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Since leaving the Hill in 1963 H. Philip West Jr. has been a busy man working to make a difference. His work continues currently in Rhode Island where West is engaged in a battle to curtail the corruption he claims is ingrained in Rhode Island's political culture, reports the Boston Globe. West is the leader of Rhode Island's branch of the public interest group Common Cause.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten attended an International Conference on The State of the Art(s): African Studies and American Studies In Comparative Perspective, at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana where he gave a presentation on "Pedagogy and the Challenge of Developing an Africana Studies Program in a Small Liberal Arts Institution" which is to be published as part of the conference proceedings.

Assitant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin published an article "The Isometry Dimension and Orbit Number of a Finite Group", with Michael Albertson,in Congressus Numerantium 150 (2001), pp.79-85.

Professor of French Roberta L. Krueger has published "Beyond Debate: Gender in Play in Old French Courtly Fiction" in Debating Gender from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance, edited by Thelma Fenster and Clare Lees (Palgrave Press, 2002). She also published "'Nouvelles choses:' Social Instability and the Problem of Fashion in 'Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry,' 'The 'Menagier de Paris,' and Christine de Pizan's 'Livre des Trois Vertus,'" in Medieval Conduct edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark (University of Minnesota Press, 2001). This year Krueger was an invited speaker at Cornell University for Quodlibet, an organization of graduate students in medieval studies, to whom she presented "Christine's Treasure: Household Economies in the 'Livre des Trois Vertus.'" She also gave a paper titled "Dysfunctional Families in Christine de Pizan's 'Cite des Dames'" at the annual Romance Languages convention at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Krueger was elected to a three-year term as a member of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee of the Modern Language Association. This group sets the agenda and brings forth business at annual meetings of the Delegate Assembly, MLA's legislative body.

Following are remarks by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie Todd Whitman at Hamilton College commencement, May 26.

A book by Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans, Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature, was published in March by the University of Toronto Press.

Kirk Pillow, assistant professor of philosophy, published "Versions and Forgeries: A Reply to Kivy" in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 60 (Spring 2002). In April, he was selected to be program chair for next spring's American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia. In May, he and Krystyn Schmerbeck '02 presented their summer 2001 Emerson Grant research to an audience of Hamilton alumni in New York City.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Todd Whitman told Hamilton College graduates that the September 11 terrorist attacks served as a catalyst for people to help others and urged them to consider volunteering time, in her speech at Hamilton's 190th commencement on Sunday, May 26.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees Kevin W. Kennedy '70 presented Paul Kellogg for an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters.

Associate Professor of Music Michael E. Woods presented Richard R. Hyman for an honorary degree, Doctor of Music.