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DUTCH BARHYDT '81, M'04, P'08
I had been coming to the Trinity campus with my dad (Trinity class of '53) for Homecoming since I was a really young kid. We spent hours at Jesse Field (now Jesse-Miller Field) watching the Trinity football team and hearing the carillon on sparkling fall afternoons. Why would I choose to go anywhere else?
How about two?! First, meeting my my wife-to-be in our senior year, and both flunking the midterm exam in Jack Chatfield's American History survey course because we studied for it together. We studied separately for the final and each got an "A." Second, being invited to watch our son (Trinity '08) being initiated into his fraternity, which was also mine - and my dad's.
This is a tough one! Jack Chatfield, because his knowledge and enthusiasm made you want to learn and John Dando, because his two Shakespeare courses were unforgettable, and his standards were so high. Renny Fulco, who I encountered in my first class in the graduate program in Public Policy, and who I submitted my thesis to four years later. When you think, as an adult, that you'd like to return to the college classroom, and you do, you would be incredibly lucky to have Renny Fulco as your professor.
How great it is to be a member of a real community, where you are known for what you do well, and what you might wish you hadn't done at all! And how to build and enjoy and treasure lifelong friendships.
My family, my classmates (both undergraduate and from my graduate years), wonderful alumni, fellow Trinity parents, and for the past seven years, great colleagues on the staff and faculty.
As an undergraduate, "The Short Stories" by Ernest Hemingway. Each one was better than the last one.
As a graduate student, "Policy Paradox" by Deborah Stone. It opened up an exciting return to the classroom.
Just about everything that is important in my life has a Trinity association, so giving back is natural. As an investment, I can't think of any better use for our philanthropic dollars than helping Trinity thrive for the students of today and the students of tomorrow.
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