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Charlotte Ameringer ’88 works small. As chief conservator at the Portland Art Museum, she recently spent nine months ever so gently removing varnish from a painting in Monet’s famous “Waterlilies” series.
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People, events, buildings, and symbols that collectively represent the long history of Hamilton’s Opportunity Programs (OP) are on brilliant display in a 4- by 7-foot painting designed and created by Nat St. Helen ’27 (they/them).
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Bob Halligan, Jr. ’75 has written over 1,100 songs, 200 of which have been recorded by such artists as Cher, KISS, Michael Bolton, Blue Oyster Cult, Kathy Mattea … the list goes on. But to his classmates, Halligan is perhaps better known for his performances with the campus band Steak Nite.
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A decade-and-a-half after powering Hamilton’s women’s lacrosse to the College’s only team national championship, Kaillie Briscoe Kelly ’09 has returned to the Hill as successor to her former coach and mentor Patty Kloidt.
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Gerrit Smith, Class of 1812, was valedictorian of Hamilton’s fifth graduating class. Born on March 6, 1797, he was one of the nation’s richest men — and one of the most radical, uncompromising, unforgiving, and hard-nosed leaders of American’s movement to abolish slavery. Here are a dozen facts about one of Hamilton’s most inspiring and influential alumni.
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Among Dan Small's ’66 rich and varied life, there’s one thread that weaves through all seven decades. In fact, that thread — fishing — is cinched to his earliest memory.
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Philip O’Neill ’73 gets around. His senior year winter study at Hamilton took the Soviet studies major to Uzbekistan, a Muslim republic then part of the U.S.S.R. There, looking at the distant mountains, he asked a local what was on the other side.
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Getting sent to the principal’s office in eighth grade might have been the best thing that ever happened to Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme ’92. Her offense? She stood up in class to defend a student who was being treated unfairly.
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Working to pay rent in New York City, Ondine Jean-Baptiste ’17 took a job as a real estate receptionist. As she fulfilled her duties, Jean-Baptiste also armed herself with the tools and mindset of an ambitious journalist.
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In the summer of 2022, Professor of Biology Mike McCormick began research on a green beach in Long Island, N.Y.
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