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From sunny skies to drenching downpours, Reunions Weekend brought all kinds of weather — and even more joy — as more than 1,000 alumni, family, and friends returned to the Hill.

Newly minted alum Anna Richardson ’25 was a writer for Hamilton’s Communications and Marketing office during her time as a student. She was a member of former Rep. Matt Cartwright’s ’83 Linowitz Seminar during the spring semester, and tells here about what she learned.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. May’s news topics included coverage of global politics, international student issues, and faculty evaluations, among others.

In an email to the Hamilton community on May 12, President Steven Tepper shared that William H. Luers ’51, GP’14, one of this nation’s most distinguished foreign service officers and the former president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on May 10 at the age of 95. Luers was the recipient of a Hamilton honorary degree in 1984, served as the Sol. M. Linowitz Professor of International Affairs in 2010, and was a regular visitor to campus, especially later in his career and after retiring from the Met in 1999.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. April’s news topics included coverage of former President Obama’s visit to Hamilton as well as subjects from diversity on bank boards to a new Levitt Center study on gun violence.

A constellation of affinities and engagement keeps Peggy Malloy Garte ’01’s heart on the Hill.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. March’s news topics included varied subjects from gambling during March Madness to a possible third term for President Donald Trump.

For Karthik Ravishankar ’19, his five-year reunion in 2024 was a uniquely enjoyable experience. The intervening years saw his classmates diverge in their paths in life and then converge again on the campus they so recently called home.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, recently presented at the University of Colorado at Boulder with Andrew Wei ’20 and former Hamilton professor Judit Temesvary.

Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite K’74 is 72 and she’s good with that. The Decade of Healthy Ageing, a U.N. collaboration with the World Health Organization, recently honored her as one of its Healthy Ageing 50.