• Campo, the son of Italian immigrants, arrived at Trinity in the fall of 1941. World War II interrupted his academic career, and from 1943 to 1946 he served as a staff sergeant in the United States Army, receiving a Battle Star for service in the Rhineland Campaign.

Returning to Trinity in 1946, he completed his degree, majoring in modern languages and literature. He was a member of the basketball team and the Jesters and Boosters Club, president of the Trinity Club and the French Club, and vice president of the Spanish Club.

 

Following graduation, Campo earned master’s and doctorate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. From 1950 to 1951, he studied in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship, the first Johns Hopkins student to receive that award. He joined Trinity’s faculty in 1952 as a member of the Department of Modern Languages and quickly rose from instructor to professor. He was chairman of the department from 1970 to 1976.

In 1970, Campo founded Trinity’s Rome campus and served as director of the program until he retired in 1989. Thousands of undergraduates from Trinity and from dozens of other colleges have studied at the Rome campus. Campo also founded Trinity’s Elderhostel programs in Italy and the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture. He created and continues to co-direct Trinity’s Academy of Lifelong Learning, which offers noncredit courses to the Greater Hartford community.

 

In 1987, Campo was named Trinity’s John J. McCook Professor of Modern Languages and Literature. He received Trinity’s Alumni Medal for Excellence, and in 1998, Trinity conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. He has also received the honorary title of Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.

• Flannery grew up in Hartford and transferred to Trinity from the Hartt School in the fall of 1955, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree in music and English. He also holds a master’s of fine arts from the Yale School of Drama and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin.

He has headed theater programs at the University of Ottawa and the University of Rhode Island, and in 1982, founded Emory University’s theater program. He is the founding director of its W.B. Yeats Foundation.

Flannery is considered one of the foremost interpreters of Irish song, and his book and recording, Dear Harp of My Country: The Irish Melodies of Thomas Moore, received an endorsement from Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Bill Whelan, Grammy Award winning composer of Riverdance, said, “James Flannery has the gift of knowing how to reach into what the Irish call uaigneas an chroi, the secret place of the heart.”

Flannery is also the author of the definitive study, W.B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice, and has authored articles for The New York Times, The Performing Arts Journal and The Irish University Review. From 1989 to 1993, he was executive director of the Yeats International Theatre Festival at the Abbey Theatre of the National Theatre of Ireland. He has directed more than 60 productions — including 22 of Yeats’ plays — at professional theaters in Ireland, Canada, and the United States.

Listed in Who’s Who in America, Flannery has five times been named to Irish America Magazine’s list of the 100 most prominent Irish-Americans. He received the prestigious Wild Geese Award for Outstanding Contributions to Irish Culture in 1993, and was awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Scholarship to work with the University of Ulster in Ireland to develop a school for the performing arts in 2001. In 2002, the Georgia Humanities Council honored Flannery with a Governor’s Award in the Humanities for his work promoting Irish culture and its connection with the culture of the American South.

• Elting is a retired president and chief executive officer of Grey Advertising Ltd. of Canada, a communications company with offices across that country and subsidiaries in advertising, public relations, sales, and video and television production. Under Elting’s leadership, Grey Canada rose from the 12th to the fourth largest advertising and communications agency in the country. In 2000, Elting helped Trinity build its Human Rights Program with a generous gift to support the directorship of the program for five years. He also served on the United Nations Development Program’s External Expert Advisory Panel and helped the U.N. write its 1998 Human Development Report, which focused on patterns of consumption in a changing world.

• Kupferberg is founder and president of Millwood Management Solutions in Framingham, Massachusetts. Previously, she was vice president and corporate controller at EMC Corporation and later played a key role in the sale of Axeda Systems, Inc., a $13 million publicly traded software company. Kupferberg also spent 20 years with Digital Equipment Corporation as finance manager and then vice president, leaving in 1998. A member of Trinity’s Board of Fellows, she helped establish a scholarship fund at the school in honor of her brother-in-law, who passed away in 1998.

• Martin is a founding member of Trinity’s Black Alumni Organization (BAO), and is a real estate developer with GLN Associates. A Montclair, New Jersey resident, he was previously an associate director of guidance at Columbia High School in Maplewood-South Orange, New Jersey. Martin holds an M.A. in educational psychology and an M.S. in management from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. In 2006, he began his second stint with the BAO board, serving as its president. He also is a career adviser and mentor to young alumni and current Trinity students. In addition, he serves on the auxiliary advisory board of Teach for America and the board of the Boys and Girls Club of New York and New Jersey.

• Masius, of West Hartford, is owner and president of Michael B. Masius Company, a commercial real estate firm in Hartford. Masius served as president of the Trinity Club of Hartford and was a member of the club’s executive committee. He also served on Trinity’s National Alumni Association Executive Committee and was a member of his 45th reunion committee. A leading volunteer with the Connecticut Chapter of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, Masius has received several awards from the chapter, including its Volunteer of the Year award in 2002 and will receive the Michael Garil Courage Award later this year.

• Quinn was elected speaker of the New York City Council in 2006, the first woman to hold that position. After only two years in office, she successfully campaigned to provide 18,000 bulletproof vests to New York City police officers; passed laws to control the spread of illegal firearms; and gave low-income New Yorkers greater access to food stamps and safe housing. Since 1999, she has served as representative from the 3rd Council District of Manhattan. Prior to her election to the City Council, she was chief of staff to Council member Thomas K. Duane and worked as executive director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project.

• Twardy was U.S. Attorney for Connecticut from 1985 to 1991. His accomplishments during that time included the then-largest criminal fine in an environmental case and the longest criminal prison sentence for a violation of the Clean Air Act in New England. From 1991 to 1993, he served as chief of staff for then-Governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr. A Wilton, Connecticut resident, he joined the law firm of Day, Berry & Howard, now Day Pitney LLP, in 1993. A partner with the firm, he is a member of its White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations Practice Group and has defended Fortune 500 companies and their executives in federal and state criminal and regulatory investigations. Twardy served on Trinity’s Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2002.

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