Boys & Girls Club Wins Community Partnership Award

Trinity College and the Boys & Girls Club at Trinity College were honored at a community luncheon last month with the 2002 Mutual of America Foundation Community partnership Award.  The award includes $25,000 for the Boys & Girls Club as well as a video production of the College's partnership with the foundation.   (Pictured left to right) Ted Herman, vice chairman of the Mutual of America Foundation; Sarah Stevens, president of the Boys & Girls Club; Ken Darden, executive director of the Club; Thomas Gilliam, chairman of the Mutual of America Foundation; Richard H. Hersh, president of Trinity College; Luis Caban, executive director of SINA.

Hugh Ogden awarded Island Institute fellowship

Professor of English Hugh Ogden was awarded a residency at the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska for the month of January. According to the Institute’s literature, this resident fellows program seeks “to integrate the perspectives of the humanities, arts, and sciences in ways that recognize and explore community values.” 

“I feel lucky to be able to do my own work in a place that is one of the most striking I have ever been in,” Ogden reported last month during his residency. 

Residents are expected to take part in at least one community activity each week. This includes a public reading or talk about their work at the beginning and conclusion of their stay in Sitka. Ogden says the Institute has in the past selected important writers such as Terry Tempest Williams, John Haines, Linda Hogan, and Bill Kittridge, for its residencies and summer symposia. Ogden, who joined Trinity’s faculty in 1967, is on sabbatical this semester.

Students and members of the faculty and administration participate in the "March for King," commemorating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.