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Hamilton College has been selected as one of the three ACUTA Member Sites to See for the second quarter of 2001. The topic of this quarter's competition was On-Line Customer Surveys. "The Web site [http://www.hamilton.edu/college/its/telephones/phone_survey/phone_ survey.html] was selected based on criteria of content delivery, timeliness, ease of use, and accessibility," according to Jan Weller, chair of the Web Site Selection task force. Addressing voice, data and video communications needs for higher education, ACUTA serves more than 800 institutions of higher education and 2,000 telecommunications professionals from across the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Percy R. Luney, a 1970 graduate of Hamilton College, has been named dean of the new college of law at Florida A&M University in Orlando. He was most recently president of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nev. Luney earned a juris doctorate from Harvard University. Classes in the new law school are expected to begin in the fall of 2003.

Reunion Weekend at Hamilton is May 31 - June 3. Highlights include the dedication of The Samuel Eells House, a talk by pollster John Zogby, the dedication of the ropes course, an exhibit and gallery talk by alumni collectors of the Class of 1966, the traditional lobsterbake, reunion parade with the bagpipes of the Mohawk Valley Frasers, Saturday cookout, reunion choirs and more! A complete schedule of activities is posted on the alumni Web page, www.hamilton.edu/alumni.

The Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College presents a selection of works on loan from Class of 1966 alumni collectors. This exhibition was made possible by the contributions of six lenders: R. Steven Anderson, Michael S. Fawcett, D. Roger Howlett, Bruce Lundberg, Thomas J. Schwarz, and Woody Studenmund. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, and decorative arts, and will be open through June 29.

Eleanor Walsh Wertimer, attorney and former executive director of Family Services of Greater Utica, and wife of Hamilton College Professor Emeritus Sidney Wertimer,was presented with Hamilton’s top alumni award during Reunion Weekend festivities on Saturday, June 2.

Maggie Hanson (Bowdoinham,ME) and Kate Nelson '01 (Omaha,NE), both members of the Hamilton College track and field team, competed at the 2001 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend. The Championships were held at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Hamilton finished 21st overall out of 73 teams.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin wrote an op-ed about the need for increased federal support of undergraduate science education. The op-ed appeared in the May 21 edition of The Newark Star-Ledger.

The College Store summer hours will be 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday.

The 2001 Kirkland Project service associates for this summer are Rebecca Karb ’02, Ashland, MA, and Julie Loder ’02, San Francisco, CA. Karb will intern with US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) in Washington, DC,and Loder will intern with People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER) in San Francisco, CA. Service associates engage in unpaid socially useful work over a 10-week period in the summer and receive a stipend of $3000 from the Kirkland Project, with matching funds from the Kirkland Endowment, as support for this work.

Sunny skies prevailed at Hamilton's 189th Commencement, where Iowa Governor and 1972 graduate Tom Vilsack shared a lesson about looking for the simple things in life. A total of 430 bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to members of the Class of 2001.