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Aron Ain

Overview

Aron Ain is a Hamilton College alumnus, approximately Class of 1979 or 1980, who became a prominent technology executive. He served as CEO of Kronos Incorporated and, following the 2020 merger of Kronos with Ultimate Software, became CEO of UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), a major workforce management software company. At Hamilton, he served as Sports Editor and Sports Assistant on the Spectator, the student newspaper, and was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity.

Relevance to Research

Ain appears consistently by full name in the Spectator mastheads across the 1976–77 and 1977–78 academic years, listed as Sports Editor (or Sports Assistant) alongside co-editor Tom Saeli. His name appears in every surviving issue from that period. He is also quoted once in a news article about fraternity party-charging policies, identifying himself as a DKE member. The corpus captures him during what appears to be his sophomore through senior years at Hamilton.

Notes

Role: Sports Editor / Sports Assistant, The Hamilton Spectator; DKE fraternity member
Hamilton connection: Approximately Class of 1979–1980
Key events: - Fall 1976: First appears in Spectator masthead as Sports Assistant alongside Tom Saeli (Spectator, Nov. 5 and Nov. 19, 1976) - Spring 1977: Continues as Sports Editor through the spring semester; credited in every issue through May 1977 - Fall 1977: Returns as Sports Editor for the 1977-78 academic year (Spectator, Sept. 8, 1977 onward) - Spring 1977: Writes a signed editorial criticizing student apathy about the condition of the Pub (Bristol Campus Center), calling on students to pressure faculty and administration for improvements (Spectator, Apr. 15, 1977) - Spring 1978: Quoted in a news story about IFC fraternity party-charging policies; as a DKE member, noted that there was “a lot of dissension in the house” about charging guests for open parties (Spectator, Mar. 3, 1978)