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The Hamilton College Volleyball program and head coach Susan Keller are hosting a week long volleyball camp for girls. The camp is being held July 7 through July 12 on the Hamilton campus and features outstanding instruction by college, junior college and high school coaches from across the region. Director Susan Keller, head coach of Hamilton’s softball and volleyball teams since 1999, is joined by assistant director Marcia Laidlaw. Laidlaw is one of the most recognizable and successful coaches in the area with over 600 career wins between Canastota HS and Mohawk Valley Community College. The staff is also comprised of coaches from Union College, Skidmore College, College of Saint Rose, SUNY Cobleskill and area high school coaches. The 70 campers take part in daily conditioning, skills sessions, team building, jump training, mental aspects, game play, video study and other activities. The last time the camp was held was in 1997. For more information on next year’s camp and other inquires please feel free to Contact Coach Keller at 315-859-4806, or sekeller@hamilton.edu.

Hamilton students and professors were recently featured in the Spring 2002 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) publication, access. The article, written by Katherine A. Caponi, is complemented by the group's model of esperamicin A1 found on the publication’s cover. Dreyfus Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Chemistry Steven Feldgus is very proud of the group’s publication in the supercomputing periodical. “This might be the only time that NCSA has done a story on an undergraduate centered research project,” said Feldgus. The story tells how the NCSA is arming the Hamiltonians with the supercomputing resources necessary to engage in the war on cancer. According to the article, “Hamilton College joins the front line in computational research on enediynes, naturally occurring molecules commonly called biological warheads for their ability to bind to and split tumors’ DNA backbones.” Also credited in the article were Chantelle Rien '03, Beth Hayes ’02, David Kelland ’05 and Professor of Chemistry George Shields. These and other students are continuing this line of cancer research this summer through an assortment of local and federal grants.

For an institution of higher learning to be successful it is critical that the opinions and world views of the campus are not homogenous. To help reflect the rich heterogeneity of our nation and world, colleges must attract cultural groups that are underrepresented on their campuses. In an effort to broaden the appeal of a liberal arts education to students of color, Hamilton began the Summer Starter Program. Andrea DuVall, Associate Dean of Admissions and Coordinator of Multicultural Recruitment at Hamilton College, is happy to bring 30 motivated, goal-oriented students to “the hill” for a week of challenge, fun and reflection each summer.

For the next two weeks the Hamilton College campus will be home to 102 10-14 year-olds, who are participating in the 2002 Hamilton College Hockey Camp for boys. Young hockey players from 11 states including Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina are taking part in the annual program.

Doug Sheldon '63 has been named the new conductor of the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia. Orpheus is an 80-member male chorus that is Philadelphia's oldest musical organization; its origins trace to 1872. Sheldon, a music major at Hamilton, also returns to the Hill each year to direct the Alumni Reunion Choir, an all-male ensemble.

Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Archaeology Tom Jones was quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune in an article about the reopening and excavation of Danger Cave in western Utah.

The war on terrorism, U.S. dependence on Saudi Arabian oil, and the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process were among topics discussed at an Alumni College event titled "The Modern Middle East," held during Reunion Weekend.

To get the best information on any topic it is always a good idea to go straight to the source. Edward S. "Ned" Walker Jr. ‘62 has been that source on the Middle East for the U.S. government for many years. He shared some of his knowledge with the audience at the Alumni College event, “An Insider’s View on United States Diplomacy” on Friday, June 7.

Two time Grammy nominee Bill Harley ’77 dazzled a large audience Saturday afternoon during the Alumni College event, "Songs & Stories for Everybody." For 90 minutes Harley thrilled the audience with his humorous songs and stories that left the youngest child to the oldest alumnus full of laughter. He performed fan favorites such as “Monsters in the Bathroom,” “Milky Way,” “Down in the Backpack” and many others.

On Friday, June 7, Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens moderated a forum of Hamilton professors, faculty members, students and alumni in a Alumni College discussion entitled "Today’s Hamilton". David Cost ‘03, Stephanie Higgins ‘04, Joe Livingston ‘02 and Dean of Students Flossie Mitchell joined Mitchell.