Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at Hamilton's 57th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Friday, May 4, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, Julianne Jaquith '08 won the Milton F. Fillius Jr./Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship and Laura Hartz '07 was awarded the James Soper Merrill Prize. A total of 165 students won other prizes and scholarships for public speaking, writing and achievement in all academic disciplines. This year's speaker was Hamilton Charter Trustee Susan Skerritt, a 1977 graduate of Kirkland College. She presented remarks titled "Kirkland Mattered: A Brief Personal Account." An all-campus picnic followed the awards and HamTrek, the fourth annual campus triathalon, began at 2:30 p.m.
