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A.G. Lafley '69, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble Co., and a charter trustee of Hamilton College, will address the Hamilton College Wall Street Association on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 5 p.m., at the University Club, 1 West 54th St. in New York. Please see the alumni events calendar for more information.

A.G. Lafley '69, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble Co. and a charter trustee of Hamilton College, addressed the Hamilton College Wall Street Association on Thursday, Nov. 1. Close to 200 alumni, trustees, parents and friends joined Hamilton President Joan Stewart at the University Club in New York City. This is the fourth Wall Street Association event. Lafley made brief remarks about his career at Procter & Gamble Co. and his experiences at Hamilton, Harvard Business School and in the United States Navy. He went on to field questions from the audience on a wide-range of personal and business experiences.

Twelve Hamilton College students traveled to New Haven, Conn., on Oct. 25-28 to participate in the 30th annual Security Council Simulation at Yale (SCSY). These students are members of Model United Nations, an organization that enables students to attend various Model U.N. conferences throughout the year. The purpose of the organization is to improve public speaking and writing skills while learning about the official U.N. procedures.

Hamilton College alumna and Baylor University Classics Professor Amy Vail '84 will give a lecture, "The Case of the Disappearing Skull – Et in Arcadia Ego," on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Aaron Balivet '08 and Emily Tang '08 were two of 12 students selected nationally to participate in the first Associated Colleges in China (ACC) Field Studies Program in China this summer. It was funded by a U.S. Education Department Fulbright Hayes Group Project Abroad program grant awarded to Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin. The seven-week program was designed for students who had previous study abroad experience, so that students could build on existing language skills and apply them outside the classroom. It consisted of two parts: intensive language study and traveling through the country teaching Chinese students and attending education conferences with Chinese teachers and school principals.

Nine members of the newly-founded student organization Hamilton College Association of Women in Economics and Government (HCAWEG) attended a conference in New York City hosted by the National Minority Business Council on Oct. 19. Members of HCAWEG who attended were co-founders Amy Brown '08, Christina Culver '09 and Cali Garson '09, and Adah Jung '10, Katie Painter '08, Deanna Edwards '09, Whitney Rosenbaum '10, Hilary Nitka '08 and August Keating '10.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a lecture titled "Triangulating the Framing of East-West Engagement: Introducing the Art and Culture of the Warlpiri Aborigines into the Equation" at the 2007 New York Conference on Asian Studies - Decentering Asia at SUNY Binghamton on Oct. 27. His paper argued for the importance of cross-cultural comparative studies while destabilizing the customary "dualistic global usage" of East-West opposition.

Jay G. Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, took part in the symposium "From Slavery to Freedom: The Formation of African-American Identity" at Haverford College on October 27. His talk was titled "The Portrayal of the African American Political Condition in the Cartoons of Thomas Nast." The symposium addressed the history and culture as well as the military and literary expression of African American feeling and thought pre- and post-Civil War America.

Hamilton students spend a large part of their year on Hamilton's campus, but some feel they have no real connection to the land on which the College sits. Students live in rented rooms, eat prepared food from dining halls and learn largely through discussions and activities inside classrooms and labs. In an attempt to bring members of the Hamilton community closer to the land they occupy, students and faculty have teamed up to create a community farm garden on campus.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the Contemporary Voices and Visions series when three-time Grammy-nominated Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa brings his unique style of Afro-Cuban jazz to the College on Friday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.