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United Technologies Corp. (UTC) announced on Oct. 20 that David Hess '77, currently president of Hamilton Sundstrand, will succeed Stephen Finger as president of Pratt & Whitney on Jan. 1, 2009, when Finger retires.

Scott MacDonald was a featured guest of the Cinema Project in Portland, Ore., on October 15-17. He participated in a public interview with Todd Haynes (director of Far from Heaven, I'm Not There, Safe...) at the Portland Museum of Art, focusing on Haynes' roots in avant-garde and experimental cinema; and he presented two programs of films by the men and women who established Canyon Cinema, the exhibition/distribution organization that is the focus of MacDonald's recent book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times. 

Five students in the Hamilton Program in Washington participated in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides for Breast Cancer five- mile walk around the mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 19, Team Hamilton members were Caroline Canning, Helen Quigley, Megan Bumb, Emrhan Slaton and Jenn Anderson, all juniors at Hamilton. Abbey Canning, visiting her sister for the weekend, also participated. The students raised $750 for the American Cancer Society,

Catherine Murphy, an observation painter and faculty member at Yale University, will lecture at Hamilton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 4:15 p.m in the Kirner-Johnson Building, room 125. It is free and open to the public.

Tufts University swept Hamilton College in three sets to claim a New England Small College Athletic Conference victory at Amherst College's LeFrak Gymnasium on Oct. 17.

In a note to the Hamilton community on Saturday, Oct. 18, Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart announced the death Friday of senior Katharine Eckman, following a brief battle with cancer. She described Kat's death as "a terrible loss for her family, our college and her many friends."

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, facilitated a book discussion at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica on Oct. 16. Barry led a conversation on Carolyn Merchant's Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. This event was part of the Institute's current exhibit titled "Picturing Eden," which opened on Sept. 20. The book discussion included members of the Munson- Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and focused on Merchant's examination of the connections between the Christian narrative of the fall from the Garden of Eden, and current environmental and feminist narratives in Western Culture.

Hamilton graduate Richard R. Davis '78, P'10 has been named by Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) as vice president of institutional sales.  As vice president, Davis will be responsible for managing consultant relations for NGAM as well as coordinating several of NGAM's domestic affiliates.

The Hamilton College Wall Street Association will hold its Fall 2008 meeting at the Penn Club of New York on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 6 p.m. The night will feature Stephen Sadove '73, P'07, '10, chairman and CEO of Saks Incorporated, who will share his thoughts and insights about the current state of the retail sector and corresponding impact the economic downturn has had upon it. In the past, this incredibly popular event, created by Brendan McCormick '01, has provided a unique networking opportunity for members of the Hamilton community interested in finance and promises to do so again this November.

Steven Bellona, associate vice president for facilities and planning at Hamilton College, was inducted into the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 2 at the Officer's Club at the Academy in New London, Conn. Bellona is a retired Coast Guard captain. He received a plaque from Rear Admiral J. Scott Burhoe, superintendant of the Academy and Dr. Ray Cieplik, director of athletics at the Academy.