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The Office of Alumni Relations has what we hope will be a compelling group of Alumni Travel programs planned for 2007. These exciting small group travel trips all contain a strong educational component and are open to members of the Hamilton family. Trips are organized in concert with Bates and Colby colleges. The Antartic and South African trips were very successful. Details on our remaining tours to India, the French Riviera, the Italian lakes district, Peru and the Turkish coastal area follow.

Photographs of  the nearly 1300 members of the Hamilton family who attended Reunions '06 are available on HOLAC. The weekend provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us on the Hill.Photgraphs of many of the nearly 1300 members of the Hamilton family who attended Reunions '06 are available on HOLAC. The weekend provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us on the Hill.

Key Award to Clarence E. Aldridge '45 Alumni who participated in a special reunion this past year, the Class of 1955 and earlier, were able to do so thanks to Clarence Aldridge.  Last year, Clarence created and managed a program for Half-Century alumni, which proved to be of great benefit to participants and to Hamilton. His determination and organizational skills were critical in bringing to College Hill 65 post-50th reunion alumni and guests. The model that he developed serves as a template for this year's program, and is certain to do so for future reunion celebrations.   Key Award to Brendan D. McCormick '01The vision and drive of Brendan McCormick has led to the creation of the Hamilton College Wall Street Association.  The first event was held on May 3rd, with Richard Bernstein '80, chief U.S. strategist for Merrill Lynch, as the keynote speaker.  Over 130 New York alumni attended. The Wall Street Alumni group is open to all alumni, whether individuals work in the financial services or related fields or simply have an interest in finance. 

The Bell Ringer Award is presented each year at Reunions to a member of the Hamilton family in recognition of contributions made to the College, its alumni and the community. This year Milton P. Kayle '43 and Donald O. Pollock '51 had the honor bestowed upon them at the annual meeting of the Alumni Council.

The Village Voice, after months of turmoil and layoffs, has named a new chief editor. He is Erik Wemple, editor of Washington City Paper. Wemple will be the legendary alt-weekly's fourth editor in the past year. It is now owned by New Times Media of Phoenix, which owns a chain of weeklies. Wemple has spent his entire journalistic career in Washington, so will be an outsider in New York City. He will start his new job in July. New Times has said it is trying to get more reporting and less opinion in the weekly. "Erik Wemple stood out in a process that went on for months as I reviewed applications and interviewed journalists from major American dailies, national magazines and alt-weeklies," said Michael Lacey, executive editor for Village Voice Media., in a Wednesday release. "Wemple's savvy and grit are reflected in the newspaper he edits. I'm looking forward to his leadership, as well as the speculation and second-guessing sure to commence with this announcement." http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002611350

Reunions provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families family to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Nearly 700 alumni attended and total attendance approached 1300. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students, and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us! Jon A. L. Hysell '72 Director of Alumni Relations   See Who's Attended   Schedule of Events Photo Galleries from past Reunions: View photos from Reunions 2005  View photos from Reunions 2004  View photos from Reunions 2003  View photos from Reunions 2002     

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl N. Kirschner recently published a book chapter titled "Incorporation of Carbohydrates into Macromolecular Force Fields."  The chapter was coauthored with Dr. Sarah Tschampel ('00), a former Hamilton chemistry student, and with Dr. Robert Woods from the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) at the University of Georgia.

Ronald R. Pressman, a 1980 graduate of Hamilton College, has been named president and ceo of GE Asset Management, which manages $200 billion in assets. He succeeds John H. Myers, who is retiring after nearly 37 years with General Electric.

Civil rights leader Bob Moses, a member of the Hamilton class of 1956, led a discussion on April 19 on social justice in American education. Moses, whose work has included the creation of The Algebra Project to improve quantitative literacy in disadvantaged schools, led students, faculty, staff, and community members in discussing educational inequality in America and how it can be addressed. The event was the first for the new Diversity and Social Justice Project at Hamilton.

Noelle Short '05, an outdoor writer for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake, returned to Hamilton to write an article about a forum held as part of the sophomore seminar “Forever Wild: The Cultural Histories of the Adirondack Park” this month. The forum, titled “Development and Preservation in the Adirondacks: The Tupper Lake Debate,” discussed the issues surrounding the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort at the former Big Tupper Ski Area. Panelists included Jim Frenette, Sr. of Tupper Lake, who has been the Intercounty Legislative Committee chairman, Adirondack Park Agency chairman and a Franklin County legislator; Jim Ellis of Tupper Lake, a community specialist for the Adirondack North Country Association and a member of the Tupper Lake Planning Board; and Peter Hornbeck, chairman of the Residents Committee for the Protection of the Adirondacks. Sarah Mortati '08 was quoted in the article. “It struck me to see that there are real emotions and real people who this project is going to affect directly,” she said.