Index
Scholarships
The David Butcher Memorial Book Award
The David Butcher Memorial Book Award, established in 2008, is made with first preference given to incoming students from California or the West Coast. The award may be renewed for the sophomore year.
David O. Butcher was born in Brooklyn, New York, though his family moved to Los Angeles three years later. He received a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University. He was a faculty member in Hamilton’s Philosophy Department from 1978 to 1983. His dissertation on subjunctive conditional modal logic prepared him to shift into computer science after leaving Hamilton to take a faculty position at SUNY Potsdam. He eventually took another faculty position at Sonoma State University in California, where he spent the remainder of his teaching career. Friends, colleagues and students remember Professor Butcher as a generous and cheerful man who made the fields of logic and cybernetics accessible to his students. He died in 2005.
August 2014
Please note: The named scholarships profiled on these pages support the College’s generous need-based financial aid commitment. These donor-funded scholarships help ensure the Hamilton promise of keeping education affordable through meeting a student’s full demonstrated financial need.
