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A few months shy of her 50th anniversary at the College, Shirley Croop, the Admission Office operations manager and the longest-serving staff member at Hamilton, decided to retire. On Thursday, Aug. 6, many members of her admission family gathered for a dinner in her honor including all the former living admission deans for whom Croop worked.

The Eighth Annual National MERCURY Conference on Computational Chemistry, devoted solely to undergraduates who are working on research projects in computational chemistry, was held at Hamilton from August 2 - 4. Hamilton, National Science Foundation and SGI provided support for the conference.

Last May, TIME’s senior correspondent for the Middle East described Edward S. Walker, Jr., ’62 as “among the finest American diplomats to have served in the State Department” in a piece titled “Wise Men To Obama: ‘We Stand With You.’”

Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, attended the 16th International Symposium on Polar Sciences in June in Incheon, Korea, where he presented an invited talk titled “Larsen Ice Shelf System (LARISSA): A Multi-disciplinary Earth Systems Approach to Antarctic Environmental Change.”

Despite the challenging economic climate, the number of Hamilton alumni who gave unrestricted contributions to the college in the last year increased as compared with the previous year as did the size of their gifts. More than 52 percent of all alumni participated in the fund, making this the 28th consecutive year that at least 50 percent have contributed.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen participated in the 2nd annual Legatum Prosperity Symposium at Brocket Hall in London June 26-28. The symposium, sponsored by the Legatum Institute, encourages interdisciplinary discussion among economists, sociologists, political scientists and historians about the nature and causes of prosperity. Owen participated in a session that focused on trust in markets and the financial crisis.

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Michael Harrington's article "Our Fifty Million Poor" in Commentary magazine (a liberal journal of the time), James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman wrote an essay titled "Michael Harrington: Warrior on Poverty" about Harrington and his essay for The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, was the co-presenter of the keynote speech at a conference on the European Union titled "Globalisation and European Integration: The Nature of the Beast" held June 6-7 at the University of Warwick.

It is special when one can enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience while simultaneously supporting a worthy cause. For a three-week period, members of the Hamilton community will be offered that chance. Beginning on June 3, the Hamilton New York City Scholarship Fund Auction on charitybuzz.com will be accessible for online bids on many unique opportunities.

An invited commentary titled "Introduction: Diversity Not Uniformity," written by Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck was published in the June 2009 issue of Ethos, the Journal of the Society of Psychological Anthropology. Raybeck also presented "The Nature of Human Intelligence ... and that of 'Others'?" at the 25th Annual CONTACT Conference at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.