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The Kirkland Project has announced the teaching associates for College 130: Coming of Age in America, for Fall 2001. Teaching associates are Redell Armstrong ’02, Jessica Haab ’02, Sarah McDermott ’04, Byron Miller ’02, and Koert Wehberg ’04. This fall there will be five class sections, taught by professors Gillian Gane, Dana Luciano, Stephen Orvis, Nancy Rabinowitz, and Lisa Trivedi.

Check out the new Web site for Hamilton's bookstore. Buy clothing and accessories from the School Spirit Shop!

Richard Nelson, a 1972 Hamilton graduate, is receiving good reviews for Madame Melville, a memory play starring Macaulay Culkin that opened on Broadway on May 3.

Phyllis Breland has been appointed as Posse Mentor and Assistant Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program, effective June 1, 2001. A 1980 graduate of Hamilton College, Breland was a theatre major, class speaker, and the first African-American woman inducted into Pentagon.

The Producers, the smash Broadway musical written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan '51 received 15 Tony Award nominations, a new record. The musical opened in April to rave reviews and has already sold out tickets for the remainder of 2001.

Mitchell Stevens, assistant professor of sociology, and author of an upcoming book about homeschooling, Kingdom of Heaven: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton, 2001), was interviewed by Education Week (5/2/2001.) The article concerned an Iowa home-schooled student who will be unable to receive her high school diploma because she lacks enough credits to graduate.

The Theatre and Dance Department invites you to see "A Reluctant Tragic Hero" by Anton Chekhov,a senior project by Douglas Harris and "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" by Eric Bogosian, a senior project by Cameron Larson, on Tuesday, May 8, at 7 p.m. at Minor Theater. Admission is free.

Students of Biology 437 Tropical Field Ecology will present posters describing the research they conducted during their field trip to Costa Rica today, May 4, from 1-2 p.m. outside the Science Auditorium.

Thanks to the efforts of co-chairs Cynthia Conde and Paul O'Donnell and the entire Senior Gift Committee, the Senior Gift effort has met the goal of 90% participation and therefore is qualified to receive a $10,000 challenge. Altogether, they have raised over $13,600 toward a scholarship in memory of their classmate, Michael Maslyn. With two weeks left before graduation, they can now focus their efforts on breaking the 96% participation record held jointly by the Classes of '96 and '97.

The annual awarding of prizes and scholarships took place on Friday, May 4, at Class and Charter Day. See following for a list of students who received awards. More than 130 Hamilton students won prize scholarships, achievement prizes and awards in public speaking and writing.