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On July 1, Stephen M. Pratt '85 assumed leadership of My Turn, Inc., a youth development agency based in Brockton, Mass. My Turn collaborates with employers, educational institutions, community organizations, and families to help youth ages 14 to 21 make the leap from high school to postsecondary education, work training, and successful employment.

Wearing a wedding gown on television? It's all in a day's work for Vanessa Cruz-Santana '10 (Santa Ana, Calif.), who is interning this summer at KDOC TV, a local television station in Orange County, Calif. Cruz-Santana is interning for "Daybreak OC," a morning news show that reports on local news in Orange County.

Money magazine reporter Amanda Gengler '03 provided analysis during the July 8 broadcast of CNNMoney's "Issue Number One", a news program that probes the health of the American economy. Gengler addressed the nationwide mortgage pinch and rumors of economic collapse.

University of Utah Research Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics Jim Pechmann '76 offered his seismological expertise in a June 30 NPR broadcast about the deadly collapse of Crandall Canyon Mine in northwestern Utah in August 2007.

Caroline Miller '09 has returned home this summer, and taken her academic interests with her. The rising senior from Wayzata, Minn. is pursuing two internships based in St. Paul, one with the archaeological department of the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), and the other as a historical research intern for the Northwoods Initiative at the Trust for Public Land (TPL).

Eric Scott Kaplan '04 and Matt Innes '05, former Hamilton lacrosse teammates and roommates will be riding on July 26 in the Connecticut Challenge: "Cycling for Cancer Survivors."  Their route will take them all over Connecticut, completing a 100 mile circuit.

As a creative writing major at Hamilton, Laurel Symonds '10 (Harwinton, Conn.) is always working with manuscripts, but this summer is special. Symonds is an editorial intern in the children's books department of Bloomsbury USA, a small publishing house in New York City. She reads solicited manuscripts (those the company has received from literary agents) and decides whether she thinks they are worth publishing.

A. Barrett Seaman '67 was presented with the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) 2008 Journalism Award on July 2, for his contribution to the field of alcohol research through his book Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess (John Wiley & sons, 2005)

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay G. Williams has published a book titled "Religion: What it has been and what it is" (Publishing Synthesis). The work, both historical and theoretical, offers an interpretation of the history of religions for both the beginning student and the scholar of religions. It is available through Amazon.com.

Thomas Acampora '05, a social studies teacher at Baltimore Talent Development High School in Baltimore City, won Maryland's History Teacher of the Year award, presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Preserve America, based in New York. He will receive a $1,000 honorarium and compete for the national award this fall. The school's library also will be given an archive of history books and other materials from the institute.