1940s - Trent-Stevens

After retiring at age 65 as a senior ward physician at the Newington (Conn.) VA Hospital, Sophie Trent-Stevens, M.D. ’43, earned her master’s degree in art at Central Connecticut State University. She is a member of several Connecticut art associations, exhibits annually and has won awards for her landscapes and marine paintings. Trent-Stevens has also authored and published four books of poetry on destinations she has visited in Africa, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. Her paintings and poetry have appeared in Connecticut Medicine magazine.