The Kirkland Project at Hamilton College will host a panel discussion of the beginning of Kirkland College, “Women’s Education/Women’s Movement(s):  Kirkland College in 1968,” on Friday, Feb. 6, at 4:15 p.m. in the KJ Red Pit (Kirner-Johnson 109), at Hamilton. Panelists will include Kirkland graduates and its president. The discussion is free and open to the public. 
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Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz contributed the program notes for a CD of chamber music (Centaur Records) by Jay Reise, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton College and former faculty member.  More ...

Mary Bonauto '83, has been named "Lawyer of the Year" for the second time by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Bonauto is civil rights project director for the Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). She was the lead counsel in the landmark November 18 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision that ruled to allow gay marriages. More ...

Hamilton College played host to a gala concert celebrating Clinton Central High School’s new auditorium on January 3 in Wellin Hall. AMong performers were Clinton High School alumni, as well as members of the Hamilton College community and alumni.
The concert featured songs by Ben Moore ’82, a composer whose songs have been performed nationally in concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and Chicago’s Orchestra Hall; and performances by Helen Moore ’80, Anne Mason ’82, Amedee Daryl Williams, (son of Jay ’54), Hermine Williams, (wife of Jay '54) and Jermaine Hill who came to Clinton through the A Better Chance (ABC) program. More ...

Richard Bernstein '80, chief U.S. strategist at Merrill Lynch, was featured in USA Today's "Managing Your Money" feature on January 2. Bernstein, billed in the column as "Grizzly Bear," predicts that 2004 will be a bad year for stocks. According to the article: "It's not that Bernstein thinks earnings will stop growing altogether. He just doesn't expect the peppy growth that companies enjoyed early in the economic recovery." Bernstein likes stocks that sell "everday staples to consumers like Coca-Cola and Altria," as well as health care stocks. More ...

Curtis L. Decker '66 has been named chairman of the board of The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) for a term beginning in January 2004. The CCD is a coalition of national consumer, advocacy, provider and professional organizations headquartered in Washington, D.C. Since 1973, the CCD has advocated on behalf of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities and their families. CCD has worked to achieve federal legislation and regulations that assure that the 54 million children and adults with disabilities are fully integrated into the mainstream of society.

 

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Jerome "Dewey" Gram, a 1963 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Los Angeles Times article (12/4/03) about writing the novelization of the new Tom Cruise movie, "The Last Samurai." According to the Times:  "He has been novelizing movies for 25 years, having written 15 of them, including 'Sneakers,' 'A Perfect World,' Gladiator,' 'Ocean's Eleven' and, most recently, 'The Life of David Gale.' His books have been translated into French, German and Japanese, and one, 'The Ghost and the Darkness,' into Hebrew. His best seller to date is 'Gladiator,' which has shipped in the high hundreds of thousands of copies, according to Penguin."

 

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Scott Brinitzer '85 was named a recipient of an Excellence in Landscape Grand Award by the Landscape Contractor's Association of Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia.  The annual awards recognize landscape projects of exceptional merit in the areas of exterior and interior installation and maintenance. Brinitzer won for his work on a garden at a home in Arlington, Va. View his portfolio below. More ...

Contemporary glass artist Josh Simpson '72 will exhibit his work at an upcoming New York City Artrider show this holiday season. Simpson will exhibit December 12-14 at Holiday Crafts New York, Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway & 114th St, Columbia University.

 

 

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Casey Jones '91 is the author of a new book, Lyrical Life: A Rock and Roll Love Story Told in 200 Song Lyrics, (Three Rivers Press), written entirely in song lyrics. From the publisher: "Welcome to the hip world of Funky Town, where pop song lyrics from five decades tell the rock ’n’ roll love story of Luka and Lola. With vivid graphics and nostalgic fun, Lyrical Life takes you on a musical adventure and will have you singing along with every page you turn." Casey Jones is a marketing strategist for Aloft Group in Newburyport, Mass. The book was illustrated by Mark Malloy. More ...