Late night NBC talk show host Conan O'Brien has invited Hamilton alumnus John Freyer '95 to be a guest on his show on Thursday, May 8. Freyer is author of "All My Life for Sale," a book that describes how he sold all his possessions on Ebay. The show airs after the Tonight Show on NBC. Freyer said he and O'Brien will be talking about the AMLFS book and the "Second-Hand Stories" project that he has been working on with Christopher Wilcha. "Second-Hand Stories" just received a green light for a pilot episode on PBS, and will appear as a book in the fall of 2004. Freyer lectured at Hamilton in February. More ...

Please join members of the Hamilton family for what we know will be a wonderful Alumni College on August 4-8 on Monhegan Island, Maine. As you may know, the Emerson Gallery will host a summer exhibition featuring the work of 100 artists titled Monhegan Island Artists: A 150-Year Tradition. The Monhegan Alumni College will include ample opportunities for intellectual stimulation, engaging discussion, intimate access to artists and their work, discoveries while on private tours at the Farnsworth and Monhegan Museums, relaxation, and gourmet and casual summer dining - all in a superb locale. As important, there will be time for enhancing existing friendships and forming new ones. More ...

Mason Ashe ’85, chief operating officer and general counsel for one of the largest and most diversified minority-owned sports marketing and management companies in the U.S., has been named to Sports Illustrated’s list of the “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports.” More ...

Thomas J. Schwarz, a 1966 graduate of Hamilton College and partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City, has been named president of the State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase. Schwarz has been acting president since January 2001. SUNY's trustees approved his formal appointment as president on April 29. More ...

The AP Newswire service, along with the New York Times, announced “Thomas Schwarz, a prominent lawyer who has been interim president of Purchase College for 16 months, has been formally named president.” Schwarz is a Hamilton trustee and served six months as acting president in 1999 at Hamilton, according to the article. During his time already at Purchase, Schwarz has eliminated a $5 million deficit the school had accumulated. More ...

Mezzo soprano Susan Graham performed a song written especially for her by Ben Moore '82 in her recent U.S. tour. The Baltimore Sun reported "Graham and her partner brought down the house with the premiere of a novelty song written for her by Ben Moore." Moore's "Sexy Lady" is a comedy song that complains about being stuck in "trouser roles," performing as a man in operas by Mozart and Strauss. Among the venues where Moore's songs have been heard are Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center and Chicago's Orchestra Hall. More ...

Two notable authors who graduated from Hamilton College will be among participants in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held in association with UCLA, April 26-27. Terry Brooks '66 will be a panelist on "The Writing Life," and Peter Cameron '82 will participate in a panel titled "The Art of Fiction: Haunted by the Past." More ...

Hamilton alumnus and award-winning producer David Grubin '65 returned to the Hill to visit Professor of English Pat O'Neill's "Art of the Cinema" class on April 17. Grubin presented one of his documentaries and discussed it with the class. Among his recent productions are The Secret Life of the Brain for PBS; Napoleon; and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. Grubin’s biographies of American presidents for "The American Experience" on PBS have been widely acclaimed. His five-part series for PBS, Healing and the Mind, with Bill Moyers, has won many awards. Grubin’s film about Secretary General of the United nations, Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm, aired recently on PBS. More ...

Ellen Archer '84, Elizabeth Mahoney '95, Kim Miller '97 and Alison Root '00 will participate in a panel discussion, "Careers in Publishing," on Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in Dwight Lounge. The panelists will speak about their experiences in the fields of both book and magazine publishing. This event is sponsored by the Career Center. More ...

Hamilton's Seventh Annual Summer Alumni College, "Fame, Faith and the Founding Fathers," will be held on campus, Thursday, July 24, through Sunday, July 27. This year, Douglas Ambrose, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History, is the facilitator. Ambrose, a member of the Hamilton faculty since 1990, is a recipient of the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award. When Ambrose was named the Wertimer Professor last summer, President Tobin said of him, "From the very first day that he stepped into a Hamilton classroom, Doug Ambrose has earned his students' and colleagues’ respect and admiration for his integrity, sensitivity and openness. In the tradition of Sidney Wertimer, scores of Hamilton graduates have learned from Doug in ways that will shape their lives for years to come." More ...