Ryan Mullins, son of Kathleen and Dennis Mullins of Wellington Road in Garden City, received a bachelor of arts degree from Hamilton College in Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 25.

Hamilton awarded 442 diplomas in the ceremony, which marked the conclusion of the college's 196 th academic year. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr. delivered the commencement address.

Mullins majored in economics at Hamilton, and is a graduate of Chaminade High School.