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Hamilton alumnus Tom Meehan '51 won a Tony award on June 8 for "Hairspray," a Broadway musical. Meehan co-wrote the book on which the musical is based with Mark O'Donnell. The musical is adapted from John Waters's 1988 movie about rock 'n' roll and race relations. Meehan is also co-creator of the Broadway hit "The Producers."

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao contributed an essay, "Toward a Taxonomy of Hybridity," and two poems, "A Diary of Apples" and "Native Tongues," to the spring 2003 issue of Wasafiri magazine. Yao also co-wrote the magazine's editorial with Laura Chrisman. Wasafiri is published by Queen Mary, University of London.

Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette published a review of Stevan Harrell's Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China in the Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 62, no. 2, 2003.

Leonard C. Ferguson Professors of Archaeology Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones collaborated again in 2003 to publish another work. The two worked with Eric E. Jones and Richard E. Hughes to publish "Lithic Source Use and Paleoarchaic Foraging Territories in the Great Basin." The two professors then delivered several papers together at Conferences entitled "Paleoarchaic Travelers in the Great Basin," "Terminal Peistocene Lake Recession and Human Occupation in Grass Valley, Nevada," and "Great Basin 'Stubbies' and other Early Holocene Point Forms in the Western Bonneville Basin."

With a “long-standing passion for social history,” Elizabeth Rabe, a rising senior at Hamilton College, has been awarded a Freeman Grant for summer research. Her project, titled “From India to the Sugar Fields: The Lives of East Indian Indentured Laborers, 1854-1884,” defines her interest and experience in the history of slaves and slave society. With the grant, Rabe will investigate the lives and cultures of East Indian indentured laborers based on British Parliamentary Papers, Colonial Office Records, and British Antislavery papers; as these documents are located at the Public Records Office and British Library in London, England, Rabe will travel overseas as a part of her project.

Members of the Hamilton Community will be taking an active role in the fight against cancer this weekend by participating in The Relay For Life, June 7-8. Walkers include Colene and Craig Burnop. Colene works in the Business Office and Craig works for Campus Safety as an Alternate Campus Safety Officer. Other members of 'Breanna’s Buddies' from the Hamilton Community will be Ceil Gilbert from the Business Office, Lynn Morton (Mort) from the Mail Center, and his wife Abby Morton from Burke Library. The team will be at the Sauquoit relay site.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran reviewed a manuscript on the ethics of college admissions for Rowman Littlefield Press.

Professor of Art John McEnroe published a review, "Louise A. Hitchcock, Minoan Architecture. A Contextual Analysis (Jonsered, Sweden: Paul Åströms Förlag, 2000)," in American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002) 123-124. McEnroe also published an abstract, "Sir Arthur Evans and the Popular Press," in the same issue. He also served as a manuscript reviewer for the American Journal of Archaeology.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History Maurice Isserman published newly revised editions of World War Two, The Korean War, and The Vietnam War in the series America at War (Facts on File, Inc.).

“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus;” the two genders seem so different from one another, they may as well be from different planets! The many differences between males and females have been documented in literature, science, art, and history books for as long as they have existed. As an Emerson scholar, Katie Poulin, '04, hopes to examine, compare and contrast masculine versus feminine portrayals of war through art.