200 Stories

Through the collective experiences of this extraordinary community, we define the spirit that makes us distinctly Trinity. Over the course of the Bicentennial year, we will collect 200 stories of our people, places, and this liberal arts education—some personal, some from existing publications. We invite you to join and share this communal storytelling project.

Tony Piccirillo ’75

A Tripod editor taught me how to write by rejecting my words nearly in their entirety and assisting me in a total rewrite.

Tony Piccirillo ’75: Rewrite

Eileen Kern ’81

I had never even heard of the sport of squash … and ended up playing varsity squash my junior and senior year.

Eileen Kern ’81

Alex Achimore ’71

Her real name was Starr, but we, at least the particular circle I was in along with Kit Briggs ’69, Bill O’Reilly ’71, Russ Kelly ’71, and Chuck Shouse ’71, also called her ‘the Quad Queen.’

Alex Achimore ’71

David Holroyd ’63

I made Dean’s List as a freshman, struggled as a sophomore, and did fine from then on with some very special classmates and friends, mostly from Q.E.D.

David Holroyd ’63

Bicentennial Essay

Robert Stepto ’66, retired in 2019 as the John M. Schiff professor emeritus of African American studies, English, and American studies at Yale University, where he taught for 45 years.

A Greyhound Kind of Mood

Captain on the Gridiron and in the Air

Charles Hurd Howell, Class of 1912, captain of the undefeated 1911 Trinity football team and later a captain in the British Flying Corps during World War I.

Captain on the Gridiron and in the Air