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The Peace Corps announced that Hamilton was listed 22nd among small schools on the agency’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are nine Hamilton alumni currently volunteering worldwide.

More than 180 Hamilton students participated in HAVOC’s 19th annual MLK Jr. Day of Service on Jan. 21. The students volunteered at 23 different organizations in the Utica, Clinton, Rome and New Hartford communities, and served a combined 555 hours.

Over winter break, Hamilton College’s Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program sent seven students to Baton Rouge, La., as ASB’s first ever winter break trip. The students went to help local residents recover from the disastrous flash flood this past August.

As a member of her high school’s Model UN, Maria Saenz ’19 had been exposed to various international issues and was looking to continue learning about immigration, poverty and women’s rights. A COOP Service Internship at the United Way allows Saenz to explore those interests through an internship in Utica.

Lisa Cremin ’79, a director of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, received the 2016 Governor’s Award for the arts and humanities for her work in the arts community.

A spring meeting with Everson Hull, St. Kitts and Nevis’ Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, and Hamilton students planning a service trip to Nevis resulted in yet another meeting and alliance between Alexander Hamilton’s birthplace and the college. During the March visit Hull met with Christian Goodwillie, director and curator of Special Collections and Archives, to review documents from Hamilton’s Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection related to Nevis.

During the spring semester, 27 Hamilton students taught Spanish to students at Clinton Elementary School. The Hamilton students participated in a training workshop in order to learn about teaching methods and to discuss lesson plans. The program began in February and continued through the end of the semester.

Fifty-one members of the Hamilton Continentals football team recently spent a day doing yard clean-up at homes in Clinton.  Community Clean-Up day is a service project that originated with Coach Dave Murray when he coached at Alfred University. 

Hamilton Microfinance hosted a bake sale and raised $836 at the 20th Sacerdote Great Names Lecture featuring astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson on April 12. Every year, the Great Names event attracts thousands of students, staff and community members.

For the second year, Hamilton students served as mentors to Clinton Middle School students who are participating in Olympics of the Visual Arts (OVA).  OVA is a state-wide competition where middle schoolers have the opportunity to participate in longer term art projects outside of the classroom.