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Even for someone with the high-profile successes of Thomas Tull ’92, it’s a pinnacle — his band Ghost Hounds will be the opening act for the Rolling Stones on July 3 at FedExField in Landover, Md.

CASE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, announced today that “Because Hamilton,” the video produced to kick-off the College’s capital campaign, won this year’s Circle of Excellence Gold Award for the video: fundraising (long videos) category.

Sarah Kane ’19 co-authored a paper titled “An Owner-Independent Investigation of Diabetes Alert Dog Performance” that was recently published in Frontiers of Veterinary Science.

It was the only cover letter in which he mentioned his undergraduate thesis (it was about Vladimir Nabokov’s representation of memory), and he thinks it helped. Tom Lewek ’09 landed the job with the Modern Language Association, a force in the humanities since 1883.

The perfect June weather was only one contributing factor to a terrific Reunions 2019, as alumni and friends reunited and reminisced.

Ralph Nichols ’40, a 100-year-old veteran living in Connecticut, talks about his D-Day experience as a lieutenant on the U.S.S. Corry, a destroyer at the invasion of Utah Beach. He shares his memories in an audio clip.

On any long-distance trek, the path climbs, dips, and turns, as Robin Dropkin K’74 P ’05 ’09 has experienced during her 25 years at the nonprofit Parks & Trails New York, based in Albany. Dropkin is the longtime executive director, leading efforts to support state parks and trails in lean times and in fatter ones.

While researching a project about Mrs. Frank Leslie, a 19th-century publisher who bequeathed her fortune to a leading suffragist, journalist Elaine Weiss K’73, P’07 encountered a rivulet of history she couldn’t resist. Mrs. Leslie’s story was big and bold — fabulous wealth, business success, notorious love life — but Weiss followed the rivulet.

Noelani Stevenson ’19 starts training for her new job in July. Exercises will include physical training, accent training, and combat training. By August, she will have improved her sword fighting, cockney accent, and fortunetelling abilities, preparing her for her job’s main event.

Before the semester ended Hamilton in France students had the chance to visit the U.S. Embassy and meet U.S. Consul for Western France and Hamilton in France alum, James P. Du Vernay ’03.