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Hamilton College's Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 8, at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel. Utica businessman F. Eugene Romano, a 1949 graduate of Hamilton, will present remarks at the ceremony.

John Donohue III '74, the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor at Yale Law School, was among leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is one of 212 new Fellows and 19 foreign honorary members to join one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a center for independent policy research.

Ten students have been selected as new writing tutors for the 2009-2010 academic year. They are, from the Class of 2010, Ethan Kamer (history) and Lizzie Marris (sociology); Class of 2011, Rachel D'Angio (environmental studies), Leigh Ercole (psychology), Courtney Flint (history), and Sushmita Preetha (women's studies). Students selected from the class of 2012 are Maeve Gately, Nora Grenfell, Julia Litzky, and Andre Matlock.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg has written the essay for the catalog, New Traces of The Brush: Calligraphy and Painting by André Kneib. The essay appears in both English and Chinese. The exhibition of the French artist, André Kneib, is currently on show at Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai, China.

Hamilton College finished in a tie for fifth place in the overall team standings at the New York State championships, which were held on Whitney Point Lake on May 2 and 3.

Hamilton College finished in a tie for fifth place in the overall team standings at the New York State championships, which were held on Whitney Point Lake on May 2 and 3.

New York City might be expensive, but last fall, its luxury handbags weren't. In the middle of a crashing economy, consumers who were desperate to cut expenses and save cash decided to forgo the indulgences for which they clamored just a year earlier. As Saks Fifth Avenue CEO and Hamilton College Charter Trustee Steve Sadove '73 tells it, Saks found itself with an excess supply of seasonal products that would be unfashionable within months, and it needed to unload them, fast. So while other retailers were pursuing a conservative strategy of 30 percent discounts, Saks slashed prices on many big-ticket items by 70 percent.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published an article titled "Narrating the Detective: Nansensu, Silent film Benshi Performances and Tokugawa Musei's Absurdist Detective Fiction" in Japan Forum (21:1), Routledge. This article discusses how Tokugawa Musei, arguably the most famous benshi or silent film narrator/commentator, undermined conventions of detective fiction by adding aspects of benshi narration to the typical formulae of detective novels. By doing so, Musei supplemented the main narrative with a perspective external to the diegetic narrative.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung was invited to give a talk at the symposium "Human Security and Business: Focusing on Conflicts, Human Mobility, and Governance" on April 27 at City University London. Her talk was titled "The Korean 'Hostess' Club 'Rose' in Japan and Human Security."

Seventeen students and three faculty members in French spent the weekend of April 17-19 in Montreal, Quebec, exploring many aspects of this bilingual city which is only five hours away from Clinton. Students viewed a piece of the Berlin Wall that was given as a gift to Montréal in 1992, for the 350th anniversary of the city. During a guided tour of the old and modern city, students -- who pledged to speak only French during the trip -- were told about the complex history of the area, and how bilingualism affects public and private life.