Trinity College Alumni
Alumni Reunion 2006
Welcoming back…
Past students were welcomed back to Trinity for a reunion weekend during September this year. Everyone had a chance to come back and visit the College and meet old friends and fellow students and to hear other people’s experiences and memories. Past students of the 1950s, 60s and 70s were present, and one special guest who was a student during the 1930s, Mr George Head came all the way from Pontefract.
Luckily for the alumni reunion, the weather was marvellous all weekend and the College grounds looked as spectacular as the Botanical Gardens - where some visited on Saturday, in what seemed to be the last sunny spell of the year.
The guest speaker, Mr Peter Hughes Griffiths, who himself is a past student and a former lecturer, discussed the numerous publications that many societies have published in Trinity’s past. As well as past students, some lecturers and past lecturers were also present. Among them was Dr Geraint Davies from the faculty of Education and Training and the Reverend J Eldon Phillips formerly of the Religious Education department.
A small exhibition was arranged showing photographs ranging from the 1950s to the present. These images will be available on Trinity’s website, and you are all welcome to send any photographs of memories at Trinity to the Alumni Administration Officer.
Many more are expected to attend next year for the historic reunion celebrating fifty years of the first alumnae. Gwen Harris who attended this year’s reunion was one of the first female students at Trinity. Her stories were a taste of the celebrations to come next year. She stated that her time in Trinity, together with her husband’s, was very memorable and how she felt that she was part of a large family, and how happy she was to see that that feeling had not changed over the years.
A rather fitting coincidence is that the singer from ‘P’Tcheaow!’ who entertained the crowd on Saturday was himself a former student. Proof, that Gwen’s words are as true as ever.
