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No Great Names speaker this year
By Emily Eisler ’17
February 23, 2017
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This year, Hamilton’s Great Names Selection Committee was unable to secure a speaker they felt was “of the caliber the campus has come to expect and enjoy” from the Sacerdote Great Names series for the 2016-2017 school year. The speakers they attempted to hire were unavailable during the requested dates, according to the Committee. They specifically referenced Lin-Manuel Miranda as someone who was unavailable to come to campus. Due to their lack of options the Committee decided not to book a speaker for the Great Names Series this year and began looking for options for the 2017-2018 school year. This is far from the first time this has happened. There was no Great Names Speaker in 2005, 2009, 2011 or 2012, though there have been two speakers in a year a few times.