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Stuart Muszynski '76, president and CEO of Purple America-Project Love® Remember the Children Foundation, will co-moderate a televised debate on "Getting to Common Ground and Greater Good."  The program marks the beginning of Purple America's national Re-Imagine America® campaign, which seeks to the foster core values Americans share regardless of political affiliation. 

Meredith Mileti '83 has published her debut novel Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses. The book is about Mira Rinaldi, a New York City restaurant owner with roots in Pittsburgh who must figure out how to hold her life together when she discovers her husband cheating on her. Mileti began writing the story several years ago while she was working on her dissertation and was inspired by her own love of cooking. Recipes she tested herself are included in the book.

The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that Sarah Patterson '08 has joined its Charleston office. Patterson will practice in consumer finance litigation and assist with research, pleadings, discovery, and trial preparation. She was most recently a legal research and writing teaching assistant at West Virginia University College of Law.

“Live your passion.” It’s a mantra Melissa Kong ’08 has repeated many times—she even uses it as the title of her blog.  On Sept. 3, Kong returned to share her passion with 45 members of the class of 2014 at the inaugural Sophomore JumpStart, a program focused on translating the dreams and passions of the sophomore class into concrete skills and ideas for the working world.

Spencer Stuart, the international executive recruiting firm, has announced that Isvaldo Perez, Jr. '86 has joined the Dallas officer as a consultant in consumer goods and services and marketing officer practices. He will be responsible for recruiting senior-level executives for clients in the consumer packaged goods, consumer durables and retail industries.

Peter Wenigmann '73 and his daughter Niki '15 have presented Hamilton with the jacket worn by his grandfather Carl B. Wenigmann '13. Carl Wenigmann began the modern Annual/Alumni Fund, along with William M. Bristol, Jr. '17 and Clancy D. Connell '12. He also helped raise money for the Alumni Gymnasium, and one of the Annual Fund Cups is named for him. The chapel spire was illuminated in memory of Wenigmann and Theodore C. Jessup '14 by their widows. Peter was given the jacket by his father, C. Mitchell Wenigmann '48, who, as a strong supporter of Hamilton himself, chaired the Annual/Alumni Fund and was a recipient of the college's Bell Ringer Award.

Larry Allen '09 is among the first eight foreign teachers at the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools in Kazakhstan. The schools are part of an educational reform system designed by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Allen and his colleagues will aid in the reform and improvement of secondary schools. 

Mark Sullivan '80 has co-written two novels with bestselling author James Patterson, whose father graduated from Hamilton. The first, titled Private Games, will be the third of the Private series, which includes Private and Private: #1 Suspect.  Private Games is centered around the murder of a high-ranking official on the 2012 Olympic Games Committee and is scheduled for a Feb. 13, 2012 release.

Like many cities, Boston encourages bicycling as an alternative mode of transportation that’s good for one’s health and for the environment.  To help encourage bike-riding cities must implement bike-friendly features such as bike lanes and racks. The Boston Cyclists Union helps make that city conducive to bicycling, and Molly Haughey ’12 was a summer intern there, writing articles for the organization’s newsletter and creating an informational video about the Union.

Museums offer the public an immense wealth of shared cultural artifacts in the form of various art mediums, and their employees help ensure that they remain a valued resource for treasured works. Eleanor Gartner ’12 is spending the summer as an intern for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, conducting research on the life and work of former New Yorker magazine art critic Calvin Tomkins. Her research is supported by the Kevin Kennedy Class of '70 Internship Fund for the Arts through the Career Center.