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Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by VOA radio on Dec. 14.  Li discussed the recent change in the Chinese provincial leadership and the consolidation of Hu Jintao's power.

Welcome to HOLAC. The Office of Alumni Programs staff is here to serve you. Bill Brower '84 - Executive Director, Annual Giving and Alumni Programs e-mail: wbrower@hamilton.edu Telephone: 315-859-4027 Jon Hysell '72 - Director of Alumni ProgramsE-mail: jahysell@hamilton.edu  Telephone: 315-859-4606 Amy Hunt - Assistant Director, Regional ProgramsE-mail: ahunt@hamilton.edu Telephone: 315-859-4004 Laurie Russell - Assistant Director, On-campus and Special EventsE-mail: lrussell@hamilton.edu  Telephone: 315-859-4642 Nikki Barbano - Senior AssistantE-mail: nbarbano@hamilton.edu  Telephone: 866-729-0314 Jackie Thompson - Staff AssistantE-mail: jdthomps@hamilton.edu  Telephone: 866-729-0314 The Office of Alumni Programs manages Alumni Association regional events, Fallcoming, Family Weekend, Volunteer Weekend and supports special programming on and off the Hill. We also are in charge of Alumni Travel, content on the Alumni Website (HOLAC,) liaise with Alumni Council committees and provide a variety of other support to Hamilton and Kirkland alumni/ae. We encourage you calls and e-mails to us. We welcome the opportunity to support alumni on and off the Hill. Personal regards,Jon A. L. Hysell '72

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Professor of Government Carol Drogus attended the International Institute of Education meeting in New York in November.  Drogus served her third year on the National Screening Committee for Fulbright grants.  The committee reads the applications for a country or countries and selects the finalists whose names are forwarded to the host country for approval. This year Drogus read applications for Brazil; previously she read applications for Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1979, is featured in the cover article of the university's magazine, Rochester Review (Winter 2004-05).  Isserman and University of Rochester History Professor Stewart Weaver are collaborating on a new book about Himalayan mountaineering.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi presented a paper, “Landscape and the Lonely Traveler: Yanagita Kunio and Sugae Masumi,” at the Association for Japanese Literary Studies annual conference at the University of Washington, October 22-24. She was also invited to lead a faculty seminar at St. Lawrence University on the subject of “Gender in Japanese Anime” in November.

Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans published an essay, "Romantic Origins of Environmentalism: Wordsworth and Shelley.” It appears in the newly released book, Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment (Andrew Wainwright, ed. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2004.) http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/Catalog/wainwright.shtml   

Professor of Psychology Gregory Pierce was interviewed for the Albany Times Union article titled "Your outlook shapes body's stress damage."  Pierce said, "Managing stress successfully is all about reframing our experiences." If something negative happens, he says, admit that it was upsetting. Then use the event as a learning experience.

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for the BusinessWeek article "Take a vacation from your BlackBerry." Raybeck said, "As gadgets enable everyone to generate more and more work, raising the volume of material people have to process, the flywheel moves faster and faster. At some point it becomes an insupportable loop. We aren't built for continually processing a great mountain of information."

A transcript of the lecture given by President William Jefferson Clinton at Hamilton College on November 9, 2004 is now available online. The transcript includes the entire lecture and question and answer session which followed. To view the transcript, see the link below.