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  • Hamilton alumnus and playwright Tom Meehan '51 has a hit on his hands with "The Producers," which opened April 19 on Broadway.

  • Hamilton College students have been awarded prestigious national scholarships and fellowships in recent weeks.

  • Hamilton College will honor four of its own illustrious alumni, plus an education scholar and a jazz music great, with the presentation of honorary degrees at the College's 189th commencement on Sunday, May 20. Honorary degree recipients are Dr. John M. Driscoll, Jr., 1958 Hamilton College graduate and chairman of the department of pediatrics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York; Dr. Paul Greengard, 2000 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine and a 1948 graduate; Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Harvard professor and education scholar; Ralph Sutton, jazz pianist; Tom Vilsack, governor of Iowa and a 1972 Hamilton graduate; Melinda Wagner, 1999 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, and a 1979 graduate of Hamilton.

  • Five Hamilton College students, selected as 2001 Kirkland Project Research Associates, will present their work to the college community on Monday, April 23, from 4-6 p.m. in Red Pit, KJ. Students are: Jessica Ambrose, Redell Armstrong, Jamie Crowley, Mimi Pearle and Keithley Woolward.

  • Author Geoffrey Becker will read from his recent short fiction on Friday, April 20, at 4:10 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Mr. Becker is the winner of the 1995 Drue Heinz Award -- granted by Pittsburgh University Press -- for his story collection, Dangerous Men.

  • Josh Conklin's "24 for a cure" -- a 24-hour radio marathon to raise money for A.I.D.S. Community Resources -- on WHCL, begins Friday, April 20, at 3 p.m. The Hamilton senior hopes to raise $1000 and is still accepting donations.

  • Jodie Stewart, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to South Korea. She will teach conversational English to middle and high school students.

  • Senior readings by Creative Writing majors will continue tonight, (April 19), at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Village.

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