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The Honor Roll of Donors reflects individual and collective alumni generosity in "real time" as gifts build toward in 2010-11 Annual Fund, which closes on June 30. Take a minute to see who among your classmates has already made a gift and act now to be sure your name is among them.

Bradley Fleischer '00 is playing the solider Kev in the Broadway production of Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," with Robin Williams.   Fleischer has been playing Kev since the first run of the play in California in 2009 and describes his character as "young" and "naïve," someone who "thinks that war is going to be like a video game, he's just going to go over there and become a hero."

Carlyle "Connie" Ring, Jr. '53, P'87 has been named a Living Legend of Alexandria. Selected individuals must have contributed at least one tangible improvement to the quality of the city's life that likely would be missing without that person's vision and energy or have demonstrated exemplary service to the city for 10 or more years.

The continued envolvment of Hamilton alumni ensures the success of the Hamilton College Sailing Team. The team has grown to become a serious competitor and boasts one of the largest and strongest rosters among Hamilton Club Sports. This spring, the team qualified for the America Trophy, one step away from ICSA Dinghy Nationals.  Captain Emeritus Travis K. Rosenblatt '11 provided his report.  

Recent Hamilton graduate Caitlyn Williams ’11 is thrilled to be entering into a position with the  Community HealthCorps Program, a division of AmeriCorps later this summer as a school-based health center coordinator. Williams will be working with Open Door Family Medical Center in the medically underserved community of Port Chester, New York.

Over the course of Reunions ’11 Weekend, speakers at 30 Alumni College events informed the more than 1,000 returning alumni and guests on a wide variety of topics, ranging from urban redevelopment to food allergies to healthcare to sustainable investments. Here are brief reports on six of those sessions.

A paper co-authored by Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton was published in the March-April issue of The Journal of Social Psychology. “Does Suppressing the Thought of a Self-Relevant Stigma Affect Interpersonal Interaction?” was co-written with David Reiner ’05, Erica Vazquez ’08, Jessica Ruddiman ’09 and Stephanie Anglin ’10.

Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature Julie-Françoise Kruidenier Tolliver '02 gave a paper at a colloquium held May 11-14 at Concordia University, in Montreal. The colloquium was titled Francophonies trans-océaniques: vertiges de la balkanisation, rêves de mondialisation.

John L. Murad, Jr. '80 was recently appointed to SUNY Upstate Medical Foundation's Board of Directors. Founded in 1976 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation, the Upstate Medical University Foundation provides different avenues of receipt for private contributions.

For decades, athletes, coaches, parents, and organizations have searched in vain for the secrets to maximize mental performance in sports.  Despite the myriad of tools, techniques, research, and theoretical models used today, achieving success and happiness on the field is elusive. Garret Kramer's Stillpower provides a revolutionary, simple explanation for understanding and mastering one’s own state of mind in order to achieve consistent performance and contentment.