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Steve Wulf '72, an executive editor at ESPN The Magazine, has published a review of Mark Bowden's latest book The Best Game Ever: The Birth of the Modern NFL in the June 10, 2008 issue of the Wall Street Journal. The review also appears on the Journal's official website.

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

The Committee for Kirkland College hosted a brunch on-campus on Sunday, April 6, to help the Womyn's Center kick off Womyn's Energy Week.

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.

Stephen Fuchs '68, rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford, Conn., will present an Alumni College during Reunions '08 about his campaign against violence in media. Tragic events like the shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, are, Rabbi Fuchs believes, the direct result of the growing and ever more graphic depictions of violence that children grow up with in television programs, movies, and video games.

The NCAA announced that Azure Davey '00 (Lowville, NY), NCAA associate director of membership services, will join the Division III governance team. In addition to her new role, she will also manage the Division III provisional and reclassifying membership program, active member education program, and conference contact program.

The Cambridge Friends School in Massachusetts announced that Peter Sommer '76 would be their new head of school starting July 2008. This decision came after an extensive national search; the Board of Trustees ultimately chose Sommer based on his "extensive knowledge and experience in the education of primary and middle school-aged children." Sommer graduated from Hamilton with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy and Religion. He was an active member of Hillel and the Hamilton College Choir. He went on to receive his Master of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1978.

Doug Winiarski '92, assistant professor at the University of Richmond and one of Hamilton's most distinguished young alumni in academia will give a lecture, "Satan, Sinners, and the Evils of Parenthood in Provincial Boston: Lydia Proust's Dreadfullest Thought."   His talk, which is sponsored by the History Department and the Dean's Speaker Fund, will take place in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. (rescheduled from Wednesday because of bad weather.)  

The Red Room Gallery located on the second floor of the Stanley Theatre in Utica, N.Y., is presenting the work of Jake Muirhead '86.  The show opened on January 7 and runs until February 7. Muirhead earned his bachelor's degree in art at Hamilton. He lives with his wife Ginna and their seven-year-old son in Takoma Park, Md.

Almost 50 alumni, family and friends gathered for the "Three Kings Day" celebration at Salsa Catering in New York City. Daniel Garcia '84, the owner of Salsa Catering, not only hosted but also provided all the food, helping to make it, according to Larry Arias '84, who organized the event, an "evening to remember!"