A student dormitory located in the North Campus area at 90-92 Vernon Street. In addition to student residences, Doonesbury once was the home of the French and Spanish programs, which had relocated from Jackson Hall in 1983.

Doonesbury Hall. Photo Credit: Cheryl Cape

In 1992, Doonesbury began housing members in the Praxis program, designed for students interested in engaging in community activity work. Students in Praxis wanted to live adjacent to the neighborhood to help facilitate their work. Praxis also supported the Studies in Progressive American Movements minor. The housing of residential groups according to areas of interest and focuses was an initiative of the Office of Residential Life.

Beginning in 2019, Doonesbury was re-designated as the Cross Cultural Living Community (CCLC), with a goal house up to 24 students from a diverse range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. While all students are welcome, the focus for the college was on students in the sophomore class. The new community was the formed under the recommendation of Political Science faculty member Reo Matsuzaki, based on a similarly modeled dorm at Georgetown University where Matsuzaki had been a resident.

Students in CCLC, which fosters shared struggles and identities, provides programming of service and outreach to the Hartford community.

Doonesbury also served as a quarantine/isolation location for on-campus students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due a large increase in cases in October 2020, Doonesbury reached capacity for infected students and the College annexed Stowe and Clemens halls and a single unit the Vernon dormitory to house the overflow of students needing quarantine and isolation.

Doonesbury Residential Community.

Trinity Tripod, 10/13/2020.

Trinity Tripod, 09/22/2020.

Trinity Tripod, 02/12/2019.

Trinity Reporter (Winter 1992), p. 8.

Trinity Tripod, 03/15/1983.

Trinity College Handbook, 1983-84 (1983), p. 12.