Goodwin-Woodward Hall
Completed and opened in 1940, Goodwin-Woodward Hall is a student dormitory located on the south end of the Long Walk, directly adjacent to Cook Hall dormitory and Clement Chemistry Building.
The hall was dedicated on December 14, 1940. In his dedication speech, President Remsen Ogilby expressed the thanks and gratitude of the College for the 1,082 people who donated money to the construction of the building. Goodwin-Woodward Hall is named in honor of Trinity Trustees, James J. Goodwin and P. Henry Woodward.
Upon opening, most of the rooms consisted of single rooms with a common room/lounge for social activities. There were 51 dormitory rooms. There were also an additional two rooms set aside for offices for the Trinity Tripod.
Within the hall, there were many rooms dedicated in memory of past students, as well as entire class years to commemorate members of that class who had died. The class years represented were 1888, 1890, 1910, 1916, and 1917.
During the Second World War, Goodwin-Woodward, along with several other dormitories, placed shades on their windows to darken and obscure interior lights as ordered by the United States Army to conform to regulations for Hartford and all of the Eastern Seaboard. The College asked students living in the dorms to help out by placing their own personal shades on the windows to supplement what the College could provide.
Over the years, the lounge in Goodwin, known as Goodwin Lounge, has served many different purposes for different campus groups, events, and gatherings. Some of these include: senior placement interviews with local corporations like the Travelers Insurance Company in the late 1940s, tryouts for the Trinity Jesters in the mid-1950s, yearbook photos for the Ivy, theater productions in the 1970s, gatherings of Trinity's chapter of the Newman Club in the 1980s, and as home to the International Programs Office in the early 2000s.
Sources
Trinity Tripod, 01/23/2001.
Trinity Tripod, 03/09/1982.
Trinity Tripod, 11/19/1974.
Trinity Tripod, 02/19/1962.
Trinity Tripod, 09/26/1956.
Trinity College Bulletin (March 1950), p. 5.
Trinity College Handbook, 1950-51 (1950), p. 14.
Trinity Tripod, 03/30/1949.
Trinity Tripod, 12/11/1942.
Trinity Tripod, 12/17/1940.
Trinity Tripod, 10/01/1940.
Trinity College Alumni News (September 1940), p. 8.