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| ====== Friends of Trinity Rowing Boathouse ====== | ====== Friends of Trinity Rowing Boathouse ====== |
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| [{{ :friendsoftrinityrowingboathouse.jpg?400|The Friends of Trinity Rowing [formerly Bliss] Boathouse. Photo credit: Trinity College}}] | [{{ :friendsoftrinityrowingboathouse.jpg?400|The Friends of Trinity Rowing [formerly Bliss] Boathouse. Photo credit: Trinity College}}] |
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| The Friends of Trinity Rowing Boathouse in East Hartford is the home of the Trinity [[athletics|crew]] team's boats, docks, and equipment. | The Friends of Trinity Rowing Boathouse in East Hartford is the home of the Trinity [[athletics|crew]] team's boats, docks, and equipment. |
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| Trinity's rowing team experienced a revival in the early 1960s and began to compete against other small New England Schools after being mostly inactive since the 1870s following the drowning of a crew member. Trinity's rowing team, with the support of several students and President [[jacobs_albert_c|Jacobs]], became a winning team. In 1962-1963, the Friends of Trinity Rowing was organized and crew became an unofficial sport which was formally recognized in 1966. | Trinity's rowing team experienced a revival in the early 1960s and began to compete against other small New England Schools after being mostly inactive since the 1870s following the drowning of a crew member. Trinity's rowing team, with the support of several students and President [[jacobs_albert_c|Albert Jacobs]], became a winning team. In 1962-1963, the Friends of Trinity Rowing was organized and crew became an unofficial sport which was formally recognized in 1966. |
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| During the early 1960s, the crew team was using an old donated tobacco barn in South Windsor as a boathouse. Seeking to enhance the sport's success, the Friends of Trinity Rowing raised the needed funds to build a new boathouse and groundbreaking began in April 1965. The then-named Bliss Boathouse opened in November of 1965 on Riverside Drive in East Hartford, on the bank of the Connecticut River, and was named after Miss Grace Bliss, a significant supporter of Trinity Rowing and benefactor of the funds needed to build the boathouse. | During the early 1960s, the crew team was using an old donated tobacco barn in South Windsor as a boathouse. Seeking to enhance the sport's success, the Friends of Trinity Rowing raised the needed funds to build a new boathouse and groundbreaking began in April 1965. The then-named Bliss Boathouse opened in November of 1965 on Riverside Drive in East Hartford, on the bank of the Connecticut River, and was named after Miss Grace Bliss, a significant supporter of Trinity Rowing and benefactor of the funds needed to build the boathouse. |
| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/350/|The Trinity Reporter]] Fall 2002, p. 4. | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/350/|The Trinity Reporter]] Fall 2002, p. 4. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=w_books|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, pp. 276-77. | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, pp. 276-77. |
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| [[https://www.trincoll.edu/the-bantam-oar/|The Bantam Oar]] (1974) by Barbara Connell (B.C.) Mooney M’68, P’74, ’75. | [[https://www.trincoll.edu/the-bantam-oar/|The Bantam Oar]] (1974) by Barbara Connell (B.C.) Mooney M’68, P’74, ’75. |
