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The Parkinson’s Foundation is a new organization focused on research, care, education and advocacy.

David Solomon ’84, co-head of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, returned to Hamilton on Oct. 2 and spoke with students on the role finance plays in the world. Solomon, who majored in government at Hamilton, described how finance had always fascinated and intrigued him because it “helps [him] put in perspective how the world is changing, and how all of those changes affect all of us and what we do.” 

Imagem Music, the world’s largest independent music publisher, has named Bill Gaden ’84 the new chief executive officer of Imagem USA. Gaden had been the chief operating officer of Imagem, a role he assumed when the company acquired The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Prior to the acquisition, Gaden served as Rodgers & Hammerstein’s senior vice president and general manager.

The momentum of the 4th annual Levitt Leadership Institute continued off-campus in Washington, D.C., the week of March 16. Led again by Former Ambassador Prudence Bushnell and Christine Powers, and later joined by Director of Hamilton’s Education Studies Program Susan Mason, the group applied leadership lessons learned in the first week in January, and viewed leadership-in-action in our nation’s capital.

The Career Center’s 4th round of HamiltonExplore provided 120 underclassmen the opportunity to explore career interests during winter break.  The shadowing program is designed to assist sophomore students with career exploration and decision making by offering the opportunity to “shadow” (observe) a Hamilton alumnus/a or parent in the workplace for a day or part of a day.

Lisa Messersmith '84, Associate Professor of Public Heatlh at the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development, was among the finalists of Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development.

Following a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, the election of Howard D. Morgan ’84 as Chair was announced.

During the two weeks before they returned to campus, some 143 Hamilton sophomores got a close look at possible careers as they took part in the third HamiltonExplore, sponsored by the Career Center.

Hamilton’s Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 4, at 12:15 p.m., in the Chapel. This year’s speaker is Julie Ross ’84, president of the Alumni Association. Her remarks are titled “Reflections on Inspiration, Transformation and Hamilton at its Bicentennial.”

Bostonia Magazine has featured Lisa J. Messersmith '84 and her efforts to prevent the transmission of HIV  among injecting drug users in Vietnam in an article titled " Ho Chi Minh gets with the program: How an American public health researcher helped shape AIDS law in Vietnam."