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Hamilton College will welcome back more than 700 alumni, plus their guests, when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 6-9. Highlights of this year's reunion will include a Kirkland College Commemoration, with the inauguration of the new Chuck Root '40 Kirkland College Lecture series, featuring a lecture by Samuel Fisher Babbitt. He served as the president of Kirkland College from 1968-1978. Also on tap is the groundbreaking for Hamilton's new science building, unveiling of the Kirkland Marker, and a Service of Remembrance dedicated to the three Hamilton alumni who lost their lives on September 11.

Glass work by Josh Simpson '72 has been selected by the United States Art in Embassies Program. Simpson's Blue New Mexico Super Bowl will soon be on display at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. His work is already on permanent display at U.S. Embassies in Ottawa, Canada; Wellington, New Zealand; and in Moscow at the ambassador’s residence.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave a paper at the San Diego annual meeting of the African Literature Association, titled "Ghanaian Poetry at Century's End: The Question of National and Transnational Identities."

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin was invited as a consultant to evaluate the United Nations' Chinese Program, which offers one of the U.N.'s official languages. She helped evaluate the existing program and revised the curriculum. In addition, she designed the teacher evaluation system for the program and wrote the written examination and teaching demo. guidelines for recruiting new instructors in the Chinese Program at the United Nations. At the beginning of this year, she also traveled to the United Nations to give an invited lecture on "Evaluation and Assessment of Instructor's Performance," and helped recruit a new director for the Chinese language program at the U.N.

Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley has published an entry on "The Nun's Priest's Tale" in Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1. He has also been a member of the project's editorial advisory board, on which he will continue to serve for the second volume.

Associate Professor of Spanish Susan Sanchez-Casal co-authored a pedagogy, 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference which was published by Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, June 2002. With co-editor Amie A. Macdonald (formerly of Hamilton's Philosophy department and now at CUNY John Jay College in Manhattan) she wrote the introductory theoretical essay to the volume, titled "Feminist Reflections on the Pedagogical Relevance of Identity." She also authored the second chapter, titled, "Unleashing the Demons of History: White Resistance in the U.S. Latino Studies Classroom."

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven wrote "Further Thoughts on Hegel and Feminism" for Owl of Minerva: The Journal of the Hegel Society of America, 33:2, Spring/Summer 2002.

Sidney Wertimer Professor of Sociology Dan Chambliss' book, Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1996), has just been translated and published in Japanese by the Japanese Nursing Association Publishing Company.

Tomasz Konopka of Aleppo, Syria, was valedictorian of Hamilton's class of 2002. Luciana Maxim of Vrancea, Romania, was class salutatorian. Konopka was a physics/computer science double major, and Maxim majored in mathematics and sociology.

Video coverage of Hamilton's Commencement 2002 is available for viewing on the Web. To access the video you'll need Quick Time or Window's Media player. Both are free downloads from Macintosh or Windows operating systems.