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More than a decade ago, Naomi Guttman, the Jane Watson Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, picked up a camera and began recording her parents.

Scott Havens ’95 calls centerfield home. As president of business operations for the New York Mets, his office sits above the Citi Field bleachers that host the team’s 7 Line Army fan group.

“Creativity and innovation are in the DNA of Hamilton College,” says Steven Tepper, Hamilton's 21st president. “Our namesake and original trustee, Alexander Hamilton, was our nation’s creative founding father. Other founding fathers were content with borrowed models or sticking to the old agrarian order. Hamilton knew that a new nation needed new ideas. Ever since, the College’s history has been punctuated by moments of innovation and creativity and invention.”

Sam Pitter ’07 recently added two “work experience” entries to her résumé — head swimming and diving coach at Miami University Ohio and assistant coach of the Cape Verde Olympic swimming team.

Ciere Boatright ’05, Chicago’s new commissioner of the Department of Planning & Development, calls herself a “firecracker.” Born on the Fourth of July, she says, “I have a fiery personality ... I have this desire to light up spaces in a positive way.”

For the past 33 years, Jeffrey Greene ’91 has been freeing incarcerated people in Connecticut’s prisons.

Adam Lewkowicz ’02 is in his 16th season with the Rangers, who won the 2023 World Series after a roller coaster season. We caught up with Lewkowicz in his Fort Worth, Texas, home during the off season.

As founder of BostonSpeaks — and a Harvard Business School public speaking coach and three-time TEDx speaker coach — Kit Pang ’10 has helped everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs to NFL players to 3-Star Michelin chefs learn to communicate with confidence and influence.

Coaching wasn’t the career path any of these alumni envisioned as undergraduates. Yet, they are now indeed coaches — college coaches — who along with other former Continental student-athletes are teaching and inspiring young people throughout the country.

As David Wippman prepares to retire and leave his office in Buttrick Hall this June, he sat down once again with Debraggio to reflect on his time at the College.