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Hamilton’s Alumni Council has elected three alumni trustees to serve on the Board of Trustees for four-year terms beginning July 1. They are Edvige Jean-Francois ’90, Kevin O’Donnell ’89, P’22,’25, and William Schmoker ’89.
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Melissa Williams’ ’89 path to Sierra Club and a career in environmentalism has had a few twists and turns, almost like the trip down a river — the French Broad River to be exact.
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kecia hayes ’89 proves herself a champion of equity in education practices and policies. Her curriculum vitae marks an extensive and indefatigable commitment to transforming organizations to respond to the needs of youth and families in a socially conscious way.
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The Rev. Karen G. Johnston ’89 can trace her lifelong anti-racist activism to her time at Hamilton. During a theology class she learned about Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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Following a D.C. program tradition, the fall 2018 Hamilton D.C. program students visited Williams & Jensen, a private law firm focused on lobbying, to speak with George Baker Jr. ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89. Baker and Vlossak were exceedingly gracious hosts, providing an insider look at the somewhat mysterious and often misunderstood world of lobbying.
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Hamilton College and the village of Clinton joined together on Feb. 9 through 11 to celebrate 100 years of hockey. Albert Prettyman was the Hamilton athletic director who iced over a tennis court in Clinton to introduce the first ever hockey game in our area in February 1918. The community thanked Prettyman with the weekend-long event.
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Hamilton will present an honorary degree to its most celebrated hockey player, Guy Hebert '89, during the weekend marking the 100th anniversary of hockey on College Hill and in Clinton.
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A month before the weekend-long celebration of Albert Prettyman, the Hamilton hockey coach who brought the sport to the Mohawk Valley, alumnus and former Utica Observer-Dispatch sports writer John Pitarresi ’70 penned a summary of the upcoming festivities and Prettyman’s accomplishments for the paper.
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Students in Hamilton’s fall 2017 New York City Program had another opportunity to spend time away from their desks and delve deeper into the city they live and work in when they visited the financial superpower Citigroup.
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Students in the Washington, D.C. Program recently visited Williams and Jensen, a private law firm focused on lobbying, to talk to George Baker ‘74 and Frank Vlossak ‘89 about their work.