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For decades, athletes, coaches, parents, and organizations have searched in vain for the secrets to maximize mental performance in sports.  Despite the myriad of tools, techniques, research, and theoretical models used today, achieving success and happiness on the field is elusive. Garret Kramer's Stillpower provides a revolutionary, simple explanation for understanding and mastering one’s own state of mind in order to achieve consistent performance and contentment. 

Maureen Meharg Kentoff '84 has contributed an essay to Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver, a collection of criticism published by the University of Tennessee Press. Seeds of Change is the first collection to consider the full range of Kingsolver’s literary work Kentoff’s essay "To Live Deliberately: Feminist Theory in Action in High Tide in Tuscon" is the second chapter.

On October 19, Casemate Publishers, a leader in military history book publishing, will release Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany by Richard Lucas '84. The book will be the first fully-documented biography of Mildred Gillars.

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Clyde Tuggle ’84 has been elected board member of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. Tuggle currently serves as vice president of Global Public Affairs and Communications for the Coca-Cola Company.

Susan H. Frey '84 will return to campus for her 25th reunion in June; however, before she can make the trip to College Hill, she will lead her own trek with 20 Hamilton friends at the Thoreau Institute at the Walden Woods Project in Lincoln, MA. Susan, with the support of the Hamilton College Alumni Association of Boston, has invited Hamilton alumni, parents and friends to join her on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at Walden Pond for a 2 mile hike where she will offer commentary on the natural history of the Pond as well as the most famous denizen of Walden Woods, Henry David Thoreau.