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Hamilton College was swept in three sets by Amherst College and Middlebury College in New England Small College Athletic Conference matches played at Amherst's LeFrak Gymnasium on Oct. 18.

Hamilton College rowed in the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston on Saturday, Oct. 18.

Hamilton College rowed in the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston on Oct. 18 and 19.

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) announced on Oct. 20 that David Hess '77, currently president of Hamilton Sundstrand, will succeed Stephen Finger as president of Pratt & Whitney on Jan. 1, 2009, when Finger retires.

Scott MacDonald was a featured guest of the Cinema Project in Portland, Ore., on October 15-17. He participated in a public interview with Todd Haynes (director of Far from Heaven, I'm Not There, Safe...) at the Portland Museum of Art, focusing on Haynes' roots in avant-garde and experimental cinema; and he presented two programs of films by the men and women who established Canyon Cinema, the exhibition/distribution organization that is the focus of MacDonald's recent book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times. 

Five students in the Hamilton Program in Washington participated in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides for Breast Cancer five- mile walk around the mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 19, Team Hamilton members were Caroline Canning, Helen Quigley, Megan Bumb, Emrhan Slaton and Jenn Anderson, all juniors at Hamilton. Abbey Canning, visiting her sister for the weekend, also participated. The students raised $750 for the American Cancer Society,

Catherine Murphy, an observation painter and faculty member at Yale University, will lecture at Hamilton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 4:15 p.m in the Kirner-Johnson Building, room 125. It is free and open to the public.

Tufts University swept Hamilton College in three sets to claim a New England Small College Athletic Conference victory at Amherst College's LeFrak Gymnasium on Oct. 17.

In a note to the Hamilton community on Saturday, Oct. 18, Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart announced the death Friday of senior Katharine Eckman, following a brief battle with cancer. She described Kat's death as "a terrible loss for her family, our college and her many friends."

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, facilitated a book discussion at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica on Oct. 16. Barry led a conversation on Carolyn Merchant's Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. This event was part of the Institute's current exhibit titled "Picturing Eden," which opened on Sept. 20. The book discussion included members of the Munson- Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and focused on Merchant's examination of the connections between the Christian narrative of the fall from the Garden of Eden, and current environmental and feminist narratives in Western Culture.