11/13/08
A “Hip” Alexander Hamilton Joins Facebook
This month Hamilton Friends launched its first Facebook page as part of an effort to build community between Hamilton Award Winners. On November 2nd--with the help of Danika Young, ’06 Hamilton Award Winner and Hamilton Friends Volunteer, Alexis Cox—Alex Hamilton, a young, hip, cartoon version of Alexander Hamilton, sent out ‘friend requests’ to all Hammie Winners.
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11/13/08
Educator Leo Santiago Begins Work with Students on Their Vision
Leo Santiago, a veteran educator, will be working this fall to help the 2008 Hamilton Award winners develop their own personal vision statement. On November 18th, 2008, Leo will facilitate a conversation with the ’08 Winners on how to start thinking about their vision, how to write their vision and how to test the statement once it is written. In addition, Leo will be available to help students individually as they work to create their statements.
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11/13/08
Tiffany Taylor Speaks at the State of Our Nations
This September, Hamilton Scholar Tiffany Taylor spoke at the State of our Nations Youth in Toronto, Ontario on behalf of the Horatio Alger Association. She was one of the four students chosen out of a pool of 107 Horatio Alger Scholarship Winners to participate in a student panel discussion where she gave her opinions about the 2008 State of Our Nation's Youth Survey.
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11/13/08
Taylor Matalone Wins Scholarship Essay Contest
We are proud to announce that this October, Taylor Matalone, a 2007 Hamilton Award Winner, received a $1,000 scholarship from The National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC) and Fastweb.
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11/13/08
Trina Hidalgo Gives Hamilton Friends $10,000 to help fund Guatemala Trip
On October, 15th Ms. Trina Hidalgo agreed to donate $10,000 to Hamilton Friends in order to help fund the 2009 Hamilton Leader Week in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Ms. Hidalgo is passionate about Guatemala and its culture and is very interested in helping young people achieve their dreams. Donating to the Hamilton Friends Guatemala Leader Week allows Ms. Hidalgo to give money to both of those causes.
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11/13/08
Professional Advisors to Begin Helping Hamilton Award Winners Develop Vision Statements
This November a group of successful professionals will begin working individually with a group of first year Hamilton Scholars to develop a personal vision statement. All first year Hamilton Scholars are given the opportunity to request a professional advisor to help them create their vision statement. These professionals will serve as a mentor figure and sounding board for students as they work through the process of creating a vision statement.
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10/6/08
Building a Hammie Community: Danika Young Works to Increase Communication between Hammie Winners
Danika Young, a student at West Holt High School in Atkinson, Nebraska, won a Hamilton award in 2006. Since then she has been very active in the Hamilton Scholars program, completing all required course work and attending both the 2007 Seattle Leader Week and the recent 2008 Guatemala Leader Week. Recently Danika began to work with Hamilton Friends with the charge of building community between Hammie Winners. “It is difficult to keep Hammie Winners connected during the year because they live all over the country,” said Joslin Boroughs, Director of Operations. “Danika is going to help us use online tools to keep Hammie Winners in touch with one another.”
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10/6/08
Dr. Louise Mirrer Joins the Hamilton Friends Board!
Hamilton Friends is proud to announce that last month Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, joined the Hamilton Friends Board of Directors. Dr. Mirrer was integral in the launch of our Experience New York Internship Project by helping Hamilton Friends secure three paid internships for Hamilton Scholars at The New-York Historical. As a board member Dr. Mirrer will be central in the planning of our internship program and will also advise Hamilton Friends as they expand awareness in the New York area.
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10/6/08
Alexis Cox: Helping Hammies Navigate the Working World
Alexis Cox, Financial Assistant to the CIO of the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia PA, has been volunteering with Hamilton Friends since 2007. In addition to consulting with us on how Hamilton Friends can use web based technologies to increase communication among Hammie Winners, Alexis worked intensively with the three interns that participated in our new Experience New York Internship project this summer. Three times during the interns eight week stay in New York City, Alexis traveled from her home in Philadelphia to New York City to run a “Workshop on Workplace Fundamentals: Skills Not Included in your Job Description” for the Hamilton Interns.
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10/6/08
Advances in Second Year Program Announced
George Cox, AHFA President, announced completion of the first module in the Hamilton Leaders Academy program of financial literacy. It will be distributed to second year Hamilton Scholars students on October 15th. “We are extremely excited about the program,” said Cox. “Most programs in financial literacy concentrate on stock market games and the like,” he said. “We don't think that's the right approach. Young people have to learn how to control debt and spending before they can begin wealth creation.”
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8/29/08
Review of the Guatemala Experience: Leader Week in Guatemala City a Great Success!
This August, twenty Hamilton Scholars and AHFA staff participated in the first annual international Hamilton Leaders Academy Leader Week in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The eight-day program was in partnership with Cross-Cultural Solutions of New Rochelle, New York and the main purpose of the trip was to participate in a service project at the Don Bosco Centre de Formation Professionelle in Guatemala City.
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8/5/08
Volunteer Profile: Karla Franco
Karla is a volunteer with Hamilton Friends who lives in Boston where she is the Associate Director of New Generation Energy (www.newgenerationenergy.org), an alternative energy non-profit organization. Karla was a chaperone on the recently completed Leaders Week in Guatemala. “Volunteering in Guatemala was a great!”, she said. “I wish I had had that sort of experience when I was an undergraduate. I think Guatemala was very eye-opening and everyone gained a lot from the experience.”
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8/5/08
Hamilton Scholars Learn From Students at Don Bosco
The students at Don Bosco were able to show their skills to our Hamilton Scholars. Many chose to make memorabilia for the Scholars, such as metal earrings, turned wooden drinking cups, bracelets and pieces of turned metal. A lot of friendships were made. Both groups were encouraged to share things from home about themselves, such as family pictures, home town pictures, favorite movies, music and etc. Don Bosco students and Hamilton Students forged friendships playing soccer, ping pong, foosball and other games.
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8/5/08
HA '07 Officers Announced!
Attendees at this year’s Seattle Leader Week have selected their class’ slate of officers. Following the Seattle Leader Week in June of this year, the Hamilton Award Class of 2007 was asked to nominate individuals to fill the positions of president, secretary, treasurer, historian and officers at large.
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9/5/08
2008-2008 Academic Year Has Been Launched!
The 2008-2009 academic year begins this month with a series of conference calls for students in their first year of the program and a module on college financial issues for students in the second year of the program.
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8/5/08
Hamilton Scholars Experience the Vibrant Culture of Guatemala
Second year Hamilton Scholars students will travel to Guatemala to participate in an international service project. “We will be working closely with Cross-Cultural Solutions of New Rochelle, New York”, said Joslin Boroughs, Director of Operations of the AHFA. “Leadership in the 21st century really requires an international view of things, and this experience will help our students see the importance of understanding other cultures,” she added.
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8/5/08
Second Year Hamilton Scholars Kickoff the Experience New York Internships
Shruti Bala of Phoenix, Jemalyn Chavez of San Diego and Nadvia Davis of Minneapolis are currently participating in the first annual Experience New York Internship Project. The Project is a joint venture with the New-York Historical Society.
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8/5/08
Six Days in Seattle at the Hamilton Leaders Academy
“Wow! Amazing! Unbelievable!” were some of the collective responses of the 25 Hamilton Award winners, who attended the Second Annual Hamilton Leaders Academy in Seattle from June 22-27th. The attendees represented 17 states and the District of Columbia.
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8/5/08
Volunteer Profile: Kelly Herrington
Kelly Herrington, the Director of College Counseling at University Prep, a private high school in Seattle, has been volunteering at Hamilton Friends for three years. He has come to play a critical role in helping Hamilton Award winners refine their college essays and find scholarships.
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8/5/08
Hammie Winners and Board Members Tour the Grange
On July 16th, 2008, four Hamilton Award winners, Shruti Bala (HA ’05), Nadvia Davis (HA ’06), Jemalyn Chavez (HA ’06), Tiffany Taylor (HA ’07) and three AHFA board members, Doug Hamilton, David Hamilton Rhinelander and George Cox, AHFA president toured the Grange, Hamilton’s “country home” in upper Manhattan.
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8/5/08
AHFA President Briefs N-YHS CEO
AHFA president George Cox briefed Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the N-YHS during his recent trip to the East Coast.
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8/5/08
A Few Words Leads to Full Ride at U. of Chicago for ’07 Hammie Winner
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6/8/08
Alexander Hamilton's country home moves to park in Harlem
NEW YORK — With surpassing dignity and surprising agility — for a 206-year-old — Alexander Hamilton's country home, the Grange, lumbered down the West 141st Street hillside Saturday to its new setting in St. Nicholas Park in Harlem.
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Seattle Times, David W. Dunlap