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Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite K’74 is 72 and she’s good with that. The Decade of Healthy Ageing, a U.N. collaboration with the World Health Organization, recently honored her as one of its Healthy Ageing 50.

Fabulous — that’s the word Nanelle Napp K’74 uses to describe the Alumni Colleges and author talks presented by her classmates at their 50th reunion in 2024. Napp has always learned and taken inspiration from fellow Kirkland women, from her first semester at the College to her reunions and beyond.

Individuality. Creativity. Collaboration. Dependence. To Charlie Ratner ’23, lacrosse has always provided the perfect blend of striving for success both as an individual and working together as a cohesive team. These qualities have been the building blocks of Ratner’s life; in fact, he describes his lacrosse stick as an inherent part of his very being.

Cosmo Castellano ’74, P’11 is committed to keeping his class connected. In addition to his involvement in planning class reunions, including serving as co-chair for his 50th reunion committee, Castellano and classmates started facilitating regular online gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Samantha Koss ’95 has attended Reunions every year since Hamilton’s bicentennial in 2012, and by now, she has packing for the weekend down to a science. And her packing list isn’t the only thing that stays consistent.

Among Dan Small's ’66 rich and varied life, there’s one thread that weaves through all seven decades. In fact, that thread — fishing — is cinched to his earliest memory.

Back in 2020, three DJs at WHCL scored an interview with then up-and-coming artist Chappell Roan, who just took home the Grammy for Best New Artist. Check out their conversation!

Barack H. Obama, the 44th president of the United States, will be the next guest in Hamilton College’s Sacerdote Great Names Series on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Hamilton is the first college to host President Obama for a moderated Q&A appearance since he left office in 2017.

Philip O’Neill ’73 gets around. His senior year winter study at Hamilton took the Soviet studies major to Uzbekistan, a Muslim republic then part of the U.S.S.R. There, looking at the distant mountains, he asked a local what was on the other side.

“Egalitarian Idealists and Authoritarian Zealots: A Cautionary Memoir,” by Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Liberties.