Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
ASK NORWICH TRINITY ALUMNI
 TO GIVE TO CENTENNIAL FUND

A number of Norwich men, alumni of Trinity college, have been asked to con tribute to the Centennial Fund of S1,5OO.- 900 which the college is to raise by May, 1923, the centennial of the granting of the charter to the college by the general assembly. The fund is to be used to in- crease the endowment of the college, to raise the salaries of the members of the faculty and to build a new gymnasium.
 "S100,000 by Commencement is the slogan which has been adopted by the centennial fund for the intensive cam paign which is now being carried on among the alumni. At present the fund is just short of S300,000 and the added $100,000 is needed in order to insure the contribution of, the Rockefeller Founda- tion, which has agreed to give $125, ,000 to Trinity as soon as the alumni of the college raise S375,000.
 Norwich, with eighteen Trinity alumni here is the third town in the state in number of Trinity alumni only Hartford and New Haven having a greater mum Der of former students at the Hartford college than Norwich. Besides the alumni here, there are three Norwich men in the student body at Trinity now. as well as two from Yantic. one from Baltic and one from Jewett City.
 Among the Norwich alumni of the col J. graduated in 1883, Thomas C. Brown who was graduated in 1913. and W. Tyler | Olcott who was graduated in 1896. MT. | Olcutt holds the honorary degree of mas l ter of arts from Trinity, conferred in 1 1912, and Principal Henry A. Tirrel of | the Academy holds an honorary degree, conferred in 1914. Other Trinity men | in Norwich include Edward G. Mckay, 1 who is a member of the Academy faculty, and Harrison Crane Moves. More recent 1 graduates are Myron and Seymour Jack son, James and Edward Murray. Robert 2. Cross Thomas K. James, Raymond T. J. Higgins Austin A. King and Dr. Nich- olas V Walsh.
 Norwich men at Trinity have always been among the leaders in campus activi- 1 ties, Mckay. the NIurrays and Jacksons being prominent in athletics, while James won the coveted Phi Beta Kappa key l awarded for scholastic merit. Of the un- dergraduates now in college, Harold T Slattery a former Norwich boy, now ot Bridgeport, Is president of the Politica Science club. senior cheer leader, and 2 member of the baseball squad. Robert D. Byrnes is editor of the college paper secretary of the college senate, the stu | dent government body, and has recently been elected editor of the publication ot his class after graduation. Herbert J Ferguson is a member of the baseball team and has been very prominent in the organization of the non-fraternity body at college this year.
 By some strange coincidence, Norwich men seem to follow more or less in the
 footsteps of their predecessors at Trin- ity, anE the undergraduates in college al any ole time seem to form sort of 2 closed corporation and secure more off ces in proportion to their numbers thar the representatives of any other city, and often more than the entire delegations o1 some states. During the recent cam
 paign, when the Trinity students organ
 ized an Anson T. McCook club to supper the republican candidate for mayor Nor
 wich got all the offices, Slattery being
 president and Byrnes secretary. the hun
 dred or more other students who were il the club being simply members. Myro1
 Jackson was a predecessor of Slatter5
 as president of the Political Science
 Club, Mckay and Murray both headed the athletic association, both Jackson:
 played football, Byrnes and Slattery ar, in both the senate and the interfrater
 nity council and Ferguson and Slater! are both on the baseball squad this year