Hamilton Gazetteer / Entities / Peter Alan Bell

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Overview

Peter Alan Bell is a Hamilton College alumnus, listed in the 1980-81 catalog as a graduating student. During his time at Hamilton (approximately 1976-80, class of 1980) he was active in student religious life and student governance, serving on the student health committee and as Orientation Chairman, and was a member of the Way Ministry campus fellowship.

Relevance to Research

The spec-1978-11-03 quotes Peter Bell ‘80 extensively about the Way Ministry, a biblical research and teaching organization, describing him as instrumental in bringing a speaker to campus and explaining the organization’s structure. The spec-1978-11-10 identifies him as a student health committee member who conducted an informal survey of student satisfaction with the Thomas Brown Rudd Health Center. The spec-1980-04-04 lists him (with a campus phone extension) as a contact for students interested in applying for the position of Orientation Chairman, indicating a student affairs leadership role in spring 1980. The yhm-arc-pub-cat-1980-81 confirms “Peter Alan Bell” in a student list, consistent with a 1980 graduation year.

Notes

The earlier Spectator files in the assigned corpus (spec-1947-11-21, spec-1950-05-05, spec-1965-02-26, spec-1969-04-19, spec-1974-01-18) contain references to “Peter Bellamy,” “Peter Bellwood,” and a musician named “Peter Bell” but these are all different individuals. The “Peter Bell” interviewed in spec-1974-01-18 as a musician is not the same as Peter Alan Bell ‘80. The corpus matches for Peter Alan Bell are confined to the 1978-1980 files and the 1980-81 catalog.