Trumbulletin 3-9-21
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Trumbull Notes
Trumbulletin 2-22-21
I hope you all are enjoying the first break day of the semester and that all will be doing something to relax. As those of you who are enrolled in person and are using the dining hall in Trumbull will realize by now (assuming you haven’t slept late and missed both breakfast and lunch!), I decided to celebrate this first break day by making a variety of games, puzzles, art materials, and food items available to you all as you pass through the Common Room. The idea is just to be light hearted and to do something different today.
Letter from Head Clark
Dear All,
I write because, after all of you received a notice about our empty rooms in Trumbull remaining empty and being locked, concerns arose about facilities people entering your suites thereby breaking Quarantine and Pod regulations. I also write just to convey some information about why these rooms are off limits and about keeping us all safe.
Trumbulletin Snow Storm Edition 2-1-21
EATING IN TRUMBUL during the snowstorm: The dining hall will close today after lunch and remain closed until tomorrow’s lunch. This is to allow all workers to get safely home and to stay safe during the current snowstorm. You will already have been notified but I remind you to pick up lunch, dinner (for tonight) and breakfast (for tomorrow morning), at lunch today. (In other words, even if you might have skipped lunch today, don’t! You’ll need to pick up food to carry you through the storm especially because we can
Trumbulletin Snow Storm Edition 2-1-21
EATING IN TRUMBUL during the snowstorm: The dining hall will close today after lunch and remain closed until tomorrow’s lunch. This is to allow all workers to get safely home and to stay safe during the current snowstorm. You will already have been notified but I remind you to pick up lunch, dinner (for tonight) and breakfast (for tomorrow morning), at lunch today. (In other words, even if you might have skipped lunch today, don’t! You’ll need to pick up food to carry you through the storm especially because we can
Trumbulletin 1-30-21
Welcome back to Trumbull to all. And, a very special welcome back to our sophomores who not only had to leave abruptly last spring (along with everyone else) but also were not allowed to enroll in person in the fall. We missed you! We’re happy you are back.
CoVID Cautions
Trumbulletin 12-17-20
The end of the semester has arrived. We made it through. There is a vaccine now. We may not all get it for awhile but many at Yale New Haven Hospital have already received it. I thank all of you for your patience all fall. We’ll need more in the spring but we can manage.
TrumBulletin 11-19-20
The semester is not over. Yet the end of our in-residence portion of this semester is upon us.
It is a bittersweet time. It has been wonderful to welcome our new First-Year students into the college and to welcome back most of our upperclass students. And yet it’s clear that the need for our in-residence portion of the semester to end early was the right call. CoVID rates are rising quickly in the country, in Connecticut, in New Haven and in Yale College. Traveling home and back would have been unwise.
Trumbulletin 11-9-20
We’re almost to Thanksgiving. The election has been called. The weather is beautiful which is a real blessing given the pandemic. And, promising news about a vaccine that appears to be 90% effective was announced this morning. Academic work is getting done. We’re still doing O.K. here in Trumbull even with a few of us quarantined or isolated. (I do wish those students well and urge you to contact me anytime if you have a need or just feel like talking.)
Trumbulletin 11-2-20
Tomorrow is the election and, undoubtedly, most of us will be watching the news unfold
throughout the evening (and, perhaps, throughout the coming weeks and even months).
It’s an election with unprecedented turnout and associated with strong feelings.
From a Trumbull perspective, I am worried about the well-being of the college as for tomorrow evening and for the coming days as well as you all negotiate your feelings about the election and all the work to which you still must attend.
