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Internationally renowned jazz drummer Bob Rosengarden, the recipient of a Hamilton honorary degree in 1999 and a regular visitor to campus, died Feb. 27 in Sarasota, Fla. He was 82.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, will be a guest on NPR’s “News & Notes” on Monday, March 5, during the 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. hour. She will discuss welfare reform and education with Robert Rector, senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Adair founded the ACCESS Project at Hamilton College, a program that enables low-income parents to obtain a higher education. According to its Web site, “News & Notes explores fascinating issues and people from an African American perspective.”

The Hamilton College Department of Dance presents the 2007 Spring Dance Concert on Saturday March 3 at 8 p.m. in the Schambach Center for the Performing Art's Wellin Hall. The concert will feature works by dance faculty Elaine Heekin, Bruce Walczyk and Emily Hildebrand. Christina Brewer '07 will present her senior project titled "An Excursion through Solitude." Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for students and seniors and can be purchased or reserved by calling 315-859-4331.

Katie Spencer '06 was featured in an article in East African Business Week - Kampala (2/26/07) about her volunteer work with the Global Youth Partnership for Africa (GYPA) and travel to Uganda, where she worked for 2 months.

Hamilton’s best student speakers will compete in the final round of the 2007 Public Speaking Competition on March 3, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Chapel. The 17 finalists will compete for three separate prizes. All winners will be recognized at the Class and Charter Day 2007 ceremony.

The annual Alternative Spring Break auction will be held on Thursday March 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Annex A and B. Everyone in the community is encouraged to attend to bid on some great prizes and support Hamilton's ASB trips. Bidding on items for the Silent Auction will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and a Tex-mex dinner will be served at 6 p.m. Items to be auctioned include a kayaking trip with Andrew Jillings, VIP seats for Al Gore, VIP seats for graduation, a night at the Bristol Campus Center, student art, vintage clothing and gift certificates to local restaurants.

"Ms. Wagner's piece practically leapt off the stage." So wrote New York Times critic Anne Midgette in her rave review of the new Trombone Concerto by Melinda Wagner '79, which was premiered on February 22, 2007, in Avery Fisher Hall, with trombonist Joseph Alessi and the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel. Wagner, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, was commissioned by the Philharmonic to write the new work--and she honored both the soloist and the orchestra by turning out a piece that, in Midgette's words, is "vital," "fresh," "smart," and "complex."

The Hamilton College Democrats and the Town of Kirkland Democratic Committee will host a screening of "Out of Balance, ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change," on Thursday, March 1, at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Science Auditorium. The film will be followed by a discussion, moderated by Philosophy Professor Richard Werner. It is free and open to the public.

Janet Halley, formerly of the English department of Hamilton College, and now a professor at Harvard Law School, will give a lecture titled "Define and Punish: new feminist reforms in the 'law in war'" at Hamilton on Thursday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit. She will be looking closely at memoirs by a German woman of her multiple rapes, and examining how that discourse is related to the legal struggles around rape in the international arena. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Three Hamilton College alumni will share their expertise in the area of finance when they visit Hamilton international finance economics classes during the first week of March. The three were invited by James L. Ferguson Professor of Economics Erol Balkan. Charter Trustee Richard Bernstein '80, Merrill Lynch's Chief U.S. Strategist and Chief Quantitative Strategist, will discuss Global Financial Markets on Thursday, March 1. Charter Trustee Jaime Yordan '71, Advisory Director at CDK Group, LLC, will talk about Mexican finance on Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6; and Bob Fryklund '80, Vice President for Industry Relations for IHS, a leading provider of information services to industries in the area of engineering and energy, will discuss energy security and sustainability on Tuesday, March 6.