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Pat Raynard, general manager of food service provider Bon Appetit at Hamilton, was a panelist at a seminar “Colleges Buying Local: A Farm To Fork Initiative” on April 3 at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. Raynard participated in the panel "Adventures in Buying Local: Four Campuses Share Their Experiences." The conference was organized by the office of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities and The Culinary Institute of America.

Laura Hartz ’07 has been named a 2006 Honorable Mention recipient for the Morris K. Udall Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship. The Udall Scholarship is awarded to undergraduates who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment or to careers related to tribal public policy or health care, and are Native American or Alaska Native. The Foundation awarded 80 scholarships and 50 honorable mentions this year. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to honor Congressman Morris Udall and his legacy of public service.

George Baker, a member of the Hamilton class of 1974 and a partner at distinguished Washington lobbying firm Williams & Jensen, PLLC, spoke to Professor John Adams’s Communication Ethics class on April 6.  Baker spoke on rhetorical ethics and lobbying, discussing how the challenges of his profession fit into the academic discussions the class engages.

Photographs by Sylvia de Swaan, lecturer in art, appeared recently in two internationally renowned photography journals.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, gave a talk to Georgtown faculty, administrators and students and to Hamilton College alumni in the Washington D.C. area on April 3. She gave her lecture during a reception in conjunction with the exhibit, "The Missing Story of Ourselves" in Georgetown's "Intercultural Galleria." The exhibit will be at Georgetown in the Levi Student Center for the entire month of April.

In accordance with Section 4.1 of its Constitution, the annual meeting of the Alumni Association will be held in the Chapel at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, June 3, 2006. Highlights will include the reading of the half-century annalist's letter and the presentation of the Bell Ringer Award.

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart was honored at the YWCA of the Mohawk Valley’s Salute to Outstanding Women on April 6. The annual Salute celebrates and honors women who have made "exemplary contributions in their industry." Stewart was recognized in the education category.

Matthew Lombard of Temple University’s International Society for Presence Research will present a lecture, “A study of portrayals of presence” on Tuesday, April 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the Bristol Hub. He is associate professor in the department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media and the Mass Media & Communication (MM&C) doctoral program at Temple University.

The Hamilton College Classical Connections Series ends with the Proteus Ensemble on Friday, April 7, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus.

The Afro-Asian Jazz Ensemble featuring Fred Ho will perform at Hamilton on Saturday, April 8 at 9 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Baritone saxophonist, composer, writer, political activist  Fred Ho is one of today's leading Asian American artistic talents. As a composer and performer, Ho works at the edge of forms, masterfully combining folk music elements from Asia and the Pacific Islands within a 20th-century African American context deeply influenced by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Cal Massey. The result is elaborate-yet fiercely swinging and soulful music, visionary in its embrace of a 21st-century American multiculturalism, which is "neither easily pigeonholed nor easily ignored," according to The Washington Post.