The O'Brien family would like to invite all Hamilton alumni to a Book Party to celebrate the publication of Battling for Saipan, a story of heroism and determination during World War II in the Pacific campaign. The book was written by the late Francis A. O'Brien, Hamilton Class of 1958. It was published by Random House books in February 2003. This celebration will be held at Books A Million, 1451 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, Virginia. More ...

Join members of the Hamilton College Alumni Association of Columbus for a reception with Dean of Students Flossie Mitchell. Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Rocky Fork Hunt & Country Club 5189 Clark State Road Gahanna, Ohio Reception: 6:00 p.m.; Presentation: 7:00 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. by calling the Office of Alumni Programs toll-free at (866) 729-0314 or emailing Jackie Thompson at jdthomps@hamilton.edu. Location: Rocky Fork Hunt & Country Club; Gahanna, OH More ...

Richard Nelson '72 is the director of a new musical, "My Life With Albertine," that premiered on March 13 at the newly-renovated Playwrights Horizon on W. 42nd Street in New York City. Nelson adapted the work from the French author Marcel Proust's multivolume novel, Remembrance of Things Past, with a score by Ricky Ian Gordon. More ...

Dr. Hugh Sampson, a 1971 Hamilton graduate and professor of pediatrics at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, is among researchers who have found an experimental drug that has proven to be highly effective against potentially deadly peanut allergies. The results were announced this week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. They will be published in Thursday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. More ...

Please join the Greater Boston Alumni Association for a reception with President Eugene M. Tobin. Thursday, April 3, 2003 Harvard Club of Boston Downtown Club One Federal Street, 38th Floor Boston, Massachusetts Reception: 6 pm; Presentation: 6:45 pm More ...

Join members of the Hamilton College Alumni Association of Northern California for a luncheon with Vice President for Investments and Treasurer Daniel J. O'Leary. Monday, April 7, 2003 Marines' Memorial Club 609 Sutter Street San Francisco, California Luncheon: 12 noon More ...

Filmmaker Robert Bilheimer '66 was featured in a Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article about his new film, A Closer Walk, a documentary about AIDS (www.acloserwalk.org). According to the article, "The Bristol Hills filmmaker and his small crew traveled from the ramshackle huts of Uganda to the dusty byways of India to the frigid and forgotten ghettos of the former Soviet Union to the mean streets of Kansas City. They talked to some 75 people - dying children, dedicated doctors and famous leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, rock star-activist Bono and the Dalai Lama. And they enlisted Oscar-nominated actors Glenn Close and Will Smith to narrate." More ...

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has named Bob Moses '56 to its "Fearless 50" List. The AARP Magazine calls the members of the group "America's greatest innovators over 50...thinkers and doers who rethink the rules (and then refuse to follow them)." Moses is noted for his work with the Algebra Project, a math literacy program that teaches low-income students the skills they need for college. He was the keynote speaker at the Making Change: Working for Social Justice conference held at Hamilton in October. More ...