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Retirement is a relative term for attorney Don Shonn ’67. He spent 25 years in private practice, including work in Surrogate’s Court with a focus on estate and elder law. He also served as village attorney and trustee for his hometown of Akron in western New York, and before that worked for 20 years at an environmental law firm.
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Juliet Davidson ’23 is spending her summer as a reporter for The Hudson Independent, a newspaper that covers the Westchester, N.Y., “Rivertowns” of Irvington, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Scarborough-on-Hudson, Ardsley-on-Hudson, and Dobbs Ferry.
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As an academic he leans toward hands-on pursuits that take him far from Michigan State University, where he is professor emeritus of urban and regional planning. At the moment Roger Hamlin ’67 is a Senior Fulbright Scholar at a university in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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On a family vacation to Nova Scotia in 1963, Jim Clough ’67 discovered bagpiping. The music moved his brother, and eventually him, when Clough heard his brother practicing at home. Two years later, Clough became a piper too, and he’s been cultivating and perfecting the art for nearly 53 years.
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Roger Paas ’67 recently completed his multi-volume edition “The German Political Broadsheet, 1600-1700” with the release of Volume 14 (index volume). Published by Harrassowitz Verlag in Wiesbaden, Germany, Paas’ work reproduces over 5,000 broadsheets (early newspapers) produced during the European warfare of the 17th century.
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Alumnus Henry Kaufman ’67 donated the Portable Aquatic Lift Chair and tested it on Thursday, Dec. 7.
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After working as a correspondent for the White House, Time magazine, and writing two books, Hamilton College Trustee Barrett Seaman ‘67 returned to the Hill to share his perspective on the controversy of journalism. He presented a lecture and facilitated a discussion on Oct. 19.
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Reunions 2017 may be over but plenty of good feelings remain after a memorable weekend on the Hill for some 1,500 alumni and friends.
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In this age of digital media, Hamilton students were able to learn about old-fashioned printing methods at an Apple and Quill series event, “Extravaganza in the Letterpress Studio,” on Oct. 19.
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Author and former TIME journalist Barrett Seaman ’67 returned to Hamilton on Nov. 9 to discuss the role of journalism in modern society and the tendency of people today to cluster with other like-minded individuals. With the rise of accessible technology, this clustering has the consequence of making moderate and unbiased news a less valuable commodity. Seaman was the third guest in the SpecSpeak journalism series.
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