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Michael Cooney '83 was named Community Champion for his volunteer work in Rochester, N.Y.  He was a Russian Studies major and after he graduated from Hamilton he went on to the University of Virginia to earn his J.D. in 1988. He and wife wife, Elizabeth, live in Pittsford with their three children.  Cooney is a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP.

Hamilton graduate Richard R. Davis '78, P'10 has been named by Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) as vice president of institutional sales.  As vice president, Davis will be responsible for managing consultant relations for NGAM as well as coordinating several of NGAM's domestic affiliates.

Christopher Daniels '85 has created a new association to support Hamiltonians who are involved in new enterprises called Hamilton Ventures. Daniels majored in economics at Hamilton and went on to earn his MBA at Cornell University. More than 200 alumni have registered for Hamilton Ventures.Org which is intended to support entrepeneurs in both for-profit and non-profit areas.

John Werner '92, a founder and Executive Director of Citizen Schools has been named a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He recently began his residency at Harvard for the 2008-2009 academic year. Werner majored in government and minored in history at Hamilton and in 2004, completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education program.

According to a recent press release, the National Kidney Foundation serving Upstate New York has announced Hamilton College alumna, Ann Russ, PhD, of the University of Rochester as a grant award winner for her research.  Russ' investigation into the decision-making process among elderly dialysis patients regarding treatment near end of life and the roles of family and clinicians in the decision making process is one of several projects within the psychiatry department at the University of Rochester that she has studied.

In his third consecutive year competing in the National Poetry Championshp in Madison, Wisc., Daniel José Custódio '00 has won first place in the individual Slam Master Championship, followed by a second place finish in the Group Piece Championship with his newly founded team, Slam Nahuatl.  Both first and second place presentations, each of which received near perfect scores of 29.9 and 29.6 out of a possible 30 points respectively, featured poems written by Custódio. 

According to a recent press release, Charles A. Prescott '69, P'12 won a second four-year term as chair of the Consultative Committee to the Universal Postal Union (UPU) at the Committee's first plenary congress in Geneva, Switzerland. The UPU is a special body of the United Nations that serves as a forum for the discussion of the development and refinement of the international postal network. The UPU established the Consultative Committee in 2004 to provide advice on issues unique to the postal sector.

On July 31, Andrew Whitman '91 joined Varian Medical Systems as vice president of the newly established Office of Government Affairs in Washington, D.C. Varian, which has global headquarters in Palo Alto, California, is the world's largest manufacturer of radiotherapeutic and radiosurgical instruments and software for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.

What was once a majestic tower overlooking the South Quad has been reduced to stumps and wood chips as Hamilton College's beloved tulip tree was struck by lightning for the third and last time this summer and finally deemed unsound.  Hamilton will dearly miss this 150+ year old tree standing over 100' tall just east of Cooper.  The Tulip tree was # 34 on the Tree Tour map. Arboretum Director Terry Hawkridge hopes to plant a new Tulip tree in its place.

The University of Massachusetts, Boston, recently granted tenure to Elizabeth Marran K'77. Marran who is  now an associate professor of art, teaches drawing and printmaking. In her message accompanying the announcement, she wrote, "Thank you Bill Salzillo and Bruce Muirhead!"