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Members of the Hamilton community share their holiday traditions. Phyllis Breland with her 8-year-old son, Morgan

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Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams collects woodblock prints by Thomas Nast (1840-1902), perhaps best known as America’s first great political cartoonist, but also the man responsible for creating the image of Santa Claus as we know him. Williams’ collection of Nast’s Santa prints is currently on exhibit at the Emerson Gallery, through Dec. 21.

A lecture by Paula Rothenberg, that was to have taken place on September 11, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 4. Rothenberg, director of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, will give a lecture titled "Beyond Tacos and Egg Rolls: Inclusive Curricular Perspectives and Critical Thinking," on Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. It is free and open to the public.

Leslie Moore, a 1924 graduate of Hamilton College, recently celebrated his 100th birthday. He was the subject of a column by Robert Nemeth in the Worcester (MA) Sunday Telegram on Nov. 25.

Eleven Hamilton students have been named recipients of the Class of 1979 Student Travel Award. The awards are used to fund travel to various destinations where the students intend to do research, attend meetings or professional conferences relevant to their major. The students are: Redell Armstrong ’02, Nicole Caporusso ’02, Owen Charles ’02, Lorena Hernandez ’02, Matthew Liptak ’02, Heather Onderick ’02, Emma Pokon ’04, Chantelle Rein ’03, Jaime Skiba ’02, Brian Tilley ’05 and Jin Zhang ’04. Among the destinations of this year's recipients are New Delhi, the 42nd Annual Sanibel Symposium, Montreal, Ghana, Scotland and New York City.

Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology, presented a paper at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in December. The paper is titled, "Reclaiming the Whole: Systems Theory, Levels of Analysis and Process."

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams published two book reviews in The Quest. He reviewed Tenzin Gyatso, Kalachakra Tantra: Rite of Initiation (The Quest July/August), and Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (The Quest, Sept/Oct 2001). Williams also published a poem, "Ar Werth" in the October issue of Y Drych.

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major published two articles in the Nov. 17 issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity. The articles are titled, "On the Universality of the Entropy-Area Relation," and "Gravitational Statistical Mechanics: A model." Major's co-author was Kevin Setter who did research as a summer science student at Hamilton and is currently a senior at Swarthmore College.

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams published an article, "The Sheng Ren and the Nabi," in the November 2001 edition of The Theosophist(India). This was originally given as a paper at the New York State Asian Studies Association.