Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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It was late in 1946 when the Trustees asked alumni and friends of the College to raise a million and a half dollars for a Held house, a new dormitory, an enlarged li- brary, and added endowment. Because the College was approaching its century and a quarter mark, the campaign to raise this great fund was called the 125th Anniversary Development Program. The response was a positive endorsement .sm , sl H are in the midst of Trinity's record and an expression of faith in her future. Committees of more than 1000 alumni and friends conducted the campaign, which was to run for a year and a half from January 1947 to june 1948. By commencement week-end of 1948, the entire fund of a million and a half dollars had been subscribed by 4058 different individ- uals. During that same weekend, cornerstones were laid for the Memorial Field House, in memory of the seventy Trinity men who gave their lives in World War II, and for Elton Hall, a dormitory named for john Prince Elton-an alumnus who had served his College with a lifetime of devotion. Both buildings were completed for use at the start of the fall term last September. A student body of 884 men living and exercising where 525 had lived before the war re-emphasized the need for a field house to supplement the Alumni Hall gymnasium built in 1887. Memorial Field House, Trin- ity's dream of a decade, now stands as a concrete tribute not only to those seventy men in whose name it was built, but to those thousands of alumni and friends who pledged their support to Trinity's develop- ment.

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f L l l it u In Memoriam Herman R. Holljes, known to all as Boots , originally attended the University of Maryland, where he belonged to Theta Chi Frater- nity, in September 1945, he transferred to Trinity College. He showed his characteristic enthusiasm for college activities by playing varsity baseball, and writing for the Tripod. Because of poor health, Boots was forced to leave school at the end of that year. Upon his return in September 1947, Boots continued to be active on campus, and found time, in addition to being a pretheological scholarship student, to operate the campus laundry, work in the dining hall, to serve on the staff of Radio Trinity, and to participate in the Canterbury and Boosters Clubs. Herman R. Holljes died quietly November 14, 1948, from a heart attack. He will long be remembered at Trinity as the first neutral President of the Student Body and Senate. His inex- haustible efforts in promoting school spirit, and in restoring Trinity traditions will serve as a criterion for undergraduates in the years ahead.

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nf a new prnqram Its architecture is very modified Gothic to harmonize with other campus buildings. Brick faced and trimmed in limestone, the square building Q163 feet 4 inchesj is twenty-five feet high at the eaves and Fifty- l-ive feet high at the peak. The roof in the form of a truncated pyramid is topped by a seventy-foot square monitor, the walls of which are completely of glass for a height of six feet nine inches, for light and ventila- tion. These clerestory windows eliminate the use of skylights, which frequently leak. The field house contains a one-tenth mile dirt track eight feet wide. The area inside the track is large enough for a regulation baseball infield, and contains ample space for indoor football practice on rainy days. A removable wooden Hoor, 85 by 110 feet, serves as a regulation basketball court or as two practice courts. Edward Faber, Col. John Reitemeyer, A. Northey Jones, G. Keith Funston, Raymond Oosting