Tag: Trinity College history

New Exhibit Opens in Library: “Student Experiences at Trinity, 1820s-1970s”

August 28, 2026 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Happy Birthday, Odell Shepard!

July 21, 2026 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alden R. Gordon ’69 donates his faculty papers and alumni memorabilia to the Trinity College Archives

June 1, 2026 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Alden Rand Gordon was the coxswain of the Trinity College freshman crew team in the spring of 1966.

Trinity’s FIRST Microcomputer: New Exhibit in Lobby of MECC

March 27, 2026 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Earlier this month, on March 10, 2026, a new exhibit was installed in the ground-floor lobby at the eastern end of the Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science (MECC) building on Trinity College’s campus. Professors August Sapega and David (Dave) Ahlgren purchased Intel’s first 8-bit microprocessor chip (8008) in 1974. The kit included the 8008 processor, 1024 bytes …

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Making the Box: Trinity Students Design Building Models

March 17, 2026 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

The Scheuch Atrium in the Raether Library currently features a new exhibit comprised largely of models built by students taking courses on architecture. With the architectural minor program flourishing at Trinity, Dr. Willie Granston ’13 answered a few questions about what the students learn through the construction of architectural models. Here is what he had …

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Breaking the Box: Trinity Students Design an Addition to the Raether Library

July 28, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

What does the library of the future look like? In spring 2025, Visiting Professor of Practice Rob Rothblatt, known for his lead role in designing the Sacramento Kings’ arena Golden1, taught the “Elements of Architectural Design” course at Trinity College. For their final project, students were tasked with building models for an addition to the …

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Former USAID editor graduated with Trinity Class of 1964

February 7, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Between 2002 and 2012, Ben Barber ’64 served as senior writer, photographer and editor for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He was in charge of the production of the magazine Frontlines. Barber donated his papers to the Watkinson Library at Trinity College in 2016. A finding aid to the collection, including some …

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Documenting Trinity, Preserving History: The Trinity Tripod at the College Archives

May 2, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Savannah Brooks ’26 This year, the Tripod has been incredibly intentional about documenting and preserving the work of students, administrators, and faculty. The Tripod is crucial when considering Trinity’s history, particularly its student history. One phrase we like to tell our writers this semester is: “If it isn’t in the Tripod, it didn’t really …

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Fanfare for The Plumb Memorial Carillon

September 14, 2023 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Barbara Sternal, Processing Archivist Every summer, people from around Hartford and beyond gather on the Trinity College quad to listen to the concerts performed on the Plumb Memorial Carillon, located in the tower of the College’s Chapel. The carillon is an instrument played on a keyboard of wooden batons that sound a set of …

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NEW ACQUISITION: From the ANNALS of Trinity College and SLAVERY

February 1, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

JOHN BAPTISTA ASHE (class of 1830) was one of “quite a few North Carolinians [who] attended Trinity—in that generation”1 The senior class of undergraduates at Washington (now Trinity) College in 1829-1830 included four North Carolinians, one of whom was John Baptista Ashe, later a lawyer and a member of the United States Congress representing the …

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