Trinity 2009 eZine

Welcome

Notices

Trinity Today - Photography competition

Snap happy? Trinity Today Photography Competition is now open to all students, staff and graduates of Trinity College Dublin. The theme of the competition is “Trinity Today” – providing applicants with artistic license to submit images that capture the character and spirit of the College. The winning images will be used in ‘Trinity Today’, the annual alumni magazine published each October for 60,000 alumni. Closing date for entries July 1st 2009 – get shooting today! Entries will be divided into three categories 1) Students, 2) Staff & 3) Alumni. Each category will have a winner and a number of runners up; from which the overall competition winner will be selected. Prizes include a digital SLR camera for the overall winner and vouchers ranging from €25 to €250 for runners up.

Download your application form and competition out line here. For more information T: 01 896 8522 E: alumni.relations@tcd.ie

Calling all alumni resident in India

Trinity Alumni Indian Chapter requests graduates resident in India to please contact Mr Sai Prakash TCD-MBA 1975

Trinity's new Biosciences Development

Trinity's new Biosciences Development website was recently launched. Please help us to make the building a reality. See www.tcd.ie/biosciences/get-involved

Trinity Tales

Trinity Tales a book charting the rich and varied experiences of thirty four Trinity students in the sixties is now available to buy. If you were at Trinity in the 60s you simply have to read it. Costing 20 euro, all proceeds of the book go to to the Long Room. Trinity Tales is available to purchase in TCD’s Library Shop, enquiries to Simon Williams.

Family Notices

In Memoriam

The College community, and in particular the staff and students of the School of Medicine, extend  their  deepest sympathies to the families of Aisling Butler, Jane Deasy and Eithne Walls at this most difficult time. The loss of such young, vibrant and promising women at the outset of their careers in medicine and in such tragic circumstances has stunned the College from which they so recently graduated. Our thoughts are with the families and their former classmates. Books of Condolences are located in the Enquiries Office, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin. For further details please see Tribute to TCD Graduates

Class Notes

Eibhlin Maire Heffernan B.A. (1990)

Has recently returned to Ireland as Customer Care Manager for O2 Ireland.

Rosita Boland B.A. (1988)

A features writer at The Irish Times, last year Rosita received a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and has been there for the past academic year.

We'd be delighted to hear from graduates with news of themselves or their peers. Please email your news (50 words) with a recent photo (jpg) to alumni.relations@tcd.ie. Submissions received will appear in the Class Notes section of Trinity Today or the alumni e-zine.

Alumni Events

On this page:

• Napoleon Exhibition
• TCD Association Victoria Australia Annual Dinner
• TCD Association Scotland
• TCD Association Oxford Summer Event
• TCD Association Yorkshire Branch Buffet Supper & Summer Concert
• Graduate Reunion Weekend

For a full schedule of events in TCD please see: www.tcd.ie/Alumni/events/tcdevents/index.php

For a full schedule of Branch events please see: www.tcd.ie/Alumni/events/branch.php

Napoleon Exhibition 18 June to 02 November 2009

Even to-day Napoleon casts a long shadow in Europe. This exhibition will examine his career and political philosophy through the use of contemporary image and print from the Library’s rich collection of 19th Century French materials, showing his meteoric rise and fall and the consequences of his reign for France. Further information

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TCD Association Victoria Australia Annual Dinner Friday 10 July 2009 at 7pm

University House, University of Melbourne (Parkville), Upper East Dinning Room Cost: $70 per person, includes pre-dinner drinks, wine and a 3 course meal. For reservations please contact Ciaran Horgan before 1 July 2009.

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TCD Association Scotland

The annual summer outing will take place on Saturday 1 August 2009. Lunch at the Carlton Hotel Edinburgh Saturday 26 September 2009. Guest Speaker: Senator Ivana Bacik, LL.B. For further details contact Christopher P Haviland.

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TCD Association Oxford Summer Event Friday 10 July 2009

Reception and Lunch in Wadham College.Pre-luncheon Pimms Reception in the ante-chapel between midday and 1 pm, followed by lunch in Hall, after which Bernard O’Donoghue, a leading Irish contemporary poet, Fellow of Wadham, will introduce and read some of his work. Cost: £45 person. For reservations contact Martin Gaughan or T: 01865 552051

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TCD Association Yorkshire Branch Buffet Supper & Summer Concert Saturday 11 July 2009

Buffet Supper at Michael & Rosemary Hannon's house in Sheffield at 5pm, followed by the Abbeydale Singers' Summer Concert at 7.30 pm in St John's Church, Ranmoor. The concert will include the World Premiere of a specially commissioned setting of Yeats's poem He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by the distinguished York-based composer Andrew Carter. Cost: Buffet Supper £13 per head; concert £10 or £7 (concessions). For further details contact Michael Hannon or T: 0114 230 2667.

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Graduate Reunion Weekend 28–30 August 2009

Reminder for all graduates whose year of graduation ends in a ‘4’ or a ‘9’.  There are a few places left at this special event where you can meet up with classmates and revisit old haunts in your alma mater.  A full social programme is planned for the weekend and accommodation is available in student rooms. See Graduate Reunion for full details.

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Alumni Branch News

On this page:

• Mid Atlantic Branch
• New York Alumni Group
• TCD Young Alumni London
• TCD Association & Trust

Mid Atlantic Branch

Front from left: Kathleen (Katrina) Sharkey M.A. (1978), Sally Waddington M.B.1987, (Branch Chair), Imogen Sharkey, Paula Donovan, B.A. 1975, Brenda Kelliher M.Ed. (1989). Back row (hidden): Donal Donovan, B.A. (1973), Henry Willett, Betsy O’Day H.Dip.Ed. (1968), John Dardis M.A.Ph.D. (1952), Eugenio Cerutti, Julia Sinead Cerutti, Sarah O’Byrne Cerutti B.A. 2002 The Mid Atlantic Branch has been active this winter and spring, with two get-togethers in Washington DC, a party at the home of Doug B.A.I. (1972) and Linda Syme, Downingtown PA, and a recent get-together the home of Donal B.A. (1973) and Paula Donovan B.A. (1979) in Great Falls VA.  Judy O’Connor B.B.S. (1971) who left before the group photo was taken, also attended.

We are looking forward to more parties this year – moving around the region to the home of the various members who kindly invite the local graduates and those who enjoy a drive and a pleasant day.

Brenda Kelliher M.Ed. (1979) Secretary E tcdalumni@comcast.net

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New York Alumni Group

(l - r): Kerry Murphy Healey, Dr Gerard McHugh, Shane Naughton, Anthony J. Murphy TCD's School of Business and the New York Alumni Group hosted a panel discussion on ‘Transformation; the Socio-Economic and Political Factors Influencing Change’ in New York’s Cosmopolitan Club on 3 June last. Over 80 alumni and friends enjoyed a stimulating and thought provoking event. Panellists on the evening were Dr Gerard McHugh, Head of the School of Business, TCD, Kerry Murphy Healey, Fellow, Harvard Institute of Politics, Anthony (Tony) J. Murphy, Senior Executive Vice President, and Shane Naughton, Vice President, Thomson Reuters.

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TCD Young Alumni London

On Saturday 16 May the Trinity College Dublin Young Alumni hosted a black-tie evening for nearly 200 TCD  graduates at the prestigious Landmark Hotel in Marylebone in central London. Beginning with a champagne reception in the hotel's gazebo, the guests sat down to dinner in the Grand Ballroom.  Live music and dancing continued until the early on Sunday morning.   For over thirty years, alumni in London have run their own version of the Trinity Ball, to bring together some of the 20,000 TCD graduates living and working in London and around London. Young Alumni Committee chairman Kevin Keane introduced guest speaker Dr. John Fingleton. John began his academic career at Trinity, earning his B.A. in economics with a gold medal before doing a doctorate at Oxford. He returned to lecture at Trinity from 1990-2000 and also taught at the University of Chicago and London School of  Economics.   He was appointed to lead the Competition Authority in Dublin in 2000. John was appointed to head the UK’s competition watchdog, the Office of Fair Trading, in 2005, where he has continued to champion the consumer in work in the supermarkets and banking sectors and aviation. John described his experience of coming to Trinity in the mid-eighties, only the second person from his Christian Brother’s school in Portlaoise to have done so, as being like moving from an alleyway to a wide boulevard, with him flourishing under Trinity’s open and pluralist values. John urged the audience to hold on to their relationship with Ireland and the values that they had taken from there, particularly their links with Trinity through organisations such as the Young Alumni.

To view photos from the evening please see, www.flickr.com/photos/peternolan/sets/72157618265748915/

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TCD Association & Trust

The Annual Dinner of the TCD Association & Trust was held on Friday 15 May 2009 in the Dining Hall.  Mark Pollock, B.A., Sportsman, Adventurer & International Speaker, enthralled the guests with tales of his amazing endeavours and adventures. Since Mark went blind at the age of 22 while preparing for his final examinations, he has lived life to the full overcoming the daily trials of life. Amongst all his incredible conquests Mark has recently returned from racing to the South Pole.

To view photos from the evening please visit the photogallery.

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Interviews

Robert T Doyle, B.A. (1998)

What are you doing with yourself these days?

After Graduating from Trinity in 1998 with a PhD In Chemistry, I spent one year at the Australian National University and then 2.5 years at Yale University here in the US. I moved to New York in 2005 and am currently an associate professor of chemistry and Biology at Syracuse University. I run a research group of 21 people, a mix of undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral associates. My group performs research into oral insulin and new vaccines for meningitis, tetanus and rotavirus. We also focus heavily on targeted delivery of drugs and imaging agents to cancer cells, particularly ovarian. Our research into oral insulin and the meningitis vacinne work has been written/discussed on NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS, NPR, National Review of Medicine, New Scientist Magazine etc.

Why did you choose your current career?

I always like chemistry and biology, from my time at St. Declan’s CBS in Cabra, Dublin. It was natural to go to Trinity to pursue that and it was there that I got involved in the research of Dr. Paul Kruger in the Chemistry Department at TCD. He allowed me to join his group and from there it was an upward progression.

How do you like to spend your free time?

My wife, Niamh and I spend a lot of time with our Dog, Henry and going to the movies. We are also huge Boston Red Sox fans and go to as many games as we can. We also have a great group of friends here in New York. We try to travel a lot. In our ~ 10 years together we’ve been everywhere from Las Vegas, Sydney and Malawi to Fiji, Cancun and Hawaii.

What are your strongest memories of Trinity?

I have two that immediately spring to mind, the first is the memory of the friends I made. Trinity really brings together some great people and we were a collection that ranged from rich to poor from North to South (Dublin and Ireland!), Irish and international. They made that long chemistry classes a little more bearable. The second is going to Trinity Ball. I really want to come home and go to one again some day.

Are you still in touch with other alumni?

Yes, all the time. It was the head of the New York based Alumni, Ron Ferguson who arranged this interview! Also I have friends from Trinity that still work at Trinity (Hello Thorri!) and also at Intel, Bristol-Myers and in Companies in Australia, Canada the UK etc.

Where do you see yourself in five years' time?

Hopefully still doing what I’m doing. I just made tenure here in 3 years (norm is 6-10), and so I’m still very young to be where I am. Having spent 15 years since secondary school getting to this point I’m not in a hurry to move.

Sports

Family Fun in Trinity

The Trinity Sports Centre is running a Children’s Sport Summer Camp and Family Programmes including climbing and swimming this summer. Activities are open to members and non members alike. Further information

Trinity College Rowing Regatta 2009

The Dublin University Ladies Boat Club won the senior women’s eight boat race at the 111th Trinity College Regatta which was held on April 18th last. This year’s regatta was the largest in five years with 115 races on the schedule. More

Dublin University Association Football Club Celebrates 125 Years Anniversary

Dublin University Association Football Club this year celebrates its 125th anniversary. A large number of past and current players, coaches, managers and club officials gathered for a formal celebration at the Dining Hall to mark the occasion 22 May last. More

Irish Rugby Player Jamie Heaslip Presents TCD Sports ‘Hall of Fame’ Awards

Irish Grand Slam No. 8, Jamie Heaslip presented this year’s Sports Alumni ‘Hall of Fame’ awards to Trinity rugby alumni who played in the Lions Rugby tours throughout the years, Des Fitzgerald, Philip Orr, John Robbie, Hugo McNeill, Brendan Mullin, Mike Roberts, and Robin Roe. More

The Knights of the Campanile and Heraeans Sports Day at TC

The first Knights and Heraeans’ sports day took place during Trinity Week on Wednesday 13 May on the occasion of the annual College Races which were first run in 1857. More

Congratulations to the many clubs who won trophies this year…

DU Basketball Club were winners of the Men’s B Intervarsity Event this year.  The Boxing Club won the Senior competition in January in UCD. The Senior and Novice crews of the Ladies Boat Club won the Cororcan Cup in April this year, while the Men’s seniors lost to UCD for the Gannon. The Irish Bouldering League was won by Harry Fog of the Climbing Club.

The Equestrian Club hosted their intervarsity Competition, coming 1st overall.  The Intervarsity Fencing Competition was won by Trinity in February.  They recently won Colours against UCD. The Judo Club won many events in their Intervarsity Competition; they won Gold and Bronze in the Men’s team. 

The Hockey 1st XI team won the Neville Cup this year.  The Lawn Tennis Club were runners up in the European Clay Tournament last summer.  The Ladies won the Elite Women’s team event in the Orienteering Intervarsity Championships with Niamh O’Boyle coming first. 

The Rifle Club Junior and Senior Intervarsity were both winners.  Trinity 1st team won Gold at the Sailing Intervarsity Western Championships and the Christmas Invitational Competition. The Snowsports Club came first in the Downhill Slalom and Giant Slalom in the snowboard at the Intervarsity competition.  The Squash Club won colours and their Men’ B team won their Intervarsity Event.  The Ladies team was also promoted from Division 1 League. 

The Swimming Club ladies won the swimming and Water Polo intervarsities, while the men tied 1st place at the swimming and came 3rd place in the water polo. The Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Indoor Intervarsity was won by Trinity including a winning place of the Mixed and Open Intervarsity competition.  The Senior Volleyball Men’s and Ladies reached the semi-finals of the cup competition in March and men were cup winners at the Enniskillen Tournament held in December.