Letters

Rowing recollections

A childhood friend sent me the back of your current Trinity College magazine with this picture of my dad. I just wanted to let you know how much it warmed my heart. He was not at Trinity for very long, but I do remember living there when I was very young. He left to teach American history and coach crew at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for the remainder of his career. He is 91 and currently resides in Exeter with my mother in the house I grew up in. I sent this picture to them yesterday when I received it, and I know it brought back some nice memories and a smile to their faces. Thank you for that!
– Amy Gilcreast Nye
Alpharetta, Georgia  

You asked if anyone could identify the people in the photo on the back cover of the fall 2023 Reporter. The fellow in the light-colored sweatshirt second from stern carrying the boat (with eyeglasses) is Richard Charney ’66. Coach Gilcreast is at right.
Note the ramp from the boathouse is sand and had not yet been paved. I think this dates the photograph to 1964. . . . I entered Trinity as a freshman in fall 1965 and became coxswain of the freshman crew of 1965–66. Rich Charney was by then in the varsity or JV boat. Gilcreast was my coach for 1965–66 and 1966–67 when I was JV coxswain.
– Alden Gordon ’69, P’05, ’10, ’12
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts
Farmington, Connecticut

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