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Thanks to the efforts of co-chairs Cynthia Conde and Paul O'Donnell and the entire Senior Gift Committee, the Senior Gift effort has met the goal of 90% participation and therefore is qualified to receive a $10,000 challenge. Altogether, they have raised over $13,600 toward a scholarship in memory of their classmate, Michael Maslyn. With two weeks left before graduation, they can now focus their efforts on breaking the 96% participation record held jointly by the Classes of '96 and '97.

The annual awarding of prizes and scholarships took place on Friday, May 4, at Class and Charter Day. See following for a list of students who received awards. More than 130 Hamilton students won prize scholarships, achievement prizes and awards in public speaking and writing.

Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented on May 4 to two professors of archaeology, an assistant professor of theatre and dance, and an assistant professor of psychology. Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professors of Archaeology, won “The Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching;” Mark Cryer, assistant professor of theatre and dance, was named the recipient of “The John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award;” and Julie Dunsmore, assistant professor of psychology, received “The Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award.”

The annual cleanup of the Utica Marsh, the large wetland between Utica and the NY Thruway, will take place on Saturday, May 5. The cleanup is scheduled for 9-11 a.m., with a nature walk through the marsh from 11 a.m.-noon. Biology professor Ernest Williams will leave ELS with a van at 8:30 a.m. and return around noon. Contact him at ewilliam@hamilton.edu if interested in joining in the cleanup.

Professor Mark Malvasi of Randolph-Macon College will speak on Allen Tate’s novel "The Fathers" on Thursday, May 3 at 2:30 p.m. in room 104, Benedict. Malvasi is a prize-winning historian and author of "The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson" (1997).

SKWRLZ: They're All Around Us! digital audio....digital video....performance art. Final projects ART/MUS 377, the Electronic Arts Workshop, will be performed tonight, Thursday, May 3, from 8-10 p.m. in Beinecke.

Class and Charter Day, Hamilton's annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, took place on Friday, May 4, in the Chapel. Russel Bantham, a 1963 Hamilton graduate was guest speaker. Bantham talked about his Hamilton heroes in his address titled, "Moving Up, Moving On: The Hamilton Connection."

Sarah Gloo (Orchard Park, NY) and Anthony Loeffler (Littleton, CO) have been named the 2001 Riffle Award recipients. The award is given out annually to the most outstanding senior athletes at Hamilton College. Gloo and Loeffler were honored at the 16th annual Riffle Dinner on Thursday evening.

Tom Meehan, a 1951 graduate of Hamilton College, and collaborator with Mel Brooks of the new Broadway smash, "The Producers," is premiering a new work, Yma Dream," at Symphony Space in New York tonight. Symphony Space is launching a a new series, "Short Scores: A Celebration of the Musical Theater," which consists of four brief fully staged performances.

The Music department will present a free student concert of voice and clarinet recitals on Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert will feature 13 Hamilton College music students who will perform various works by Monteverdi, Handel, Chopin, Mozart, and others. The Richtones, Hamilton’s Barbershop Quartet, will also perform.