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AROUND THE QUADS

Alumni Updates

HAMILTON DINNER: Robert K. Kraft ’63, owner of the two-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and the major benefactor of Columbia’s Kraft Family Center for Jewish Student Life, will be honored on Thursday, November 18, with the Alexander Hamilton Medal at a benefit dinner in Low Library Rotunda.

Kraft is founder and chairman of the Kraft Group of Companies, a holding company with interests in venture investing, sports and entertainment, and paper and packaging. The group also makes and holds a number of investments in venture stage companies, focusing on the cable business, radio, business-to-consumer, business-to-business, Internet technology and infrastructure holdings. In the eight seasons that Kraft has owned the Patriots, the team has qualified for the playoffs six times and won Super Bowls in 2002 and 2004.

For more information on the dinner, please contact Shelley Grunfeld, Alumni Office manager of special events: (212) 870-2288 or rg329@columbia.edu.

HAMILTON EXHIBIT: As a part of its 200th anniversary, The New-York Historical Society is providing an extensive introduction to the life and lasting influence of Alexander Hamilton (Class of 1778). “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America,” features rare historical objects and documents associated with Hamilton and the Founding era, including copies of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.

The exhibit includes a gallery of ideas championed by Hamilton, such as the free press and a manufacturing-based economy, and how they have become the basis for modern society. Also featured is an installation dedicated to Hamilton’s fatal duel with Aaron Burr, with items such as the pistols used. Also featured is an original multi-media play, Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown.

The NYHS will run a series of programs in conjunction with the exhibit. Topics include “Hamilton’s Innovations: Today’s Success Stories,” “Hamilton’s Constitutional Vision: In His Time, In Later Eras, For Our Time” and “Hamilton vs. Jefferson,” which will feature an alumni debate between Columbia Law and University of Virginal Law School.

The exhibit is open Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., through February 28, 2005. For more information, call
(212) 873-3400 or visit www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org.

EMMYS: Angels in America, an HBO miniseries adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner ’78, won 11 Emmys at the 56th Emmy Awards, including outstanding miniseries, best actor (Al Pacino), best actress (Meryl Streep) and best director (Mike Nichols). Kushner, who gave a rousing speech at Class Day in May, received an Emmy for best writer. The miniseries, about the 1980s AIDS crisis and tolerance for gays, surpassed the nine awards received by Roots in 1977 to become the most honored miniseries in television history.

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