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2 unusual facts about Hamilton College


Bruce Dobkin

Dobkin studied at Hamilton College and Temple University School of Medicine before completing his residency at the University of California Los Angeles.

John Ripley Myers

John Ripley Myers graduated from Hamilton College in 1887 and shortly after (in the same year) purchased Clinton Pharmaceutical Company in Upstate New York with friend and fellow graduate from Hamilton College, William McLaren Bristol.


Aaron Clark

After ending his political career, Clark returned to business and became a patron of Hamilton College, which still awards an annual prized for oratory named in his honor.

Albert I. Prettyman

After spending time at Columbia University and the Nicholas School in Buffalo, New York, Prettyman moved to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York to teach physical education and coach.

Clinton Arena

In December 2006 Clinton Arena hosted the first annual "Hockey town" event between Hamilton College and Utica College.

CourseWork Course Management System

Attending the workshop were representatives from four large institutions, the University of Cambridge, the University of California, Berkeley, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, and from two small colleges, Denison University and Hamilton College.

Erik Wemple

He was raised in Schenectady, New York and attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, graduating in 1986.

Garret Kramer

He earned a bachelor's degree in 1984 from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he played ice hockey, competing in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.

Howard Nemerov

Nemerov then began teaching, first at Hamilton College and later at Bennington College, Brandeis University, and finally Washington University in St. Louis, where he was Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence from 1969 until his death in 1991.

Jasper Peak

The mountain was once named Chester Peak in honor of Albert Huntington Chester, a graduate of the Columbia School of Mines and a professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and metallurgy at Hamilton College 1870-1891, and later at Rutgers College.

Larry Birns

Before founding the Council in 1975, Birns taught at Hamilton College and served with a United Nations mission in Chile during the Salvador Allende government.

Legatum Prosperity Index

The Prosperity Index is reviewed and critiqued by an advisory panel of academics and scholars representing a range of disciplines and includes: Prof Tim Besley(London School of Economics); Dr. Daniel Drezner (Tufts University); Dr. Carol Graham (Brookings Institution); Dr. Edmund Malesky (University of California, San Diego); Dr. Ann Owen (Hamilton College).

Lorenzo Latham

Lorenzo Latham (died 1860 in New Orleans) was during his senior year at Hamilton College a founding member of Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), now an international literary fraternity, with Samuel Eells and John Curtiss Underwood, who were also seniors, and two juniors, Oliver Andrew Morse and Henry Lemuel Storrs.

Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society

On May 31, 1989, seven amateur astronomers held an organizational meeting in the Solar Classroom at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York to plan the formation of an astronomy club.

Oskanondonha

A longtime friend of the minister Samuel Kirkland, a founder of Hamilton College, his request to be buried next to him was granted.

Philip Klinkner

Klinkner is currently the James S. Sherman Professor of Government at Hamilton College, where he has also served in administrative positions.

Ralph J. Menconi

Among his more than 900 works, Menconi created medals for the National Book Award, New York University Law School, Kenyon College, Hamilton College, the Capitol Historical Society in Washington, and the New York Historical Society.

Ralph Oman

He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1960-61 and earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from Hamilton College in 1962.


see also

Charles Nelson Clark

Born in Cortland County, New York, Clark attended Hamilton College, Clinton, New York.

Elihu Root

They had three children: Edith (who married Ulysses S. Grant III), Elihu, Jr. (who became a lawyer), and Edward Wales Root (who became Professor of Art at Hamilton College).

Heather Buchman

She is the founding member of the KAIROS Chamber Orchestra, which debuted in fall 2007 at Hamilton College's Wellin Hall, in which Buchman conducted Dvořák's Serenade for Strings and Copland's Appalachian Spring.

Kirkland

Kirkland College, a former college in New York, now merged with Hamilton College

The Butterflies of Love

Founded originally under the name Silver Bug and then simply Bug in the late 1990s by singer-songwriters Jeff and Dan Greene (no relation, though they attended Hamilton College together), The Butterflies of Love have released two albums on US-based Coffeehouse Records and two albums on British independent label Fortuna Pop! Their fifth single, It's Different Now was made Single Of The Week in the NME.

William H. Maynard

Maynard died on August 28, 1832, of cholera while preparing in New York City to attend the session of the Court for the Correction of Errors (then the highest court in the State, composed of the Chancellor, the Supreme Court justices and the State Senate); and was buried at the Hamilton College Cemetery in Clinton, NY.