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On Thursday, the Bucs announced the hiring of seven new assistant coaches, including two who have left the USC staff to jump to the NFL. Ten years after hiring Rod Marinelli to coach their D-Line and shortly after Marinelli left to become the Detroit Lions new head coach, the Buccaneers have filled that position with the Trojans’ Franklin. The team’s new defensive backs coach, Greg Burns, is also fresh off that USC staff; he replaces Mike Tomlin, who is now the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings. After seeing their coaching staff raided by four other organizations, the Bucs also filled six additional openings, including one from within. Jimmy Lake is the new assistant defensive backs coach, replacing Raheem Morris, who took the defensive coordinator position at Kansas State. Tim Berbenich and Nathaniel Hackett are the new offensive quality control coaches, replacing Kyle Shanahan, who joined Gary Kubiak’s new staff in Houston, and Chris Wiesehan. And Casey Bradley is the new defensive quality control coach, filling the vacancy left when Joe Woods followed Tomlin to Minnesota. Berbenich comes to the Buccaneers from the New York Jets, where he was a quality control coach last season and an offensive assistant in 2003-04. Shultz spent the last two seasons as the strength and conditioning coach for the Minnesota Vikings. Lake, Hackett and Bradley, though, are three more NFL first-timers making the jump from the NCAA. Lake has coached at Eastern Washington, Washington and, most recently, Montana State. Hackett, the son of Buccaneers Quarterbacks Coach Paul Hackett, was on Stanford’s staff the last three years, serving as a specialists coach and recruiting coordinator in 2005. Bradley spent the last decade at North Dakota State, holding the defensive coordinator position for seven of those 10 years. Berbenich spent three seasons (2003-05) as a member of the Jets coaching staff, including one season as a quality control coach in 2005. He served as an offensive assistant coach during his first two seasons (2003-04). Berbenich originally joined the Jets as an operations assistant for the 2002 season after interning in the operations department during training camps from 2000-01. From 1998-01, he played wide receiver for Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. 2006 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coaching Staff• Jon Gruden, Head Coach• Monte Kiffin, Defensive Coordinator• Bill Muir, Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line • Richard Bisaccia, Special Teams Coordinator• Art Valero, Assistant Head Coach/Running Backs• Joe Barry, Linebackers• Tim Berbenich, Offensive Quality Control• Casey Bradley, Defensive Quality Control • Greg Burns, Defensive Backs• Jethro Franklin, Defensive Line• Jay Gruden, Offensive Assistant• Paul Hackett, Quarterbacks• Nathaniel Hackett, Offensive Quality Control • Paul Kelly, Assistant to the Head Coach/Football Operations• Aaron Kromer, Senior Assistant/Offensive Line• Jimmy Lake, Assistant Defensive Backs• Richard Mann, Wide Receivers• Rod Middleton, Tight Ends/Assistant Special Teams• Mike Morris, Head Strength and Conditioning • Kurt Shultz, Assistant Strength and Conditioning  

The Kirkland Art Center (KAC) will be sponsoring a showing of Roger Donaldson's THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN Thursday night, March 16, at 7:00, at the Marquee Cinemas in New Hartford. Alumnus Joe Howardd '70 has a role in the film. The KAC describes the film as follows: "Anthony Hopkins gives perhaps his most endearing, least showy performance in this film about a kind of heroism that has gone out of style. THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN, directed by Roger Donaldson, is based on the true story of New Zealander Burt Munro. Burt is a man in his 60s who has spent years tinkering with a 1920 Indian motorcycle. In 1967, Burt thinks the Indian may be ready to travel to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and take part in the annual Speed Week. The officials lack the heart to turn him away. Underfunded, without the support of a team and against all odds, he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a national land speed record, not once, but repeatedly." The showing is the eighth in the KAC's "Bleak Winter Film Series." The series receives funding from the New York State Council on the Arts and is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature.

Music historian Christopher Wilkinson ’68 has broken new ground in his research on the history of musical life of black West Virginians from 1930 to the beginning of World War II. Wilkinson has been awarded one of this year's two Benedum Distinguished Scholar awards, the premier research honor at West Virginia University. "This year's recipients meet the high standard that has been established during the many years of this program," said C. B. Wilson, associate provost for academic personnel.

Hamilton's annual Volunteer Weekend will be held April 7 - 9. As is our tradition, y, engaged alumni and parent volunteers use this weekend to review current business, conduct new business, interact with students and attend a variety of events.  Two of the groups that meet in the spring are the Alumni Council of Hamilton’s Alumni Association and the Parents Advisory Council. The weekend is also an opportunity for friends of the College to return to the Hill to reconnect with one another, meet with students and enjoy the wide variety of events that are staged for this year’s attendees. Hamilton volunteers are critically important to advancing the work of the College. Each spring it is our honor to recognize these efforts. On Friday evening, the Alumni Council will present its Distinguished Service Award to retiring Professor of Anthropology Douglas A. Raybeck. In recent years, it has also been our custom to offer a comprehensive program during Volunteer Weekend highlighting a particular aspect of the College's curriculum.  This year, we will celebrate the visual, studio and performing arts, which are of course central to a liberal arts experience.  We are also in the early stages of planning for building new facilities for the arts to meet the needs of our students and faculty membersAs you will see on the schedules, features of the weekend include Council meetings complimented by theatre and dance workshops with accomplished alumni, faculty members and students and a symposium on political cartooning with prominent syndicated cartoonists. It is most helpful if attendees register for events. An "easy to use" alumni registration site is hyper-linked below. Please register if you plan to attend, and join us as we celebrate the efforts of Hamilton's alumni volunteers and discover the arts at Hamilton.

The Vermont Ski Areas Association  has promoted Parker Riehle from vice president and general counsel to president. He replaces David Dillon, who is taking a job as president of the Haystack Club in Wilmington. Parker has represented VSAA in legislative and regulatory matters since 1998 except for a two-year hiatus as special assistant and deputy legal counsel to Gov. James Douglas.  A native of South Burlington, he earned his law degree from Vermont Law School. (http://www.vtliving.com/skiing/vsaa/index.shtml)

Lawrence D. Dodds, an associate with the Blue Bell law firm Wisler Pearlstine Talone Craig Garrity & Potash LLP, has been named a “Pennsylvania Rising Star,” appearing in the December 2005 issue of Philadelphia Magazine and in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine. Only 2.5 percent of all practicing attorneys in Pennsylvania were selected as Rising Stars, after an extensive survey and peer review conducted by Law & Politics Media in a process intended to distinguish outstanding emerging attorneys in the state. A member of the firm’s Education Law Group, Mr. Dodds concentrates his practice in the areas of special education law and family law. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a focus on the treatment of adolescents and forensic issues, and prior to entering legal practice he provided therapy and assessment services in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and received his doctoral degree from Hahnemann University. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the Villanova University School of Law. Mr. Dodds is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, and Montgomery Bar Associations. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for both Methodist Family Services of Philadelphia and Methodist Services for Children and Families. Lawrence is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University.

Alumni Leadership CandidatesThe Alumni Council has nominated the following candidates for leadership positions -- one as president of the Alumni Association and three as members of Hamilton's board of trustees. Terms begin July 1, 2006, with the Alumni Association president serving a three-year term and alumni trustees each serving four years.In accordance with Article 8 of the Constitution of the Alumni Association, alumni may submit additional nominations for these offices by petition, each of which requires at least 25 signatures of association members. To be valid, a petition must be submitted by Jan. 7, 2006, and include the signature, class year, address and telephone number of each petitioner, along with a statement by the proposed candidate consenting to be nominated. Each page of a petition must contain the name of the candidate and the office for which he or she is being nominated.Each petition may nominate only one candidate and should be directed to the Secretary, Hamilton College Alumni Association, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323. If no nominations by petition are received, a mail ballot election will not be necessary.Alumni Association PresidentMARK RICE '73, an English major at Hamilton, was quarterback of the football team, on the Spectator staff, selected for DT honorary society and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. After 11 years with Banker's Trust, he joined Citigroup Private Bank in New York, where he is a director. Rice has served Hamilton as a free agent and a reunion gift committee member, a Career Center volunteer, president of the Fairfield County Alumni Association, member of the Alumni Council executive committee and chair of the council's regional affairs committee. He has been active with the FAN (Football Alumni Network), and he and his wife Amy are members of the Parents Advisory Council. The Rices live in Wilton, Conn., and are the parents of Whitney '01 and Andrew '06.Alumni Trustees(three to be elected)HAROLD W. BOGLE '75, a government and English literature major, was a resident advisor and member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He earned his M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bogle lives in Bronxville, N.Y., and has served as a free agent, Career Center volunteer and head of the major gifts effort for the 30th reunion committee. He has hosted several Rising Star sessions and is currently class agent and a member of the Alumni Council and the leadership gifts council for the Excelsior Campaign. He is a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York.ANN B. HUTCHINS '79 attended Kirkland College for three years before the merger, participating on the squash and field hockey teams and graduating from Hamilton with a degree in American studies. In 1988, she earned an M.B.A. from Babson College. After serving as a partner at HLM Management, Hutchins founded and is now a principal at Alexius Consulting, a firm that provides strategic and logistical direction to small businesses. She is a member of the leadership gifts council for the Excelsior Campaign and has been the class correspondent and a member of the reunion gift committee. A resident of Santa Barbara, Calif., she has met with students on and off campus to discuss careers in finance. ALEXANDER C. SACERDOTE '94, a government major and member of Alpha Delta Phi at Hamilton, spent three years with Internet-related firms following graduation. He lives in Boston, where he has been with Fidelity Investments since 1999, when he earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He has assisted students through Career Center programs and has served as a member of 1994's reunion gift committee. In addition to a scholarship endowment, Sacerdote's family established The Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton, for which he is the family's liaison.

Hamilton College will host 1,600 family members and students at its annual Family Weekend, being held this year from Oct. 21-Oct. 23. The weekend's schedule follows here: Weekend Schedule

  Alan (Mac) McCullough, Jr. '64 was an inspiring person who lived his life as a passionate quest for truth and knowledge.  An avid reader on many subjects, he had an encyclopedic memory.  He could call upon his vast storehouse of information to build a socio-cultural or political theory for discussion.  His theories were almost unfailingly controversial or unorthodox, though the freshness of viewpoint they embodied was always stimulating.  Possessing unquenchable intellectual and emotional energy, he would not allow any aspect of an issue to go unconsidered or unaccounted for.  He had no regard for political correctness and hence often shocked people with the questions he posed.  Yet the sincerity and good will behind his questions offset any negative impressions that might otherwise have been created.  In short, he embodied all the qualities in a liberally educated man that we hold dear: insatiable thirst for learning, a driving curiosity, a sincere and gracious open-mindedness, a humility about the quest for truth and infectious sense of humor that kept it all in balance.  The goal of the Alan McCullough, Jr. Distinguished Visiting Chair in Political Philosophy will be to provide as stimulating an intellectual experience as Mac McCullough did himself.

The Nominations Committee of the Alumni Council invites nominations for the 2006 Distinguished Service Award. Presented by the council on behalf of the Alumni Association, the award recognizes an employee who has substantially contributed to Hamilton through distinguished job performance and through involvement in student, alumni or other activities in the College community. At the time of selection, the recipient must be an active member of Hamilton’s faculty, administration, staff, or maintenance and operations.