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 ====== Camp Trinity ======
-Camp Trinity was an event held from June 28th through July 6th in the summer of 1890. Class of 1877 alumni and Trustee Board member Robert H. Coleman invited the whole college to attend an outing at Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania. The original intent was for Coleman to give the current Trinity baseball team a tour of Pennsylvania using his private railway car, but he decided to expand his vision and make it a social event for undergraduates and alumni's.
+[{{ :camp_trinity.png?600|The attendees of "Camp Trinity." Photo credit: Trinity College Archives}}]
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-tents were set up on Lake Conewago in Pennsylvania, and 159 undergraduates and alumni attended. The tents each contained washstands and cots, and some were set up to function as post offices, barbershops, newsstands, and reading rooms. The main focus of the gathering was to watch the multiple baseball matches that had been organized; Coleman had brought the teams from Lafayette and University of Pennsylvania to compete as well. There was an array of other events that took place at Camp Trinity, including fireworks, live music, marches, and trips to estates of Colemans and Pennsylvania Steel Works.
-The term has also been used to describe the college as a whole and peoples time on campus. For example, alumni will reflect back on their 4 years and the time they spent at "Camp Trinity". The use of this nickname goes back to at least the mid 1970's.
+Camp Trinity was an athletic and social camp for students and alumni held from June 28 through July 6 in the summer of 1890.
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+Alumni and [[trustees|Board of Trustees]] member Robert H. Coleman, Class of 1877, invited the whole College to attend an outing at Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania. The original intent was for Coleman to give the current [[athletics|Trinity baseball team]] a tour of Pennsylvania using his private railway car. However, he decided to expand his vision and make it a social event open to the entire College community, including alumni, to watch the baseball team's games in one location and be entertained in a variety of other ways.
-===== Sources =====
+On June 28, 159 undergraduates and alumni arrived at Camp Trinity. In order to accommodate them, 180 tents were set up on Lake Conewago in Pennsylvania. The tents each contained washstands and cots, and some were set up to function as post offices, barbershops, newsstands, and reading rooms.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/159/| Trinity College Bulletin]], July 1952, pp. 11.
+An array of other events took place at Camp Trinity, including fireworks, live music, hiking, marches, tub and boat races, tennis matches, mountain climbing, ring dances, and excursions to the Pennsylvania Steel Works, Coleman Iron Furnaces, and Coleman ore banks.
+"Camp Trinity" has also been used as a nickname to describe time students spent living on campus. For example, alumni will reflect on their four undergraduate years and refer to them as time at "Camp Trinity." The use of this nickname goes back to at least the mid-1970s.
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+===== Sources =====
+[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/361/|The Trinity Reporter]], Winter 2005, p. 101.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4/|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 213.
+[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4/|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, p. 213.
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/1042/| The Trinity Tripod]], 11/11/1975.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/361/|The Trinity Reporter]], Winter 2005, pp. 101.
+[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/159/| Trinity College Bulletin]], July 1952, p. 11.
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