DREW DAYS and ART MASSOLO

Drew Days graduated cum laude from Hamilton in 1963 with a major in English literature. He was a member of the College Choir and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Mr. Days earned his law degree from Yale University and was admitted to the Bar in 1966. He worked briefly at a union-side labor law firm in Chicago before joining the Peace Corps and serving for two years in Honduras, where he organized cooperatives. Returning to the U.S. in 1969, he joined the legal staff of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, litigating civil rights cases. In 1977, he was appointed U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights by President Jimmy Carter, serving through 1980. A member of the faculty at the Yale Law School beginning in 1981, he was named Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law in 1991, and from 1993 to 1996 he took a leave of absence to serve in the Clinton administration’s Justice Department as U.S. solicitor general. He was a member of Hamilton’s Board of Trustees from 1986 until his death in 2020.

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton in 1964 with degrees in history and German, Art Massolo received his law degree from the University of Chicago and served with the Peace Corps in Malaysia from 1967 to 1969. He returned to the U.S. and joined the First National Bank of Chicago where he worked until his retirement in 1996. In addition to Malaysia, Mr. Massolo has lived in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Indonesia, Panama, and Brazil. While in Chicago, he served on the board and as president of LINK Unlimited, a mentoring program that provides atrisk inner-city students with private school educations. His affiliation with LINK and his love for his alma mater led Art and his wife, Karen, to sponsor a number of students at Hamilton and to establish a scholarship, named for his grandfather, for promising underprivileged students from the Chicago area. Mr. Massolo has served Hamilton as a member of the Board of Trustees, Alumni Association officer, reunion gift and major gifts committee member, and Career Center volunteer. His son Arthur is a 1993 Hamilton graduate.