(updated 10/15/07)

Adam Banasiak '08	Leo Brown '11	Ruth Ezra '10
Elizabeth Kaufer '10	Lindsay Merrell '10	Sarah Riskind '11
Brian Simalchik '10	Will Slack '11

Now that the Thompson Memorial Chapel is ringing again, campus residents and neighbors may be interested to know who's up in the tower showering us with music. Members of the 2007-2008 Guild of Carillonneurs are Adam Banasiak '08 of Amherst, New York, Leo Brown '11 of Niskayuna, New York, Ruth Ezra '10 of Ithaca, New York, Elizabeth Kaufer '10 of Pittsford, New York, Lindsay Merrell '10 of Lowville, New York, our returning bell ringer Sarah Riskind '09 of Needham, Massachusetts, Brian Simalchik '10 of Danbury, Connecticut, and William Slack '11 of Decatur, Georgia.

Each day (except when special events preclude it), one of these valiant carillonneurs climbs the tower to the chamber containing the College's chime of 10 bells -- whose ringing levers challenge even the most intrepid pianist at first. Seven days a week at 12:50, 4 and 7 p.m. (6:50 p.m. on Mondays) they coax melodies to delight and beguile us from 10,762 pounds of bronze-cast by the Meneely Bell Company of Troy, NY and installed in the autumn of 1904.