Students in Hamilton’s Program in New York City shared dinner and conversation with photographer Kathryn Parker Almanas. Almanas spoke with the students about her life as an artist.

The Idaho Library Association has named John Held '75 the 2011 Trustee of the Year. He has served on the Payette Public Library board since 1995 and was board chairman from 2001-2010.

Martha Freymann Miser K'75 has been awarded a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. Miser’s dissertation, The Myth of Endless Accumulation: A Feminist Inquiry Into Globalization, Growth, and Social Change, examines the concept of growth and its core assumptions
– that continual accumulation of wealth is both socially wise and ecologically sustainable. Miser suggests alternatives to the idea of infinite accumulation and offers plans for social change.

The students on Hamilton’s NYC program attended a lecture at NYU’s Stern School of Business, hosted by David Backus ’75, a professor of economics at Stern. The lecture covered topics from foreign exchange to the European crisis to the current fiscal problems facing the United States.

Hamilton’s semi-annual Wall Street Association meeting on Oct. 5 featured a discussion on the current state of the capital markets with a panel of alumni experts. The event at the Racquet and Tennis Club was moderated by Susan Skerritt K’77, P’11,  of The Bank of New York Mellon. Panelists include Harold Bogle ’75, P’14, Credit Suisse; Andrew Taylor ’88, JP Morgan Chase Co.; and Jennifer Murphy Hill ’87,  Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

David Weiss '75 has been appointed president and CEO of CHF International (CHF), an international development and humanitarian assistance organization based in Silver Spring, MD. CHF currently is working in 25 countries to help lower income communities to improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions. Weiss will concentrate on ensuring that CHF remains sustainable and able to meet global development challenges. He intends to increase CHF's reputation as a leader and innovator by working with donors and partners to implement programs at the community level that positively change lives.