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Bill Ringle '44 wrote "Christmas Greetings" for Davidson News. Brenda Barger, Around Davidson correspondent, introduced him, "Today we hear from Bill Ringle, journalist extraordinaire, who was a member of the White House press corps from 1968 until 1988.  Prior to his duty at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., he spent some holidays away from his family while serving in World War II or teaching journalism in China."

Utica College Hockey Coach Gary Heenan '98 achieved his 100th career win, according to news reports. At Hamilton, Heenan majored in government and was captain, four-year letter winner and star defenseman of the ice hockey team. He founded the Utica College program, which is in its eight season, and was named the ECAC West coach of the year in 2005. Gary and his wife Jodi welcomed daughter Riley to their family in August 2008.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez Plate recently published the online articles, "Dreaming of Oz in Mumbai" for the NYU-based Revealer, and "Is Religion a Game?" for the Ford Foundation-funded Religious Dispatches.

A new English seminar, "Booked: Prison Writing," taught by Associate Professor Doran Larson during the fall semester, offered a survey of literature composed behind bars. The authors ranged from Socrates to Oscar to post-colonial, developing world authors. The class also included a specialized field trip: the opportunity to observe inmates at maximum-security Attica Prison in a creative writing class. 

Senior Eric Kuhn interviewed four authors who recently published fictional novels with political overtones for a Huffington Post article. "Political-ish Holiday Stocking Stuffers" included interviews with Candice Proctor and Steven Harris, authors of The Archangel Project; James Grippando, author of Born to Run; and Bart Schneider, author of The Man in the Blizzard.

A work by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and alumna Jackie Brown '04 titled "Accretion" has been accepted into the 23rd International Juried Show at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. The show runs from February 13 to March 27. Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, juried the show.

As the end of the year approaches, your support to Hamilton's Annual Fund is critically important. To help prompt you to be as generous as circumstances allow, a number of trustees created two challenges that will match all or a portion of your gift if given prior to December 31.  Up to $500,000 in increased trustee gifts can be generated to compliment and augment yours.  

Fallen Giants : A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, a book co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester Professor Stewart Weaver, was included in a list of recommended books for sports enthusiasts by the St. Petersburg Times. Reporter Tom Jones wrote, "Isserman and Weaver, through painstaking research, detail many other pioneers in Himalayan mountain climbing, including never-before-heard-of expeditions from the late 1800s. Not only do Isserman and Weaver provide the details of the climbs, they analyze how each expedition changed mountaineering."

The students from "The Natural and Cultural Histories of the Adirondacks" taught by Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel conducted a poster session on Monday, Dec. 8.  Posters included "Alternative Energy Sources," "The Philosophers' Camp" and "The Geology of the Adirondacks."

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a talk titled "The Medea Project: Performing Greek Myth in Prison," at The Other Side in Utica on Dec. 17.  The talk focused on the power of myth to transform minds and spirits even, in the case of incarcerated women, while the body remains in prison.