Homecoming Highlights 

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Upcoming: 

• MINGLE All The Way with the Alumni Networks on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Register now and come as you are for this pre-holiday, community-building virtual evening of conversation and cheer. 
  
• CONNECT with fellow Golden State Ephs and join a conversation with President Maud S. Mandel. Learn about the first all-grant financial aid program in the U.S., the transformation of the Davis Center building and programs, plans for a new home for the Williams College Museum of Art, and other top priorities outlined in the Strategic Plan. Register today for either of these sessions! Tuesday, Dec. 13, in San Francisco or Wednesday, Dec. 14, in Los Angeles
• MEET the Dec. 9 deadline for securities transfer if you want to make a year-end gift of stock. 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

• WATCH H.E. Dr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, President of Iceland, in conversation with Magnús T. Bernharðsson, Brown Professor of History and Global Studies Chair. The video includes the Williams College Chamber Choir singing Icelandic songs in Jóhannesson’s honor.
  
• ENJOY the recordings from the Life and Lore of Sterling A. Brown Symposium, celebrating the poetry, prose, and music of Sterling A. Brown, Class of 1922.
• REMEMBER President John Chandler. Watch this recording of his memorial service where many members of the college community shared wonderful memories. 
  

Alumni in the SpotlighT

• Through a seed fund and bus tour across the U.S., Steve Case ’80 is discovering entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley, New York and Boston, where he believes “the majority of very successful, disruptive companies will come from,” he tells Wired. His new book, The Rise of the Rest, chronicles the initiative.
• The Wall Street Journal reviews A Marvelous Order, a new opera by composer Judd Greenstein ’01 and animator Josh Frankel ’02 about the real-life clash between NYC urban planner Robert Moses and journalist Jane Jacobs, calling the music evocative of “the elegant chaos of daily life” in Greenwich Village and the animation “an equal storytelling element.”
• Sally A. Kornbluth ’82, recently named president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells The Boston Globe she looks forward to leading MIT through “a period of excellence.”
  
• U.S. Senator Chris Murphy ’96 makes the Time100 Next list for his work to improve gun safety. And he talks to Lizzie O’Leary ’98 of Slate’s What Next about potential pitfalls in national security after billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter.
• Stacy Schiff ’82 discusses her new book, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams—and the Founding Father’s true identity and impact—with CBS Saturday Morning.
• The efforts of Krystal Williams ’96 to build diversity among Maine’s attorney population have won her a Mainer of the Year title.
• U.S. Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth ’91 talks to CBS Mornings about military parents’ access to childcare and the Army’s plans for improvements. “I never want to lose a great soldier and family because they can’t get childcare,” she says.
  
• David Tunick '66 was welcomed home from a 5000-mile transatlantic solo sailing trip from Spain to Stamford, CT. 
  

News from the college

Presidential Visit

Faculty and Staff Focus

• News host and political commentator Rachel Maddow gives a shout-out to Massachusetts Professor of Humanities, Emerita, Susan Dunn and her book 1940 as one of three books she would recommend to the audience of The Ezra Klein Show podcast.
• Saul Kassin, the Massachusetts Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, explains in the podcast Hidden Brain.
• Thomas Kohut, the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History, gives a talk on the academic platform Faculti about the positive and negative uses of empathy as discussed in his book Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past.
• Sports Information Director Dick Quinn speaks with The Berkshire Eagle about his long career tracking 32 varsity sports at Williams.

Student Highlights

• The Williams Handbell Choir, led by Director Seamus Connor ’23, keeps the bell-ringing tradition alive with a range of experienced players. Check out a video of their rehearsal for a holiday song preview.
• Sociology major Avery Trinidad ’23 is named 2022 IES Abroad Correspondent of the Year for his “compelling and visual” reporting while studying abroad in Berlin.

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