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When Janis Avery K ’78 explains why she does what she does, she’s succinct and utterly convincing, ever the effective advocate for youth in foster care. Strategic support helps them get what they need to have a better life, she says.
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When Nancy Dolliver K’75 joined The Capitol Steps more than 20 years ago, she mostly played politicians’ wives because female politicos were scarce. Now that situation is changing, providing the troupe with a growing pool of women power-players.
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Sitting in the boardroom of The Whitney Museum of American Art, overlooking the West Side Highway and the Hudson River, are the students of Art History 310 and Scott Rothkopf, chief curator of The Whitney.
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If you know Roz Chast’s cartoons, you know Roz Chast. You know she’s funny. And perceptive. And prone to outbursts of delicious quirk. You also know she’s every inch the Big Apple native, her New Yorker bona fides evident in her New Yorker cartoons — the streets, the subways, the apartments crammed with odd ducks and overstuffed couches. You know she doesn’t shy from the weirdness or kerfuffle of everyday life.
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While researching a project about Mrs. Frank Leslie, a 19th-century publisher who bequeathed her fortune to a leading suffragist, journalist Elaine Weiss K’73, P’07 encountered a rivulet of history she couldn’t resist. Mrs. Leslie’s story was big and bold — fabulous wealth, business success, notorious love life — but Weiss followed the rivulet.
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On any long-distance trek, the path climbs, dips, and turns, as Robin Dropkin K’74 P ’05 ’09 has experienced during her 25 years at the nonprofit Parks & Trails New York, based in Albany. Dropkin is the longtime executive director, leading efforts to support state parks and trails in lean times and in fatter ones.
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Freeman Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), will deliver Hamilton College’s 2019 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 26, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
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A collection of primarily 20th century resources on African-American history in Utica and the Mohawk Valley was recently donated to the Burke Library Special Collections by Kirkland Alumna Cassandra Harris-Lockwood K’74.
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Penny Watras Dana K'78, P'13,'17 was named the Jeff Little ’71 Volunteer of the Year during Fallcoming/Family Weekend festivities. The award was presented by Alumni Association President Gordon Kaye ’74 at Friday’s dinner.
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Nancy Avery Dafoe K’74 has a new novel published by Rogue Phoenix Press. Both End in Speculation is the second novel in a murder mystery series written by Dafoe.
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