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Flipping a coin is not a game of chance but a beloved avocation for numismatics expert Bill Fivaz ’56, who has been collecting coins since 1950.
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Two icons in American civil rights history – both Hamilton College graduates – are being remembered at the College with scholarships named in their honor.
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In an email to the Hamilton College community on July 26, President David Wippman announced the passing of Robert Parris Moses ’56, an icon in the civil rights movement and one of Hamilton’s most distinguished alumni.
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Civil rights activist and math literacy pioneer Robert Moses ’56 was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in April.
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One of the first African American students to earn a philosophy degree at Hamilton, Alfred Prettyman ’56 became a guiding figure in African American philosophy.
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To introduce him simply as a civil rights activist, educator, or philosopher would be irresponsible. To call him a MacArthur Genius, a Heinz Award recipient, or an Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellow would reduce him to labels. He is all of that and more – there simply is no introduction that could do Robert “Bob” Moses’56 justice.
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Robert Moses ’56, one of the most influential black leaders of the civil rights struggle, founder of The Algebra Project, Inc., and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, will return to Hamilton for a four-day visit and full slate of activities from Feb. 18 to 21.
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During the second week of spring break, a group of nine Hamilton students and Professor Margo Okazawa-Rey attended a student activist leadership retreat at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn. The Highlander Center is an 85-year-old popular education center that works with grassroots organizing and movement-building across the U.S. South and Appalachia to promote sustainability, social and economic justice, and equity.
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“Dr. King would be talking about the need for quality education for all the nation's youth,” Bob Moses ’56 told Parade Magazine in its Aug. 21, issue.
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David Palmer '56 has recently posted an essay titled "Rituals and Symbols" on his blog Cosmoticks. Palmer's thoughts and questions are the result of his study of the works of Carl G. Jung, which he first encountered at Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1987. His essay explores the nature of adolescence, the relationship between love and power, and the relation of God to the self:
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