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Eleanor Walsh Wertimer, attorney and former executive director of Family Services of Greater Utica, and wife of Hamilton College Professor Emeritus Sidney Wertimer,was presented with Hamilton’s top alumni award during Reunion Weekend festivities on Saturday, June 2.

Maggie Hanson (Bowdoinham,ME) and Kate Nelson '01 (Omaha,NE), both members of the Hamilton College track and field team, competed at the 2001 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend. The Championships were held at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Hamilton finished 21st overall out of 73 teams.

Eric Feldman, a rising junior at Hamilton College, is foregoing the usual college student's summer activities in order to carry out a 10-week research internship with Herman Lehman, assistant professor of biology. Feldman is studying octopamine, an insect neurotransmitter, and the manner in which nitric oxide affects its functions throughout development.

By the time the epic film Pearl Harbor has swept across America, Dorie Miller, the first hero of World War II, will finally be well known outside the African-American community. Philip Klinkner, associate professor of government, devoted a chapter to Dorie Miller in his book, The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America.

"The Producers," the Broadway musical written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan '51 received 11 Drama Desk awards, a new record. The musical opened in April to rave reviews and has already sold out tickets for the remainder of 2001. "The Producers" received awards for outstanding new musical, for outstanding actor in a musical, for the book, for the lyrics, for orchestrations, for set design, and for costume design. The musical has also been nominated for numerous Tony awards which will be presented at the 55th annual Tony awards on June 3.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin wrote an op-ed about the need for increased federal support of undergraduate science education. The op-ed appeared in the May 21 edition of The Newark Star-Ledger.

The College Store summer hours will be 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday.

The 2001 Kirkland Project service associates for this summer are Rebecca Karb ’02, Ashland, MA, and Julie Loder ’02, San Francisco, CA. Karb will intern with US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) in Washington, DC,and Loder will intern with People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER) in San Francisco, CA. Service associates engage in unpaid socially useful work over a 10-week period in the summer and receive a stipend of $3000 from the Kirkland Project, with matching funds from the Kirkland Endowment, as support for this work.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin has created a new senior officer's position at the college and named David L. Smallen to fill it. Smallen will become vice president for information technology, the seventh member of the college’s senior leadership team. He had been director of Information Technology Services (ITS) since that position was created in 1986 and was director of the Computer Center from its inception in 1974. In 1987, he created the Office of Institutional Research at Hamilton and directed that office for a decade.

Sunny skies prevailed at Hamilton's 189th Commencement, where Iowa Governor and 1972 graduate Tom Vilsack shared a lesson about looking for the simple things in life. A total of 430 bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to members of the Class of 2001.