Trumbull Notes 10-5-15

October 5, 2015

Well, the weather turned cold and rainy late last week and into Saturday.  Our courtyard was soggy so the TCC had to make the call to cancel our dance floor and tent for the courtyard and to move the event in side.  Many, many changes had to be made quickly and many, many TCC members came through for Trumbull’s TrumBall. 

Huge thanks go to Victoria Hernandez who oversaw the entire event and was present and working hard for a long time before Saturday but especially on Saturday (and into the early morning hours of Sunday.)  She didn’t leave until the last things were put away around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning. 

Also involved and working hard from beginning of the planning to end of the clean-up were our TCC presidents Al Nurani and Zak Kayal

Thanks also go to the set up crew:  Catalina Sequeira, Carlin Zia, Mercedes Martinez, Victoria Hall, Irene Jiang & Colin Burke.  They created the photo booth, put up lanterns/balloons, prepared and set up good and drinks, and transformed out dining hall and common room for the event.

Thanks as well to Jihad Womack   who returned for a second year of being our photographer.  We had lots of people in that photo booth and he worked all night taking pictures.  We should have wonderful pictures available soon.

The graphic designer for posters was Catherine Yang.  Also Brooke Eastman and Diego Fernandez-Pages worked (along with Zak Kayal) cutting up cheese and arranging platters on Friday.  

A special thanks goes to the only non-TCC/non SAC Trumbull person who volunteered to help with clean up:  Seamus Houlihan.   (Your fellow Trumbullians really, really appreciated you! Me too.)

Finally, on the staff side our operations manager Deb Bellmore dealt with the financial side of things, with ordering the tent and dance floor and hiring electricians and getting permits to set things up in the courtyard, and then with monitoring the weather all week finally making the call (with the TCC) to move inside.  Not just that, rather than giving up 50% of the cost of that tent and floor, she secured it for next year (with no loss) when we will move this dance to and earlier, warmer date.  Note that Deb too was here from early evening on Saturady to 1:30 a.m. on Sunday helping out.  Thanks!

A busy week followed by a quiet one

Last week was a busy one with two teas, a sophomore dessert reception and a study break in the house.  One tea was large; the second, with Jonathan Holloway, was far smaller.  Yet I personally felt it was wonderful and I thank those who came. I am very grateful to Jonathan who stayed for two hours and couldn’t have been warmer or more eloquent in talking about his work on Jim Crow Memories, his personal family experiences in Alabama and in Maryland and about some of  his experiences here in Connecticut raising his family.  

This week is a quieter one in Trumbull.  There’s work to be done and……

There are cups to return to the dining hall!

You may have noticed over the weekend that the dining hall is short on coffee cups.

They weren’t short on coffee cups at the beginning of the semester.  These cups are especially likely to disappear from the dining hall and not reappear.  If you have cups in your rooms, please return them to the dining hall.

You’ll have noticed that the fruit bar was back in the dining hall on Saturday, if in a smaller edition.  I’m also working with the dining hall on this.  We’re also working to bring back romantic Fridays in the dining hall.  More on that in a bit.