In the coming months, members of the Trinity-Pawling community will be able to purchase a copy of TPopoly, thanks to the collective efforts of ninth-graders Alex Blake, Jackson Cairl, Harrison Choate, A.J. Greier, Leo Gromov, Mikhail Khan, Liam O’Sullivan, and Jack Sullivan.
For their Winter Project, the group of boys worked in committees, determining the game values and color groups into which each Trinity-Pawling campus property belongs; which campus customs and traditions to include on the cards drawn from the center of the board (appropriately named “Fides” and “Virtus” cards); which player tokens (think Prefects’ briefcases) best represent life at Trinity-Pawling; and even the Trinity-Pawling equivalents of “Jail” and “Go to Jail.”
Some boys spent hours in the Trinity-Pawling archives in the Gardiner Learning Commons, while others polled peers and faculty to determine the answers to questions such as, “Which campus building is the Trinity-Pawling version of Boardwalk?” or “Which Founders League school is Trinity-Pawling’s main rival?”
A Cincinnati, Ohio-based company will manufacture TPopoly, which will be available for sale to the greater Trinity-Pawling community as a great gift for graduation, the holidays, a birthday, or even to a recently admitted boy soon to become a member of the Pride!
Stay tuned to The Quad for the soon-to-be-released pre-order form!
by Rich Hoffman