Party On: Reunions ’23




Celebrating Sharon
Former Director of Alumni Relations Sharon Rippey P’12, who retired after 25-plus years at Hamilton, was celebrated at a Little Pub reception, where she was named an honorary alumna of Kirkland College.
Alumni Colleges
Alumni Colleges included talks about the Black Hole with astronomer Peter Schloerb ’73, consumer behavior with former Saks chairman and CEO Stephen Sadove ’73, and a birding expedition with ornithologist Craig Caldwell ’73.



Geoscientists Reunite
Geosciences alumni returned to campus to celebrate retiring and new faculty, and took part in five field trips to local sites, including Herkimer Diamond Mines, Green Lakes State Park, and the Rome Sand Plains.

Celebrating Phyllis
Phyllis Breland ’80 was honored in her retirement with the renaming of a room in McEwen Hall as the “Phyllis A.H. Breland Center For Academic Excellence.”


Enlace Launched at MARC Mixer
Enlace, an initiative from the Multicultural Alumni Relations Committee (MARC) to connect students and alumni of color, was launched.



The 2023 Bell Ringer
Trustee A.G. Lafley ’69
“It surprised no one that you — a former president, CEO, and chairman of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods company — were remarkably on brand when you spoke at Hamilton’s commencement in 2012. ‘Choose to Know Thyself,’ you told the graduates that morning.”


50th Reunion
The traditional medallion ceremony for the Kirkland and Hamilton 50th Reunion Class of 1973 kicked things off on Thursday.



Half-Century Annalist Letters
“We soon discovered that the insistence on effective written and oral expression extended well beyond the English Department; it was a campus-wide conspiracy. Other professors who had no business worrying about sentence structure and semicolons got into the act of correcting our mistakes. Eventually, however, we understood that writing was not our fundamental challenge; it was thinking. Because to write or speak clearly, you had to think clearly. And that is what our teachers taught us to do.”
Class of 1973 Annalist Letter (written by Roy Schecter ’73)
“Our personalized education was indeed ‘a sign of the times,’ those turbulent, disturbing, but ultimately inspiring and reinforcing times. We arrived at Kirkland as optimistic, curious, and idealistic students. We left as more mature and courageous risk-takers, determined to make a positive difference in the world.”
Kirkland Half-Century Annalist Letter
Weekend Entertainment
One Hill Of A Party: The Concert


The Sam Pellman Memorial Alumni Jazz Jam

2018 Bav Pav Concert



A Cappella Concert

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Save the Date: Reunions ’24
We look forward to celebrating Reunions ’24 on the Hill June 6-9. In addition to welcoming alumni back to campus, we’ll celebrate President David Wippman’s retirement. It’s going to be One Hill of a Party!
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