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As the end of the year approaches, your support to Hamilton's Annual Fund is critically important. To help prompt you to be as generous as circumstances allow, a number of trustees created two challenges that will match all or a portion of your gift if given prior to December 31.  Up to $500,000 in increased trustee gifts can be generated to compliment and augment yours.  

Fallen Giants : A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, a book co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester Professor Stewart Weaver, was included in a list of recommended books for sports enthusiasts by the St. Petersburg Times. Reporter Tom Jones wrote, "Isserman and Weaver, through painstaking research, detail many other pioneers in Himalayan mountain climbing, including never-before-heard-of expeditions from the late 1800s. Not only do Isserman and Weaver provide the details of the climbs, they analyze how each expedition changed mountaineering."

The students from "The Natural and Cultural Histories of the Adirondacks" taught by Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel conducted a poster session on Monday, Dec. 8.  Posters included "Alternative Energy Sources," "The Philosophers' Camp" and "The Geology of the Adirondacks."

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a talk titled "The Medea Project: Performing Greek Myth in Prison," at The Other Side in Utica on Dec. 17.  The talk focused on the power of myth to transform minds and spirits even, in the case of incarcerated women, while the body remains in prison.

"Agriculture has been the most influential way that humans have altered the natural world," says Senior Fellow Christopher Sullivan, "but it is also a force that alienates us." Sullivan says that during his college career he has become increasing interested in how agriculture and human interaction with the environment can provide insight into our existence.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson was elected co-chair of the Confucian Traditions Group of the American Academy of Religion after its recent annual conference. At the conference, Wilson was a respondent on the panel "For the Exploration, Criticism, and Development of René Girard's Mimetic Theory," Colloquium on Violence and Religion.

Join Hamilton alumni, parents and friends for the annual Alexander Hamilton Birthday Celebration!  Nearly 30 cities world-wide will celebrate the College's namesake the week of January 11, 2009.  We hope you'll join us!  Please register for the party in your city.

Elaine F. Weiss K'73 is the author of a new book which explores the story of the "farmerettes" -- the women who made up the Woman's Land Army of America and did men's work in uniform on the rural home front during World War I. Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War is published by Potomac Books, Inc.

Kaitlin Britt '09 was named Hamilton's fifteenth GOLD Scholar. In the age of multi-million dollar gifts many young alumni have asked, "How does my $25, $75 or $250 gift matter when the financial needs of Hamilton College are so great?" This question is answered by the GOLD Scholars Program.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, presented two papers at the annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in Orlando on Nov. 19-23.