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More than 325 members of Hamilton’s 497-member Class of 2020 returned to College Hill on Saturday, June 4, for the Commencement celebration that would have happened two years ago, had the COVID pandemic not intervened.

Hamilton will celebrate its Class of 2020 graduates with an in-person Commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 4, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Marc Randolph ’81, co-founder of the online steaming service Netflix, will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree.

The College’s Board of Trustees nominated and elected four candidates to serve as charter trustees. Mason P. Ashe ’85, Manal Ataya ’01, Peter B. Coffin ’81, P’14, and Sharon D. Madison ’84 joined the board on Oct. 2.

Michael Scott ’81 recently opened an exhibition of his artwork in Geneva’s Xippas Gallery. A set of works produced between 1980 and 2016, Scott’s exhibit manifests the New York contemporary art scene.

The momentum of the 4th annual Levitt Leadership Institute continued off-campus in Washington, D.C., the week of March 16. Led again by Former Ambassador Prudence Bushnell and Christine Powers, and later joined by Director of Hamilton’s Education Studies Program Susan Mason, the group applied leadership lessons learned in the first week in January, and viewed leadership-in-action in our nation’s capital.

Arthur Levitt Jr., and Lauri Levitt Friedland ’81 visited campus on Friday, Oct. 31 and met with 15 Hamilton students.  The students discussed their work as Levitt Research Fellows, Social Innovation Fellows and Public Service Interns, as well as their experiences with Project SHINE, the Innovation Roundtable, the Levitt Leadership Institute and the Levitt Social Innovation Team.

Five Hamilton artists are represented in a new catalog of works from the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) 2012 member show. The artists included are Professors of Art Bruce Muirhead and William Salzillo, as well as Amy Buchholz ’81, Jake Muirhead ’86 and Michael Hew Wing ’99, who also designed the catalog.

Educator Barbara Madeloni K’81 will present a lecture titled “Jamming the Machine: Education for Democracy not Corporatocracy,” on Monday, Feb. 18, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building.  Madeloni is a senior lecturer in the Teacher Education program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her lecture is co-sponsored by Hamilton’s Comparative Literature and Education departments, and is free and open to the public.

The ALS Association has appointed Kim Ann Mink '81as a member of the ALS Association's National Board of Trustees.  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, named for the New York Yankee Hall of Famer who died of ALS.

On March 14, students in the Program in Washington met with Paddy McGuire ’81, deputy director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program.  FVAP acts on behalf of the Secretary of Defense to help administer the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986.