have Julie at the helm of my White House has always been driven toward public school that builds a true community is team. She not only knows the nuances of service. She likes to think about and solve more valuable now than ever. During the this administration but also how to get bigger problems.” pandemic, we all felt a bit disconnected. things done—and she does it with a steady Recalling the ifrst time she visited Having a place like Trinity, where people leadership style, positive outlook, and Trinity’s campus as a high school stu - really gather and get to know each other, great sense of humor.” dent, Mason says, “I remember feeling the makes a real difference. By the time I grad - Mason’s close friend Karen Regan ’93, energy on campus and loving that it felt uated, it felt like home, and my classmates her roommate for three years at Trinity as like a community within a city.” Growing felt like my extended family. They still do.” well as atfer college in Washington, D.C., up, there were pictures of Trinity in her Upon graduating from Trinity with a concurs with Emhoff. “Julie is someone house since both her father, John Whittier degree in Latin American studies, Mason 18 THE TRINITY REPORTER

Also … The Trinity Reporter checked in with three other alumni serving in the “ She [Julie] not Biden administration: Sarah Despres ’88, B.A., history; J.D., 1996, only knows the Northeastern University School of Law; Counselor for Public Health and Science nuances of this at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: “Atfer Trinity, my ifrst full-time job was working in the Soviet Union for the United administration but States Information Agency (USIA). Having that solid education from Trinity meant that I could also how to get pivot from working for USIA to entering law school. Atfer law school, I came back to D.C. things done—and with no preconceived notion of what I would do and just started seizing opportunities as she does it with a they arose. Having a well-rounded humanities Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Julie Mason ’93 education was critical for that.” steady leadership Kendall Mitchell ’17, B.A. English Committee, Joe Biden. Within six months, (concentration in creative writing), minor in style, positive she landed a position assisting Mike Hispanic studies; Public Affairs Specialist/ McCurry, press secretary to President Bill Press Assistant, U.S. Department of Justice: outlook, and great Clinton, and learned the ropes of White “The English Department is one of the best House media relations. Next, she served as departments at Trinity. It opened my mind to sense of humor.” hearing other people’s stories without bias. deputy press secretary to ifrst lady Hillary As a political communications professional, I Clinton. A highlight came in 1998, when have to know how to communicate an issue in DOUGLAS EMHOFF , Mason accompanied the ifrst lady on a a meeting with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer SECOND GENTLEMAN trip to Trinity, where Clinton conducted a but also how I should communicate this issue OF THE UNITED STATES forum on child care and toured the Trinity to your grandma, who might not be lfuent in College Community Child Center (TC4). English. The skills I learned from the major Between 1999 and 2009, Mason helped me to be a good communicator and a was uncertain where her career path employed her strong communications and strong writer.” would lead. “I’m so impressed when peo- marketing skills at AOL Time Warner, the Maggie Thomas ’10, B.S., environmental ple know exactly what they want to do,” Smithsonian’s National Zoo, the Arizona science and biology, minor in legal studies; she says. “I did not, but that’s the beauty Department of Homeland Security, and master’s in environmental management, of a liberal arts education. For people like the Oiffce of Arizona Governor Janet 2015, Yale University; Chief of Staff in the me, who are on a less-deifned journey, Napolitano. Mason took time off to raise Oiffce of Domestic Climate Policy: “The Trinity being exposed to Shakespeare, econom- her children before returning to D.C. to Environmental Science Program is inherently ics, philosophy, gender studies—it all lead communications for Jill Biden during interdisciplinary and nothing prepared me sets the stage for whatever you do.” She the 2012 presidential election campaign. more for the role that I have today. If we’re remembers volunteering for Big Brothers From 2013 through 2015, Mason was going to tackle the climate crisis, it needs to Big Sisters (BBBS) and serving as presi- director of special projects in the Oiffce of be a completely interdisciplinary approach. I dent of the campus BBBS club. “All of us Vice President Joe Biden before spend- was exposed to so much at Trinity, including in the program got to know people in the ing 5½ years in leadership positions with the Interdisciplinary Science Program and community and kind of break down barri- international consulting ifrm Albright research studying red-tailed hawks. Over time, ers, which was terriifc.” Stonebridge Group. I realized that what I really wanted to do was Mason’s ifrst job atfer college was as In her latest White House role, Mason to make change in the world, and to do that an assistant teacher at a private school has been struck by how much her daugh- you need to be engaged at the intersection of science and policy.” in McLean, Virginia. But atfer a year ter, Adele, 14, and son, Sam, 12, are observing so many people lfocking to interested to hear about her day at work. These members of the Biden administration HOUSE D.C. to get involved in politics, she “The ifrst time I was in the White House, follow in the footsteps of many other Trinity decided she wanted to give it a try, too. I didn’t have kids. The second time, they alumni who, according to the college’s WHITE “I put on my red Ann Taylor suit, printed were young and would participate in kid- records, have served in previous presidential THE off hard copies of my résumé, and began focused activities like the annual Easter administrations, including Victoria Coates OF ’90, National Security Council (Donald Y knocking on doors.” Egg Roll. But now, at their schools, they’re Trump); Jonathan Asen ’09, Oiffce of TES An Illinois native, she secured an talking about world issues and national OUR Legislative Affairs (Barack Obama); Neil Patel C unpaid internship with her hometown issues, topics like equity and gender, ) ’91, Oiffce of the Vice President (George W. GHT congressman, which led to a job answer - and we have conversations about civics— Bush); and Charles S. Ingersoll, Jr. ’83, Oiffce RI ( : ing phones in the oiffce of the then- which is great! It’s fun for me to see what O of Presidential Personnel (Ronald Reagan). T chairman of the Senate Judiciary I’m doing through their eyes.” PHO FALL 2021 19

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A truly diverse faculty is one in which a variety of perspectives are heard, dis - agreement is welcome, and no one’s voice is silenced,” says Acting Dean Giovanni Jones ’21, a sociology major from of the Faculty and Vice President for Hartford, was president of Trinity’s Student Government Association (SGA) and Men of Color Academic Affairs Sonia Cardenas. Alliance (MOCA) when the Umoja Coalition was formed. He helped to dratf the demands and worked “That’s when we realize the full value with college administrators on developing them into actions. “Representation matters,” Jones says of being a vibrantly diverse and innova- of the importance of hiring more faculty of color. “At tive intellectual community.” a predominately white institution, students of color on campus may not have people to connect to, who understand our experiences, or who will call out microaggressions in the classroom. Everyone wants a As a way to increase the diversity of Trinity’s perma- voice and is deserving of one.” FACULTY nent faculty, the college’s Special Opportunity Hiring Jones says the demands on the faculty were sup - DIVErSITY (SOH) initiative will welcome 18 tenure-track faculty ported by research on the composition of the faculty, BY THE members over three years. Six of those faculty mem- how professors are hired, and why they leave. “It was NUMBESr bers began their new positions in July. alarming to learn that there were only nine Black ten- Trinity College’s searches “The SOH initiative we launched, alongside our ured faculty at the college,” Jones says. “We saw some have yielded the following ongoing practices and training around diversity, holes in the faculty structure and wanted to address it year-to-year increases in equity, and inclusion, have made a real difference,” head on. We didn’t want to just ask to add 10 faculty tenure-line faculty, from Cardenas adds. “We’ve moved the needle in just one of color; we wanted to make sure they were perma- fall 2020 to fall 2021: year, as is evident in our data and in the exceptional nent and on a tenure track. 21% ↗ 24% set of faculty members we’re adding to our ranks.” The college adopted its SOH initiative in the 2020– FACULTY OF COLOR (U.S.) How did this successful SOH initiative get its start? 21 academic year following further discussions about 6% ↗ 8% Thanks in large part to the demands and work of the plan’s details with Umoja Coalition members, fac - Trinity students. ulty, staff, and administrators. It came at a time when BLACK FACULTY In the summer of 2020, with Black Lives Matter higher education institutions across the country were 7% ↗ 8% protests around the country calling urgent atten- using SOH initiatives and similar processes that offer ASIAN FACULTY tion to police violence and racial inequity follow- speed and lfexibility to achieve the goals of greater ing the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, faculty diversity and an enhanced curriculum. 9% ↗ 10% the Trinity administration pledged to take steps to “This [initiative] was in direct response to the work INTERNATIONAL FACULTY address systemic racism at the college. In a letter to of students who were part of the Umoja Coalition,” 18% ↗ 24% students, faculty, and staff, President Joanne Berger- says Cardenas. “We wanted to respond to this Sweeney and Vice President for Diversity, Equity, national moment in a way that was not just incremen- FEMALE FACULTY OF COLOR and Inclusion (DEI) Anita Davis wrote, “We have tal but that accelerated and prioritized diversity as a 45% ↗ 47% made progress in creating a more inclusive commu- central value.” nity at Trinity … but our work has only just begun.” Davis notes that the SOH initiative is aligned with FEMALE FACULTY They asked all members of the Trinity community for the overall mission of the Oiffce of Diversity, Equity, 27% ↗ 29% their help. and Inclusion, which is to ensure that all members STEM FACULTY OF COLOR The newly formed group of Trinity students called of the Trinity community feel included and have the the Umoja Coalition—composed of members of seven resources and support they need to thrive. “A diverse 46% ↗ 49% student organizations—issued a set of demands to faculty gives students evidence that they too can pur - STEM FEMALE FACULTY the college administration and Board of Trustees to sue—and excel in—a variety of roles on a college cam- 5% ↗ 10% consider as tangible actions to improve the campus pus, regardless of their backgrounds,” Davis says. climate. Each of the articles in the document sup- Associate Professor of History and American STEM BLACK FACULTY ported the Umoja Coalition’s stated mission of “trans- Studies Scott Gac served as chair of the faculty’s 8% ↗ 10% forming this institution into an inclusive, accessible, Educational Policy Committee (EPC), with which all STEM INTERNATIONAL and safe environment for all Black students.” long-term faculty hiring originates, until his term FACULTY Among other points, the coalition called on the ended on June 30. He says that the EPC has been faculty to increase its size and to reserve positions working for years on ways to diversify Trinity’s faculty for Special Opportunity Hires to boost the number of and curriculum and has embraced the recent drive to tenure-track Black faculty, especially in STEM ifelds. increase the speed of these efforts. “This bigger push 22 THE TRINITY REPORTER

doesn’t become available without the larger social context of the last year and a half,” Gac says. “A lot of things came together, like Trinity’s more diversi- ifed student body and concerns of race and equity in society writ large.” What makes an SOH initiative different from the usual faculty hiring process, Gac says, is that it takes immediate advantage of opportunities to diversify the faculty by creating a new position to address a curricular area of need. “The EPC asks academic departments and programs for pro- posals, and there’s generally a speciifc person attached to each proposal,” Gac says. This process identiifes long-standing excellence that exists in scholarly communities historically underrepre- sented at schools like Trinity. The faculty also voted this year to change the Faculty Manual to eliminate the cap on the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty mem- bers. “Relative to its peers and size, Trinity has a small permanent faculty,” Gac says. “There was a hard cap of 165 tenured faculty that we couldn’t go above, which creates a problem in terms of increases in faculty diversity. An SOH measure doesn’t really work with a hard cap because there is an extremely limited number of faculty posi- tions available.” While eliminating the faculty cap for the school and wanting it to be better for the will allow for greater lfexibility, including a larger students.” number of diverse faculty members in the future, Davis adds, “It is essential that we not only Gac says that the current SOH initiative does not recruit more diverse faculty and staff, but that we represent an increase in the number of permanent make efforts to create a campus climate to retain faculty. “It uses available lines in the current 165 them.” To this end, the college has introduced positions and iflls them through the SOH process,” hiring practices that integrate DEI training, a New he says. Voices Cohort mentoring program for all new Gac, whose areas of research include American faculty, professional development opportunities social reforms, racial activism, and slavery, says focusing on issues of equity, and faculty and staff that the transformation underway is helping to aiffnity groups. Umoja Coalition balance a faculty that did not represent the racial In addition to the faculty’s recruitment efforts, Organizations makeup of the students or of the country. “With their other ongoing work with the DEI oiffce Athletes of Color such a diverse student body in a diverse world, includes workshops on inclusive pedagogy and Coalition (ACC) we’re moving Trinity into line with its environ- implementing the recommendations of a faculty- Caribbean Students’ ment,” he says. “This is part of a broader effort to led Racial Justice Committee. Academic depart- Association (CSA) be listening to as many voices as possible.” ments also are reexamining which texts to include Imani Black Student Jones says that he has been pleased with the in curricula and how to better engage with the Union (BSU) results of this initiative so far. “Higher education Hartford community. Men of Color Alliance can be really slow, so I wasn’t expecting this to “Faculty should be as diverse as the students (MOCA) happen so fast,” he says. “I’ve always told myself we teach and the world in which we live,” says Trinity African Students’ I want to leave the place better than when I came Cardenas. “It is important that all students be Association (TASA) into it. The fact that new students may not need to taught by a diverse group of faculty. This includes Trinity College Black have some diiffcult experiences that I had my ifrst students from historically underrepresented back- Women’s Organization (TCBWO) year, that’s what matters to me. All of this work by grounds, who should see themselves relfected in Trinity College Chapter the Umoja Coalition is done out of care and love the faculty who teach and mentor them.” Temple of Hip Hop FALL 2021 23

‘Architectural Design’ students ‘rebuild’ storm-ravaged Bahamian town PLANS BY ANDREW J. CONCATELLI WITH A PURPOSE How do you rebuild a whole town whose buildings and infrastructure were blown apart and washed into the ocean by a hurricane? That daunting challenge was the starting point for a theoretical exer- cise that constituted the bulk of the spring 2021 “Architectural Design” 1 2 ’ course at Trinity College. Cross-listed in the Art History Program and the Engineering Department, the course was taught by Associate Professor of Fine Arts Kristin A. Triff and Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts EVERETT David N. Duncan ’79, a practicing architect who recently moved his Y LIL oiffce from Connecticut to Maine. : O T PHO 24 THE TRINITY REPORTER

A house in Marsh Harbour teeters off its foundation after Hurricane Dorian swept through the Bahamas. Lily Everett ’21, an island resident and student in “Architectural Design” in spring 2020, captured the image. 1 2 ’ EVERETT Y LIL : O T PHO

he “Bahama Town Design” building to the surrounding community is unit was inspired by a real- so dramatically altered.” life tragedy: the town of While there are no current plans for the Marsh Harbour suffered students’ designs to be used in the town’s devastating damage in actual recovery efforts, the faculty and 2019 during the power- students still found value in the project. ful Category 5 Hurricane “There are all kinds of ways the students Dorian, one of the worst could use these thought processes,” says natural disasters in the Duncan, who took the same course when history of the Bahamas. he was a Trinity student. “Some students “This exercise is not just about designing have never been in a design studio before, a building,” Duncan says. “It’s about this so they are essentially learning a new lan- community, and it’s about how people guage and a new way to look at the world. live. We are trying to get students to think Maybe this touches something in students about the needs of the residents. These that they might not know they’re inter- people’s lives were completely turned ested in or have a gitf for. Hopefully there upside down by the hurricane. How do will be many skills brought to bear and you start to rebuild, and what challenges practiced throughout the semester that the may arise?” students will ifnd useful in their endeav- Students in the class each selected spe- ors post-Trinity.” ciifc neighborhoods along with individ- Art history major and architectural ual buildings to design using drawing studies minor Lillian Belletete ’21 says, and model-building techniques. Along “ ‘Architectural Design’ class makes you the way, they researched the speciifc realize just how many factors go into requirements and conditions of the sites town planning. It is easy to passively walk and learned about urban design. A major through cities and towns, but that is only goal for the class was to work together to made possible by careful planning of engi- develop a cohesive, functional, and attrac- neers, architects, and designers. Though I tive town plan. don’t want to be an architect, I think that “Marsh Harbour is a working town that architectural design can teach just about was leveled,” Triff says. “Getting our stu- anyone about the process of trial and dents to think about what happens atfer error and how to problem solve through something catastrophic impacts a com- hands-on learning.” munity—and engaging directly with that— Belletete’s design project was a school, brings out their humanity and creativity in which she sees as an integral piece of the a really positive way.” community that should use its natural Duncan says the project engaged the surroundings to educate and unite the students because of its timely and top- town residents. “Tourist towns such as ical nature. Beginning with this year’s Marsh Harbour otfen dedicate a great deal hurricane season—which lasts from June of their resources and assets to the tour- to November—the National Oceanic and ism industry, but I think that the residents Atmospheric Administration is increasing of the town deserve to enjoy the assets of the number of storms in what it considers the Bahamas as well,” she says. “For this For Consoli—an urban studies major and an “average” season to relfect data from reason, I placed the school by the ocean architectural studies minor who plans to the last 30 years showing greater activity. and connected it to a park, which would attend graduate school to pursue architec - “We are talking about issues of sustain- be open to the public in order to create a ture—the class offered a way to combine ability,” Duncan says. “How do we deal welcoming space for everyone.” holistic urban planning and site-speciifc with hurricanes and lfooding? How does Grace Consoli ’22 says, “I chose to work designs. “In other classes at Trinity, we one build in that environment? As one on the ferry terminal area because in high have learned what makes towns grow example, if you build structures the way school I spent a semester at sea sailing or fail,” she says. “This class, however, O you have to, to be above predicted storm- through the Bahamas. I wanted to do allowed me to try and imagine actually CAIT surge levels, they’re high off the ground. this section of the island to rebuild what redoing and creating a new town and how CK NI : There are many implications and compli- I imagine a memorable, functional, and to set it up for success for the residents S O cations when the historic relationship of a beautiful terminal to be.” and visitors. This included thinking about T PHO 26 THE TRINITY REPORTER

1 3 2 [1] Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts David N. Duncan ’79, on campus for student presentations, and Jordan Lewis ’22 view maps. [2] Taylor O’Connor ’21 works on a sketch. [3]/[4] Student-created models. [5] Associate Professor of Fine Arts Kristen A. Triff examines student work. 4 5 Interactive whiteboards, microphones, consultants. A lot of these skills have to cameras, and speakers allowed every - do with communicating with other people one to communicate with Duncan, who and are very transferable. A liberal arts all the inner workings of a town that are appeared on a large screen and operated education gives you so many more ways to usually overlooked, like street width, a camera positioned over a design desk in think about and interact with the world.” location of parking lots, and zoning. I’ve his own studio. Triff adds, “Urban and town planning learned the importance of incorporating Duncan, who is a member the American is a broad subject for a 10-week semester. the needs of the people who live there as Institute of Architects and the National Part of what we’re trying to do is to instill well as encouraging economic activity and Council of Architectural Registration critical thinking and getting students to tourism.” Boards, says, “I’ve tried to be a bridge look at alternative solutions. This bridges O With Triff teaching in the classroom and between the academic world and what I that gap between academic theory and CAIT Duncan participating remotely during the do professionally. I talk about economics lived reality, which they’ll all be doing in CK COVID-19 pandemic, the class relied on of architecture, construction means and their future careers.” NI : S innovative support from Trinity’s Library materials, the process of designing a proj - O T and Information Technology Services. ect, laws and contracts, and working with PHO FALL 2021 27

WHAT BRINGS YOU ? JOY OCK T SHUTTERS / ASH AD BIB : ONS TI TRA US ILL

Reporter readers respond “What brings you joy?” That’s the question The Trinity My husband, when he Reporter asked the college community this past spring belly laughs, can lift the through newsletters, social media, and emails. While it’s a seemingly simple question, these days—amid a once-in-a- mood of an entire room. century global pandemic—it’s anything but. His simple, silly glee As Randolph “Randy” Lee ’66, director of Trinity’s Counseling and Wellness Center and associate professor of brings me an insane, psychology, notes, “It’s clear that the pandemic has had an impact on most of us when it comes to our emotional state.” heart-bursting, tears-in- For some, he says, “these impacts will last longer than for my-eyes amount of joy. others, but I think if we focus on resilience and trying to let ourselves bounce back as things get better, realistically and All the better if I’ve said not naïvely, but also with optimism, we can minimize the or done something to long-term effects.” Lee offers a metaphor that he says speaks to ifnding joy: crack him up like that. running a hurdles race. “There are long stretches of lfat, smooth ground, but you know at some point soon there Pure magic. will be a hurdle that you need to jump over,” he says. CARLA BOECKLIN ’01 “Sometimes you may knock down the hurdle, and some- Park City, Utah times you may clear it. Atfer the hurdle is another smooth area, but you always know there will be another hurdle. In some ways life is like that. We need to try not to focus on the hurdles and instead focus on the lfat ground between them when we can be more at peace.” I am a critical care medicine doc in Florida. This past So what “lfat, smooth ground” year has been brutal at work. Too many patients, not helped those in the Trinity com- munity get through the trying enough beds or nurses, not enough treatments that times of the COVID-19 pandemic work. Too many deaths. My little bursts of joy have been and its fallout? What is it that found through night sky watching and my pets. I love to brought joy? Read on to ifnd out. be outside at night in Florida. It’s cooler for one, fewer people are out, better time to walk my dog. We live in a OCK As an aging retiree, I now suburb, so the night sky is pretty visible, and Florida is T reside in an apartment, which has a picture window lfat so you get the whole sky to see. It really is uplifting. SHUTTERS facing east. I watch the I have seen many shooting stars, moonrises, and the / dawn now with joy and ASH close alignment of Mars and Jupiter last year. We have a AD marvel at the changing BIB big dog and two cats. They are a constant source of love : cloud patterns that make ONS each dawn individual. TI and laughs. I cannot imagine living without them! TRA US RICHARD FERRARO ’55 ILL Dover, New Hampshire SARAH A. NEILLY• Melbourne, Flor ’81 ida FALL 2021 29

A big part of the joy in my life this spring 2021 has been meeting up with Tanya Jones, my good friend and fellow Class of I wanted 1997 graduate. We have been going to share on long walks in the uptown parks something in New York City: Morningside, that brought Riverside, and Central Park. me a lot of joy this past school year, which was Walking and talking about the ups my Jarvis dorm room. It truly was and downs this year. Joy for us both. one of the prettiest rooms I’ve ALI MCCARTNEY AUTH w’9ith T7, anya Jones ’97 • New York, New York ever lived in. It was supposed to be a double, but because of COVID, it was a single, so it was super Student and alumni spacious, and I had so much fun accomplishments that come decorating it. from the teaching or advising KATIE RUSSELL ’ 22 Gratfon, Massachusetts that I do, sometimes over the course of many years, Dropping our bring me joy. Whether that’s daughter [Allison a student or alum getting Rau ’23] at Trinity into medical school or a current student ifnding a for freshman year course I recommended was exactly 30 years a great ift, or whether it’s after my husband one of my nutrition students For me, and I arrived as taking control of walks outside their own health, with my freshmen ourselves. knowing that I DANA MEACHEN RAU ’9w3ith Chr, is Rau ’93 played a positive toddlers and Burlington, Connecticut role in their connecting development and with my research seeing their pride in their students on Zoom accomplishment—that brings brought me joy me great joy! during these ALISON DRAPER unusual times. Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Science EMILY DERBYSHIRE ’02 Durham, North Carolina 30 THE TRINITY REPORTER

I feel joyful when I move with intention, purpose, and mind- I realized that my whole experience body-spirit alignment—while building a movement in my city to create loving myself, my given and the 4C Tree Project, which stands for chosen family, and minoritized Capture Carbon Commemorate COVID, communities. has been the greatest source of joy for me during this challenging pandemic. SAMANTHA ALCALA • New Y ’11ork, New York This project is to honor those who lost their lives due to COVID-19 during the My garden brings me joy. pandemic by planting trees in public I grow lfowers and places so people can stop, relfect, and remember the pandemic and those who veggies at Knox’s urban lost their lives. I am working with the farm on Laurel Street in nonproift Green Newton and partnering Hartford. Co-creating such with the Newton director of forestry to make this happen. In the process, I’ve bounty with the earth makes gotten to build amazing connections me feel like I can do anything. with kind and driven leaders across my city. I also joined the Green Newton GABBY NELSON Youth Group and created a subgroup Assistant Director, Urban Engaged Learning within it, the 4C Tree team. Now my team of high school and Photography of birds and college students and I other wildlife, and the have raised over $44,000 opportunity that gives me to plant at least 220 trees across my city of Newton, to be out in nature and in Massachusetts. tune with it, brings me joy. ELIZABETH SOCKWELL ’21 It’s my job—I’m a professional wildlife Newton Center, Massachusetts photographer—and it’s also my great passion. Reading, talking with MELISSA GROO ’ • Brooktondale, New Y84 ork friends, FaceTiming When I try explaining something my kids and grandchildren, to one of my guitar students several different ways and one of spending time with my husband, them actually works. I see their being in the woods, my work, my facial expressions change from puzzlement to comprehension, research, and, most of all, an then joy and relief, as they immense sense of overall gratitude. integrate it. That never gets old. ANDY BASSFORD ’ • Bronx, New Y76 ork MANYA BOUTENEFF ’78 Hartsdale, New York ↗ For more responses, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. FALL 2021 31

Connecting with Puerto Rican culture Students engage with local community, history, and more BY KATHY ANDREWS A trained anthropological archaeologist focused on Puerto Rican history and culture, Amanda >> Guzmán specializes in museum anthropology, Ray Alvarez- Adorno ’23, a describing her ifeld as “a bit of detective work on student in the O “Beyond Traditional: CAIT museum collections—reconstructing the histories Contemporary CK Understandings NI : O of how objects came to be at museums.” of Puerto Rican T Culture” course PHO 32 THE TRINITY REPORTER

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Elena Rosario, one of nine guest speakers who brought Puerto Rican history and culture to life and described different waves of migration, from the 1950s to those of more recent years, including atfer Hurricane Maria. Rosario discussed her research, which focuses on post-World War II Puerto Rican migration and settlement in Hartford, capturing students’ atten- tion with archival photographs, newspaper reports, and other documentation. A Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, Rosario detailed how Operation Bootstrap, an economic strategy in 1950s–1960s Puerto Rico, led to the mass migration of Puerto Ricans, with thousands eventually settling in Connecticut. As the island’s traditional farming economy shitfed to manufacturing, many male heads When the newly named assistant professor of anthro- of households were recruited for agricultural work pology set out to develop a course to examine tra- in Connecticut, particularly at tobacco farms. While ditional and contemporary views of Puerto Rican permanent settlement was not intended originally, culture, her goals were to introduce students to a Rosario says, community networks and cultural wide breadth of Puerto Rican scholarship, to weave events such as the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in the story of Hartford’s Puerto Rican diaspora, and grew over time and remain strong in Hartford today. to include ways for students to engage with the com- Neuroscience major Alicia Camuy ’22 says the munity. Also, because she planned to teach the class course, and Rosario’s talk in particular, made an remotely, she envisioned a live, virtual speaker series impact on her. Camuy, who is from Chicago, was featuring historians, archeologists, and museum inspired by the class discussion to ask her great- curators and educators. Each lecture would be aunts about her family’s roots in Puerto Rico. She recorded and then posted online to create what she says she was amazed to learn that her grandfather, describes as “an archive of Puerto Rican thought.” when he migrated to the U.S. mainland, came ifrst to Guzmán’s spring 2021 Community Learning Hartford, living and doing agricultural work in the course, “Beyond Traditional: Contemporary area before eventually settling in Chicago. “Before Understandings of Puerto Rican Culture,” met all taking this class, I had no idea of my family connec- of her goals. The online archive showcases guest tion here,” says Camuy. “It’s given me a sort of win- lecturers of wide-ranging expertise, including from dow, walking through my grandfather’s footsteps, Smithsonian Institution museums and from The trying to ifgure out what his life was like in Hartford Metropolitan Museum of Art. The recorded talks during the 1970s.” have an intimate feel; since the speakers represented Family stories like Camuy’s are an important part many institutions that were closed due to the pan- of Rosario’s research. “Stories of Puerto Ricans rarely demic, they Zoomed in from home oiffces. Each talk make it into the archives,” says Rosario. “Who better was followed by Q&A, though only the lecture por- to tell those stories than the people who lived those tion was recorded. experiences?” Rosario, as well as the other guest speakers, talked with students about a key course ******************** theme, the idea of a scholar’s positionality, essen- “What I always attempt to do in my classes is tially the stance of the researcher or the student empower students to not only learn but also to teach in relation to the subject of study. She notes that and to be active participants in their learning and in her own positionality as a Puerto Rican woman in the learning of others,” says Guzmán. Connecticut “shapes the relationships that I build Among students enrolled in the class were several in the ifeld, the questions that I pose, the way that I O who grew up as Connecticut residents and were sur- read my sources, and so on.” prised to learn that their home state has the larg- Guzmán, who joined the Trinity faculty in 2020 CAIT CK est percentage of Puerto Rican residents of any U.S. as Ann Plato Fellow in Anthropology and American NI Amanda Guzmán, ) assistant professor state. They wondered why that aspect of Connecticut Studies, says she was excited to hear of the exten- GHT RI ( of anthropology history had never been mentioned in their high sive work that alumna Jasmin Agosto ’10, education : O school classes. Enter historian and Hartford native and community outreach manager at the Hartford T PHO 34 THE TRINITY REPORTER

History Center at the Hartford Public Library “ Stories of Puerto Ricans rarely make (HPL), has done to gather and share stories of Hartford’s Puerto Rican community, including oral it into the archives. Who better to history interviews of historical changemakers of the Puerto Rican diaspora. In fall 2020, Guzmán tell those stories than the people began meeting with Agosto to learn more about the Hartford community and Agosto’s work. A new who lived those experiences?” HPL community archiving initiative that Agosto described seemed a perfect opportunity for collab- HISTORIAN AND HARTFORD NATIVE ELENA ROSARIO oration—student involvement would enhance the “Beyond Traditional” course as well as advance the HPL initiative. history of multiple places because the diaspora is The community archiving initiative was such a big part of cultural production and because planned to launch in conjunction with the open- Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, which people ing of the Park Street Library @ the Lyric, a new don’t otfen learn stateside. It was really important ↗ state-of-the-art building that was set to open in to recognize that history of connection into our early fall 2021 at Park and Broad Streets. Agosto present, because atfer Hurricane Maria, there was To watch the speaker says plans for the new HPL location, which signiifcant migration from Puerto Rico to the U.S. series, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/ replaces a longtime Park Street storefront branch, mainland, and so we were studying both a histori- Reporter. include “a memory booth, where people can cal migration as well as a contemporary migration tell their stories within this neighborhood and deifned by renewed diasporic mobilization in more share their visions for the future.” In addition to recent years.” audio-recording stories, people can bring pho- Guzmán says that when she next teaches the Ray Alvarez-Adorno ’23, tographs to be captured digitally. Says Guzmán, course again in spring 2022, when Trinity’s classes right, works with “Collaborating on this project allowed us both to should be fully in person, she still would like to historian and Hartford leverage parallels in our work—Jasmin with oral invite at least some new speakers to participate via native Elena Rosario history interviews and me with my interest in dig- Zoom. “It actually made me realize how connected and Jasmin Agosto ’10, education and community ital humanities for research and teaching contexts we can be, even while apart. And the biggest feed- outreach manager at the for this ifrst iteration of the course.” back I got from the speakers was that they were Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library Members of Guzmán’s class, for their ifnal proj- just so impressed with the students.” (HPL), in the center. ects, were tasked with creating a portfolio of com- munity engagement documents for the HPL staff’s review and potential use. Students chose from dif- ferent ifnal assignment options, including dratfing survey questions to be posed to community mem- bers and designing promotional ads to promote the memory booth via social media. During the summer, three Trinity students made further contributions to the project. Ray Alvarez-Adorno ’23, who was part of the “Beyond Traditional” class, extended his work on the com- munity archiving initiative as a participant in Trinity’s Public Humanities Collaborative. Kendall Alexander ’22 and Isabelle Sayas ’23 served as anthropology research assistants. With Guzmán as faculty partner and Agosto and Rosario as commu- nity partners, the three students were involved in O various ways, including researching local sites of interest for potential inclusion in the project and CAIT exploring different digital storytelling platforms for CK NI use in the initiative. ) GHT Guzmán notes that a key lesson for students in RI ( : the course was understanding that in studying O T Puerto Rico, “you’re really studying an unfolding PHO FALL 2021 35

Trinity’s ‘unfailing champion’ Cornie Thornburgh ’80, retiring as board chair, plans to stay connected to college STORY BY TESS DUDEK-ROLON PORTRAIT B Y PAUL ROSENFELD 36 THE TRINITY REPORTER

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“Active.” That’s how Cornelia Parsons “Cornie” Thornburgh ’80, who the student body. “We were losing too many good students retired at the end of June from her seven-year tenure as chair to other colleges and universities because they provided bet- of the Trinity College Board of Trustees, recently summed up ter ifnancial aid,” Raether says, adding that the agenda set her time in the role. by the board under Thornburgh’s guidance helped to bring “We’ve had to be active, proactive, and reactive,” she about change. “She’s done a fabulous job. … It’s a tough job, says. From responding to social and political unrest, to cel- and the issues keep getting more and more complicated.” ebrating the 50th anniversary of coeducation, weathering a Raether says he also feels that Thornburgh has set the col- pandemic, and beginning a comprehensive campaign, the lege up for success upon her departure. “Part of doing a great work of college governance has been varied and challenging. job is making sure that your successor is the right person and Through it all, Thornburgh—who served on Trinity’s board will continue to provide strong leadership,” he says. “Cornie for 17 years—focused on keeping the college moving forward cares a lot about Trinity, just like I do. And, she’s invested a while working to ensure that all perspectives were heard lot of time, energy, and dedication into ifnding her successor, and that the community had an opportunity to contribute in just like I did.” meaningful ways to conversations about the college’s future. Thornburgh’s impact on Trinity has earned her the admi- Engaging others in the work of supporting the college has ration of many in the college community, including her been a consistent theme of Thornburgh’s efforts. A colleagues on the board. Trustees Kevin Maloney ’79, founding member of the Women’s Leadership Sophie Bell Ayres ’77, P’12, Michael Kluger ’78, Council, she more recently helped to launch P’13, and Nina McNeely Diefenbach ’80, P’18 the Marjorie Butcher Circle for women’s led an effort to build an endowed fund to philanthropy. But to her mind, her most support women’s leadership at the college signiifcant accomplishment for Trinity in Thornburgh’s honor. “The idea of this was in convincing Joanne Berger- fund ifts Cornie’s interests and honors Sweeney to sign on as Trinity’s presi- her legacy,” explains Maloney. “When dent in 2014. this concept was explained to donors, “I am very proud of the fact that I they concurred, and the response was one of several people who worked was overwhelmingly positive.” That to bring Joanne to Trinity,” Thornburgh response, he added, was not unexpected. says. “Under Joanne’s leadership, we’ve “Cornie brought out the best in her fellow put the college in a position to confront the trustees,” he notes. hurdles we will encounter as we enter our third Generosity to Trinity in Thornburgh’s honor century. We have dramatically increased our ifnan- was bolstered by her husband, Dick Thornburgh, cial aid program, expanding access for a new generation who helped to rally family to raise funds to renovate and SURECK of talented, inquisitive, and curious students. We’ve also rename Vernon Social. Once complete, the refurbished build- recruited a strong and diverse board, and I’m so excited that ing will be known as the Cornelia Parsons ’80 Center—or the SHANA ) Lisa Bisaccia [’78] has agreed to succeed me as chair.” Cornelia Center for short—and will be among the ifrst build- Berger-Sweeney, in turn, points to her partnership with ings on campus named for a woman. CENTER ( ; Thornburgh as a key element of the college’s success. The Cornelia Center will be devoted to career and life O “Cornie is so dedicated, so savvy about people, and just an design for students to plan their paths atfer Trinity. It’s a CAIT unfailing champion of Trinity College,” Berger-Sweeney says. cause about which Thornburgh says she feels particularly CK NI “We could not have moved forward with our ifnancial aid passionate. She notes, “Part of this center is helping students ) initiative without her support. Really, she’s just remarkably learn about themselves—what is their gitf, what is their pas- GHT RI , sellfess.” sion—so when they leave Trinity, they will have the conif- T LEF Thornburgh received similar praise from her predecessor dence to share those gitfs with the world.” AR F ( : as chair, Paul E. Raether ’68, P’93, ’96, ’01, H’14, who also While Thornburgh’s retirement from Trinity’s board will S O credits her leadership in increasing the academic proifle of leave her with a little more free time, she plans to continue T PHO 38 THE TRINITY REPORTER

her commitment to another passion: working to end homeless- ness. She serves as chair of the board of The Lord’s Place, a non- proift, non-secular organization in Palm Beach County, Florida, that aims to break the cycle of homelessness. With the looming eviction crisis exacerbated by the pandemic, she says, she antici- pates this work will only be more urgent in years to come. That does not mean, however, that she will lose touch with Trinity. She intends to remain active as a member of the Comprehensive Campaign Committee. She also says she’s con- ifdent that Bisaccia will continue the college’s legacy of strong board leadership. “She’s so talented,” says Thornburgh. “She has my phone number, but she’s more than capable of ifnding her way.” The admiration seems mutual. “The partnership that devel- Top left: Cornie Thornburgh ’80 mingles at the oped between Cornie and Joanne will be remembered as pivotal 50 for the Next 50 Celebration in February in the evolution of the college as we approach our third century,” 2020. Above: Thornburgh addresses graduates says Bisaccia, adding a sentiment that she learned from Cornie at Commencement 2021. while working together on the board: “Everyone in our commu- nity has special and unique talents. We need all of them, and we SURECK are fortunate that these talented people are choosing to share their gitfs with Trinity.” SHANA ) CENTER ( ; O “ Part of this center is helping students learn CAIT CK NI ) about themselves—what is their gitf, what is their GHT RI , T passion—so when they leave Trinity, they will have LEF AR F ( : S O T the conifdence to share those gitfs with the world.” PHO For more about the Cornelia Center (inset left), please see page 11. FALL 2021 39

The Trinity College Chapel was a second home for For information on charitable John Covington ’68, providing refuge from the everyday gitf annuities or other gitf plans, stresses of colleg, attendede life . He sang in the Chapel Choir contact Linda Minoff, director of gitf planning, at 860-297-5353 services, and studied organ under Trinity’s legendary or [email protected], Clarence Watters, eventually becoming the student organist. or visit legacy.trincoll.edu/CGA. When Covington decided to make a gitf to support the Chapel, he found that by choosing a charitable gitf annuity, he was able to give substantially more. “I received an income tax charitable contribution and avoided capital gains tax when I funded the CGA with appreciated stock. Now I receive quarterly annuity payments not unlike the dividends I was receiving from the donated stock.”

to go into the Air Force for four years, I might as well sign up with the Army for four years.’ He looked at me and said, ‘Son, try two years ifrst.’ Had I been able to ifnd him CLASS NOTES a few years later, I would have bought him a case of scotch. Herb and I thought we would spend our Army years together—a mini ‘band of brothers’—but we got separated From the Alumni Oiffce: I practiced pediatrics in Alexandria, Virginia, within a couple days and didn’t see each 1950 “A brief background: Atfer for 36 years. I live in a retirement home in other for two years. We both served in Korea. Trinity, and further studies at Columbia Virginia, and at age 91 am still relatively The war was winding down while we were College, I made a career in ifnancial services mobile. I do some jazz piano and watercolor there, but Herb was wounded and received and ended my work career as a senior oiffcer painting. My years at Trinity are the source of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. I spent less at United States Trust Co. before it was pleasant memories.” time in Korea, nowhere near the front line. gobbled up by Schwab. Letf New York about From Phil Trowbridge: “It’s still hard to The two years over, we returned to Trinity. 20 years ago to settle in the mountains of believe all the changes and challenges that Within days of my return, I got a note from North Carolina, speciifcally the Asheville our world has experienced since early 2020 the dean’s oiffce reminding me of my Chapel community, where I have served as a trustee due to the pandemic. My wife, Fay, and credit deifciency. I thought my Army service of the Asheville Art Museum for a number of I spent about six months living with our might have counted for something, but no. I years and sponsored piano artistry through daughter and son-in-law in Massachusetts. spent the next 1½ years on my knees in the the creation of the Pianoforte Series, which Our assisted living residence in Hartford was college’s lovely Chapel. The second note I got is still going strong. The piano is ‘comfort on lockdown due to the pandemic. We were was a letter from the Army saying that I had food’ for me, and I have two teachers I see very fortunate to have a safe and comfort - been issued Army blankets but never turned each week, absorbing piano theory with one able place to be during that time. We had to them in when I was discharged. The Army and actual ifngers on the 88 with t’other. I cancel our travel plans to visit family in South wanted $300 for the missing blankets. I didn’t stay in close touch with classmate Bob Blum, Carolina for graduations, birthdays, and have two dimes to rub together much less whom I have known since prep school and holidays. We all learned how to use Zoom. $300 and of course didn’t have any blankets. Trinity days, meaning 75-plus years. I have a We enjoyed weekly family get-togethers So, Herb and I concocted a long letter iflled son living in the Florida Keys chasing ifsh (for via Zoom. And we celebrated many special with gobbledygook, demanding a copy of the pay) and a daughter who is a senior medical milestones on Zoom, such as our grandchil - Army regulations that supported its claim, a professional within the Greater Boston area, drens’ birthdays, graduations, and my 90th reference to the place and date (and hour?) helping to keep the bad stuff at bay. I had birthday in October! We returned to Avery the alleged blankets were issued to me, etc. a great-grandfather who made it through Heights in late 2020 and are able to join our In due course, I received another Army letter our Civil War as part of the Connecticut friends again for meals in the dining room enclosing a check payable to me for $300 contingent and lived 103 years. And that’s my and special weekly activities and attend our and saying that the Army hoped this would goal. Regards, Harry Rowney” exercise class, and I’m participating in an ‘satisfactorily resolve this matter.’ I happily oil-painting class. It’s a hobby I enjoyed in my cashed the check and spent the $300. Our REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 younger years and am glad to be resuming it. college years ended. Herb went off to the Class Secretary: Rev. We’re grateful to be in generally good health University of Chicago Law School and went to 1952 Finley Schaef, 87 Stoll and are looking forward to more activities work for a prominent New York law ifrm. He Rd., Saugerties, NY 12477-3022; ifnley. with family and friends during late spring later became general counsel for a Portland, [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant and summer. Thanks, and we hope you’re Oregon, manufacturer and worked there until From Bob Mansbach: “In July, God willing and doing well also.” his retirement. He died many years ago. I got if the creek don’t rise, I will hit the 91-year-old From Jacques “Jack” Hopkins: “Herb Park hired by The Hartford Courant as a reporter. mark. This fall, the state of COVID permitting, and I entered with the Class of 1952. Atfer 2½ My wife was already working there, also as a Mary and I will celebrate our 65th wedding years, for various reasons, we both letf and reporter. We met on July 1, 1954, and got mar - anniversary. We hope to have the family (from joined the Army. The ‘various reasons’? I was ried three months later. Both sets of parents San Diego, California; Winter Park, Florida; suffering from late adolescent disorganiza- were shocked (my parents, living in Illinois, and Columbia, South Carolina) join us in tion. I had cut too many classes and, worse had never met her and didn’t even know Cooperstown at the Otesaga Resort for the still, I was woefully deifcient in my Chapel that we were dating). Still, the marriage was event. God blessed us with two wonderful credits. (Remember those?) Joining the Army a good one and lasted for 62 years until her children, Robert E. Mansbach Jr. (Trinity, seemed like an easy way to walk away from death. I didn’t really care for newspaper work B.A. 1979, Vanderbilt Law School, J.D. ’82, my problems. Our original plan was to go and in 1957 entered Yale Law School. Upon deceased 2010) and Deborah Mansbach home for the Christmas recess and, upon our graduation, I was hired by the Providence Lawrence (Hartwick College, B.A. 1982).” return to the college, join the Air Force. But law ifrm of Hinckley Allen, where I practiced From Art Raybold: “Just visited my when we got back, to our surprise, the Air for 37 years. I live in Adamsville, Rhode great-grandchild in Salem, Massachusetts. Force wouldn’t accept us; its quota had been Island, next to my daughter. My son lives in Still writing short stories every other week, iflled. Having said farewell to our college Louisville. I am in reasonably good health, which are critiqued by four other writers friends and struck various heroic stances, we although at 91, I have trouble walking. I was via Zoom.” couldn’t slink back to campus still civilians. an avid cyclist for many years and took 18 bike From Ben Wilmot: “I graduated from Penn We therefore went next door to the Army trips in Europe. I had to give it up at 85 atfer a Medical School in 1956, and atfer a two-year recruiting oiffce and signed up. When the fall in which I fractured my pelvis. I recently hitch in the Air Force in Texas and a resi- sergeant asked me how long I wanted to became a great-grandfather to the cutest dency at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, enlist for, I breezily said, ‘Well, I was going baby in the western world. I lead a quiet life, FALL 2021 41

CLASS NOTES reading books and occasionally baking bread of several longtime friends and relatives Stan Newman mentioned that he and his with a nitfy bread-making machine.” recently, and while this is to be expected, it is wife celebrated their 63rd anniversary this From the Alumni Oiffce: Ted Thomas writes, also sad. We discontinued our annual winter past Fourth of July. Yeah! He teaches history “I recently received my Reporter and learned, trip to Florida because the travel was too at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Made among other things, that there were very grueling. My best wishes to all the members me Google it, which piqued my interest even few notes from ’52 classmates. I think that of the Class of 1953 who are still with us.” more with my love of history. is a sad commentary, given that our class Tex Coulter called the Alumni Oiffce and Charlie Bowen has to be cheering the was so exceptional in every way. We excelled reported the following: “I am a grad of recent news of the Canadian border opening, in sports, in knowledge, and in general Holderness School, Class of 1949, which only as he and his wife may be able to get to their friendships. Under the leadership of Dave has eight living members letf out of a class of cottage in Ontario during the summer. First Smith, Billy Goralski, and others, we took our 27—about 80 percent. We are thinking about a trip to Newport for a granddaughter’s class to new levels. I wonder if there has been presenting a trophy to give to its last remain- wedding and family get-together. If any class - a class at Trinity that has offered so much. ing member. The big 9-0 is fast approaching mates are in the Chicago/Lake Forest area, If nothing else, this should bring a gang this June 18; my eldest son and his wife give him a call at 847-234-2850. of comments from members of some other plan a clambake at their home in Plymouth, Skip and Pauline Pike are ensconced in classes. Fortunately, I live far enough away Massachusetts. We are looking forward to their casita in Tucson. This past year, Skip that I can’t hear the deafening roar. Speaking seeing family, friends, and loved ones to get has spent too much time with doctors and of roar, I wonder if Rory O’Connor ’50 is still caught up on the news. The kids wanted to eating hospital food. Glad to say he is well on lumbering the hills of New England. My wife, know what gitf I wanted. Atfer much thought, the way to recovery. Joan, and I have been living in the northeast I suggested that they all chip in and buy me Glad to hear from Bill Conner, whose small corner of Florida (Ponte Vedra Beach, by a stationary bike. My son-in-law couldn’t aircratf company in Erie continues to do well. name). We were fortunate to move to a CCRC believe it. The stock market has been kind to His new oiffce is at 410 Cranberry Street, (Vicars Landing) almost six years ago, and we us as of late. Our self-directed stock market Suite 110, Erie, PA 16507. couldn’t have made a wiser decision. So, to account earned enough to give each one of I received an extensive note from Tim all my good buddies in the Class of ’52, I wish our kids some retirement money, which we “Grant” Thomas, handwritten and by mail. you good tidings along with good health.” plan to present to them on the 18th. That’s all Wow! He remarked how important taking for now, folks. Our best to you all.” religion was as an elective in his freshman Class Secretary: Stanley R. From your secretary, Stan McCandless: year. He remarked about the controversy in 1953 McCandless Jr., 3712 Rice “These must be ‘hardscrabble times.’ Where education today. He said, “The history of Blvd., Houston, TX 77005-2824; stanley. are my classmates? Sal and I have just America is a constant effort to become a more [email protected] • Class Agent: returned from a long weekend in Round perfect union.” Joseph B. Wollenberger, Esq. Rock, Texas, just north of Austin, at the Dell My big regret is that the Declaration of Once again, the Trinity Class of 1953 has a Diamond baseball stadium for the Texas state Independence gets short shritf today; it says, chance to share with each other what has high school championships. My grandson “All men are created equal.” Today, so much been going on in their lives. As always, send plays catcher for his team. There is a lot of attention is paid by the judiciary to parsing your information to me at any time, by mail very good ‘schoolboy’ baseball played at this the Constitution. It reminds me of the medi- at 3712 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX 77005; by level in Texas. Well, the team took a hit and eval Christian world where clerics debated email at [email protected]; or phone came in third in the state. Sal and I plan to be how many angels could dance on a head of at 713-669-1830. My class email address list in Crested Butte, Colorado, for the ifrst three a pin. is old and fuzzy, so please update it at your weeks of July. This is a departure from our Enough; thank all of you for writing. Keep convenience. usual trips to Chatham on Cape Cod. We will in good health. Bob Wolff Jack North says he was unable to put in miss seeing Joan Moses.” his garden this year … just too much work. Class Secretary: E. Wade He sounds great and is fortunate to have his Class Secretary: Robert A. 1955 Close Jr., 65 Shoreline Drive, daughter staying with him and a grand - 1954 Wolff, 527 26th St., Santa Hilton Head Island, SC 29928-7139; wade. daughter at Trinity. Monica, CA 90402-3145; robert.wolff.1954@ [email protected]; fax: 412-820-7572 Bill Bernhard writes that he and his wife, trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Alexander J. Wow! Nineteen of our classmates reveled MP, are starting to cruise again. They’ll be Campbell II in another virtual (Zoom) gathering— on four cruises on rivers in the United States I am pleased to say that a number of our Reunion—on June 10, 2021. With a major and one in and around French Polynesia. He classmates responded to the challenge of assist from Trinity’s Alumni Relations notes that he may be in remission from idio - sending some notes to let all of us know what Oiffce, the 2½-hour event seemingly went pathic pulmonary ifbrosis thanks to OFEV, is transpiring in their world. fast and produced enjoyable visitations, a treatment that in some patients slows the John Bloodgood and wife Linda are return- personal exchanges, laughter, and song disease’s progression. ing to Connecticut from South Carolina to (lyrics provided). Dave Longobucco writes, “Hi, Stan. My wife a life-care facility in Bloomifeld. They are Many of our class (30 participants) had and I continue to live a quiet but good life in both in good health. John is getting his letf attended our initial Reunion Zoom event on lovely Madison, Connecticut. We have been arm ready for the Sox. New address is 400 October 1, 2020, and we expected a similar here for 61 years. We celebrate our 68th wed - Seabury Drive, Apt. 2139, Bloomifeld, CT turnout this time. But for those of 87–89 ding anniversary this June 13. We both man- 06002. years of age, so much can happen unpre- aged to avoid COVID while it was prevalent. Sandy Campbell and Ellie are still living the dictably to prevent participation in a short At 90, I have found it wise to withdraw from good life in Virginia off the Chesapeake Bay. time frame. However, one special newcomer, a few of my volunteer activities. But I am still The blue crab there is the best. As our class Charles “Chuck” Leonard, joined us atfer 30 active in several, and that consumes much agent, he is advising us that Trinity’s giving years from his last Reunion visit. He was of my time. We have witnessed the passing request is coming soon, so start saving. able to bring us up-to-date, including his 42 THE TRINITY REPORTER

CLASS NOTES challenging time as a U.S. Air Force jet pilot, Virginia, near a daughter, but the con- It was a total success, and he was home the lfying as a captain for a major commercial struction process there is six months from next day and is feeling ifne. Great news. I airline, and performing as an airline industry completion. He is at an ideal time to sell his talked with Charlie Stehle, who lives just consultant inspecting crash sites and other present Hartford home, so he will do that and outside Philadelphia. He told me that he is mishaps, literally around the world. ifnd temporary quarters until his new place recovering from knee replacement surgery Both Bob Welsh and Tom Bolger needed is ready. Anybody interested in a short-term in September of last year. Charlie and I want to leave early, so they kicked off our session. boarder? Connie and David Dimling continue to return to campus for what we hope will be Bob continues to be an active participant to enjoy their Atlanta retirement community an in-person Reunion next year in Hartford. in local not-for-proift organizations and and recently joined me for a tasty lunch I hope many of you feel that way, too. Dick also focuses on being a caregiver for his during my June trip to see my family atfer an Abbott was able to get together with Beau wife, Barbara. Tom, the youngest looking almost two-year gap due to COVID-19. Glad Coursen and Don Scott in Florida last year, 88-year-old known to man, also is quite busy this pandemic seems to be over, and hope all before COVID shut everything down. Dale with local support groups but continues to of you have been safely vaccinated and are Nelson, a minister with the Congregational be a real-life disc jockey on WLHA radio in beginning to return to a healthy, busy life. Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reported Madison, Wisconsin, from noon to 2:00 p.m. Let’s do another Zoom in the fall! to David that he and his wife gave a schol - local time on Saturdays. Go to the station’s arship to Eureka College (in Illinois) and REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 website to listen live. also that his son had just published a book The only misifre involved Dick Zampiello, Class Secretary: Bruce N. of poetry. Roger Martin, retired insurance who was looking forward to participating. 1956 Macdonald, Stonehouse Farm, agent and associate professor at Keene State He is always ready to wax eloquently on 1036 Zollmans Mill Rd., Rte. 4, Lexington, University, continues to serve as a volun- an array of subjects, so disappointedly we VA 24450-7265; bruce.macdonald.1956@ teer at the local hospital in Swanzey, New missed out on his wise words of wisdom. trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Tom Guertin, Hampshire. I heard from Ken Weisburger in Oddly, “Zamp” logged in and could see and Edward A. Montgomery Jr., David Renkert, June, and he told me that he and wife Jackie hear us, but we could not do likewise. Ken David M. Taylor, Henry M. Zachs have health issues, she from a stroke and he Wildrick has always contributed much to our This is the ifrst class news since last with neuropathy and now must get around gatherings, but this time his comments were February, when I wrote you all in the heart with a walker. They continue to look at life, inaudible due to his pet pooch, who barked of the pandemic. How nice, how different it even with its setbacks, with bounce and when Ken talked. Oh well, you can’t put is today. June and most of us are (probably) optimism. My wife and I live in southwestern on a Zoom without a few challenges. John vaccinated and beginning to enjoy the world Virginia, where life is gradually returning Palshaw’s computer crashed just before the again. David Taylor, as usual, has provided to normal. I elected not to teach at VMI this event; Jean and Bob Freeman planned to get me with many news items, gathered as he past winter, out of concern for the exposure their new North Carolina driver’s license in calls classmates in his role as fundraiser. We I would have to deal with from a group of the a.m. and then join us for the Zoom, but all beneift, so I thank you sincerely. young cadets coming back from spring they didn’t get home until atfer 5:00 p.m.; Among his notes was talking to David break. I will return to the classroom in the two classmates thought kickoff was at a dif- Hoare, both men reminiscing about how life fall, I expect. Finally, I learned that Jimmy ferent time; and another dashed to a nearby habits change as we grow old. David has had Streeto passed away recently. Jim went on to hospital to be with a son-in-law’s emergency some issues with his back; they seem to be Harvard Medical School and became a highly operation. Who says late 80s is not an excit- gone, and he says he is enjoying life. He told regarded expert in endocrinology, in his own ing time of life? David that the traditional family reunion was private practice from 1971 until 1997, and Happily, Dan Miller joined us and had a back on, now that the pandemic was in the taught at UConn and other schools. In 1974, pleasant story to tell; equally interesting pre- rear window, a time when all 11 family mem- he won the John C. Leonard teaching award. sentations came from Charlie Gardner, Craig bers will gather in Ocean City, New Jersey, for Our sympathies to his family. Mehldau, and Dick Ferraro. From the western a long-delayed reunion. Bob Davis, who lives time zones, we heard from Al Fisher, Charlie in Florida, has house problems, like making REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 Eberle, and Warren Gelman, and from Florida signiifcant repairs, if not replacing, his sump Class Secretary: Frederick M. came personal reports from Walter Blake, pump. As otfen happens, that job expanded 1957 Tobin, Esq., 771 John Ringling Harold Burdon, and Frank Cerveny (with to include replacing his water heater, furnace Blvd., Apt. F26, Sarasota, FL 34236-1518; Emmy at his side). blower, and heater, along with many feet of [email protected] • Class Joe Michelson was with us, but when called lfooring. He is doing much of it himself, with Agent: Samuel Mac D. Stone II on, he decided to take a pass. We kept Don some family help, working with (he says) his Vin Bruno and wife Ann are staying close to Mountford for last because he is truly the great-great-grandson. David Taylor and I won- home in Sarasota to avoid COVID. Carroll and best. He is a tireless worker for our class, not der about how helpful a great-great-grandson I hope to see them soon. only for the Zoom gatherings but also for would have to be (can he even crawl yet?). We enjoyed a lovely brunch with Mel and the diligent effort he puts forth on annual Hope all is in order now, Bob. Hugh Crilly Noreen Tews in Longboat Key. Mel had trou - gitf generation. We all owe him a standing and David visited recently and wanted to ble calculating the tip, which is surprising ovation for his efforts year in and year out on say hi to our class but had no news for this because he was a renowned math professor. behalf of our class. column. Ron Boss had a birthday in April but Karen Stokes has been cutting Don Stokes’s In other notes, Barbara and Irwin didn’t reveal his age. He reported that he was hair, but he recently went into Gotham for Meiselman continue to search for the delighted that his granddaughter, who lfies a snip snip. Rumor has it that he wanted to perfect retirement community along the with American Airlines out of Chicago, got avoid paying Karen’s big tips. Philadelphia/Washington corridor. Finding a called back to work. Signs of life returning to Good news on our favorite judge, the quality facility close to one of their daughters normal. Phil Kotch, who is a retired surgeon, Honorable Jim Keneifck. Jim will continue is not an easy decision. Gregory Petrakis recently had to have his aortic valve replaced, to bang his gavel for many years to come by has his target identiifed in Charlottesville, and underwent an operation in early April. order of the State of Connecticut. FALL 2021 43

CLASS NOTES Richard Behr sold his house in Cape May, Nabors moved to Central Florida in 2018 New Jersey. He is having surgery on July 23 and really love the no-income-tax world of to replace his letf hip. The villains are tennis SUPPORT Florida. However, he did refer to one aspect and golf. of Florida living—the high unemployment Ward Curran states that all he wants to TRINITY AND rate—that was a problem in his state, partic- contribute to the Reporter is your secretary’s ularly in 2020. description of the “gator” in the wildlife sanc - CREATE YOUR Yours truly also has become more engaged tuary (could that possibly be the old Sigma LEGACY WITH AN with the outside world with my membership Nu house?) behind the Curran house in in the Retired Men’s Association (RMA) in Florida. Well, what do I see there? I do in fact ESTATE GIFT. Greenwich, an active group of 200 men who see an alligator. It is swimming by itself, so it are involved in volunteering and “keeping has no assistant and thus isn’t accompanied legacy.trincoll.edu busy.” I am chair of RMA golf and set up tee by a “gator aide.” times and write noteworthy score results Finally, I arrive at Bryan Bunch. Our class from each week for the Cigar Box Bulletin, has quite a few distinguished writers. Bryan RMA’s weekly newsletter. One of RMA’s divi- is one of them. His latest has been posted atfer all this, they are looking at a potential sions has a speaker program, whose function on Amazon, The History of Science and riverboat cruise to Portugal or Nova Scotia is to invite speakers from all over the state Technology: A Browser’s Guide to the Great if the border situation ever gets cleaned up. and beyond to speak to our membership. Discoveries, Inventions, and the People Who Bob’s most exciting endeavor deals with his One example was “Madoff Talks.” We Made Them from the Dawn of Time to Today. leadership and effort to have every town in have trips to places such as Cooperstown’s It’s a chronological account from 3,400 BC Vermont adopt a “declaration of inclusion.” Baseball Hall of Fame, Belmont Park race- (stone tools) to 2017. It’s a big one with 787 Basically, this is a statement where towns track, Goodspeed Opera House, etc. These pages. When he retired in 2003, Bryan could commit to being more supportive and wel- are real treats when you don’t have to drive! not stop writing. His wife, Mary, allowed coming to all people. This is quite an effort, It keeps me busy communicating and meet- him to keep writing as long as he promised so give Bob a call if you have any ideas or ing new, retired men like me! Stay well, Paul to not have to meet a deadline. Bryan has suggestions. From the Alumni Oiffce: Charles Murray, kept that promise. A week ago, I called him. I talked with Bill “Tiny” Crowell, who who attended Trinity through the ifrst Mary answered. She asked me who I was and commented that it has taken a while, but semester of his junior year, published his what I was calling about. I said that I am Ted he’s ifnally settled in to his new digs in memoirs on Amazon/Kindle in July 2020 Williams and that I needed to speak to Bryan Barrington, Illinois, so he can be near family. under the title WARBI (We Are Ruled by about his deadline. Mary said nothing. I said He certainly misses those days of touring the Idiots): Lamentations and Tribulations of a April Fools’ Day. It was actually in May. Far West in his RV (now long gone), espe- Planned Giving Road Warrior, using the pen I regret to inform you that Murray Varat, cially those trips to Alaska. name Chuck M., ACFRE. He writes that it is M.D., passed away on June 12, 2019, and that Had the nice occasion to chat with Bob “intended as a supplementary reader for an Stephan von Molnar died on November 17, Coykendall, who reminds us not to forget advanced course in fundraising manage- 2020. May they rest in peace. ifnancial support to Trinity however possible ment.” Atfer Murray withdrew from Trinity and asked me to get in touch with Paul to enter the U.S. Air Force, he earned a B.A. Class Secretary: John L. Paslaski about the recent news of a local from Syracuse University and an M.S. at 1958 Thompson, 1121D Sand Dritf alum giving back to the community by estab- The New School for Social Research. He Way, West Palm Beach, FL 33411-1852; lishing a scholarship to Trinity in memory spent 38 years as director of development [email protected] • Class of his sister, Lee Paslaski, to be awarded to a and public relations and as planned giving Agents: Gary L. Bogli, Joseph J. Repole Jr., student from the Greater Hartford area. director for the Methodist Home for Children Edward B. Speno By the time you read these notes, Charlie in Buffalo, New York, The Seeing Eye, and Ah, mea culpa. So much going on recently Nichols will have celebrated his antique other organizations. He welcomes emails at that I missed the deadline for this issue. classic car rally in his home area of Kennett [email protected]. Start thinking about this for the winter issue: Square, Pennsylvania. Charlie was able “What is it about that liberal arts education to successfully assemble the 25 classic car Class Secretary: Edward we got in the ’50s that has and/or continues collectors for a tour of the local streets and 1960 M. Cimilluca, P.O. Box to make a difference in your life—profes - ending at Charlie’s homestead for a celebra- 5157, Wakeifeld, RI 02880-5157; edward. sional, personal, institutional, whatever.” tion with a picnic and refreshments. [email protected] • Class Agents: Think hard; write succinctly. It’s been a while since I had contact with Robert G. Johnson, Charles J. Middleton, M.D., Don Cables from our high school days, but Bruce Stone Class Secretary: Paul S. he gave me an interesting history of his time Spring has sprung, and it ifnally appears 1959 Campion, 500 River Rd., as an engineering major at college. I had we are making some progress in containing Apt. 18, Cos Cob, CT 06807-1913; paul. forgotten that he had three years at Trinity COVID. We’ve continued our Zoom calls with [email protected] • Class Agents: then ifnished that program with two more featured speakers, including Drew Galbraith, Robert D. Coykendall, William H. Pfeffer years at R.P.I. in Troy, New York, in aero Trinity’s athletic director; Adrienne Oddi, I received a note from Bob Harnish inform- engineering, very innovative and progressive dean of admissions and ifnancial aid; and ing me that he letf Amelia Island to head for that time period. He then ifnished with David Andres ’04, director of analytics and back to the Pittsford, Vermont, area for the an M.B.A. from the University of Hartford. strategic initiatives. Each of the discussions summer, planting gardens, prepping and He later became a consultant to the power was lively and enlightening. opening the pool, mowing the ifelds, and industry, utilizing his knowledge and back- On the news front, I’m pleased to coordinating maintenance of some 16 miles ground to assist clients on career paths and announce we have a newly designated class of walking trails. If they have any time letf ifnancial planning. Don and wife Margaret poet laureate, Tim Baum, who has penned 44 THE TRINITY REPORTER

CLASS NOTES the following ode to the Class of ’60. Who roughly with the launch of the Times’ 1619 vaccinated and are doing well, as are our two knew that Tim had this hidden talent? Project, which itself generated considerable children and six grandchildren.” “Moving Along” controversy across the political spectrum. The Eighty was a little weighty; / Eighty-one discussions have kept me in touch with peo - REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 a bit more fun. / Eighty-two: what you do ple in my community at a meaningful level, Co-Class Secretary: Paul J. is up to you. / Eighty-three: let’s wait and albeit via Zoom. But the process has also letf 1962 LaRocca, 82 Whiting Rd., East see. / Eighty-four: there’s still an open us wondering what we can do to make things Hartford, CT 06118-1549; paul.larocca.1962@ door. / Eighty-ifve: still great to be alive! better. Maybe that’s just the way it is at this trincoll.edu • Co-Class Secretary: Frederick / Eighty-six: still time before ‘last licks.’ / time of life. Best to all you fellow geezers.” M. Pryor, 221 Nobscot Rd., Sudbury, MA Eighty-seven: no rush to get to heaven. / 01776-3389 • Class Agents: The Rev. Charles REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 Eighty-eight: hopefully, still feeling great. / L. Hoffman, Peter Meehan Eighty-nine: or at least ‘feeling ifne.’ The big Class Secretary: William Kirtz, Greetings, Class of 1962, 9–0: Wow I got here: ho, ho, ho! 1961 26 Wyman St., Waban, MA You’ll be saddened to know that Bill George Kroh continues to work his veggie 02468-1517; william.kirtz.1961@trincoll. Richardson, one of our most distinguished garden in between trips to see family and edu; fax: 617-373-8773 • Class Agents: classmates, has passed away. Tom Johnson, friends, all the while carrying on the weighty George P. Lynch Jr., Vincent R. Stempien, one of Bill’s roommates at Trinity, has written duty of class president. Douglas T. Tansill a moving memoir of our friend. Tom writes: Got a nice note from Stewart Bentley, who As this is written and we emerge from “I met Bill on my very ifrst day at Trinity. He letf Trinity in 1958 and spent 20 years in the COVID cloistering, we’re looking forward lived just above my group. I was in Jarvis 20, U.S. Air Force. to our class gathering October 2 during probably the best suite on campus, and he Bud Anderson just celebrated his 60th Homecoming Weekend. Our 60th Reunion was upstairs. We became and remained good wedding anniversary. Attaboy, Bud. will be a joint celebration with the Class of friends. Soon we both joined Theta Xi, and a And another member of that elite club 1962, June 9–12, 2022. couple of years later, he served as president. is Kenny Lyons, who celebrated his 60th Bill Cressey has moved back to I can remember his great sense of humor like wedding anniversary in June. Kenny has had Connecticut atfer many decades in other it was yesterday. In fact, some 35 or so years recent contact with Barry Royden, Charlie states. He and wife Gina live in a Madison later when he was inaugurated as president Bergmann, and Jim Gavin, who are all healthy condo built on the grounds of a mansion of Johns Hopkins University, he put the and active. Good news, Kenny. built by Russell C. Northam. Trinity contingent, including Scott Reynolds Jere Bacharach reported he didn’t get to go Peter Kilborn’s son David ’90 has recovered ’63 (who is married to my sister Peggy), Fred on his usual trip to Egypt due to COVID and from COVID-19, and Peter and Susan are Pryor, Dave Strawbridge, Don Carroll, and some health issues. Get better, Jere. looking forward to seeing their children and others, in a separate room at the luncheon. David Leof sent a note via Matt Levine grandchildren at four upcoming graduations. We all smiled at the thought that he might talking about a great London theater trip he Bob McCammon has moved to the coastal have done this to prevent any of us from tell - just experienced. I’ve done that myself, and I community of St. Simons Island, Georgia. ing stories about Bill’s Trinity days that might know of what he speaks. “My primary motive was to be with my sig - have embarrassed such an august gathering. Lastly, Jack La Mothe reports some exciting niifcant other, Jeanne, whom I met walking “When we were juniors, we roomed news about his grandchildren. Grandson the St. Simons beach three years ago. Before together as junior advisers in Jones Hall. Jordan won a Fulbright to study precious COVID, we traveled to France, Germany, My most clear memory of those days is of a metal inlay work on knives and swords in Austria, and Switzerland. “We hope to get to Sunday night when we were working on the Rajasthan, India. And granddaughter Jessica southern England this fall if the U.K. opens books and each opening up our third pack graduated from Tutfs veterinary school. You up. Although small-town life is more relaxed, of Marlboros of the day. One of us said to must be mighty proud, Jack. it offers many of the same cultural and sport - the other, ‘This is disgusting, and we should That’s all the news for now. Stay well, and ing events as a larger city. Life is good.” quit.’ We opened up the third-lfoor window stay connected. “Play squash till 100?” Legendary and ceremoniously tossed our cigarettes out From the Alumni Oiffce: Woodley Osborne Cincinnati coach and Trinity captain Don into the snow. My quitting lasted 18 months, writes, “Like all of us, I imagine, I am looking Mills ’62 has for years been working on the but on Monday morning, one could observe forward to some freedom from COVID and answer, helping organize an annual Sea Bill picking up the cigarettes out of the snow. reconnecting with family and friends old Island, Georgia, weekend most recently He went back to smoking—I don’t know for and new. We have not seen our two older derailed by COVID. The group heard Dr. Greg how long. He didn’t smoke as a mature adult. grandchildren for more than a year, and my Rouan, chair of internal medicine at the “When we were seniors and considering younger daughter had her second daughter University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, what to do next, I was fortunate enough in April. They will all be joining us here on recommend the “rule of sevens”—drink to get into Harvard Business School. Bill the island in Maine, where we’ve lived for the seven glasses of water a day, eat fruits and had learned that the University of Chicago last 11 years. I cannot wait. vegetables seven times a day, sleep seven Business School had a special program to “On a different front, for the past two years hours a night, and exercise seven times a prepare people to be hospital administrators. I have been involved in discussions focused week to the extent of breaking a sweat. The Thinking that might be a good career, he on racism in America. It is a subject that has goal: keeping arteries unclogged to help went there. I can remember visiting him a preoccupied me for much of my adult life, avoid heart attacks, strokes, and aneurisms. couple of times when I was seeing my family having lived in a city with a majority Black Meanwhile, no need to ask campanologist in Racine, Wisconsin. I shudder to think of population and worked on race discrimina- (bet you had to look it up) Carl Zimmerman for how lucky I was to survive the trips back 65 tion cases in my law practice. I have been whom the bell tolls. He reports from St. Louis miles up the road atfer ‘a few’ drinks with Bill surprised at how much these discussions that he’s been reelected to another term and others! have absorbed and sometimes divided on the Executive Committee of the World “When Bill was in his second year, his folks. The start of our discussions coincided Carillon Federation. “Margie and I have been economics professor, one George Shultz FALL 2021 45

46 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES (later secretary of the treasury and secretary of state) told Bill, ‘You are not going into hospital administration, you have done so well that you must stay here and get a Ph.D.,’ which Bill did. That started him on the road to his spectacular career in academic administration, but he always continued his involvement in public health, served on a lot of important commissions, and ultimately took on the presidency of Johns Hopkins, one of the two or three universities in America most prominent in the health field. “Bill and I never lived near each other after Trinity, but we always remained best friends. We visited him and Nancy at their place in the San Juan Islands, spent a week - end with them when he was at Penn State, including riding in a motorcade with fire engines and police leading the way to attend a Penn State football game. He and I would catch up sometimes when he would be in N.Y.C. for a Bank of New York board meeting. “One of the best memories Ann and I have of Bill is that he was an usher in our wedding in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Bill and Nancy stayed over that weekend with Nancy’s par - ents in nearby Lake Forest, and Bill offered to drive Ann and me to our motel at O’Hare airport, from where we would depart to our honeymoon in Bermuda the next morning. I will always revere the memories I have of Bill’s successes, but even more the great friendship we had.” Bill left wonderful memories; our class was fortunate to count him as a member. My request for memories of your days here brought two comments. Charlie Classen recalls, “My roommate John Syer and fellow teammate on Trinity track were best friends with Skip McNulty . Skip lived over the archway on the far-left corner of the quad, can’t remember the name of the building (but maybe that’s a good thing these days). When he was elected to Medusa, we thought he needed something to bring him back to earth. We rigged an M-1 firecracker with a cig - arette and placed it under his archway, timed to go off in the middle of the night. It worked perfectly, causing vibrations, reverberations, and a lot of shouting.” Thanks for reminding us of the hijinks of college life, Charlie! Alan Coyne , on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, noted, “You brought back the memory of all of us as freshmen singing ‘This Old Man’ and marching downtown in Hartford to a radio station that had been playing the song constantly for 24 hours. Now we are the ‘old men’ reminiscing about our youth!” Other news: Peter Bundy reports that he was thrilled when he learned recently that his grandson, Graham Bundy Jr., has been named to the All-America First Team in Division I lacrosse. Graham is a sophomore at Georgetown. Peter started writing some thoughts, not only about what COVID-19 was doing to our lives but also anything and everything that has been affecting our lives ever since. His effort is encapsulated in the publication of the Hermit Herald , of which the 115th issue has just been published. He has 65 listed recipients, but the actual number of readers is in the hundreds. Early on, he learned that Arizona State University and 40 other colleges and universities are assembling notes and film clips—any type of media—with thoughts about the year of the plague (COVID-19). They asked that Pete become a contributor. His issues can be accessed at ASU. Google COVID-19 A Journal of the Plague Year. Peter lives in Gulf Stream, Florida, with summer between Greenwich, Connecticut, and the northern Catskill Mountains. Serious comments arrived, too: Art Domingue shares that after 50-plus years of local church ministry, he has retired to San Jose, California, just in time to excuse himself from all society but for his wife of 56 years, Joanne, a Mount Holyoke graduate. Art reminds us, “Life is good.” And may life be good for you, too, as big-number birthdays come our way! Yours, Paul and Fred 1963 Class Secretary: Thomas E. Calabrese, 59 Tolland Green, Tolland, CT 06084-3040; thomas. [email protected] • Class Agent: William C. Howland Dear Fellow Trin ’63ers, As most of us turn 80 during these months of 2021, and as we emerge from the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is refreshing to reconnect and remember classmates from our days ’neath the elms. We do this via these periodic updates in The Trinity Reporter , our visits back on campus for Homecomings and Reunions, and, more recently, our monthly Zoom sessions, which are quite fun and informative. We encourage you to participate as much as you can in these activities—it is really good for the soul. So, here are some updates from your fel - low Trin alums: From Andy Lewis : “Sally and I have moved from Breckenridge down the mountain to a 55-and-older community (hard to believe we qualified 25 years ago!) about 15 miles north of Denver. It was a tough deci- sion to sell our skis and leave our beautiful mountain community. That said, not having snow on the ground for six or seven months and having more oxygen to breathe by being 5,000 feet lower made the decision rather easy for us. We are closer to our kids and a few of the grandchildren, and that has been a joy for us.” From Vic Keen : “Contacted by a ‘field reporter,’ my friend Ted Raff , to add some- thing to our Class Notes, I am responding with the items below. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hosting a dinner at the his - toric Merion Inn, Cape May, New Jersey, with Scott and Peggy Reynolds and their daughter Jane and son-in-law Brian on the occasion of Jane and Brian’s wedding anniversary. (Which one? It’ll make you realize how old you really are.) Champagne and the works. Great fun! “An innocuous comment in a ’63 Trin email post some months ago led to a robust email/telephone encounter with classmate Julian Peabody . I don’t think either of us knows when we last saw each other, very likely in 1963. Leaving out boring details, suffice it to say that our ‘new’ long-distance friendship has involved an orange Bakelite radio from my collection now residing in Julian’s California home; Julian stopping by my hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, as part of his occasional motor trip in the Southwest, spending the night and visiting the local art center, which had presented a portion of my art collection some months earlier; and email exchanges, including references to Cardigan corgis, Mar-a-Lago, Lauren Boebert, and Bill ’62 and Sam ’59 Polk. We are planning to meet in person before it’s too late. “As many classmates know, I have for some years been collecting a category of art known as ‘outsider art,’ a.k.a. untrained, self-taught artists, etc. A portion of the collection, which has been exhibited in museums in Colorado and Illinois, is returning to Philadelphia to be rehung. We are planning to host an in-person reopening gallery reception prior to year-end. The 800 or so pieces in the collection are shown on the gallery website (bethanymis - siongallery.org). The traveling portion of the collection has been collected in a 270-page book Outsider & Vernacular Art: The Victor F. Keen Collection .” This volume can be pur - chased online. Vic has agreed to send a copy (no charge) to any classmate who requests one and provides him with a mailing address. SUPPORT TRINITY STUDENTS. MAKE YOUR TAX YEAR-END GIFT BY DECEMBER 31. www.trincoll.edu/ GiveOnline

FALL 2021 47 CLASS NOTES From Lloyd Reynolds : “Welcome sum- mer to all. Lee and I are back in Falmouth, Maine, for the summer. The winter at Cape Canaveral was once again a nice warm escape from the harsh winters in Maine. The rocket launches from the nearby space center were numerous and fun to watch. We enjoy the change of scenery on the beach, and yet spending summers with family and nearby South Port Marine is very satisfying. Boating has become a most popular family activity; we are enjoying the results of new boat sales, and our 175 slips are full for the summer. We are truly blessed with loyal customers and a great staff after 26 years of ownership. Best wishes to all ’63ers.” From Eli Karson : “I resumed volunteer duty at the Pima Air & Space Museum in February. In 2020, we managed a trip to Florida and to connect with a number of friends and relatives before the lockdown! Fortunately for us, years ago we chose relative isolation, building on family land outside Tucson in 2005 where the average density is one residence per seven acres. We were minimally impacted. Lots of space, lots of sun outside (I did not remain indoors), and few mask police around, but by the end of the summer, we decided, enough! If we die, we die. We flew to Chattanooga in October where my son had relocated after selling his house in Connecticut. (Good luck to those who remain!) Hadn’t seen him in two years. They shut down his personal training business in March of 2020. At any rate, he has settled, and they are buying a house across the river in Georgia in June. I was there in early May to check things out, and Nancy and I plan to fly there again in October. Good news: We didn’t catch any - thing, and we’re vaxxed and in reasonably good health. Wishing you the same!” 1964 Co-Class Secretary: Thomas J. Monahan, 46 Dogwood Ln., New Canaan, CT 06840-3921; thomas. [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: James S. Twerdahl, 214 S. McCadden Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90004-1054; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant The year of COVID found many of our class - mates writing, composing, and ruminating. Ward Ewing spent last summer writing his latest book, Twelve Steps to Religionless Spirituality: The Power of Spirituality with or without God. Ward is in a unique position to discuss 12-step recovery programs and religion. He retired as dean and president of General Theological Seminary, New York, in 2010 after 12 years of service there and 31 years as a pastor in congregations. He has been involved with Alcoholics Anonymous as a nonalcoholic for more than 45 years. In 2004, he was elected to serve as a trustee of the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous for the U.S. and Canada and in 2009 elected to serve as chair of the board. The spirituality of the steps is not well known outside of the recovery community. Ward seeks to show how this transformative pro - gram can be relevant today, when so many see themselves as spiritual but not religious. Peter Kinzler reports that he and his wife fared reasonably well during the pandemic, and he used the time to write a book, Highway Robbery: The Two-Decade Battle to Reform America’s Automobile Insurance System , which will be published by the University Press of Kansas in mid-June. It’s his firsthand account of these two political efforts, one from the left and one from the right, replete with stories about the people and the process. As we go to press, it’s num- ber 3,660,417 on Amazon. Who knows how high it might get once it’s published! And David Curry wrote a new poem, “Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore at the Circus,” which will appear in Atlanta Review , the literary journal based at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Charley Todd reports, “On March 3, 2020, I flew to Italy to visit the English friends with whom I used to own a small farm outside Volterra in central Tuscany. There was something going on up north, and a week later we found out what when the country was shut down. I just managed to make it out on a flight to JFK and spent my pandemic in Putney, Vermont, on video each day with my Cambodian family, whom I’d not been away from before for more than five months since my son and I adopted each other in 2003.” Charley has been spending a great deal of time working with his Cambodian daughter- in-law, who is a highly accomplished chef, Chef Nak, on building her brand and helping to publish what have become very successful cookbooks. He offers, “If any member of the Class of ’64 wants a Khmer royal feast cooked in New York or New England this December, let me know and we’ll negotiate. Or join us on our next culinary tour of Cambodia in 2022 or ’23! If you’re interested, you can find me at [email protected].” Phineas Anderson writes, “We took the necessary precautions, and no one in our extended family got COVID-19. From Arizona, we drove to Wisconsin last summer and spent a month there with family friends. We had planned to go to Croatia and Slovenia in April 2020, but COVID stopped us; we have rescheduled for 2022. This May, we spent a week in Montana, and the airplane and air - port were packed, but everyone was required to wear a mask. Wishing all safe travels!” Your co-secretary Jim Twerdahl and wife Daryl just returned from visiting grandchildren in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Los Altos; they had not seen them in 15 months. In March, he thought his consulting business would collapse for the year, but it turned out to be the second-best year since he opened it. On May 22, 2021, Dick Brainerd ran in the Connecticut Masters Games Track and Field Meet and won two gold medals, in the 400- and 800-meter runs. Now that’s news! From Bert Feingold : “Thanks for your email requesting information about how my family and I are doing during this COVID pandemic. Last June, my 18-year-old granddaughter, Emma, had the viral infection, but after 10 days of isolation, she bounced back and returned to her full activities. She entered Arizona State University in August 2020 in the Honors Program and did exceptionally well. This summer, she is taking additional classes at ASU and also working part time. Her younger brother, Trevor, just completed his first year in high school and will take a summer math course. He is very active in sports, especially hockey, and keeps physically fit by bicycle riding with friends and exercising at a gym. The mother of these two grandchildren is my daughter, Debbie, a sixth-grade teacher at a Scottsdale, Arizona, middle school. In Calabasas, California, my son, David, has a busy orthopedic practice. His daughter, Cailan, is graduating from the University of Oregon in its honors college in June and will be attending medical school at New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York. Her current plan is to become an orthopedic surgeon and eventually join her dad in his practice. David’s stepson, Blake, is 19 and also attends ASU, majoring in busi- ness. He will be a second-year student when classes resume in August 2021. Betty and I will be married 55 years this June and were dating while I was attending Trinity College. We raised a wonderful family and traveled with them over the years to six continents. Travel stopped with the pandemic, but we are hopeful in the year ahead we can resume our exploration of the USA and the world with family and friends. Best wishes to you both and to my ’64 classmates.” 1965 Class Secretary: Thomas A. Garson, 4301 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Apt. 5002, Washington, D.C. 20016- 5569; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant Nic Cantor responded to an inquiry from a reporter for the Reporter regarding any secrets that he could possibly reveal that may have arisen from the G7 meetings in London: “Alas, I had to sign the Official Secrets Act, and it would be unlawful, a criminal offense actually, for me to divulge anything the queen or the G7 leaders may tell me. Of

48 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES course, my elephant-like memory will record indelibly every last minute detail. Pity I can’t tell anyone.” As for other notes, Nic added that he and wife Ellen survived two COVID lockdowns, spent mostly taking long walks in the English countryside. And they have spent an inordinate amount of time with real estate issues in and around London, a period which thankfully has ended, at least for a while. Also, he and Ellen were successful with Nic’s paintings at their local West London outdoor crafts market. Sam Coale retired from Wheaton College after 53 years. “COVID done me in. Ten of us retired to save money for the college.” The good news is that Sam will return to Wheaton in the fall as a visiting professor. There were at least two gatherings of Trinity ’65 (plus ’64 and ’66) alumni in Florida during the winter/spring months after successful vaccinations: John Ellwood , Tom Garson , Phil Parsons , and Merrill Yavinsky spent a delightful April weekend in Winter Park. They reported that the community has two excellent museums, in addition to being the home of Rollins College. One is the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, on the campus of Rollins. Particularly fascinating was the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, with a large collection of works and history of Louis Comfort Tiffany. All recommend a visit! Henry Hopkins contributes: “The Fahey Phi Kappa Society met regularly every other Tuesday at Club Harry’s in Hobe Sound this past winter. In attendance were Bill Notman ’64, Henry Hopkins , Mike Moonves ’66, and George Andrews ’66. All were vaccinated. If you are in the neighborhood, give us a call.” Phil Parsons writes, “I’ve been entertain- ing myself, as usual for this time of year, by tending my garden and enjoying the bounty of tomatoes, squash, blueberries and satsumas (similar to tangerines). I have been reading Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson, which I recommend to all. Also, for the history buffs in our class who, like me, do not always remember what we learned at Trinity, I recommend National Geographic’s Almanac of World History . If any of you get lost on your way to somewhere else in Florida and end up in Tallahassee, stop by to see Jane and me.” We were saddened to learn of the passing in May of Ralph V. Katz , D.M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D . He was professor of epidemiology and health promotion at the NYU College of Dentistry. Also, Ralph was a founding member of the International Academy of Oral Oncology and in 2011 was a visiting scholar at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. Well respected and a noted author of many books and articles in his field, he was recognized with numerous awards and honors, including an honorary doctorate from Trinity in 2018. The college created a video about Ralph when he was honored; you can find it by Googling Ralph Katz Trinity YouTube. Lou Rogow writes: “Ralph was a ‘class act.’ We met the year before Trinity and played on opposing high school tennis teams. Both of us decided to go to Trinity and room together. His tennis was always better than mine, and his judgment sound. He ‘probably’ kept me out of trouble for those four years. He will be missed by many, even those of us who have lost touch over the years. He has been in my thoughts recently. Condolences to his family.” REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1966 Class Secretary: David C. Charlesworth, 5 Kittanset Rd., Bedford, NH 03110-4508; david. [email protected] • Class Agent: Joseph A. Hourihan, Esq. Greetings, classmates. Thank you for the priv - ilege of allowing me to write 15 more Class Notes over the next five years. At the time of this writing, I am pleased to announce Randy Lee has accepted the office of class president. Congratulations, Randy. However, we owe a heap of thanks to our outgoing president, Brian Grimes . He has been our president for as long as we have been alumni (or close to it). Thanks, Brian. Don’t stop coming to our Reunions. By the way, he writes that he is in touch with Jim Shepard and Chuck Reydel ’s widow and occasionally runs into Sandy Mason on the Cape. Brian and Joe Hourihan will be playing in a Trin golf tournament this summer. I plan to catch up with them later this summer. Got a great letter from Dan Waterman . He writes. “The mRNA vaccines are amazing. Can you imagine what Trinity would have been like for us during a pandemic? Zoom fraternity parties. No road trips for dates. No chemistry or biology labs. But lots of study time. Can you imagine ‘odd job’ Bobko (inorganic), and that tyrant Heeren (organic) online exclusively? Kegs of beer for every dorm. Life again is approaching some normalcy. We have seen our family in Oakland recently and have plans to get to Atlanta to see Charlie’s even though crossing the Mason-Dixon line will take some political courage. Keeping busy doing nothing, I have tackled some home-repair projects recently that have taught me a lot. I think every premed at Trinity should learn woodworking, basic plumbing, how to wire a house, gar - dening, roofing, and deck repair. How about an auto mechanics course or two?” He sums Top to bottom: Bill Notman ’64, Henry Hopkins ’65, Mike Moonves ’66, and George Andrews ’66 gather this past winter at Harry and the Natives in Hobe Sound, Florida. • Merrill Yavinsky ’65, John Ellwood ’65, Tom Garson ’65, and Phil Parsons ’65 get together in April in Winter Park, Florida.

FALL 2021 49 CLASS NOTES it up best, “I sometimes try to reconstruct my life as it should have been. It’s more a mental exercise than reality because it really is too late in the game. Like the back nine on a golf course! No regrets though. Life has been great, and much to be thankful for.” Joe Hourihan characterized 2020 this way, “Looking back, 2020 was the first year since I was on active duty in Army Reserves in 1970 that I did not attend at least three Trinity football games—50 years! Not only were the games enjoyable but also the occasion of meeting up with various classmates who returned at times. Hopefully, we will see some classmates this fall. So much has changed since our years at Trinity. The biggest change to me is the total lack of tolerance for people with differing views. You could differ and remain friends. Everything was not a yes or no issue. It is amazing that something as simple as wearing a mask has become a political issue.” Joe adds, “After 50 years, I finally have my name on letterhead and at 76 formed a partnership known as Capalbo Hourihan. Am I nuts to be still work - ing? Probably, but I did take my retirement in ’98 and ’03 when we took two three-month auto trips across United States and Canada!” Better late than never, Joe. Always enjoy hearing from Scott Sutherland . “If you would have suggested 55 years ago I would eventually retire to Florida with my soon-to-be-wife Terry, I would have said you are nuts. If fact, 18 months ago I would have said you are nuts. But here we are in Delray Beach, Florida, in a small, gated golf community along with Psi U Brothers Dix— Dennis Dix and John ‘Jock’ Dix ’68—and loving it. Playing a lot more golf. Though my skill level is still a bit limited, I’m having fun.” I still think you’re nuts. Dennis Dix confirms that Scott is at Delray Dunes. Got a nice note from Bill Kunkelman . “In 2018, I retired as vice president after 30 years with an advertising and marketing agency with offices in Philadelphia and Phoenix. We created and conducted marketing programs and collateral for many large corporate clients, both domestic and international. Their locations and my two offices meant lots of travel. I counted nine countries (good!) and more than 50 airports (not so good). In 2018, I moved from Arizona back to Pennsylvania, now comfortable in wooded acres northwest of Philadelphia. Swimming, golf, and gardening make it nice. Had two good marriages (with stepchildren to stay in touch with), but now I’m single and enjoy dating. I also plan to do some consulting and possibly more voice-over narration as I have done for business videos and commercials. Community service remains important to me. I have served as chairman of the board for regional Goodwill Industries.” Thanks for checking in, Bill. Marty Gall dropped a line this time, “Like many of you, Ally and I and our children and grandchildren have outlived COVID-19, at least so far. We’re back to enjoying hugs and kisses from friends and family and hosting dinners at our place in Scituate, Massachusetts. We expect to meet David Trachtenberg in Springfield this July and plan for our rescheduled Reunion next year. Jeff Dierman has organized Zoom sessions with a group from Phi Psi, and Randy Lee has been keeping us up-to-date on the comings and goings at the college. Look forward to catch- ing up with the rest of the Class of ’66 next September or sooner.” I received a great snail mail, on lined paper no less, from Roy Gilley . He retired in 2019, closing his architectural practice of 36 years with more than a thousand projects all over the country. He and wife Janis retired to a hilltop spot in Camden, Maine, with great views and skiing next door. Between the two, they have nine daughters. They enjoy travel and recommend it to everyone. They plan to turn their home into an Airbnb. Should be a nice destination. Well, that’s it. Until next time, be well. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1967 Class Secretary: James L. O’Connor, 325 W. 86th St., Apt. 4C, New York, NY 10024-3115; james. [email protected] • Class Agents: Alex Levi, James H. Oliver • /groups/ trinman1967 Remember the one about the sound of one hand clapping? Since our last Class Notes, I have experienced the phenomenon of “no hands writing, emailing, texting, or phone dialing.” Where is everyone? Our class leadership team, under the relentless encouragement of our class pres - ident, Charley Kurz , is planning for our 55th Reunion next year. Important questions are being discussed: Is a bouncy house a good idea? Will there be an early bird special? Our Class of 1967 Scholar, Dhiraj Ganji ’23, was guest of honor at a Zoom meeting in May. He is a double major in physics and computer science with a minor in Japanese. We dis - cussed remote learning during a pandemic, how Dhiraj learned about Trinity, and what his plans are post-Trinity. Short answer: a graduate degree in one of his majors. I hope you are all safe and well. Remember to email and fill me in on what you’ve been up to now that we can leave our homes and travel. Stay safe. And remember to check out our class webpage at www.trincoll.edu/ AlumniAndFamilies/Connect/ClassOf1967. 1968 Class Secretary: Daniel L. Goldberg, 53 Beacon St., #1, Boston, MA 02108-3531; daniel. goldberg.1968.trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Barry Bedrick On May 18, we had our second class-wide Zoom. Among those participating were Bob King , Dick Pullman , Michael Conforti , David Adams , Parker Prout , Bennett Greenspon , George Barrows , Phil Pennington , Malcolm Hayward , and Barry Bedrick . We were privi- leged to have as our guest David Andres ’04, Trinity’s director of analytics and strategic initiatives. David provided an in-depth look at what’s behind the college rankings that are compiled by several publications, including U.S. News & World Report . It was quite illuminating and is available via a link and password you can get from the commu - nication you received from Larry Roberts and Paul Jones in June or by contacting Theresa Kidd at [email protected]. It is worth understanding what lies behind the rankings (or some might say, what lies are perpetuated by the rankings). During the Zoom, Michael Lestz mentioned a Malcolm Gladwell article, “The Trouble with College Rankings” from The New Yorker , which also sheds light on some of the essential flaws in such rankings. While on the subject of such rankings, as we know from our own experiences at Trinity, at the heart of the college experience are the relationships that develop with not only our fellow classmates but also with faculty. You can get terrific insights into the current Trinity experience on that critical issue by taking a look at the profiles of our Class of ’68 Scholars who have been added to our class website. Our Class of ’68 Scholars are thriving, are grateful, and are a wonderful reflection of our class’s generosity and our ardor for the Trinity experience. A number of our classmates are continuing the Zooms among us that became routine during the pandemic. Some, like the class- wide Zooms we have had, involve invited guests. Thanks to the connections of Joe McKeigue ’s daughter Joanna ’97, a number of us spent more than an hour with Speaker GIVE BACK TO THE TRINITY COMMUNITY— VOLUNTEER! www.trincoll.edu/ AlumniAndFamilies/ Volunteer

50 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES Pelosi’s floor manager in the House, Kevin Stern. He provided great insights into the “sausage making” legislative process. Planning for the 55th Reunion is starting, so if you have ideas for events, programs, activities, etc., be sure to let me know, and I will make sure they get to those involved, including our president for life (DJT is jealous), Larry Roberts , and his Reunion co-chair, Paul Jones . 1969 Class Secretary: Alden R. Gordon, Fine Arts Department, Hallden 09, Trinity College, 300 Summit St., Hartford, CT 06106-3100; alden.gordon@ trincoll.edu • Class Agent: Nathaniel S. Prentice • /groups/trinity1969 Contributions were sparse in the spring of 2021 as class members got vaccinated and began to emerge from C-19 travel and social - izing restrictions. Fred Uehlein sent this upbeat report on his post-vaccination return to travel: “All is well with the Uehlein family. After getting our two vaccinations, we took off to see daughter Emma, who lives with her family in Puerto Rico, and then to visit son Christian and fam- ily in Montana. Wintered in Bonita Springs, Florida, and now back to Cape Cod for sum- mer. Would love to see any classmates who find themselves on the Cape or in Bonita. Still doing a bit of work, starting a new behavioral health company, Ascellus, to help workers across the country. Be well, and let every day bring a smile.” Leighton Smith , who reported this past winter on his baseball book, writes: “All is healthy and safe here in Virginia with my family and me. I started a new full-time job in February as a senior principal systems engineer with Gibbs & Cox. Yes, I know, I’m well past retirement age. But I like working and being busy, and so many of my friends and colleagues have retired and died. So, retirement doesn’t sound that healthy to me. Not yet anyway. My number four kid, daughter Stephanie, got married to James Boggs on April 17, and even though there were pandemic restrictions still in place, all went very well. I am enjoying my 36th year living in Virginia and am watching the value of my house in Arlington that I bought almost 33 years ago continue to appreciate. It won’t be very long before it is worth 10 times what I paid for it. I will take lucky over good any day!” Michael Carius , who hasn’t written in a while, sends these updates on his encoun- ters with classmates: “Recently I had the opportunity to reconnect with Leo and Annie Mallek , my roommate for two years at Trinity, at a Virginia winery. Leo is retired but still quite busy with multiple activities. I also met with Scott Duncan and his wife at a Virginia brewpub. Scott is retired and shared his long history with the Hash House Harriers running organization.” A year ago, Michael accepted a six-year commitment to return as chair-elect of the American Board of Medical Specialties Board of Directors. As a result, he will remain active clinically as an emergency physician for the next five years, which means putting off any dreams of retire- ment. Michael reports, “The past year has been challenging to work in the emergency department, to say the least.” It is with great sadness that I report that Tan Platt , M.D., died on August 19, 2020. As an undergraduate, Tan was a bio major and played football and ran track. He was a mem- ber of Cerberus and Alpha Chi Rho. Tan and wife Nancy were enthusiastic participants at our 50th Reunion. He was on the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia since 1986 and was medi- cal director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services beginning in 2008. Tan is survived by Nancy, children Elizabeth and James, and four grandchildren. 1970 Class Secretary: John L. Bonee III, Esq., 19 Scarsdale Rd., West Hartford, CT 06107-3339; john. [email protected]; fax: 860-522-6049 • Class Agents: Joseph A. Barkley III, Esq., Ernest J. Mattei, Esq. As I submit our Class Notes on June 14 for the fall issue, everyone on our huge 50th Reunion Committee is not only thrilled to think we will be able to have our own special in-person Reunion at Homecoming October 1 and 2 but also feeling a huge sense of psychic relief from the benefits of becoming fully vaccinated and being able to travel and interact once more as we always have done with family, friends, and classmates. As always, working on our Reunion proj - ects with Theresa Kidd of the Advancement Office and Ernie Mattei and everyone else on our 21-plus-member committee is a delight. Ernie has been organizing special Zoom meetings with groups from our class having a particular interest. We’ve had a number of Zoom meetings focused on a sports team or fraternity and most recently a music extrav - aganza with Dan Reilert , Charlie Taylor , and Ryan Kuhn , all of which have been extremely successful. Coming up is a focus on the heady environment of conflictual politics and philosophies fostered by the climate of the late ’60s. Should be a memorable encounter session and possibly worth preserving for the Watkinson Library oral history project to which our classmate Richard Turk has contributed so much, especially with the fine work he has done on our Reunion yearbook. Our class will be presenting to the college two antique doorknobs embossed with the Trinity seal that hopefully will be accepted by the Watkinson Library for posterity. We also greatly appreciate the creative work that Charlie Fenwick has done along with Dix Leeson on innovative modalities for contribu - tions from us, especially via our IRAs/401(k)s. Billy Peelle is working with the Wadsworth Atheneum caterer to provide for us a spectac - ular culinary presentation when we gather at the museum for our Friday night Reunion dinner on October 1. Billy has agreed to permit me to offer my thoughts to make it as delicious and healthful as we can muster. Billy may even have a special contributory surprise for all of us, which we hopefully will discover upon attendance for the evening. With wonderful camaraderie among all of us and the best collection of fine arts in Connecticut wherever we look, we should not feel too deprived that we are not among Trinity’s elms on the quadrangle under the stars as has been the tradition for Friday evening of Reunion. In addition to a great Homecoming football game and a traditional class dinner on Saturday, October 2, on campus, perhaps in Hamlin Hall, we may be able to organize a joint predinner cocktail party with the 25th Reunion. After-dinner disco dancing? Discussions are continuing in this regard as I write. Plus, Tony DiBella will be our memory shaman as he guides us on a traditional Australian walkabout, calling up scenes and events around campus that marked and transformed our college experience as we lived through extremely transformative times. The most important thing is that we actually are going to be able to have our 50th Reunion in person and non-remote, with as many of us as possible. The college has scheduled Homecoming for the very first weekend of October, which should mean that it will be a perfect temperature for outdoor enjoyment and viewing of New England autumn foliage. Bocce may even occur on the quad, but at a minimum, we shall be able to renew the conversations and personal encounters that have always made our friendship and bonds so meaningful to all of us as the years have gone by and that have stayed with us forever. BECOME A CLASS AGENT. www.trincoll.edu/ AlumniAndFamilies/ Volunteer/Class-Agents

FALL 2021 51 CLASS NOTES REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1971 Class Secretary: Howard Weinberg, 16 Erick Ct., Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724- 1901; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant I am so pleased to be your class secretary, especially since the pandemic has caused many of us to be virtual shut-ins. It gives me great pleasure to keep in touch or reestablish contact with many of my Trinity classmates. Some of those I have spoken with or commu - nicated with via social media include Cliff Cutler , Jon Miller , DiBens (no other name needed), Dave Sample , Jim Graves , Mark Mittenthal , Marshall Garrison , Bill Reynolds , Joe Pratt II , Ken Schweikert , Phil Khoury , Ralph Morini , and so many on the 50th Reunion Committee. It warms my heart to hear and see how rich everybody’s life seems to be. Hoping to see as many as possible at our Reunion in June 2022. David Pumphrey credits Thomas Carlyle with getting him through the seemingly endless months of shutdown: “Carlyle’s The French Revolution: A History whetted my appetite for more of his wizardry, and so immediately took up the whopping eight-vol - ume bio of Frederick the Great. The months flew by!” He said he’d love to hear from school chums if they visit Nantucket. His contact info is: 4 Westminster St., Nantucket, MA 02554; 646-647-4860. Steve Jianakoplos says, “Greetings from the land of the Saint Louis University Billikens (my law class of ’74). Last year, after 45 years of private law practice (including being national legal adviser to the Porsche Club of America), I finally hung it up. I’m spending time with our four grandchildren, Natalie, Clay, Constantine, and Aristotle. Most days, I also discharge the ‘Lisa list’ of chores given to me by my lovely bride of 40 years. I’m in regular contact with Rick Mazzuto and Lou Slocum . Rick lives in Modesto, California, but we manage to see each other two or three times a year. Slocum has a lady friend in the village of Hana on Maui, Hawaii. He’s been commuting between there and Vista, California. Other than the general aches and pains of getting old, things are good, and I send best wishes to all my classmates.” Philip S. Khoury received an honorary degree from Trinity at the May 21, 2021, Commencement on campus. He reports, “It was a gorgeous sunny day, unlike our class’s Commencement exercises 50 years ago when it rained.” Michael E. Trigg , M.D., writes, “I am one of those who has the pleasure of living in Florida and thus can enjoy warm or warmer weather year-round, but I still require some educational stimulation. Currently on a contract with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to direct the development of a phase 4 study for its new CAR-T immunotherapy program for the treatment of refractory/resistant multiple myeloma. My extensive clinical and research experience in cellular therapies makes this an enjoyable enterprise for me and provides a good outlet to keep up with all the latest immunotherapy advances. Just a message to my Trinity colleagues, who like me, are past their seventh decade. Keep in mind that our immune system, despite how well we may maintain our physical and mental condition, deteriorates over time, making us more susceptible to infection and malignancy and also blunts the durable immune response that we may have. Will the immune response in a 70-year-old be as vigorous and durable as the immune response in a 20-year-old? Will the presence of a sizable number of anti-vaxxers (for whatever reason) make it more likely viral variants will develop, pro - viding an opportunity for many of us to get infected with a viral variant not covered in the currently available vaccines? Very clearly this past 12 months of social distancing, wearing of masks, excessive hand washing, and quarantine efforts have significantly reduced the incidence and transmission of normal influenza that plagues us each winter season. Thus, we should all keep in mind the public health measures that were recom- mended for the COVID pandemic that as a side effect helped most of us to escape the ordinary influenza infections that circulate each year.” Mel Kendrick writes, “I had a show at the Addison Gallery of American Art that ran from April through October 3 on the campus of Phillips Academy, Andover, where I went before Trinity. It is a serious museum of American art founded at the same time as the Whitney in New York. I am lucky to have been working this through the pandemic, and it is amazing to see my own work over the last 50 years or so. There is also a Rizzoli coffee table book with the same title, Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things . My family is doing well. I have lived in downtown Manhattan since graduation! My wife, Mary Salter ’73, and I have three great kids out in the world doing very different things, a dip - lomat in the State Department until Trump, a filmmaker, and a social worker.” Jon Miller sends a picture of an old Bantam with his grandson Bantam-to-be at the Georgia state track meet! Bill LaPlante II , five-time Emmy winner for ABC/CBS-TV, is “doing my final edit on two tomes, one verisimilitude of fifth-generation seafaring family turned oyster farmers on an island of 80 hearty souls in the frigid North Atlantic Ocean, the other my family memoir from working the Simsbury, Connecticut, tobacco fields beside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on to Trinity, The Washington Post , and Connecticut radio/TV/magazine/ Hartford Times police reporting. Next to ABC, CBS (breaking story of murder of John Lennon in December 1980), and back to ABC-TV to help hire 600 people worldwide and premiere the world’s first 24-hour cable news channel (not CNN) based in Stamford, Connecticut. Next project: sailing from the Arctic to Antarctic for two to three months aboard a research vessel, documenting for several publications with video/stills and daily blog. Also eagerly awaiting a brew with many of you over the rocks, at the former site of Phil’s College View Tavern. I liked the place so much I moved two blocks down Zion Street during my junior and senior years at Trin.” Tom Sasali notes, “In case you were not aware, Howie Greenblatt has published yet another basketball book, The Johnny Egan Story , about the life of his childhood idol and fellow Weaver High School graduate who was an NBA player and coach. Also met with Peter Moore , Lou Slocum , and Bill Reynolds .” David Sample reports: “I continue to battle the isolation of the pandemic by taking more road trips! In January, I traveled to Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and North Texas. The highlight of the trip was a ‘winter’ hike down the Grand Canyon, this time with crampons and a headlamp! It now appears that we are breaking out of the restrictions of COVID, which means that we can all look forward to seeing everyone at our June 2022 Reunion.” REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1972 Class Secretary: John R. “Jack” Nelson, 55 Old Shore Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371-1936; john.nelson.1972@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Archibald Smith, Will Whetzel • /groups/Trinity1972 Slim pickings from the Class of ’72 for the fall Reporter. Maybe we’re just happy to have sur - vived COVID—some of us didn’t—and after our long somnolence we’re still whisking the cobwebs out of our brains and blinking in the bright sunshine of ... freedom, commu - nity, shopping, dining, and hugs! What joy! Hello, parties! Goodbye, UPS! Ahem. Thankfully, two happenin’ ’72ers have important doings to report: Lew Payne has moved out of the northern Maine hin- terlands of Holden to coastal Brookville “to be closer to Hepps” (in Sargentville), but I think it’s just coincidence and he’s joshing me. And John Moses reports he “finally took the granddaddy plunge and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, three blocks from my three grandgirls. Wife Meredith is ecstatic. Me, I’m playing more Southern rock and enjoying this foodie town—the biscuits and barbecue are out of this world. Busy booking the Outerspace Band for a month this summer in Maine, our 52nd year and all

52 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES original members relatively intact. This, of course, is just a rehearsal for Trinity’s 50th!” Lew and John have dutifully updated their contact info in MyTrinNet, and this is fan- tastic news that Outerspace Band will once again perform for us at Reunion. Speaking of ... (drumroll) our 50th Reunion, our class president and longtime Trinity leader Peter Blum would like to share this message with you all: “Dear classmates, the way I see it, each classmate who returns will be a gift to another classmate. For some of us, it’ll have been 50 years since we last lit eyes on one another. Equally, for some of us, our 50th may offer the last opportunity to be together again, to renew distant friendships, to revive our mystic chords of memory, so to speak. For each of us, our returning to Trinity will be warmly welcomed by any number of others— that is such a vivid and compelling image and a great reason to come back. You needn’t know or remember (or recognize!) everybody, but it’ll be more than worthwhile to recon- nect with even just one or two old friends. I guarantee you’ll be met with a broad smile, and it will be meaningful for you on a deeper level as well. Yours, Peter” So, folks, stay tuned, keep your June 2022 options open, and please, please, please update your contact information— especially your email address—in the Alumni Directory. (https://mytrinnet.trincoll.edu). The Alumni Office is missing a lot of you, and your fellow classmates miss you even more. If by chance you’re hiding from Trinity because you’re afraid you’ll be hit up for (shudder) money, then trust me: Trinity’s Advancement Office (that’s fundraising now - adays) is gentle and won’t hound you at all. Stay healthy, stay grateful, and please stay in touch. Jack Nelson 1973 Co-Class Secretary: Diane Fierri Brown, 62 Westwood Rd., West Hartford, CT 06117; diane. [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: Robert P. Haff, 8 Riverbend Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371-1428 • Class Agents: Jan Gimar, Ed Huntley, Patti Mantell-Broad Mike Mitchell writes, “I hope that this note finds you both well and that all members of your families are well and prospering. All good here after a very challenging year and a half. Sue is in remission after her yearlong battle with leukemia last year, all three kids thriving, and as I prepare to celebrate my 70th birthday on Sunday, I am still wheeling it around town, though maybe at a some- what diminished pace. Last weekend, five of my buddies from the Lockheed Martin days and I cycled from Hunt Valley, Maryland, to York, Pennsylvania, and back over the two days—88.4 miles on a rail to trail and great fun with very close friends.” Mike is continuing to pursue his photography with three online exhibits to date this year. Mike’s website for his work is www.mikemitchell - photography.com. Art Baldwin writes, “My wife, Mary, and I are vaccinated. We recently took a one-week trip to Durham, North Carolina, to visit one of our daughters. We are expecting our son to visit us (and get vaccinated) from Mexico in two weeks. We hadn’t seen either of them since January 2019. Our other daughter will be arriving at the end of the month. She has been teaching chemistry in Indonesia for the past two years. We’ve been taking care of her dog for that time. I’m planning to video the reunion of the dog with her and her husband. The dog has two years’ worth of face licking to catch up on. I’ve been doing remote tutor - ing of algebra I and II and geometry this past school year. It’s been a challenge, trying to reach kids I don’t know and have never seen. I tip my hat to teachers everywhere. I’ve also been volunteering at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. Happy to give a tour to anybody who’s in town. I was called out of retirement to assist on a project for the NIH, providing metrics for a study of socioeconomic determinants of health under the pandemic. We should be done soon. Work doesn’t really agree with me. I hope you’re healthy and happy!” Len Kupferberg writes: “ Karen and I have been fully vaxxed for about 10 weeks. We have been having family gatherings and interacting with other vaccinated friends. We are currently in our home on Maui and will be celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary tomorrow.” Per David Bargman : “Like W.H. Auden, [I am] ‘Now, unready to die but already at the stage when one starts to dislike the young.’ (And he was younger than we are when he wrote this.) Otherwise, all is well but yet unmasked.” Nick Read writes: “I live in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, condo with Anne, my wife of 45 years. We downsized last year amid COVID from a house that was purchased by our younger daughter, Joanna, and her husband, Samir, who live there with daughters Bodhi and Mira. Our older daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Daniel, are eye surgeons in Honolulu, where they live with daughter Parker and son Nicholas. I work for the City of Newton, Massachusetts, and divide my time between Cambridge and my painting studio in Rockport, Massachusetts. Thinking about retirement, but not quite ready yet.” “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”—Mark Twain 1974 Class Secretary: Ty E. Geltmaker, 8742 Rangely Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90048- 1715; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant Greetings, all! A mild suggestion: If you don’t want it in print, don’t send it. And send it exactly as you want to see it. Many noted the recent deaths of beloved Eddie Faneuil and Patrick O’Connell ’75, the latter a pioneering AIDS activist who had lots of friends in our cohort. See the “In Memory” section for their obituaries. Margie Huoppi notes she and hers are well but sad at the passing of both Eddie and Patrick. Geoffrey Harrison is up-front challenging himself and our imperfections (asking all be said for the record): “It seems our class is among the least communicative ones. (Very brief Class Notes section in The Trinity Reporter every issue.) Wonder why that is. In general, we seemed a relatively happy bunch, back then at least. Forty-seven years ago ... are we all that ancient? Well, 69 is the new 49, right? I had a tough time often in college and later due to undiagnosed clinical depression; now successfully treated, for the last 20 years, thank God. Thought I’d begin with this because I firmly believe one should be open about mental illness, which is just an illness after all. No shame in being ill, whatever the cause. This is very important to me. Got a Ph.D. at Stanford University in classics (also my undergraduate major) and taught college for many years. Liked to mention my depression in class from time to time, as appropriate, for the reason given above. Always very gratifying when a student would come up to me afterward and thank me for what I had said. This happened often. Not all education is directly tied to the subject matter! Although from Philadelphia, I live in Iowa, where the college I last taught at is located. Never married for some reason and thus no kids, at least none that I know of. Well, that’s enough, maybe too much, for now. Should you choose to print this in the Reporter , please do not excise the depression business. Maybe it will help my classmates to understand why I was so grumpy and rebar - bative much of the time! Love all you guys (or most of you). For better or worse, you helped make me what I am today.” Amy Yatzkan Trachtenberg reflects, “Living in Philly now for five years, after post - grad stops in Chicago, Boston, Princeton. Semiretired from 42 years of clinical social work practice, which has morphed into consulting and supervising while taking advantage of the urban adventure that is Philadelphia. Filled with memories of Trinity these days, triggered by the passing of Patrick O’Connell ’75. I regret losing touch

FALL 2021 53 CLASS NOTES with him. Grateful for Portable Circus, Outer Space, Cinestudio, Austin Arts Theater, Rome Campus, and Professor Higgins, along with some more people I have lost touch with. Trinity was not the right place for this public school girl. Regret that, but don’t regret the people and the experiences that helped me get through those four years.” Rob Robinson shares some wisdom for all of us getting older: “Doing well, despite an injury to my leg last November playing ten- nis, causing nerve damage. Getting around now, hoping for regeneration. My wife and I downsized to a condo a mile away from our former home. Looking forward to upcoming trips to see friends out East and our older son and his family in Oregon. We own a cottage on Lake Huron and plan to spend time there this summer and fall. Working remotely since March last year, starting to see the retirement light at the end of the tunnel. Want to travel more as things open up again and see our two grandchildren grow up. They live close to us in the next town over, and we are blessed by their proximity. Looking forward to our 50th Reunion in three years!” Barry O’Brien reports good news with a jolly photo, including Mike Hoskinson , Lyn Hoskinson, John Allen , Lise Gescheidt , Gabrielle Allen, John Westermann , Paul Gossling , Sandy O’Brien, and Barry O’Brien . Kris Westermann and Nancy Gossling were off camera. He reported that life is starting to return to normal thanks to the vaccine. “On May 25, some members of the Class of 1974 got together in Dennis, Massachusetts, to celebrate the arrival of John and Kris Westermann , who journeyed up the East Coast from Florida to Cape Cod visiting fam- ily. A great time was had as we reminisced about our campus escapades. The stories keep getting better and better. We all look forward to our next Reunion.” Alan Sibert speaks a simple truth: “While I have no particular desire to share my post-Trinity life with the literally hundreds of classmates I barely knew then, I suppose it’s a paradox that I am curious to hear what others have to tell about life. I detest the Facebook phenomenon, wherein we tend to want to create ourselves in the image of some gloriously successful careerist, what my daughters call ‘humble brag,’ without sharing the inevitable pitfalls and challenges of life, which we have all no doubt faced. And that, of course, being, by far, the more fascinating story of our lives. I live in North Carolina, I’m healthy, a widower, retired, footloose, at peace, always exploring.” The talented Robert Starkey is painting: “I have survived this latest global storm well, being hunkered in beautiful Down East Maine. My wife, Rada, and I living in monas - tic isolation worked well. Less distraction and more concentration. Insulated painting studio complete with a wood stove, which allowed me to continue to explore my art uninter - rupted. Hats off to the Austin Arts faculty for the inspiration. www.robertwstarkey.com” Best wishes to all as we hopefully emerge, however tattered, in mystical/physical health from the pandemic, informed by our classical-humanistic Trinity education. Ty Geltmaker From the Alumni Office: Barbara Fernandez was named chair of the Latino Endowment Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. 1975 Co-Class Secretary: Steven E. Hirsch, 2200 N. Ocean Blvd., Unit N1101, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305- 1994; [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: Christopher G. Mooney, 303 Compass Point Dr., #202, Bradenton, FL 34209; christopher.mooney.1975@trincoll. edu • Class Agents: Betsy Kellogg Hamilton, Susanne Tilney, Richard F. Tucci • / groups/59654675586 It is with deep sadness I share the news of the passing of Patrick O’Connell . Patrick was my freshman-year Jarvis suitemate, and to those who knew him, there was always a warm, friendly hello when paths crossed. His legacy will be spearheading AIDS awareness as founding director of Visual Aids and creator of the red AIDS ribbon. RIP, Patrick. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1976 Class Secretary: Vacant • Class Agents: Phil Bieluch, Roger Bowie, Mike Gilman, Chip Goode, Terry Michel Gumz, Lisa Heilbronn, Hobie Porter The class secretary position for the Class of 1976 is vacant. If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Julie Cloutier in the Alumni Office at 860-297-2403 or [email protected]. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1977 Class Secretary: Mary Desmond Pinkowish, 15 Lafayette Rd., Larchmont, NY 10538-1920; [email protected] • Class Agent: Stephen M. Sunega • /TrinityCollege 77 First, apologies are owed to Jeffrey Feinberg . His submission was missed last time. Here it is: “This is my first time submitting anything after all these years. You can see from the signature below (general counsel, chief legal officer, 3D/L Financial Group LLC) what I am up to. I took on this role three years ago after 20 years of litigation practice. Of much more interest, however, is that my oldest daughter, Hannah, is a first-year at Trinity. She is really enjoying her courses, has a great group of friends, and is playing women’s ice hockey for the Bantams. Although the fall semester was limited to strength and conditioning workouts and on-ice practices, there is talk of games being scheduled for the second half of the season.” Thanks, Jeff, and please keep writing! How great to hear from my first Trinity College Jones Hall third-floor roommate, Claudia Springer . “My news is that after practicing law for almost 41 years, mostly at two large firms, Duane Morris for over 17 years and Reed Smith for almost 20 years, in the field of restructuring and bankruptcy, I recently joined Novo Advisors, a finan- cial consulting and advisory firm based in Chicago with locations in several major U.S. cities. I am starting a mediation practice at the firm, concentrating on all types of com- mercial disputes.” Congrats, Claudia. James Davenport writes that he’s “still working as an R.N. in the emergency room in Taunton, Massachusetts. Glad to see the decline in COVID cases, finally. Met up with Murray Klein ’78. Took a stroll along the Windsor Locks Canal Trail with his dog, Molly. Even saw a beaver! He is retired from the insurance business, living in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m always surprised some of our classmates are waiting for grandchildren. I got a head start with my stepkids and had my first great-granddaughter Ariya last year.” From Ted Judson , who says he’s been living in San Francisco for the last 35 years, mostly working for Electronic Arts (EA Sports): “As past president Jimmy Jones said, ‘I hold you personally responsible for an entire grade point average of our male student body.’ Oh well. Oldest daughter married in October, next daughter getting married in July, becom- ing a grandfather late July. Just spent five days fishing the Ruby and Madison Rivers in Montana with Tim Ghriskey , Nick Brady ’76, Bill Prowell ’76, and Jeff Kelter ’76. Totally awesome ... lots of Steely Dan, ABB, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Sorry, Deadheads.” Never enough Steely Dan, Ted. Good to hear from Greg Murphy , who reports that “After 20½ years as director of facilities and director of operations, I am JOIN THE BANTAM BUSINESS DIRECTORY. www.trincoll.edu/ AlumniAndFamilies/ Connect/Business

54 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES retiring from Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco. I am embarking on my fifth career change and becoming a proj - ect manager/owner’s rep for major remodel and construction projects. I hope this gives me enough time to start to play golf a bit more regularly, but I hope to be busy enough to use that as an excuse when I play! I also should have time to enjoy the occasional drinks/din- ner with Ben Taber ’71 more often.” My husband, Peter, and I also have news. On May 1, our daughter Caroline married Neil Regan on Cape Cod, with a party in my moth- er’s yard in Centerville. It would have been wonderful under any circumstances, but for most of us, it also was our first post-COVID event. Elating. We are so fortunate. Thanks to all for writing. Please stay in touch. I know we’ll have more big news next time! Stay well. Stay busy. 1978 Class Secretary: Jory F. Lockwood, 67 Scarlet Oak Dr., Wilton, CT 06897-1014; jory.lockwood.1978@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Bob Carey, Vivi Dunklee Duke, Charles Glanville, Tom Lenahan, George Malhame, Andrew Terhune • /groups/TrinityCollege78 Rachel (Robin) Pohl is conducting good and important work and writes, “Thank you science and Dr. Fauci” and wishes “everyone health and equity for all. On this note, I’m grateful to be working on a team to scale telehealth and technology through a network of 35 health centers in Massachusetts, serving under-resourced people and building com- munity partnerships. Happy to share more if anyone is focused in this area of work and intersectional investment.” Take care, Rachel! Doug Thom submitted this short, inter - esting, and slightly mysterious note. “I will send something unless you think I’ve shared enough! I hope you are well! Sincerely, Doug” And he adds, “I’m very in love with a woman I met while on my junior year abroad—the IES program in Freiburg.” Brian Thomas dropped into The Trinity Reporter world with this fabulous note. “Good morning, and thanks for your contin- ued efforts to collect news about our class. It does seem like so long ago that we were walking beneath the elms. Hope you have managed well during the COVID period. I am in year 21 at Johnson & Johnson and spent the last 15 months working from home. We will start venturing back into the workplace next month. Not quite sure when I will hit the exit ramp but perhaps after my number two daughter gets married next June (2022). Number one daughter got married in 2018 and made us grandparents on December 30, 2020. It is so fun to be able to see our grand - daughter from time to time (they live outside D.C.). Number three child (son) just moved back to N.Y.C. after it seemed safer (2019 NYU grad). My wife continues her middle-school teaching and is about to finish a year that will not be forgotten, but happy to see in the rearview mirror. We both look forward to being able to travel again as we move into 2022. All the best to you and the rest of the Class of 1978.” Jory Lockwood (that’s me) shares this: What a long year 2020 was. My hair remains uncut since March 2020 and has started to resemble the hairdo of Grandmama from The Addams Family . Now that I am fully vaccinated (and have learned how to spell “vaccine” and “vaccinated” without having to look it up or spell-check it), I will be getting it cut to a more suitable length sometime soon. I had the opportunity to see Professor Riggio last month, which brings us to more than 45 years of friendship. I attended the Zoom retirement party of a dear friend I have known since sec - ond grade. And a second cousin whom I had not seen in likely over a decade recently spent the weekend visiting. The theme is, I think, that the relationships we have are critical to our happiness and well-being. 1979 Co-Class Secretary: James M.G. Cropsey, 376 Sanborn Rd., Tilton, NH 03276-5729; james.cropsey.1979@ trincoll.edu • Co-Class Secretary: Kenneth C. Crowe II, 395 State St., Apt. 4F, Albany, NY 12210-1214; kenneth.crowe.1979@trincoll. edu • Co-Class Secretary: Diane Molleson, 4375 Kimberly St., Richland, WA 99352-8477; [email protected] • Class Agents: Barlow Peelle, Susan Tananbaum Bill Zimmerling writes to describe a whirl - wind of activity. As Bill says, “My wife, Sara, and I are headed to London this July for our oldest daughter’s wedding in Oxford. It’s been rescheduled three times. Kind of like Brexit, we knew it was going to happen, just didn’t know when. Our youngest daughter has completed her first year of law school and unlike her father seems to have a talent for legal writing. Trust everyone is getting the jab as we come out on the other side of this scourge.” Thanks for touching base, Bill. Barlow Peelle was in touch with Jim Cropsey . Barlow is justly proud of his daughter, Emma. Barlow described Emma as a “poster child for perseverance” for overcoming medical issues while competing in Division I athletics at George Washington University. “She not only stuck with DI crew, rowing in number one boat for four years, but didn’t even know she graduated cum laude. Then, as a double major in psych and public health, she gets herself into a top school’s master’s program for IO-psych (industrial organization psychology) at USC. To top it off, she gets a paying internship at a company called Maximus this summer.” Barlow, of course, has the challenge of serving as our class agent along with Susan Tananbaum . Jim also spoke with Barbara Karlen Blitstein , who works for Berkshire Hathaway in Rye, New York. Amy Katz participated as a member of a panel of four alumnae to discuss “Trust and the Media: Bringing the Conversation Back to Center.” The Women’s Leadership Council sponsored the event in May. Amy is a senior executive producer at Voice of America in Washington, D.C. Amy has held other promi- nent media posts. George Brickley writes that in May, he played in a Trinity hockey team fundraiser golf outing at Fox Hopyard in East Haddam, Connecticut. He caught up with fellow class - mates/teammates Clint Brown and Ted Almy . “They both look good and are still on the top of their games!” George and Cindy (Higgins ’80) are busy spending time with their first grandchild, 8-month-old Lola. Lola and her parents recently moved from Brooklyn to Melrose, Massachusetts (George’s hometown and current residence). “It’s fantastic having our daughter and granddaughter so close (about a half mile away). Put us in the cate- gory of ‘doting grandparents.’ We are spoiling her bad!” Ken Crowe is serving again as president of his union, Albany Newspaper Guild, Local 31034, TNG-CWA. Ken stepped in as acting president when his predecessor resigned from the Times Union to work in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a quick election to become president until December 31, 2022, repre- senting 120 people at the Times Union . In a weekend break from union duties, he went to Northwestern University to see his nephew Troy Hattler graduate. Troy was a volun- teer assistant coach for the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team that won the Big 10 title. Unfortunately, they lost in the semifinals of the national playoffs over Memorial Day weekend at Towson University in Maryland. Sadly, Steven J. Popkin died on Oct. 20, 2020. The “In Memory” section of the spring Reporter had a list of those who’ve passed George Brickley ’79 holds his 8-month-old grand- daughter, Lola, who’s getting ready to be the third generation of the family to attend Trinity.

FALL 2021 55 CLASS NOTES away and a link to the obituaries online. For those who missed the list, here’s some infor - mation about Steve from his obituary and from some checking. Steve came to Trinity with the rest of us in September 1975. He was from Great Neck on Long Island. Steve imme- diately was involved in student government elections. He also played lacrosse at Trinity. You can tell he was a true Long Islander. Long Island is a traditional source of college lacrosse players. Steve majored in history. After graduation, he moved on to Georgetown University Law Center, also known as Georgetown Law, where he graduated with a J.D. He practiced law in Brooklyn. He was married and had two daughters. During the pandemic, Nathalie Reverdin said she and her associates have turned their museum-based Backdrop Switzerland Expo, focusing on a century of foreign films shot in Switzerland, into two themed vintage car tours. The different film locations are matched with luxury hotels, events, and guest speakers from the trade. Andy Storch was in touch to say he and Maureen moved to Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac from D.C., last year. Their fourth and last child is going into senior year at UVA and with it the last batch of tuition bills. They bought a home on Martha’s Vineyard during the height of the pandemic. While they have no immediate plans to move, they’re looking forward to enjoying time in a remote area on the island to see if it could be longer-term fit. 1980 Class Secretary: Elizabeth Davison Hyde, 8801 Cheltenham Ave., Wyndmoor, PA 19038-7125; [email protected] • Class Agents: William Bullard, Tom Casey, Scott Lessne, Kate Youngdahl Stauss • /groups/112435390839 Thank you to our 2021 Virtual Reunion Committee: Cynthia Ballantyne , Lisa Block , William Bullard , Tom Casey , David Clark , Carol Anne Goldberg , Peter Jongbloed , Trish Mairs Klestadt , David Koeppel , Scott Lessne , Patrice Ball-Reed , Currie Smith , Suwathin Phiansunthon , Chuck Tiernan , and Kate Youngdahl . The weekend began with a cooking class by our own Lee Clayton Roper , cookbook author, public speaker, TV person- ality, producer, food blogger, and cooking instructor. Tricia Mairs Klestadt acted as our host and did a great job. Lee showed us how to make summer salads and side dishes and cocktail/mocktails. She shared tips on the perfect equipment to use and how to make entertaining fun and enjoyable. Thank you, Lee, great job! The next event was a “provide your own cocktail” party using Kumospace. The program allowed you to move about the room like you would at an in-person event to talk to different people, so it allowed for more intimate conversations. I learned Tricia Klestadt has three grandchildren and another one on the way. Her two girls have made her life very busy, and she loves it. Scott Lessne , chair of commercial finance and lending with Crowell & Moring, built a violin from a kit in the last year and says it sounds great. Who knew Scott was a violinist since second grade? He also started fencing again with his son. On the professional side, he has been involved with cryptocurrency and thinks he would like to teach. Talking to former classmates reminds me how interesting life can be. I have been busy between nearly changing jobs, my daughter graduating, playing lots of tennis, tending to my COVID golden retriever puppy, and beginning golf lessons. Susan Vuylsteke started a new posi- tion in the medical sales industry after a long time with her previous position. She lives in Los Angeles and is happy that things are beginning to open up there. Cynthia is look - ing forward to celebrating with her family in Aspen in October on the first anniversary of her son’s wedding since they were not able to be together in 2020. William Bullard is a grandfather and recently was in Pittsburgh visiting his 22-month-old grandson. I learned Barr (Dave) Snyderwine grew up in Plymouth Meeting and went to Penn Charter. Barr has lived in D.C. for much of his professional career, as has Jordan Fried . Tom Casey told me he did not know Jordan was in town. Nancy Ceccon joined us with her delightful daughter Bryanna, who is going to vo-tech school. Karen Wachtell popped in Saturday night; she was one of my roommates sophomore year, along with Carol Novick, Laurie Sivaslian (transferred to/graduated from Penn and Wharton, respectively), and Susie Pratt . I talked to Steve Slade , who sold his beautiful Victorian home in Princeton ... sad for those of us he hosted during Princeton–Trinity squash matches. He and his wife live in Naples, and his daughter (one of his triplets) just got engaged and bought a house in Naples. He said after all that time in Florida, he is looking forward to some business travel. So, my friends, 2025 is our next milestone get-together, so barring a future pandemic, hope to see you there! But in the meantime, please drop me a line, and let me know what you are up to. Please remember to support Trinity financially (our class president, Tom Casey , will be happy) and in other ways, including career services, the Women’s Leadership Council, area clubs, volunteering, etc. Until next time, Beth Davison Hyde REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1981 Co-Class Secretary: Susan Walsh Ober, 130 Skyline Dr., Millington, NJ 07946; susan.ober.1981@ trincoll.edu • Co-Class Secretary: Tabitha N. Zane, 1620 Kersley Cir., Lake Mary, FL 32746- 1923; [email protected] • Class Agents: Rob Aiello, Liz Carrigan Boyle, Jo Lauriello • /groups/391695640890482 Lisa Hunt writes: “Life in Fairfax, California, has been great. My husband and I survived the pandemic over the past year and a half. Since I work for a bike company, business has been absolutely crazy, given the supply chain issues and delays with manufacturing. My job normally requires traveling a lot, but it’s been Zoom meetings for everything; after many delays and setbacks of new bikes not arriving, we’re finally seeing new bikes go out the door to shops. Things are starting to get back to normal, and being vaccinated is a sigh of relief! Hopefully, I’ll get to come back East soon!” Robert Aiello is a practicing criminal defense attorney in New York City and Long Island. He writes, “I have two children who are in college. I see Faraj Saghri , Tom Roche , Tony Docal , Peter Whalen , and Kenny Savino on a fairly regular basis. We have vacationed together with our families over the years in Saint Martin, Florida, and the Dominican Republic. I am blessed to be in touch with some of my Trinity friends. I wish I could see more of you! Hope everyone is well. Stay safe.” Ginger Brennan runs ABA Retirement Funds, a retirement member benefit of the American Bar Association. She has three kids, two grown and one in college. “I love Facebook to keep up with so many of my Trinity friends. Getting married again in two days and look forward to seeing all of you in person next year back on campus!” Peter Hubbell writes that after 40 years in advertising, which included starting his own agency dedicated to baby boomers (www.boomagers.com), he’s launching a new venture to help recent college graduates market their way to their first real job (www. applyyou.com). He, wife Caroline, and son Teddy, 15, live in Greenwich, Connecticut, but try to spend as much time in Nantucket as possible! Tom Carroux wanted to commemorate a year of COVID-19 lockdown by doing CHECK OUT A VLW VIRTUAL EVENT! www.trincoll.edu/ AlumniAndFamilies/ VirtualLongWalk

56 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES something he had never done before, so he decided to jump out of an airplane from 18,000 feet. “The roar of sound hurtling through space at over 120 miles an hour, the below-freezing-cold temperature, and my eyes telling me that there was only air between me and the ground was an extreme experience.” Here’s a link to the video of Tom jumping from the airplane: https://bit. ly/3fiTFNS. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1982 Class Secretary: Ellin Carpenter Smith, 932 Windsor Ave., Windsor, CT 06095-3422; [email protected] • Class Agents: Patty Hooper Kelley, Tom Mathews, Bill Talbot • /groups/TrinColl1982 Over the course of this past year, we’ve shared stories of all the different ways we’ve been commemorating 60 years young. In recent months, I’ve started to hear of class - mates who are entertaining a new opportu - nity ... early retirement. My first thought was that we are way too young to retire. But then I started to see how it was going for those who are leading the way into this new phase of our lives. I checked and apparently for years now, the proportion of people who plan to retire younger has been increasing. According to consumer research firm Hearts & Wallets, in 2020, 18 percent of people cited 59 as their target retirement age, up from 11 percent in 2018. So here we go. I’ll start with my best friend, Vicky Lenkeit Scanlon , a woman who began her profes - sional career when we were just juniors in college. While we were chilling on the quad and figuring out what we wanted to be when we grew up, she was working and studying to become an actuary at the Travelers Insurance Company. She continued on that path until motherhood took precedence. Later she put her talents to work at Loomis Chaffee School, where her husband headed up the English Department. She and Jeff have made the momentous decision to seize the opportunity to retire early to their charming home on the Cape. I will miss living 12 houses away here in Windsor, but I admire her sense of adven- ture. Looking forward to seeing what’s next for her. Quite sure it will be wonderful. Next, we have Tom Mathews . His update indicated that he already enjoys retirement and working in a wine shop for his retire- ment gig. “Hope I can get back to teaching classes again soon in a post-COVID world. For other excitement, I am planning to take my mother to Italy to celebrate her 80th birthday.” After the pandemic prompted three successive postponements, he hopes the fourth time is the charm. Following the graduation of his twins from Wake Forest (cum laude) and Elon (summa cum laude), he declared that “academically they obvi- ously take after their mother! Now the house is full again until virtual work ends. Come on, end of all things COVID!” In previous notes, I shared the news that Barb Sherman Levison is thoroughly enjoying a life of tennis and golf alternately in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Bonita Springs, Florida. For other classmates, the world of work continues to excite. Jim Dod wrote to say he and wife Cathy are empty nesters. “Kinda like it. Spending way too much time on weekends fixing up a 100-year-old family summer home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, but I’m fully stocked with power tools. So, I’ve that going for me, which is nice. Unlike many other professions, business as a psychologist was gangbusters over the pandemic. Teletherapy was a godsend, and I’m worn out. Not a complaint. Scott Cassie , Tom Tarca , Kenny Papa , and Tom Mathews , and I are celebrating our 60th birthdays (pandemically belated) together on a golf trip to Palm Springs later this year. The razzing has already begun.” Judy Bolton-Fasman has completed a personal masterwork. She wrote to share the news that her debut book, Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets , will be published in early September. “And yes, the Asylum of the title is Asylum Avenue, referring to my childhood address in West Hartford. Let the double entendres begin!” You can find more essays on her website, www.judyboltonfasman.com. I Googled her new publication and came across a review that says it all. “ Asylum is a deeply moving memoir that investigates the ever-complicated knot of familial love, loss, and longing. Judy Bolton-Fasman beautifully captures that urge so many of us have to better understand those loved ones who were close to us yet nonetheless eluded our grasp.” To wrap up these notes, our class pres - ident, Scott Cassie , offers an invitation to us all. “As always, I hope these Class Notes find you, families, and friends well. I’ve got nothing pithy to share for this edition, though I could always go on about my kids. I’ll save that for Reunion. Which leads me to the point of my note. I sincerely hope to see you at our upcoming 40th Reunion come June 9–12, 2022. To be honest, the save-the- date email back in April from the Alumni Office was quite a shock. ‘40? How is that possible?’ I asked my dog, who has been my constant work-from-home assistant for the last 15 months. But it’s time. Time to see one another again. Time to remember and also time to celebrate in those small conversations and with the larger planned events. We all have done so much, large and small, since each touched ‘the Book’ at graduation on that soggy day in May 1982. I am sure we all will continue to be busy up until June. However, I hope that you will have time, and can take the time, to be a part of this Reunion. I look forward to seeing you all then, ’neath the elms. The last word goes to Jim Dod , who shared these deep thoughts about Reunion. “I hav - en’t been back to Trin since the last Reunion I attended. I can’t remember when that was. Of course, I can’t remember what I had for breakfast either. Oh, the brain cells I must have destroyed in college!” We are looking forward to welcoming you back in June. 1983 Class Secretary: Thomas M. McKeown, 2400 Winding Hollow Ln., Plano, TX 73093-4109; thomas. [email protected] • Class Agents: Todd Beati, Tim Dillon Clarke, H. Scott Nesbitt, David Walker • /groups/295955824253432 Jean Walshe took to my travel theme to inform that she is looking forward to returning this summer to Stockholm and its beautiful city by the sea. This proved less difficult since she possesses an EU passport. Jean will be spending time at friend’s cottage in the archipelago and enjoying Swedish summer traditions. Jean still resides on Martha’s Vineyard and invites anyone with plans to visit to look her up. Work travel has been somewhat back to normal for Jeff Bamonte since the spring started. On the personal side, he had a nice get-together with friends and family on Amelia Island in April at the Ritz-Carlton. His clan all converged from Rhode Island; Miami; Charleston, South Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee. Jeff plans to continue traveling among Rhode Island, Nashville, and Charleston for the summer, mixing work with time off. On a proud parent note, his daughter Lauren graduated from Vanderbilt University, summa cum laude, in May 2021 and will be attending the University of Virginia School of Law in August 2021. I heard from Ron Carroll and Steve Gomes recently with a nice update. Steve works with Trinity as a program lead for the school’s Tech-Edge program. Ron works with the IT team at State Street Bank and has a consult - ing company on the side. So, Steve invited Ron to present on the topic of agile software development. I understand it was a big hit with the students. Ron also took advantage of the trip to see Tom Merrill at his Madison, Connecticut, home to discuss great point guards in NBA history (i.e., Walt Frazier). Tim Yasui continues to provide updates on the Hollywood projects he is involved in. Opening nationwide this summer is a movie he associate produced called Death Rider in the House of Vampires that stars Glenn Danzig and Julian Sands. His next film will be a horror project called Frost that he

FALL 2021 57 CLASS NOTES co-produced in Southern California. Finally, if that’s not enough, he’s released an album worldwide called The Billtown All-Stars Live in Concert that was recorded last summer in his hometown of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. I’ll say that our classmate on the coast sure stays busy. Mark Dibble writes that two weeks after he and his got their second vaccine, they flew to Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is an annual destination. The trip always affords them the opportunity to step outside of their New England habitat and sample the history, topography, ethnicity, fauna, flora, and food of the old southwest. They love the adobe architecture, as it’s very elemental and calm- ing. Mark says it was great to get on a plane and do something different. He bought some cowboy boots but worried the locals would spot his New England gait immediately. Mark says the highlight of the trip was touring the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and visiting her ranch about an hour north to explore the grounds on horseback. He asks for anyone to please let him know if you plan on visiting Santa Fe as he has lots of suggestions of what to do. My first post-COVID plane trip will be in July with my wife and children as we travel to see my family on Long Island for the first time in nearly two years. We took care to give my mother space during the pandemic as she’s approaching 85. She will get some big hugs upon arrival. I say I’m bringing my children, but my daughter Kelly Ann will be a senior at Tulane in the fall, while my son Brian will a freshman at Texas A&M. In addition, I do plan on getting to a football game at Trinity this fall and hope to see some of you there. That’s all for this edition. Stay safe, but go embrace life again and make up for lost time! 1984 Class Secretary: Anne Gurin Tall, 168 Wednesday Hill Road, Lee, NH 03861-6542; anne.tall.1984@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Sal Anzalotti, Erin Poskocil • /groups/trincoll84 Susan Greene recently sent me an “offer you can refuse” that, of course, I really couldn’t. Apparently, it’s now my turn to collect the news you feel like sharing with your classmates. Steve Tall and I are celebrating our 34th anniversary this year and have four grown children. Our youngest, Charlie, recently graduated from Clark University and is going on tour this fall with his band, Frances Forever. Our daughter, Emily, had a very productive COVID year, buying a house, getting engaged, and then eloping! They live in Austin, Texas, and Steve and I finally got a chance to visit in May. We are looking for an opportunity to visit our son Sam in L.A., hopefully before he’s already married! Our oldest, Chris, lives in our in-law apartment, so we get to see him a little more often. Steve has been running a trust company here in New Hampshire and regularly keeps in touch with Marc Ackerman and Bob Sansonetti . We also meet up with Steve Klots whenever he is preaching in Rye, New Hampshire. Weezie Kerr Mackey has survived a “wild and wooly year” and is still in Houston. She has been working for 13 years at Rice University as a writer in the business school. Two years ago, she went part time and started a co-working space with husband Rob. She reports, “I’m still doing both jobs until my sons are out of college (three more years). I love running Origin because I’ve had to learn all the things they teach in business school, and it keeps me feeling relevant.” She manages to keep in touch with Laney Lynch , Liz Lynch , Annie Mathiasen , Suzy Schwartz , Sue Rice , and Lisa Sperry . Paul Kramer reports from Michigan, “My partner (an R.N.) and I (public health labora- tory LIMS administrator) continued to work in person throughout, as working remotely was/is not an option for our lines of work. Things were a little hectic here as we were initially the only source of COVID testing in Michigan.” He hopes to join his partner as she travels home to Nairobi. Glenn Bradford writes, “This is my first-ever note to a class secretary, so I would think that you are already doing quite well in your new role. Let’s see. What to say ... I have two adult children, both boys. I’m retired, thanks to my wife, who continues to work. I had a long career as a computer programmer with AT&T and its spinoffs and a few-year stint at a computer security start-up. We’ve lived in central New Jersey for the past 35 years. Looking back, I do have fond memories of Trinity, of good friends (I chatted with Kathy Aiken Sullivan a few weeks ago), of being opened up to the world of ideas, and in particular of the wonderful Cinestudio. With more free time on my hands, I’m learning to design websites around projects that interest me—one was about a year in music and another about a presidential administration. Retirement harkens me back to how I felt as a teenager, when I had fewer responsibilities and the excitement of the possibilities ahead. If you can swing it, go for it!” Peter Stinson and partner Lisa met Steve and I for dinner while traveling through Portsmouth. Peter is a principal of Unicorn Hollow LLC. He says, “As to the notes, I’m alive.” Jane Melvin , a former class secretary her - self, thoughtfully sent an update as well. “For the first decade after we graduated, I joked about running a hot dog stand, and this may seem like it’s in the same category, but for real, like many others, we decided at the beginning of COVID to make a big move. Our son went off to the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, and we packed up the dog and moved out of the home we’d raised our son in and relocated to Fort Wayne, Indiana. In classic fashion, it wouldn’t make sense to the rest of the world, but it’s closer to my ballroom dance studio, where I spend as much time as I can, it’s closer to Detroit (where my husband’s job will be based), and because everyone else is downsizing, we spread out in a house we love on a quiet, tree-lined golf course. Professionally, I hung out a shingle about 19 years ago and started a strategy and creativ - ity consulting practice, and it’s still going. COVID caused so much pain and heartbreak, and we, like so many, hope the path out also will include some healing of the divisiveness as well as brighter days in general. If anyone is coming through Fort Wayne, come on by.” Tom DaSilva shared, “I still practice foot and ankle surgery with Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek, California. Our daughter will be moving to Seattle in the fall to attend the University of Washington. So, we will have an empty nest for any classmates coming to the San Francisco Bay Area. I perform regularly with the World Doctors Orchestra, a charita- ble organization of some 700 physicians who travel the world to perform classical music for local charities. Our last performance before the pandemic was in Portugal and was attended by none other than our own Gerry Moshell. It was great to see him since he retired from Trinity. I am happy to report that he has not aged. If you are in any of the following areas, please let me know, and I will update you as to our upcoming concerts: London; Dallas; Tucson, Arizona; Boston; and Dortmund, Germany.” Elizabeth Davis offers: “May you all have made it through from ‘before times’ to ‘now times’ with enough wherewithal to carry on. Most days, I am quite grateful to have done so myself. The other days, I try very hard not to wallow.” 1985 Class Secretary: Stephen J. Norton, 9 Ninth St. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003-1333; [email protected] • Class Agents: Annette Boelhouwer, Bill Detwiler, Chris Doyle, Suzy Rittenberg Dyer, Ann Kezer Lazarus-Barnes, Angelo Lopresti, Steve Norton, John Wilson • /groups/715110825227355 Back in June, we had another virtual Reunion. The Kumospace cocktail reception, with our avatars working the room, was a new one for most of us. At one point, two Kat Castle Grants were moving about, and sometimes we were unable to hear the classmates we were smooshed together

58 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES with, but hey, the virtual drinks were free! Before the reception, some of our class - mates discussed how addressing a variety of needs we all see every day has given their lives purpose and meaning. The reflections and audiovisual presentation were truly inspiring and humbling, more so than can be conveyed here. I hope they will serve as a launch to reinvigorating our own efforts to make the world a better place, as individuals and as a class. John Bonelli has shown us that great things can come from individual efforts. He played a critical role in making Trinity’s outreach to the community a vital part of students’ individual experiences and a component of the college’s mission. He reminded us of the tutoring, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and other acts of volunteerism many in our class took on and how it helped build a foundation for service that Trinity students engage in up to this day. From his activism on campus to service as a VISTA volunteer to advocacy for LGBTQ rights to meeting the needs of the homeless and food insecure, he has devoted his life to a more equitable and just society. There was a lot of interest in his suggestion for having a service component at our next in-person Reunion. Sonia Plumb , as many of you know, started a dance company in Hartford right after Trinity. For Sonia, dance is not only a performing art but also a means of outreach and education. Years ago, her experience as a parent in Hartford helped her see the impediments to advancement and oppor - tunity faced by many students of color in Hartford’s public schools, so she established an apprenticeship program with local grant money. She said dancers regularly create shapes and angles with their bodies, so she is using dance to teach geometry and alge- bra. Her Dance of da Vinci 2.0 is inspired by the original Renaissance man’s drawings of the human form. Mike Duffy recalled his grade school years in Florida and the essential role that tutoring played in his overcoming lapses in instruction. Today, as president at Great Oaks Charter Schools, he is excited about “high-dosage tutoring.” Each student in the organization’s schools has some personal time with a tutor every day. That kind of one- on-one attention could be integral to shoring up education coming out of the pandemic. More broadly, it could be a model for young people to create personal bonds that inspire, empower, and strengthen our communities. Our gathering was enabled by technology that has roots in Intel’s work linking office phones and computers and is migrating rapidly to cloud computing. Cathy Wallert Spence would know. She was present at the creation and, in many ways, has been intimately involved with this technological evolution. Her current position of senior principal engineer requires a vote of peers, something akin to a grant of tenure. Technology, of course, is elemental to nearly everything. Sue Pasieka is vice president for strategic alliances for Americas Ocean Watch, which is dedicated to restoring the health of our oceans and enabling a sustainable ocean economy. She explained the concept of environmental DNA, one of the tools used to study how the oceans are responding to climate change, pollution, and other threats. “I believe technology will solve problems caused by climate change. I have to be an optimist,” she said, acknowledging that the data can be quite sobering. Sydney Fee recounted the unique experi- ence as a native of Nantucket and being part of family businesses on the island, going back generations. The iconic Henry Jr. sand - wich shop is a favorite of locals and tourists alike, and Sydney enjoys the personal rela- tionships with customers she has developed over the years. While a lifelong islander, she is intimately connected to wider communi- ties. One of her sons is on the autism scale, and she has been active in Autism Speaks. She says the experience has been an “honor and incredible learning process.” Despite COVID’s year of despair, disap - pointment, and disruption, our classmates are seeing opportunities to connect with other people and organizations to enhance their work, to educate, and to serve. Through all the tumult of change since 1985 and life’s challenges, whether typical or unexpected, Sydney reflected that a universal message for all of us is “to be more accepting and caring of each other.” Words to live by. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1986 Class Secretary: Paul V. Ferrucci, 62 River Rd., Essex, CT 06426-1305; paul.ferrucci.1986@trincoll. edu • Class Agents: Lori Laub, Molly Schnorr- Dunne, Rich Stetson, Philip Wellman Hello, all. I hope everyone had a great sum- mer! Not much to report this time. I exchanged a quick birthday greeting with Karin Bennett Micheletti , where she passed along the news that her youngest daughter graduated from high school this spring and is headed to college in New England this fall. Karin looks forward to spending more time in the area and hopes to reconnect with Trinity friends. My wife, Jen, and I live about 45 minutes south of Hartford and have made a good effort over the years to get back on campus to watch football, squash, and lacrosse. We have two sons who became Bantams: Ben ’20 and Charlie ’23. Hopefully, visitors will be allowed back on campus this fall, when teams start competing again. It’s fun to bump into Trinity friends on campus. Speaking of returning to campus, a quick reminder that our 35th Reunion has been rescheduled to June 2022; stay tuned for details. Don’t be shy—pass along any news you want to share. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1987 Class Secretary: Michael G. Donovan, Esq., 5406 Union St., Westborough, MA 01581-5420; michael. [email protected] • Class Agents: Bob Edmunds, John Self, John Tucker, Bryant Zanko • /groups/trin1987 1988 Class Secretary: Tara Lichtenfels Gans, 1712 Crestview Dr., Potomac, MD 20854-2630; [email protected] • Class Agents: Dean Andrews, Dede DePatie Consoli, Tara Lichtenfels Gans, Bryant McBride, Arthur F. Muldoon Jr. • /groups/Trinity1988 Hoping everyone had a wonderful summer! Mary Ambrogio Cashman checked in to say, “I recently got together with my Trin roommate and still-best friend Susan Tiffany in N.Y.C. in early June. Susan was visiting up north from her home in Miami Beach, and we were able to relax and unwind in the city and catch up. We were marveling at how many years we have been friends (I won’t do the math here) and how lucky we all were to have such a wonderful experience at Trinity. On a personal note, I have finally taken the leap and combined my love of writing and my love of travel and started a luxury travel blog, www.theluxuriousjourney.com and would love to share that with my Trinity friends.” Nice to hear from Mark Jamilkowski , who writes, “This past May, my son, Blake, grad - uated Trinity, Class of ’21. My wife, Sandra, and I were very happy to able to share in the experience in person, on the quad, and are very thankful to all medical personnel, college administration, and bio-pharm innovators who had a hand in making that possible. We continue to live in N.Y.C., and I have been in frequent contact with fellow Trin N.Y.C.ers Mark ‘Scotland’ Davis and Casia Daly . I still work with the health care indus - try as a strategic consultant and actuary, most recently working toward launching a start-up!” Good luck, Mark, on your new ven- ture, and congratulations on having another Bantam in the house! Another proud dad, David Lloyd , reports that his son, “David ’23, a rising junior at Trinity, has started RYT, a nutrition brand offering vitamin-infused gummies. Turning 21 in July, he plans to ship his first 1,000 units in time for the inevitable keg parties that will result.”

FALL 2021 59 CLASS NOTES So great to see the Bantam community growing! That’s it for this time. Don’t forget to join the Trinity College Class of 1988 Facebook page. Hope to hear from you this fall for the winter edition! Stay tuned! 1989 Class Secretary: Andrew P. Walker, 242 Kent Place Blvd., Summit, NJ 07901-1219; andrew. [email protected] • Class Agents: Jason Manske, Louise McCarthy, Bill Monaghan • /groups/trincoll89 Among the prompts for news for this edi- tion was asking about how the pandemic influenced a major life change. While I’d previously reported that Josh Bewlay ’s expe- rience locked down in Vermont instigated a permanent relocation there from Tuxedo Park, New York, he provides an update that they’re very much enjoying all the hiking and biking, as well as the 80-plus-percent vaccination rate there. Donna Haghighat writes to say that she and husband Chris Dickinson traveled to Utah in early May to watch their son Will grad - uate college and to hike some of the area’s beautiful parks. They then spent Memorial Day at Todd Gillespie ’s on Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey. She added, “Chris helped spearhead the active search for a new ED for Cinestudio.” Well done, Chris! Kate Roy Sullivan sent greetings from Boston, where she continues her inde- pendent clinical psychology practice. She added, “Two weeks ago saw my son James graduate ’neath the elms!” Congratulations, Kate and James, you Bants, and to all the Class of ’21 grads who were able to have an in-person ceremony in May. Heeding the call for news from academia prompted an update from Susan Hangen . She has served as the dean of humanities and global studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey since 2017. She lives in N.Y.C., and her daughter will attend Macalester College in the fall. Writes Judy Sandford , “I am one of those people who has not submitted anything in quite some time. I think the last time I wrote in 2014, I had moved to Boston to help my parents move into a retirement community. And I worked for three years at Cone Communications leading sustainabil - ity reporting. Once my folks were settled, I moved back to the New York area, this time in Irvington, New York.” Judy and partner Scott have been in Irvington for three years, and she’s once again with Addison, a boutique consulting agency, where she is managing director of the ESG communications group. Judy added, “One thing I accomplished during the pandemic was becoming a climate reality leader with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project thanks to a virtual global training. I often see classmates Kelly Keating , Nancy Barry ’88, Michelle Boudreau ’88, and Barbara Caldarone ’88, sometimes for art crawls in Chelsea.” Rob Cummings checks in for the first time in a while, too. “I recently started work - ing as director of technology for a start-up virtual and hybrid events company called BeyondLive. It is based in Silicon Valley, but in keeping with the virtual nature of the busi- ness, I work out of my home office in South Salem, New York. My lovely wife, Ciorsdan Conran , is our town’s planning administrator. Our three boys are weathering the COVID storm pretty well. Our youngest (Sawyer) is in 10th grade and is interested in architecture. Our middle guy (Orion) is majoring in com- puter science at Binghamton University. Our oldest (Griffin) is a recent biomedical engi- neering graduate and joined Abbott Labs last year. We recently have seen fellow Class of ’89ers S amantha Koster , Jen Kehl , Liz Osterhus , Katie Sherr Blanque , Emily Blumenfeld , Victoria Arthaud , and Matt Maginniss .” Jenn Sussman lives in Prospect, Connecticut, with her partner, Wes; her 22-year-old son, Eli; her 23-year-old daughter, Ruth, who came home to regroup after earn- ing a B.A. in psychology from the University of Maine at Farmington; and Wes’s 8-year-old daughter. “As full as our house is, it’s great to have our kids close, especially in this time of necessary distance from family and friends.” She’s been at UConn Health, where she’s a research associate in the Department of Public Health Sciences, having been with the UConn system going on 30 years. “I’ve had the honor of coordinating the DMHAS Center for Prevention Evaluation and Statistics (CPES) at UConn Health, a statewide data and evaluation resource center that supports Connecticut’s behavioral health efforts.” She has spent quality time in person with Gina Letellier and virtually with Dana Skinger Farr . “These visits have served as an important reminder of just how precious friendship is.” Lydia Babbitt writes, “I just celebrated my 26th year at O&G Industries, a fami- ly-owned construction services firm based in Connecticut. I still celebrate being wife to Conrad Sienkiewicz and mom to our incredi- bly beautiful and talented daughter, Caroline, every single day.” Lydia continues to enter - tain local audiences with theatrical perfor - mances, adding intriguingly, “and have man- aged to keep my clothes on while doing so since my role in Calendar Girls in the spring of 2017.” Her other pursuits include shooting muzzle-loading artillery, lay preaching at her home parish of Trinity Episcopal Church, and hiking with her husband and their dog, Sirius Black, in the woods near their home. Continuing to enjoy life in retirement, Sean Dougherty was elected this year to the Board of Directors of the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy (sperdvac.com), a California-based group dedicated to his beloved hobby of collecting old-time radio programs. Andrew Warren reported his pandemic- related news. “It was definitely an intense pandemic year the last 12–15 months. Aidance Scientific, which I co-founded with a friend about 17 years ago, had some real highs and lows.” Sadly, Andrew also reported that he lost an incredible matriarchal aunt and later her son during this time, but he had some good news as well. “We were very blessed to make it to Israel this past winter for my oldest son’s wedding despite the many travel restrictions and challenges. The couple found each other during the dark days of COVID Top to bottom: Sean Preiss ’88 and Doug Curtis ’88 (aka The Flyover Brothers) chair a mini-Class of ’88 reunion at The Ooltewah Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in June 2021. • Kristin Bennett ’89 reaches the summit of Mount Everest in May 2021. • Donna Haghighat ’89 and Chris Dickinson ’89 hike in Utah in May 2021.

CLASS NOTES Q+A 60 THE TRINITY REPORTER What is the mission of Leave No Trace? The center’s mission is to protect the outdoors by teaching and inspiring people to enjoy it responsibly. What do you do in your role with the organization? My focus is on development work—finding revenue streams that support our mission and encouraging new partners to invest in core programs. I work with family foundations, government grants, and like-minded businesses within the outdoor sports market and also in sectors like the tourism and automotive industries. It’s a medium- sized nonprofit, so I get to dabble in other areas too, like creating a citizen science program that allows people to contribute to the health of natural areas by collecting data that land managers can use to make informed decisions. What do you enjoy most about what you do? The outdoor world has always been a source of inspiration for me, so it’s gratifying to work on projects that encourage people to think of themselves as stewards of the natural world. What are the biggest challenges you face? You might have noticed that trails, rivers, and beaches all saw record visitation in recent years. Most people want to play a positive role when they’re outdoors, but they aren’t always aware of the simple protective measures they can enact. The center emphasizes the concept of cumulative impacts—it’s about taking individual actions that add up to benefit the environment. How has COVID-19 impacted parks and natural areas? The pandemic forced many people to cancel their plans for air travel and destination-focused vacations. Pretty much everyone decided to scoop up some camping gear and head into the great outdoors. That’s good news in terms of peoples’ awareness of natural areas, but it also means that there are lots of folks trying new activities and a profound need for practical, easily understood advice. How did your time at Trinity prepare you for the work you do? Throughout my professional life, the writing and critical-analysis skills that I was encouraged to develop at Trinity have been essential. I’ve worked as a magazine editor, a communications director, and now a nonprofit professional for more than 15 years. Each of those roles required studying complex issues and exploring solutions with cogent writing. You participated in crew at Trinity. What lessons did you take from that experience into your life? Rowing at Trinity was a revelation to me. I played soccer and basketball through high school, but I’d never really gotten excited about racing sports. I discovered that it’s possible to put everything you have into an activity and receive even more, especially when you’re doing it alongside equally devoted teammates. What was the most memorable course you took at Trinity? Why? My freshman seminar with Dirk A. Kuyk Jr.—who passed away just this year—was undoubtedly one of the best learning experiences of my life. I was intrigued by the “What Is Literature?” theme of that freshman seminar, and Professor Kuyk became my academic adviser. He favored short assignments, sometimes just one paragraph of analysis, but he always provided copious feedback and demanded precision. What advice would you give to current Trinity students about making the most of their time at the college? Allow yourself to be truly inspired in the classroom, on the playing fields, and socially. There aren’t many other times in life when you will be offered such an array of stimulating pursuits and people, so find the ones that appeal to you and dig into them. Mark Eller ’89 DEGREES: B.A. in English; M.A. in English literature, University of Maryland JOB TITLE: Director of foundations and new business, Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: So many Trinity memories ... which is why I continue to socialize with a great group of friends from the Classes of ’88 and ’89. We’ve been getting together for an annual ski trip for close to two decades now. The usual suspects include Seth Goodwin ’89, Jonas Katkavich ’89, Eric Beatty ’88, Richard Diforio ’88, Chris Harges ’88, Amani Martin ’88, Mike Rorick ’88, and Pete Weiss ’88. The trip actually started in honor of Jay Herman Blum ’88, our Trinity friend who passed away way too soon. “ It’s gratifying to work on projects that encourage people to think of themselves as stewards of the natural world. ”

FALL 2021 61 CLASS NOTES and along with friends pulled off a ‘marriage impossible’ event, amid lockdowns and regulations, worthy of a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible soundtrack.” Our own Kristin Bennett , president and CEO of KB Science, nonchalantly mentioned that she’s recently returned from summit - ing Mount Everest! Talk about an amazing post-pandemic activity! 1990 Class Secretary: Laura Bailey Brown, 302 Patterson Ct. NW, Leesburg, VA 20176; laura.brown.1990@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Mike Cavanaugh, Ron Goodman REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1991 Class Secretary: Mary Elizabeth Magauran, 4 Wintergreen Cir., Andover, MA 01810-3248; [email protected] • Class Agents: Brooke Rorer Brown, Robin Halpern Cavanaugh, Brook McWhirter, Jorge Rodriguez, Stephanie Vaughn Rosseau, Ann Newman Selvitelli • / groups/49566326408 Hi, fellow Trin alumni! This will be a short but sweet first dive into my new post as class secretary. Going forward, I hope to be hearing “official” updates from many more of you and getting everyone up to speed on all the happenings of our fellow classmates. Please keep in mind, these official updates don’t count many more “unofficial” ones I hear from you on various social media outlets. So, send stuff into me that you want posted here, if you are so inclined. I have officially gotten shout-outs from Joanne Fredell Bagan , Molly Whelahan Ducker , Liz Bakulski Peterson , Kaitlin McDermott ’90, Kimberly Marth Boehner , Jen Tesoro Reese , Brook McWhirter , Heather Watkins Walsh , and Rachel Kroh Shook . They all send the best to all classmates. Speaking of which, in-person Reunion is being planned ’neath the elms for June 2022. I’ll be posting what I know in the months to come, but your best bet for info is to check the Trinity website. Really looking forward to it happening and seeing those who can make it and for sure hoping that will be a good majority of you. Take care all, and keep those cards and letters flowing. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1992 Class Secretary: Jennifer Murphy Cattier, 1435 Lexington Ave., Apt. 5E, New York, NY 10128-1630; jennifer.cattier.1992@trincoll. edu • Class Agents: Campbell Barrett, Laura Weintraub Beck, Ian Findlay, Ned Rollhaus • / TrinityCollege1992 Dear Class of 1992, I hope that you are enjoying the summer, especially with the reopening of the country. I have some sad news to share. Kevin Hall passed away in May 2021. For sophomore year and the first half of junior year, Kevin lived in a quad room in Wheaton, along with Mikio Miyawaki , Marc Davis , and Bill Dennen . Bill Dennen shared, “Since Kevin’s passing, his roommates have been sharing our memories and stories of when we all lived together at Trinity.” We wish Kevin’s loved ones our sympathies and much comfort during this difficult time. I did receive one update from Daniel Martinez , who writes: “I know it’s been decades since most of you have heard anything about me or from me. After I finally graduated in ’93, I went up to Vermont and skied for a few seasons. While there, life led me to create some bumper stickers, and my desire to learn more about business led me to get my M.B.A. from UMass. ... I began my corporate career back in Hartford and lived there for three years before moving to Boston for one year. My job in Boston led me to London, where I lived for nine years and had an absolutely amazing time. I started dancing Argentinean tango in 1994 and would travel and dance throughout most of Western Europe whenever I could. Then I had an opportunity arise that took me to Singapore for another five years, which again was an amazing experience. “In parallel to my corporate career, I also studied psychotherapy, became a certified hypnotherapist, trainer of New Code NLP, and a transformational coach based on the Three Principles. In 2016, I moved back to the States to take care of my mother and in 2020 became certified in past life regression (spiri- tual regression), with the plan of completing my Life Between Lives training later this year. I recently started my Spiritual Intelligence Podcast and am helping people live better lives by deepening their understanding of what it means to be a spiritual being and how that can translate into a better quality of life in our day-to-day experience. I call my work Life Beyond Form because there is more to life than the just the form that we experience. It would be amazing to hear from anyone who would like to reach out and reconnect or connect for the first time. I can be reached through my website, www.LifeBeyondForm. com. Hope everyone is doing well. I think of our years together at Trinity with tremendous fondness. May we all soar with inspiration, explore with passion, and live with love. From the bottom of my heart, Daniel” Have a wonderful summer, and hope to hear from you in the fall. Jenn 1993 Class Secretary: James M. Hazelton, 215 N. Plymouth Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004; james. [email protected] • Class Agents: Ran Barton, Andy Brick, Greg Creamer, Steve Curley, Betsy Yahn Gillon, Jim Hazelton, Jen McArdle Hoppa, Elissa Raether Kovas, Britt Stockton Lee, Matt Peterson, Rachel Schreier Schewe, Kiki Rainey Sizelove, Jon Trevisan, Ashley Turney, Steve Woodworth, Nick Zaino • /groups/522663641408997 Hey, y’all. I’ve got nothing this time. Zilch. Zero point zero. But I hope you are all doing well. It seems most of us have turned or are turning 50 this year. I had a small gathering in May for my 50th, and fellow classmate Peter Knight showed up. Great to see him and laugh about old, stupid stories. A few other Trinity grads were there, including Ali Friedman Baird ’94, Tim Ward ’07, and Erika Anthony Ward ’08. Hope you all have a wonderful summer! 1994 Class Secretary: Sanjeeva “Sanji” Fernando, 183 Atlantic Ave., Cohasset, MA 02025-1434; sanjeeva. [email protected] • Class Agents: Mo McEleney, Suzanne Cahill McNabb, Deb Watts Povinelli, Martha Smalley Sanford, Scott Saperston • /groups/Trinity1994 Hope everyone is having a great spring and summer as we emerge from the pandemic. Anne Fisher writes, “We wanted to share that our daughter Dillon just graduated from The Elliott School at GW with a major in interna- tional relations/security policy (anyone in D.C. hiring?), and our son Connor is starting his senior year at the University of South Carolina, majoring in mass communications/ sports media. Jake started as general counsel Mike Robinson ’94, Steve Lari ’94, Dan Herbert ’94, and Graham Schelter ’94 spend time earlier this year at the home of Ash Altschuler ’94 in Wilmington, Delaware.

CLASS NOTES 62 THE TRINITY REPORTER Q+A You have a football fan’s dream job. What path did you take to get to your position? I always knew I wanted to be involved in sports. Or be a lawyer (my mom said I argued everything for a while there). I thought I’d follow my father’s and brother’s path and be a football coach but do it on the college level (my dad did that at the tail end of his career). I had something lined up at SUNY Albany, but it fell through, so after I graduated from Trinity, I went home and bartended for a while and eventually struck up a conversation with the local sports editor of The Falmouth Enterprise . He asked what I wanted to do, and I told him I wanted to try what he was doing. He got me 10 hours a week, and I was hooked. Eventually, he moved to Costa Rica (true story), and I had done enough to get his job. Did that for three years but knew I wanted to try TV. With the encourage- ment of my wife (Sandra Sillman ’93), I took a shot, applying to only BU and Emerson. If I got in, it was meant to be. I got in. Interned under some really great professionals, got my master’s, and got my first job in TV as a sports director in Binghamton, New York. Fifteen months later, I was fortunate to be back in Boston and have been here ever since, first working for NECN, then Comcast SportsNet New England (which even- tually became NBC Sports Boston), and finally, here at the NFL Network for the last three years. Being able to focus on one sport after two decades of covering them all is awesome. Dream come true ... 12-year-old me would have never believed this would have happened. What do you enjoy most about your work? The game. The strategy behind it. The people behind it. It’s the best reality show there is. What challenges do you face? This business is so much about building relationships. Sometimes there is a level of distrust or an effort to control the flow of that information to best protect the team or a player’s interest. Those can be difficult hurdles to overcome. How has your work changed with the COVID-19 pandemic? Building those relationships, or renewing ones you already had, was severely hampered by COVID-19. There were no face-to-face conversations with players. It wasn’t allowed. I also didn’t step on a plane for over a year, and those road games I did attend, I drove to. Buffalo. New Jersey. Baltimore. But to keep my family safe, and myself safe, during this uncertainty, that was the only way I would do it. I also managed a half dozen teams and their Zoom calls daily. I’ll admit that there were plenty of times I had a hard time keeping the times straight! How did your time at Trinity prepare you for what you do now? I wrote for the student paper at Trinity. I played football. And I learned how to handle hard deadlines and, on occasion, how to finesse people (professors) who had all the clout. Was there a professor at Trinity who was particularly influential? Professor Dirk Kuyk, who recently passed away. I prob - ably took a half dozen classes with him, and he was my adviser for my senior thesis. My roommate Justin Grigg ’93 and I used to joke that Professor Kuyk was William Faulkner. He knew that man’s material better than maybe even Faulkner himself did. He was a fascinat - ing man and was the only person who ever threw me out of a class. I hadn’t done the reading. I got what I deserved. That didn’t happen again. Much respect. Mike Giardi ’93 DEGREES: B.A. in English, minor in classical tradition; M.A. in broadcast journalism, Boston University JOB TITLE: Reporter at NFL Network FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: I certainly loved my time on the football team and the relationships formed through that. We sacrificed a lot for one goal. I would love to do that all over again. There were those many hours spent in the dining hall, eating cereal for every meal and laughing with my friends about everything and anything. I met my wife there, and we have two wonderful kids. I wouldn’t change that for anything.

FALL 2021 63 CLASS NOTES at Rock-It Cargo last year, and Anne Fisher Needlepoint continues to grow like crazy since everyone picked up needlepoint while they were stuck at home during COVID.” Michelle Falbo Fernando reports, “I am still married to Sanji, who can be quite annoying.” As we emerged from the pandemic, a few of us took the opportunity to visit Ash Altschuler in Wilmington, Delaware. Graham Schelter , Mike Robinson , Rob Weber , Dan Herbert , Steve Lari , and Jonesy Lerch attended, along with Christian Johnson ’92 and a surprise appearance by Jack Kirkpatrick ’92. We enjoyed a weekend of paddle tennis and pong at Ash’s. And on Sunday, we played 18 holes at Wilmington Country Club as guests of Ash. While our current president also is a member at Wilmington, Ash still proclaims himself the King of Delaware. In other news, John Donohue ran into his former freshman-year roommate, Tom Corderman . Tom continues to be the most interesting man. With the country emerging from the pandemic, Tom is hoping to capi- talize on the reopening by branching out to brewing. He and his partners have developed a yet-to-be-named, smooth-sipping IPA. He was inspired by his dominance in the classic fun dorm activity, a case race. He told John how he enjoyed dominating others, including Graham Schelter and Greg Haffner . He hopes his new brew is “the taste of a case race in a can.” We wish him luck in the new endeavor. Hope all have a great summer! 1995 Class Secretary: Susan Gates Massey, 18 Holden Ln., Madison, New Jersey 07940-2614; susan. [email protected] • Class Agents: Amy Kerrigan Cole, Colleen Smith Hayes, Mary Beth Parker Jordan, Alex Ladd, Ashley Gilmor Myles, Benagh Richardson Newsome, Lisa Koch Rao, Peter Tighe • /groups/ trinityclassof95 Hello to all! Wonderful to hear from Kate Roberts , who reports, “Well, I wound up living in West Hartford after 20 years in Brooklyn. I live here with my wife and two sons and love the area. We work with schools across the country on literacy curriculum and pedagogy and write books for teachers. I’m still in touch with Vivian Holtzman Connolly and Nathan Marinoff regularly. Some people who work at Trinity live around me, and it’s interesting to hear about what it’s like to work there.” REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1996 Class Secretary: Vacant • Class Agents: Anne Chick Goodrich, John Dugan, Hank Foryth, P.J. Louis, Page Fairman Rich The class secretary position for the Class of 1996 is vacant. If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Julie Cloutier in the Alumni Office at 860-297-2403 or julie. [email protected]. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1997 Class Secretary: Hai-San “Sam” Chang, 15 Daisy Ln., Ellington, CT 06029-3239; haisan. [email protected] • Class Agents: Cathy Sharick Clammer, Jim Gilbert, Ashley Hammarth, Melissa Prober, Ben Russo, Sue Church Zibell From Sam Chang : “This time around the main question is, ‘What are you excited for this summer?’ For me, our family is going on a monthlong vacation in July. We’ve rented a house on the Oregon coast to spend some time with my wife’s family. After that, we’re heading to Hawaii. First stop is Oahu, where I used to work. We’re visiting friends and my mom. Then it’s off to Maui for some R & R without family. On our way back to the East Coast, we’re stopping in San Diego for a few days to break up the long trip back.” Courtney Zwirn : “I’m looking forward to family vacations and all three boys going back to sleepaway camp for two weeks! Be sure to mark your calendars for June 9–12, 2022, for an epic double Reunion with the Class of 1996 (and all of the other 6/1 classes). I would love to see us crush the 25th Reunion attendance record!” Joe Tranquillo : “Thanks for reaching out! This summer I’m excited to camp in the new - est national park (New River Gorge in West Virginia) with my family. I’ll also finish out my term as Bucknell University’s Teaching & Learning Center director and am excited to start a new position as the inaugural associate provost for transformative teaching and learning.” Mary Kent Hearon is visiting Yasmine Nainzadeh in Miami. From Agnieszka “Aki” Stepinska : “These are my first Class Notes ever! I figured, why not? Better late than never. Especially after such a year. I have not visited the campus since I left in 1997. I am excited for a more typical summer in 2021. Our kids, Max, 16, and Emma, 15, started their very first jobs as lifeguards. It was exciting for the first couple of shifts until they realized that it was no dream, and some shifts are boring. It is still better than last summer, so they are super excited about hanging out with their friends. We just came back from our very first post-COVID family trip to the Florida Keys. It was super fun going somewhere besides our little town in the suburbs of Chicago. I have been working on a couple of projects that took longer than I anticipated, but I am super excited to create new work and go the entrepreneurial route. I am bad at keeping in touch, so my goal is to take more initiative and reach out to all my good friends this summer.” 1998 Class Secretary: Jessica Lockhart Vincent, 8 Arborlea Ave., Yardley, PA 19067-7406; jessica. [email protected] • Class Agents: Levi Litman, Jessica Lockhart Vincent, Geoffrey Zampiello As COVID restrictions are lifted, many of us are starting to resume life as normal (or close to it). I’m happy to have updates on several of our classmates. My first outing post-re- strictions was to have dinner with Jen Moore Cramer . It was great to catch up with my former roommate. Her stepdaughter, Alikah, graduated from Souderton Area High School and will be attending Arcadia University in the fall, where she will study art therapy. Jen also welcomed a grandson into her life when stepdaughter Brittany had a baby boy, Camden Nicolas Caroll, on May 10, 2021. Brittany, Camden, and dad Matt are doing well, and Jen is looking forward to traveling to see them in Charleston, South Carolina. Jeff Cross writes, “I was a double winner at the 2021 Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival’s screenplay contest, receiving both Best Comedy Screenplay for my Christmas satire Black Friday and Best Action Adventure Screenplay for my Tom Clancy/ Top Gun satire Fugitive Cougar . These bring my total number of screenwriting contest honors to 19.” Kirsten Tulchin-Francis had some excit - ing news as well. She shared, “In October 2019, I was selected as an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador through a program aimed to empower current STEM innovators and to inspire the next generation of pioneers. IF/THEN is designed to activate a culture shift among young girls to open their eyes to STEM careers by funding and elevating women in STEM as role models; convening cross-sector partners in entertainment, fashion, sports, business, and academia to illuminate the importance of STEM everywhere; and inspiring girls with better portrayals of women in STEM through media and learning experiences to pique their interest in STEM careers. “On May 15, 2021, the #IfThenSheCan— The Exhibit opened at NorthPark Center in Dallas. This monumental exhibit represent - ing the most women statues ever assembled in one location anywhere in the world consists of over 120 life-sized, 3D-printed, statues of AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadors, including me, hailing from more than 40 states. Along with each statue are interactive audio and video features for each woman through QR codes, with access to their personal stories and highlights about their

CLASS NOTES 64 THE TRINITY REPORTER Q+A What path did you take to working with the U.N.? Internships, fellowships, and summer jobs are the best way to get your foot in the door. After Trinity, I was an intern on immigration and internation- al adoption issues for the late Senator Edward Kennedy, based in his office in Boston. I received a scholarship from the Indian American Forum for Political Education of Massachusetts. I created the first resettlement pro - gram for children while a summer intern at the International Institute of Boston. During my master’s, I spent a summer with the Reebok Human Rights Department in Massachusetts and received a fellowship from the U.N. working on refugee issues based in Washington, D.C. While at Trinity, I interned at the Public Defender’s Office in Hartford, where I helped interview and observe courtroom procedures of juveniles charged with crimes. What do you do in your current position? I am based in Libya working for the U.N. on humanitarian and develop - ment issues for people in need during a complex, active conflict since the fall of Gadhafi. I help prepare and imple- ment the mission’s humanitarian and development agenda and on the delivery of aid, such as shelter, food, clean water, medical supplies (including those for COVID-19), education, and much more. It is an internal and external balancing act with all players, the good and the bad. It is supposed to be similar on paper to what I once did in Syria, but there is no one size fits all for the impact violence has on people’s lives. What do you enjoy most about your work? I enjoy the people I meet. Just when I think I have seen it all, no two days are the same. In my work, you meet some of the most generous, resilient people to living devils across cultures and political, tribal, social, economic, and religious affiliations. It is what I studied, and I see it in reality. What are your biggest challenges? My biggest challenge is merging my person- al and professional goals. How much do I sacrifice and compromise myself and at what cost? Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected your work? Our work was compounded by conflict and COVID-19. But I have to say I was not affected by the loneliness or isolation because we never stopped working. It was crisis mode in Libya; we live in compounds with extreme security and safety measures that were adjusted for COVID, but we were still out and serving people. How did your time at Trinity prepare you for your career? I loved it at Trinity. I am Indian in ethnicity, and I was lucky for my exposure to classmates from various races, cultures, and ethnicities, which also included international students. I did not stick to my graduating class. I was quiet in most of my classes, but the curricula, debates, and dialogues stayed with me and helped formulate my think - ing, observations, and decision-making processes. Did you have a professor who was par- ticularly influential? My most influential professors were Ellison Findly and Vijay Prashad. Professor Findly opened my mind to the way I interpret various religions and arts, even when I travel today. Professor Prashad, with whom I was able to reunite a couple of years ago when he was a visiting professor at American University of Beirut (I was posted on the border between Israel and Lebanon), has me challenging sources of information and narratives. I also was able to spend some time with Professor Ranbir Vohra, who was chair of the Political Science Department, during his retirement in New Delhi; he taught me to respect history. What was the most memorable course you took at Trinity? Those classes that revolved around themes of the polit - ical development of citizenship from the earliest of times influenced me the most. Common Sense by Thomas Paine stuck out for me. And the readings and dialogues on citizenships, belongings, theories of inside/outside, and creating nationalism and enemies still construct my thinking skills. Rhitu Siddharth ’97 DEGREES: B.A. in political science and international studies: Asian studies; M.A. in political science, American University JOB TITLE: Special assistant to the deputy head of mission in Libya, United Nations FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: My favorite memory was a piper who played his bagpipes early Sunday mornings by the Trinity Chapel. The sounds of the bagpipes echoed the beauty of the Trinity campus at that time. Also, my Trinity memories live on, as the friends I made are my family for life. I travel so much for work, but I can always pick up the phone or email my Trinity friends. I wish to add that I could not write this without remembering the lives that we lost from the Class of 1997: Scott Johnson, who lost his life in the second building of the Twin Towers during the horrific 9/11, and recently we lost Nicholas Morehead to cancer.

FALL 2021 65 CLASS NOTES STEM careers. Originally slated to open last year but postponed due to the pandemic, the exhibit is free to the public and runs through October 2021.” And last but certainly not least, Ellie Newman Petrov and husband Denny ’01 moved to Trinity, Florida, in 2018. This past fall, they opened Salty Dog Kayak Rentals to give people a safe and fun activity during COVID and an affordable way to get out on the water. Ellie and Denny’s two teenage boys help to run the family business. They had a recent visit from Christina Tsoules Soriano and her family, who came out to paddle for the day! They are just north of Clearwater and would love to see more Trin alums who are in the area. That’s all for this issue of the Reporter . As always, please send any news you’d like to share to [email protected]. 1999 Class Secretary: Alyssa Daigle Schoenfeld, 28 Woodvue Rd., Windham, NH 03087-2113; alyssa. [email protected] • Class Agents: Allison Lanzetta, Amie Margolis • /groups/ TrinColl1999 Wow. Where do I even begin? First off, sorry for my delinquency with the notes. There’s been kind of a lot going on. LOL. But also, shame on all of you for not sharing your news! So, now that we are even on that note, I truly hope you are all hanging in there and doing well after what can only be described as the most bizarre year to date in our 44ish years of life. My gosh. For me personally, being the owner of a tour busi- ness in Boston—a food-tour business to be precise—was interesting, and from a COVID- restrictions standpoint, we did not fare well. Restaurants? Closed. Gathering with strangers to share a meal? Canceled. Walking around the city in groups? Also canceled. So, 2020 was a challenge professionally to say the least, but alas, we survived, and for that, I am grateful. I hope that you all survived whatever respective challenges 2020 brought you and that you are all back to kicking ass in 2021. Cheers! My apologies to Ann Restak , who wrote me in February 2020, just before every - thing changed. Ann competed in the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston in January of last year and placed third in the women’s masters mile with a time of ... wait for it ... 5:27.59! (And that was third place? Crazy!) Amazing accomplishment, Ann, and still newsworthy a year and a half later. Congratulations! Robert Goldsmith was lucky enough to squeeze in some awesome travel before things shut down! In February 2020, he shared the following news: “Just got back from El Salvador with the Global Smile Foundation, completing another successful cleft lip and palate mission. Also became an uncle again in December. And in October got to travel for a month in Australia and New Zealand.” Great timing on those trips, Robert. Hope all is well in N.Y.C.! In more recent updates, it was great to hear from Spain from Kerry Ann McKevitt , who wrote about what her last year has looked like as an educator abroad: “I have been assistant principal in a public language school, EOI de Ferrol, for the last three years, and it has been quite the adventure. Last year, when COVID hit, we were celebrating our cultural week, for which we had planned numerous activities, some of which had to be canceled (including a trip to Dublin another colleague and I had organized for 40 students). In addition to that, I was working as acting principal since our principal was on sick leave, and I stayed on as such until after the summer. Like many educational professionals, my fellow teachers and I were sent home in mid-March, and we adapted as quickly as possible to online teaching from the comforts of our homes. In fact, we were in lockdown in Spain until May, more or less, so it was the only place we could really be. We returned to school in September and have had face-to-face classes and exams for the most part, albeit with face masks and social distancing. As for next year, we are still not sure what is to be expected, so we shall have to wait and see.” Glad things look to be moving in the right direction for you, Kerry! Spain is on my travel bucket list, so I’m really thinking good thoughts for you! I think we can agree that amid the many negatives that we all now know a worldwide pandemic brings, there were also many positives—and important ones at that. For most of us, there was time to push pause and to take some time to reflect, and many made life changes, both big and small. I had seen on Facebook that Meg Cleveland Stokenberry had plans involving France in the works, so I had to get the scoop! She confirmed: “Yes, we have moved to France for a year while my son, Walker, takes a gap year before attending BU. Ceny, 4, will hopefully start preschool in the fall over here, and we are excited to spend the year exploring and learning French.” I mean how awesome is it that Walker is coming to Boston to attend Boston University? OK, the year in France is pretty spectacular, too! No, really, that’s one of the coolest things I have heard come out of last year, and I have serious baguette and pain au chocolat envy (it’s always food-re- lated for me). Have an amazing year, Meg and crew. What an amazing opportunity for your whole family! Back in the United States, I made my first-ever trip to the Jersey Shore in early June and enjoyed some time with some of my Trin fam in Beach Haven, New Jersey. It was a great way to kick off the summer, and it was so great to see Karyn Meyer Johnson , Heidi Notman Muccifori , Beth Bronzino Deegan , Amy Cardello ’98, and Tristin Crotty ’98 and to share a few adult beverages and some live music! Remember live music? I still can’t believe how many people, places, and things we all missed at some point or another this past year, but I do know that I am definitely appreciating and savoring all of the special moments even more as a result. I hope you all are, too! Oh, and hey, feel free to tell me all about them so I can include them in the next Reporter . With that shameless plug, I’m signing off for now, but I’ll see you in the next issue! Be well, Alyssa 2000 Class Secretary: Virginia W. Lacefield, 3504 Tates Creek Rd., Lexington, KY 40517-2601; virginia. [email protected] • Class Agents: Doug Borgerson, Pete Collins, Peter Espy • /Trinity-College-Class-of-2000-193274580990 REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2001 Class Secretary: Susanna Kise, 1301 Richmond Ave., Apt. 370, Houston, TX 77006-5494; susanna. [email protected] • Class Agents: Jay Civetti, Lizzy Easter, Ann Grasing, David Kieve, Matthew Schiller • /groups/ TrinityCollegeClassof2001 Classmates, I know that I am in good company in being disappointed to have not gathered to celebrate our Reunion this June. Hopefully, our gathering next June will more than make up for the postponement! I am pleased to continue serving as class secre- tary and greatly enjoy the sporadic emails that it brings from classmates near and far. Speaking of which, Martin Mihov wrote from Hong Kong! He says, “The global jour - ney our family embarked on after graduation continues full steam. Starting off in New York after graduation, we subsequently moved to London, Moscow, Manila, and, most recently, Hong Kong. I have been with Citi all along, covering major multinational corporates. It has been exciting to work and live in so many countries and expose our kids (10 and 12) to diverse cultures and expe- riences. As we move around, we certainly miss friends and family, the comforts of our own home, and a stable community around us. Yet, this globe-trotting has made us all more adaptable and helped forge stronger connections within our immediate family, bonds we can only wish would grow even stronger over time. Hope everyone is staying healthy and strong during these testing times and looking forward to seeing you all in person at the next Reunion!”

66 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2002 Co-Class Secretary: Michelle Rosado Barzallo, 40 Craig Ln., Trumbull, CT 06611-4406; michelle. [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: Adrian Fadrhonc, 193 Buena Vista Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941-1233; adrian. [email protected] • Class Agents: Shakira Ramos Crespo, Nicole Belanger LaBrie, Ellen Zarchin Hi, all. I, Adrian Fadrhonc , write you from White Stone, Virginia, where I am attempting to keep my kids occupied this summer. Nick and Brooke Barquin have made a few voyages here to get the kids together, which has been a lot of fun. Their dog relieved himself on my mother-in-law’s new carpet. What are you going to do? It’s worth noting that Ashton Crosby is now a father, on purpose. Andy Robinson writes, “My two kids are also loafing around the house between day camps and scout outings. They have really embraced the remote and hybrid learning this last year and have been overheard to say, ‘I miss the cool videos and online projects from our teachers.’ Summer trips have included mountain biking in Colorado, seeing the Chicago Red Stars soccer team, and a day sail on our wedding ship, the Wendameen , in Portland, Maine. Cheers to all of those out there getting back to normal safely.” Adam Chetkowski has extended his stay in Aspen, with his 8-year-old Harper having hiked Highland Bowl, making him a proud Papa. Cecily Rouse Timmons is finishing up coursework required for her doctorate at Clemson University while simultaneously opening an independent K–8 private school with an integrated curriculum and focus on outdoor education, experiential projects, and differentiated learning in Hendersonville, North Carolina, a small town south of Asheville. She misses so many folks in the Class of 2002 and wishes they would send some notes in! Rebecca Brosnan was nominated by the IFC (member of the World Bank Group) to serve on the Board of Directors of City Bank, a leading bank in Bangladesh. Congrats! 2003 Class Secretary: Vacant • Class Agents: Descatur Potier, Suzanne H. Schwartz • /groups/ trinitycollege2003 The class secretary position for the Class of 2003 is vacant. If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Julie Cloutier in the Alumni Office at 860-297-2403 or julie. [email protected]. 2004 Class Secretary: Jake Schneider, 59 Wallis Rd., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3174; jacob. [email protected] • Class Agents: Matt Glasz, Mimi MacKinnon, Jake Schneider • /groups/485669531523501 From Matt Glasz : “As many of you undoubt - edly know, working from home when you have toddlers for co-workers brings a certain level of chaos. Among the many things that slipped through the cracks over the past year or so was sharing our news that Eve Madeline Glasz joined the #gigglesquad on May 7, 2020. She’s all smiles and eager to enroll in the Trinity Class of ’42!” 2005 Class Secretary: Vacant • Class Agents: Eileen Flynn, Devin Malay, Andrea Leverant Minor, Liz Hanusovsky Patterson • / groups/ trinitycollegeclassof2005 The class secretary position for the Class of 2005 is vacant. If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Julie Cloutier in the Alumni Office at 860-297-2403 or julie. [email protected]. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2006 Class Secretary: Timothy Y. Fox, 2012 Kalorama Rd. NW, Unit 6, Washington, D.C. 20009-1458; [email protected] • Class Agents: Tory Hamilton McCarthy, Kim Galloway McHale, Virginia Adair McCarthy, Nicole Tsesmelis Jamie Szal published her first book in November 2020, as co-author of #Networked: How 20 Women Lawyers Overcame the Confines of COVID-19 Social Distancing to Create Connections, Cultivate Community, & Build Businesses in the Midst of a Global Pandemic. The book is an anthology of 20 women lawyers who came together on LinkedIn to network and support one another in personal and professional endeavors. Since publication, #Networked has remained a Top 10 best seller on Amazon. All proceeds are being donated to the National Women’s Law Center. Colin Levy ’s legal technology writing and speaking continues to do well despite the havoc wreaked by the pandemic. He took a detour from law and is doing marketing and business development for WordRake, an automated editing tool for Microsoft Word and Outlook. He encourages any Trinity stu - dents with an interest in law or alumni who are lawyers with an interest in technology to reach out via his website, www.colinslevy. com. On the personal side, he celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary with his superb husband, Jared (Northeastern). REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2007 Class Secretary: Devon Lawrence, 333 E. 30th St., Apt. 12L, New York, NY 10016-6456; [email protected] • Class Agents: Joey Butler, Jenny Carson, Logan Gould, Devon Lawrence, Nile Lundgren, Dave Mason, Jed Rednor, Molly Carty Sparrow, Corbin Woodhull, Jenn Wrobel • /groups/ TrinityClassof2007 From your class secretary: “It was May 19, 2007, the eve of graduation. The place: the basement of AD. The cheap beer was flowing, the music was pumping, and the packed room reveled in the final moments of their life at Trinity. In the middle of the dance floor, Devon and Tyler, relishing their budding love, looked into each other’s eyes. In that moment, there was a knowing look that on May 19 in the distant future, they would wel - come a little person into this world. Exactly 14 years from that very day, the premonition was spot on, and on May 19, 2021, D&T were proud to bring Miles Clark Lawrence- Simmons into the world. Miles weighed in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces and measured 20.5 inches long. Both Devon and Miles are doing great. Miles is eating, sleeping, and pooping like a champ! He enjoys long walks around the city and sitting quietly while his parents enjoy a happy hour or lunch bite out and about.” Erin Ogilvie Howard and her family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in July. Henry Winnik has worked as a film/TV location manager/scout in N.Y.C. for the past 13 years. Abbie Runyan and Devin Romanul have had quite a year. In May 2020, they welcomed their third baby, Charlie, to the family. And in September 2020, they launched their busi- ness, Raising the Bar, an alcohol-free cocktail subscription box company that curates kits Calling ALL Baby Bantams! Eve Madeline Glasz, daughter of Christine and Matt Glasz ’04 and step-granddaughter of Tom Lenahan ’78, P’04 exudes Trinity spirit with her adorable onesie and huggable stuffed Bantam. And just look at that smile! Would you like to show off your baby (or grandbaby) decked out in Bantam attire? Please email your HIGH- RESOLUTION photo (300 dpi; generally at least 1MB) to sonya.adams@trincoll. edu. Please include your name and class year and the baby’s name; the baby’s date of birth and information about another parent or sibling(s) are optional. We’ll aim to include your Baby Bantam in an upcoming issue of The Trinity Reporter and/or in the magazine’s online edition.

FALL 2021 67 CLASS NOTES for corporate and virtual events. Adding both a baby and a business to the mix during this wild year has been a challenge but a true joy. Abbie and Devin recently met Patrick Greene and wife Micah and kids at their home in Guilford, Connecticut. And Abbie recently had a mini-reunion with Niki Hall Holland and Katie Brewer Goodman . We look forward to many more reunions with fellow alums this summer! Erika Safir and Kristen Chin recently traveled from Los Angeles and New York, respectively, to Portland, Oregon, to visit Chris Basler and Anita Gooding . They had a blast at the Memorial Day picnic that Chris hosted with his boyfriend, Des, and even got to spend some time with the next generation of Bantams: Chi Chi Moran-Basler and Marley Gooding Carson (both Class of 2042). 2008 Class Secretary: Elizabeth Fritzer Dreier, 32 Elaine Dr., Simsbury, CT 06070-1625; elizabeth. [email protected] · Class Agents: Nadia Zahran Anderson, Sasha C. Kravetz The Class of 2008 is celebrating growing families and careers! Chris Stoeckle and wife Lizzy recently completed the adoption of their 2½-year- old son, Vutomi, from South Africa. They spent about 4½ months in Johannesburg at the beginning of the year and absolutely loved it. Vutomi has handled the transition into their family very well and is the most amazing little guy. Chris and Lizzy are very proud and feel lucky that he is officially their son. Heather Moore Roberson gave birth to baby boy Isaac Rudy Roberson in November 2020. Also, a few months ago, Heather became the first Black woman to receive tenure at Allegheny College. This fall, she will begin a new appointment as the inaugural director of faculty diversity and inclusion. She will retain her title as associate professor of com- munity and justice studies and Black studies at Allegheny College. Allie Echeverria is finishing the first year of her coordinated dietetics internship and master’s degree in nutrition at Georgia State University. Aside from all of her coursework and rotations, Allie finds time to serve as the sustainability initiatives graduate assistant. GSU has some amazing projects, including a student garden growing on top of the football stadium. In addition, Allie has fallen in love with the sport of Strongman and competed in her first sanctioned competition in March. Way to go, Allie! 2009 Class Secretary: Caitlin M. Brisson, 224 W. 16th St., Apt. 3, New York, NY 10011-6190; caitlin. [email protected] • Class Agents: Alison M. Holmes, Piper Klemm, Christian Montoya, Kumud Nepal, Alexandra Klestadt Patack, Terrance W. Sullivan, Alexandra Purdie Wueger 2010 Class Secretary: Rebecca M. Herrigel, 29 Sawyer St. #2, Portland, ME 04103-3408; rebecca. [email protected] • Class Agents: Nathaniel J. Kelly, Ryan Flynn • /groups/777318939001542 As I compile these notes, it’s the weekend of our second virtual Reunion! By the time this is printed in October, it’ll be closer to Homecoming, and I’ll be wishing for these 90-degree days again. I am so pleased to have heard from several of our classmates and to share their happy news below! Isis Irizarry is engaged! She and fiancé Nat Regis live in upstate New York with their two rescue cats. Isis runs an immigration firm, IMI Law. Chris DiBona earned a Ph.D. from Brown University in March 2021. He’ll be a visiting assistant professor of religion at Brown in 2021–22. Nate Kelly and wife Gracie Phillips ’13 welcomed their first baby, Reese Caroline Kelly, born on February 24. Nate also recently launched Kelly’s Family Foods, the parent company that Four Plus Granola will exist under, as well as a number of other new prod - ucts they are launching this fall. Stay tuned! William Brennan and Sylvia Sun were married in June 2020. They met while he was completing his master’s at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. They have since moved to Jersey City, where they live with their dog, Strider. Melissa Litwack and husband Eylon Winterstein welcomed baby boy Zev Litwack Winterstein on April 10, 2021! Bryce Blum and wife Adriane welcomed baby girl Shea Kathryn Blum on May 4, 2021. May the fourth be with them. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2011 Class Secretary: Remi Dolan, 3 Tamarac Ln., Englewood, CO 80113-4920; [email protected] • Class Agents: Rachel L. Meddar, Abigail A. Smitka It was great to hear from Elizabeth Agresta for the first time and to hear her good news. On March 1, 2020, she was promoted to assistant editor in the book manuscript editorial department at the MIT Press, where she has worked since September 2015. Big congratu - lations, Liz! In other exciting news, Andy Janiga and Jo-Ann Jee ’10 have moved to Nashua, New Hampshire. Andy has been practicing with the Center for Dental Excellence there for around a year. He and Jo-Ann love being back in the Northeast after multiple moves with the Army and are excited to be able to visit Trinity again soon. We look forward to hearing more from the Class of 2011 next season. Have a great fall, Bantams! REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2012 Class Secretary: Mary Kate Morr, 4121 Knox Ct., Denver, CO 80211-1653; mary.morr.2012@trincoll. edu • Class Agents: James J. Armillay Jr., Esq., Charles McConnell, Mary Kate Morr, Nicole Lustig Pasternak, Alberto Roldan, Lily Pepper Sommer, Kathryn T. Van Sickle, William A. Yale /groups/trincoll2012 Perrin Duke and Virginia Walsh (Hamilton College ’14) were married in June 2021 in Locust Valley, New York. More than 20 Bantams joined in the celebration. Chris Basler ’07 (with dog Chi Chi), Kristen Chin ’07, Erika Safir ’07, and Anita Gooding ’07 (holding son Marley Gooding Carson) get together in Portland, Oregon, during Memorial Day Weekend. Allie Echeverria ’08 takes part in her first Strongman competition in March 2021. Chris Stoeckle ’08 and wife Lizzy with son Vutomi

CLASS NOTES 68 THE TRINITY REPORTER Q+A What does your work entail? I work with pediatric patients from birth to the age of 22 who are diagnosed with hema- tologic conditions. These can include bleeding disorders such as hemophilia, blood-clotting disorders, anemias, bone marrow failures, and certain types of histocyte cancers. I work with both inpatient and outpatient children. Some of my patients have chronic medical conditions, and some have more acute conditions. Many of my patients require a bone marrow transplant to survive. I provide emotional support and guid - ance throughout the medical process in addition to resources and clinical care while my patients are at the hospital. How did you get into the field? As a psy - chology major, I was very interested in working with people. After graduation, I worked in the business environment in Washington, D.C., for two years. During that time, I researched social work programs and decided to pursue the field with a desire to create change on a micro level through clinical work with clients/patients. My current job was my first job out of graduate school. I was curious about working in the hospital environment and took a temp position for three months at Children’s Hospital, which became a permanent role. I have never left! What do you enjoy most about your work? I love being part of the medical team, rounding with the doctors and nurses every day, and being part of the larger psychosocial staff that provides support to our patients. Working indi- vidually with children and their families on a case-by-case basis and following them throughout their pediatric time at the hospital is my favorite part. Watching the children grow and devel - op, despite their medical diagnoses, is incredibly rewarding. What are the biggest challenges you face? The systemic issues of social work can be incredibly frustrating. For example, we have a large population of children who are not eligible for health insurance due to their documentation status, and trying to get them the medical care that they need when facing systemic issues greater than my capabilities can lead to burnout. How did COVID-19 affect your work? I am considered an essential employee, so I have been working in person the entire time. We wear PPE at the hospital every day. How did Trinity prepare you for what you do now? Trinity taught me to think outside the box and to be creative. I learned the necessary skills of psychol - ogy through my major, gained a strong base for clinical work, and then trusted my creative instincts to develop ways to support patients’ needs. I learned all of these skills at Trinity. What was the most memorable course you took at Trinity? Despite being a psychol - ogy major and women, gender, and sex - uality minor, I also took a fair amount of classes in anthropology, music, and political science. I tried to broaden my knowledge base as best I could. Does one course stand out to you? One of my courses, “Women and Work,” focused on the gender differences in academia and employment. I remember learning that for females who are offered an equal position as a male but provided slightly less salary, if that income differ - ence is invested and then becomes pro - portionally larger with each promotion, a woman can end up earning $1 million dollars less than a man over a lifetime of work. I will never forget the important messages I learned from this class and the need to advocate for oneself and others in these matters. Was there a professor at Trinity who was particularly influential? My senior thesis adviser, Dina Anselmi, advised me while I prepared my senior year. She instilled a sense of confidence in me that I take with me now in my current work. What advice would you give to current Trinity students about how to make the most of their time at the college? I would recommend they focus on classes that interest them and trying to “learn” as opposed to getting a certain grade. Some of my lowest grades were in class - es that I gained extensive knowledge from, and that is just fine; the important part is gathering your knowledge base and skill set! Marissa Zanno ’08 DEGREES: B.S. in psychology, minor in women, gender, and sexuality; M.S.W., Smith College JOB TITLE: Hematology social worker at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: Meals in Mather and being with my friends every chance I had.

FALL 2021 69 CLASS NOTES Lea Damiani and Taylor Williams eloped in Carmel-by-the-Sea last summer. They road tripped back East following a six-year California adventure and recently purchased a home in Deerfield, Massachusetts. A 2022 reception is planned. From the Alumni Office: Vincent Bish Jr. was a featured speaker at Harvard University’s 2021 Commencement in May. He graduated with a master’s in technology, innovation, and education. 2013 Class Secretary: Andrew C. Weiss, andrew.weiss.2013@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Lauren M. Aber, Perin B. Adams, Caroline E. Brewster, Kevin C. Clark, Malcolm X. Evans, Emily H. Gianis, David D. Hill, Jesse L. Hunt, Megan A. Ingersoll, Matthew H. Mainuli, Ryan McGuirl, Christopher D. Novick, Alexander C. Raffol, James C. Thaler, Dobromir G. Trifonov 2014 Class Secretary: Chloe M. Miller, 1014 H St., Anchorage, AK 99501-3431; chloe.miller.2014@trincoll. edu • Class Agents: Brendan P. Bader, Carl M. Barreto, William A. Gray, Madeleine V. Hansen, Alexander S. Harvey, Sophie M. Katzman, Juan Diego Lopez Rodriguez, Ann W. Murdock, Nathaniel R. Nurmi, Benjamin B. Plumer, Maxwell L. Schaefer, Victoria C. Trentacoste, Katherine C. Weatherly-White As we emerge from the worst of the pan- demic and relish the warming weather and relative freedoms of a vaccine, the Class of 2014 is making up for lost time with travel, get-togethers, and weddings ... oh, so many weddings. Your class secretary was busy traveling early this summer and dropped the ball on soliciting personal updates, but I extend my congratulations to all the Trinity couples who are finally able to tie the knot in front of so many Trinity friends and family. Wishing everyone health and not too much FOMO this summer and looking forward to including everyone’s personal updates in the next Reporter . 2015 Class Secretary: Shaina N. Lo, 10 Parkway Rd., Apt. 6, Brookline, MA 02445-5405; shaina.lo.2015@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Fiona Brennan, Margaret D. Ciocca, Cole A. D’Angelo, Taniqua K. Huguley, Zoe J. Huschle, Julia G. Kelling, J. Wilson Laprade, Stephan “Mac” Morse, Peter J. Ragosta Jr., Sam J. Ruddock III, Stephen P. Sample, Marie Christner Stansfield, Sarah S. Wolcott, Robert D. Zindman Mac Daly proposed to his fiancée last August, the day they moved back to West Hartford. Clay Russell started a side business, an apparel and accessories company called Violetear (pronounced vi-luh-TEAR), which is a type of hummingbird. The website is www.VioletearApparel.com and on Instagram as @VioletearApparel, featuring bleach- and tie-dyed clothes and bottle-cap artwork. Come check it out! REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2016 Class Secretary: Ashira E. Anderson, 1079 Firetower Rd., Colora, MD 21917-1502; ashira. [email protected] · Class Agent: Hollis U. Alpert • / groups/Trinity2016 This past February, Salvatore Torino Siciliano popped the question to fiancée Tess Woods. The West Hartford couple plans to get hitched next summer. The couple has confirmed the venue but is still awaiting a catering quote from Chartwells. Josh Frank recently started as a summer associate at Simpson Thacher in New York City. He is entering his third year of law school. He also helps Fulbright recruit stu - dents. Feel free to reach out if you have ques - tions about law school or teaching abroad! Nathaniel “Nano” Heilbron is enjoying an illustrious career as a commercial real estate adviser for Cresa in Boston. He lives in nearby Everett with girlfriend Trish, and, thanks to an intense regimen of stretching and rolling out, has worked his golf handicap down to a 6. He still reminisces daily about his time at Trinity between the Pipes, out on the quad, and just about everywhere in between and wishes the best of luck to his fellow alums and the Class of 2021. REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 2017 Class Secretary: Daniel A. Garcia, 2967 N. 79th St., Milwaukee, WI 53222; daniel.garcia.2017@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Jake Bennett, Nicholas DiBenedetto, Alec Buffamonte, Katelyn Elinoff, Daniel A. Garcia, Andrew Hatch, Kelvin Kaari, Clio Kammerer, Clare Knowlton, Kaitlin Lewis, Julianna Maisano, Ryan Miller, Andrea Nicholson, Kiley Nygren, Sean Orlando • / groups/Trinity2017 Greetings, ’17 Bants! I hope everyone is safe and doing well with their life endeavors! I personally switched careers and am at Infosys as a business analyst in its SAP prac - tice. I have heard of folks getting engaged, switching careers, and having kids; it is amazing to hear of these life milestones. If you’d like to share such milestones and want them included in these notes, please send me any updates, and I’ll make sure they are put in the next edition. I’ll leave you with a riddle: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I? 2018 Class Secretary: Lauren Ollerhead, 1390 Pine St., Apt. 102, San Francisco, CA 94109-4801; lauren. [email protected] • Class Agents: Bassil Bacare, Sarah Dolan, Justin Fortier, Michael Fries, Louisa Kammerer, Jamilah Ketcham, Elizabeth Koris, Joseph F. Lord IV, Meghan Marsh, Molly Nichols, Nia Vogel 2019 Class Secretary: William J. Duggan III, 10 Main St., Cheshire, CT 06410-2403; william. [email protected] • Class Agents: Rachel Brigham, Sam Buck, Alex Gnassi, Sophia Gourley, Debbie Herrera, Ethan Hunter, Alex Kaplan, Talia La Schiazza, Brooke LePage, Emily McLeod, Molly McGonigle, Kristina Miele, Erik Mohl, Simran Sheth, Amber Stevenson, Stephanie Velarde, Michael Zarra Perrin Duke ’12 and Virginia Walsh were married in June 2021 in Locust Valley, New York. Bantams joining the couple included Boo Stroud ’78, Britt Jones ’79, Laurie Jones ’78, Moose Stroud ’77, Carol Grant ’84, Matthew Nestor ’12, Heidi Greene ’78, Vivi Duke ’78, Shawna Barrett ’78, Sophie Ayres ’77, Michael Kluger ’78, Paige Duke ’14, Jenna Carroll ’12, Dill Ayres ’12, Katherine Weatherley-White ’14, Michael Levy ’12, David Dessau ’11, Samuel Sullivan ’12, Derek Proctor ’12, Spencer Feldman ’10, and Benjamin Dawson ’11.

70 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES 2020 Class Secretary: Vacant • Class Agents: Samantha Feenstra, Anna Kate Luddy, Elizabeth McCauley, Morgan McKeown The class secretary position for the Class of 2020 is vacant. If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Julie Cloutier in the Alumni Office at 860-297-2403 or julie. [email protected]. 2021 Class Secretary: Brendan W. Clark, 878 Oak St., West Barnstable, MA 02668-1520; brendan.clark@ trincoll.edu For those I know well and for those I do not: my warmest greetings. How truly fortunate we were to be able to gather as a class this past May and celebrate our Commencement— the culmination of four years of hard work ’neath the elms—among those timeless traditions of the college that mark our continued progress. After a year of unprece- dented challenge marked by the pandemic, we should count ourselves blessed to have been in person at our beloved Trinity at the time of the college’s 195th Commencement and should be proud of our academic and professional accomplishments as we embark upon the journey of life. As we take those first steps into the uncer - tainty of the “real world,” we can take com- fort in the fact that though many of us will physically be “far away from our old Trinity,” we remain close to the institution through the bonds of common friendship formed in our undergraduate years, and we will remain close as we begin planning our Reunion (yes, the work has just begun) and engaging in active life as alumni. We also will remain in close contact through the efforts of our class officers—myself, as class secretary, Jaymie Bianca as president, and Giovanni Jones as vice president—and through the many cocktail receptions and jovial celebrations to come. And, perhaps most importantly, we shall remain connected right here, in the pages of The Trinity Reporter. I have the distinct honor of serving as class secretary between now and our first Reunion in 2026, a time that—while distant now—will no doubt come to pass quickly. Between now and then, in each issue of the Reporter (three times a year), it is my solemn duty to report here the moments that mark our class: a new business venture, a wedding (yes—that could come soon, I imagine, for some of us), a new degree, or a move across the country. In later life, amid the Reporter’s pages, we will mark our Reunion gatherings, the birth of children (and, later, grandchil - dren), the lives of our future spouses and families, and those attendant joys that mark the course of life. So, please, I entreat you: I want and hope to hear from you. Please drop me a line via email ([email protected]) or via telephone (610-781-8446) with updates for the Reporter , for a conversation on life in general, or simply to catch up and reminisce about our time at Trinity. This fall, our class can look forward to an opportunity that welcomes all alumni: Homecoming will occur this year, with belated celebrations for many classes, October 1–3. Though our departure from the “coop” is comparatively recent, I hope you will return to campus for festive celebrations of all things Trinity. For my part, for the future, I shall get us started: Following graduation with hon- ors in public policy and law and history at Trinity this past May, Brendan W. Clark will continue his education at William and Mary Law School, pursuing a J.D., and will work to begin a legal career in New York in a few years. Here are some more plans from a few of our classmates: Samuel Spencer graduated with honors in public policy and law, with a minor in formal organizations. He will continue his studies at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Macie Bridge graduated with honors in English and will perform a year of service with the Episcopal Young Adult Service Corps in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, beginning this August. Sara Barrett graduated with honors in English and will work on a master’s in special education at Vanderbilt University. IDP Class Secretary: Shahzad Keith Joseph IDP’19, 87 Fans Rock Road, Hamden, CT 06518; shahzad.joseph@ trincoll.edu From me, Keith Joseph IDP’19 : During the pandemic, I went through a period of dis - cernment: How could I add something for the good of the society? After exploring different options, I decided to go back to school to pursue a graduate degree that would prepare me for a meaningful career. A very good opportunity came along in the form of pur - suing a graduate degree at one of the finest institutions in the world. I latch onto it with both hands, and now my Bantam has some company: a bulldog. I am Yale bound for fall 2021. As I reflect upon my journey from 300 Summit Street, Hartford, to 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, I recall all the ups and downs that I faced and how my professors, classmates, and school officials left no stone unturned to help me. Their sincere help compels me to echo a phrase by Dumbledore, a famous character from the Harry Potter series. “Help will always be given to those at Hogwarts (Trinity in my case) who ask for it.” Equipped with a skill set to meet the demands of academic life at Yale, I look forward to the next chapter of my life. Master’s Class Secretary: William T. Dziura M’16, 9 Conway St., South Deerfield, MA 01373-1001; [email protected] Gregory Mesniaeff M’89 continues to work on Wall Street in his role as a technology investment banker. Earlier this year, he completed an executive education program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He spends his spare time car - ing for his historic 1782 Georgian brick house and property in Sharon, Connecticut, where he lives full time. From Matthew J. Hennessy M’04 : “Earlier this year, my firm, Tremont Public Advisors, joined 72 other firms, including Ben & Jerry’s, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cummins, Levi Strauss & Co., and PayPal, in signing on to an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court to protect voting rights for the citizens of Arizona in the case of Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al., Petitioners v. Democratic National Committee, et al. As the businesses stated in the brief, ‘Business leaders have a strong interest in this case given that the strength of America’s economy and markets rests on one of the founding principles of our democracy: the right to vote.’ ” From the Alumni Office: Christopher McBride M’93 completed an M.A. in liberal arts at Stanford University in June. McBride is a member of the faculty at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. Clay Russell ’15 models some of his Violetear tie-dye apparel.

sister Lederle Tenney; and three Rho, the band, and the Jesters. granddaughters. Hooper went on to earn a J.D. IN MEMORY from the University of Chicago 1952 F. Reed Hoisington III, 91, Law School, where he was a of Fayetteville, North Carolina, member of its law review. He died on February 12, 2021. practiced real estate law with Hoisington earned an interdis - the ifrm now known as Whitman 1941 Ernest N. Dickinson, 101, with Marchant Calculators and ciplinary B.A. from Trinity, where Breed Abbott and Morgan. of Provincetown, Massachusetts, SCM Corporation, later found- he was a member of Delta Psi. Hooper is survived by his died on January 16, 2021. ing the ifrst American branch of brother, Christopher Hooper Dickinson earned a B.A. in Sharp Electronics Corporation 1952 The Reverend Peter D. (Kristina). English from Trinity before in Boston. MacLean, 90, of Colchester, serving in the U.S. Army and the Vignone is survived by his Vermont, died on June 14, 2021. 1953 Gerard A. Paquette, 89, of U.S. Navy during World War II. daughters, Jeanne Wentzell MacLean earned a B.A. in Nashua, New Hampshire, died He went on to work for several (Steven) and Nancy Ackermann classics from Trinity, where on June 12, 2021. newspapers, including The (John); two grandchildren; and he was a member of Pi Kappa Paquette earned a B.S. Hartford Courant, and in public three great-grandchildren. He Alpha, the Glee Club, and the in engineering from Trinity, relations. was predeceased by his wife of Chapel Singers. He went on to where he was a member of the Dickinson is survived by his more than 68 years, Grace, and earn an M.Div. from General Brownell Club. He went on to wife, Georgia; daughters Irene his sister, Dorothy Vignone. Theological Seminary and to earn an M.S. and a bachelor of Goff and Ann Scalley; and ifve serve in churches in New York, electrical engineering degree grandchildren. He was prede- 1949 Paul Cohen, 94, of West Maine, Virginia, North Carolina, from Rensselaer Polytechnic ceased by son Tom. Hartford, Connecticut, died on and Vermont. MacLean also Institute. Paquette worked in the July 19, 2020. served as a chaplain in the computer science ifeld, with a 1942 John M. Carey, M.D., 101, Cohen served in the U.S. Navy U.S. Navy, assigned to the U.S. focus on image processing and of Oklahoma City, died on May before earning a B.S. in physical Marines in Vietnam. medical electronics. 20, 2021. sciences from Trinity. He went MacLean is survived by his Paquette is survived by Carey graduated Phi Beta on to a career in the family auto wife of 50 years, Margaret; their his wife, Rachel; children Kappa from Trinity with a B.S. body business. son, Matthew; children from his Gerard A. Paquette Jr. (Nancy), in biology. He was a member of Cohen is survived by his ifrst marriage, Elizabeth, Max, Michael Paquette (Meg), and Alpha Chi Rho, the Glee Club, children, Sharon Krumholz and Margaret; ifve grandchil- Dorothy Paquette; stepchildren and the Chapel Singers and (David) and Richard Cohen dren; one great-grandchild; and Celeste Pappas (Walter), Daniel played basketball and golf. (Susan Merriman); two grand - sister Judith Webber. He was Lapierre, and Roland Lapierre Carey earned an M.D. from children; two step-grandchil - predeceased by daughter Andria (Holly); two grandchildren; Harvard Medical School before dren; a great-grandson; many and great-grandchild Miles. seven step-grandchildren; and serving in the U.S. Navy. He went step-great-grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. He on to practice as a cardiovas- and brothers Norman Cohen 1953 Jacob B. Brown Jr., 89, of was predeceased by his ifrst cular surgeon. Atfer retiring in (Dorothy) and Arnold Cohen (Ann South Natick, Massachusetts, wife, Dorothy. 1987, he earned master’s degrees Molod). He was predeceased by died on July 20, 2020. in comparative literature and his wife of 61 years, Irma. Brown earned a B.A. in 1954 Paul W. Arcari, 88, of religious studies from Oklahoma English from Trinity, where he Clinton, Maryland, died on City University. The dedicated 1950 Scott M. Stearns Jr., 92, of was a member of Delta Psi and December 1, 2020. alumnus was a member of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, played soccer and tennis. He Arcari earned a B.A. in Trinity’s Elms Society. died on April 11, 2021. went on serve in the U.S. Army history from Trinity, where he Carey is survived by his chil- Stearns earned a B.S. in during the Korean War. Brown was a member of Delta Kappa dren, Chris Carey (Ruth), Stuart physical science from Trinity, served as president of Howe Epsilon and the Newman Club Carey (Kathy), and Linda Carey where he was a member of Delta and Bainbridge. The dedicated and played football. He went (Bill); seven grandchildren; and Psi. He served in the U.S. Air Trinity alumnus was a member on to study business at the seven great-grandchildren. He Force during the Korean War of the Elms Society. George Washington University. was predeceased by his ifrst before joining his father’s real Brown is survived by his Arcari served for 30 years in wife, Elizabeth “Betty,” and his estate company, later forming children, Elise Sillers (John) and the U.S. Air Force, teaching second wife, Bettie. the realty partnership of Stearns Jacob Brown III (Lori Catallozzi), ROTC at Dartmouth, lfying in and Yerrall. He also held several and seven grandchildren. He the Philippines and Vietnam, 1943 Edward L. Vignone, 99, of appointment positions under was predeceased by his wife of and working at the Pentagon. Nashua, New Hampshire, died former Massachusetts Governor more than 50 years, Dianne, and He retired in 1985 as a colonel on August 16, 2020. Michael Dukakis, including his daughter, Amy Boit ’81. and then worked for another 15 Vignone served in the U.S. seats on the boards of two trans- years for The Retired Oiffcers Army during World War II portation authorities. 1953 Richard K. Hooper, 89, of Association. before earning a B.A. in ec- o Stearns is survived by his Raritan, New Jersey, died on Arcari is survived by his wife, nomics from Trinity, where he wife, Jane; children William March 18, 2021. Teresa; children Craig Arcari was a member of Sigma Nu and “Kim” (Roy Ortiz), Julia “Jill” Hooper graduated Phi Beta (Debra), David Arcari (Janice), the Trinity Pipes. He started his Stearns (Umberto De Ros), and Kappa with a B.A. in economics. Annie Gonzalez, Courtney career in sales in management Mary “Malee” Muesse (Michael); He was a member of Alpha Chi Lenarduzzi, Christian Arcari, FALL 2021 71

IN MEMORY and Jocelyn Stone (Louis); Mutschler is survived by his Smith is survived by his wife Trinity Class of 1922, and brother and many grandchildren and children, Jody Lynn Mutschler of 62 years, Barbara, and daugh- Robert P. Guertin graduated great-grandchildren. (Warren Halladay) and Jock ters Karen and Lauren. from the college in 1961. Mutschler (Linda), and four 1954 William G. Crenson, 89, of grandchildren. 1955 Alden G. Valentine, 87, of 1956 James M. Streeto, M.D., 86, Omaha, Nebraska, died on April Clemson, South Carolina, died of Wethersifeld, Connecticut, 28, 2021. 1955 Owen S. Garner, 87, of on February 2, 2021. died on May 28, 2021. Crenson earned a B.A. in Copley, Ohio, died on October Valentine earned a B.A. in Streeto earned a B.S. in biol- history from Trinity, where he 12, 2020. history from Trinity, where he ogy from Trinity, where he was was a member of Delta Kappa Garner earned a B.A. in was a member of Alpha Chi Rho a member of the Newman Club. Epsilon and played football, history from Trinity, where he and the Glee Club. He went on He went on to earn an M.D. from serving as captain his senior worked at WRTC and took part to work for AT&T. Valentine also the University of Pennsylvania year. He went on to serve in the in ROTC. He went on to serve in served in the U.S. Navy and U.S. School of Medicine. Streeto had U.S. Air Force before earning the U.S. Air Force and remained Navy Reserves. His father, Henry a private endocrinology practice master’s degrees from Columbia in the active reserve for nearly W. Valentine, was a member of in Hartford for many years. and Fairifeld Universities. three decades as the Southern the Trinity Class of 1919, and Streeto is survived by his Crenson had a 30-year career as New England liaison oiffcer for brother Elliott Valentine was a children, Donna, James Streeto a New York state educator and the Air Force Academy. A grad- member of the Class of 1953. (Maria Sanchez), Michael Streeto administrator before he and his uate of the USAF War College, Valentine is survived by his (Toby Benis), Catherine Gless wife became innkeepers during Garner retired as a lieutenant daughters, Susan Valentine, (Benjamin), and Timothy Streeto his retirement. colonel. He also spent 25 years and Karen Morgan (Dan). He (Jessica Rose), and eight grand- Crenson is survived by his in management at Southern was predeceased by his wife, children. He was predeceased wife of 61 years, Carolyn; New England Telephone Judith, and siblings Robert by his wife, Dottie, and brother children William Crenson (Mary Company. Valentine, Elliott Valentine ’53,Ralph Str eeto (Dolores). Jane) and Julie Fritz (Lance); Garner is survived by his wife and Natalie Ricci. seven grandchildren; one of 64 years, Elizabeth “Libby”; 1957 Stephan von Molnar, 85, great-grandchild; and siblings children Richard (Robin), John, 1956 Richard L. Fleming, 87, of Tallahassee, Florida, died on Richard Crenson and Jeannette and Sharon (Steve Buie); eight of Richardson, Texas, died on November 17, 2020. Kaufman. grandchildren; ifve great-grand- May 1, 2021. Von Molnar earned a B.S. in children; and sister Betsey Fleming earned a B.A. in physics from Trinity, where he 1954 Donald S. Knutson, 88, of Hendrick. He was predeceased classics from Trinity, where he was a member of Sigma Nu, the Princeton, New Jersey, died on by sister Cynthia. was a member the Concert Choir Trinity Pipes, and the soccer December 11, 2020. and the Glee Club. He went on and track teams. He went on Knutson earned a B.S. in engi- 1955 John J. Hodge, 87, of East to earn a master’s of theology to earn a Ph.D. in physics from neering from Trinity, where he Syracuse, New York, died on at Garrett Theological Seminary the University of California, was a member of the Brownell January 15, 2021. and then a master’s of sacred Riverside. Von Molnar worked Club, and then started work at Hodge earned a B.A. in history music and a doctorate of min- for the IBM Watson Research Westinghouse. Atfer earning from Trinity, where he was istry from Southern Methodist Center and held visiting an M.S. in mechanical engi- a member of Alpha Chi Rho, University. The choral conductor professorships abroad before neering from Drexel University, the Trinity Pipes, the Chapel and organist served churches in joining the faculty of Florida he worked on fusion energy Singers, and the Glee Club. He Illinois, Iowa, and Texas until State University as a professor of research at Princeton Plasma went on to serve in the U.S. his retirement in 1999. physics. He also served as direc- Physics Laboratory. Knutson Army as a cryptographer before Fleming is survived by his tor of the university’s MARTECH, retired atfer three decades there. working in the insurance indus- wife, Kay; children David, the center for Materials Research Knutson is survived by his try. He later retired as a senior Anne, and John; daughters-in- and Technology. He retired from wife of 44 years, Ebba Gunilla; insurance premium auditor. law Amy and Rona; son-in-law FSU in 2013. daughters Ellen Kramm (Mark), Hodge is survived by his wife, Clifford; ifve grandchildren; two Von Molnar is survived by Lisa Hamnes (Donald), Carol Anina; children John J. Hodge Jr. great-grandchildren; and sister sons Christopher (Aja) and Marc Knutson, Linda Fiscus (Andrew), (Pamela), Anina “Jan” Lapp, and Lois Comer. He was predeceased (Jennifer) and a granddaughter. and Maria Adkins (Nathan); and Carolyn Taylor (Glen); and six by brothers Carl and Jerry. He was predeceased by his wife six grandchildren. He was prede- grandchildren. of nearly 60 years, Jean. ceased by his ifrst wife, Barbro. 1956 A. Thomas Guertin, 86, 1955 Charles P. “Pete” Smith, of Palm Coast, Florida, died on 1958 Charles G. Blumstein, M.D., 1954 Neil S. Mutschler, 87, of 86, of Garden City, New Jersey, February 3, 2021. 83, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Palmyra, New York, died on died on April 27, 2021. Guertin earned a B.S. in died on March 1, 2020. November 16, 2019. Smith earned a B.S. in math- chemistry from Trinity, which he Blumstein earned a B.S. in Mutschler earned a B.A. in ematics from Trinity, where he attended as an Illinois Scholar. biology from Trinity, where he history from Trinity, where he was a member of the Glee Club He was a member of Phi Kappa was a member of the Psychology was a member of Alpha Chi Rho. and played soccer. He went on Psi and the basketball and golf Club and the staff of the Ivy. He went on to be an educator, to serve in the U.S. Army Corps teams. The dedicated alumnus He also took part in Hillel. retiring in 1987 as director of for two years and later worked was a member of Trinity’s Elms Blumstein, who earned an M.D. pupil services for the Fairport as a systems analyst for IBM and Society. Guertin’s father, Alfred from Temple University, practiced School District. then Nassau County BOCES. N. Guertin, was a member of the as an allergist-immunologist. The 72 THE TRINITY REPORTER

IN MEMORY loyal alumnus was a member of of Furman University for 36 ifrst wife, Shirley Wassong, in Hodges is survived by his wife Trinity’s Elms Society. years, and atfer three years of whose memory Trinity’s Shirley of more than 45 years, June; Blumstein is survived by his retirement, resumed teaching at G. Wassong Memorial Lecture children Scott Hodges (Diane), wife, Judy; children Howard Greenville Technical College. Cheryl Barbarotto (Anthony), in European and American Art, Blumstein, M.D., ’86 (Wendy Fairbanks is survived by his Culture, and History was esta-b Christine Avery (Darren Sautor), Slingerland), Debby Bragg (RJ wife of 50 years, Brenda; chil - lished by Wassong, friends, and Jonathan Hodges (Sheila); Reno), and Alyssa Fiederer dren Melanie Chamberlin (Eric) and family. 18 grandchildren; and 15 (Lee); and seven grandchildren. and Mark Fairbanks (Emily); great-grandchildren. and four grandchildren. 1959 Harold L. Weil, 86, of 1958 Diggory D. Robertson, 84, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, died 1961, M.A. 1969 S. Robert Italia, of Stamford, Connecticut, died 1959 Laurence M. Morgan , 82, of on November 19, 2020. 80, of Wilton Manors, Florida, on March 12, 2021. Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, died Weil earned a B.S. in engi- died on May 5, 2020. Robertson earned a B.A. on October 21, 2020. neering from Trinity before Italia earned an interdis - in philosophy from Trinity, Morgan earned a B.A. in his - moving on to the University of ciplinary B.A. from Trinity, where he was a member of tory from Trinity, where he was Pennsylvania for additional where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi and worked at a member of Alpha Delta Phi. studies. He worked as a senior Brownell Club and the Newman WRTC. He went on to earn an He went on to serve in the U.S. electrical engineer at Ford Club. He went on to earn an M.B.A. from the University of Coast Guard before embarking Motor Company. M.A. in Spanish from Trinity, Virginia. Robertson served in on a three-decade career at IBM, Weil is survived by children as well as degrees from the the Connecticut Army National working in sales and marketing. David Weil, Michael Weil University of Connecticut and Guard for 35 years, retiring with The loyal Trinity alumnus was a (Jeanette), and Robert Weil the University of Hartford. Italia the rank of major; at the time, member of the Elms Society. and a granddaughter. He was was a teacher of languages he was a labor relations special - Morgan is survived by his predeceased by wife Geraldine, and later served as chair of ist at the Hartford Armory. children, Elizabeth Pendleton son William Weil, and brother the Language Department in Robertson is survived by his (Nathaniel), Samuel Morgan Thomas Weil. Windsor, Connecticut, schools. wife, Margaret; children Mary (Dawn), and David Morgan Italia is survived by his hus - Robertson and Laura Robertson (Vanessa); six grandchildren; 1960 Robert E. Landry, 83, of band, Joseph Gilbert, and his (Wes); and two grandchildren. and brother David Morgan Somers, Connecticut, died on sister, Rose Italia. He was pre- (Gail). He was predeceased by February 25, 2021. deceased by siblings Sebastian 1959 George E. Backman , 83, of his wife of 58 years, Harriet. Landry earned a B.S. in Italia and Sally Italia. Canton, Connecticut, died on biochemistry from Trinity, August 16, 2020. 1959 Joseph F. Wassong Jr. , 83, where he was a member of 1962, HON. 2003 William C. Backman earned a B.A. of Thomaston, Connecticut, Pi Kappa Alpha. He went on Richardson , 81, of Hickory in English and educational died on May 18, 2021. to serve in the U.S. Air Force Corners, Michigan, died on studies from Trinity, where he Wassong graduated Phi Beta before embarking on a 30-year May 18, 2021. was a swimmer. He went on to Kappa with a B.A. in history and career as a contract manager at Richardson earned a B.A. in earn an M.A.T. from Wesleyan educational studies. He was a Combustion Engineers/ABB/ history from Trinity, where he University. Backman began his member of the Newman Club. Alstom Power. was a member of Theta Xi and swim-coaching career at West Wassong went on to earn an Landry is survived by his worked at WRTC. He went on Hartford’s Fernridge Park, later M.A. from Columbia University wife, Beverly; children Deanna to earn an M.B.A. and Ph.D. serving as the town’s aquatic and a sixth-year certiifcate Rivera (Esteban Jr.) and from the University of Chicago. director for two decades and from Trinity, and he completed Michael Gauvine; seven grand- Richardson held several posts as a founder of Charter Oak fellowships at the Universities children; two great-grandchil- at the University of Washington Aquatic Club. He also worked of Virginia, Washington, and dren; and sister-in-law Phyllis before being named executive as a dealer of antique silver and Florida. The lifelong educator Landry. He was predeceased by vice president and provost art glass. taught at Glastonbury High daughter Pamela Roberson, sis- at the Pennsylvania State Backman is survived by his School before serving as a ter Evelyn Kucia, and brother University. He later served as daughter, Autumn, and his for - history professor at Mattatuck Joseph Landry. the 11th president of Johns mer wife, Barbara. He was pre- (later Naugatuck Valley) Hopkins University. In 1995, deceased by son Odin, brother Community College for more 1961 Christopher A. Hodges, 81, Richardson letf academia to David, and sister Elsie. than three decades. Wassong of West Suiffeld, Connecticut, become president and CEO of was a dedicated alumnus; his died on March 5, 2021. the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a 1959 Gilbert W. Fairbanks , 82, of support included membership Hodges earned a B.S. in post he held for a decade. The Greenville, South Carolina, died in Trinity’s Elms Society. engineering from Trinity before loyal Trinity alumnus, a member on October 30, 2019. Wassong is survived by his moving on to the University of of the Elms Society, served on Fairbanks earned a B.S. in wife, Rebecca Skinner; children Washington, where he earned Trinity’s Board of Trustees for biology from Trinity, where he Joseph F. Wassong IV, John an M.S. in mechanical engi- many years. In 1997, he received was a member of the Political Wassong (Tina), and Jean Lynch neering. He also served in the the college’s Eigenbrodt Cup, Science Club. He went on to (Paul); stepdaughters Kathryn U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam. and in 2009, he and wife Nancy earn a master’s from Wesleyan Borgatti (Dan Evans) and Rachel Hodges worked as a mechanical were inscribed on Trinity’s University and a Ph.D. from the Borgatti (Tristan McNamara); engineer for Boeing and UTC/ Wall of Honor. Richardson University of South Carolina. and four step-grandchildren. Pratt & Whitney for more than also served on many other Fairbanks served on the faculty He was predeceased by his 35 years. boards, including those of Pew FALL 2021 73

IN MEMORY Charitable Trusts, Kalamazoo U.S. Navy Oiffcer Candidate Lamberty); and brother-in-law 1966 Gunnar E. Walmet, 77, College, and the Kaiser Family School. He later joined Travelers, Daniel Kaplan (Pamela). of Rexford, New York, died on Foundation. He received honor - eventually retiring as director of June 19, 2021. ary degrees from several institu - information systems. 1966 John W. Lawson, 76, of Walmet earned a B.S. in engi- tions, including the University Mattison is survived by his Torrington, Connecticut, died on neering from Trinity, where he of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, wife, Marguerite Bowen; chil- January 15, 2021. was a member of the Brownell and Tuskegee University; Trinity dren James, Hilary, and Ashley; Lawson earned a B.A. in Club and played soccer and awarded him an honorary doctor seven grandchildren; and sister psychology from Trinity, where basketball. He went on to earn of humane letters degree in 2003. Diane Anderson. he was a member of Delta Kappa an M.S. in mechanical engineer- Richardson is survived by his Epsilon. He spent much of his ing from Union College. Walmet wife of 55 years, Nancy; daugh- 1964 Harrison H. Huntoon, 78, of career as a senior underwriter, worked for GE’s research and ters Jennifer Richardson and Barrington, Rhode Island, died working for Aetna, Cigna, and development center and later Elizabeth Vigdor (Jacob); and on April 28, 2021. ING. Lawson later owned his for the New York State Energy three grandchildren. Huntoon earned a B.A. in his- own store, Silver Lining, in Research and Development tory from Trinity, where he was a Simsbury, Connecticut. Authority, from which he retired 1962 Frank L. Sears II , 80, of member of Delta Psi and worked Lawson is survived by his in 2009. Dalton, Massachusetts, and at WRTC. He went on to earn an wife of 53 years, Harriet; sons Walmet is survived by his wife Venice, Florida, died on August M.B.A. from Cornell University. Christian Lawson and Joshua of 54 years, Linda; children Eric 31, 2020. Huntoon began his career with Lawson (Lisa); two grandchil- Walmet (Paula) and Stephanie Sears earned a B.A. in English NASA and then served as the dren; and sister Jessica Lawson. Walmet; two grandchildren; and from Trinity, where he was a administrator for the Galveston in-laws Barbara and Jack Rutt. member of Alpha Delta Phi and County Health District. He later 1966 Lee R. Nolan, 76, of played football and lacrosse. formed a start-up computer Madisonville, Tennessee, died 1968 Kevin S. McCoy, 75, of He went on to serve in the U.S. sotfware ifrm and then became on August 5, 2020. Chevy Chase, Maryland, died on Marines during the Vietnam War. president of Providence Braid Nolan earned a B.A. in April 10, 2021. Sears worked in construction for Company, a family business modern languages from Trinity, McCoy earned a B.A. in nearly three decades and later since 1904. where he was a member of the political science from Trinity, served in several positions for Huntoon is survived by his Brownell Club and QED and where he played football and the City of Pittsifeld. wife, Carolyn; daughter Sally worked at WRTC. He went on to ice hockey. He spent most of Sears is survived by his Vitali (Michael); two grand- serve in the U.S. Army during his career at Inland Steel, Carey wife of 55 years, Louise; sons daughters; siblings Howard the Vietnam War. Nolan worked Winston, and ASB Capital Matthew (Megan), Timothy “Pete” Huntoon Jr. (Ann) and for more than four decades as a Management. (Jamie), Gregory, Alfred (Joy), Nancy Forsyth; brother-in-law senior network engineer for the McCoy is survived by his wife, and Franklin (Hilary); sisters Claude “Buddy” Leach (Laura); Travelers Insurance Company. Jane; son Sean McCoy (Lee); two Carol Ann Blake (Alden) and and sister-in-law Frances Nolan is survived by his grandchildren; mother Priscilla Lucinda Croce (Dan); and 12 Watson (Robert). He was wife of 20 years, Barbara; son McCoy; and sisters Stephanie grandchildren. predeceased by sisters-in-law Christopher Nolan (Laura Keith (Albert), Laura Anderson Mixon (Paul Brabham), Gloria Pekala); stepchildren Kevin (David), and Anne Edwards 1963 E. Bruce Hill III , 79, of (Creighton Owen), and Martha Schoifeld, Raymond, Brian (Glenn). He was predeceased by Pittsburgh, died on September (Ralph Sanderson) and brother- McKee (Agnes), and Michele siblings David McCoy (Robyn) 14, 2020. in-law William Forsyth. Bordonaro (Betsy Stedman); six and Sarah McCarthy ’80 (James). Hill earned a B.A. in history grandchildren; and former wife from Trinity, where he was a 1964 Sidney R. Katz, M.D., 77, of Jean. He was predeceased by 1969 Charles P. Hill, 73, member of Delta Psi. He went on Nashua, New Hampshire, died son Todd Nolan. of London, died on February to serve in the U.S. Navy during on February 2, 2020. 20, 2021. the Vietnam War. Hill began a Katz earned a B.S. in biology 1966 Bruce W. Stavens, M.D., 76, Hill attended Trinity, where career in politics, eventually from Trinity, where he was a of Menlo Park, California, died he was a member of Delta Psi, serving as a speechwriter during member of the Brownell Club on March 6, 2021. rowed crew, and served as edi- the Nixon Administration. He and Hillel. He went on to earn Stavens earned a B.S. in tor-in-chief of The Trinity Tripod. later shitfed to the performing an M.D. from New York Medical biology from Trinity, where he He letf the college to join the arts, founding and working in College before serving in the U.S. was a member of Psi Upsilon U.S. Army and served as a para- theaters and teaching as an art - Air Force during the Vietnam and played soccer. He went on to trooper in the Vietnam War. Hill ist-in-residence at the University War. Katz practiced urology in earn a Ph.D. in physiology and returned to academia to earn of Pittsburgh. Nashua for nearly three decades biophysics from the University a bachelor’s degree in history Hill is survived by children and held several positions of Iowa and an M.D. from from the George Washington Ryder Hill and Nicola Solomon at Southern New Hampshire Vanderbilt University. Stavens University; he also attended and sister Margot. Medical Center and the nearby was a cardiovascular and tho - Trinity College Dublin on a VA hospital. racic surgeon in Sioux City, Iowa, Fulbright Scholarship and stud- 1963 J. Rodney Mattison, 80, of Katz is survived by his wife of for more than three decades. ied theology at Kings College South Lyme, Connecticut, died 53 years, Susan; children Jeremy Stavens is survived by his in London. Hill worked for the on June 10, 2021. Katz and Jill Katz; brother Ralph wife of nearly 53 years, Carole; Metropolitan Police (Scotland Mattison earned a B.S. in Katz ’65, H’18 (Barbara Frey); son David; and brother-in-law Yard) recovering stolen art; per- biology before attending the sister-in-law Elsa Cantor (Donald Robert LaPolt (Suzanne). haps his most famous case was 74 THE TRINITY REPORTER

IN MEMORY recovering Edvard Munch’s The McGoohan is survived by Global family of companies, Bienkowski is survived by her Scream. He retired in 1996. children Michael, Peter, Scott, where he worked for three husband of 30 years, Toby ’85; Hill is survived by his wife, Megan, and Caitlin and their decades, overseeing the legal sons Robert “Mike” Bienkowski Caroline; children Susannah, families. and regulatory departments. III and Carter Bienkowski; Elizabeth “Lizzie,” and Faneuil is survived by his wife sisters Lisa Worster (Dave) and Christopher; two granddaugh- 1972 Anthony J. Tranquillo, 72, of 45 years, Helene; sons Ari Tricia Katz (Evan); and step- ters; and sisters Martha Harmon of Southington, Connecticut, and Jesse ’03; daughter-in-law mother Marjorie Morris. and Nikki Baugh. died on May 29, 2021. Andrea; two grandchildren; and Tranquillo earned a B.S. in siblings Robert and Nancy. 1989 Charles W. “Chuck” Caspari 1969 Tan J. Platt, M.D., 73, of engineering before launching Jr. , 55, of Washington, D.C., died Columbia, South Carolina, died a career as a civil engineer. He 1974 Richard A. Norden, M.D., on March 19, 2020. on August 19, 2020. worked as the town engineer 68, of Haworth, New Jersey, died Caspari attended Trinity Platt earned a B.S. in biology in Southington for almost on March 14, 2021. before moving to the nation’s from Trinity, where he was a four decades, retiring in 2012. Norden earned a B.S. in capital, where he served as member of Alpha Chi Rho and Tranquillo later worked for biology from Trinity, where he coach of the Wilson High the football and track teams. He Kratzert, Jones & Associates. was a member of Psi Upsilon. School girls’ sotfball team. He went on to earn an M.D. from Tranquillo is survived by his He went on to earn an M.D. from also helped develop several Columbia University College of wife of nearly 49 years, Anne Southern Illinois University musical groups. Physicians and Surgeons. Platt Marie; sons Joseph Tranquillo School of Medicine. Caspari is survived by his wife, began his medical career as a ’97 (Lisa), Anthony Tranquillo Ann; children Elizabeth and rural family physician in South (Christina), Michael Tranquillo, 1975, HON. 1999 Patrick J. Charles; parents Charles and O’Connell Dakota with the National Health and Vincent Tranquillo , 67, of New York City, Barbara; and brother William. Service Corps and then spent (Jennifer); ifve grandchildren; died on March 23, 2021. a decade in private practice in sisters Raffaela Michaelangelo O’Connell earned a B.A. in 1991 Michelle L. “Mimi” New York. He later joined the (Paniflo) and Anna Zarra history from Trinity, where he Desmangles, 52, of the Bronx, faculty of the University of South (Ernesto); and brothers-in-law was a member of Delta Kappa New York, died on May 25, 2021. Carolina School of Medicine Vincent Cello (Sharon), David Epsilon. He went on to work as Desmangles earned an Columbia. Platt also served as Cello (Donna), and Joseph Cello an arts administrator. He also associate’s degree from the medical director of the South (Alison). was an AIDS activist; in 1990, University of Hartford and Carolina Department of Health he became founding director of then a B.A. in psychology from and Human Services and the 1973 Katherine Heideman Visual AIDS and later created Trinity, where she was a member Epworth Children’s Home, Campbell, 86, of Prospect, the groundbreaking red AIDS of the Pan-African Alliance. among other entities. Connecticut, died on February ribbon, a symbol that continues She went on to earn an M.A. in Platt is survived by his wife, 11, 2020. to endure and that served as the psychology from City College of Nancy; children Elizabeth Platt Campbell earned a B.A. in spark for subsequent ribbons the City University of New York. and James Platt; four grandchil- sociology atfer raising her family. in support of other diseases. In Desmangles was the CEO of We dren; and siblings Charles Platt She spent time in government, 1999, Trinity bestowed an hon- Bee Trippin’ Travel Agency. (Judith Hunter) and Alice Selzler including serving as a ifrst select - orary doctor of humane letters Desmangles is survived by her (Michael). man in Woodbury, Connecticut, degree on O’Connell in recogni- husband, Sheker Derenoncourt; and on the Central Naugatuck tion of his work in the arts and children Manuel and Tatienne; 1970 Alan S. Farnell, 72, of La Valley Planning Commission. as an activist. parents Doreen Veazie and Quinta, California, died on Campbell also co-founded the ↗ For a memorial tribute to O’Connell Leslie Desmangles, Trinity pro- December 8, 2020. Women’s Fund at the Connecticut written by Peter Hay Halpert ’80, please fessor of religious studies and Farnell earned a B.A. in Community Foundation. visit commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. international studies, emeritus; English from Trinity, where he Campbell is survived by and sister Tanya. was a member of Alpha Chi Rho her children, John “Pierce” and played football. Campbell (Coleen) and 1986 Dana Morris Bienkowski, 1992 Kevin M. Hall, 51, Alexandra “Jaye” Campbell; 56, of Franklin, Massachusetts, of Houston, Texas, died on 1971 Philip M. McGoohan, 71, of one granddaughter; and two died on January 23, 2021. May 10, 2021. Cedarburg, Wisconsin, died on great-grandchildren. She was Bienkowski earned a B.A. in Hall earned a B.A. in history January 1, 2021. predeceased by her husband, English from Trinity, where she from Trinity, where he was a McGoohan earned a B.A. in John Pierce “Pete” Campbell, was a member of Kappa Kappa member of Pi Kappa Alpha. history from Trinity, where he and siblings Elizabeth Kaynor Gamma. She went on to work He went on to graduate from was a member of Alpha Delta and Lawrence Heideman. for O’Rourke and Company the Texas Southern University Phi and played baseball. He and later as the librarian at Thurgood Marshall School of went on to earn an M.B.A. from 1974 Edward J. Faneuil, 68, of Parmenter Elementary School. Law. Hall specialized in criminal the Tuck School of Business at Boston, died on May 17, 2021. Most recently, she was work- law before turning his focus to Dartmouth College and to serve Faneuil earned a B.A. in ing as a program manager for personal injury cases. in the Army Reserves. McGoohan sociology from Trinity before the UMass Donahue Institute. Hall is survived by his wife, worked in the ifnancial services moving on to Suffolk University, Her husband, Robert “Toby” Karen; children Gavin, Katelyn, industry as a commercial and where he earned a J.D. He began Bienkowski Jr. ’85, and her and Aaron; mother and st- ep investment banker in Milwaukee his legal career at Samek & father, Philip Morris ’56, also father Judy and Doug Thorpe; and New York. Faneuil and then joined the attended Trinity. father Warren Hall; and sisters FALL 2021 75

IN MEMORY Michelle Bjork, Molly Hall, and three grandchildren; and four Davis earned a B.S. from FORMER FACULTY Emily Lockridge. He was prede- step-grandchildren. Cornell University before work- Lawrence “Larry” Gluckman, 74, ceased by two brothers and a ing at the Rochester, New York, of Glover, Vermont, professor of sister. 1984 Joyce Mecartney, 92, of Democrat and Chronicle, where physical education, emeritus, West Hartford, Connecticut, she wrote a weekly column and former head rowing coach at 1997 Nicholas G. Morehead, 46, died on May 2, 2021. called “About Women.” She Trinity, died on March 30, 2021. of Shelter Island, New York, died Mecartney studied at earned an M.A. in English from Gluckman began his row- on May 10, 2021. Pembroke College and art school Trinity and went on to work on ing career as a walk-on at Morehead earned a B.A. in before earning a B.A. in Italian several publications. Northeastern University, and philosophy from Trinity, where from Trinity and an M.A. in Davis is survived by her within 18 months, claimed he played squash and tennis. French from Central Connecticut husband of 72 years, Richard; a spot on the U.S. National He went on to earn an M.A. State University. children Deborah Davis Team, later winning multiple in journalism from American Mecartney is survived by (Randolph Ludacer), Christine medals. He went on to earn a University and an M.B.A. her children, David Mecartney Rubino, Margaret Davis (Andrew B.S. from Northeastern and an from Stony Brook University. and Bonnie Bassette (Roy III); Gomory), and Richard Davis M.A. from Columbia University. Morehead worked as a staff eight grandchildren; and sister (Robyn); ifve grandchildren; Gluckman came to Trinity in reporter for the Southampton Shirley Marshall. She was prede- two great-grandchildren; and 2003 as assistant professor of Press and the Shelter Island ceased by her husband, Malcom brother Geoffrey Mynott. physical education and head Reporter before earning a U.S. Mecartney, and son Harry HONORARY DOCTORATES rowing coach and was consid- Coast Guard merchant mariner’s Mecartney. ered a rowing legend and key license and becoming the chief 1993 Eula Riley Hall, 93, of to Trinity’s rise to the top ranks operating oiffcer at South Ferry. MASTER’S Craynor, Kentucky, died on of the country’s small college Morehead is survived by his 1970 Patricia N. Foulke, 89, of May 8, 2021. crews. Before Trinity, Gluckman wife, Paige; children Cayman Bloomington, Minnesota, died Hall was a health care activist served as head rowing coach at and Larkin; sister Joanna on February 20, 2021. who operated the Mud Creek Columbia, Dartmouth College, Morehead; stepfather Mike Foulke earned a B.S. in Clinic in eastern Kentucky. and Princeton University and Zisser; in-laws Cliff and Tish education from the University While she letf school atfer the worked with Concept2 Rowing Clark; sister-in-law and brother- of Minnesota Duluth. Atfer her eighth grade, the self-pro- in Northern Vermont. He also in-law Shelli and Constantin husband, Robert “Bud” Foulke, claimed “hillbilly activist” was coached Olympic and world Nicolet; and stepsiblings Robin came to Trinity to teach in the known for her dedication to championship teams, as well as Bennett, Laura Morehead- English Department, Foulke health care access for all, regard- at the Cratfsbury Outdoor Center Martino, Paul Zisser, and Jason began work on an M.A. in educa- less of ability to pay. Hall was in Vermont, where he developed Zisser. tion. The couple went on to write recognized nationally, including competitive rowing programs for IDP 15 travel books and more than by several U.S. presidents, and elite athletes. 1,000 travel articles. her life was detailed in the biog- Gluckman is survived by his 1976 Kay Kramer Wade, 85, of Foulke is survived by her raphy Mud Creek Medicine: The wife of nearly 50 years, Sara; West Hartford, Connecticut, died husband of 67 years, Bud; chil - Life of Eula Hall and the Fight daughters Meg, Kate, and Anna; on April 5, 2021. dren David (Lynn) and Carolyn; for Appalachia. In 1993, Trinity sons-in-law Michael and Scott; Wade attended Syracuse son-in-law Fred Waldbillig awarded Hall an honorary doc- two grandchildren; brother University before starting her (Trudy); three grandchildren; tor of humane letters degree. Norm; and sister-in-law and family. She later earned a B.A. one great-grandchild; sister Hall is survived by her chil- brother-in-law Sue and Curt. in psychology from Trinity Judy Ellington; and half-siblings dren, Dean Hall, Troy Hall, and and then an M.S.W. from the Catherine Feste (Dale), Skip Danny Hall; daughter Nanetta Robert C. Morris, 88, of Guilford, University of Connecticut. She Nelson (Susan), and Wendell Yates; eight grandchildren; 14 Connecticut, died on December was a licensed clinical social Peterson. She was predeceased great-grandchildren; and ifve 7, 2019. worker; her work experience by daughter Deborah. great-great-grandchildren. She Morris earned a B.F.A. from included time as a pastoral was predeceased by her second Yale University before serving counselor at Middlesex Hospital 1972 Glen A. Harris Jr., 86, of husband, Oliver Hall. in the U.S. Army Artillery in and in private practice in West Glastonbury, Connecticut, died Texas. He worked as director of Hartford, focusing on terminally on August 10, 2020. 1999 Patrick J. O’Connell ’75; the Contemporary Arts Museum ill individuals and their families. Harris earned a B.S. in math- please see page 75. in Houston, taught at the Atfer her second husband, ematics from Yale University University of Bridgeport, earned Herbert Kramer, was diagnosed before working at Phoenix 2003 William C. Richardson ’62; an M.F.A. from the University of with a terminal illness, the pair Insurance in data manage- please see page 73. Texas at Austin, and returned to published Conversations at ment sotfware. He returned to FORMER TRUSTEES Connecticut to teach at Trinity, Midnight: Coming to Terms with academia to earn an M.S. in for which he spent a summer Dying and Death. mathematics from Trinity. 1962, HON. 2003 William C. teaching monument drawing in Wade is survived by her hus- Harris was predeceased by his Richardson; please see page 73. Rome. band of 27 years, Jim; children wife, Charlotte. Morris is survived by his wife Nancy Taylor, John Lazarus, and of 61 years, Gitta, and daughters Heidi Lachut (William); step- 1982 Nancy Mynott Davis, 96, of Lisa Morris and Kristin Morris. daughters Sarah Swank (David) Princeton, New Jersey, died on and Katherine Swabey (Charles); February 16, 2021. 76 THE TRINITY REPORTER

IN MEMORY merchant marine and as a machinist The Trinity Reporter In Memory led to his commitment to change Vol. 52, No. 1 Fall 2021 Guidelines and to progressive ideas and fueled his desire to work in education. Editor: Sonya Storch Adams During his 23 years at Trinity, from Interim Director of Communications and Marketing: Caroline Deveau We will not announce the 1971–94, Schultz served as co-chair Communications Office and Other Contributors: Ellen Buckhorn, death of an alum without ifrst of the American Association of Andrew J. Concatelli, Lizzy Lee, Helder Mira, Katelyn Rice, Stacy conifrming with a previously University Professors and published Sneed, Bonnie Wolters published obituary or direct Class Notes Coordinator: Julie Cloutier numerous journal articles. He Designer: Lilly Pereira/www.aldeia.design notiifcation from a relative. created the course “Radical Ideas in Student Workers: Kelsey Brown ’23, Olivia Zeiner-Morrish ’22, Emma Also, alumni who passed away Education,” which brought educa- C. Sternberg ’21 more than two years prior to tional philosophy into student-led the date of publication will be work for change. Schultz, also a BOARD OF TRUSTEES listed in Death Notices, along skilled photographer, teamed with Officers: Chair: Lisa G. Bisaccia ’78; Vice Chair: Craig Vought ’82, with alumni for whom we do his wife, Ruth, in publishing several P’17; Vice Chair: Rhea Pincus Turteltaub ’82; Vice Chair: Kevin J. not have enough information Maloney ’79 for a longer obituary. books about civil liberties, includ- ing We Will Be Heard: Voices in the Ex Officio: Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President and Trinity College Struggle for Constitutional Rights Professor of Neuroscience; Jamie Tracey Szal ’06, President, Trinity Past and Present and The Price of College Alumni Association Dissent: Testimonies to Political Charter Trustees: Ross Buchmueller ’87, James W. Cuminale ’75, P’09, Margo V. Perkins, 54, of Atlanta, Repression in America. William E. Cunningham Jr. ’87, P’19, ’21, Henry D’Auria ’83, Nancy M. former associate professor of English Schultz is survived by his Davis ’79, Peter S. Duncan ’81, P’13, ’14, Steven A. Elmendorf ’82, and American studies at Trinity, died children, Dan, Sue, and David, Elizabeth Elting ’87, Eric S. Estes ’91, Eric R. Fossum ’79, H’14, on September 2, 2020. and many grandchildren and Michael Gary ’86, John S. Gates Jr. ’76, P’13, Walter Harrison ’68, Perkins earned a B.A. from great-grandchildren. He was prede- H’18, Jeffrey B. Hawkins ’92, Susannah Smetana Kagan ’91, Ling S. Spelman College, an M.A. from ceased by wife Ruth. Kwok ’94, LaTanya Langley ’97, H’17, Kathleen Foye MacLennan P’17, Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from ’20, David L. Schnadig ’86, N. Louis Shipley ’85, William G. Thomas Cornell University, all in English. FORMER STAFF III ’86, P’20, Kelli Harrington Tomlinson ’94, Kathryn George Tyree She authored Autobiography as Sohaib N. Sultan, 40, of Princeton, ’86, Richard W. Wagner ’83, P’18, Jean M. Walshe ’83, Damian W. Activism: Three Black Women of New Jersey, died on April 16, 2021. Wilmot ’97, James Yu ’87 the Sixties (University Press of Sultan studied at Indiana G. Keith Funston Trustee: Adrian Lo ’12 Mississippi, 2000) and was honored University and in the Islamic with the 1999 Mississippi University Chaplaincy Program at Hartford TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION for Women’s Eudora Welty Prize. Seminary before serving as the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Perkins came to Trinity in 1995 as Muslim chaplain at Trinity. He Kathryn “Lizey” Korengold Bernstorf ’12, Annette M. Boelhouwer ’85, assistant professor of English and went on to serve as the ifrst Muslim Thomas D. Casey ’80, Gregory M. Creamer ’93, Amy McGill Dilatush American studies and received chaplain at Princeton University. ’94, John J. D’Luhy ’55, John H. Ellwood ’65, P’95, Student Representative Jederick Estrella ’22, E. Gates Garrity-Rokous ’86, tenure in 2001. While at Trinity, she Sultan also was an author; his works Daniel J. Good ’95, Patrick R. Greene ’07, Jawanza J. Gross ’94, P’12, taught in the Tutorial College for two included The Koran for Dummies and Jeannie Guzman ’10, Juan M. Hernandez ’13, M’15, Faculty years, contributed to the Humanities numerous articles for TIME online, Representative Gabriel F. Hornung ’07, Taniqua K. Huguley ’15, M’17, Gateway program, served on many the Huiffngton Post, and other Monete G. Johnson ’11, Amanda Johnson Kennedy ’94, Christine committees, and co-chaired the 2006 publications. Kleinert ’82, Elizabeth McDonald Krebs ’92, Peter H. Kreisel ’61, P’91, NEASC (now NECHE) Commission Sultan is survived by his wife, Maximillian A.D. Le Merle ’16, Rebecca Wenner Litt ’08, Kaitlin Reedy on Institutions of Higher Education Arshe Ahmed; daughter Radiyya Malin ’14, Christopher G. Mooney ’75, P’06, Jorge E. Rodriguez ’91, Louisa P. Rodriguez ’81, P’21, Terrie S. Rouse-Rosario ’74, Hamill J. reaccreditation self-study steering Sultan-Ahmed; his parents; and Serrant ’08, Jonathan P. Smith Jr. ’03, Dede Seeber Stone ’81, P’14, committee, co-writing the report his sister. ’16, President Jamie Tracey Szal ’06, Andrew S. Terhune ’78, Rachel with Paula Russo. In 2008, Perkins Freeman Zinny ’92 letf academia to become director DEATH NOTICES BOARD OF FELLOWS of foundation relations for the 1940 Robert J. Lipsitz Hugh M.M. Anderson ’93, Wildaliz Bermudez ’04, Kristen Wei Yunn American Heart Association in 1941 Robert A. Adams Chin ’07, Chart Chirathivat ’96, Crisanne M. Colgan M’74, Elizabeth A. Marietta, Georgia, and since 2014, 1941 Richard F. Hanley Corbat ’11, Christopher R. Delaney ’83, Katherine E. DeConti had been director of grant support 1942 Kenneth I. Albrecht Duckworth-Schachter ’98, Charity C. Elder ’00, Luis Fernandez ’11, for Make-A-Wish Georgia. 1942 John A. Bond Tara Lichtenfels Gans ’88, P’20, Jeffrey R. Ginsburg ’00, Jarod J. 1943 Fred E. Fox P’74 Greene ’02, Maya A. Greene ’03, Mary Beth Jordan ’95, Isabelle 1957 Thomas C. Kratz Krusen ’03, Jeanine M. Lunghamer ’85, Joseph L. Lunghamer ’85, Charles “Bud” Schultz, 91, of West Douglas M. Macdonald ’89, Bryant S. McBride ’88, P’20, A. Duffy Hartford, Connecticut, Trinity 1957 Murray A. Varat, M.D., P’93 Mudry ’94, Eric C. Mudry ’94, Alisa Coren Norris ’92, Christopher professor of psychology, emeritus, 1962 Kermit Mitchell “Toby” Norris ’91, Marvin Pierre ’06, Lisa Koch Rao ’95, Lourdes E. died recently. Reynolds ’91, Shaakirrah “Kira” Sanders ’97, Jacquelyn Santiago ’00, Schultz earned a B.A. from the Edward T. Schiff ’01, Alan G. Schiffman ’81, Annemarie Brown Taylor University of Pennsylvania, an ’82, Scott C. Taylor ’82, Madelyn Korengold Terbell ’09, Susan M.Ed. from Temple University, and Granger Tyler ’85, William J. Villari ’86, Charles Wallace II ’92, Paul a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State Scott Wasserman ’95, Bryant S. Zanko ’87, P’17 University. His experiences as a FALL 2021 77

ALUMNI EVENTS We’re excited to bring alumni, families, and friends back together in person this fall for [1] events on campus and off. While it was a long 18 months without in-person events, we were delighted with how many chose to engage through the multitude of virtual events that emanated from campus (and from the Trinity Club of Hartford!), so we’ll continue to bring those virtual events to you in the future. Whether in person or via Zoom, we look for- ward to seeing you soon. Tune in to the array of virtual programs of the past year and a half at your convenience at bit.ly/VLWArchive. [2] [1] MARCH 26, 2021 Gabriella Burnham ’09 and It Is Wood, It Is Stone; moderated by Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies Belén Fernández Milmanda [2] APRIL 10, 2021 Virtual Admissions 101 with Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Adrienne Amador Oddi, right, and Olivia Painchaud ’21 [3] APRIL 20, 2021 Tuesdays in Rome: A Faculty-led Walk through the Aventine Neighborhood [4] APRIL 29, 2021 Roosevelt and Churchill: The Atlantic Charter with Michael J. Kluger ’78, P’13, right, and Associate Professor of History Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre [5] MAY 4, 2021 Women’s Leadership Council—Trust and the Media: Bringing the Conversation Back to Center with, clockwise from top left, Helen Ubiñas M’09, Amy Katz ’79, Sarah Cody ’95, and Charity Elder ’00 [3] [6] JUNE 16, 2021 Trinity Club of Hartford: Emerging from the Pandemic with, clockwise from top left, moderator Matt Smith ’82, P’19, Glendowlyn Thames M’13, Paul Mounds Jr. ’07, and Jeffrey Flaks H’21 [4] 78 THE TRINITY REPORTER

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ENDNOTE Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney Rules of civility Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of Respect, to those that are Present. Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, an clear: civility calls upon us to respect not have a book with 110 rules of civility, investment executive turned novelist, everyone we encounter. but the college provides guideposts and describes a clever, brash heroine who It seems that in our current society , a space in which they can create their is introduced to upper-class 1930s we have lost some of the rules of ci- vil own civil rules. They will do so based New York society through an unusual ity in our interactions. This leads to on values from their upbringing cou- and somewhat unfortunate set of events. me think about why. There’s no ques- pled with those they acquire living and The story follows the heroine as she tion that political divides have torn at learning on campus, where they interact deifnes her own values and observes our civility, but these circumstances with people from across society and the the strict rules of civility to which others preceded our most recent presidential world. Their time here will give them the adhere. These rules, and the title of elections. The seeds of divisiveness have empathy, careful listening skills, and value system to guide them, and we will the novel, were based on the Rules of been laid for decades and are the fodder Civility and Decent Behavior in Company for incivility. Recently, I heard a trou- provide innumerable opportunities to and Conversation, a book containing bling prediction from a political watcher use their rules—to practice, revise, prac- 110 principles that originated from a set in Washington, D.C., who foresees that tice, and revise. of guidelines authored by French Jesuits every four years we will see a lfip in Higher education—and Trinity’s in the late 16th century. The guidelines political power, that we will be swinging residential liberal arts experience— were popularized when our country’s back and forth regularly, because each provides the pathway for our students’ ifrst president, George Washington, a side will block, with a complete lack of transformative educational experience, teenager at the time, handwrote a copy civility, any progress the other side tries which evolves from simply what students of them. It is said that Washington’s to make. We all can play a role in chan-g do to what they live and who they are. ing this problematic prediction; we can That journey fosters not only their int-el actions helped him internalize the ideas, albeit imperfectly, in turn molding his be a part of a more civil future. lectual development but also the social character. While it should be said that My thoughts go back to a young and moral growth that can contribute Washington didn’t practice all of what George Washington, who was trying to to a more civil society. As an institu- he learned, I was struck by rule number learn these rules of civility, not too far tion of higher education, we welcome one—the excerpt at the top of this letter— removed from the age of Trinity’s enter- this extraordinary responsibility and privilege. And every single person who and its relevance for our Trinity commu- ing students. It’s at this time of life that nity today. our students are exploring the rules of beneifts—or beneifted—from a Trinity This rule guides us to show respect social connections and interactions and College education has the ability and for one another—no matter who or trying to discern how those rules will responsibility to share the fruits of their what is involved. It doesn’t dictate guide them and shape their own values. experiences here with others. We are that we should respect someone onl y As I told our newest ifrst-years when they now ambassadors of the rules of civility; if that person looks or sounds like us took their places on the Main Quad at we can model how to interact with others or agrees with our opinion; no, it is September’s Convocation, Trinity may with respect. 80 THE TRINITY REPORTER

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