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Class of 1969, you have an exciting opportunity awaiting you on Reunion Weekend this June! Your Reunion Committee co-chairs have planned a dinner and boat cruise the night of Friday, June 5 for you and your classmates.

Five Hamilton seniors, Tim Currier, Alex Hodgens, Amy Rumack, Ben Saccomano and Jake Schneck, participated in a medical internship through the St. Elizabeth Health Experience Learning Program (HELP) during winter recess. From Jan. 12-16 the students shadowed doctors at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Utica, N.Y.

Thirty-six Hamilton employees and their children spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day heeding President-elect Obama's call to service by volunteering at non-profit agencies in the Utica area. Several were featured on WKTV, the local NBC affiliate. Employees were given release time from their work at Hamilton and volunteered at Hope House, The Underground Cafe, Johnson Park Center and the Utica Food Bank.

An etching and an aquatint created by Professor of Art William Salzillo were selected for the 22nd Parkside National Small Print Exhibition at the University of Wisconsin – Parkside. This annual exhibition and its fully illustrated catalog are focal points for the nation's top printmakers. This month-long exhibition features more than 120 prints, each with no dimension exceeding 18 inches. The show opened on Sunday, Jan. 18, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 19.

Cindy Tower, an installation sculpture and performance artist as well as a painter, will orchestrate a human chain of drafts people in the art department on Wednesday, Jan. 21, from 4:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tower will give a brief presentation on drawing as performance and then will begin drawing with those in attendance. Participants may perform as drafts people or may document the event.

Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with dinner theatre performances of Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith on Monday, Jan. 19, and Tuesday, Jan. 20, in the Fillius Events Barn. Dinner, featuring music by the Zoe Jazz Ensemble is at 6 p.m. and the performance begins at 7 p.m. The performance is sold out.

Hamilton College won two of three matches, including two victories against New England Small College Athletic Conference opponents, at Wesleyan University and Yale University from Jan. 16 to Jan. 18.

Hamilton College won three of four matches, including two victories against New England Small College Athletic Conference opponents, at Wesleyan University and Yale University from Jan. 16 to Jan. 18.

"The face of America today is the face of Barack Obama, an epochal change, whatever happens in the next four or eight years of an Obama administration," said Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, in an article appearing in the Monday, Jan. 19, edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods was honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Outstanding Community Service by the Mohawk Valley Frontiers Club at a luncheon on Jan. 19. The club sponsors or contributes to many community service programs in the Mohawk Valley.