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Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and director of the ACCESS Project at Hamilton College, was honored at the YWCA of the Mohawk Valley Salute to Outstanding Women on April 7. Adair was honored in the education category.

J. Carter Bacot ’55, Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus, died at his home in Montclair, N.J., on April 7, at the age of 72. He was former chairman and chief executive officer of The Bank of New York Company, Inc., and remained on its Board of Directors until 2003.

The Newark Star-Ledger won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of N.J. Governor Jim McGreevey's resignation last year. Jim Willse '67 is editor of the Star-Ledger. He joins Henry Allen '63 (Washington Post, for Criticism in 2000) and Melinda Wagner '79 (composer, for Music in 1999) as Hamilton alumni who have won or shared Pulitzers in the past six years. The Pulitzer Prizes honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music.

Associate Professor of English Doran Larson's article, "Machine as Messiah: Cyborgs, Morphs and the American Body Politic," originally published in Cinema Journal, has been reprinted in Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader (Columbia University Press). He also delivered a paper, "Fantastic Realism: Film Adaptation's Challenge to Literary Realism," at the March 2005 International Association for the Study of the Fantastic in the Arts Conference.

The Nominations Committee of the Alumni Council invites nominations for the 2006 Distinguished Service Award. At the time of selection, the individual will be an active member of Hamilton's faculty, administration, staff or maintenance and operations. By Sept. 6, 2005, please forward suggestions to Dean Abelon, Office of Communications and Development, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323 or e-mail dabelon@hamilton.edu. All suggestions should include the candidate's name, position at the College, justification for the recommendation, and the name and contact information of the person submitting the suggestion. The justification should be detailed and should cite specific examples of outstanding performance.

Emily Lemanczyk, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been named a James Madison Fellow for 2005. James Madison Fellowships support graduate study of American history for aspiring and experienced secondary school teachers of American history, American government and social studies. After her graduation from Hamilton, Lemanczyk will pursue a master's degree at Columbia University.

Maybe it wasn't Cancun or Florida, but employees in Kirner-Johnson celebrated Beach Party, Season Two during Hamilton's Spring Break in March. For the second consecutive year employees in KJ brought the beach to their office; the number of participants tripled from last year.  

An article written by Instructional Technology Specialist Janet Simons and Professor of English Patricia O'Neill has been published in the online journal, Transformations: Liberal Arts in the Digital Age (vol. 2, issue 2, April, 2005). The article discusses the Art of Cinema course that O'Neill teaches at Hamilton. It describes the approaches taken to facilitate learning about film by use of film and media technology in the course, the effort necessary to design and structure course assignments targeted toward integrating content with appropriate technology, and the academic support structure Hamilton provides for students to accomplish these types of assignments. Transformations publishes articles on all aspects of technology in liberal arts education, including scholarly research, curricular resources, case studies, student writing and technical notes.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in a Financial Times article "China sweeps aside older executives to make way for youthful verve." According to the article, "By appointing younger executives, the government has leapfrogged the generation who became adults during the Cultural Revolution, the decade from 1966 when students were encouraged by Mao Zedong to make revolution at the expense of all else."

Hamilton's Alumni Council will present its 2005 Distinguished Service Award to Tim Hicks, director of audiovisual services, during Volunteer Weekend on April 8.  Given annually, the award recognizes an employee who has substantially contributed to Hamilton through distinguished performance in his or her position and through involvement in student, alumni or other activities in the College community. Previous winners include former Hamilton President Gene Tobin and Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp.