COLLEGIANS

Two Rhinebeck residents attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, — Walter Gadsby and Maggie Hanson — were named Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars.

Those students who are designated Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars are in the top 20percent of each class for the previous academic year.

Gadsby and Hanson are both members of the Class of 2020.

••• Alexandra Hamilton of New Paltz, a student at the State University of New York at Potsdam, participated in a production presented by the Crane Opera Ensemble and Orchestra at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music.

The production brought together Giacomo Puccini’s comic opera in one act, “Gianni Schicchi,” combined with the modern sequel, “Buoso’s Ghost,” by contemporary composer Michael Ching, from Nov. 16 to 18. Hamilton played viola in the orchestra.

••• Elana Kellerhouse of Rosendale, a student at the State University of New York at New Paltz, gave a musical performace for hikers along the trail to Mohonk Mountain House on Oct. 21.

Assistant Professors Alex Peh and Christiana Reader led students on a musical hike along the trail to Skytop Tower, the iconic structure that overlooks Mohonk Lake and much of the Shawangunk Mountain range.

Student performers on violin, guitar, vocals and other instruments set up in a number of the small huts that line the trail and played for passersby throughout the afternoon. The program culminated in a group performance inside Skytop Tower. (Includes champagne, wine, beer, tapas and desserts)