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The Stephen Palmer Graves ’52 Memorial Book Fund

July 1, 1956

This fund was established in 1956 by friends and family of Stephen P. Graves ’52 (1929-1955) for the purchase of books on the history of Asiatic countries.

Stephen Graves was the son of Professor Edgar G. “Digger” Graves, a distinguished and adored professor of history at Hamilton College. Stephen began his career on the Hill in 1948 as a member of the class of 1952. However, when his National Guard unit was mobilized for war-service in May of 1951, he withdrew from college to serve as a 2nd Lieutenant and later as a 1st Lieutenant in the United States Army. Following his return to the States, he received a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton in 1954, but remained a member of the Class of 1952. He went on to pursue graduate studies in international relations at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he contracted poliomyelitis from which he died in 1955.