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Robert S. Bloomer, Jr., a member of Hamilton's class of 1950, was honored as the College's Volunteer of the Year by the Alumni Association during a Fallcoming Weekend  luncheon on Oct. 3. Mark Rice '73, president of the Alumni Association, presented Bloomer with the award.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh exhibited three pieces from the Sweetest Battle and Seeing Stars series in Beautiful Losers at the Gallery RFD in Swainsboro, Ga. The gallery is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote economic enrichment in rural communities through the arts. The show was curated by the co-founders of shotgun-review.com, Joseph del Pesco and Scott Oliver, and ran from Sept. 11 through Oct. 4.

What happens when environmental damage affects not only public health, but the religious practices of an entire culture? This was the question addressed by David Haberman and Kelly Alley in Monday's panel discussion titled "A Flood of Opportunity: Polluted Sacred Rivers and Religious Environmentalism in India." 

Hamilton College placed eighth out of 16 teams in Hamilton's own fall invitational, which was held on Oct. 4 and 5.

Gustavo Arellano, contributing editor of The Los Angeles Times and author of the best-selling book, Ask a Mexican!, will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in  Hamilton's Fillius Events Barn. The lecture, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students and is free and open to the public.

A 2006 book to which Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds contributed a chapter, has been chosen as a winner of the Florida Publishers Association 2008 Book Awards. The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation was named in the best Adult Nonfiction category. Reynolds' chapter is on the class Scaphopoda, known as the tusk shell because of its hollow, curved, conical tube shape.

Members of the Social Justice Initiative, a Hamilton College student organization formed in 2007, presented copies of a petition with approximately 370 signatures to members of the college's Board of Trustees as they arrived for their quarterly meeting on campus Saturday, Oct. 4. The key point was the students' proposal of a cultural education center.

William Smith College broke a 1-1 tie with a goal in the 68th minute and the visiting Herons went on to a 2-1 Liberty League win against Hamilton College in a showdown between two nationally ranked top 10 teams at Love Field on Oct. 4.

Hamilton College lost all four matches in a tournament at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., on Oct. 3 and 4.

Trinity College scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 40-yard catch-and-run with 23 seconds left in the fourth quarter and the undefeated Bantams went on to a 20-15 New England Small College Athletic Conference win against host Hamilton College at Steuben Field on Oct. 4.