1 20 171 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/566d1ba873c8e78334b1406a8a071eb8.pdf dd24706da15f221591f376ed378622ae PDF Text Text Robert C. Abbott Jr. Commencement Address May 12, 2019 St. John’s College, Annapolis Graduating students of the College and the Graduate Institute; family and friends; faculty and guests: it is my honor to speak to you this morning. As some of you know, I am partial to concise works—among them, the fragmentary remains of Sappho’s poetry, Anselm’s minimalist proof for the existence of God, and of course the slightly lengthier six hundred pages of Herodotus’ Histories. This morning, I would like to mull over just one sentence from a Platonic dialogue, in which Socrates tells the young Theaetetus a story. I say “young” because from the outset of the dialogue that bears his name, we know this conversation takes place when he was just starting out in life. Perhaps Socrates had a weather eye on his young friend’s future when he told him this story. It is said that while gazing up at the stars, Thales—one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece— fell into a well; a witty Thracian serving woman, upon observing this, remarked, “How is it, Thales, that being so wise in the affairs of heaven, you should fail to see what was before your very feet?” So who is Thales? Herodotus tells us that he was one of the first to predict the time of a solar eclipse, so it is no surprise we should find him star-gazing. In the tradition, he is considered the first philosopher, and Aristotle specifies that he was the first seeker after the wisdom of nature. So in a way, he is the progenitor of our tribe, someone who, like Socrates, delved into the things under the earth and peered at those in the sky. Thales posited that, “All is water,” which might be a way of saying that beings change their form as water does, but their underlying material remains what it is. He had many accomplishments to his name, not least of which was an ingenious way to cross a river. Right now you might be in agreement with the Thracian serving woman that Thales was rather foolish to fall into his own first principle, so I will tell you this other story to establish his credentials as a genuine thinker.1 And I tell it because you too might be concerned with how to get from Here to There. 1 I owe this particular formulation of Thales’ fall to Joe Sachs. 1 �Robert C. Abbott Jr. Commencement Address May 12, 2019 St. John’s College, Annapolis The army of the Lydian king needed to cross the River Halys and Thales was given the task. Instead of moving the army over the river by conventional means—boat or bridge, Thales changed the ground it stood on. He realized that the river was already moving, and instead of transporting the army over the river, he diverted the river around the army, leaving it on an island between two new channels. Because the whole was divided, both channels could be crossed. That is a clever solution, and perhaps one which only someone who had spent some time thinking about the nature of water would devise. Now to return to our image from the Theaetetus. Thales is a natural philosopher investigating the mysterious motions of the stars, and cannot be blamed for tracing the paths of the gods even as he walks those more terrestrial ones. The Thracian serving woman on the other hand is down to earth. She has a practical occupation, useful to herself and others. Her witty question reveals theory to be both useless and dangerous. Stay grounded, she laughs. You too have noticed, perhaps, that too much time in the hot air balloon above the Socratic Thinkery can make you light-headed. But the more I think about Thales falling into the well, the less it seems to warn against the conflict between theory and practice, and the more it seems to describe an utterly typical event in a thoughtful life. One minute you have your head in the clouds, inventing likely hypotheses and following premises to their as-yet undiscovered conclusions, and the next, the ground has disappeared. What you perceived or understood or believed is no longer there for you as the immoveable ground it was moments before. What is it about a thoughtful life that with some regularity the ground you stand on will vanish and leave you spinning in mid-air? Let me give you an example of what I mean. You are demonstrating at the chalkboard a geometrical proposition from that infinitely patient book, Euclid’s Elements. You complete the diagram by drawing the long final line between points A and B. But as you carry out the proof, you realize something is wrong. Your ratios are jumbled, the triangles you remember are not the triangles on the board, and none of the assistance you receive from friendly classmates makes any sense. Your foot has come down on nothing. 2 �Robert C. Abbott Jr. Commencement Address May 12, 2019 St. John’s College, Annapolis You will no doubt recognize this condition—fluttering in your stomach, disorientation and embarrassment, confusion. This is the straightforward way to fall into a well—to make a mistake. Perhaps that line wasn’t supposed to go to B, but rather to C. Or maybe one of your given conditions was wrong. Or you didn’t understand compound ratio as well as you thought you did. Standing there at the board, exposed and off-balance, you can now recognize your kinship with that first thinker, Thales, patron saint of bewilderment. Because most of you are young and intellectually limber, losing your footing can still be agreeable. Like one of Darwin’s tumbler pigeons, you can perform a Backwards-TripleLutz-Somersault more gracefully than those of us who have been land animals for a longer time. The Graduate Institute students are by and large older and more experienced, and deserve special praise for choosing to have the ground pulled out from under them with some regularity—ground that often was hard won. It is a daunting thing to fall into a well when you are supposed to know better. Lest we ever think too highly of our acrobatics, there is the Thracian serving woman with her ready wit, waiting to point out how ridiculous we thinkers can be at any age. She is integral to this philosophical image because she reminds us of the perils of losing one’s intellectual footing in public. What are those perils? There are three. The first is embarrassment. When you lose your footing, your cheeks burn and you tiptoe away from what you’ve done. Your self-mocking laughter separates you from yourself. “I couldn’t have done that,” you think. If the mistake is serious enough and you deny it too angrily, you separate your present from your past; though as Freud would say, that denial also means you cannot get over what you’ve done. And just as shame can alienate you from yourself, it can also exclude from the conversation others who have made mistakes. But if you have experience at making a mistake in public, you will learn to own what you’ve done, and alienate neither your own past self nor other thinkers. The second peril is that you will be distracted from what you were trying to do. When you fall down a well, the world disappears. It is very difficult to maintain continuity with your past endeavors. You must reach back in memory and find the thread that led you to the 3 �Robert C. Abbott Jr. Commencement Address May 12, 2019 St. John’s College, Annapolis present, however circuitously. But if you have practice at weaving these strands together, you live a more intricate, coherent life, one in which the activity of your mind persists in spite of both failure and success, and time holds, an unbroken braid. The third peril is that you break faith with your fellows. As we all know, there are more unsettling ways for the ground to disappear than losing the thread of a Euclidean proposition. You may find yourself doubting what the right thing to do is, or if there is a right or wrong at all. You may find you’ve harmed a friend and couldn’t say why. Being confused about your place in the world can render you useless for its present needs. I will name this peril incivility, with the understanding that I do not mean mere impoliteness but the failure to fulfill the responsibility you have to your community because you did not have firm ground to stand on. But in this failing, you can learn to see what your community is and requires. You can learn to ask for forgiveness from it, and not allow your own failings to excuse you from your responsibility. Herodotus tells us that Thales was also a statesman of sorts. He recommended to a number of neighboring cities that they choose a single meeting place to hear disputes and decide matters in common, as if each polis were a district of a larger political whole. I wonder if Thales had this commitment to a common political life because he occasionally fell into a well and found himself fractured by embarrassment, distraction, and incivility. Thales’ meeting place is the solid ground on which to work at being undivided. It should remind you of our own classroom: one table, many voices. There are other ways the ground disappears that have nothing to do with making a mistake. How often have you talked your way somewhere in seminar and like Elizabeth Bennet found that you had “wandered about until you were beyond your own knowledge?” You reach for a familiar world and find it upended and whirling. Time varies with velocity, matter is energy by another name, God is love: after a particularly good conversation you might well, as Pentheus did, see two suns in the sky. Aristotle tells us wonder is the source of wisdom, and perhaps it is by having the ground fall away from beneath us that we are prepared to behold the world with new eyes. 4 �Robert C. Abbott Jr. Commencement Address May 12, 2019 St. John’s College, Annapolis Since you are heading out into the world, I feel bound to tell you something particularly true of it in this present age: most people are terrible at falling down wells. This is not surprising. They have little to no practice at making mistakes in public and they believe that the purpose of education is to learn how to become a certified non-mistake-maker, that is, an expert. At most, they acknowledge that failure is important, but only as a ditch one leaps out of, something to laugh at from a more comfortable vantage point. Many commencement speakers are probably telling graduates right now to accept failure as a necessary evil on their predestined path to success. I think Thales and the Thracian woman would have a few choice words for them. I hope it is clear by now that I am not giving you advice. I am praising you for what you have been doing here all along. You have not learned how to land on your feet every time you fall down a well. That would be sophistry—the skill to say something plausible no matter the circumstances. But you have learned to welcome a fall when it comes. Falls come in varying heights—from incorrectly drawing a geometrical diagram to realizing that your whole account for your place in the world didn’t make adequate sense. In the period of your course in these halls you have practiced disorientation: having your ground—perceptual, intellectual, moral—fall out from beneath you. You have learned to be more committed to the conversation than your own embarrassment, distraction, or incivility. You have learned to remain at the table. The sun is not yet at its zenith, but this is well past the midpoint of my address and I would like to tell you a story about my own encounter with a well. Many years ago my family visited the house where my grandmother was born, in Greene County, Virginia. It had long since been in other hands, but she wanted to see it again, and she wanted me to see it for the first time. My grandmother, parents, and I drove down one summer day, warmer than this one, and turned from the highway onto country roads, until we came to the old home place. The property was overgrown, and I was the only one who ventured into the abandoned house. Young trees grew through the floor of the living room and stood like motionless hosts. Only leaves breathed the quiet air of the house. When I returned to the car, I found my grandmother upset by the dilapidation of the present and this rough return to the past. But even in consternation she asked me, “Did you find the well?” 5 �Robert C. Abbott Jr. Commencement Address May 12, 2019 St. John’s College, Annapolis The well was an underlying figure in the landscape of her childhood. She was a rare and powerful storyteller; her memories of that childhood live on in those who heard her stories. I have a vivid image of her drawing water to cool that morning’s milk as if I had been there to hold the pail. When I take a drink after a long row here on the Severn I sometimes remember how she quenched her thirst at the well after a long walk home from school. And I did find this same well. She told me to watch out for it before I left the road and went into the woods. The well was deep, and its wooden cover was surely rotted away. But I discovered it in time, near the back porch stairs—a dark opening in the earth. This memory gives me cause to rethink my telling of the Thales story. I have praised what you undertook here at the College. But like Socrates in the Phaedrus, perhaps I have not yet done justice to the end of that enterprise. I have considered one aspect of the thoughtful life—when the ground disappears, but I have yet to address another—falling into a well. Allow me to begin my encomium again, giving due praise not to the fall, but Depth. You fall, yes, but into what? Thales fell into his own first principle—water, which he took to be the underlying material beneath everything else. In other words, he fell into the source of the world. The word for source in Greek is arche, a word that has many resonances with us here at the College. An arche is a beginning, a cause, a source for the way things are, a spring that pours forth much. The sources of the world are deep. You cannot always climb down but must trust the fall. I am reminded of what the German poet Hölderlin wrote, “Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch.” “Where danger is, there salvation also grows.” It is no accident that we find water in the deep places of the world. There is a secret bond between the high and the deep. When we set our gaze on the ageless dance of the stars we also find ourselves falling to the very heart of the world. But I want to describe more specifically what we fall into when the ground gives way. When I was in high school, trying to persuade my parents to let me attend the College, we were invited to an event for prospective students at an alumna’s house. My mother was not at all sure that this strange school would be worth the risk. I think my father was happy enough that I was interested in crew to sign off on the whole dubious project. Wouldn’t it 6 �Robert C. Abbott Jr. Commencement Address May 12, 2019 St. John’s College, Annapolis be better to go somewhere with more options, somewhere more conservative, more affordable, somewhere with a study abroad program? We met a tutor at the event, Nancy Buchenauer, and my mother asked her a challenging question: what is the worldview of St. John’s College? Ms. Buchenauer paused, but did not shy away from an answer. “We believe there are certain questions that must be asked.” My parents were convinced. The more I ask opening questions at the beginning of seminar, the more time I live with the great books that pose those certain questions with unyielding intensity, the more I believe that a question is not a statement disguised by uncertainty, nor is it an indication of, or an attempt to induce, confusion. A question is a well-spring sunk into the heart of the world. A question demands that you must answer it now, in the present, and for yourself; no one can do it for you. Who am I? What is nature? What ought I do here? What is fleeting, undying, beautiful? These wells do not run dry however much we draw from them. They are springs of living water, nourishing tree, city, and soul. Our time is at its end and you are about to return to a source. I know the College sometimes seems self-sufficient, but the great world to which you go is one of our sources, and we, its tributary. Plato has given you many ways to picture life in the world. The darkest is in the Republic. There it it is like living in a cave, chained by injustice, bound to see only images of the truth. But in the Theaetetus, he gave you another way of picturing that place underlying all others. Going back to the world is like falling into a well. Disorienting at first, but in it you may discover the source of what is. I believe the well of Thales was a place for reunion and betrothal, like a well in the book of Genesis; or like the pool of Bethesda, where an angel troubled the waters and the lame came to walk again. Thales falling into the well is an image of what happens to human beings after they have strained to see the undying beauty above them, but lost their footing and found themselves in fathomless depth. Perhaps instead of being forced down to earth as in the cave, they fall there, as Alyosha does, in praise and wonder. 7 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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P hedre's Labyrinth Speech Andre Louis Pellegrin III Milford, Delaware Hannah Louise Crozier Peterson Wallingford, Pennsylvania The Final Journey: A Reflection on Corruption in G ulliver's Travels Caracas, Venezuela Katy Cruel, I See, I Hear, I Speak: On Language and Change Clifford Morris La Porte, Texas I Am the One in Time, Space, and the World: Antoi ne Roquentin's Discovery of Self in Sartre's Nausea Cyrus Wolf Multhauf Chicago, Illinois Paean for a Fallen King: Self, Nothingness, and Time in Shakespeare's King Richard II Rachelle Elise Munsey Rocklin, California Liberation in a Dream of Servitude: A Study of the Preservation of Joseph's Brethren at the End of Genesis Sawyer Merritt Neale Jennifer Evelyn Ongley Into the Yawning Abyss of Freedom: An Exploration of Kierkegaardian Anxiety Washington Crossing, P ennsylvania Sarahgabrielle Moreno Arlington, Virginia Machiavellian Justice Ethics Within Politics: A R eflection on How Cities Shape Us Sheridan Amber Mathias Caitriona Alyce O'Connor Elizabethtown, P ennsylvania Phenomenology and Conversation: On Augustine as Unhappy Consciousness Subha Niroula Garrett Stanford Phelps Phoenix, Arizona Speaking Vaguely of a Red Nose: An Essay on L anguage, Abstraction, and Specificity in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities J onah Ajax Piscitelli Norfolk, Massachusetts R eason in Plato's Phaedrus Felipe Pazos Rego Miami, Florida Wittgenstein Solved P hilosophy and So C You: A Look at Philosophical an Investigations Kathryn Malori Richards Gig Harbor, Washington Elizabeth Bennet: A True Hero? Jacob Christopher Richey Pleasanton, California The Sound of C onfusion: Andrei Bolkonsky and the Paradox of E arthly Life Biratnagar, Nepal Conflict Between Reason and Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling Ethan McCoy Rogers Vienna, Virginia E ssay on the P ossibility of Mechanics Lizbeth Nicole Novelo The Importance of the Ideal Nashville, Tennessee Sarah Fatima Rupani Plainsboro, New Jersey The Conflict Between R eason, Nature, and the Heart of Man: An E ination bf a xam Selection of Robert F rost's Poetry �-I Katelin Barbara Hayes Safford Caldwell, Idaho A Definition for Life: The Twin Inquiries of Alan Turing and Hans Driesch Michael William Schmidt Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Insufficiencies of Justice as an Art: A Close Reading of Plato's Republic Jason Thomas Seaman Bordentown, New Jersey Forming an Epoch: Prince Andrei and the Meaning of a Changed Life Mimi Selena Silver Ellicott City, Maryland Elizabeth Karen Skelton Annandale, Virginia George Robert Ward Swampscott. Massachusetts Deliberations upon F riendship in Plato's Lysis: An Account of How F riendship Is Possible Without Knowing What a F riend Is Alexander Murray Warren Falls Church, Virginia Henry Lee Whittemore McMinnville, Tennessee Tyler James Snyder Palmerton, Pennsylvania On the Cause of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War Joohyun Song Jeonju, South Korea Eunbee Yu Seoul, South Korea Jiaying Yu Jinan, Peoples Republic of China Wrestling G An E od: xploration of Tension and Discord in Genesis Strongsville, O hio The Dearth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Limits of Economic G rowth in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations James Cameron Strack Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China Human Degeneracy and Society in G ulliver's Travels Iago's Intelligence, Imperfection, and Silence in Shakespeare's Othello Thomas Fredrick Springer Mifield Xu Why Are Things Difficu lt to Ta lk About?: An E xploration of the Inevitable Loss in Communication, in Thought, and in Human E xperience Tested O aths: Marriage in Homer's Odyssey Vienna. Virginia Robert Wyatt Zellers Arnold, Maryland The Birth, Death, and R ebirth of Music and Tragedy Qi Zhan Tongcheng, Peoples Republic of C hina Probabil istic Quantum Mechanics and the Challenge to Absolute Space Dionysus and Pentheus: The Fury of God at Man and Man at God Pueblo West. Colorado Dante's Paradiso: On Freedom of the Will Mason Tyler Troupe Tampa, F lorida Knowing and Seeing: On lntellection in Aristotle and Being-One in Plotinus Patrick Dillon Turley Hampton, Virginia Fighting for Love: The E thical Ramifications of Love in T Canterbury Tales he War and Peace Within: Pierre Bezukhov's Discovery of Himself Jessica Nicole Thiebaut Happiness in the Summa T heologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas and also Regarding Some Pertinent C riticisms The Devil Abroad in India: The Raj Quartet and Satan's Hand in It On the Love of Nature: Wordsworth's Transcendence in Tintern Abbey Benjamin Spencer Smith Matthew Howard Voges Saint Paul, Minnesota To Compass Such a Boundless Happiness: Concerning Perfect and Imperfect Bethesda, Maryland The As-Yet-Undetermined Animal: Nietzsche's Darwi nian T urn * Upon completion of requirements �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS Katrina Mary Atsinger Michael Paul Birdsell Nathaniel Andre Booth Paula Rachel Dorfman Stanley Edmond Kathleen Claire Ellis Hartley Wintney, England To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Annapolis, Maryland Calvert County, Maryland Rockville, Maryland Alexandria, Virginia Chesterfield, Michigan Christina Garvan Towson, Maryland Celine LaVoie Healey Thomas Henley Hopkinson Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966 Unbewu(3t, Hochste Lust: On the Experience of Resolution in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Lauren Rebecca Berlin Honorable Mention Bowie, Maryland John Donald Felis Malca Rebeccah Gottlieb PRIZES AND AWARDS Washington, District of Columbia Annapolis, Maryland Richmond, Virginia Joseph Michael Keegin* Louisville, Kentucky Heather Frantz Macon St. Louis, Missouri Saving Grace Woo-Sung Andrew Kim To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-i n-law, Kathryn Mylroie Stevens Morality and Humor in Pride and Prejudice Rachel Langston Odenton, Maryland Andrew Ginn Mcintire The Death and Rebirth of Hope: On Passion, Paradox, and Resignation in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling Nathan Gilday Dignazio Jose Miguel Miura Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Mary Carolyne Ross Plano, Texas Primeval Protagoras: Anthropocentric Measurement in Rousseau's Second Discourse Neal Bhattacharya Davidsonville, Maryland Saweed A. Sadatyar Honorable Mention Jeremy Burton Sheeler* Baltimore, Maryland Samuel Harris Fox Smith Annapolis, Maryland Ross Patric Stafford Gaithersburg, Maryland Benjamin D. Wampler Glencoe, Illinois Jonathan David White To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 But Thy mercy is better than lives, and behold my life is but a scattering Patrick Ensslin To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay. The Clouds: Beyond Highbrow Jokes and Subtle Misanthropy Joshua Lee Laurel, Maryland * Upon completion of requirements Honorable Mention Telemachus, Nasuicaa, and the Portrayal of Children and Childhood in the Odyssey Magdalena Anderson �-I To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2017. Offered by the Alumni Association To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963 Home in Virgil's Aeneid Not Awarded Joseph Michael Keegin To the Senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland Jennifer Evelyn Ongley To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus Text: Xenophon, OlxovoµLx6c; Samuel Harder To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors Text: Tristan Corbiere, "Sonnet posthume" Liam Twomey sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer. Robin Timothy La ncaste r Simone Irena Louw To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community. Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College Matthew Pau l Manotti To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 Alli e Nicole Matheu To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry "Assonance" & "Dissonance" Reflection, portrait; Nobody Deserves Mime, portrait; Untitled, polymer sculpture Be njamin Haas Cora Leig hton Al len To the student who submits a fine original musical composition. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 Honorable Mention Movement in G for String Quartet, "King" Three handcrafted rings: one of walnut and maple, the second of maple and copper, the third of walnut and fire coral Morgan Ballard-Wheeler Ba rn abas As hby Holleran To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 Not Awarded To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird prize. Untitled, oil painting Jiayi ng Yu To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem. Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Jiaying Yu Honorable Mention Mifi eld Xu To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965 Mifi eld Xu �ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954 Dr. Granville 0. Adams, 1929 Mildred Alexander Philip L. Alger, 1912 Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Alumni Scholarship Annapolis Graduate Institute Aretei Fund Bradley C. Arms Richard A. Duhan, 1963 Martin Dyer Book Fund Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund Faculty Scholarship Ron Fielding and Susan Rumore Lobell James H. Frame, 1950 Friends of St John's Nancy Gannon Gearing Harry Golding, Graduate Institute George M. Austin, 1908 Walter S. Baird, 1930 Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 Fred and Marian Billups George A. and Eveline T Greenleaf Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 John T and Gertrude L Harrison, 1907 John T Harrison Jr. Jeff Bishop Memorial Ford K. Brown, H70 Caritas Society of St John's College Charles W Hass, 1927 Henry B. Higman, A48 Casasco Family Fund Michael Chiantella Chicago Regional Chaninah Maschler Endowed Scholarship Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp James T Clark, 1928 Class of 1897 Class of 1898 Class of 2014 Richard F. Cleveland, H54 Bernard Clorety, 1950 Dr. Charles C. Cook Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 The Hodson Trust Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Houston Regiona l John Isaacs J Seward Johnson Jr. Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H84 Francis A. 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Stephenson Clarence W Stryker Bert Thoms Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel Anna K. van Schwerdtner, 2015, and Frederick J van Schwerdtner, 1901 Mr. and Mrs. William J Vanous Pattie Bourne Turn er Wa Iker, 1966 Irving and Loretta Wasserman Charles H. Watts Richard D. Weigle, H49 John L Williams, 1950 Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams Frank K. Wi Ison, 1935 Winiarski Endowment Fund Delores and Stephen Wolf Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation �SCHOLARSHIP DONORS 2017/20 1 8 Sigmund and Carol Amitin S. Wyndham and Hu ldah Anderson M. Brownell Anderson Bradley C. Arms Margaret S. L. Atterbury Harold and Karen Bauer Peter A. Benoliel and Wil la Carey Virginia and Stephen Bergen Janet and Kenneth Berggren Roseanna Bigham Fred and Bee Billups George F. Bingham and Janie Boswoth Bingham Sharon Bishop March Bi shop Steven J. Bohl in and Rachel O 'Keefe Betsy Bi ern and Theodore V Booth E lizabeth A. Bradford E T. H. Brann va Nancy D. Buchenauer and Franci s H. Rowsome Karen and Christopher Camacho Lauren B. Campuzano Caritas Society of St. John's College R. Webster Chamberlin Robert and Stephanie Clark James J. Cohler Daniel and Ma ry Cosgrove Dianne J. Cowan Gerard E. Cozzolino Sabine S. Cranmer Steven and Margaret Crockett Deirdre A. Crosse Samuel and Amanda Davidoff Christopher D. Denny Michael Oink Bryan N. Dorland Hank and Linda Dresch Murray and Cecelia Dry Miriam G. Duhan Jane W. Dyer Doug las Eck and Amie T. Neff loana Ertegun Mary N. Fisher Harvey and Mera Flaumenhaft Richard and Georgina Franyo Noam E. Freshman Julia Elizabeth Garraway Nicholas H. Gazzola Abigail D. Gillespie Gordon and Martha Glenn Chess ly and Wa llace Goforth John L. Gray Anna E. Greenberg C ynthia and David Hackett Jonathan D. Hakim L ynne and Lawrence Harding Loretta R. Haring Robert and Julie Hell er And rew S. Hertzoff Jon Kaufman and Mili ssa Hicks Henry and Marilyn Higuera Ma ry A. Hinshaw and James Lofti s The Hodson Trust Morgan G. Hough Jonathan K. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Commencement Program 2018 Relation A related resource <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/3869" title="Commencement Address">Commencement Address</a> Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b60c58639cf84e529dcdb8fb71a79d5c.pdf c792490622c45210af868e2509f193bf PDF Text Text GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION • SJC St.John's College COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Annapolis, Maryland Friday, August Fourth Two Thousand and Seventeen �Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Degree Wayne P. Berube Program For the Thirty-Eighth Summer Commencement on the Annapolis Campus of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education Albuquerque, New Mexico Conrad Wolfgang Buchheister Annapolis, Maryland Ayesha Darab Vienna, Virginia Julia Jane Dimaio Baltimore, Maryland Zachary Hart Goldberg Severna Park, Maryland Staci Hill Academic Procession Plantation, Florida Carl Hultgren Washington, District of Columbia James A. Middlebrooks, Jr. Welcome and Announcement of Prize · Emily H. Brooker Langston Austin, Texas Address to the Graduating Class William Pastille Eric Alexander Newman Mount Pleasant, South Carolina Darian Christopher Reid Associate Dean for the Graduate Program Boston, Massachusetts Jacquelyn Joy Touhey Annapolis, Maryland Tutor Conferring of Degrees Panayiotis Kanelos President of the College Associate Dean Langston Prize To the student who has written Academic Recession a distinguished tutorial essay. Offered by the Alumni Association of St. John's College. SHANE THOMAS AYERS Wonder and Ignorance: A Question on Vico's Idea of Poetic Wisdom Reception for Graduates, Faculty, Alumni, and Guests immediately following the ceremony. Honorable Mention SEAN FOLEY Erotic Desire and Reciprocity �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commencement Programs and Addresses Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Description An account of the resource Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Graduate Institute Commencement Exercises from 2017 {2017-08-04} Title A name given to the resource Graduate Institute Commencement Program, 2017 Commencement Graduate Institute https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/d6eac26382e3393731ce1e6dc8ba24ee.pdf 175a3483d8b578f00afe7286baec7bbf PDF Text Text • SJC St.John's College 2017 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Sunday I May 14 Two Thousand and Seventeen Annapolis I Maryland �PROGRAM For the Two Hundred Twenty-Fifth Commencement in the Three Hundred Twenty-First Year of the College Carrollton Brass Quintet Prelude Academic Procession Carrollton Brass Quint et The National Anthem Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796 Christopher B. Nelson, SF70 Welcome P resident of the College Announcement of Prizes and Awards President Nelson Joseph Macfarland, A87 Dean of the College Address to the Graduating Class President Nelson Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees President Nelson Dean Macfarland Conferring of Graduate Degrees President Nelson Emily H. Brooker Langston Associate Dean for the Graduate Program Academic Recession Carrollton Brass Quintet �l Haley Jewell Ford Charlotte H Maryland all, The Real and the Ideal: A Search for Goodness in George Eliot's Middlemarch Jasper Kenneth For d-Monr oe Sonoma, California Not by Reason, but by Life: A Justification of Fiction with Reference to War and Peace Ti Hsu Tianan City, Taiwan Must Eros be Winged? On Love in Plato's Phaedrus Nathan Michel Huey Eden Prairie, Minnesota Why Should We Think about Music? Stephanie Ann Hurn Camille Gagnier Maplewood, New Jersey "The growing good of the world" : Sympathy and Reform in George Eliot's Middlemarch Darien, Connecticut "A more gentle sensation": Love in Pride and Prejudice Jake Johnston Israel San Diego, California The Devil in All of Us: An Examination of Good and Evil Remy Diengott Gaudin New Orleans, Louisiana Tristan Wayne Tiedemann Janes God's Great Mathematical Waltz Yountville, California Every Man Dies Alone: Life and Death and Love in The Death of Ivan llyich Alexandra Johnson Gesmer Dover, Massachusetts Salomea Anna J ankovic The Role of the Individual in War and Peace Kensington, Maryland What is a Curve? A Search for Continuity in Leibniz's Calculus Joseph William Gillespie-Hill "To be more than what you were": Masculinity in Shakespeare's Macbeth Dayton, Ohio William Henry Kinum Delmar, New York Life, Death, and Faith: An Investigation of Heroics in The Brothers Karamazov Kaytlin Lee Gochenaur Saranac Lake, New York The Sublime in Paradise Lost An E xploration of Hell, Chaos, Heaven, and Earth Journie Nikala Kirdain Santa Monica, California Genesis on Shame Zachary William Gold Naperville, Illinois Alexandra Natalia Kudr zycki Ducdame New Canaan, Connecticut Imperfection: The Role of Death as Life's Conclusion in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature Jonathan Eric Gordon Saint Louis, Missouri Matthew John Omar Langhinrichs I'll Weep Shaker Heights, Ohio For the Love of God: Andrei Bolkonskiy and the Trial of Faith Nathan Lee Griffith Bowie, Maryland Hunter Stephenson Caison Larkin Hegelian Hermeneutics: How We Read the Phenomenology Franklin, Massachusetts Meursault: A Stranger View of Meaning John Edmund Himes Catonsville, Maryland Ezekiel MacLeod Lemann Communication, Paralysis, and Distant Music in The Dead Yorkville, California Geometry and Necessity Connor Patrick Hocking Annapolis, Maryland Beyond the Dear Self: On the Possibility of Selflessness in Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Huibo Li Fuxin, Liaoning, People's Republic of China Why Make Friends with Pity? An Inquiry into Modern Ethics in Light of Rousseau's View of Human Nature �Jonathan Michael Llovet New Orleans. Louisiana Figuring God's Lyre: Thought, Community, and Action After Reconciliation in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Philosophy of History Jacob David Logan-Baer Madison, Wisconsin Tangshan, People's Republic of China The Meaning of Suffering: The Transformation of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment Thomas Joseph Pack C hevy Chase, Maryland Rancor and Reconciliation: Lincoln's Charity as an Element of His Statesmanship The Law and the Roman: The Righteousness of God Bianca Marlene Lora New York, New York Eliot's Heroine Addiction: Understanding a Great Woman Limited by the Ignorance of Provincial Life Sihui Ma Jiangxue Ning Changsha, People's Republ ic of China The Probability Function in Quantum Mechanics: A Formal Cause Beyond Space and Time JuChan Park Seoul, South Korea Freedom in Obedience in Paul's Epistle to the Romans Joshua Tyler Peele Cornelius, North Carolina Reaching the Pali node: A Reading of P lato's P haedrus Jean-Claude Christian Pineau Edgewater, Maryland When the Music is Over: An E xploration into the Purpose of Art and Music Boston, Massachusetts Connor Joseph Seamus McCourt The Topography of Being: Being, cpuau; ai\r']8wx, and i\6y oc; in Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics Stockton Springs, Maine The Evolution of Emotional Maturity through Tolstoy's War and Peace Ashleigh Elizabeth Mierau Abigail Christine Purnell Manassas, Virginia If Men Were Angels: Machiavelli's New Science and the American Experiment Stowe, O hio The Evolution of a Woman: The Character of Fate and Tess' Reaction to it in Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented Watertown, Massachusetts Man and Amoeba: Recognizing the Biological Basis of Our Being Grant Mintz Mortimer Barcelona, Spain "We prosper well in our return": An Essay on Prospero's Magic Sam Zachary Mentas Owen Parke Morgan Jakub Piven Claire Pierce Racett e Midlothian, Virginia Between the Heavens and the Earth: An Exploration of Humanity's Identity as the Image of God in F lesh Noemi Guadalupe Ramirez Los Angeles, California "None is so disgusting": An E xploration into the Role of G luttony in Dante's Divine Comedy Vancouver, Washington The Apocalypse of the Hollow Man: An Investigation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Alina Jade Myer Gulf Shores, Alabama Immediate Conviction: An Examination of Rationality and Reason in Gulliver's Travels Joshua McCade Nichols Rise and Fall: A Study of Aeneas and the F Scene of The Aeneid inal Katherine Carlson Rees Sarasota, F lorida Mouth-Watering Providence: How Huckleberry Finn Finds His Appetite for Change Margaret Ellison Rodgers Los Angeles, Ca lifornia Humean Life: The Many Paths to Happiness in Hume's Essays Moral, Political, and Literary Austin, T exas Garri Garrievich Saganenko A Quest to Capture Mirth in A Midsummer Night's Dream R ockfall, Connecticut �l Sophy Cordelia Schulman Leyla Tortamis Charlottesville, Virginia After Human Nature: An Inquiry into Marx's C oncept of Alienation The Reverberations of Speech in the World of King Lear Bonnie Nichols Scott Aristotle Hezeziah Tsakos Nashville, Tennessee Sappho's Fragments: On Longing Erica Amy Seman Shaker Heights. Ohio I ! No Purpose: When Reason Falls Asleep in The Brothers Karamazov Gaithersburg, Maryland Eric Thomas Wifall Newcastle, Maine Ann Arbor, Michigan Oedipus and the Sphinx: An Inquiry into Understanding the Self in Beyond Good and Evil Peter Hallock Wilder Kathmandu, Nepal On the Paradox of Quantum Theory Maria Katarzyna Solyga Woodstock, Virginia Unhistoric Acts: Altruism, Friendship, and the Happy Life in George Eliot's Middlemarch The Possibility of Internationalism: Institutions. Custom, and Legitimacy in the Social Contract Theories of Rousseau and Kant Jon Shrestha Stefan Vasic Claudia Joy Vaughn Pullman. Washington The Rage of Caliban: An Inquiry into Beauty and Corruption in The Picture of Dorian Gray Colin Scott Shott Nyack, New York "Knock, knock. knock. Who's there?": An E xploration of Identity in Wil liam Shakespeare's T Tragedie of Macbeth he "Accuse not nature": An E xploration into the Anatomy of Temptation in Milton's Paradise Lost Nicholas Alexander Shaw Istanbul, Turkey Oakton, Virginia Looking through the Inner Eye: An E xploration into the Mental and Moral F orces of Clausewitz's On War Warsaw, P oland Daniel Edward Wilson The Soul of a Karamazov Dunkirk, Maryland Fulfillment in Family, F amily in Fulfillment Wesley Louis Sonheim Seattle, Washington Lucinda Leigh Wright The Virtuous Yahoo and Other Problems: Travel's Ruinous Effect upon Lemuel Gulliver Ripley McCausland Stroud Reun ion, Regeneration, and Renewal: An E xploration of Weeping in Milton's Paradise Lost Washington, District of Columbia "Great Captain, a fair wind and the honey lights of home are all that you seek." Maura Kathleen Sugg Maxwell Spellman Swann Bar Harbor, Maine An Exploration of Visual Imagery in Baudelaire's Poetry Emmy Hannah Titcombe Tianren Zeng West Edmeston. New York Floating Downriver: A Journey of Moments in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Hong Kong, People's R epublic of C hina Communism. Capitalism, and Marx's Materialism Downingtown. Pennsylvania The Unsung Hero: An E xploration of the Power of Silence in Mozart's Magic Flute Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom r f! Xiuyuan Zhang Beijing, People's Republic of China How Will I Love Thee, Thou Suffering O ne?: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Love and Self-Overcoming in F Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra .W. Collin James Ziegler Allison Park, Pennsylvania The Significance and T ransformations of Wotan's Will in Wagner's R ing �l MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS Talia Markley Amatulli C incinnati. Ohio Donald Houpt Antenen C incinnati, O hio PRIZES AND AWARDS To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966 Amy Adele Bittner Roger Dean Carstens Andrew John Del Bene Esteban Joseph Freeman Eva Marie Kathleen Haine Micah Hart Harris Sean Francis Hutzell Finksburg, Maryland The Probability Function in Quantum Mechanics: A Formal Cause Beyond Space and Time Sihui Ma Honorable Mention Spokane, Washington Yonkers, New York Miami, Florida Metuchen, New Jersey Washington, District of Columbia Westminster. Maryland Must Eros be Winged? On Love in Plato's Phaedrus 1i Hsu To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylroie Stevens A Meaning to His Madness: Journeying into Cognitive Awareness under the Chivalric Influence Gene Jerskey-Long To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 Walter Harrison Jackson III Bonnie Jane N aradzay E O nid, klahoma Adam and Eve and the Goats: Genesis as a History of the Animal Neal Bhattacha rya Si lver Spring, Maryland Honorable Mention Joseph F. Ruf Julia Shiller Chicago, Illinois A Portrait of the Lioness: An Essay on Chaucer's Wife of Bath Annie Lindsey Brong Dnipropetrovsk. Ukraine To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay. Robert Greco Tonucci Christian Aaron von Kerczek MarcM. Wall Daniel Jonathan Williams Brockton. Massachusetts Si lver Spring, Maryland Washington. District of Columbia Broken Arrow. O klahoma Greatness of Soul Xin Ye Honorable Mention The Poetic Musings of a Historian's Mind: How Thucydides Uses Fiction to Restore the Past to the Present Elisa beth Marie Morell �To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2016. Offered by the Alumni Association Shared Prize: Making Sense of the Insensible: The Role oflnfintesimal Variation in Darwin's Theory To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem. Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus Minfei Xu John Richard Moore Honorable Mention and Louis A. Petrich IV A Cuckold's Homecoming Katrina Mary Atsinger To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965 Minfei Xu To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland Salomea Anna Jankovic To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963 Not Award ed To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus Text: Euripides, EQW<:;, EQwc;, 0 Km:' oµµcnw v Samuel Michael Harder To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors Text: Rimbaud, "Les Poetes de sept ans" Ripley McCausland Stroud To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry "The Clearing" Bonnie Nichols Scott To the student who submits a fine original musical composition. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 "Getting Around in Minneapolis" Nathan Michel Huey To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 The Unsung Hero: An Exploration of the Power of Silence in Mozart's Magic Flute Maura Kathleen Sugg Honorable Mention Why Should We Think about Music? Nathan Michel Huey To the Senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer. Grace Alexan dra Athanas-Lind en Stefan Vasic To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community. Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College Claire Pierce Racette To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 Ambrose Augustine Sullivan Donnelly To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize Woman in Red Robe, watercolor painting; Rhino, sculpture; Windows in Mellon, sculpture Journie Nikala Kirda in Honorable Mention Untitled (Horse's Head), cer amic Alexand ra Nata lia Kudrzycki To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird prize. "Laundry After Autumn" Sebastian Ba rajas �-, ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Leslie Milton Abrams. 1954 Dr. Granville 0. Adams. 1929 Thomas A. and Julia McDonald Middendorf F oundation Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund Martin D Book F yer und Ahmet Ertegun E ducation Fund F aculty Scholarship Ron Fielding and Susan Lobel l James H. Frame, 1950 Friends of St. John's Paul Miller Phi lip A. Myers II, 1938 NationsBank F oundation (Bank of America) C hristopher B. Nelson Scholarship Endowment Rev. 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Douglas Ramsey, 1937 G Riley (class of 1993) reg Lenore B. Rinder Cleo Ritz Susan I. R oberts, 1966 C lifton C Roehle Joan and Bela Ronay Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938 G. D. Searle/John E Robson . Robson Family Rosse Family St. John's College Alumni Association J. J. Salovaara Lawrence L. Saporta, PhD Flora Duvall Sayles Scholarship Fund 2013 Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan, 1908 Doug E Sherr (1972) Memorial . Rudy Simeone Thomas J., H94, and Marion K. Slakey Andrew Smith Memorial J. Winfree Smith, HBO Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund James S. Spirer. 1970 R aymond and Richard Starke C. V. Starr Foundation Jean Roberts Staylor und Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book F David H. Stephenson Clarence W. Stryker Bert Thoms Karl and E velyn Van T assel Anna K. van Schwerdtner (2015) and Frederick J. van Schwerdtner (1 901) Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous Pattie Bourne Turner Walker. 1966 Irving and Loretta Wasserman C harles H. Watts Richard D. Weigle, H49 John L. Williams. 1950 Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams F rank K. Wi lson, 1935 Winiarski E ndowment F und Delores and Stephen Wolf Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation �SCHOLARSHIP DONORS 2016/201 7 Beverly Alexander Patricia D. Amorello Bradley C. Arms Association of Col lege Counselors in Independent School Karen & Christopher Camacho Caritas Society of St. John's College Clark-Winchcole Foundation James J. Cohler Aurora L. Cosgrove John Cozzolino Deirdre A. Crosse Christopher D. Denny Jennifer Dorney Tanguis Vanessa &Alexander Ellermann Ronald H. Fielding & Susan Lobell Harvey &Mera Flaumenhaft Alexandra Fotos & Neil Harpe Friends of St. John's College Noam E. Freshman Alan &Carole Giagnocavo Nicholas H. Gazzola Lawrence Guttman Thomas &Susan Hammerman Vincent Harriman & Laura Ferry Brennan R. Harris Henry &Marilyn Higuera Mary A. Hinshaw &James Loftis The Hodson Trust ICFM (Independent College Fund of Maryland) Bridgett &Francis Katz Peter E. Keith Ensign C. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CommencementAddressGISummer2016 Commencement Graduate Institute Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/555130472d847f58a8481ba5a9f4b9cc.pdf 232031b1310be01c8e349c1eb5f4133d PDF Text Text • SJC St.John's College 2016 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Sunday I May 15 Two Thousand and Sixteen Annapolis I Maryland �PROGRAM For the Two Hundred Twenty-Fourth Commencement in the Three Hundred Twentieth Year of the College Carrollton Brass Quintet Prelude Academic Procession Carrollton Brass Quintet The National Anthem Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796 Christopher B. Nelson, SF70 Welcome President of the College Announcement of Prizes and Awards President Nelson Pamela Kraus Dean of the College Thomas May Address to the Graduating Class Tutor Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees President Nelson Dean Kraus Conferring of Graduate Degrees President Nelson Emily H. Brooker Langston Associate Dean for the Graduate Program Academic Recession Carrollton Brass Quintet �Danielle Christienne Cole BACHELOR OF ARTS Denver, Colorado Wisdom from the Whirlwind: Th e Nature of Human Suffering in the Book of Job Montgomery Austin Alcott Boston, Massachusetts The Isolation of the Will in Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Stephen Bowen Aller Gaithersburg, Maryland Paul on Love Jenna Neal Alton Timothy Hermann Collins Oak Hill, Virginia Natural Characters and Forested Flattery: On the Fluidity of Identity (With a F ocus on Love) in As You Like It David Ryan Conway North Barrington, Illinois Are You, Too, a Casaubon? An E loration of Faith and Diversion in xp George Eliot's Middlemarch Daniela Liliana Alvarez Rodriguez Corn ing, New York These Days, He Devotes Most of His Time to Horses: Avoiding Frustration in Socrates' Philosophy Amy L. Cowling San Juan, Puerto Rico How to Find Resolution in Death : An E xploration of the Relationship Between Death and Desire in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Orland Park, Illinois Solitude in Time: An Essay on One Hundred Years of Solitude Maxwell Bigelow Dakin Lenox, Massachusetts Dark Night of the Soul: Hegel and the Unhappy Consciousness Robyn Dianne Bell Berlin, Maryland Moral Redemption from the Downfall of Desire: The Quest for Self-Satisfaction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Practical Reason Nino Benashvili Marian Amelia Daniel Atlanta, Georgia The Development of Reason in Human Consciousness: A Limited Legislative Activity- An Investigation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Tbilisi, Georgia Before Whom Shall I Bow Down? The Question of TOCKa in The Brothers Karamazov John Talbot Brookes Madeline Pierce Desjardins Ku la, Hawai i All Is We ll : Finding the Moral Life Without God- The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, and The Plague San Mateo, California Jonathan Luke Dougherty Knowing Other: On Hegel's Force and the Understanding Litchfield, Connecticut The Call of the Wild- Walden, Walking, Thoreau William Murray Gardner Brown Buffalo, New York Kerrigan Dougherty The True-as-Subject in Hegel's Logical Doctrine Courtney Chaffee Caldwell Medford, Massachusetts Anatomy of Spleen: An Examination of Baudelaire's Spleen Cycle Robert Gabriel Cawood The Poet and His Ideal: Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal Kommt, ihr Tochter, helft mir klagen : Bach's St. Matthew Passion as an Invitation to Complex, Varied Lamentation Mary Kathryn Eckles Adams, Tennessee Maplewood, New Jersey Tempe, Arizona A Self Truth, Rarely Acknowledged: A Study of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the Journey to Self-Knowledge in Society · ·I �Mariel Michael Far hi Ithaca. New York Jonah William Karew Red Bank, New Jersey The Brutal Reality of War: On Blood Meridian and the Iliad To Become Ourselves. To Know Ourselves: On Self-Actualization in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Matthew Marquis Katcher William Grant James Feeney Havre de Grace, Maryland Reaching Balance Through Sin- How Necessary Evil Brings Mankind to Completion in Paradise Lost Falls Church, Virginia Hazards and Nothing Else: An Essay on Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics Sueanna Ruth Keirn Nikos Paul Frank Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Cary, North Carolina How to Give an Onion One Is Two- Making Sense of Plato's Parmenides Patrick Thomas Francis Kelly Evan Gerald Verne Frolov Orange County, California Fresno, California Man and the Universe -An Essay on Our Place Among Infinite Worlds To Change the Lights: Modern Sainthood in George Eliot's Middlemarch Joseph Ritter Kensok E1nily Freda Grazier Grove City, Ohio Flame and Stone: Sight and Interaction in Ovid's Metamorphoses Andrea M. Hill N011h Wales, Pennsylvania Jacob Avery Kilgore Clinton, Washington Wandering the Hidden Gardens of Memory: The Artistic Creation of Self in Marcel Prou st's DuCote de Chez Swann Robert Killefer Virginia Beach, Virginia The Birth of Discord: The Cyclical Co-Generation of Spleen and Ideal in Charles Baudelaire's Encounter with Beauty Christopher Randolph Hutter Madeline Laura Kiss Obligation and Purpose in Aeneas' Journey Sag Harbor, New York Abraham Lincoln : Necessity and the American Political Religion Middleburg, Florida On Stoicism, up to a Certain Point Adam Reid Kuester Baldwin, Maryland What Death Can Teach Us about Meaning and Morality Catonsville, Maryland The Great Unfinished Symphony: Identity, Memory, and Change in Lincoln 's America N oe Joaquin Jimenez Fairfax. Virginia A Cock and a Bull- The Art of the Anti-Novel Andrew Ryan Kriehn Lauren Michelle Huffman Bowdon. Georgia Shenzhen, People's Republic of China The Rabbit and the Rock: An Exploration of the Concept of Space in Quantum Mechanics Holly Ann H uey Overcoming the Barriers that Separate Us: Perfectibility and Happiness in Rousseau's Political Writings The Language of the Sons of Men: An Essay on Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed Tragedy in Transformation: The Faithful Fall of Don Quixote Xiaoqian Hu Napa, California Brooklyn, New York Julia Agnieszka Kulon Seeing and Feeling in Painting Chicago, Illinois �Stanley Nelson Lavery Belcamp, Maryland Baltimore, Maryland Dealing with the Past Adarn and Eve: Divergent Perspectives in Paradise Lost Chang J ae Lee Seou l, South Korea Wyatt Murphy Moreton Shelburne, Vermont The Science of Karl Marx: A Study of Value in Capital In Search of a Good Will Brian Shang Jie Liu Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Erik Gustaf N eave Sheboygan, Wisconsin Eternal Happiness: Philosophy & Faith in Philosophical Fragments Life Itse lf: A Close Reading of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy Wanli Ma Clifton Stevenson Mobbs Qinhuangdao, People's Republic of China Frederick Geoffrey N esfield Engelhard, North Carolina The Necessity of the Karamazovian Character: An Essay on Ethical Aesthetics An E ssay on Baudelaire's "Une Charogne" Roger Kirk McCluskey Lubbock, Texas The Form of the Good- An Inquiry into the Fund amentals of Value within the Economics of Smith and Marx Da'Nasjah Tandi Nyirenda Cu lver City, California Rhetorica l Strategies in The Federalist Papers Marguerite Ellen O'Neill Shannon Marie McGovern Elkridge, Maryland A Horse is a Horse, of Course, Unless That Horse is a Houyhnhnm: A Look at the Fourth Adventure of Gulliver's Travels Wilmington, Delaware An Inquiry into Madness: Why is Phedre Incapable of Achieving the Necessary Balance between Rea son and Passion? Alexia Cannen Parkas Aeryn Demetri McKenzie Elkton, Maryland Southbury, Connecticut To Be Forgiven Follow Your Leader: Performance and Deception in Benito Gerena Davis Conlin Poore Lyra Jane Meurer Wembley, Australia "Such Gaudy Tulips Rais'd From Dung": An Argument for Love from an Investigation of Disgust in Gulliver's Travels Michael Charles Bruce Powell Easton, Maryland Lee, New Hampshire Faith for This Life : The Role of Finitude in Fear and Trembling Victor Andrew Reczkowski Roanoke, Virginia Speech and Speech-Making in Rousseau's Second Discourse Blythewood, South Carolina Sleeplessness: An Aesthetic Flirtation with Faith Megan Elizabeth Mitchell From Richard's Night to Bolingbroke's Fair Day On Kant's Transcendental Cognition: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Gwen Ivy Milliman Krystal Jessica Mills Sullivans Island, South Caro lina Mark Elijah Reyes Woodbridge, Virginia A Fortunate Age: On the Re lationship Between Hero and Story in Don Quixote Seaside, California Mind the Gap: Th e Philosophical Implications of the Divide of Logic and Intuition in Lobachevski �Emrys Merlin Rhodes Moscow, Idaho How to Walk with a God: An Exam ination of the Relationship between Gods and Humans Gina Louise Vandetty Havertown, Penn sylvania Beyond Teachers and Students: A Search for the Necessity of a Teacher Kyle Joseph Walters Joe Roberts Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands When a Man Loves a Woman: An Examination of Happiness through Love in Pride and Prejudice Baltimore, Maryland Writing and the Task of Being: Rainer Maria Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Frances Clementine Webb Christine Kiyana Rowghani Rolling Hills Estates, California As a Glow Brings Out a Haze: Ambiguity, Narrative, and the Mechanism of Meaning in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Brooklyn, New York In the Garden of Women : A Study of Poetic Sensation in Proust's In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower Marina Aud-Jean Weber Maia Gizelle Sekulski Staten Island, New York Sammamish, Washington Wagner's Divine Comedy: Fate, Sacrifice, and Renewa l in The Ring A Journey into the Self: Marlow's Voyage into the Heart of Darkness Catherine Carol White Kimberly Serratos Sugar Land, Texas Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Through Heaven's Eyes: An E loration of Individuality in Dante's Commedia xp On the Potential for Friendship in the Midst of Betrayal and Doubt Christopher James Zeller Chengyaqing Shi Beijing, People's Republic of China South Glastonbury, Connecticut Rationally Postu lating an Irrational Postulate: The Dialectic of Faith Ideal State and Reality: E mining the Mora l Law of Kant xa Siqi Zhao Maxwell Tate Silbiger Marietta, Georgia Urumqi, People's Republic of China Beyond the Flaming Ramparts: Dirac's Symbolic Method Pleasure without Satisfaction in The Rite of Spring Jiayue Zhu Won Kyung Song Yongin-si, South Korea Suzhou, People's Republic of China On Freedom in Heidegger's Being and Time The Philosophical Interpretation of the Life of Prince Andrei Kelli Ann Zinn Miles 0 liver Steinert Fairfield, Connecticut Chandler, Arizona Language in Use and the Dissolution of Meaning The Tragicomedy of Rebirth- An Essay on the Book of Jonah Joseph William Zoller Allison Tretina Maple Shade, New Jersey A Refutation of Leibni z's Identity of lndiscernibles Cern Turkoz The Concept of Mass in Newton's Principia Istanbu l, Turkey "Who are you?": The Character of Alice in Wonderland Rapid City, South Da kota �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS Jeremy Matthew Adams Glenn Dale, Maryland PRIZES AND AWARDS To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966 Flame and Stone: Sight and Interaction in Ovid's Metanwrphoses Eleni Bozori Jeffrey Oliver Brown Conover Athens, Greece Emily Freda Grazier Annapolis, Maryland Honorable Mention Courtney Noelle Crouse Annapolis, Maryland Leland Caswell Ellis, Jr. Takoma Pa rk, Maryland Neil Francis Fennerty D'Angelo Martez Joyce Ross Nicholas Kinney Arlington. Virginia The Great Unfinished Symphony: Identity, Memory, and Change in Lincoln's America Christopher Randolph Hutter To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylroie Stevens The Roaring Sea Contained: "Continuall Motion" in Hobbes' Natural and Artificial Man Washington, DC Sophy Cordelia Schulman Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada Honorable Mention In Dreams and Fancy: Where is the Action, Where is the Sin Rachel Catherine Pope Michelle Lafong Rockwitz Tyler Lawrence VanOstrand Pensacola, Florida Baltimore, Maryland Ithaca, New Yo rk Kaitlyn Grace Bredeson To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 An Autobiography of Acedia: On Free Will and Unwillingness in Dante Alighieri's Diuina Commedia Cyrus W. Multhauf Michael Everett VanWie, Jr. Mechanicsville, Maryland Honorable Mention Married to My Work: A Tale of Three Wives Caleb Mauzy Vogel Fort Wayne, Indiana A. Terry Walman Annapolis, Maryland Olivia Rose Frawley To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay. I've Got a Friend in Me: On Friendship and Self-Love Erinn Lee Woodside Savage, Maryland Desiree Lydia Jones Honorable Mention (shared) Thucydides' Benevolence, Power, and True Justice Zoe Hinman and A Reflection on Reflection Jaeyon Jo �To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2015. Offered by the Alumn i Assoc iation Per spectives of Mfirmation To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem. Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus Louis A. Petri ch IV Donald Robert Lafleur To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965 To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tyd ings of Maryland Ma xwell Tate Silbig er Shared Prize: Kelli Ann Zinn Marina Aud -Je an Weber To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963 Not Awarded To the student who submits the best Engl ish version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus Text : Epictetus, excerpt from Discourses Samuel Michael Hard er To the student who submits the best Engl ish version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors Text: Rimbaud, "Une Saison en Enfer" Marie l Mich ael Farh i To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry To the senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer. Ni kos Pau l Frank Jenna Neal Alton To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community. Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College Shared Prize: Jenn a Neal Alton Jacob Ave ry Ki lgore Adam Re id Kueste r "For Miles or Upon Returning to a Summer Cabin in Late Winter" Erik Gustaf Nea ve Honorable Mention "How t o Speak" Catherine Carol White To the student who submits a fine original musical composition . Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, Pres ident of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 "Sonata - Allegro" Andrew Ryan Kriehn Honorable Mention "Tomorrow Night for Sure" Nathan Miche l Huey To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 Music and Mu rder in Mozart's Don Giovanni Collin James Ziegler To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 Wyatt Murphy Moreton To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize Untitled, black and white photograph Julia Agnieszk a Kulon To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, the WalterS. Baird prize. "Sonata - Allegro" Andrew Ryan Kriehn �\ ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Martin Conrad Mi ll er (1981) Book Fund Lawrence Saporta, PhD Pau l Miller Flora Duvall Sayles Philip A. Myers II. 1938 Scholarsh ip Fund 2013 Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954 Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund NationsBank Foundation (Bank of America) Hazel Norris and J Graham Shannahan, 1908 Dr. Granville 0. Adams, 1929 Faculty Scholarship Mildred Alexander Rona ld and Donna Fielding Christopher B. Nelson Scholarship Endowment Doug E. Sherr (1972) Memorial Rudy Simeone Philip L. Alger, 1912 James H. Frame, 1950 Rev. Theo O'Brien Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Friends of St. John's O'Grady Memorial Thomas J, H94, and Marion K. Slakey Andrew Smith Memoria l Alumni Scholarship Nancy Gannon Gearing Oklahoma Regional J. Winfree Smith, H80 Annapolis Graduate Institute Harry Golding, Graduate Institute Molly Owens Aretei Fund George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf Norman G Owens . Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund James S. Spirer, 1970 Bradley C. Arms Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 Jules 0. Pagano Memori al Scholarship Fund Raymond and Richard Starke C. V. Starr Foundation George M. Austin, 1908 John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr. WalterS. Baird, 1930 John T. Harrison, Jr. Passin Family Fund Jean Roberts Staylor Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 Charles W. Hass, 1927 Fred and Marian Billups Henry B. Higman, A48 The Duane and C lementine Peterson Charitable Fund Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book Fund David H. Stephenson Jeff Bishop Memorial Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 Ford K. Brown, H70 The Hodson Trust Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Caritas Society of St. John's College, Inc. Casasco Family Fund Houston Regional Michael Chiantella John Isaacs Chicago Regiona l J. Seward Johnson, Jr. Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones James T. Clark, 1928 Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Class of 1897 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 Class of 1898 Dr. Simon and F anny Kaplan, H84 Class of 2014 Francis A. Katz, 1929 Richard F. Cleveland, H54 Wil liam R. Kenan, Jr. Trust LD and Paula Pickens Pittsburgh Regional Reader's Digest Foundation J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937 Greg Riley (Class of 1993) Leanore B. Rinder Cleo Ritz Susan I. Roberts, 1966 Clifton C. Roehle Joan and Bela Ronay Murray Joe l and Julius Rosenberg, 1938 G. D. Searle/John E. Robson Robson Family Dr. Charles C. Cook John Spangler Kieffer, H70, and Ro xa na White Kieffer, H84 Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 Marie Klebe Memorial St. John's College Alumni Association The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Jacob Klein, H76 J. J. Salovaara Eugene N. (1929) and Robert G (1963) Cozzo lino . Tom and Cathryn Krause Wiley and Helen Crawford Joseph LaPides Bernard Clorety, 1950 Korshin Family Fund Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 Cpl . George E. Cunniff Ill Michael Littleton Helen Lee DeAioia John D. Mack Donna Marie Delattre Massachusetts Regional Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911 Richard A. Duhan, 1963 James Matthews, H99 Thomas A. and Julia McDonald Martin Dyer Book Fund Middendorf Foundation Rosse Family Clarence W. Stryker Bert Thoms Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966 Irving and Loretta Wasserman Charles H. Watts Richard D. Weigle, H49 John L. Williams, 1950 Thomas J. and Marvi l F. Williams Frank K. Wilson, 1935 Winiarski Endowment Fund Delores and Stephen Wolf Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation �SCHOLARSHIP DONORS 2015/2016 Martha L. Acosta Advance (The Document Speciali sts) Jennifer Backus Benevity Community Impact Fund Fred and Marian Billups BMW of Annapolis Judith and Chris Boughter Philip J. Calinda Connor W. Callahan Mary C. Ca llaway Caritas Society of St. John's College, Inc. Leah Casner Eileen M. Chiantella Karen Chiantella Clark-Winchcole Foundation Paula Clemons Council of Independent Colleges Charles and Deena Cox Robert and Barbara Cozzo lino John M. Daniel Burnet V. 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Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource May, Thomas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-05-16 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource A signed permission form has been received stating, "I hereby grant St. John's College permission to make an audio recording of my lecture, and retain copies for circulation and archival preservation at the St. John's College Greenfield Library and to make an audio recording of my lecture available online." Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Relation A related resource <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/925" title="Typescript">Typescript</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Commencement Address, Spring 2016, May, Thomas 05-16-16 Commencement Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/2cb28ab9fe12c7149504a725500187a2.pdf aacb090b6618eede96611e8793012732 PDF Text Text President  Nelson,  Members  of  the  Board,  Colleagues  of  the  Faculty  and  Staff,  Parents  and   Families,  Honored  Guests,  and  Members  of  the  Class  of  2016:   “So  after  St.  John’s,  what’s  next?”—the  opening  question  you’ve  no  doubt  been  asked  in  one   form  or  another  by  close  friends,  relatives,  and  remoter  acquaintances,  with  varying  degrees  of   curiosity,  interest,  or  maybe  even  skepticism  and  irony.  But  you  should  be  ready  for  this.  You’ve   already  felt  each  of  these  modalities  yourselves  on  occasion  during  the  long  hours  of  your   tutorials,  preceptorials,  and  seminars  here.  You  met  all  of  them  together  in  the  course  of   Socrates’  conversation  with  Meno,  which  you  read  and  puzzled  over  in  your  first  seminar   encounter  with  the  Dialogues  of  Plato.  Remember?  Come  to  think  of  it,  this  dialogue  makes  the   claim  that  learning  is  remembering,  or  so  I  recall.  But  this  question  What’s  next?—does  it  mean   that  you’ve  finished,    that  you’re  ready  now  and  should  now  move  on  to  something  different,   as  newly  minted  Bachelors  of  Arts  or  Masters  of  Arts,  either  onto  something  else,  or  back  to   whatever  you  were  doing  full  time,  or  perhaps  to  retirement?  And  is  this  something,  whatever   it  may  be,  somehow  more  real?  Well  you  might  wonder,  but  then  you  also  remember  that   wonder  is  the  beginning  of  philosophy,  and  so  you’re  off  and  at  it  once  again!   But  wait!  Is  this  but  an  endless  circle  to  which  you,  like  Gabriel  Conroy  in  Joyce’s  The  Dead,  have   been  consigned,  to  a  kind  of  “thought-­‐tormented”  life,  to  be  haunted  by  echoes  of  the  books   you’ve  read  and  the  conversations  you’ve  had  here?  Isn’t  “what’s  next”  supposed  to  be   different  and  elsewhere?  Even  if  you  find  kindred  souls  interested  enough  to  hear  about  what   you’ve  done  here,  it  probably  shouldn’t  be  more  than  an  elevator  speech,  but  don’t  count  on   even  getting  that  far.  I  recall  an  alumna  telling  me  some  years  back  that  at  her  Harvard  Law   orientation  she  met  an  equally  new  Ivy  league  alum  who  on  hearing  she  had  studied  here  cut   her  off,  saying,  “Oh  yeah,  that’s  the  big  books  school,”  and  who  then  went  on  to  tell  her  at   great  length  about  where  he  went  and  what  he  did.  I’m  inclined  to  think  that  the  kinds  of  books   and  manuals  that  fill  the  shelves  of  the  learned  professions  are  truly  the  big  books,  filled  with   lots  of  important  and  useful  knowledge,  but  not  great  ones.  I’m  also  reminded  here  of  the   aphorism  in  Epictetus’s  Handbook,  a  very  different  kind  of  manual,  where  he  claims  that   “when  a  man  says  to  you  that  you  know  nothing,  then  be  sure  that  you  have  begun  the  work  of   philosophy.”  He  adds  a  corollary  to  this  by  way  of  a  memorable  analogy:   For  even  sheep  do  not  throw  up  grass  to  show  to  the  shepherds  how  much  they  have   eaten;  but  when  they  have  internally  digested  the  pasture,  they  produce  externally  wool   and  milk.  Do  not  show  your  theorems  to  the  uninstructed,  but  show  the  acts  which   come  from  their  digestion.     What  are  these  acts?  I  would  suggest  that  they  are  a  kind  of  thinking,  of  listening,  and  of   learning  that  can  continue  to  open  up  new  possibilities  for  self-­‐knowledge  and  generous   endeavor,  for  life  in  a  word.  The  context  for  this  may  be  whatever  you  ultimately  pursue—or   what  some  are  already  pursuing-­‐  whether  it  be  in  a  courtroom,  a  classroom,  an  office,  a   laboratory,  a  sanctuary,  an  embassy,  a  farm,  a  hospital,  or  a  vineyard.  You  now  have   considerable  practice  in  certain  habits  of  mind  and  heart  and  imagination  that  have  opened  you   to  the  books  you’ve  read  here,  the  propositions  and  equations  and  lab  practica  that  you’ve   1   �demonstrated  and  worked  through,  the  music  that  you’ve  sung—these  are  all  part  of  you.  Over   time,  you’ll  probably  forget  many  of  the  details  of  much  of  this,  except  perhaps  the  music   you’ve  sung—memory  has  such  a  mysterious  power,  retaining  tunes  and  rhythms,  even  as   nearly  everything  else  seems  to  fade  slowly  away.  And  the  way  you’ve  done  all  of  this  and  the   people  you’ve  done  it  with  are  amateurs  all,  lovers  in  the  root  sense  of  that  word,  enamored  of   a  kind  of  learning  that  is  meant  to  liberate,  to  free,  to  enable  life  and  growth.  Such  growth  and   change  are  evidence  of  life.  John  Henry  Newman,  a  favorite  thinker  of  mine,  put  it  thus:  “To   grow  is  to  change,  to  be  perfect  is  to  have  changed  often.”       Think  back  to  when  you  first  came  here.  The  convocation,  then  the  gathering  afterwards,   meeting  President,  Dean,  tutors  and  community;  then  off  to  your  first  class,  assigned  book  in   hand  dutifully  read,  you  picked  your  seat  and  waited  for  the  opening  question.  Do  you  still   remember  what  it  was?  How  much  can  you  recall  of  the  discussion  that  followed?—the  first  of   so  many  that  were  to  follow  in  classes  and  in  conversations  outside  afterwards,  testing  the   books,  finding  out  what  you  really  believe  and  what  you  have  doubts  about,  listening  to  what   others  think,  pushing  your  limits  and  having  them  pushed,  finding  ground  and  losing  ground,   feeling  keenly  what  may  be  at  stake  in  the  difference  between  mere  opinion  and  right  opinion,   let  alone  knowledge—all  challenging,  frustrating,  wonderful!  No  longer  mere  spectators,  you   were  off  and  in  it!  And  it  might  have  seemed  had  you  walked  through  the  halls  with  all  these   seminars  simultaneously  convened  that  Homer  and  Lucretius  and  Cervantes  and  Tolstoy  were   mysteriously  present,  despite  the  array  of  translations  -­‐  prosaic,  poetic,  or  plodding.  Like  the   shades  Odysseus  met  in  Hades,  revived  by  the  sacrificial  blood  of  Circe’s  sheep,  these  authors   breathed  and  spoke  again,  but  all  of  them  in  the  modern  barbaric  tongue  of  English.     Since  that  first  day,  you  have  been  on  your  way,  on  a  path  undertaken  with  deliberation  and   hope,  only  gradually  realizing  what  you  had  gotten  yourself  into—the  reading  lists  of  the  books   providing  an  itinerary  of  sorts,  a  long  list  of  places  where  you  must  stop,  with  no  indication  of   what  you  might  actually  see,  whom  you  would  meet,  where  you  might  finish.  My,  but  you  were   really  in  it  now!  This  trek  has  been  both  exhausting  and  exhilarating,  with  lots  of  trudging  along   on  stony  paths  (you  can  name  inwardly  here  which  books  and  exercises  mark  them)  with   roadblocks,  detours,  and  delays;  but  also  with  glorious  mornings  and  golden  afternoons,  when   an  elegant  proof,  a  beautiful  poem,  a  moving  piece  of  music,  a  difficult  lab  reading  sparked  a   conversation  in  which  a  class  working  together  caught  a  glimpse  of  something  beautiful  and   true.  What  should  such  a  trek  be  named—Odyssey,  Exodus,  pilgrimage?  Each  of  these  has  a   goal.  But  does  any  of  them  have  an  ending?   You’ve  done  so  much  in  so  little  time—perhaps  too  much.  So  much  greatness  in  such  brief   compass  can  be  overwhelming.  There’s  a  clinical  name  for  the  kind  of  disorder  that  comes  from   extended  exposure  to  experiences  of  great  personal  significance.  It’s  called  the  Stendahl   syndrome,  named  for  the  French  novelist  who  described  a  very  disturbing  reaction  he   experienced  while  visiting  the  city  of  Florence  in  1817.  Prior  to  this,  Stendahl,  who  served  under   Napoleon  during  his  Russian  campaign,  had  witnessed  the  burning  of  Moscow  and   subsequently  arranged  for  supplies  prior  to  the  French  army’s  retreat  to  Smolensk,  yet  he   suffered  no  ill  effects.  After  the  war,  however,  coming  to  Florence  with  its  immense  treasury  of   2   �Medieval  and  Renaissance  art,  he  viewed  the  frescos  of  Giotto  in  the  Basilica  of  Santa  Croce  and   reported  being  overcome  with  an  initial  feeling  of  ecstasy,  which  was  quickly  followed  by  acute   psychosomatic  symptoms  that  included  heart  palpitations,  nervousness,  fear  of  falling,  and  a   general  sense  that  life  had  been  drained  from  him.  The  last  of  these  is  something  some  of  you   may  have  felt  recently.  The  prescribed  clinical  antidote  for  the  Stendahl  syndrome  is  removal   and  rest;  Stendahl’s  own  solution  was  to  exit  Santa  Croce  and  find  a  bench  outside  where  he   read  some  Italian  poetry.  Similarly,  David  Hume,  finding  himself  in  a  splenetic  humor  as  he   drew  near  the  end  of  Part  I  of  his  celebrated  Treatise,  called  this  sense  of  being  overwhelmed   “philosophical  melancholy  and  delirium.”  He  sought  relief  in  the  lively  impressions  that  come   with  dining,  conversing  with  friends,  and  playing  backgammon,  necessary  remedies  for  too   much  philosophy.     So  what  did  you  do  to  restore  equilibrium  while  studying  here?  Retreat  to  our  gym,  aptly  called   Temple  Iglehart?  Play  intramurals,  make  music  with  friends,  play  in  the  orchestra;  sing  in  one  of   the  many  vocal  groups,  large  or  small;  in  a  Fine  Arts  workshop  draw  or  paint  or  sculpt  or  throw   pots,  for  yourself  or  for  the  Mitchell  Gallery  Community  Art  Show;  act  or  work  with  the  King   William  Players?  Did  you  go  running  through  this  town  of  Anglo-­‐Palladian  architectural   beauty—but  focused  on  your  running,  of  course;  or  pursue  different  kinds  of  work  in  an  off-­‐ campus  job  or  profession,  or  play  chess  or  billiards  or  croquet?  Or  did  you  work  as  an  intern  for   the  state  legislature,  tutor  kids  at  the  Stanton  center,  or  write  for  The  Gadfly,  Energeia,  The   Epoch,  or  a  blog?  Whichever  of  these  you  were  in  brought  all  of  us  in  the  College  into  a  larger   life  as  it  is  lived  here  and  beyond  these  thirty  or  so  acres—and  these  other  pursuits  will   continue  to  do  so  beyond  your  time  here.  It  seems  that  the  nature  of  human  institutions  is  such   that  the  first  time  for  anything  is  typically  regarded  as  a  radical  innovation  and  is  thus   somewhat  suspect;  is  it  the  second  or  third  time  that  makes  it  a  tradition?  It  seems  that  in  a   four-­‐year  college,  the  fourth  year  should  make  it  a  venerable  tradition.  Think  of  croquet,  yes;   but  think  also  of  the  Program.   Books  with  a  balance;  both  of  these  emblems  grace  our  college  seal.  You  have  read  and   discussed  these  books  freely  and  collaboratively  in  this  distinctive  community  that  is  St.  John’s   College.  You  have  sought,  pursued,  and  practiced  the  activities  that  complement  and  balance   its  heady,  intellectual  life.  It  is  thus  so  fitting  that  College  tradition  has  had  you  toast  together   four  republics  in  the  special  social  gatherings  of  this  final  week:  the  Republic  of  The  United   States,  the  Republic  of  Letters,  the  Republic  of  St.  John’s  College,  and  the  Republic  of  Plato,  for   each  of  these  strives  to  express  the  necessary  balance  that  enables  and  fosters  human   excellence.  Plato's  Republic  and  the  Republic  of  Letters  both  predate  the  College  and  the  United   States,  and  both  recognize  the  community  of  those  who  seek  the  truth,  regardless  of  native   country,  culture,  or  religious  belief.  St.  John's,  from  its  founding  in  the  early  days  of  the   American  Republic,  has  aspired  to  be  an  instantiation  of  these  venerable  antecedent  republics.   The  international  students  in  both  programs  are  representatives  of  this  global  community  of   free  inquiry.  You  have  enriched  the  conversation  here  so  much!  As  living  communities  these   four  republics  can  thrive  only  through  the  continued  thoughtfulness  and  engagement  of  men   and  women  such  as  all  of  you  are  who  graduate  here  today,  your  energy  and  engagement,  your   conscience  and  sense  of  social  justice,  your  willingness  to  speak  out  clearly  and  to  act   3   �deliberately,  your  ability  to  listen  generously  as  well  as  critically,  and  your  imagination  and   flexibility.     And  here  you  are,  graduating  on  this  fifteenth  of  May,  2016,  having  realized  most  likely  that  the   last  seminar  reading  you’ve  just  read  and  discussed  is  not  the  end  of  the  path,  regardless  of   whether  it  was  on  Plato,  or  Nietzsche,  or  Kierkegaard,  or  Gibbon.  You’ve  reached  another   milestone,  doubtless  an  important  one,  but  the  path  goes  on  to  wherever  and  whatever  you   genuinely  find  yourself  in.  This  occasion  is  most  commendable  and  worthy  of  celebration,  but   you  haven’t  finished  yet  and  you  know  it.  Congratulations!  May  you  always  have  the  hindsight   to  know  where  you’ve  been,  the  foresight  to  know  where  you’re  going,  and  the  insight  to   realize  what  you  don’t  know  and  when  you’ve  gone  too  far!  May  you  never  forget  the  friends   you’ve  made  here  and  all  that  has  been  good  in  this  adventurous  endeavor.   Finally,  I  will  not  let  you  go  without  hearing  one  more  poem,  an  appropriate  one  for  this   occasion,  I  think:  Wendell  Berry’s  “The  Vacation.”   The  Vacation   Once  there  was  a  man  who  filmed  his  vacation.   He  went  flying  down  the  river  in  his  boat   with  his  video  camera  to  his  eye,  making   a  moving  picture  of  the  moving  river   upon  which  his  sleek  boat  moved  swiftly   toward  the  end  of  his  vacation.  He  showed   his  vacation  to  his  camera,  which  pictured  it,   preserving  it  forever:  the  river,  the  trees,   the  sky,  the  light,  the  bow  of  his  rushing  boat   behind  which  he  stood  with  his  camera   preserving  his  vacation  even  as  he  was  having  it   so  that  after  he  had  had  it  he  would  still   have  it.    It  would  be  there.  With  a  flick   of  a  switch,  there  it  would  be.  But  he    would  not  be  in  it.  He  would  never  be  in  it.   (Credit:  Copyright  ©  2012  by  Wendell  Berry,  from  New  Collected  Poems.   Reprinted  by  permission  of  Counterpoint.)   4   � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Language A language of the resource English Relation A related resource <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/6580" title="Audio Recording">Audio Recording</a> Commencement Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b860feb3ecb761243943b17c07d332fe.pdf 739b52cd423c6bbf89c4b1931081f5f6 PDF Text Text GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION St. John's College COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Annapolis, Maryland Friday, August Seventh Two Thousand and Fifteen �Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Degree Program Maxwell Anthony For the Thirty-Sixth Summer Commencement Kingston, Pennsylvania Kimberly Kelly Brown on the Annapolis Campus Tacoma, Washington Barbara Delaune-Warren of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education Santa Barbara, California Megan Marie Burling Winchendon, Massachusetts Ely J. Fish Academic Procession Toronto, Canada Michael Kastelnik Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Ellen Josephine Kusterer Welcome and Announcement of Prize Emily H. Brooker Langston Halethorpe, Maryland Address to the Graduating Class Mark Sinnett Tutor Alassandra Patricia Micheletti Portsmouth, Rhode Island Nicholas Grandin Micheletti Associate Dean for the Graduate Program Portsmouth, Rhode Island Christopher B. Nelson President of the College Frederick, Maryland Noah Davis Weingarten Conferring of Degrees David Scott Schwab Califon, New Jersey John Dugan Wiley II Brownsburg, Indiana Associate Dean Langston Academic Recession Prize To the student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay. Offered by the Alumni Association of St. John's College. Reception for Graduates, Faculty, Alumni, and Guests immediately following the ceremony. 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Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD) Title A name given to the resource Graduate Institute Commencement Program, 2015 Commencement Graduate Institute https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b202ae24d2f89290439e8af361c67e84.pdf dad126a1fea8fae288571b5437b3eb91 PDF Text Text • St.John's College SJC 2015 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Saturday I May Tenth Two Thousand and Fifteen ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND J �PROGRAM For the Two Hundred Twenty-Third Commencement in the Thr ee Hundred Nineteenth Year of the College Prelude Carrollton Brass Quintet Academic Procession The National Anthem Carrollton Brass Quintet Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796 Welcome Christopher B. Nelson, SF70 President of the College Announcement of Prizes and Awards President Nelson Pamela Kraus Dean of the College Address to the Graduating Class Jonathan Tuck (H14) Tutor Emeritus Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees President Nelson Dean Kraus Conferring of Graduate Degrees President Nelson Jeff J.S. Black Associate Dean for the Graduate Institute Academic Recession Carrollton Brass Quintet �Nicolas Goehring Day BACHELOR OF ARTS Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Creation Out of Time: Zarathustra's Teaching of Self-Creation Matthew Patrick Denci Sebastian Manuel Abella Coral Gab les, Florida East Greenwich, Rhode Island The Mirror of Chivalry Recreating Reality: The Church of Combray in Swann's Way Sophia Jeanette Dillard Nadia Saud Hamed AI Taei Azaiba, Oman Looking at the Poet. Learning How to See Joshua Thomas Avni Woodstock, Virginia Nothing: Seeking Se lf-Annihilation in lngmar Bergmans Persona Smyrna, Georgia Eating, Death, and Love: Separation and Unification in Genes is and Gospel of John Hannah Rose Edwards Chambersburg, Penn sylvania And Yet It Must Be Wonderful to Get the Princess: An E ration of Poetry in xplo Fear and Trembling Laura Louise Bartram Clinton, New Jersey Arya Eshraghi * A Knowing Look: Into Don Quixote Dioscoro Andres Blanco Leesburg, Virgin ia Abraham's Argument: Faith as Human Fulfillment in S0ren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling Mclean, Virginia Stella Grey Fillmore-Patrick Bridgton, Maine Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy An E xperiential Interpretation Sara Kathleen Finucane Carter Knox Brown Litchfie ld, Connecticut Rochester, New York Idealized Anastomosis in Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants The Labyrinthine Self: The E xperience of Self in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker Steven Thomas Alexander Flake Megan Elizabeth Case New York, New Yo rk Baudelaire's Confrontation with Death and Change: An E inatio·n of "Une xam Charogne" and "Le Cygne" from Les Fleurs du Mal New Bern, North Carolina The Battlefield of Love: The Conflicts Between Our Expectation and Experiences in Shakespeare's The Sonnets Ryan Michael Fleming Daniel Galen Clay Lansdowne, Pennsylvania Suffering in Art: The Ali enation of Passion in "Musee des Beaux Arts" Samuel Oberon Collins Fallsington, Pennsylvania The Observer's Song: Thought and Language in "Le Cimetiere Marin" Domenic Joseph D'Andrea New Castle, Delaware F Child to Citizen: Ethical Education and Responsibility in Aristotles rom Nicomachean Ethics Michael Joseph Freitas Santa Fe, New Mexico Defeating the Hydra's Head: How Expe rience Succeeds Where Reason Has Failed: An E xploration of Monta igne's "Of Experience" North Haven, Connecticut Zachariah Arlo Frey What is You? An Endeavor to Live with I and Thou by Martin Suber Cora Christine Davis Towson, Maryland Better Well Hanged Than Ill Wed: The Necessary Downfall of Philosophy, and the Grace it Receives Through Faith in Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments Thomas Howard Davis Natasha's Dance: An E xploration of Cultural and National Identity in To lstoy's War and Peace St Louis, Missouri Pottstown, Pennsylvania The Good of the Many: Sympathy and Justice in David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature Madison Lee Galbraith Quesne l, British Columbia , Canada Son of Sin, Son of Sanctity: An E loration of the Character of Jesus Christ in xp The Gospel of Matthew �Robert Edmund George Oregon House. C aliforni a Cheektowa ga. New York Silver Spring, Maryland Laconia. New Hampshire Renwick Ellis Hudson Fayetteville, Arkan sas E xperiencing the Dimensions of Beings Overcom ing the Atomized Se lf in G.W. F. Hege l's Phenomenology of Spirit Margaret Kelsey Guilford Miam i. Florida Shayna Morell Jenkins Litchfield, Connecticut Th e Man of Many F aces: Th e Search for Self Knowledge in Cervantes' Don Q uixote Mad Marx and the Machine Revolutio n: Violent Progress and Whethe r We Can Avoid It Helen Elene Gvilia Leslie Mae Howard So as a P nted Tyrant Ham let Stood ai aLJTOVOIJO~: On Autonomy, Obedience. and Loya lty in Sophocles' Antigone Louise Grace Gordon North Easton. Massachusetts Clockwork Phi losopher: On Kant's Use of Practica l Reason Being More Than a Moment: An Essay on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time Melissa Suzan Gerace Wyatt Hawkeye Hope Zugd idi, Republic of Georgia Eunji Kim Gwa ngju, South Korea Th e P aradox and Anxiety in F and T ear rembling Mach iavellian Mora lity: How Machiavell i's True Intentions Reflect Human Nature in The Prince by Niccolo Mach iavell i Molly Grace Kirkpatrick Andrew Mihajlo Nathan Hacko Holl ister, Cal ifornia Paradise on Earth: An E ination of the Problems of Reason an d E xam xperience in a Theolog ical System Orono. Maine Ro und Perdition's Fl ames: An Examination of Ahab and Obsession in Moby Dick Madeline Elizabeth Kline Re isterstown, Maryland The Blessed and the Violent: An E loration of F xp erocity in P aradise Joseph Michael Hamd Wa shington. Di stri ct of Col umbia Bo ldly Staring into the Abyss: Ka ramazov Sensual ity, Suffering, and Life as Paradise Daniel Scott Koolbeck * Josephine Pierce LaCosta Day Harper Provo, Utah How to Love Impossible Things: George Eliot on Soc ial Change Sarah Elizabeth Harper El kridge, Maryland Wanderlust: An Insti nct towards Wonde r Evan Michael Harpin Woodstock. Maryland Westborough, Massachusetts How to Fall from Grace, The E Story: An E ination of E Innocence and Sin ve xam ve's in Mi lto n's P aradise Lost Carlos Moreno Henninger Los Gatos. Ca liforn ia Helen of Sparta : Fi nd ing Oneself in Darkness of Shame Henry Francis Hirsch George Alva Honorof Duty and Revelation: A Study of Andrei 's Death in Leo To lstoi's War and Peace Katherine Biddle Lafferty Gui lford. Connecticut Madison, Connecticut Holli daysburg, Pennsylvan ia Does He Not Go Along Like a Dancer? T Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche hus Dong Sun Lim Seou l. South Korea Wo ndering on Philoso phy: From the Socratic Form to the Phi losoph ic Li fe Qiu Lin Sa nya, Hainan. China Do You Rea lly Love Me? An Inqui ry into F aith in Philosophica l F ragments David Craig Lincer The Music of Phi losophy: An Inquiry with Plato 's Phaedo Gladstone, New Jersey F and Freedom: In Honor of E aith mma Bovary: The Chi ld, the Artist, the Hero Short Hills, New Jersey Hope C stri cts the Heart: Imagi nation, Sympathy, and Yo uth in Goethe's Werther on �Alice Rose Loofbourrow San Jose. C aliforn ia Ronald Edmund Pagano Twice Upon a Time: Stories We Retel l The God Who Dies to Conquer Death: E loring the Mean ing Behi nd the Music xp and Text of the Passion Chorale in Bach's St. Matthew Passion Rohini Pandit Jordan Sinclair Lovinger Sa nta F New Mexico e, Wash ington, District of Columbia On the Namesake of Gorgias: a Brief Ana lysis of Plato's Gorgias and the Socratic Refutation of C icles all Wes ley Chape l. Florida Who 's There? Kallista Ian the Pappas Seattle, Wash ington Let Me Never Be Cut Off F Him: The Doubter's Journey to Certitude in God rom Nicholas Henry Loya Whitti er, C alifo rni a Nicole Kristina Pease Belief without Sight: How Paul E xtends the Preaching of Christ Durango, Colorado A Not So Wicked Disgu ise: Love and Deception in Twelfth Night Kristen Marie Luchsinger Palmer. Alaska Amelia Kathleen Isaacs Perkins The Role of Bea uty in Science as Seen in the Einste in, Podolsky, and R osen P aper and Res ponses to it Within the Context of Quantum Theory Francis George Macintosh Nottingham, P ennsylvan ia The Lord ly View of the True: Metaphysics as Po litical Philosophy in Plato's Parmenides Largo, Florida The Bawdy P tic: Examinations on Gender in Aristophanes' Lysistrata oli Rutl and, Vermont Why Unhappiness Is Unavoidable and How to Dea l With It Samuel Linton Placanica Si lver Spring, Maryland Mary Alice Reeher Saint Paul, Minnesota Flesh and Blood : Webster and the Female Prince Willi amston. North Carolina Fro m F alse Sight to Bl ind Be lief: On the Tra nsformation of Haze l Motes Graeme Keenan Rober ts New York. New York Is Wittge nste in a Behavio ri st? Gabriela Alejandra Montequin Daytona Beach, Florida The Lowly Imitator: An Examination of Imitation and its Path to Truth in Plato's Republic Steven Charles Ross Davidsonville, Maryland C'est L'E nnui: An E xploration of E nnui in the Works of Charles Baudelaire Leila Unvala Saad Colorado Springs, Colorado Persuasion: Hinds ight is 20/20: Ana lyzi ng the Hows and Whys of Auste n's Persuasion Barto, Pennsylvania The War Withi n Ca llicles: An E xamination of Callicles' Speech and Arguments Chevy Cha se, Maryl and The Language of Leadership: Hal's Study of Rhetoric Through Relationsh ips in Henry IVP I art Steuben, Maine Both Fl esh and Not: Embodiment in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Zeke Austin Richard Schumacher John Sherman Neal William Carl Pack C orbett, Oregon O Com ing to One 's Own E n nd Kathryn Means Stephanie Marie Morgan Willa Joy Perry The Receding Figure: Sublime Moments in Three Landscapes by Caspar David F edrich ri MaryEllen Markuske Sarah Michelle Meggison Doylestown, Pennsylvania Th e Same and Not the Same: The Indeterminate Soph ist Valenc ia, Cal iforn ia Th e Kingdoms of God and Reason Sidharth Subodh Shah Mumbai, India The C riteri a of Satisfaction for Theories in Quantum Physics Gabriel Lucius Shim* Anaheim, Ca lifornia �Jennifer Marie Shumpert Reston, Virginia Ekemezie N nann a Kanu U che Ships That Pass in the Night or, The Duplicity of Narratives in Woolf's Mrs. Galloway Abuja, Nigeria Giving Hand to One People's Grief: Exploring Themes of Identity, History, and Poetry in Derek Walcott's "The Schooner Flight" Michael Thomas Sibley Granite Bay, Californ ia Maximiliano Vazquez El Pa so, Texas What is a Beautiful Conversation? An Interpretation of Socrates' Palinode The Man of Laws Amritpal Singh Absecon, New Jersey Kip A. Waite Chicago, Illinois Shakespeare's Coriolanus: An Inquiry into the Causative Relation ship Between Beauty and Ruination The Questioning of Man: An Inquiry into Inquiry Emily Maxwell Slagel Richmond Hi ll, Georgia Terence Bernard Washington A Journey Through Restlessness: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Columbia, South Carolina On Sight: Tolstoy's Descriptions of Vision as a Le sson on Li ving Caroline Campbell Snizek Westfield, New Jersey Emily Westacott My Mind on My Murder and Murder on My Mind: Death and Dying in Macbeth Wilton, Conn~cticut Peter Walter Squitieri Kant and his Political Children: Rawls. Libertarians, and the Doctrine of Right Carolyn Anushuya Stephen Juliet Whitcomb-Dixon Anna Rose Gabrielle Szumiesz John Peter Whitman Alexandra Marie Wick Yosef Trachtenberg Victoria Rose Wick Denver, Colorado The Inner World of War and Peace New Bern, North Carolina Michael Scott Wolfe Annapolis, Maryland Jerusalem, Israel Fallston, Maryland Newa rk, Delaware The Gods Love to Kill the Youth: The Unavoidability of Suicide in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther Elizabeth Hall Wootten Minnetonka, Minnesota To Li ve for the Soul: A Study of the Philosophy and Practical Life of Konstantin Levi n in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina On Laziness Dylan Matthew Tyler Denver, Colorado Kneeling and Decline in King Lear Concord, New Hampshire Chasing Fate or Sailing the Seas with Satan Avery Michel Tose Whatever is Good .. .? The Quandary and the Controversy Escanaba, Michigan Homeward Bound ... I wish I was Odysse us and His Journey Home Warsaw, Poland Plonger au Fond: Finding Freedom in the New Beauty of the Modern World Branham O'Neil Talton Cincinnati, Ohio The Nature of Ambition and the Politics of Change: An Essay on Julius Caesar and Shakespeare's Pol iticaI Narrative Parkland, Florida The Mathematics that Underlies Natural Phenomena: On the Use of Analogy in Maxwell's Expos ition of the Electromagnetic Field Melanie Ann Ward Swiecicki Quo Vadis? Christianity Alfred, New York Searchers, Tempters, Experimenters: A Study of Transformation in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra Charles Ulrich Zug Consciously Continuing: Idealism and Sensualism in The Sun Also Rises The Socratic Critique of Law in Plato's Crito 'f: Upon completion of requirements. Wal la Walla, Washington �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS James Vincent Connors Mark David Crouser Elisabeth Faye Deaton Michael Scott Goldstein Columbia, Maryland Lancaster, Pennsylvania Hampton, Virginia PRIZES AND AWARDS ·To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966 Creation Out of Time: Zarathustra 's Teaching of Self-Creation Nicolas Goehring Day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Honorable Mention (shared): Andrew Scott Gudgel Elizabeth Marie Janthey Benjamin Joseph Kapp Alexander Ryan Knepper Donald Robert Lafleur Eleanore Forbes Lambert Thomas Joseph Magnette, Jr. Qingwei Meng Odenton, Maryland On Laziness Olney, Maryland Yosef Trachtenberg West Chester, Pennsylvania and Williamsport, Maryland The Mathenwtics that Underlies Natural Phenomena: On the Use of Analogy in Maxwell's Exposition of the Electromagnetic Field Nashville, Tennessee Carolyn Anushuya Stephen Washington, DC Cranston, Rhode Island Lishi, Shanxi , China To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylroie Stevens Reconciliation: In Search of Freedom, in George Eliot's Middlemarch Michael E. Mlodzienski John Richard Moore Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Erik Gustaf Neave Clarksville, Maryland Honorable Mention Richard Casey Morris Nathan Manning Mulch Christopher Stephen Tracy Fort Wor1h, Texas Moscow, Idaho Evil Lies in the Eye of the Beholder: Misperceptions of the Postlapsarian Reader in Milton's Paradise Lost Holly Ann Huey Sacramento, California Alexander Troy Greenwich, Connecticut Benjamin James VanderWerp Grand Rapids, Michigan To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 He Fed to Her that Burning Heart: A Critical Examination of Dante's Ardent Love Ti Hsu Honorable Mention What a Girl Wants: Desire and Imagination in the Canterbury Tales Collin James Ziegler �To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay Achilleus's S hield: A Path Not Taken To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry "Sweet Flash of Dream s" Rebecca Ann O'Brien Erik Gustaf Neave Honorable Mention I S till Don 't Kno w What It Means to Know Shane Michael Hettler To the student who submits a fine original musical composition . Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 "Inexpression " Leslie Mae Howard To th e Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2014. Offered by the Alumni Association Honorable Mention Man as Freedom in War and Peace "Mountain Child" James Vincent Connors Bonnie Nichols Scott To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking . To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tyd ings of Maryland Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 Shared Prize: Robert Edmund George Ale xandra Marie Wick Victoria Rose Wi ck E ntombing Christ - Wi th Passion William Murray Gardner Brown To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem. Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus To the student who submits th e best English version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, Pres ident Emeritus Sihui Ma Text: Plutarch, Lives, "Life of Pericles" Not awarded To the stud ent who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965 Honorable Mention Siqi Zh ao Amritpal Singh To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. To the student who subm its the best English version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of V1sitors and Governors Forces and energy loss in Rutherford's a-particle scattering exp eriments Yosef Trachtenb erg Text: Serge Gainsbourg, "L 'Anamour" Marina Aud-Je an Weber Honorable Mention Magnetic Gun Sidharth Su bodh Sh ah �To the senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer. ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Samuel Oberon Collins Leslie MiIton Abrams, 1954 Eunji Kim Clarence L. Dickinson. 1911 To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community. Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College Dr. Granville 0. Adams, 1929 Richard A. Duhan, 1963 Mildred Alexander Martin Dyer Book Fund Philip L. Alger. 1912 Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Faculty Scholarship To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 Ronald and Donna Fielding Annapolis Graduate Institute James H. Frame, 1950 Aretei Fund Charles Ulrich Zug Alumni Scholarship Friends of St. John's Bradley C. Arms Nancy Gannon Gearing George M. Austin. 1908 Harry Golding, Graduate Institute WalterS . Baird, 1930 George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf Untitled, colored pencil and inh drawing Katherine Biddle Lafferty To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, the WalterS. Baird Prize. Untitled, blach and white photographs Shayna Morell Jenkins John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 John T. Harrison, Jr. Ford K. Brown, H70 Charles W Hass, 1927 Caritas Society of St. John's College Casasco Family Fund Henry B. Higman, A48 Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 Michael Chiantella The Hodson Trust Chicago Regional To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 Fred and Marian Billups Jeff Bishop Memorial Emily Westacott Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp Houston Regional James T. Clark, 1928 John Isaacs Class of 1897 J. Seward Johnson, Jr. Class of 1898 Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Class of 2014 Richard F. Cleveland, H54 Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Bernard Clorety, 1950 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 Dr. Charles C. Cook Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan. H84 Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 Francis A. Katz, 1929 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation William R. Kenan, Jr. Trust Eugene N. (1929) and Robe11 G. (1963) Cozzolino John Spangler Kieffer, H70, and Roxana White Kieffer, H84 Marie Klebe Memorial Wiley and Helen Crawford Jacob Klein. H76 Cpl. George E. Cunniff Ill Korshin Family Fund Helen Lee DeAioia Tom and Cathryn Krause Donna Marie Delattre Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 Joseph LaPides �Michael Littleton Rosse Family John D. Mack St. John's College Alumni Assoc iati on Massachusetts Regional J. J. Salovaara James Matthews, H99 Lawrence Saporta, PhD Thoma s A. and Julia McDonald Flora Duvall Sayles Middendorf Foundation Scholarship Fund 2013 Martin Conrad Miller (1 981) Book Fund Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shann ahan, 1908 P Miller aul Doug E. Sherr (1 972) Memori al Philip A. Myers II, 1938 Rudy Simeone NationsBank Foundation (Bank of America) Thomas J., H94, and Marion K. Slakey Chri stopher B. Nelson Scholarship Endowment Andrew Smith Memorial Rev. Theo O'Brien ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS Advance (The Document Specialists) Robley T. Levy Alt Breeding Schwarz Architects, LLC Don lin &Harriett Long Annapol is Painting Services Matz-Warner Fam ily Foundation Margaret S. Atterbury Co li n B. Murray BMW of Annapolis Christopher B. Ne lson and Joyce A. Olin Ca ritas Society of St. John's College Cheryl P nter ai Chesapeake Medical Imaging PNC Financia l Services Group J. Winfree Smith, H80 Ensign C. Markland Ke lly, Jr. Memorial Foundation Reliable C hurchi ll O'Grady Memorial Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund Friends of St. John's Co ll ege Okl ahoma Regional James S. Spirer, 1970 Joh n A. Simmons Hansen Arch itects LLC Molly Owens R aymond and Richard Starke F. Michae l Smith ynne Ha rding L Norman G. Owens C.V. Starr Foundation Marylou H. Symonds Linda Hortick Jules 0. Pagano Memorial Scholarship Fund Jean Roberts Staylor Lau rie Wooden Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parra11, Jr. P assin F amily Fund Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book Fund ICFM (Independent College F of und Maryland) The Duane and Cl ementine Peterson Charitable Fund LD and P aula Pickens Pittsburgh Regional Reader's Digest Foundation J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937 Greg Riley (class of 1993) Lenore B. Rinder Cleo Ritz Susan I. Roberts, 1966 Clifton C Roehle Joan and Bela Ronay Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938 G. D. Searle/ John E Robson . Robson Famil y E dward and Cynth ia Shumaker David H. Stephenson Clarence W. Stryker Bert Thoms Karl and E velyn Van Tassel Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous P attie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966 Irving and Loretta Wasserm an Charles H. Watts Richard D. Weigle, H49 John L. Willi ams, 1950 Thomas J. and Marvil F. William s Frank K. Wilson, 1935 Winiarski Endowment Fund Delores and Stephen Wolf Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Gifts received after April 15, 201 5 are gratefully acknowledged and will be listed in t h e 20 16 Commencemen t Program. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commencement Programs and Addresses Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Description An account of the resource Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 10 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commencement Program, 2015 Description An account of the resource Program for the two hundred twenty-third commencement in the three hundred nineteenth year of the college. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CommencementExercises2015 Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD) Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/8b44a0ebb6fad2c31ec4bd6c0a7434d7.pdf a5944e895034967fa191333dd1bc15ff PDF Text Text GI Commencement Address Summer, 2014 Ms Kraus, Mr. Black, graduates, colleagues, and friends: Contrary to what you might be expecting, St. John’s is not today conferring a degree on you. Rather you are conferring it on yourselves. You have been both students and teachers during your time here, all of you together, in a common activity that has produced effects both public and private. Who better than you can attest to the transformations your minds and souls have undergone? Who better than you knows how you have learned that it is both more profound and more elevating to ask a single question than to listen to a hundred answers? For a thinker, which each of you is, an answer is a wall, while a question is a door. At St. John’s we, all of us thinkers, open doors. That’s all we do, really. I have been thinking a lot about memory and memories and remembering over this past year. As the summer session began, I realized that I was starting my fortieth year as a tutor, a long time to be reading and talking about the same books. My memories of St. John’s are longer than yours, but not on that account more revealing or insightful. I was a terrible tutor at first. I wanted desperately to make my students thinkers, help them see the pathos in the opening lines of the Iliad or the elegance of a Euclidean demonstration. Then I realized that most of my students were already well on their way to becoming thinkers and that maybe it was I who needed to try harder to become one. They were already dissatisfied with mere answers and eager to question. That’s why they came to St. John’s. That’s why they stayed. The false starts in seminar, the conversational dead-ends, the misreading of the books, the self-centered perspectives that adolescents and even �many adults are apt to have: these could all help constitute an education if only the question remained alive. I sensed that what I needed most to do was to stay out of the way, and not erect the walls that would deaden thought. I learned to ask my questions along with theirs. Socrates helped me to see that this really was the only way to pursue a philosophical life, if a philosophical life is what one values. I caught on mostly by recognizing the effect the College was having on me, on my soul. This is why, almost forty years later, I am still here at this place, this special place. I suspect you all share my feelings to some degree. You have acquired many memories while you’ve been at the Graduate Institute, memories of the books you’ve read, the discussions you’ve shared, the people you have depended on, and who have depended on you, for help in becoming thinkers. How do these memories stay alive after you leave this place, this special place? What are memories, anyway, and why do we think them worth holding on to? As Augustine says about time, if you don’t ask me, I know, but as soon as I’m asked, I cannot say. But we must try to articulate what they are, because you will be taking them with you as you leave the College today. Perhaps they are true thoughts or images of my past experiences. But what is the past? Once again, Augustine tells us that whatever the past is, it no longer exists. It’s not trapped in a cave somewhere, waiting to be released. We live only on this razor’s edge of the present, the moment that has no duration, no width, just the now, the abyss of the past on one side and that of the future on the other. Has the past left traces or marks in me that I can call up like I might open an album and view pictures? This is not an uncommon view of memory and how the past remains within me. And something about it feels right. But even so, the calling up or viewing is something I am doing now, something in the present, something on that ultra-thin line on which I forever try to maintain my balance. How could any memory display its pastness �and reassure me that time stretches back behind me? In Borges’s tantalizing short story, “Funes the Memorious,” after an accident a young man gains what the narrator takes to be infallible powers of perception and memory. Funes , we are told, “remembered the shapes of the clouds in the south at dawn on the 30th of April of 1882, and he could compare them in his recollection with the marbled grain in the design of a leather-bound book which he had seen only once, and with the lines in the spray which an oar raised in the Rio Negro on the eve of the battle of Quebracho.” Funes’s memory, if it can even be called that, is incomprehensible, and can barely be described by the narrator. Or are these thoughts and images merely imaginings, inventions of a disturbed and lonely mind? Is Borges challenging our own cavalier attititudes memory as a storehouse of the past? Memories don’t carry with them marks or signs that they are true memories and not imaginings of the present. I have no feeling that guarantees for me that this is a memory, this is from my past, this really happened. If I had such a feeling, wouldn’t I have to remember that this feeling is the “memory feeling”? And wouldn’t that demand a further feeling, a “meta-memory feeling,” to distinguish it from my imaginings? No, memories are not what they are because they announce that they come from the past. To decide if what I am now thinking about or experiencing is in fact a memory, I don’t turn inward to examine it more closely. I look outside myself. I dig up evidence, I talk to others, I ask questions. This most intimate of mental experiences, most private we’d like to say, is in fact radically public. (Of course many of my memories just seem so true that I harbor no doubts about them. For example, one fall I offered a laboratory Preceptorial in the Graduate Institute. It included a demonstration of Newton’s Pail, which some of you may have seen in the Math and Natural Science Seminar. Newton’s Pail is a bucket with �some water in it, suspended from the ceiling by a rope. The rope is twisted tight, the bucket given a good spin, and as everyone gathers around they can watch the water rise up the side. That year, however, I—either inattentively or intentionally, I don’t remember which—put too much water into the bucket. My innocent class watched closely as the water not only rose up, but over and out, escaping the bucker and spraying them all. A memorable demonstration, I think, whether it actually happened that way or not.) When alumni tell me what they remember about their time at St. John’s, of course they have a lot to say. What sticks out most in their minds, however, whether they be Graduate Institute or undergraduate alums, are not the books or the discussions. What they remember best, and delight most in remembering, are the questions: opening seminar questions, those questions that never cease to arise during a class discussion, the questions they asked themselves as they were writing essays or preparing for orals. They’ve long forgotten what anyone said in answer to them, but the questions remain. Questions move us in the present, as much as or more than they did in the past. “Why did God reject Cain’s offering?” asked of Genesis. “Why are these men fighting?” asked of the Iliad. “Why is Hell shaped like a cone?” asked of Dante’s Inferno. “Can one be both a philosopher and a Christian?” asked of Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments. Rather than fade as time passes, they seem as alive and urgent now as then. They demand our attention anew whenever we bring them to mind. And they move us into the future. Maybe this is what we mean by calling them timeless. A gift, isn’t it, that we remember so well what has never been trapped by the illusion of time? And so, dear graduates, as you confer on yourselves the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, as you think back over the time you have spent here at St. John’s, �realize that the way to keep alive the memories of these days is never to grow weary of questioning. Never stop at that comfortable wall which is the answer, but remain vigilant and seek the door of the question. Show it to others, especially to those you care about, because friends ought to have all things in common. In that way you will be remembering what happened here by living it, which is the only kind of remembering worth doing. Good luck, wherever tomorrow finds you. Thank you. John Verdi Annapolis, MD August 8, 2014 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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ANDREW KRIVAK, A86 CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON DEAN KRAUS CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON JEFF J.S. BLACK DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE ACADEMIC RECESSION CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET �BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE (with title of essay) ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER ACKERMAN Hume's Empirical Mathematics JUNEAU, ALASKA JOSEPH JAMES ALICEA A Poet as Hero in "The Waste Land" LA GRANGE, ILLINOIS DEZIREE GEORGEANNA ARNAIZ WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA The Story of a Story: Exploring Imitation in Don Quijote DANIEL THEODORE BADGIO MERION STATION, PENNSYLVANIA Structures of Mathematical Thought: An Essay on Kant's Philosophy of the Mathematical Mind MAIA SCOTT BANKS Thou Mayest Try to Be Perfect: A Study of Perfection CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO ERIKA MARGARET BERG Good Manners and Good Judgments in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice CENTREVILLE, VIRGINIA CALEB BRUCE BERNARD The Charm of Impossibilities KATY, TEXAS BlGYAN BlLASH BHANDARI JHAPA, NEPAL Macbeth's Tragedy: How Macbeth's Choice to Trust His Imagination Over His Reason Leads to His Downfall COLE ALEXANDER BLAUGHER CABOT, PENNSYLVANIA Empty Spaces: Holistic Readings of Fragmentary Thoughts NUTCHAPOL BOONPARLIT BANGKOK, THAILAND Pride and Prejudice: A Judge of Character ALEXANDRA LEIGH BORAKS The Straw Worker: Marx's Rhetoric of Working Class Unification WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA �JULIANA BOZHICH In Quest of an Ideal Language Moscow, RUSSIA THOMAS WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND Together They Go Astray: The Family of Anna Karenina and Alexei Vronsky in Tolstoy s Anna Karenina MAXIMILIAN ARION BROSSY Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA The Security of Liberty: An Examination of the American Identity in the American Founding Documents ADAM WILSON BROWN Here I Am WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT YITIAN CAI Restoring the Humility of Reason: A Rethinking of Spinoza ZHUHAI, CHINA PHILIP JOHN CALINDA CHESTER, NEW JERSEY Finding Home: Man's Journey in Beethoven s Ninth Symphony CONNOR WILLIAM CALLAHAN GENESEO, NEW YORK A Figure of an Indefinite., Indeterminate Sort: Alyosha, the Karamazovian Force, and the Resolution of the Dual Abyss CURTIS HENRY CAMPBELL An Argument for the Defense of Liberty CLARKSVILLE, MARYLAND LAURA ALEXANDRA CLEVELAND Both Whole and Distinct: An Inquiry with Plato's Republic MOLLY ROSE COHEN On Piety, Poetry, and the Meaning of Suffering PORTLAND, OREGON SOUTHAMPTON, PENNSYLVANIA BRENDAN MICHAEL CONNOLLY BARRINGTON, RHODE ISLAND Home at Last: Deception and Revelation in the Odyssey BLAIR ELIZABETH COPPAGE Nature's "One Long Argument": On the Role of Man's Ignorance in Charles Darwin's Origin ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND �SUSANNAH GRACE COWAN The Bloom of Well-Being: The Beginnings of a Good and Happy Life SAVANNAH, GEORGIA DOUGLAS TANNER DOXSEY The Worlds We Have Built: An Exploration into Man as Deinos ERIC STEVEN EVANS Achilles and the Devastation of Learning CINCINNATI, OHIO WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA i * JAMES PACKING BANGOR, PENNSYLVANIA ERIN THERESE FITZPATRICK That Both Are Valid and Inseparable: A Searchfor a Psychophysically Reconciled Theory of Life and the Role of Distance Within It LIVONIA, MICHIGAN NOAM EARL FRESHMAN ST. Louis PARK, MINNESOTA S/he Had it Coming: A Murder but Not a Crime? Seeing Justice Done in Aeschylus's Oresteia GRAHAM PATRICK GALLAGHER ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA The Masses Rising: An Exploration of the Desire for Republican Government MADELINE ELIZABETH GARNER Singer of Stories and Teller of Songs EASTON, MARYLAND AMANDA CHARLOTTE GLASGO LOUDONVILLE, OHIO The Necessity and Use for Rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a Means to Promote Common Goals of Freedom, Security, Prosperity, Justice, and Peace ETHAN SCOTT GODDARD MOULTONBORO, NEW HAMPSHIRE Revenge and the Permanence of Tragedy in The Virgin Spring NATHANIEL LEONARD GOLDMAN The Poetics of Dwelling: Martin Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" and John Ashbery 's "The Skaters " FAIRWAY, KANSAS �JOHNATHAN WOODROW GoOCH WlMBERLEY, TEXAS The Social Swerve: On Morality in a Material World ANYI Guo On Greatness in Plutarch's Lives: Alexander the Great andPompey SHANGHAI, CHINA NICHOLAS LAKE HARNER A Model Error: A Scientific Problem Seen in Ptolemy's Almagest OAKWOOD, OHIO BRENNAN REED HARRIS DENVER, COLORADO Sleeping Disciples, Sleeping Sins, and the Final Rest in Death: A Textual and Musical Thread in Bach's St. Matthew Passion CHRISTOPHER EVAN HOBART SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA The Story of Job: The Book of Job, Analyzed as a Human Tool MICHAEL JOSEPH KALKAVAGE Through the Looking Glass: Plutarch's Exploration of Alexander, the Man Behind the History ALEXANDER KIELMANSKI Love—A Hero and a Villain: An Exploration of Love in Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet JESSICA MAJA KJELLBERG Love, Power, and Self-Knowledge: Edmund in King Lear ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND PARLIN, NEW JERSEY NEW YORK, NEW YORK CHARLIE ANN KLINE MISSION HILLS, KANSAS Gee, I Wish I Were a Man - I'd Join the Angels: The Tragedy of Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost HALIL UGUR KUPELI Embodiment: Reconciliation of Artistic Drives Within Mystery and Searchfor Mother in Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund TOVA RUTH LECUYER A Matter of Fiction: Judgment and Vilification in The Brothers Karamazov ISTANBUL, TURKEY SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO �LAWRENCE EDWARD LEIBOWITZ REISTERSTOWN, MARYLAND Why Does Ahab Perish Whilst Ishmael Survives? An Exploration of Ishmael and Ahab's Struggle with Chance, Free Will, and Necessity DAVID COLIN LEW COLUMBIA, MARYLAND The Political Advantages of Christianity in a Commonwealth CHANG Liu What is Nature? Examining Animal Life: The Process of Assimilation and the "Genus-Process " in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature GUANGDONG, CHINA MICAELA KAYE MACDOUGALL ABINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA "lam not madefor perilous quests ": What Makes a Lowly Hobbit Greater Than the King? NICOLETTE MAUDE MAIMONE So, Wives FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA SARAH JUDITH MARX CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND The Gardener's Bible: Land Use, Moral Choice, and the Cultivation of a People MARGARET LOUISE MATTHEWS On Truth and the Whole in Hegel's Science of Logic MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY TIMOTHY SOLOMON MCCLENNEN Making Mythology from History: The Truths that Tacitus Can Only Convey by Lying MIAMI, FLORIDA CHRISTOPHER SCOTT MCPHERSON TOWSON, MARYLAND Is Revolution Justifiable? Abraham Lincoln and the Right to Revolution CHRISTOPHER KARL MELLON, JR. Intuition and Intellection: A Theory of Parallels CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND BENJAMIN A. MISHKIN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON For I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds: In Search of an Ethics Commensurate with Our Power �CATHERINE MARY MOON WOLCOTT, CONNECTICUT Finally a Drop to Drink: How Jesus 9s Blood Fulfills the Law and Frees Man from Sin KEVIN WILLIAM MORRIS CROFTON, MARYLAND Can Purity of Heart Be Taught? Kierkegaard's View ofMeno's Old Question DANIELLE PAIGE NELSON STAFFORD, VIRGINIA "A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene! " The Many Roles of Prince Hal and His Journey to the Throne in Henry IV Part One WOLFE CASSEL NELSON Homeric Happiness: Four Portraits ofAchilleus, Three Views of the Iliad SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA MAXWELL DUNNING NORTH SARASOTA, FLORIDA The Friction Between Two Worlds: A Look at the Conflict Between the Mind and the Spirit in The Brothers Karamazov SOREN ABRAHAM OLEGNOWICZ CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA The Moments of Man: A Brief Psychology of Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life EVGENIA ARKADYEVNA OLIMPIEVA We Are What We Make AIMEE MIGNON PAPPAS By Force or by Freedom: Ivan's Transformation in The Brothers Karamazov ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA SEATTLE, WASHINGTON FRANK JEANPAUL PECORARO ELLICOTT CITY, MARYLAND No More Than a Dream: The Relationship of Art and Death CAMERON PELTZ MALVERN, PENNSYLVANIA Mixed Feelings: What the Enjoyment of Farce and Laughter at Suffering Say About Ethical Judgment �HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS Jesus and Jurisprudence: Love as the Fulfillment of the Law of Moses EL PASO, TEXAS ELIZABETH MARY PETERSON WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT The War of Every Man Against Himself: On the Nature and Character ofKleinias in Book One of the Laws CASSIE ELEANOR PETTIT CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE The Center Cannot Hold: An Exploration on the Disharmony Within Us CYNTHIA MICHELE PIERCE To Be God to You and Your Offspring After You FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA ALEXANDRIA MICHELLE PLUNKETT Harmonizing Souls: An Examination of The Souls of Black Folk HOUSTON, TEXAS MICHELLE NICOLE PORCELLI On the Motions of the Soul in Plato 9s Phaedo CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JOANNA JANE PURPICH Ivan 7s Torment: His Struggle for the Reconciliation of Suffering and Faith in The Brothers Karamazov HOUSTON, TEXAS ALEK PUSHKA SALISBURY, MARYLAND Living and Living Well in Nietzsche 9s On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life CANEEL RADINSON-BLASUCCI Skin, Saints, Soldiers, Simpletons, and Second Wives: An Examination of Pierre's Journey to Happiness and Self-Knowledge in War and Peace CHADWICK ALLEN RAINES A Treatise on Rights and Constitutions WILMINGTON, DELAWARE DENVER, NORTH CAROLINA ALEXANDRA MAUDE RAUDONIS-BLICKER DERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE Agape in the Form of Art: An Analysis of Andrei Tarkovsky 's Andrei Rublev �VINCENT LEANDRO REESE On the Lord and Bondsman in the Phenomenology of the Spirit COLUMBUS, OHIO JOHN HENRY FAHEY REILLY BALTIMORE, MARYLAND The Scientific World/view: The Epistemological Basis of the Scientific Method MARGARET ALAPHAIR REITZ "Grant me Lord to know and understand": An Exploration of Augustine's Confessions WOOSTER, OHIO REBECCA ALEXANDRA RIPPERTON CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA A Place i' the Story: On the part ofEnobarbus in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra SEAN CHRISTIAN SABELLA From Inquiry to Devotion PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS BAXTER STEPHEN SAPP Say I Play The Man I Am GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA ANDREW MICHAEL SCHULMAN AVON, CONNECTICUT The Internal Act of Believing: Aquinas on Intellect and Witt GORDON EDWARD SELTZ Mankind's Labor: From Alienation to Species Being BALTIMORE, MARYLAND REBECCA MAE SEXTON WOODINVILLE, WASHINGTON Such as Occurs Only Between Women: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Natasha andMarya in War and Peace JOHN VALENTINE SITZMANN ZIONSVILLE, INDIANA Salvation in the New Testament and Innocence in the Garden of Eden JONATHAN TURNER SOSEBEE ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND Analyzing Characters Through Examined Conversations �CAMERON LEIGH SPIRO The Universal Will: Suffering's Role in the Life of the Individual VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA JORDAN ZACHARY STEARNS The Clement Savage: Rousseau's Proof of Man's Natural Goodness ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND CHARLOTTE EMILY STEINECKE One of the Dark Places of the Earth LAUREL, MARYLAND MORGAN LINDSEY STEPHENSON Taming the Typhon: An Inquiry into the Relation of "Self and "Other" in Hegel's Phenomenology and Sophocles s Antigone LINDSAY ANN SWIFT An Examination of Nietzsche's Views on Morality ANDREW JOHN TRISTER The Path of Faith AUSTIN, TEXAS ALAMOSA, COLORADO RIVERSIDE, CONNECTICUT IAN PATRICK TUTTLE The Burden of Reality: Redeeming Time in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets OJIUGO UCHE Brooding Over an Inscrutable Intention: Natural Symbolism and Narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS ABUJA, NIGERIA HANNAH ELIZABETH UPCHURCH ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA A Choice of Nightmares: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness HUGH HANSARD VERRIER, JR. NEW YORK, NEW YORK Death Hath No More Dominion: Law and Body in Paul's "Letter to the Romans " MARGARET MACKENZIE WAGGAMAN MT. WASHINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS Re-Inventing Gulliver: The Struggle to Maintain Self-Identity �SAMUEL ROBERT WEINBERG Beyond Both the Old World and the New: A Look into Baconian Science ALEXANDRA RUBINOVA WELM It is Just a Matter of Casting I ( MANHASSET, NEW YORK PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY CASEY JAMES WHITNEY WARRICK, NEW YORK Falling Apart, Rising Together: Shame and Self-Sacrifice in Paradise Lost ELLIOT JONATHAN WOOTEN IRVINE, CALIFORNIA The Tyranny of Private Property: an Essay on the Relationship Between the Economic Principles of Adam Smith and Karl Marx ALI ClHANSIN YlLDIZ "I am legion, for we are many": On Ideological Possession and Idolatry in Dostoevsky's Demons *Upon completion of requirements ISTANBUL, TURKEY �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION MARGARET JOSEPHINE BAIR Bowie, Maryland MELISSA ANN BALCH Santa Fe, New Mexico JESSICA ALYSA BANGEL Citrus County, Florida CAMDEN CHASE BOWDREN Annapolis, Maryland ERIC ALLEN BROTHERTON Sweetwater, Tennessee RYAN ANDREW BURNETT Sacramento, California JEAN ELIZABETH CHASE Woodbine, Maryland Lois GARDINER CLARK Washington, DC RICHARD JAMES FINK * ESTER AN FREEMAN BRADY JOSEPH LEE DONALD ROBERT LEOPOLD Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania Miami, Florida Baltimore, Maryland Concord, Massachusetts JUDITH FENN MCGEORGE Ellsworth, Maine JASON ALAN MENZIN Roslyn, New York MOLLY KATHARYN MEYER SARAH LACUGNA MILLER JOHN ROBERT NEYLAN MALLORY BROOKE PALMER AARON MICHAEL PELOT JODY GENE SHEETS GABRIELLE SIOBHAN STANTON JEREMIAH DAVID SWANSON THOMAS JONATHAN THIGPEN Davidsonville, Maryland Seattle, Washington Morgan Hill, California Orlando, Florida Dublin, Ohio Canyon, Texas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Coshocton, Ohio Gainesville, Georgia BRIAN STEWART WILSON Rising Sun, Maryland ANNE ELIZABETH ZOLKOWER Annapolis, Maryland *Upon completion of requirements �PRIZES AND AWARDS COMMENCEMENT 2,014 To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966 The Gardener's Bible: Land Use, Moral Choice, and the Cultivation of a People SARAH JUDITH MARX HONORABLE MENTION Both Whole and Distinct: an Inquiry with Plato 's Republic LAURA ALEXANDRA CLEVELAND To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylroie Stevens Givenness, Multiplicity, and the Authentic Unity of Objects RENWICK ELLIS HUDSON HONORABLE MENTION Seeing is Believing: A Leibnizian Interpretation Qiu LIN To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 A Study in Optimism: On Suicide Finding the Deep, Secret Root ofPolydorus 's Murder and the Forest of Self-Violence MARINA AUD-JEAN WEBER �HONORABLE MENTION "This time does not require those sights ": Duty, Desire, and Images in Virgil's Aeneid EMILY FREDA GRAZIER To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay. "You will know the sky and how necessity fettered it to hold the limits of the stars ": Plato 's Parmenides as Ineffable Microcosm ZACHARY WILLIAM GOLD HONORABLE MENTION The Lasting Value ofThucydides 's Peloponnesian War NATHAN MICHEL HUEY The Democracy in Speech: Is Philosophy Possible? SOPHY CORDELIA SCHULMAN To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2013. Offered by the Alumni Association Coming Home CARLIN FELT and On Suffering and Death in The Odyssey JASON ALAN MENZIN �To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence in speaking. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland BENJAMIN A. MISHKIN To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus MICAELA KAYE MACDOUGALL To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry "Crepe-Myrtle (End of Summer Flowers) " SARAH MARX To the student who submits a fine original musical composition. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 "If it is Eternal " ERIK GUSTAF NEAVE �To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Garitas Society 1987-1991 Finding Home: Man 's Journey in Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony PHILIP JOHN CALINDA To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem. Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus Smut MA To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McGlintock, of the Glass of 1965 NOT AWARDED To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. Voltage, Current, and Resistance SlDHARTH SUBODH SHAH To the senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer. HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS CHARLIE ANN KLINE �To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community. Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College HUGH HANSARD VERRIER )K To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 CHARLIE ANN KLINE To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize Caesar, digital painting ALEK PUSHKA To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird Prize. "Duet for Violin and Cello " PHILIP JOHN CALINDA �ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS St. John's College, Annapolis Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954 Richard F. Cleveland, H54 Harry Golding, Graduate Institute Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929 Bernard Clorety, 1950 George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf Mildred Alexander Philip L. Alger, 1912 Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Alumni Scholarship Annapolis Graduate Institute Aretei Fund Bradley G. Arms George M. Austin, 1908 Walter S. Baird, 1930 Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 Fred and Marian Billups Jeff Bishop Memorial FordK. Brown, H70 Dr. Charles C. Cook Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Eugene N. (1929)and Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino Wiley and Helen Crawford Cpl. George E. Cunnifflll Helen Lee DeAloia Donna Marie Delattre Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911 Richard A. Duhan, 1963 Caritas Society of St. John's College Martin Dyer Book Fund Casasco Family Fund Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund Michael Chiantella Chicago Regional Faculty Scholarship Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp Ronald and Donna Fielding James T. Clark, 1928 James H. Frame, 1950 Class of 1897 Friends of St. John's Class of 1898 Nancy Gannon Gearing Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 John T. Harrison, Jr. Charles W. Hass, 1927 Henry B. Higman, A48 Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 The Hodson Trust Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Houston Regional John Isaacs J. Seward Johnson, Jr. Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H84 Francis A. Katz, 1929 William R. Kenan, Jr. Trust �John Sp angler Kieffer, H70, and Roxana White Kieffer, H84 Marie Klebe Memorial Jacob Klein, H76 Korshin Family Fund Tom and Cathryn Krause Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 Joseph LaPides Michael Littleton John D. Mack Massachusetts Regional James Matthews, H99 Thomas A. and Julia McDonald Middendorf Foundation Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund Paul Miller Philip A. Myers II, 1938 NationsBank Foundation (Bank of America) Christopher B. Nelson Scholarship Endowment Rev. Theo O'Brien O'Grady Memorial Oklahoma Regional Norman G. Owens Jules O. Pagano Memorial Scholarship Fund Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr. Passin Family Fund J. 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Wilson, 1935 Winiarski Endowment Fund Doug E. Sherr( 1972) Memorial Delores and Stephen Wolf Rudy Simeone Kathy and Jerry Wood .r oundation Thomas J.,H94, and Marion K. Slakey Andrew Smith Memorial �ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS St. John's College, Annapolis BB&T Charitable Foundation Davey Commercial Grounds Maryland Capital Management Decisive Data Systems McGladrey & Pullen Booz Allen Hamilton Ronald Fielding Christopher B. Nelson Baines & Group ICFM PhotoLab Services Bunting Family Foundation Invotex Group Estate of Vernon Smith Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Family Foundation State Farm Insurance Companies Alba Audiovisual Caritas Society Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Clark-Winchcole Fund Clifton Larson Allen Council of Independent Colleges Estate of Clifford Jackson Ensign C. Markland Kelley Jr. Memorial Foundation Kelly & Associates Kiplinger Foundation Estate of Gene Thornton UPS Peter Weiss Wells Fargo Winiarski Family Foundation Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers Trust Gifts received after April 15, 2014 are gratefully acknowledged and will be listed in the 2015 Commencement Program. �CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI. Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back. www. stj ohnscollege. edu/alumni 410-626-2531 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014-05-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CommencementExercises2014 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Description An account of the resource Program for the two hundred twenty-second commencement in the three hundred eighteenth year of the college. Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD) Title A name given to the resource Commencement Program, 2014 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/7f03becacff43fd9d4faf89b444dbf7f.pdf 54ccb2958682c7cb92090b1f66012e46 PDF Text Text What Are You Going To Do With It? Commencement Address, August 2, 2013 Creig Hoyt, SFGI10 Dean Sterling, Director Carl, esteemed faculty, staff, fellow graduates of the Institute and friends. I am deeply honored to give this commencement address. As a recent graduate of the Eastern Classics program I remain in awe of the uncompromising commitment of St John’s College to engage in a long-term community discourse in order to glean meaning and clarity from the writings of the world’s great thinkers. I also am mindful that some of the tutors who sit here today on the podium have given this address at previous graduation ceremonies. That I do not possess their depth of knowledge of the great writings you have studied is obvious. Therefore, it would be inappropriate for me to base my presentation on an analysis of one or some of the thinkers you have read here. Moreover, you can hardly expect to receive wise career counseling from one who stumbled from a flirtation with music to philosophy in undergraduate school, who became enamored by neuroscience in medical school primarily because of the beauty of the brain’s organizational structure, but who fled from a career as a neurologist because it involved caring for patients I could not cure and finally stumbled into a rewarding career as an ophthalmologist specializing in infant visual problems: rewarding not because the problems primarily involved the visual brain but because I discovered I loved caring for children despite an intense dislike of pediatrics in medical school. I hope that by offering you some personal reflections on the ongoing impact that �my St John’s education has had on my life and work I will provide you some useful reflections. Today we salute these new graduates of the Graduate Institute. We know the rigor involved in the academic programs they have completed. We recognize and admire their fortitude and considerable academic accomplishments. Today is a day of celebration not only for them but for all of us who deeply care about the uncompromising scholarly traditions and demands of this extraordinary college. So let me speak for all us when I say to the new graduates, “Yours is a noteworthy accomplishment at a unique institute of higher learning. You have much to be proud of. Bravo”. Ok, now let’s get serious. “What are you going to do with it?” Those were the exact words of my ninety-four year old mother four years ago when I informed her that I hoped to be a student in the Graduate Institute. These were not the words of encouragement a son craves. Adding insult to injury, this was the first time in my educational wanderings that I was not seeking any parental financial assistance. So what did she have to lose in offering her moral support? You would have thought a woman who lived with a single abiding passion during her 70’s and 80’sto win as many tango competitions as possible- would have embraced the novelty of her aging son’s desire to become a fulltime student in an area about which he knew absolutely nothing. What was I going to do with it? I was not even certain I could qualify for the program let alone complete it. I no longer recall what attempts at justification I mumbled to her, but the notion that my adventure was to be judged by what I might “do with it” irritated me. It reminded me of European colleagues who find it insulting that the first question Americans ask on meeting them is “what do you do?” In the remainder of my talk I will reflect on the �primacy of the notion that one’s education is to be judged by what one can “do” with it. Regrettably, the sentiments expressed by my mother have been heard by all of you in many different guises, all of them cloaked and protected by the seemingly impervious provenance of real life experience and practical counsel: “What kind of job can you get with that degree?”, “Wouldn’t computer science be more sensible?”, “Can you justify the cost for something so impractical?” “No one studies humanities anymore!” No one doubts that it is prudent and wise to carefully consider and reconsider each step in one’s educational journey. Accumulating unreasonable amounts of school-related debt can restrict future life choices. Some professional degrees no longer guarantee an interesting and well-compensated career: this has become a serious concern for many of our law schools. Other career choices apparently require a carefully structured path consisting primarily of educational prerequisites that permits little time for exploring what might be simply interesting or enlightening. Note that I said, “apparently require”. In the case of medical schools there are some educational prerequisites that absolutely must be completed, but I can assure you that we who are involved in medical education are always looking for applicants who are not only capable of completing the scientific studies in our medical curriculum, but who also bring to medicine unique educational and work experiences. Even though I intensely dislike her question can I now provide my mother a satisfactory answer? Can I explain in what ways my St John’s experience has changed not only how I think but what I do? Undoubtedly, a startling result of my graduate study at St John’s is that instead of remaining permanently retired I have resumed my position on the faculty of UCSF Medical School albeit on a part-time basis and without any administrative duties. �Why? In no small part because St John’s re-energized my intellectual curiosity after a long period of time when my career had become dominated by all-consuming administrative duties that left no time for the pursuit of my research and creative activities. I realized I wanted to spend a few more years in the University concentrating on teaching and completing several unfinished research and writing projects. It also became clear to me that I missed caring for children and their parents. I agree with the Dalai Lama who in his commencement address at Tulane University this year said, “A pathway toward a meaningful life lies in caring for other people”. I have returned to what I know how to do- caring for vision problems in children. Perhaps surprising to some of you, my St John’s experience stimulated new research interests that I believe I can study with the assistance of my UCSF colleagues. Those many seminars on Buddhism radically disturbed my previously unchallenged notions concerning certain aspects of what we mean by “perception” and “cognition”. In particular, I think the techniques of neuroscience may provide an interesting framework with which to explore the limitations and unreliability of sensory perceptions. I am currently studying unusual visual percepts that occur in many adult patients who experience visual loss. I appreciate that no Johnnie wants to hear an oversimplified bottom line statement without first hearing all the details that lead to that conclusion, but our time today is short. Therefore, let me simply summarize some preliminary impressions and conclusions. It seems that the inherently high run rate of the brain does not allow it to turn off or suppress higher centers when peripheral sensory input is denied it. In the case of some visually impaired patients the brain will create a recognizable formed visual image even when the patient cannot process visual input in the eyes due to pathological changes such as macular degeneration. This can be profoundly �unnerving for the patient who is already coping with a serious visual impairment. From the point of view of the student of Buddhist thought the only reassuring aspect of this phenomenon is that the patients are fully aware that the created image is false although they are often afraid to talk about it for fear that the listener will conclude they are demented or mentally ill. Yet, more important than this example of a specific research question that was initiated and nurtured by my St John’s experience I would like to consider the learning skills that I and all students acquire on this campus. Numerous newspaper articles and news broadcasts have recently addressed the question of whether American colleges and universities are adequately preparing students for future employment in a rapidly changing marketplace. In a recently published special report of The Chronicle of Higher Education and American Public Media’s Marketplace half of the employers in the study reported that they had trouble finding qualified recent graduates. Most of you will not be surprised by this jeremiad; you have undoubtedly heard or read similar complaints. What is noteworthy about this study is that responding employers were not speaking of deficiencies in specific educational training or technical skills. Their complaints were more fundamental: they insisted that the primary obstacles were that the graduates were deficient in essential core skills. I quote from the New York Times, dated June 29, 2013: “When it comes to the skills most needed by employers, job candidates are lacking most in written and oral communication skills, adaptability and managing multiple priorities, and making decisions and problem solving.” In this same article a vice-president of a human resource organization was even more explicit when he said, “young employees are very good at finding information, but not as good at putting that information into context.” �If we believe these criticisms accurately describe the major obstacles facing recent college graduates seeking employment, how are St John’s graduates likely to fare in their attempts? Perhaps, the most straightforward way to assess this is to ask, “What does St John’s do best?” My evaluation will be from a student’s point view and I am aware that some of you may feel I am oversimplifying the issues. Nevertheless, I think St John’s prepares students to do exactly what these critics claim today’s young employees cannot do well. In my experience, the keystones of the St John’s educational process are learning how to: 1. read carefully and critically some of the most challenging literature, and 2. express and defend one’s ideas clearly in a seminar, but also 3. evaluate and integrate the conversations of other students and tutors into one’s understanding of the problems under discussion. I thought I was a reasonably skilled reader until I enrolled here. I was adept in my professional reading and could quickly find and prioritize the central issues in a reading a scientific paper. I successfully edited an international ophthalmology journal that required me to read and review a few thousand manuscripts a year. I even imagined myself to be reasonably “well read” outside my medical field of expertise. Naively, I was not particularly perturbed by the breadth and length of the reading list sent to me by the Graduate Institute prior to my enrollment. I was in for a rude awakening. It became apparent in early seminars how many details, subtleties and inferences I routinely missed in my readings. Learning how to be a more nuanced reader was a slow process and that process continues. Yet, it is the uniqueness and central importance of the St John’s seminar that I especially want to highlight and examine. I have �attended many seminars as a student in undergraduate school and medical school and as a faculty member of a medical school. When I came to St John’s I was confident that I understood the dynamics of a successful seminar and how to function effectively in it. I was wrong, at least in regards to what was expected here. I had never been in a situation where my education depended primarily on the quality of thinking and conversation of my classmates. My classmates weren’t my competition but rather they were my teachers. I was amazed by the ability of some of my classmates to penetrate and analyze texts that appeared to me to be nothing less than incomprehensible. In particular, I am recalling certain Vedic texts, Yoga sutras and Nagajura’s notions of truth, but there were plenty of other readings that I found more perplexing than enlightening. I remain indebted to my classmates for so much of what I learned here. I still seek the advice of several of them about their recommendations for further reading. Of course, one quickly learns that different skills are brought by various classmates to the seminars. A small cadre of my classmates seemed to be able to hold forth on any topic and at least sound informed and thoughtful. Others enjoyed slowly mulling over the arguments of other classmates and only adding an occasional insight or critique and then quickly retreating once again to the role of thoughtful observer. However, some of this latter group proved to be essential in keeping conversations moving forward and exploring avenues of thought untested by the rest of us. That at times some classmates substituted a bit of blarney masquerading as insight should surprise no one. Indeed, one of the endearing features of a St John’s seminar is its tolerance of what might be called Brownian thinking and even the occasional complete collapse of group focus resulting in an unintentional homage to Jabberwocky. A St John’s graduate’s ability to negotiate through the verbiage of a two hour seminar �and condense the essential elements of it into a few coherent sentences is a skill that any potential employer should prize. Having returned to the clinical practice of medicine I now realize how invaluable the listening skills that I learned at St John’s are in my work. Yes, they are helpful in the give and take with student physicians and in navigating the still far too frequent committee meetings. More importantly they are critical in the most essential aspect in caring for a patient: obtaining a history of the patient’s illness. It may seem counterintuitive to you, but the medical history obtained from a patient is usually far more important in establishing the correct diagnosis than the physical examination or laboratory testing. I remember a wise senior professor of medicine reassuring me when I was nervous 3rd year medical student that history taking would be the most difficult skill I needed to learn in order to be a good physician. Why is this true? A patient comes to a doctor’s office with a specific complaint: in most fields of medicine it is pain or physical discomfort but in ophthalmology it is usually visual loss. The problem is to identify the cause of the pain or visual loss. The art of history taking is to question a patient in such a way that they provide the clues to lead you to the correct diagnosis. This involves ignoring a lot of the conversation that the patient deems essential but that you judge to be extraneous or even misleading and diverting. On the other hand, it is sometimes vital to focus on a seemingly trivial bit of information that ultimately points you directly to the diagnosis. Shortly after I returned to clinical practice I was asked to see a young teenage girl who had suddenly become blind in one eye as the result of bleeding within the eye. Her referring ophthalmologists were unable to identify a cause for the bleeding. Her blood count and clotting studies were normal. She was not a diabetic. She denied experiencing a blow to the eye. She and her parents were extremely nervous because of the understandable �fear that she might become blind in both eyes. I proposed that we start from the beginning and have her describe how this problem had come about. She grew frustrated with my suggestion since she had told her story several times to numerous doctors. She finally agreed and in a disgusted tone of voice said, “It is simple. It was the end of my vacation and I woke up one morning and could not see out of my right eye.” I thought for a moment and then asked her where she had gone on her vacation. When she said she had traveled to East Africa a new list of possible diagnoses entered the picture. After surgical removal of the blood in her eye we were able to identify a bot fly larva in the retina that subsequently was destroyed with a laser. I confess I am not certain why I asked her where she had gone on her vacation except it seemed to be the most important aspect of her statement. Moreover, she and her family were extremely nervous so I had to say something. I often finding myself pondering how much a St John’s education prior to my medical training would have improved my skills as a physician. In concluding these remarks I would like to tell you a story that I believe highlights the breadth of options that your St John’s education provides you. When I was chair of our department of ophthalmology I was anxious to expand our research activities. I knew that a very innovative retinal surgeon was unhappy in the university where he was employed. He was working on an exciting prototype of a retinal prosthesis that could be implanted directly in the retina of blind patients. I thought he would be an outstanding addition to our department. I called him and asked him if he might be interested in joining our faculty. After several conversations it became apparent that both he and his wife were excited about the possibility of relocating to the Bay Area. Yet, I could not make a formal offer to this internationally famous retinal surgeon until he gave a research lecture not only to the clinicians �but also the basic scientists in our department. I knew this potentially might be a deal breaker. In the past 30 years the top medical schools in the country have become major biomedical research centers and not simply professional schools were future physicians are trained. In many departments basic scientists now outnumber the clinicians. In our medical school the standing of basic scientists has been further enhanced by the fact that five Nobel Prizes in Medicine and Physiology have been awarded to UCSF basic scientists since 1989. We would need to convince our basic scientists, a tough audience, that this retinal surgeon was qualified to join the UCSF faculty. To highlight our problem let me say that as a clinician I see basic scientists as having much in common with Sanskrit grammar. They love the passive voice especially in journal articles- “A new gene has been discovered” or “The sample was divided into equal aliquots”. New discoveries are often named with mind-numbing compound nouns- proto-oncogene, macrosquare- wave jerks, or proximity-luminance covariation. I must admit that most basic scientists would respond by asserting that clinicians lack the precision and concern for detail so characteristic of Sanskrit texts. The tension between these two faculty groups is never more apparent than in research seminars. I discussed this issue with my new faculty candidate but he assured me he could deal with it. You can imagine how stunned I was when he began his research seminar with this story: “A surgeon is walking beside a river when he suddenly sees a man struggling as he is swept down river. The surgeon jumps into the river, swims to the man and grabs him under the chin and pulls him to shore. A few minutes later the surgeon while continuing his journey up river hears the calls of two men who are drowning in the turbulent river. The surgeon, being a man of action, jumps into the river, swims to the two men �and holds one with his right arm and the other with the left and drags them to safety. A few minutes later the surgeon resumes his walk upstream but almost immediately sees three men being swept downstream in the river. He jumps in the river but realizes he is unable to pull all three of them to the shore. He looks up and sees a basic scientist walking upstream on the other side of the river. The surgeon calls out to the basic scientist and pleads with him to jump in the river and help with the rescue effort. The basic scientist replies, ‘No, I am going to walk upstream and see who is throwing these guys in the river.’” What are you going to do with it- your St John’s education? No doubt some of you firmly believe you have your future planned out in detail; others of you in a candid moment might admit you haven’t a clue. For myself, I like to think that at St John’s I learned to swim more effectively while also being encouraged to walk up river more often. I envy the many opportunities that await all of you. Congratulations again. There are great adventures and challenges ahead. What will you do with them? Ah, that will be an interesting story. Dr. Hoyt received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst college, and his MD from Cornell University Medical College; he served as Intern in Medicine at Stanford University and as a Resident on Neurology and then in Opthalmology at University of Californa in San Francisco. He has served as a flight surgeon in the US Navy, as a lecturer at the University of Sydney, and from 1978 to the present he has practiced medicine, taught, and performed research at at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is currently Emeritus Professor and Chair of the Department of Opthalmology. He has authored over 170 peer reviewed scientific articles, among other publications. In 2010 he received his Master of Arts in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College. A classmate reported that he was an anchor of the group, widely respected by �his fellow students. He is now a member of the Presidents’ Council of St. John’s College. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commencement Programs and Addresses Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Description An account of the resource Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hoyt, Creig Title A name given to the resource Commencement Address, Graduate Institute, Summer 2013 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-08-02 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Annapolis_GI_Summer_2013_Commencement Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Description An account of the resource Typescript of the commencement address for the Graduate Institute given by Creig Hoyt at the end of the Spring 2013 semester in Annapolis, MD. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College has been given permission to make this item available online. Commencement Graduate Institute Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/ff8ea5a60a7bcd72ea1370f444d9148e.pdf 870a10d85ed940f93fe7f86200436307 PDF Text Text STJOHN'S College A N N A P O L I S • S A N T A FE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND SUNDAY, MAY TWELFTH Two THOUSAND AND THIRTEEN �PROGRAM FOR THE Two HUNDRED TWENTY-FIRST COMMENCEMENT IN THE THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF THE COLLEGE PRELUDE CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET ACADEMIC PROCESSION THE NATIONAL ANTHEM CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1796 WELCOME CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON, SFyo PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS PRESIDENT NELSON PAMELA KRAUS DEAN OF THE COLLEGE ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS JAMES SCHAMUS CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON DEAN KRAUS CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON JEFF J.S. BLACK DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE ACADEMIC RECESSION CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET �BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE (with title of essay) MAGGY ROSE BARNES Centreville, Virginia The Abstinent Lover: The Artist 's Searchfor Knowledge, Unity, and Wholeness in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse JONATHAN DAVID BARONS Waterbury, Vermont Going Against the Groan: The Stoic in Society REBEKAH LYNN BENTUM Seeing God Face to Face: An Inquiry into Jacob's Striving with God and Man in the Book of Genesis Caribou, Maine HEATHRYN ALETHIA BERRY Realism, Idealism, and Onions: Faith and Love in The Brothers Karamazov Reston, Virginia THOMAS ANTHONY BONN Wisdom in the Whirlwind LYDIA ELISE BOOZ Towson, Maryland Brooklyn, New York A Taciturn Historian: The Merit of Trivialities in the Annals CHARLES DAVID BRANAN Beauty, Necessity, and Shame: Choice in an Aristotelian Framework BONNIE JOY BRUMBAUGH Sandersville, Georgia Stevensville, Maryland Song of Myself: Whitman's Examination of Identity Through Poetry JASON MICHAEL CARRIER Weimar, California Self-Mastery and Man's Creative Power CRYSTAL CATHERINE CLAWSON Souffrance: Existence du Poete et le Pouvoir deUart Waialua, Hawaii ANTHONY ALAN COLE In Search of God: Philosophy's Role in Augustine's Confession Bowie, Maryland �WILLIAM GORBELL COTTEN-POTTER Newport News, Virginia Morality and Sacrifice: An Exploration of the Inside Narrative in Billy Budd HUNTER WlLLIAM Cox Freedom Through Obedience Hartland, Vermont RACHEL LOUISE Cox Spartansburg, Pennsylvania Knightley Must Marry Her: Discovering the Heart in Jane Austen's Emma DRESDEN DENEYS CRAIG Against Epistemology: On Plato's Theaetetus Greencastle, Pennsylvania AlsfNE THERESA CULPEPPER Sin and Evil in Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal Providence, Rhode Island JENNIFER HOPE DALTON Create in Me a Clean Heart: The Meaning of Prayer Through David's Psalms Holland, Michigan MARC O FRANK DAMIANO Make 'Em Laugh: As You Like It and the Value of Comedy Bronxville, New York LlLLIAN ELLEN DATCHEV Reawakening the Pendulum of History Annapolis, Maryland ClNAR DoRUK The Birth and Death of the Myth of Human Nature in a Prison of Word and Flesh Istanbul,Turkey BENJAMIN PERRY DOUTHWAITE Thinkingof Thought: Being, Nothing, and Becoming in Hegel's Logic Jessup, Maryland MATTHEW PETER DUDIK Vancouver, Washington Turning the World Inside-Out: Why the Newtonian Theory of Planetary Motion Supersedes the Ptolemaic �VIRGINIA CASTOR EARLY The Self-Focused Yet Free Citizen: A Searchfor Active Citizenship in Tocqueville's Democracy in America Bethel, Connecticut NlMA ESHRAGH Rogers, Arkansas Seeing Face to Face: An Exposition on Man's Need for Escape and its Resolution in an Ethical Relationship EMILY CARROLL EZELL Rationality for the Hopeless: The Federal Government's Attempt to Save Us from Ourselves JOHN MACE FABISZEWSKI Middletown, Virginia Virginia Beach, Virginia Beats, Rhymes, and Life: A Poet's Journey JOHN CHARLES FARRELL For All Time: The Negotiation Between Adaptation and Retention of Identity in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars Hatfield, Pennsylvania MADELINE CATHERINE FERGUSON Annapolis, Maryland Overcoming in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Story of Self-Destruction and Redemption MICHAEL WALTON FOGLEMAN Knowing Phaedrus, Remembering Ourselves LEONARD ISAAC FRANKS If You Have Good Will, You Shall Lack for Nothing: Can Christian Virtue Be Unrelated to Deeds? Hingham, Massachusetts Santa Fe, New Mexico DANIEL FELDMAN GILLES West Hartford, Connecticut The Dragons of Philosophy and the Rebirth of Metaphysics PETER HIGH GILLIES "About, My Brains!" Hamlet's Artistic Unconscious EMILY CATHERINE GORMAN The Role of Self-Knowledge in Shakespeare's King Lear Wilton, Connecticut Hudson, Ohio �GORDON BRUCE GREER, III Can Capitalism Survive? An Examination of Socialist and Capitalist Systems in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Chesterfield, Missouri RACHEL ELIZABETH HAHN The Journey to Moriah: Infinite Resignation in Abraham Sebewaing, Michigan BRITTANY ANN HANKINS The Cracked Seed: An Examination of Ivan Karamazov Wilmington, Delaware SARAH Coco HARTZELL "For the Poets are Dearest to the Muse Who Puts Upon Their Lips the Ways of Life ": Why the Man of Many Ways Must be His Own Poet ANDREW PETER HASTINGS War is Peace: or, The Death of the Republic in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy SAMUEL LAURENCE HYMAN HEMMENWAY The Nature of Vision HAU HoANG Close Your Eyes and Learn Geometry: Embracing Radical Ideas in Lobachevskian Geometry Houston, Texas Columbia, Maryland Los Angeles, California Hai Phong, Vietnam JOHN TYLER WALSH HOGAN Buena Park, California A Nice Guy Having a Bad Day: Tragic Characters in Sophocles' Antigone CATHERINE MARIE HOISINGTON Society and Insanity in Dostoevsky's The Idiot Kenai, Alaska JOSEPH FRANCIS HORNER Dedalus Defined: The Song of the Father, and Woman '«$• Dance Grove City, Ohio RuOXUAN Hu What is the Ultimate End of Man? On Happiness, Morality and Freedom Shanghai, China �CHENGHAN JING There They Talked of Revolution., There They Lit the Flame: Marx's Quest for the Glory of Man CHRISTOPHER EARL JOHNS Deyang, China Sewickley, Pennsylvania The Paradox of Originality: A Study of Metaphysical Desire and Creative Maturation in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground MARY ELIZABETH JOHNSON Manhattan Beach, California "The Artist Arrives at the Gas Chamber": An Exploration of the Effects of Education Upon the Artist's Return Home CHRISTINA WERNETT KATAOKA Santa Fe, New Mexico Relating Space and Geometry: The Necessity of Spatial Experience in Association with Multiple Versions of Geometry DANIEL JACOB KRAFT God's Chosen People: A Whale of a Tale Owings Mills, Maryland BRIAN SANFORD LEE Colorado Springs, Colorado Kantian Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge ROBERT SAUL LEIKEN Washington, District of Columbia Denial and Deception in The Death of Ivan Ilyeh WILLIAM ALFRED LIPINSKI Vanity and Vexation of Spirit CHAZAQ LLINAS Stratford, New Jersey Berlin, Maryland Reflecting on the Generation of Knowledge DANIELA LOBO DlAS Berlin, Connecticut The Tension Between Reason and Desire: How Gulliver Unknowingly Teaches Us to Avoid the Extreme and Seek Moderation WILLIAM READ LODER Optima dies.. .primafugit: Memory, Time, and the Land in Willa Gather's My Antonia Milwaukee, Wisconsin �ADAM MATTHEW MARASCHKY Chaos and Quanta: Two New Hypotheses in Max Plank's Theory of Heat Radiation PILAR ISABEL FRANCISCA MARTINEZ-FRAGA The Significance of Human Existence and Freedom in Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments Shaker Heights, Ohio Miami, Florida Jefferson, Massachusetts MAURA JOAN McCuiSKEY From Poetry to Philosophy and Back Again: Book X of Plato's Republic REECE JORDAN McDEvnr The Searchfor Virtue, Beauty, and Unity within the Self: An Exploration of Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics PALMER LEE McMATH We Speak and It Lives: Bridging the Gap Between an Individual and the Process of Language Change JENNIFER ANN McNuury Of Men, Whales, and Myths: An Exploration of the Creation of Narrative in Moby-Dick Evansville, Indiana Purcellville, Virginia Chicago, Illinois DREW DONNALLY MENZER On the Use and Abuse of Philosophy: An Inquiry into Truth and Morality in Beyond Good and Evil Granville, Ohio CHRISTOPHER HEZEL MOORE Romancing Excellence: The Art of Instruction in Rousseau's Emile Kearney, Missouri HENLEY ELIZABETH MOORE A New Kind of Noble: An Exploration of Antony in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra Cambridge, Maryland ANDREW JAMES MORAN The Eye of the Storm: Origin, Narrative, and Law in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Norwalk, Connecticut �HAREL WARD NEWMAN The Picture of the Closet: Two Reading of The Picture of Dorian Gray Chicago, Illinois MARIA MACARENA PALLARES Between the Limits of the Two Abysses: Equality and Freedom in Tocqueville 's Democracy in America EMILIA MACKENZIE PICKARD Emilia or On My Education Wellington, Florida Fort Collins, Colorado Louis ALEXANDER PISHA The Final Antithesis: Experience and Knowing in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Nanuet, New York DANIEL ALEXANDER POPOV Irvington, New York Through the Wind and the Rain: An Exploration of Comedy in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night DYLAN KNIGHT ROGERS The Apotheosis of the Dance: Nietzsche's Defense of the Senses in Twilight of the Idols Chicago, Illinois JOHN CHRISTOPHER ROPOULOS Fremont, California Experiencing the Dionysian Folk Artist in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and Robert Johnson's Gross Road Blues PHILIP JEFFREY SCHIFFRIN Wynnewood, Pennsylvania The Last Full Measure of Devotion: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Gettysburg Address TlMOTHY ROBERT SCHUM Waukesha, Wisconsin The Seeker and the Sought: An Exploration ofQur 'anic Guidance ESA GlANNA SCLAFANI Worcester, Vermont To Flee a Sinking Ship: Fear of Death in Epictetus' Discourses CAMERON DOUGLAS SHARP What is Beyond Good and Evil? Los Angeles, California �ERIC ANDREW SHLIFER How Our Conscience Brings Us Closer to God: A Look at Morality in The Brothers Karamazov SARAH LEONA STALTER Poulsbo, Washington Bethel Park, Pennsylvania A Life About Nothing: On "The Myth of Sisyphus "by Albert Camus ALICIA NlCOLE STANLEY Glarksville, Maryland Shakespeare the Artist: Corruption, Forgiveness, and the Theatrical Experience in The Winter's Tale JESSICA GENEVIEVE STEER Virginia Beach, Virginia All's Well That Weds Well: Love and Order in Shakespeare's As You Like It AMY BRENEMAN STEWART Lancaster, Pennsylvania Rafting with Huck Finn: Navigating Life's Rivers KURT THEODORE STROM Jefferson, Massachusetts Hony Soyt Qui Mai Pence: Sir Gawain in the Castle and the Forest MANUEL ANDRES LUCAS SY-QuiA Pasig City, Philippines Not for My Sake, but for My Servant's: The Faith of the Roman Centurion o/"Luke 7:1-10 MANISH JUNG THAPA Dadeldhura, Nepal The General Will, the Consensus Problem, and the Legislator in Rousseau 's Du Contrat Social CATHERINE ALEXANDRA TRORICH Charlotte, North Carolina Musical Theology: Bach's Interpretation of Human Sin and God's Mercy in the St. Matthew Passion GRACE ANN TYSON Pensacola, Florida Hurrah for Kolya! The Soul's Education in The Brothers Karamazov CARLIN MARIE VAN SCHAIK On Sin and Friendship Lubbock, Texas �DHIDHAT VANICHSTIAN A Man's World: But It Wouldn't Be Nothing, Nothing Without a Woman ELIZABETH GRACE VAUGHN Ordered and Perfected Love in Dante's Paradise Gaithersburg, Maryland BRIAN LEE WARCZINSKY Understanding the Understanding: An Inquiry into Hume's Account of Human Nature NICOLAS MARTIN FRANCOIS WEINSTEIN Peace is a Boot, War a Flame: Hobbes' Leviathan Midland, Michigan London, United Kingdom ZACHARY WRIGHT WELLS An Essay of the Value of Ideas TREVOR DAVID WORTHEY Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov: The Fool's Role in the Theatre of the Self JlDAN Xu Bangkok, Thailand Saint Paul, Minnesota Corning, New York Shenzhen, China Imaginary Geometry and Our Understanding of Space YUAN XUE Encounter the Beautiful with Kant AUDRA LAUREN ZOOK Choosing Faith: An Examination of Augustine's Journey to Conversion JlNYAO ZOU Kant on Our Experience Chengdu, China Pahrump, Nevada Haikou, China �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION BENJAMIN AARON BELL GORBYN RICHARD BERRYMAN DIANA PAGE BROWN ABIGAIL RUTH GLEVENGER MATTHEW HOWELL COOK MARK JOSEPH DALY Rome, Georgia Fuller ton, California Palmer Lake, Colorado Fostoria, Ohio Beaumont, Texas Cordova, Maryland MARIANO JOSE DE DOMPABLO Madison, Wisconsin ERIN EVELINE DESMOND Garden Valley, Texas COLE DONOVAN Churchton, Maryland ALVARO ENRIQUE DURAN* Rockville, Maryland STEVEN MICHAEL ELLERD Georgetown, Texas JOHN RICHARD FARRIS Crofton, Maryland CARLIN FELT GRAHAM WILLIS GORDON TIANLU JIA MICHAEL THOMAS KAUDER SUSAN JANE LAROCCA GAITLIN MOLLY McGuiRE ENRICO NASSI DAVID MICHAEL OLDHAM Ogden, Utah Christiana, Tennessee Guangdong, China Greensboro, North Carolina Morrisville, Pennsylvania Davidsonville, Maryland Washington, District of Columbia Nashville, Tennessee OSCAR ORTIZ DUARTE Tegucigalpa, Honduras JASON MARK POARCH Lenoir, North Carolina JAMES PATRICK REDMON Knoxville, Tennessee EVERETT FRENCH REESE Annapolis, Maryland SHAUN PATRICK RIELEY Millsboro, Delaware MICHAEL EVAN STAHLY Germantown, Maryland *Upon completion of requirements �PRIZES AND AWARDS COMMENCEMENT 2013 To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966 Kant on Our Experience JINYAO Zou To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens A Problematic Concept: On the Thing-In-Itself in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason NATHANIEL LEONARD GOLDMAN The Birth of Don Quixote: Madness, Poetry, and Transformation LAURA ALEXANDRA CLEVELAND To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 Flesh SOPHIA JEANNETTE DILLARD HONORABLE MENTION Understanding the Reason Behind the Spheres in Dante 's Paradiso LESLIE MAE HOWARD �To the member of the Freshman Glass who has written the best annual essay. Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, Tutor Emeritus, and his wife, Else, by Dr. Stuart and Frances Walker Myth in the Mind of Man MATTHEW MARQUIS KATCHER HONORABLE MENTION Self-Division and Self -Covernance KELLI ANN ZINN The Whole Risk: Can the Myth of Er Save Us? ERIK GUSTAF NEAVE To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2012. Offered by the Alumni Association One and Many: Political Order and Friendship in The Odyssey JAMES PATRICK REDMON To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland CAMERON DOUGLAS SHARP To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus Cyropaideia, Xenophon MICAELA KAYE MACDOUGALL �To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors Circonspection, Paul Verlaine HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry Sonnet for Redemption DANIEL JACOB KRAFT The Muse JEZEBEL ST. JOHN To the student who submits a fine original musical composition. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991 24 Preludes DYLAN KNIGHT ROGERS HONORABLE MENTION Finalefor String Quartet Louis ALEXANDER PISHA To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Garitas Society 1987-1991 No AWARD �To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem. Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus YITIAN GAI HONORABLE MENTION JlDAN Xu To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965 HAU HOANG HONORABLE MENTION XIAOQIAN Hu )K To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. Joseph Black 's Super Cooling Experiment SlDHARTH SUBODH SHAH To the senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer. THOMAS ANTHONY BONN RACHEL ELIZABETH HAHN �To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community. Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College No AWARD To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 REBEKAH LYNN BENTUM To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize ADAM MATTHEW MARASCHKY )K To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird Prize. Finalefor String Quartet Louis ALEXANDER PISHA �ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS St. John's College, Annapolis Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954 Richard F. Cleveland, H54 Harry Golding, Graduate Institute Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929 Bernard Clorety, 1950 George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf Mildred Alexander Philip L. Alger, 1912 Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Alumni Scholarship Annapolis Graduate Institute Aretei Fund Bradley C. Arms George M. Austin, 1908 Walter S. Baird, 1930 Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 Fred and Marian Billups Jeff Bishop Memorial Ford K. Brown, H70 Dr. Charles C. Cook Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Eugene N. (1929)and Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino Wiley and Helen Crawford Cpl. George E. Cunnifflll Helen Lee DeAloia Donna Marie Delattre Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911 Richard A. Duhan, 1963 Caritas Society of St. John's College Martin Dyer Book Fund Casasco Family Fund Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund Michael Ghiantella Chicago Regional Faculty Scholarship Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp Ronald and Donna Fielding James T. Clark, 1928 James H. Frame, 1950 Class of 1897 Friends of St. John's Class of 1898 Nancy Gannon Gearing Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 John T. Harrison, Jr. Charles W. Hass, 1927 Henry B. Higman, A48 Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 The Hodson Trust Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Houston Regional John Isaacs J. Seward Johnson, Jr. Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H84 Francis A. Katz, 1929 William R. Kenan, Jr. Trust �John Sp angler Kieffer, H70, and Roxana White Kieffer, H84 Marie Klebe Memorial Jacob Klein, H76 The Duane and Clementine Peterson Charitable Fund LD and Paula Pickens Pittsburgh Regional Korshin Family Fund Reader's Digest Foundation Tom and Gathryn Krause J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937 Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 Lenore B. Rinder Joseph LaPides Michael Littleton John D. Mack Massachusetts Regional Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund Raymond and Richard Starke Jean Roberts Staylor Susan I. Roberts, 1966 Clarence W.Stryker Clifton C. Roehle Bert Thorns Joan and Bela Ronay Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel Thomas A. and Julia McDonald G. D. Searle/John E. Robson Middendorf Foundation Rob son Family Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund Rosse Family Paul Miller St. John's College Alumni Association Philip A. Myers II, 1938 J. J. Salovaara NationsBank Foundation (Bank of America) Lawrence Saporta, PhD O'Grady Memorial C.V. Starr Foundation Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book Fund Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938 Rev. Theo O'Brien James S. Spirer, 1970 Cleo Ritz James Matthews, H99 Christopher B. Nelson Scholarship Endowment J. Winfree Smith, H80 Flora Duvall Sayles Scholarship Fund 2013 Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan, 1908 Oklahoma Regional Doug E. Sherr( 1972) Memorial Norman G. Owens Rudy Simeone Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr. Thomas J.,H94, and Marion K. Slakey Pas sin Family Fund Andrew Smith Memorial Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966 Irving and Loretta Wasserman Charles H. Watts Richard D.Weigle,H49 John L.Williams, 1950 Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams Frank K. Wilson, 1935 Winiarski Endowment Fund Delores and Stephen Wolf Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation �ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS St. John's College, Annapolis Alba Audiovisual BB&T Charitable Foundation Davey Commercial Grounds Maryland Capital Management Decisive Data Systems McGladrey&Pullen Booz Allen Hamilton ICFM Christopher B. Nelson Baines & Group Invotex Group PhotoLab Services Bunting Family Foundation Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Family Foundation Estate of Vernon Smith Caritas Society Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation CareFirst BlueGross BlueShield Clark-Winchcole Fund Clifton Larson Allen Council of Independent Colleges Estate of Clifford Jackson State Farm Insurance Companies Estate of Gene Thornton Ensign C. Markland Kelley Jr. Memorial Foundation Peter Weiss Kelly & Associates Wells Fargo Kiplinger Foundation Winiarski Family Foundation Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers Trust UPS Gifts received after April 15, 2013, are gratefully acknowled and will be listed in the 2014 Commencement Program. �CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI. Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back. www. stj ohnscollege. edu/alumni 410-626-2531 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-05-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CommencementExercises2013 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Description An account of the resource Program for the two hundred twenty-first commencement in the three hundred seventeenth year of the college. Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD) Title A name given to the resource Commencement Program, 2013 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/fab34c9596aaed5a76a30099d6d41cc4.pdf 9a32881a0f0074c463ffca2d1984aea1 PDF Text Text COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE AT ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, AUGUST 2011 By Lise van Boxel Congratulations on your successful completion of the Master’s Program in Liberal Arts! Now that you have your M.A., it is a good time to reflect upon what you have learned and the reasons why you began the journey that led you to your degree. What knowledge have you acquired at St. John's College? Have you gained any practical skills here? Your employers or potential clients, your friends and your family will certainly ask such questions. What will you say to them? What do you say to yourself? Before turning to a consideration of possible answers to such questions, consider briefly some of the pre‐suppositions that often underlie them. Frequently, the real meaning of, “What did you learn?” is, “In what way has this education contributed to your value as a worker or to your ability to earn a living?” These questions are not ridiculous. Unless you are lucky enough to be independently wealthy or you have a patron, you have to think about how to support yourself. On the other hand, it is wrong‐headed to think of education simply or primarily in these terms, as if employability and income were the highest, most important considerations for a human being. Friedrich Nietzsche offers a vivid description of this impoverished understanding of education—an understanding that characterizes the modern era. In sum, he argues that an education that looks solely or primarily to the marketplace deforms the souls of its students because it is ignorant of, or denies, the proper fullness and activity of the human soul: [T]he present age is . . . supposed to be an age, not of whole, mature and harmonious personalities, but of labor of the greatest possible common utility. That means, however, that men have to be adjusted to the purposes of the age so as to be ready for employment as soon as possible: they must labor in the factories of the general good before they are mature, indeed so that they shall not become mature—for this would be a luxury which would deprive the ‘labor market’ of a great deal of its workforce. Some birds are blinded so that they may sing more beautifully; I do not think the men of today sing more beautifully than their grandfathers, but I know they have been blinded. (Nietzsche, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, § 7) Nietzsche grants that the emphasis on science, and more specifically on science directed by the marketplace, will indeed produce economic success, at least in the short‐term. However, he adds that this kind of science is a desiccated version of the comprehensive understanding that is the proper goal of science or higher learning more generally—the goal that the modern world has largely abandoned: 1 �I regret to use the words of the slave‐owner and the employer of labor to describe things that in themselves ought to be thought of as free of utility and raised above the necessities of life; but the words “factory”, “labor market”, “supply”, “making profitable”, and whatever auxiliary verbs egoism now employs, come unbidden to the lips when one wishes to describe the most recent generation of men of learning. Sterling mediocrity grows even more mediocre, science ever more profitable in the economic sense. . . . Those who unwearyingly repeat the modern call to battle and sacrifice—“Division of labor! Fall in!”—must for once be told in round and plain terms: if you want to push science forward as quickly as possible you will succeed in destroying it as quickly as possible; just as a hen perishes if it is compelled to lay eggs too quickly. (Ibid) If Nietzsche’s account of the trend in modern education aptly describes the kind of education you did not receive and to which I think St. John’s is opposed, how might you describe what you did learn here? While denouncing an overly narrow view of education, Nietzsche alludes to the effect of a complete education: it would create “whole, mature and harmonious personalities” (Ibid). Neither you nor I can honestly claim that you acquired a complete and harmonious soul as a result of several years of education at St. John’s. This is not to say that I abandon the idea that the truly authoritative education aims at, and can produce, a harmonious soul. Rather, I think this education is the ongoing activity of a lifetime. I do think that the liberal education you received here can contribute greatly to the attainment of this goal. However, I will put aside these ideas for the moment, and I will turn instead to a more modest articulation of what a liberal education is and what skills may be acquired as a result of it. To do so, I will replace Nietzsche’s high‐flying, though accurate, description of a complete education with Aristotle’s sensible, though still ambitious, account of a liberal education. In distinguishing a specialist from someone who, like you, has been generally educated, he says: With regard to every [kind of] contemplation and inquiry, both lowlier and more esteemed, there appear to be two ways of being skilled, one of which it is well to call the science of the thing, and the other . . . a kind of educatedness. For it is characteristic of an educated man to be able to hit the mark and judge appropriately what the speaker sets forth finely and what he does not. For something like this is in fact what we suppose the generally educated man to be, and . . . to be educated is to be capable of doing this very thing—except that we believe this one, the generally educated man, is able to judge about virtually all things, though being one man, whereas the other one [the scientist or specialist] is able to judge [only] about some limited nature. (Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals, 639a2 – 15) I do not recommend launching yourself into this quotation when asked what practical skills you acquired at St. John’s College, though if you decide to do so, take 2 �a deep breath, and deliver it with panache. You can, however, capture the essence of what Aristotle says in your own words. In my own words, I say that, as a result of your liberal education, you are better able to judge when an argument or account is adequate and when it is not. When it is inadequate, you are more capable of seeing how it is deficient and what would need to be addressed to alleviate this shortcoming. Such judgment can be brought to bear on any argument, regardless of the field. If the argument includes technical language, all you need is the time to look up the definitions of these words before you are able to proceed as you would with any other account. At bottom, such an argument is no different from any other. To Aristotle’s description, I would add that, as a result of your education, you are now better able to admit when you do not know something, and to do so without embarrassment. Do not underestimate the value of this intellectual honesty. It will help you to continue to learn. In addition, it will be greatly appreciated by other people, most of whom are anxious about their own ignorance, but are afraid to admit that they do not know. It can be a tremendous relief to encounter someone who can say without shame that he does not know, but that he wants to learn. This training in judgment—in clear thinking—is an essential part of a liberal education. And it can indeed help you to advance your career. I advise you, therefore, to consider how you can describe this skill to others so that you can represent it with the full strength that it deserves and in a manner that is readily apparent to others. If you do this, you will be well equipped to respond to those who want to know how what you learned can be applied to the workplace. This account of your education, however, is neither complete nor does it capture the most important part of it. Aristotle would agree that, in order truly to judge well, one must have a satisfactory understanding of the ultimate end at which one aims. It is not enough to have an idea of the proximate goal that one seeks to fulfill. One must have adequate knowledge of whether and how this proximate goal accords with the highest and most comprehensive goal at which human beings can and should aim. Without a sufficient account of this authoritative, supreme good— The Good—no judgment is adequate, strictly speaking, and one cannot truly be said to know. Thus, any education can and must be considered in terms of whether and how it can contribute to The Good. Regarding questions about whether your education here was practical, therefore, the real issue is not whether this education will contribute to your employment opportunities, but whether it contributes to your knowledge of the good. And the real question about you job is not whether your education has made you suitable for it, but what impact it has on your ability to lead a good life. No, I will not let go of the highest account of education to which Nietzsche alludes and that I dare say all great thinkers share. Moreover, I expect that you empathize with me in my refusal to forgo these highest goals. While some of you came to St. John's partly in order to advance your career, I doubt that any of you came here primarily for this reason. You came because you had questions—questions that perhaps you could not quite articulate, even to yourself, but that you could not put aside. As you made your way through the works of the program, I suspect many of you began to recognize your questions reflected 3 �back to you in the Great Books: “What is justice?” “What is love or friendship?” “What kind of beings are we, and what is our place in this world?” Many and perhaps all of these questions arise from a common origin: the yearning to have a good life, combined with the realization that you do not know clearly enough what this is. I suspect, in other words, that the fundamental reason why you came here was because you thought this education might help you to understand The Good. Since our human life is limited, and since the clock is already ticking on the time that we have, this question of the good is urgent. No one wants to realize at the end of his life that he misused or wasted his time. And since none of us know how much time we have, it is foolish for any of us to postpone the question of the good indefinitely. Such talk of mortality and The Good sounds very serious. Well, what did you expect? Has anything valuable that you have read or discussed here been unserious? Thankfully, seriousness does not have to be grave. You need only recall the company you have kept as you have pursued your questions, and you will feel, not weighted down, but elevated by the astounding souls who have walked alongside you. Here is Plato, on the same journey as you, speaking with a voice as nuanced and relevant as it was some 2,400 years ago. With a touch of mischief, he doubles himself, adopting the voice of Socrates, who recollects taking this same path, just a day earlier: “I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, son of Ariston” (Plato, The Republic, 327a). Another man introduces himself with the words: “Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war” (Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 1.1). He hands you his book, which contains his thoughts about your shared questions, saying as he does so: “I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time” (Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 1.22). Homer turns his blind eyes upon you and points to Achilles and Odysseus, each of whom tackles the questions of the good life and what it means to be a good human being. Shakespeare speaks to you with a profundity that is surely expressed in some of the most beautiful language ever heard. Nietzsche reaffirms life with cry from his electric soul: “We still feel it, the whole need of the spirit and the whole tension of its bow” (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, “Preface”). These souls are among the best students and teachers ever to have lived. Their greatness consists largely in the fact that they investigated the most serious eternal questions with unmatched comprehensiveness and depth. What have you learned from them about The Good? If you have learned anything, it is that, when speaking to one who does not already know the answer, you cannot respond meaningfully to this question in a single sentence or two. You might say, for example, that they taught you that the good life is the philosophic life or the life devoted to the Divine, but then you would have to explain what philosophy or the Divine is and what it would mean to dedicate your life to such things. 4 �While there are answers to these questions, each answer leads to a new question—and this is not the occasion for a long conversation. It is the occasion, however, to remind you that all of these great students and teachers spent their lives engaged with such questions. Inquiry is thereby shown to be central to, if not the essence of, a good human life. Furthermore—and this is worth emphasizing, since you are have now exited the Master’s Program—these students were able to learn from virtually everything and everyone, if not directly, then indirectly. Life after your M.A. may not be as leisurely as it was when you were a student, but you can and will find opportunities to learn, if only you come to embrace life itself as a learning opportunity. I hope and expect that something of this way of life has become a part of you and that, if you look around now at the faces of your fellow students, you will see in their eyes something of the souls of those great human beings who are your models. Continue to be thoughtful. Be open‐minded. Retain the flexibility of soul that is necessary for continued learning. In sum, keep the goal of a good life always before you. Use The Good as your North Star to guide every significant action and decision you make. Doing this will not guarantee that you always make the right decision, but it will mean that will have done the best that you could do, and that, whatever contingencies you may face, you will have led the best life that is possible for you. 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Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College has been given permission to make this item available online. Commencement Graduate Institute Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/dfa2121678397dcee391eb896506ba35.pdf 66b22505058dcb1ecf14b4e441a0cb8a PDF Text Text SIJOHN'S College COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND SUNDAY, MAY FIFTEENTH Two THOUSAND AND ELEVEN �PROGRAM FOR THE Two HUNDRED NINETEENTH COMMENCEMENT IN THE THREE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE COLLEGE CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET PRELUDE ACADEMIC PROCESSION THE NATIONAL ANTHEM CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, GLASS OF 1796 WELCOME CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT NELSON ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS PAMELA KRAUS DEAN OF THE COLLEGE ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS LEO PICKENS DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON DEAN KRAUS CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON MARILYN D. HIGUERA DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE ACADEMIC RECESSION CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET �BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE (with title of essay) NINO ADUASHVILI Fears, Hopes and More Fears: Examining American Democracy with Tocqueville Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia BRIAN PAUL ANDERSON The Return to God in Augustine's Confessions Portland, Oregon DOUGLAS JAKOB ANDERSON My Sin, My Soul: Morality and the Nature of Fiction in Nabokov's Lolita St. Paul, Minnesota GHARMAINE PRISCILLA BENHAM To Forgive is Human: The Struggle Between God and Man in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Oakland, California RUTH ANNE BROWN South Hadley, Massachusetts "Now have I understood all the happiness of life ": Freedom, Necessity and Contentment in War and Peace NICHOLAS KEEFE GALLAHAN Can We Actually Learn Anything About Ourselves by Comparing Ourselves to Typhon? Natick, Massachusetts NATASHA SUN CARLYON Deception Leads to Discovery Seoul, South Korea MARINA CHERNIKOVA The Man Who Prized History Kharkov, Ukraine JUNIA ROSABEL GHO War and Peace: Understanding Life Through the Horrors of Death and One's Consciousness of the Infinite Laurel, Maryland JEFFREY PATRICK GOLGAN The Students and the Song of Nietzsche; Or, the Instinct for Freedom and the Human Necessity of Perpetual Enslavement Beaumont, Texas �TIMOTHY PHILLIP GOOVER Upper Montclair, New Jersey The King of Infinite Space: The Conflict Between Thought and Substance, Contemplation and Action in Shakespeare's Hamlet KAREN KATHLEEN GORDERO God, Games, and Gargantua; Or, How to Princify the Princeliest Prince the World Ever Princed Glenside, Pennsylvania ERIN ELIZABETH GURZIO The Marxism Colleges Should Be Teaching: Humor and SelfAwareness, A Defense of Comedy ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA DANIELS Forgiving Eve: Companionship in Paradise Lost Glen Ellyn, Illinois Pacific Palisades, California DANIEL PAUL DAUSMAN Brookeville, Maryland An Investigation into the Supposed Conflict Between NonEuclidean Geometry and the Doctrine of the Transcendental Ideality of Space ANNE GLARE DEGER Santa Fe, New Mexico "A duty stern and delicate ": Education's Role in Culture and Society THOMAS FRANCIS DONAHUE Havertown, Pennsylvania A Joint-Stock World: Philosophical Foundations of Democracy in Moby Dick LIAM DANIEL DOUGHERTY The Living God Philadelphia, Pennsylvania JOHN DAVID MATHER DUSENBURY Grand Junction, Colorado Can Rocks have Adequate Ideas? On Mind and Body in Spinoza's Ethics ALEXANDRA ELISE FERNANDEZ-BROWN Harrisonburg, Virginia "Mainly I wanted to put in the time": Laziness, Play, and Adventure in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn �KEVIN MICHAEL FINSON Limitation of the People's Power: Rule by the Few and the Many in the Constitution and Federalist Papers Glen Arm, Maryland COLIN MICHAEL FORHAN Hippolyte 's Struggle with Monstrosity in Phedre Takoma Park, Maryland WILLIAM DANIEL FRASER Teleology on the Level of Vertical Tonal Gravity Fleetwood, Pennsylvania CHRISTINE CAROLYN FULLER Harmonizing Existence with Essence: An Examination of Marx's Portrayal of Man in Society Safety Harbor, Florida ELIZABETH RUTH FULMER "Moi,je ne suispas Marxiste!": Understanding the Riddle of History as Presented by Karl Marx Houston, Texas VICTORIA FOSTER GIBSON Woodstock, Vermont "All Is Connected, All Flows Like an Ocean ": Discovering the Beauty of Love in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov KELSEY LYNN GILMORE Garden Grove, California Faciendi Liberos exLiberis Ratibus etFluminibus: Making Free Adults Out of Children by Means of Rafts and Rivers -An Essay on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ANNA SEELE GOOLD Open Thou My Lips: A Realization of Self in the Psalms Beachwood, New Jersey MATTHEW DWIGHT GORE Lindenhurst, Illinois This Land is My Land, That Land is Your Land: An Essay Examining the Role of Private Property and the Foundation of Government HARRY THOMPSON GREEN Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania Looking to the End - Why is Socrates Happy in the Face of Death? �MARTIN LUKE GREENWALD Bethesda, Maryland What is the Self?: An Account of'Consciousness, Ego, and the Soul in Beyond Good and Evil VIRGINIA ELIZABETH HARNESS A Divided Land: Conflict, Destruction and Endurance in The Sound and the Fury Lynchburg, Virginia ZACHARY VICTOR HARRINGTON Certainty, Genealogy, Morality: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and The Gay Science Mukilteo, Washington JULIE ANN HENSON One True City: Learning Charity in the Terrace of Envy DIMITAR Ivov INDZHOV Using Arts and Sciences Without the Harm Gainesville, Florida Haskovo, Bulgaria WILLIAM CRAIG KUNKEL Glenn Dale, Maryland So Prone in Every Way to Transmutation: A Study of Dante's Journey Through the Afterlife KATHRYN MAXWELL LEWIS In Black Ink: Gender and Creation in Shakespeare's Sonnets Wyoming, Ohio JENNIFER MARGARET LIND Seattle, Washington Not Without Reason: An Examination of the Role of Reason for Faith in the Life and Book of Job KELLEY ELIZABETH LITTLEFIELD South Hamilton, Massachusetts Teaching Faith: Moses'Instruction of the Israelites TESSA ANA LTVADAS Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania On the Convergence of Comedy and Tragedy in The Bacchae JACK MCGREGOR LYNN Gorrales, New Mexico Transcending Human Nature: Spirituality, Philosophy, Art and Schopenhauer �KAURA ELIZABETH MACKEY Kingston, Washington For the Good of Others: The Importance of Morality for the Soul and Society in Tolstoy's War and Peace DAVID JOHN MAKER Falls Church, Virginia The Pre-Paradigm State and the End of Crisis: Lessons from the Quantum Revolution ANNE MARA MALONE On Feelings in A Sentimental Journey RICHARD BRADLEY MAXHAM The World of Chivalry BRENDAN J. McGiVNEY In Defense of Man: An Exploration of Lying, Reason and Desires in Gulliver's Travels SAMUEL ANDREW MERTEN Being and Thought Ridgeley, West Virginia Lynchburg, Virginia Wilmington, Delaware Dublin, Ohio SARAH ELIZABETH MILLER Bethesda, Maryland No Place Fd Rather Be: The Importance and Power of Being on the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ANNA MIRZAYAN Storytelling in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling San Ramon, California GILLIAN CAMPBELL MOLONEY Rockville, Maryland On Reason, Morality, and Faith in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury STEPHEN RAFAEL MONTEIRO, JR. A Thoughtful View of Life SHANNON MULLOY Will Beauty Save the World? Faith and Suffering in Dostoevsky's Idiot Woodstock, Connecticut Gaithersburg, Maryland �BLAKE STUART MYERS Santa Fe, New Mexico Engaging the Faculty of the Heart in A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne THOMAS PETER MYERS Ellicott City, Maryland In the Quiet County, in Simplicity: Searching/or an Idyllic Eudaemonia SANDRA KATHRYN TuoNcVi NGUYEN Calvin andHobbes: On State Religion LAURA LEE NIEUSMA Faith Motivating Works in the New Testament MICHAEL THOMAS O 'BRIEN The Downfall of the Understanding in Hegel's Dialectic ANDREW DAVID OLSEN Man's Unconscious Fallbrook, California Okemos, Michigan Westbury, New York Mineola, Texas ACACIA MAY PAPPAS San Luis Obispo, California Faith: The Courage of Humility in the Face of Paradox MAXWELL WISTER PARROTT South Glastonbury, Connecticut If These Words Could Talk: The Provocation of Conscious Ignorance in Plato's Protagoras CLAYTON READ PASLEY San Antonio, Texas Of Fancies and Racehorses, Prisms and Parabolas: Concerning the Possibility of Universal Scientific Knowledge JOSHUA WAYNE PAUL The Tongues of Men and Angels: The Transformation of Language in Paradise Lost Fort Meade, Maryland ANDREW MICHAEL PEAK Louisville, Kentucky A Dream of Comic Fancy: The Transformation of Artifice into Nature in Bergson 's Laughter �BROOKS S. PENDERGAST Greenwich, Connecticut The Manifestation of the Soul in Appearance, Speech, and Action ANNA CATHERINE PERRY Humor & Sympathy in Societal Life Napa, California KRISTIN LILY PETERSON The Incomprehensible Boiler: Completing a Reality in Heart of Darkness Owego, New York KATHERINE PHILLIPS Castro Valley, California The Interconnection and Fundamentality of Mathematical Systems: An Inquiry into the Relations of Arithmetic, Geometry, and Mechanics JOSEPH MATTHEW POPE The Other Tree PAUL ANTHONY POVLOCK, JR. Buck the Zeitgeist Buffalo, New York Saunderstown, Rhode Island JASON ANTHONY STOLBA RITZKE The Revolutionary Wife Marion, Iowa ROGER JOHN ROBERTSON, JR. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania More Texvrj, Less Techno: Making Things in the Modern Age FREDERICK GORE ROCKWELL Dese Kings O' Ourn Is Reglar Rapscallions: Travel and Transformation in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn JAMES ABRAHAM RUSSELL Aeneas: A Man Distinguished in Piety? RON SADAN Forces in the World and the Soul in War and Peace KAITLYN RITA SCHULER The Beautiful Soul: A Chapter in the Life of God Richmond, Virginia Annapolis, Maryland Carlisle, Massachusetts Lake Worth, Florida �JACOB SLOAN SIMON Mercersburg, Pennsylvania Never Trust a Greek Bearing Gifts: The Difference Between a False Prophet and a True One in Dante's Divine Comedy ANNA CATHERINE SITZMANN Unveiling Identity: On the Importance of the Experiential Process and the Inadequacy of Historical Truth Zionsville, Indiana STEPHANY Rossi SNYDER Shepherdstown, West Virginia Bringing Napoleon to His Knees: Raskolnikov 's Transformative Journey in Crime and Punishment MEAGAN ROSE SPICER North Conway, New Hampshire A Man, a Woman, and Freedom: On Freedom and Love in William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem HANNAH ELIZABETH STAHL Prevailing Uncertainty: Life of the Man Without Qualities Baltimore, Maryland MICHAEL VINCENT TAVANI Phoenixville, Pennsylvania No One Pours New Wine: The Difficulty of Faith; An Examination of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments TIEMAR M. TECLEMARIAM uThe robe does not make the man ": Interpretation in Gargantua CAMERON STUART THOMPSON In Pursuit of Something More: Human Self-Definition Silver Spring, Maryland Lorton, Virginia KELLY LAUREN TROP Macungie, Pennsylvania What's with Matter? Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved theBohm RACHEL MARY ULRICH Socrates and His Images: A Display of the Philosopher's Relation to the City JOHN CECIL BLUE VINING Perspective and Accuracy in Ptolemy's Almagest Carnation, Washington Studio City, California �KATE WYLIE WALDEN The Transformation of Jacob and the Genesis of Israel: The Fulfillment of God's Will in the Realm of Man Rye, New York BABAK AKBARI ZARIN Fredericksburg, Virginia A Loving Gaze: Socrates, Alcibiades, and What it Takes to Know Yourself �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL AUTS DEGREE GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION JOSHUA IAN AcKERMAN SERENA ALAMI EVAN CHESTER BEARD GHARLOTTA ELIZABETH BEAVERS MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BRYAN ABIGAIL ELIZABETH BUTCHER BRUNO S. CORTES SARAH CHRISTINE CULVER JEROME FRANK DAUSMAN ALEXANDER MAURICE FENCZIK JOAN CATHY FOGEL ADAM JOSEPH FRANZ ROBERT HARRIS COMBINER ANNA LEIGH GREEN JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER HAWK BRIAN DANIEL HowrON DAVID WAYNE HYSONG, JR. DAVID LEE JONES GRANT JACOB KETTERING Baltimore, Maryland Brandon, Florida Youngstown, Ohio Los Angeles, California Greencastle, Pennsylvania Augusta, Georgia Waterbury, Connecticut Eugene, Oregon Brookeville, Maryland Bourbonnais, Illinois Chevy Chase, Maryland Mill Hall, Pennsylvania Seattle, Washington Galveston, Texas Baltimore, Maryland Lafayette, Louisiana Annapolis, Maryland Endwell, New York Cherry Hills Village, Colorado JONATHAN DAVID RNAUP SARAH JANE LINHARDT SAMUEL MATLACK BRIAN ERIC MERRIWEATHER Long Beach, California Annapolis, Maryland Schwoich, Austria Huntsville, Alabama PAUL MUSONDA MwANSA LEE THOMAS NuTINI Laurel, Maryland Cookeville, Tennessee MELISSA CHRISTINE BOUDRIE PETERSON Easton, Maryland ELIZABETH HELEN PlNCUS Minneapolis, Minnesota JANE FRANCES POLCEN MARK WILLIAM PURCELL RANDAL CALVIN PYERS WILLIAM BRIAN RAMSAY BRETT KYLE SHOEMAKER Bowie, Maryland Normal, Illinois Martinez, Georgia Waldorf, Maryland Dillsburg, Pennsylvania TARA LYNN SMITH CHARLES CLAYTON STEWART ROBERT COLLIN WELSH LAURA ELENA WILLWERTH Laurel, Delaware Point Marion, Pennsylvania Baltimore, Maryland Manchester, Massachusetts �PRIZES AND AWARDS COMMENCEMENT 2011 To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the class of 1966 I ' An Investigation into the Supposed Conflict Between Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Doctrine of the Transcendental Ideality of Space DANIEL PAUL DAUSMAN To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens Art, Science, and Compassion in George Eliot's Middlemarch EMMA HANNAH GOLD Excavating Babel; Or, How Hobbes Establishes a New Science of Man and Changes Everything ERIN MICHELLE SHADOWENS To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 An Investigation of Order and Place in Shakespeare's King Lear DRESDEN DENEYS CRAIG HONORABLE MENTION Contemplation: A Fruitful Endeavor MAURA JOAN MCCLUSKEY �To the member of the Freshman Glass who has written the best annual essay. Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, TVitor Emeritus, and his wife, Else, by Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Walker Finding Fulfillment in the Shadow-land: The Role of Odysseus' Descent to Hades in The Odyssey IAN PATRICK TUTTLE HONORABLE MENTION Plato Says Our Souls Are Swollen: An Exploration of the City of Pigs in Comparison with Plato's Republic SEAN CHRISTIAN SABELLA To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2011. Offered by the Alumni Association Moby Dick as a Work of Democracy ANDREW BENES VLCEK HONORABLE MENTION "It's Not You; It's the Beautiful": An Inquiry into the Plight of the Abandoned Beloved NICOLE ELAINE ELLIS To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence in speaking. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tidings of Maryland HANNAH ELIZABETH STAHL �To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus The Taking of Coriolifrom Plutarch's Life of Goriolanus ADAM MATTHEW MARASCHKY To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors Brise etTempete by Marie Pape-Carpantier DANIELA LOBO DIAS To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry The Smell of Skin and Dried Leaves MICHAEL VINCENT TAVANI To the student who submits a fine original musical composition. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Garitas Society 1987-1991 Fantasy #2 for String Quartet Louis ALEXANDERPISHA HONORABLE MENTION Out of the Depths CHELSEA ELIZABETH ADAMS �To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Garitas Society 1987-1991 Desiring in Sicut Cervus MARIA SANGIRARDI JUNG To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem. Offered by the Glass of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus ANYiGuo HONORABLE MENTION DAVID JOHN MAKER To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McGlintock of the Glass of 1965 YUAN XUE To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. A Measure of Universal Gravitation ANDREW!. DONDERS To the senior man and woman, who, through participation, leadership, and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJG athletic program, a special blazer. CLAYTON READ PASLEY RACHEL MARY ULRICH �To the member of the Senior Glass who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community. Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College MEAGAN ROSE SPICER To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth residing in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 KAURA ELIZABETH MACKEY To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize Koi, sculpture KELLY LAUREN TROP To a Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird prize. In the Fear of Love, poetry MICHAEL VINCENT TAVANI ��ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS St. John's College, Annapolis Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954 Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1Q9Q JL J ju J Mildred Alexander Philip L.Alger, 1912 Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Alumni Scholarship Annapolis Graduate Institute Aretei Fund Bradley G. Arms George M. Austin, 1908 Walter S. Baird, 1930 Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 Dr. Charles C. Cook George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 Bernard Clorety, 1950 John T. Harrison, Jr. Eugene N.( 1929) and Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino Henry B. Higman, A48 Wiley and Helen Crawford Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 CpL George E. Cunnifflll The Hodson Trust Helen Lee De Aloia Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Charles W. Hass, 1927 Donna Marie Delattre Houston Regional Fred and Marian Billups Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911 John Isaacs Jeff Bishop Memorial Richard A. Duhan, 1963 J. Seward Johnson, Jr. Ford K. Brown, H70 Martin Dyer Book Fund Caritas Society of St. John's College Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Gasasco Family Fund Faculty Scholarship Chicago Regional Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp Ronald and Donna Fielding James T. Clark, 1928 James H. Frame, 1950 Class of 1897 Friends of St. John's Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H84 Class of 1898 Nancy Gannon Gearing Francis A. Katz, 1929 Richard F. Cleveland, H54 Harry Golding, Graduate Institute William R. Kenan, Jr. Trust Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 �John Spangler Kieffer, H70, and Roxana White Kieffer, H84 Marie Klebe Memorial Jacob Klein, H76 The Duane and Clementine Peterson Charitable Fund LD and Paula Pickens Pittsburgh Regional Thomas J.,H94, and Marion K. Slakey Andrew Smith Memorial J. Winfree Smith, H80 James S. Spirer, 1970 Korshin Family Fund Reader's Digest Foundation C.V. Starr Foundation Tom and Gathryn Krause J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937 Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 Lenore B. Hinder Joseph LaPides Michael Littleton Memorial John D. Mack Massachusetts Regional James Matthews, H99 Middendorf Foundation Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund Paul Miller Philip A. Myers II, 1938 NationsBank Foundation (Bank of America) Rev. Theo O'Brien O'Grady Memorial Oklahoma Regional Cleo Ritz Susan I. Roberts, 1966 Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book Fund Clifton C. 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Johnston Trust Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield Garitas Society of St. John's College Ann and Bryant Cruse Constance and Paul Dry Deborah R. Fialka Christine Fotos Tamara L. Friedler Gudelsky Family Foundation Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Emily Legum John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. Judith Seeger Wanda and William Shafer John A. Simmons Marylou and Craig Symonds T. Rowe Price Mynydd Teg Foundation Janet and Howard Levine Linda and Jonathan Tuck C.L. McCarthy Patricia Watts Abigail Milner Curtis and Rebecca Wilson National Philanthropic Trust The Odyssey School William D. O'Neal Katherine H. Haas PNC Financial Services Group John T. Pittman Robin Weiss and Michael Dink Verizon Richard and Lois Zelina Gifts received after April 15, 2011, are gratefully acknowledged and will be listed in the 2012 Commencement Program. �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011-05-15 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CommencementExercises2011 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Description An account of the resource Program for the two hundred nineteenth commencement in the three hundred fifteenth year of the college. Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD) Title A name given to the resource Commencement Program, 2011 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/da2d05240e123d6c7c8a3d6d80581cd4.pdf af1211354749f31fa6b12bff97629926 PDF Text Text ·This n:iateriaf' may be protected by Copynght iWJit {Thie 17 U.S. Code) On the Difficult Commencement Address for the Graduate Institute 10 August 2007 Peter Kalkavage Graduates and family members, visitors and colleagues! There is a famous saying that all beginners in ancient Greek learn: khalepa ta kala. It means, "Beautiful or fine things are difficult." Today we celebrate your accomplishment of something beautiful and difficult: the successful completion of your work in the Graduate Institute of St. John's College. In my remarks this morning I want to reflect briefly on the experience of the difficult as it appeared in the books you read and in your struggle to learn. I offer this reflection in tribute to that struggle. I begin with the Platonic dialogues, those golden examples of beauty joined to difficulty. Through his hero Socrates, Plato inspires and calls into question; he arouses and checks; he sets in motion and brings to a stop; he is playful and also deeply serious. He gives us difficult arguments, and equally difficult myths. Socrates is difficult. He wears the mask of irony, persists in asking hard questions about the most important matters of human life, and generates perplexity and the knowledge of ignorance. The difficulty of Socrates is evident in the Meno. Meno is fascinated by impressive sounding definitions of virtue. He is an example of what Nietzsche calls "decorative culture." He wants to be beautiful, as Socrates suggests, but he has no stomach for the difficult. In your time here, you have experienced the perplexity that abounds in Plato's dialogues. With more life experience than our undergraduates, more settled opinions, �and a more formed character, you dared to make a new beginning. You were willing to be, for a time, unsettled adults, courageous enough to know that you did not know. As you questioned the books, you also let them question you. In reading all the books on the program, you let yourself be animated by the beautiful difficulty of Socrates. Socrates' knowledge of his own ignorance is sometimes taken as an expression of humility. But that can't be right. If it were, then Socrates would rest content with opinion; he would not engage in philosophy. Socrates does not say, "I think I don't know" or "I don't claim to know" or "Who knows what virtue is!" He says, "I know that I don't know." There is an audacity here, a claim to know. Socrates' admission is a paradoxical way of saying: "I recognize what is problematic about virtue: I know what calls forth questioning." Only one who persisted in inquiring into virtue, and who examined various opinions about it, could say, "I know that I don't know." This recognition of the difficult and the willingness to bring it out into the open were at work in our Herodotus preceptorial this summer. In a recent class discussion, one of you tried to describe why Herodotus was a difficult, if engaging, author. Was his book like an onion with many layers, or like a tangled ball of yarn, in which every strand leads to every other in ever-surprising ways? You allowed Herodotus to appear as perplexing as he really was. His inquiry, historia, was also yours. My hope is that your experience of Herodotus will enrich your experience of life: that it will inspire you with the wonder, imagination, and intelligent appreciation of otherness that Herodotus brought to his mighty task. As you know, one of the central themes in Herodotus is custom, no mos. What is custom? Why are customs, like this graduation ceremony, important to us? How do they help us understand what it means to be human? 2 �Why should we inquire into our own customs and those of other cultures? Is the life of unexamined custom, in the words of Socrates, not worth living? Can respect for custom co-exist with inquiry, and if so, how? How do we know that in looking at other peoples' customs we are not like Gyges, who looks upon the naked queen while he himself remains, so he thinks, invisible? I urge you to continue to ask these questions as you return to your private and professional lives. I hope that you will remember, as Herodotus wanted you to, the wonders of Egypt, colorful Persians like Cyrus and Xerxes, spirited women like Queen Tomyris, who avenges her son, and the great warrior-advisor Artemisia, the heroic deeds at Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis, and what was required of the Greeks to save their country from enslavement by a foreign power. I hope you will remember, as fondly as I do, those Arabian sheep whose long tails must be carried on specially constructed carts and the gold-digging ants that are smaller than dogs but bigger than foxes. I hope you will remember Herodotus' terrifying depictions of the human soul as a monster of unbounded desire, wrath, cruelty, perversity, and madness-especially the madness of violating the customs of one's own people. These are, to be sure, ugly truths. That is why it is all the more important to remember them. They are part of the same world in which beauty dwells. Another book that mixes beauty with difficulty is Dante's Purgatorio. Some of you were in the preceptorial last summer when we studied this middle part of Dante's poem. Purgatory is the place of hope. It is "the mountain where reason searches us." Hope here is not a passing emotion but a fixed disposition. It is desire for the good joined to the work of achievement. With the aid of grace, souls on Mt. Purgatory make themselves 3 �worthy to be happy. They do this by embracing their torment and playing an active role in their salvation. The proud bear heavy rocks on their backs, the envious endure having their eyes sewn shut, and the lustful experience the fire that burns but does not harm or kill. The soul for Dante is like a beautiful sculpture that has been ruined by sin. The hard work of purgation is the art by which we reverse time and regain our original shape. It is the difficulty that is prerequisite to moral beauty. One of the best opportunities some of you had to experience the marriage of difficulty and beauty was the mathematics tutorial. The right triangle, as an outward shape, is beautiful. But it became more of a beauty when you analyzed its many properties and its precise relation to the squares constructed on its sides. I am referring, of course, to the Pythagorean theorem. It was perhaps difficult at first to work through Euclid's proof. But the result was worth it. That result was not merely increased skill in doing geometrical proofs, or even the certitude that the proposition was indeed true. The goal was not enhanced power and diminished doubt but something else. In grasping the proof of the Pythagorean theorem, not merely memorizing it, you enjoyed an insight into the perfectly formed inner life of a right triangle. The proof was the shining forth of the intelligible. The beautiful relation that was in the triangle all along came to light as the sides "sprouted" their squares and the logical connection with more elementary truths was revealed. You have read many difficult books while you were here: Aristotle's Metaphysics, Plato's Timaeus, Kant's Critique ofPure Reason, Hegel's Philosophy of History, and Lobachevski's Theory ofParallels. That's impressive. But I think the hardest thing we asked you to do was to engage in serious conversation about the Bible. No philosophic, 4 �scientific, or mathematical arguments here, no clarity and distinctness of the right triangle, not even theology: the Bible has no logical proofs for the existence of God. How is it possible to discuss this book, to bracket all the belief and rejection alike, defense and attack, piety and animus, all those centuries of accumulated doctrine and interpretation? Not to mention the difficulty of understanding the text itself and what it is telling us about the relation of God and man. No book requires more patience, openness, imagination, and willingness to examine our presuppositions. As unsettled adults, you faced this difficulty and took the risk. In his second letter to Timothy, St. Paul writes: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." You too have fought the good fight, you have finished the race, you have kept the faith. Your faith has been your trust in this program of education and its tutors, and in your own powers of learning, or rather what Socrates calls "recollection." You read hard books, asked hard questions, and submitted to perplexity. The journey at times was not easy. Some of you had to make personal sacrifices that our undergraduates do not have to make: time away from jobs and family, the interruption of established life. But you persisted, and you are here. As you leave us now, I hope you will remember, above all, how much your learning owed to your conversations with one another and to the friendships you formed here. Having begun with a Greek saying, I end with another. It occurs at the end of Plato's Phaedrus: koina gar ta ton philon, "the things of friends are held in common." May you always hold dear that which you have held in common at this college: that noblest, most divine, most shareable of all human activities-thought. 5 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commencement Programs and Addresses Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Description An account of the resource Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Graduate Institute Commencement Address 2007, Peter Kalkavage Commencement Graduate Institute Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/42a10ac1fd46a8a7f8469648430451a5.pdf c1fdd7a0de7db1284e0d1db1ff7b9d7c PDF Text Text STJOHN'S College COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND SUNDAY, MAY THIRTEENTH Two THOUSAND AND ONE �PROGRAM FOR THE TWO HUNDRED NINTH COMMENCEMENT IN THE THREE HUNDRED FIFTH YEAR OF THE COLLEGE PRELUDE CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET ACADEMIC PROCESSION WELCOME CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS PRESIDENT NELSON HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT DEAN OF THE COLLEGE ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS ELLIOTT ZUCKERMAN TUTOR EMERITUS, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON DEAN FLAUMENHAFT CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON MICHAEL DINK DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE ACADEMIC RECESSION CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET �BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE (with title of essay) JUSTIN DONALD ANDREWS Mount Laurel, New Jersey The Child in the Abyss: Innocence, Ennui, and the Fracturing of the Poetic Soul in Baudelaire's Le Voyage ELIZABETH ANNE AUSTIN The Fall of a Sparrow: Hamlet's Quest for Completion MOLLYNDA VANNA BAGAGLIO Being Yourself, Staying at Play: An Exploration of the Nature of Man and His Relationship with Art in Friedrich Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man HEATHER ABIGAIL BEHREND Prospero's Daughter JULIA ELIZABETH BELL Dialectic, Rhetoric and Politics: An Analysis of the Gorgias South Portland, Maine Worcester, Massachusetts Provo, Utah Ramsey, New Jersey DANIEL THOMAS BRAITHWAITE Towards the Consciousness of No Subject Oak Park, Illinois LANCE RYAN BRISBOIS On the Essentially Socratic Nature of the Philosophical Fragments Danvers, Massachusetts JESSICA ALICE BROTMAN On Plato's Phaedrus Newton, Massachusetts JAMIE LYNN BROUGH The Musical Portrayal of Man's Primordial Roots in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring High Falls, New York �BRENDAN SCHANTZ BULLOCK Knowing That Which Cannot Be Known: Cause and Necessity in the Metaphysics of Aristotle and Leibniz Windham, Vermont Winston-Salem, North Carolina LAUREL SHANN CALDWELL "In loving thou dost well," (VIII.588): Sexual Relationships as a Metaphor for Relationships to God in Milton's Paradise Lost MARIA CHRISTINA CASSIMATIS Where We Stand - On Heidegger's Ground BRYAN HOWARD CLEVELAND Egypt and the Cult of Heracles: Mythology and the Marvelous in Herodotus' Histories Kensington, Maryland Xenia, Ohio Bainbridge Island, Washington JONATHAN FREDERICK GULP The Problem of Human Freedom in the Philosophy of Rousseau JOHN PATRICK CURRAN Issues of Individual Liberty and a Free Market of Exchange TIMOTHY VAUGHN DANIELS Power and Particles: The Role of Explanation in Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity WYATT JAMES DOWLING Prospero and His Project SUSAN DONAHUE ELLIS Behind Convention: An Essay on the Franklin's Tales JASON MATTHIAS EMERY Behold, Here I Am: An Examination of Faith, Resignation, and Abraham's Greatness in Fear and Trembling Woodbridge, Virginia New Bern, North Carolina Whitman, Massachusetts Chicago, Illinois Bedford, New Hampshire �KEVIN MICHAEL FARRELLY Don Quijote and Sancho Panza Montclair, New Jersey ANDREW JAMES FERGUSON Story Cycles Gary, North Carolina BEVERLY ANN FLEMER Angel Bread: Purification by Purgatory, Rise to Paradise Middlebury, Vermont EMILY FRANCES FRAMPTON The Dialogue of Song in Vergil's Eclogues Charleston, South Carolina NICOLE SUZANNE FRANK Liar Liar: An Examination of the Motives and Meanings Behind Marlow's Lie to the Intended in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Mount Desert, Maine TIMOTHY JAMES FREEMAN A Step Towards Saving the Spirit of Kant's Metaphysics Hollywood, Maryland ROBERT BRUCE ANDERSON GAMBILL The Balance of Security and Command: Considerations for the Founding of States Richmond, Virginia ANGELA CHRISTINE GIL Estrangement and Revolution: The Alienated Individual in Marx's German Ideology and Emerson's Essays and Lectures MontgomeryVillage, Maryland SARAH LOUISE GUYETTE From the Whale to the Cross: A Prophecy of World Salvation MICHELLE DAWN HALL Love and Ambition in Stendhal's The Red and the Black Lakeside, California St. Johnsbury, Vermont �KEVIN MICHAEL FARRELLY Don Quijote and Sancho Panza Montclair, New Jersey ANDREW JAMES FERGUSON Story Cycles Gary, North Carolina BEVERLY ANN FLEMER Angel Bread: Purification by Purgatory, Rise to Paradise Middlebury, Vermont EMILY FRANCES FRAMPTON The Dialogue of Song in Vergil's Eclogues Charleston, South Carolina NICOLE SUZANNE FRANK Liar Liar: An Examination of the Motives and Meanings Behind Marlow's Lie to the Intended in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Mount Desert, Maine TIMOTHY JAMES FREEMAN A Step Towards Saving the Spirit of Kant's Metaphysics Hollywood, Maryland ROBERT BRUCE ANDERSON GAMBILL The Balance of Security and Command: Considerations for the Founding of States Richmond, Virginia ANGELA CHRISTINE GIL Estrangement and Revolution: The Alienated Individual in Marx's German Ideology and Emerson's Essays and Lectures MontgomeryVillage, Maryland SARAH LOUISE GUYETTE From the Whale to the Cross: A Prophecy of World Salvation MICHELLE DAWN HALL Love and Ambition in Stendhal's The Red and the Black Lakeside, California St. Johnsbury, Vermont �JENNIFER BETH HARRIS On the Necessity of the Passionate SelfConsciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Miami, Florida MARSHALL ABBOTT HEVRON A Degree of Depravity: The Regulation of Vice in The Federalist Papers New Orleans, Louisiana MELISSA LYNN HUTCHINS A Look at the Power of Natural and Conventional Languages in Rousseau's Emile Rockville, Maryland JAMES HERBERT INZEO Shakespeare, Sonnets: On Lovers Greenbelt, Maryland HANNAH IRELAND WAKING: Lajeune Parque of Paul Valery Santa Fe, New Mexico DAVID LEE JENNINGS The Failure of Creon Oakhurst, California SARAH ELIZABETH JOYCE The God Who Wants Lookout Mountain, Georgia LIZABETH JANET JUMP Compassion and the Disruption of Complacency: Huck Finn as a Moral Hero IAN PETER JUNGBACKER Making Sense of Penelope BASIA KAPOLKA Intimacy with Filth: An Examination of Baudelaire's Une Charogne JAIME LYNN KEELING The Author's Meditation: Preoccupied with Socrates and an Unaccountable Word Westminster, Maryland Oshkosh, Wisconsin Salinas, California Hot Springs, Arkansas �ANTHE ALIFERIS KELLEY Looking into Logic DANIEL MORLEY KEYS Hegel in Search of Himself in the State Boston, Massachusetts Princeton Junction, New Jersey A-JlN KlM The Musical "Don Giovanni": Kierkegaard's Lover in Mozart's Opera Toronto, Ontario, Canada JOSHUA ALVA KIRKMAN The Devils of the Land: The Human Experience in Heart of Darkness Greenville, South Carolina ANDREW LYLE KOLB You Speak Like a Book: Reading Notes from Underground SEAN ROBERT LALLY The Dignity of Humanity: An Exploration of the Content of Kant's Ethics DAVID LAMAR LEE The Structure of Human Blessedness in Augustine's Confessions and De Trinitate SERGEY LEVCHIN Eros and History in the Art of C. P. Gavafy LAURA ANNA LEWIS The Body Tells the Truth: God Incarnate in The Violent Bear It Away SHAWN PATRICK LOHT Morality within the Limits of Reason in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Groundingfor the Metaphysics of Morals JOHN ROBERT LYON Einstein's New Notion of Space Flushing, New York Brentwood, Tennessee Skokie, Illinois West Chicago, Illinois Lewistown, Pennsylvania Shiloh, Ohio �New Stanton, Pennsylvania KRISTIN PAULINE MASSER "Does one's integrity ever lie in what one is unable to do?": Backwards to Bethlehem with Hazel Motes DANIEL MORGAN MAZAL Past the Lucid Paradox: The Search for True Sight in Shakespeare's Sonnets Deland, Florida WILLIAM IAN McCov Resurrection from The House of the Dead PATRICK EDWARD McDowELL Nothing Else Matters, and Nothing is So Neglected: An Argument for Why One Ought to Live Seeking God, Based upon Pascal's Pensees ADRIENNE ROXANNE MOORE Consciousness and Body, Will and Determinism: Comments on Some Writings by Descartes East Bangor, Pennsylvania Alexandria, Virginia CHARLES WILLIAM MORRISON A Theological Account of Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus Mass" ALI JASON MOUSSALLI Philosophy and Science in Maxwell and Poincare DANIEL THOMAS SULLIVAN O'KEEFE Believing in The Winter's Tale Indiana, Pennsylvania Texas MICHAEL WAYNE MEADOWS Drawn Down the Magic Cap: Marx and the Morality of Private Property ANNE MARGARET NEEDHAM The Motive for Metaphor: Wallace Stevens' Desire for Truth San Antonio, Texas Pensacola, Florida Washington, District of Columbia Wappingers Falls, New York �ALEXANDER LEE OWEN The Fall of the Roman Republic STEPHEN THOMAS PALOPOLI Paralysis, Gnomon, and Simony: An Analysis of Deficiency in Joyce's Dubliners COSMINA lOANA PoPA Farmington, Michigan Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania Arad, Romania "God Knows How These People Get Made!" PAIGE ELIZABETH POSTLEWAIT King Billy and the Paralyzed City JEREMY ALEXANDER PRATT A Study of Cyclical History MARC ANTHONY PRIEST A Justification of the Value of Scientific Pursuits Based Upon Francis Bacon's New Organon KATIE FRANKLIN PRINCE Rainy Day Women - The Broken Wisdom of the Artist SYLVAINE NATHALIE RAMECKERS Anagogy and Architecture: An Analysis of the Geometrical Dynamics of Ghartres JASON BRYAN REES Process as the Unifying Principle of Physical Reality JESSICA KRISTIN REITZ The Galilean Foundation for Relativity and the Absolute Significance of Motion in Nature CATHY OPPER ROSENBERG A Creator's Unity in a Created World: Contradiction, Separation, and Ambiguity in the First Three Chapters of Genesis Katy, Texas King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Memphis, Tennessee Southern Pines, North Carolina New York, New York Grass Lake, Michigan Worcester, Massachusetts Orlando, Florida �Marietta, Georgia ERIC DANIEL ROSENBERG Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and the Unhappy Consciousness Annandale, Virginia ELIZABETH BARAN ROYAL On the Sickness of Man ANDREW THOMAS SARAZIN Not Histories, But Lives: An Exploration of Plutarch's Method Charlottesville, Virginia Hanover, Maryland COLBY LEE SCHMIDT Odysseus: Terrorist or Guerrilla Warrior? Baltimore, Maryland SARAH LOUISE SCOTT Georg Cantor's Transfinite Numbers: A Quest for Objective Knowledge Swansboro, North Carolina TALLEY ROLLINGS SCROGGS Chercher? pas seulement: creer AARON BROOKS SECHLER On Heidegger's Aristotle Silver Spring, Maryland COLIN HENDERSON SMITH "Shall I Believe I Am Nothing? Shall I Believe I Am God?" An Argument Against Edward O. Wilson's Consilience Theory Exeter, New Hampshire MARGARET ELIZABETH SPAETH Freedom Through Beauty ERIK PETER STADNIK In Search of the Balanced Life: Mary, Morality, and Mansfield Park KIMBERLY J. STATELER Through the Ivory Gate: History, Heroes, and Hopes as Glimmering Illusion St. Joseph, Minnesota Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania Chicago, Illinois �JONATHAN PAUL STEVENS How Can a Loving God Allow Death?: An Examination of the Fall of Man as Described in Genesis Boyertown, Pennsylvania LEO GENE VLADIMIRSKY On Mirrors, Images, and Ahab in Moby Dick Weston, Connecticut MELISSA WACHS And Lead Us into Temptation: Stephen Dedalus, Quentin Compson, and the Redemptive Power of Sin KRISTOPHER WAYNE WACKERMAN Swift and Gulliver's Travels: Overcoming the Problem of Educating Through Satire MEIR RAPHAEL WALTERS To Prevail over God and Men: The Formation of Cities and Nations in the Book of Genesis CECELIA ALEXANDRA WATSON The Serial Experimentalist: Michael Faraday's Method and His "Being Induced" DANIEL ALBERT WEILAND Why Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete FLOYE HEATHER WELLS The Spectacle of Nature - Man's Image of Himself: An Exploration of Physical Nature in Rousseau's Emile Staten Island, New York Kansas City, Missouri Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Memphis, Tennessee Valencia, Pennsylvania Vail, Colorado JENNIFER ELIZABETH WESTIE Williamstown, Massachusetts Paradise for the Swarm: Discovering the Ennobling Power of Love in The Brothers Karamazov SARAH ELIZABETH WHITESEL The Unstated Self: Madness, Nothing, and Language in King Lear Darnestown, Maryland �NEVIN LAWRENCE YOUNG Vague Remarks upon Galileo and Dedekind: Continuity and the Infinite in Magnitude and Multitude IVA ZlZA On Marx Manchester, Maine Novi Sad, Yugoslavia �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION SHERWOOD RAY BELANGIA Summerfield, North Carolina JEREMY BRENINGSTALL St. Louis Park, Minnesota ERIC DAMIEN CADENA La Crescenta, California NATHAN ANDREW CRADDOCK Cincinnati, Ohio JILL ERIN CRAWFORD Brooklyn, New York ERIC CARL ELLINGSEN Lexington, Kentucky SCOTT WILLIAM GREENBERGER Green Bay, Wisconsin APRIL DAWN KONCHAR-HARBERT Pasadena, Maryland CHRISTOPHER ANDREW LARSON La Plata, Maryland YONGHWA LEE MATTHEW KENNETH LOUGHRAN JOHN MASON NEW STEPHANIE NORQUIST MARTHA ROSEAILEEN ROGERS SHANNON LYNN ROQUEMORE THEODORE MARTIN RYAN DANIEL EVAN SILVERMINTZ CHARLES WILBUR STOTLER III Pusan, South Korea Kensington, Maryland Richmond, Virginia Washington, District of Columbia Annapolis, Maryland Warner Robins, Georgia St. Louis, Missouri Boynton Beach, Florida Johnstown, Pennsylvania ANNE LOUISE SULLIVAN San Diego, California ERIC H. TWITE San Diego, California MILTON LAMONT WELCH NATHAN D. WILSON KEVIN B. YOST WALTER JAMES YUREK ZEJIAN ZHANG Newport News, Virginia Moscow, Idaho Lincoln, Vermont Rumbley, Maryland Chong Qing, People s Republic of China �HONORS AND PRIZES COMMENCEMENT 2001 To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay. Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the class of 1966 A Step Towards Saving the Spirit of Kant's Metaphysics TIMOTHY JAMES FREEMAN HANNAH IRELAND WAKING: La Jeune Parque of Paul Valery HONORABLE MENTION Egypt and the Cult of Heracles: Mythology and the BRYAN HOWARD CLEVELAND Marvelous in Herodotus' Histories To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens The Present is Pregnant with the Future: An Essay on Leibniz RACHEL ELLEN SEAY HONORABLE MENTION Cuckoo and Nightingale: Modes of Inspiration in Paradise Lost PETER MURPHY HEYNEMAN The Significance of Thinking a Concept as a Problem BLAKELY LAUREN PHILLIPS To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 On Faith and Perfection... KATHLEEN CAMPBELL KELLEY HONORABLE MENTION The Philosopher-Saint Defends his Career: A Study of Faith and Reason in Aquinas MICHELLE KAY PAINE �To the member of the Freshman Glass who has written the best annual essay. Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, Tutor Emeritus, and his wife, Else, by the Dean ANDERSON RUSSELL TALLENT The Incontinent Philosopher HONORABLE MENTION The Eumenides: Tension To the member of the January Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay in the 1999-2000 academic year. Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta Smith, of the Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton Nease, of the Class of 1992 To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2000. Offered by the Alumni Association "The Good Before Him ": The Role of Eve in Paradise Lost To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking. Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text. Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus ROBERT CHARLES ABBOTT, JR. No PRIZE CORINNE SAVAGE OLIVERIO SARAH ELIZABETH WHITESEL No PRIZE To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors Text: Hugo, "A Theophile Gautier" HONORABLE MENTION JAMIE LYNN BROUGH AMY MICHELLE PHILLIPS �To the student who submits a fine original English poem. Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry FOR : A Slap-pot Master PETER HEYNEMAN To the student who submits a fine original musical composition. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap No PRIZE To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music. Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap The Musical Portrayal of Man s Primordial Roots in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring JAMIE LYNN BROUGH To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem. Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus JUSTIN WILLIAM HURWITZ To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem. Offered in memory of James R. McClintock of the Class of 1965 JUSTIN WILLIAM HURWITZ To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project. A Faraday Cage To the Senior man and woman who by their participation, leadership, and sportsmanship have contributed most to the College's athletic program, special blazers. Offered by the Alumni Association of St. John's College DAVID SHEFFIELD MARTIN, JR. ANDREW JAMES FERGUSON JESSICA KRISTIN REITZ �To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth residing in the City of Annapolis. Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969 WILLIAM IAN McCoY To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize Palm After Rainfall, color photograph SYLVAINE NATHALIE RAMECKERS Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences Preservation, poetry collection National Security Education Program(NSEP) Scholarship for Summer Language Study, Egypt National Security Agency Scholarship and Internship MARIA CHRISTINA CASSIMATIS AARON BOYD MACLEAN RYAN DOUGLAS BARNES RYLEE �ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS St. John's College, Annapolis Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954 Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929 Philip L.Alger, 1912 Annapolis Graduate Institute Annapolis-Self-Help George M. Austin, 1908 Walter S. Baird, 1930 Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 Ford K. Brown, H'70 Chicago Regional Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp James T. Clark Class of 1897 Class of 1898 Richard F. Cleveland, H'54 Bernard Clorety Dr. Charles C. Cook Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Eugene N.( 1929(and Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino Wiley and Helen Crawford Cpl. George E. Cunniff III Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911 Richard A. Duhan, 1963 Faculty Scholarship James H. Frame, 1950 Harry Golding, Graduate Institute Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 John T. Harrison, Jr. Charles W. Hass, 1927 Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 The Hodson Trust Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Houston Regional J. Seward Johnson, Jr. Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H'84 Francis A. Katz, 1929 John Spangler Kieffer, H'70 and RoxanaKieffer,H'84 Jacob Klein, H'76 Korshin Family Fund Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 Joseph LaPides Michael Littleton Memorial Fund Massachusetts Regional James Matthews Philip A. Myers II, 1938 NationsBank Foundation Rev. Theo O'Brien Oklahoma Regional Norman G. Owens Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr. The Duane and Clementine Peterson Charitable Fund Pittsburgh Regional Reader's Digest Foundation J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937 Lenore B. Hinder Susan I. Roberts, 1966 Clifton C. Roehle Joan and Bela Ronay Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938 G.D. Searle/John E. Robson Robson Family J. J. Salovaara Flora Duvall Sayles Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan, 1908 Doug E. Sherr Memorial J. Winfree Smith, H'80 James S. Spirer, 1970 C. V. Starr Foundation Jean Roberts Staylor Clarence W. Stryker Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous Richard D. Weigle, H'49 John L. Williams Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams Frank K.Wilson, 1935 St. John's College St. John's College Alumni Association �ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS St. John's College, Annapolis Allied Signal Technical Services Corporation AllFirst Financial, Inc. Annapolis Banking and Trust Applied Signal Technology Baltimore Sun Bank of America Vernal and Florence Bates Foundation Becton-Dickinson Microbiology Systems Bell Atlantic-Maryland Booz, Allen and Hamilton Chevy Chase Bank Clark-Winchcole Foundation Class of 1992 Computer Science Corporation Deutschebank Alex. Brown First National Bank of Maryland Miss Charlotte Fletcher The Hodson Scholarship Foundation Independent College Fund of Maryland The James M. Johnston Trust Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation L-3 Communications System-East Legg Mason The John J. Leidy Foundation TimothyJ. Lyng Litton/PRC, Inc. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Company OMEN, Inc. Procter & Gamble T. Rowe Price Foundation Pulse Engineering, Inc. Raytheon/HRB Rollins/Leutkemeyer Rosemore, Inc. The Rouse Company SRA International St. Paul Companies Richard Squires TRW Systems & Information Technology Group Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc. UPS K. C. Victor Gifts received after April 15, 2001 are gratefully acknowledged and will be listed in the 2002 Commencement Program. �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commencement Programs and Addresses Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Description An account of the resource Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Commencement Programs and Addresses Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Description An account of the resource Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br /> <ul> <li>1796</li> <li>1835-1836</li> <li>1842</li> <li>1852</li> <li>1856-1857</li> <li>1870</li> <li>1878</li> <li>1880</li> <li>1890</li> <li>1893</li> <li>1895</li> <li>1897</li> <li>1907</li> <li>1910-1918</li> <li>1920-1924</li> <li>1928-1929</li> <li>1932</li> <li>1936-1937</li> <li>1939-1945</li> <li>1947-present  </li> </ul> Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencementprograms Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Title A name given to the resource Commencement Program, 2000 Description An account of the resource Program for the Two Hundred Eighth Commencement in the Three Hundred Fourth Year of the College. Also includes a program addendum for the Baccalaureate Service and a list of events. Commencement