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Robert Moses, a 1956 graduate of Hamilton College, is the founder of the Algebra Project, a program that has won national attention for preparing students in largely rural and inner-city communities to take college-prep mathematics.

Hamilton College had a good showing in America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, held on February 24. Hamilton's 77 participants raised $6,238. Top money-raiser was Director of Student Activities Bev Low with $501. Three students who raised significant amounts were Evan Endicott, $375, Jamie Skiba, $181, and Jane Long, $168.

Congratulations to Maggie Hanson and Kate Nelson, who competed at the NCAA Division III Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, Kolf Sports Center, March 10-11. Hanson had the Division III season's best time for the 5000 meter run.

More than 70 Hamilton students are foregoing sunny beaches and exotic resorts for their Spring Break, and instead are heading off to do volunteer work in seven cities during Hamilton's spring break, from March 9-25.

Sixty-five Hamilton College students are spending their Spring Break touring Italy with the Hamilton College Choir, led by Professor G. Roberts Kolb, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Music. On the tour, 65 members of the four-part choir will be making stops to perform in Venice, Bologna, Florence, Perugia, and Rome. The tour runs from March 12 to March 24.

Four biochemistry majors will present their senior research projects today (Wednesday, March 7) at 4 p.m. in Chemistry 112. The campus community is invited to attend.

Four Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the college's Board of Trustees during their recent meeting at the college. They are: Shoshana Keller, History; Catherine Gunther Kodat, English; Herman Lehman, Biology; and Joseph Mwantuali, French.

Hamilton College has implemented a new Information Line telephone number to call for details about the upcoming lecture by former President Jimmy Carter. Carter will give a free public lecture at the College on Monday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Call 859-INFO(4636).

The largest fundraiser for Hamilton's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program will take place today, March 1. The Not-So-Silent Auction will be held in the Annex, with silent auction items on display for bidding beginning at 9 a.m. and lasting thoroughout the day. A dinner (reservations required) begins at 6 p.m. and an oral auction begins at 7 p.m., with performances by Special K, Bobby Peru, the Hamiltones, and Tumbling After.

Dorothy Simpson, the mother of Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Classics Barbara Gold, and a class of 1928 Middlebury College graduate, had the opportunity to meet Middlebury's president Dr. John McCardell, Jr. this week. McCardell, visiting Hamilton as head of the Middle States Reaccreditation team, presented Mrs. Simpson with Middlebury's Gamaliel Painters Cane, a symbol of institutional strength and character.