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A 200-year legacy as a small, selective liberal arts college will be celebrated as Hamilton College hosts its Bicentennial Kickoff on Thursday - Sunday, Sept. 22-25. Some 3000 alumni, parents, students and other members of the Hamilton community are expected to take part in events on the Hill over the course of the weekend.  The occasion will be marked with performances, tours, a Bicentennial Assembly, fireworks, NESCAC athletic events and more than 30 Bicentennial Colleges designed to commemorate this historic milestone in Hamilton’s history.

A time capsule buried by Hamilton’s class of 1871 was opened at the Emerson Gallery on Sept. 15. The event was in conjunction with the Gallery’s new exhibit, Time Capsules and Cornerstones: 200 years of Collective Memory at Hamilton.

A panel of four authorities on the 1971 Attica Prison uprising—historians Theresa Lynch and Scott Christianson, former Attica inmate Melvin Marshall and Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections Brian Fischer—will debate on the legacy of Attica and the current state of American prisons on Friday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel.

Translator, author and critic Edith Grossman will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Why Translation Matters,” and based on her book of the same name, is part of the fall 2011 Humanities Forum. It is free and open to the public.

The fall 2011 Humanities Forum at Hamilton will address the topic of “Translation and Cultural Exchange.”  As communication becomes increasingly international via the media, translation - especially language translation - is vital to understanding politics, social life, religion and more. This forum offers many perspectives that will challenge audiences to think about how meaningful words, sentences, and paragraphs can be translated from one language to another. All events are free and open to the public.

The Hamilton community observed the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with a silent march and candlelight vigil at the Chapel on Sunday, Sept. 11.  Early in the day, students from the Hamilton Republicans and Democrats placed 3,000 small memorial flags along Martin’s Way, the pathway of the vigil march.

Hamilton College will observe the 10th anniversary of the September 11  terrorist attacks that took close to 3,000 American lives, with events on Sunday, Sept. 11.  The College will honor the memory of Arthur J. Jones III,’84, Adam J. Lewis ’87, and Sylvia San Pio Resta ’ 95 – Hamilton alumni who tragically lost their lives in the attacks on America.

It was an anniversary of sorts. To COOP director Amy James, 2011 marks the year that every class of Hamilton students has participated in Hamilton Serves. The Orientation program began in 2008 and takes the students to volunteer at local non-profit agencies for the morning before classes start.

“China’s International Identities: The Conflicted Rising Power” in a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 4:30 p.m., in KJ’s Bradford Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Biology David Gapp was appointed to the Silas D. Childs Chair, and Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan was appointed to the James L. Ferguson Chair. Both appointments were effective July 1.