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Inaugural Webcast

To view the Webcast of the Inaugural Ceremony, you will need RealPlayer and a modem connection of at least 28.8 K or a high speed Internet connection.   Please note, separate links for specific parts of the ceremony are provided to facilitate viewing.


Launch Webcast: part one            Launch Webcast: part two 


Part one includes:

PROCESSIONAL
The Trinity College Pipes and Drums

Quiet City Brass Quintet and Friends
Ceremonial Music for Brass and Timpani -
Tielmann Susato, Benedetto Marcello, and William Byrd

INVOCATION
The Reverend Fr. Michael Dolan, Roman Catholic Chaplain

Lisa Pleskow Kassow, Trinity College Hillel, Director

"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"
The Trinity College Concert Choir
Directed by Gerald Moshell, Professor of Music
Leslie A. Waters '06, Soloist

GREETINGS FROM THE STUDENTS
Isaac E. Goldstein '05,
Student Government Association, President

GREETINGS FROM THE PARENTS
Alexander P. Lynch P'03, '04, '07,
Trinity College Parents' Association, Co-President

GREETINGS FROM THE FACULTY
Carol Clark, Secretary of the Faculty

GREETINGS FROM THE STAFF
Robin S. Kelly,
Improved Personnel Advisory Committee at Trinity, Chair

GREETINGS FROM THE ALUMNI
Harold A. Smullen, Jr. '76,
National Alumni Association, President,
and Alumni Trustee

GREETINGS FROM THE CITY OF HARTFORD
Eddie A. Perez '96, Mayor

GREETINGS FROM THE ACADEMY
William C. Kirby,
Harvard University, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
and Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History

Morton Owen Schapiro,
Williams College, President,
and Professor of Economics

Diana Chapman Walsh,
Wellesley College, President

"HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND"
Elizabeth Lyra Ross '74, Soprano
Accompanied by Gerald Moshell, Professor of Music

Part two includes:

PRESENTATION OF THE PRESIDENT
William C. Richardson '62,
Trinity College, Former Trustee
Johns Hopkins University, President Emeritus
W. K. Kellogg Foundation, President and Chief Executive Officer

INVESTITURE
Paul E. Raether '68, P'93, '96, '01,
Board of Trustees, Chair

THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS
"Of Schools On Hills Aegean, Irish, and Otherwise"
  James F. Jones, Jr.
21st President of the College
and Trinity College Professor in the Humanities

A PRAYER FOR THE COLLEGE
The Right Reverend Andrew D. Smith '65,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
and Board of Fellows Member

"CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR"
The Trinity College Concert Choir
Directed by Gerald Moshell, Professor of Music
Vaughn J. Mauren '07, Pianist

BENEDICTION
The Right Reverend Arthur E. Walmsley '48,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, Retired
and Former Trustee

ALMA MATER: 'NEATH THE ELMS
The Trinity College Chapel Singers
Directed by John Rose, College Organist

RECESSIONAL
Quiet City Brass Quintet and Friends
March - Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov


Video production by the Trinity College Media Technology Services, directed by Philip Duffy.


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