Kevin J. McMahon gives inaugural Reitemeyer Associate Professorship lecture

Kevin J. McMahon, the John Reinhart Reitemeyer Associate Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, delivered his inaugural lecture on April 7. McMahon’s lecture, “Nixon’s Court: The Silent majority and the Conservative Counterrevolution That Was,” examined how President Richard Nixon’s judicial policy succeeded in bringing a conservative tilt to the U.S. Supreme Court. McMahon is currently working on a book of the same title for the University of Chicago Press. McMahon’s book, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown, won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published on the American presidency in 2004. McMahon joined the Trinity faculty in 2005.

The John Reinhart Reitemeyer Professorship of Political Science was endowed at the College in 1982 through the bequest of Gertrude B. Reitemeyer of Barkhamsted, Connecticut, in memory of her husband. John R. Reitemeyer was a member of the Class of 1921. Upon graduation he embarked on a career in journalism that culminated in his service as president and publisher of the Hartford Courant from 1947-1968. Reitemeyer was a Trustee of the College from 1950 until his death in 1979. By 2008, the Reitemeyer endowment had grown sufficiently to support a second faculty position. The Reitemeyer professorships are currently held by McMahon and Anthony Messina.

 

Forty years of coeducation at Trinity to be celebrated in 2009-2010

Lectures, symposia, conferences, classes, performances, and exhibitions are being planned for academic year 2009-2010 in celebration of forty years of co-education at Trinity. The anniversary year will begin with a symposium on October 8 on the history of the College going co-ed in 1969. Look for a feature article in the fall issue of the Reporter. For more information on the celebration, please go to www.trincoll.edu/Alumni/getinvolved/womens.htm.