Congratulations: Trumbull has won the Gimbel Cup
With great pleasure I announce that Trumbull College (out of all 14 colleges) has won the Gimbel High Scholarship Prize this year. The standing of a Residential College for purposes of this prize is based on the grade-point average of students in the Class of 2019, 2020 and 2021. The Spring term of the previous academic year (Spring 2018) and the Fall term (2019) of the current academic year are the semesters used in the calculations. (That means the current term for all remaining in the college will count toward next year. First years do matter!) Congratulations to you all.
The cup (see picture with a few Trumbullian seniors) now sits in the Trumbull House. We will display it at events throughout the end of this year, at graduation and then throughout next year. With great good fortune we will then hold on to it for longer. (I’ll host lots of study breaks to support this endeavor.)
The cup is named for Colonel Richard Gimbel of the Class of 1920 and has been awarded to a residential college each year since 1957. We first won it in 1958-59 and last won it in 2007-08, I’m glad it’s back in the college.
If you’d like to have your picture taken with the cup, just let me know. I’ve had several people comment, “Well, I didn’t contribute to that.” But the fact is, all sophmores, juniors and seniors contributed to that average and I’m proud of the college as a whole.
The Final Cut: Come cheer Trumbull on
Trumbull’s representative’s in Yale Hospitality’s Final Cut competition are Sopha Deschiffart and Emma Sargent. They did a great job cooking in the first-round competition, they are moving on to cook again in the second round at Yale on York tonight. Come down and cheer them on. The event as a whole starts at 5 p.m. with each team starting at slightly different times.
Two Trumbull Teas this week
Come join in for two Trumbull Teas this week, the first one is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4 p.m. in the Trumbull House; the second is on Friday of this week at 5 p.m. in the House.
Tuesday, April 9th at 4 p.m. in the Trumbull House: Neal Baer, award winning television showrunner, television writer/producer and public health advocate and expert.
Dr. Baer is the showrunner and executive producer of “Designated Survivor,” which will air on Netflix early this summer. He was executive producer of two of television’s most popular network series – “Law & Order: SVU” and “ER.” He was also executive producer of the hit CBS series “Under the Dome” and the medical drama “A Gifted Man,” also for CBS. Dr. Baer is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and did his internship in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California while he was a showrunner on “ER” and “SVU.” He has teaching appointments at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, where he is also on Harvard Medical School’s Board of Fellows. He was a trustee of the Writers Guild of America Health and Pension Fund for ten years, is a trustee of Colorado College, and is on the board of the ONE Archives, the largest LGBTQ archives in the world. This past May, he gave the 2018 Harvard University Medical School commencement address. Dr. Baer is the co-author of two novels, “Kill Switch” and “Kill Again.” He resides in Los Angeles, California.
Friday, April 12 at 5 p.m. in the Trumbull House: Vanessa Friedman, Fashion Director and Chief Fashion Critic at the New York Times.
Friedman was the Fashion Features Director for InStyle, UK. Prior to this, she worked as a Fashion Correspondent for the Financial Times, as an Arts Contributor at The Economist, and was the European Editor at Elle, US. She has written extensively on a freelance basis for Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair
In March 2014, Friedman was named the “fashion director and chief fashion critic” of The New York Times.