Scott Eckenthal Wins Theater Awards at Trinity College

Scott Eckenthal of Warren, Class of 2012, won The Harry Dobelle Book Prize in Musical Theater, given annually to a junior or senior at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who, in the judgment of the Music Department, has exhibited exceptional dedication to musical theater at the College through work, on-stage, back-stage, or both, in multiple productions.

Former President Evan S. Dobelle and his wife, Kit, established the prize in recognition of the delight their son, Harry, took performing in several Trinity musicals while a youngster growing up on the campus between 1995 and 2001.

Eckenthal also won The Phi Gamma Delta Teaching Fellowship, awarded annually to students having distinguished work in mathematics courses and who, in the opinion of the Department of Mathematics, are qualified to aid the department in its instructional endeavors.

The awards were made during the school's Honors Day Ceremony, which 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.