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...JOHN HAMILTON HAS LEARNED TO HIS sorrow that bank mergers like last week's $10 billion union of Chemical Banking Corp. and Chase Manhattan can enrich investors but hurt depositors. Hamilton fled his own bank in Washington last year after the giant First Union Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina, acquired it and raised the minimum balance for no-fee checking from $250 to $500. "We couldn't meet that every month," says Hamilton, president of a nonprofit community-development group, who shifted his money to his wife's credit union. Unlike most consumers, Hamilton isn't watching the trend passively...
...Hamilton remained on the faculty of SPH forsixteen years, retiring...
...Hamilton's appointment to a faculty position attracted widespread attention not only because she was the first woman to be chosen, but because Harvard Medical School did not accept women into its program at that time, and would not begin to accept women until...
...time of Hamilton's appointment, David L. Edsall, then Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, said, "I think it is the first time that the proposition has ever come up to have a woman appointed to anyposition professorial or other in the University...
Edsall also said he thought it "would be alarge step forward in the proper attitude towardwomen in this Uiversity and in some otherUniversities," according to Barbara Sicherman'sbook Ahice Hamilton: A Life in Letters...