Wendy Huang Honored for Outstanding Achievements at Trinity College Honors Day

2012 May 30

The Trinity College Chapel served as the site for the school's 62nd annual Honors Day Ceremony, where members of the Trinity community were cited for their scholarly and community-oriented achievements. The honorees were presented with a broad array of prizes and awards for their contributions and accomplishments over their years at Trinity.

Wendy Huang of New York, NY, Class of 2013, won The Phi Gamma Delta Prizes in Mathematics, offered to students taking Mathematics 131, 132 and Mathematics 231. These prizes are from the income of a fund established in 1923, and increased in 1931 by the alumni authorities of the local chapter of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta.

The ceremony originated when George Keith Funston, who served as Trinity College President from 1945 to 1951, sought to re-establish the school's academic pageantry, which had been halted during World War II.

Matriculation and the Book Ceremony for first-year students were restored, and in the spring of 1950, Honors Day was added as a new event. It was intended to be an occasion when all Trinity prizes and awards -- with the exception of those handed out at Commencement ­ could be celebrated in the presence of the entire College community.

Founded in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1823, Trinity College (www.trincoll.edu) is an independent, nonsectarian liberal arts college with over 2,200 students from 45 states and 47 countries. It is home to the eighth-oldest chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the United States. The faculty and alumni include recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur award, Guggenheims, Rockefellers and other national academic awards. Trinity students integrate meaningful academic and leadership experience at all levels on the College's celebrated campus, in the Capital City of Hartford, and in communities all over the world.