40th Year of Coeducation

This academic year (2009-2010) marks the fortieth anniversary of co-education at Trinity College. To reflect on this change in the College, a change which continues to resonate into the twenty-first century, a committee of faculty, staff, students and alumnae is working to organize a series of events and curricular initiatives concluding with a major academic conference in April 2010.

An alumnae committee has volunteered to provide support for programs both on and off campus including topics of work/life balance, career networking, faculty and alumnae lectures, and more.

Preliminary Program of Events

May 17, 2009: Commencement marks the official beginning of Trinity's celebration of 40 years of coeducation. Honorary degrees were awarded to three remarkable women; Deborah Bial, Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher, and Joanna Scott '82. 
 
September 4, 2009:  First Year speaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Kolbert discusses her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, with the incoming class of 2013.
 
October 8, 2009: 12.15-1.30 (Thursday Common Hour) ­ Symposium: "Going
Coeducational: Trinity, 1969 to 1984", organized by Ronald Spencer, Associate Dean of Faculty Emeritus, Trinity College
 
November 5, 2009: 12.15-1.30 (Thursday Common Hour) ­ History Department Bankwitz Lecture by Judith Coffin, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas-Austin and Trinity College Alumna, Class of 1974
 
November 12, 2009: 12.15-1.30 (Thursday Common Hour) ­ Symposium: brain science, sex, and learning, organized by Sarah Raskin, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College
 
November 13  and 14: Homecoming ­events to celebrate women ­more to come!
 
February 4, 2010: 12.15-1.30 (Thursday Common Hour) ­ Symposium on Women the Professions, organized by Renny Fulco, Associate Professor of Public Policy, and alumnae in the law
 
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 ­ Lecture celebrating the formal opening of "Coeducation at Trinity College: a Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition" at the Watkinson Library and Trinity College Archives. Speaker: Robin Sheppard
 
March 4, 2010: 12.15-1.30 (Thursday Common Hour) ­ History Department Mead Lecture by Alice O'Connor, Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Trinity Alumna, Class of  1976
 
April 6, 2010: 12.15-1.30 (Tuesday Common Hour) ­ Symposium: Work-Life Balance, organized by Theresa Morris, Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College
 
April 22-23, 2010 (Thursday and Friday) ­ Conference: "Educating Women in the Twenty-First Century"
 
Performances and Exhibitions
 
September 26, 2009: 7.30-9.30 pm ­ Fall Dance Concert: "Celebrate Forty Forward! Dance at Trinity" in Goodwin Theater (AAC).
 
January 25-June 28, 2010 ­ "Coeducation at Trinity College: a Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition" Watkinson Library and Trinity College Archives, January 25 ­ June 28, 2010, curated by Peter Knapp, Trinity College Archivist
 
Film series at Cinestudio ­ date and further information TBA
 
Classes
 
First-Year Seminars
 
                Three First-Year Seminars (FYS) are affiliated with the
initiative:

• FYS 105 ­ "Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in American Politics."
  Instructor: Stefanie Chambers; mentor: Josh Grossman
• FYS 195 ­ "Educating Women in the Greek and Roman World." Instructor: Gary Reger; mentor: Jessica Ross
• FYS 260 ­ "Changing Your Mind." Instructor: Sarah Raskin; mentor: Nicole Albino

College Course 150, "Coeducation ­ Past, Present, Future" ­ a course that may be taken by students registered in one of the affiliated courses for
0.25 or 0.50 credit.
 
Affiliated courses are courses whose instructors have agreed to link with the co-education initiative. Students in such courses may be required to attend or participate in some or all events connected with the co-education initiative and may, with the instructor¹s permission, register for College Course 150 for an additional 0.25 or 0.50 credit.
 
Reading Group ­ All students taking College Course 150 will participate in a special reading group facilitated by Trinity faculty, students, and staff.
Readings for the group will be available in the Trinity College Bookstore under College Course 150 and/or on the Reading Group Blackboard site.

Women’s Committee of 40
Tri-chairs: Rhea Pincus Turteltaub ’82, Terrie Rouse ’74, and Nina McNeely Diefenbach '80

Mrs. Khooshe Adib-Samii Aiken ´82
Ms. Uzma A. Akhand ´98
Ms. Elizabeth Alden ´75
Mrs. Nancy Katz Aresu ´84
Ms. Victoria S. Aronow ´82
Mrs. Sophie Bell Ayres ´77
Ms. Larissa A. L. Baker ´96
The Hon. Patrice Ball-Reed ´80
Mrs. Emily Latour Bogle ´79
Ms. Hilary A. Burrall ´03
Mrs. Robin Halpern Cavanaugh ´91
Ms. Nina McNeely Diefenbach ´80
Ms. Chris Elia ´96
Mrs. Pamela Hickory Esterson ´90
Arlene A. Forastiere, M.D. ´71
Ms. Kathleen L. Frederick ´71
Ms. Karen C. Go ´98
Ms. Trude J. Goodman ´03
Ms. Donna F. Haghighat ´89
Ms. Krista L. R. Hardie ´01
Mrs. Ann Carroll Harris ´71
Karen A. Jeffers, Esq. ´76
Mrs. Lisa Marinello Jones ´84
Miyuki Kaneko, Esq. ´85
Mrs. Mary Jo Matel Keating ´74
Ms. Joyce Ann Krinitsky ´73
Mrs. Karen Fink Kupferberg ´73
Ms. Patti Mantell-Broad ´73
Ms. Nina Chiara McElroy ´80
Lina M. McKinney, Esq. ´98
Mrs. Joy Tomlinson McLendon ´79
Mrs. Alexis Brashich Morledge ´90
Prof.  Alice M. O'Connor ´80
Mrs. Elaine Feldman Patterson ´76
Ms. Carolyn A. Pelzel ´74
Mrs. Jocelyn J. Pickford ´99
Mrs. Margaret-Mary V. Preston ´79
Ms. Shakira A. Ramos ´02
Ms. Pamela M. Richmond ´93
Mrs. Anne Tolley Rotondo ´79
Ms. Terrie S. Rouse ´74
Ms. Virginia Sanchez ´77
Ms. Ann Newman Selvitelli ´91
Ms. Susannah Smetana ´91
Michelle Stone, M.D. ´95
Mrs. Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh ´80
Ms. Rhea Pincus Turteltaub ´82
Ms. Jean M. Walshe ´83
Susan E. Weisselberg, Esq. ´76
Ms. Margaret J. Young ´76
Mrs. Courtney Cimilluca Zanelli ´90