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Milton F. Fillius, Jr., a member of Hamilton's class of 1944 and a trustee who was instrumental in founding Hamilton's Jazz Archive, died on February 12 following a lengthy illness. He was 79 years old.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven co-edited and contributed to Philosophy & Theology, Volume 13 Number 1 (2001), which was a special issue on Spinoza's biblical hermeneutics. Ravven wrote "The Garden of Eden: Spinoza's Maimonidean Account of the Genealogy of Morals and the Origin of Society" and wrote a piece for the guest editors' page with co-editor Lee Rice of Marquette University.

Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English Emeritus, attended the James Joyce birthday conference, "JJ on the Bay," held at the University of South Florida, Sarasota/Manatee, in February. At a session he chaired, he delivered a paper, "James Joyce, J.M. Coetzee, and Elizabeth Costello." The conference was dedicated to the memory of the late John Henning Brown, Hamilton '68.

The first talk in the Spring Faculty Lecture Series will take place on Friday, February 15, at 4:10 p.m. in KJ 109 (Red Pit). Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan will speak on the topic "Toward a Model of Action Planning: Pass the Salt, But Don't Spill the Milk."

Hamilton College is hosting the third annual FebFest, the revival of an old college tradition, through February 9 on the campus. Upcoming activities include fireworks, communtiy sledding and a snowman building contest in the village of Clinton. Many events are free and open to the public.

Kirkland Project artist-in-residence Sharon Bridgforth and her daughter, Sonja Perryman, will perform "word orchestrations/for two," a staged reading featuring jazz/conjuring/word rhythms/blues/prayers on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center at Hamilton College. The event is free and open to the public.

Religious Studies Professor Jay Williams published a new book, The Way of Adam, which is now available through 1st Books (December, 2001). It tells the story of Adam, a child born of Heaven and Earth who leaves his cavern home and eventually leads a company from the great city on a quest for the secret that will end the woes of the City of Man. The text draws upon a variety of Biblical, astrological, numerological, mythological and Daoist symbols.

Professor of Classics Shelley Haley took the 23 students in her Ancient Egypt class to Chicago's Field Museum to view the traveling exhibit "Cleopatra: One Woman, Many Faces" in November. The Field Museum was the only North American stop for the exhibit, which featured many artifacts from Cleopatra's time. Haley and the students also visited the permanent collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts housed in the museum.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz has published a co-edited volume titled "Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World," with an introduction and essay by her. She has presented new work on Greek vase painting at the Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, "Doing Gender with Clothes in Attic Vase Painting," and at the Open University (UK) conference on the Clothed Body in the Ancient World, "Is My Bum Big in This?: Constructing Bodies in Greek Vase Painting."

Philip Zweig, a 1968 graduate of Hamilton, wrote an op-ed about the Enron crisis that was published in The New York Times (Feb. 2). Zweig is the second Hamilton alumnus in two weeks to be published in The Times' op-ed section; Michael Granof '63 wrote an op-ed that was published on Jan. 23.