TrumBulletin 8-27-18

August 27, 2018

To our new Trumbull Class of 2022, welcome!  To all our upperclass Trumbullians, welcome back!

I was here in Trumbull College most of the summer (with the exception of one trip to a conference in Colorado and some vacation with family in Rhode Island.)  Our Dean, our residential fellows, Deb Bellmore, Debbie Rueb and Leah Jehan also have been here much of the summer spending much of their time preparing for your arrival. 

Yet during the summer most of our physical facilities in Trumbull are full with people attending programs coordinated by Yale’s Summer Events and Programs staff.  They are pleasant but we don’t know them.  It truly feels so good to have our real Trumbullians all here and to have our true Trumbull community alive and buzzing once again. 

I hope everyone’s summer was enjoyable, stimulating and relaxing and that you all got to reconnect with family and friends before returning. 

Our opening days events focus on our new class, as always, with move in, the picnic, many orientation meetings and the first year dinner activities for all will begin again soon.

Two Trumbull traditions are coming up again soon.  I want to alert you to the dates.

 
Saturday, Sept. 8th Trum-Sailing out of Mystic, Ct.

First, our annual Trumbull Sailing Trip from Mystic, Ct.  will occur on Saturday, Sept. 8th.  Sign up in the office if you’d like to do.  (For new students, what you do is to go to the Trumbull Aides desk in the main office.  Sign up there.  If the trip is full, put your name on the waiting list.)  Check out the pictures in the Art Gallery from last year’s trip. 

We travel by bus to Mystic, leaving Saturday morning, sail for a couple of hours (while having lunch on the boat) and return to Trumbull in plenty of time for any evening activities you might have planned.  It’s a good chance to see a part of Connecticut (the coast to the east of New Haven) that many Yalies never see) and, of course, the ocean. 
 
Saturday, Sept. 29th, evening: TrumBALL

Join us for our Trumbull College Council sponsored TrumBALL in our courtyard.  We put down a dance floor.  We put up lights and we hire a DJ.  We have food and drinks available all evening during the TrumBALL.  If you’re new, you might check out the pictures from last year’s dance which are currently in the Art Gallery.

Congratulations to Thiago Sousa (Leah Jehan’s husband) on becoming a new US Citizen!
Thiago has been a Trumbull citizen ever since Leah began working here.  As of last week, he is also a U.S. citizen.  Can’t think of a better one!
 
 
Thank yous

Trum-Thanks go to Seamus Houlihan for organizing our Moo-v-in crew, to Deb Bellmore for staffing our food tent during move in, to our FroCos for their hard work during orientation, to Debbie Rueb and Karen Eisenman for pulling off the move in reception complete with lots of food, good cheer and good weather, to Debbie Rueb for coordinating the art gallery exhibition, and to Dean Chandhoke for leading many  meetings this past week and this week and for being the Trumbull-star on Yale’s Public Relations video about move in day.  (If you haven’t seen it, you can find it on Yale’s website.)  Thanks too to our Trumbull Aides for staffing the desk throughout this past weekend. 
 
Have a facilities issue in Trumbull proper? 

Email kodi.scott@yale.edu  (Trumbull’s facilities manager) and/or go to www.facilities.yale.edu and follow their directions.  You can also call 203-432-6888.  (They classify problems as emergencies, urgent and routine.  Follow their directions.)

Have a facilities issue in Bingham Hall?
Email georgetta.sheppard@yale.edu (Old Campus’s facilities superintendent).   You can also call 203-432-6888.  (They classify problems as emergencies, urgent and routine.  Follow their directions.)

I know, I know.  Dean Chandhoke can address almost all worries but note Dean Chandhoke does not take care of facilities problems.  Start with our facilities managers.  Do copy me (Margaret.clark@yale.edu) and our Operations Manager (Deborah.bellmore@yale.edu) on your requests so we know of the problems.
 
What if you are in Trumbull proper and you don’t have a closet and there is no armoire in your room?

I have had at least one report of this being true.  If this is true for you, please write directly to our facilities manager Kodi Scott and she will arrange for you to have the proper furniture. 
 
Meeting with me? 

I will be posting regular office hours soon and you may always check in with my senior AA Debbie Rueb if you wish to schedule an appointment with me.  It doesn’t have to be an emergency to come visit.
 
Have an idea of a speaker whom you’d like to see at a Trumbull Tea?  

Send your ideas along.  If you have a connection to someone whom you think others in Trumbull would like to meet and hear from, please let me know.  Many of our Trumbull Teas have come about in this way for people with personal connections with someone here are often enthusiastic about joining us.  The person might be an artist, chef, public servant, someone who has experienced something of great interest, a comedian.   

Note:  We also welcome your families’ new puppies or kittens as guests.  They tend to be very popular!