Fall 2015

Trinity Sisterhood Rotterman Scholars By Ann Pauley For Natalie Prince ’16 and Anna Roland ’16, the power of the Trinity sisterhood began long before they applied to college. Brenna Doherty ’13, who had already graduated from Chaminade Julienne High School in Dayton, Ohio, and was enrolled at Trinity as a Rotterman Scholar, encouraged them to...

Trinity Academic Center Construction of the Trinity Academic Center is just past the mid-point, and is on schedule and under budget. The $40 million, 80,000-square foot building, featuring 12 state-of-the-art science and nursing laboratories and more than 20 classrooms and seminar spaces, will welcome students in August 2016 at the start of the fall semester....

The Future of Nursing Joanne & William Conway Scholarship Program By Timothy Russell Meet Belinda Mensah, Taylour Gardiner and Shirley Salazar. All three are disarmingly candid about the challenges they have faced, and rightly proud of achievements they have nonetheless accomplished. Their triumphs include the prestigious Joanne and William Conway Scholarship, awarded to them through...

Saying Thank You Shannon Scholars By Kathleen Hallahan Zeifang ’72 Celeste Pitter ’18 entered Trinity as a freshman with the confidence to tackle a major in criminal justice and minor in sociology, having been the valedictorian of her D.C. public high school class. Pitter was named one of eight freshman Shannon Scholars, a new scholarship...

Renaissance Women Clare Boothe Luce scholars By Phil Reese Chemistry is her passion, but for Clare Boothe Luce Scholar Asya Tucker ’15, it was soccer that initially attracted her to Trinity. Prior to transferring to Trinity, Tucker, of Heidelberg, Germany, attended a college in Pennsylvania where she played soccer. Tucker, who graduated from Trinity in...

My Whole World Changed DREAMER SCHOLARS By Ann Pauley As a senior in high school in Monroe, Georgia, in 2005, as her friends were getting acceptance letters and planning to go off to college, Sadhana Singh knew that “college was just not in the cards for me. I was raring to go, but I had...

Campaign for Trinity’s Second Century Soars Past $25 Million The Campaign for Trinity’s Second Century is closing in on its $30 million goal, reaching nearly $26 million this summer. A bequest from Jeanne Ann Griffin ’48 of more than $380,000 launched the Science Equipment Fund with a goal of $1 million to purchase state-of-the-art instrumentation...

“Grit Will Keep You Moving – Audacity Gets You Soaring!” These were the inspiring words of Trinity Commencement speaker Patty Q. Stonesifer, president and CEO of Martha’s Table and the founding CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Thousands gathered on the Main Lawn for Trinity’s Commencement, at which Stonesifer told the graduates to...

Dear Friends, When I was a junior in high school, I remember the great delight I took in visiting Trinity for the first time, and the big dreams I had for studying politics in Washington. But upon returning home from that trip, the hard reality set in: with seven children to support and only my...