Hamilton College welcomed back 1,100 alumni and their guests when it hosted its annual Reunion Weekend on Thursday-Sunday, June 3-6. Highlights of this year's reunion included performances by national recording star, singer and songwriter Jen Shankman '94 and perennial favorite, the Alumni All-Star Jazz Band, one of the longest playing college alumni jazz bands in America.
Twenty Alumni College classes provided intellectual stimulation for returning alumni and their guests. They included tours of the Hamilton College Arboretum; a discussion on Handicapping the Election of 2004; Jazz Greats: Video Interviews from Hamilton's Jazz Archive; a lecture, "Inside the Truman White House and Beyond", featuring former speechwriter for President Truman, author, nine-term Congressman and four-term Virginia Secretary of State and college professor Ken Hechler; and "Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese /American Poems of Angel Island."
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Also during the weekend, reunion classes heard a State of the
College Address from President Joan Stewart, celebrated at class
dinners, held class meetings and participated in a moving Service of
Remembrance for deceased alumni.
