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Hamilton's debate team successfully competed in a tournament at Wellesley College on April 11-12. Mallory Joel '11 and Sarah Krieger '11 won 4th best novice team and Rouvan Mahmud won 8th best novice speaker. Also in attendance at the Wellesley tournament were Chris Smith '11, Jimmy Kirwan '10, Jonathan Neville '10, Chris Lloyd '09, Murtaza Jafri '08 and Jessica Yau '08. The following weekend Philip Fraccola '08 and Murtaza Jafri competed in nationals at MIT. This year the debate team attended 11 tournaments and brought home 17 awards.

The May 4 episode of Foreign Exchange, a weekly international affairs series presented to the PBS system by Oregon Public Broadcasting, features Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, will serve as president of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) for 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. She was previously vice-president. Jin will work with an executive board of seven members and 18 delegate assembly representatives of different language associations.

An essay by Professor of French Roberta Krueger has been published in the paperback edition of A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes. Krueger’s essay is titled “Philomena: Brutal Transitions and Courtly Transformations in Chrétien's Old French Translation.” Edited by Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert, the book is published by Boydell & Brewer, Inc.

Nine trustees have promised to make additional gifts of $400,000 with an Alumni Participation Challenge that runs from now until June 30. Your gift to the Annual Fund is unrestricted and helps Hamilton where it's needed most. Join the power of participation and keep Hamilton at the forefront of higher education. Please make your gift today.

Two groups at Hamilton helped the College celebrate Arbor Day on April 25. The Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) and Hamilton College Arboretum planted a white pine tree between Kirkland Residence Hall and Minor Theater. Earlier in the day the Arboretum Society participated in a tree planting dedication at Clinton Elementary School. Todd Homer from the Hamilton grounds staff helped the students plant the tree at the school. Clinton students designed posters around the theme "Why Trees Are Important Everywhere" and those who participated received a tree seedling from the Hamilton Arboretum Society to plant at home.

Thanks to the generous support of its young alumni, Hamilton College is pleased to name Sally Kral '10 of Montclair, N.J., as its tenth GOLD Scholar.  If you come to campus, you might find Sally hanging out in the WHCL studios hosting one of her two radio shows "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "Oh, Oh, It's Magic," but that's only if there's no live music on campus. Whether it's a campus band, the College Choir or the next show hosted by the Independent Music Fund, Sally's bound to be there. If she's not listening to music, she's probably talking about it. "Arguing with my friends about music might just be my favorite activity," she says with a smile. "Though we could argue about nearly anything and it would be fun."

Briana O'Hare '03 was a recipient of the Women's Bond Club of New York "Rising Star" Award on April 29. Established in 1921, the Women's Bond Club of New York is one of the oldest professional organizations for women in finance. O'Hare is assistant vice president at Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) 

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh gave a lecture titled "Postmodern Ceramics" at Union College on April 29. The lecture included ceramic works that are hyper-real, utilize appropriation and are made in the age of post industrialization and technology.

Phil Klinkner, Associate Dean of Students for Academics and the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, was quoted in the Newsday article, "Battleground: The white working class; Crucial voting bloc in the fall; Where Obama trails in votes" (4/27/08).