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Hamilton College will welcome back more than 1,500 alumni and their guests when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 5-8.

According to Crain's Cleveland Business, Joshua Bruff, a 2005 graduate, was recently  promoted to a manager position of the Developers Diverisfied Reality Corp.

Alumni responded, and the May goal of making 800 new gifts or fulfilled pledges was met. Doing so generated a total of $125,000 in additional gifts from nine trustees. The third phase of the Alumni Participation Challenge, which concludes on June 15, will prompt the trustee challengers to contribute another $125,000 which will further magnify the impact of your gift. 

Stewart G. Pollock '54, a retired New Jersey Supreme Court justice, will receive the New Jersey State Bar Foundation's highest award, the prestigious Medal of Honor, for his longtime commitment to New Jersey's legal legacy. The award, given each year to candidates who have made exemplary contributions to improving the justice system, will be presented at the foundation's annual Medal of Honor Awards Reception on Thursday, June 12, at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick.

The students of Professor Gary Wyckoff's Topics in Public Policy classes tackled the public health care system on Sunday, May 4. Students were divided into two groups and charged with the task of devising a plan to cover the nation's uninsured and growing medical costs. Both group's plan had to be specific, comprehensive, fiscally sound, ethically defensible and politically feasible.

Hamilton alumni who are experts in health care will be on campus Sunday, May 4, to critique Hamilton students' proposed solutions to the U.S. health insurance system. The critique will take place in the Red Pit at 7:30 p.m. The students are from two of Professor Gary Wyckoff's "Topics in Public Policy" classes.  Alumni panelists are Karen Volmer '94, assistant professor of health policy and administration, Penn State University; David Duggan '75, professor of medicine at SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse; and Tim Finan '75, president and CEO, Olean General Hospital, Olean, New York.

Nine trustees have promised to make additional gifts of $400,000 with an Alumni Participation Challenge that runs from now until June 30. Your gift to the Annual Fund is unrestricted and helps Hamilton where it's needed most. Join the power of participation and keep Hamilton at the forefront of higher education. Please make your gift today.

Thanks to the generous support of its young alumni, Hamilton College is pleased to name Sally Kral '10 of Montclair, N.J., as its tenth GOLD Scholar.  If you come to campus, you might find Sally hanging out in the WHCL studios hosting one of her two radio shows "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "Oh, Oh, It's Magic," but that's only if there's no live music on campus. Whether it's a campus band, the College Choir or the next show hosted by the Independent Music Fund, Sally's bound to be there. If she's not listening to music, she's probably talking about it. "Arguing with my friends about music might just be my favorite activity," she says with a smile. "Though we could argue about nearly anything and it would be fun."

The Class of 2008 achieved notable success on Friday, April 18, as their class catapulted over the 90 percent trustee participation deadline and secured its place in College history.  Raising money and awareness for the Class of 2008 Environmental Endowment Fund, the fearless 2008 Senior Gift Committee, lead by co-chairs Ned Gilliss '08 and Blythe Winchester '08, scoured the campus for donors to ensure that they earned the final notch of challenge money.

Thanks to the generous support of its young alumni, Hamilton College is pleased to name Sokhna "Aminata" Diop '11 of Dakar, Senegal, as its ninth GOLD Scholar.  Aminata's talent as a writer brought her halfway across the world.  After impressing a high school teacher with her essay response to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the teacher suggested that she apply to Hamilton. So without visiting, she made Hamilton her first choice and, to her surprise, was accepted.  She arrived on a "chilly" summer day, but has since found warmth and comfort in good friends and Pub lunches.