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The Monk Rowe Trio kicked off the Oneida Public Library's "America in the Jazz Age Winter Jubilee" on Feb. 8. The Monk Rowe Trio performed 1920s-era jazz and blues, with saxophonist Rowe, bassist Genevieve Rose and drummer Greg Caputo. Rowe, director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, also appeared solo at the library on Feb. 23.

Federal and New York State Income Tax forms are available in Burke Library (ext. 4735). The Library has the standard forms and instructions available. Unfortunately, the complete reproducible federal forms have been delayed this year, but the library expects them to be available by the end of February.

Tim Berbenich '02 has been hired by the New York Jets football organization as an offensive assistant. He interned for the Club as an operations intern during training camps from 2000-2001.

Neal Pilson, a 1960 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Newark Star-Ledger article (2/6/03) about his role in negotiating the broadcasting rights for the Olympic Games of 2010, 2012 and beyond, on behalf of the International Olympic Committee. Pilson was president of CBS Sports from 1981 to 1994.

Stephen Krensky, a 1975 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) article about writing as a career choice. Krensky has writtten about 65 children's books and also does independent work for Marc Brown Studios, adapting television shows of "Arthur the Aardvark" character into short books.

Dr. Paul Greengard, a 1948 graduate of Hamilton College who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, was featured in a NY Daily News article (Feb. 3, 2003) about his talented family. Greengard's wife is a sculptor, one son is a mathematician, another heads an IBM research facility, his daughter was a CNN producer and his sister won a Pulitzer Prize.

With this issue of Around the Hill, we're launching a new feature that each month will spotlight a different department on the Hamilton campus. We're kicking it off with a visit to Philip Spencer House and the business office.

Hamilton College will commemorate Black History Month by celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk with lectures by two scholars. Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, “Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s New World Social Geography,” on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Adolph Reed, author and professor of political science at the New School for Social Research, will discuss, “W. E. B. Du Bois and the *Souls of Black Folk* 100 Years Later: Race and Politics in Post-Jim Crow America,” on Monday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Poet Philip Memmer will read from his work on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College, as a guest in The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture “Masculinities” series. The reading is free and open to the public.

Baby Boy, directed by John Singleton will be the next film shown in The Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 (Red Pit). Screenings are free and open to the public.