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Twenty-five years of art by Richard Lennox '61 will be shown in "A Retrospective Exhibition" at the Gratz Gallery in New Hope, Pa. The show opened Jan. 6 and will run through February 17. Lennox earned a bachelor's degree in French literature at Hamilton. He lives with his wife Stana in Erwinna.

Photographs taken by H. Philip West Jr. '63 will be shown in "Rebuilding Tamil Nadu" at the Chapel Gallery of the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in Providence, R.I. The show opened on Jan. 2 and runs until Jan. 31. He lives with his wife, Anne Grant, in Providence.

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Samuel W. Lewis, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, will join the Hamilton College faculty this spring as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs. He previously held that position at Hamilton in 1997.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published an article "Finding Our Own English": Migrancy, Identity, and Language(s) in Ito Hiromi's Recent Prose" in the US-Japan Women's Journal (Number 32, 2007). The article discusses the significance of interlingualism in works by Ito Hiromi. Ito originally came to prominence as a poet during the 1970s in Japan. In the 1990s, however, she migrated to California and began producing prose works that portrayed her multilingual everyday life. She particularly chose to create a literary language that highlights the clashes, fusions, and echoes between (mostly) English and Japanese.

Hamilton alumnus David Grubin '65, a producer, writer and cinematographer who received an honorary degree from Hamilton in 2003, has written and directed a three-part documentary, The Jewish Americans, which is airing this month on public television stations nationwide. The first segment will air in Central New York on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 10 p.m. on WCNY.

Almost 50 alumni, family and friends gathered for the "Three Kings Day" celebration at Salsa Catering in New York City. Daniel Garcia '84, the owner of Salsa Catering, not only hosted but also provided all the food, helping to make it, according to Larry Arias '84, who organized the event, an "evening to remember!"

Throughout the fall semester, Hamilton played host to a broad range of approximately 70 speakers, from a pair of political consultants representing both major parties to a Himalayan mountaineer, on a wide variety of topics, from the history of U.S.-Cuban diplomacy to genetic coding. A review of a list of some of these visitors highlights the diversity of disciplines, views and interests represented on campus as well as the opportunities afforded our students and our community.

Hamilton College is mourning the death of former president Harry C. Payne, who died unexpectedly on Monday in Atlanta. In announcing the death to the campus community, President Joan Hinde Stewart said, "On behalf of Hamilton, I extend our deepest sympathy to Hank's wife Deborah and the Payne family."

Sgt. John B. Gates, a horticultural grounds worker at Hamilton, and his platoon were the recipients of care packages collected and sent by students at Hamilton. A new student organization, Hamilton College Supports the Troops (HCSTT), was formed in November to gather care packages to American troops serving abroad.  Gates sent a thank you note and photo of his platoon to Tamar Nobel '08, one of the organizers of the collection drive. Nobel hopes to organize another collection drive during the spring semester.