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An avowed early American history enthusiast, Hamilton College alumnus and life trustee Carl Menges ’51 has made a commitment of $3.6 million to support the newly established Alexander Hamilton Center (AHC) at the college. Inspired by Alexander Hamilton’s life and work, the AHC seeks to "promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, democracy and capitalism as these ideas were developed and institutionalized in the United States and within the larger tradition of Western culture," according to the center’s charter.

Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association's annual meeting in Tucson October 12th-15th. She was on a panel called, "RMMLA Poets Read Their Work" and she read from her novella in prose poems, entitled, All the Day's Sad Stories.

In preparation for Halloween, the earliest surviving film version of Dracula will be screened on Sunday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. Nosferatu (1921), directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, will be screened in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the F.I.L.M (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series organized by Visiting Art History Professor Scott MacDonald.

Rand Carter, professor of art history, will speak at the International Network for the Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism conference in Venice from Nov. 2 to 5.  The theme of the conference is "The Venice Charter Revisited.” 

On Monday, Dec. 18, Iowa Governor and Hamilton alumnus Tom Vilsack became the first 2008 presidential hopeful to appear on The Daily Show with John Stewart.  Eric Kuhn '09 was the only reporter in the audience. He wrote about the program and a subsequent reporters' conference for the Huffington Post.

The Hamilton College board of trustees has taken the next step leading to the creation of new arts facilities on the Hamilton campus.

Richard Bernstein '80, chief U.S. strategist at Merrill Lynch, was among 10 financial analysts interviewed for an article in USA Today about stock performance predictions for 2007. (01/03/07). Bernstein predicts that if the momenturm stays positive on Wall Street, the biggest gains may be generated by large-cap stocks.

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