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Life Trustee Leonard E. Kingsley ’51 died on Saturday, August 11, in San Francisco of prostate cancer. Described by The San Francisco Chronicle as a “businessman and civic leader with a love of the arts and a commitment to social causes,” he served as an  Alumni Trustee from 1983 to 1987 and a Charter Trustee from 1988 to 1994, at which time he was elected a Life Trustee.

The spacious deck of Glen House provided the setting on August 14 as Andrew Jillings, director of outdoor leadership and Adirondack Adventure, took some time to discuss the popular pre-orientation program. 

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper at an interdisciplinary conference on "Cultural Histories and Vocabularies of the Fragment in Text and Image" held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in June. The paper, titled "Decentering 'gret auctorite': the Chaucerian Aesthetics of the Fragment," discusses the fragmentary nature of much of Chaucer's work, arguing that the fragment, as a powerful metaphor for the dismantling of narrative authority, underlies Chaucer's construction of narrative.

Adirondack Adventure, Hamilton’s eight-day outdoor program for incoming students, has reached a record participation level, with 230 first-year students set to check in for the popular pre-orientation program on August 13. Fifty percent of the class of 2011 has enrolled in 27 different trips, selecting from programs that focus on hiking, canoeing, rock climbing or kayaking at beginning, intermediate or advanced ability levels. All trips are conducted in various locations in the Adirondacks.

Kathryn Plummer '08 is well into her third summer as an intern, and she admits that she likes this one best. Plummer, a government major, has previously worked in a senatorial office, a psychology research lab, a law firm, and a press. This summer she is at Arnold Worldwide's Boston office as a brand promotions intern.

Ethan Woods '09 (Stratford, N.Y.) started out his summer with a research survey into sustainable fuels, but he quickly decided to narrow his topic and focus on biofuels instead. The rising junior has a Levitt Fellowship this summer to combine his interests in environmentalism and economics in research on biofuels as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats gained a majority in the both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Kye Lippold '10 (South Burlington, Vt.) noted a similarity to the 1994 "Republican Revolution" when the Republican Party gained control of both legislative bodies. This summer Lippold is working with the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner to investigate broader trends in the U.S. electorate and whether the 2006 election results are the signs of a larger movement in the country's political character.

Leeann Brigham '09 decided to make a change this summer. The native of Troy, N.Y., heard about an internship position in the UCLA neuroscience lab and decided to head across the country "to try something completely different -- live in a new place, work with new people." Transplanting is never easy, but Brigham made the right choice: she loves her work in the lab.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented a paper at the Conference on Macroeconomic Research at Liberal Arts Colleges held at Smith College in August. The paper, "Do all countries follow the same growth process?," was co-authored with Lewis Davis at Union College and Julio Videras at Hamilton. Owen said the paper uses a novel methodology to explore the extent to which growth occurs in the same way in different countries. At the same conference, she also led a discussion session on teaching economic growth to undergraduate students.

Our unofficial correspondent e-mailed in from Bosnia-Herzegovina to talk about the heat, the people and the coffee. "The to-go menu has not been developed quite yet," wrote recent grad Lauren Hayden '07. "What is the rush for anyway?" Living and working in Zenica, the fourth-largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hayden has immersed herself in a different country and a different lifestyle, one where the remains of war are starkly visible, where hospitality and food are paramount and tightly linked, and where there is always time for coffee.