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STJOHN'S
College
A N N A P O L I S • S A N T A FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY ELEVENTH
Two THOUSAND AND EIGHT
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED SIXTEENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED TWELFTH 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
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
PRESIDENT NELSON
MICHAEL DINK
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
BRUCE COLE
CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN DINK
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
JOAN E. SILVER
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
NATHANIEL PHILIP ADKINS
Conversion and Constancy in Pascal's Memorial
GABRIELLE ANNE AINES
Amazing Grace: Pride, Knowledge, and Revelation in
Flannery O 'Connor's Short Stories
EMILY TRAEGER ANDREWS
"Tramp - tramp - tramp; that's the dead... ": The Angel
of Death in Huckleberry Finn
MEGAN ANN ATHERTON
On Habit and Practical Thought
DAVID RIVERA AUDELO
Reflections of the Absolute in Finitude
Durham, North Carolina
Manassas, Virginia
Blythewood, South Carolina
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Bakersfield, California
CAROLINE WALD BARRY
All Things Conspire to Hurt Me: On the Identity of the
Tragic Figure in Jean Racine's Phedre
Baltimore, Maryland
JOSHUA AARON BECKER
Reason and Consciousness in Tolstoy's War and Peace
Hatfield, Pennsylvania
SOPHIE ELIZABETH BENNEWITZ
Behind Those "Fine Eyes ": Observation in Pride and
Prejudice and The Theory of Moral Sentiments
ANNA RACHEL BIEGELSEN
Confronting Mortality in Baudelaire's "Une Charogne''
RACHAEL NOEL BOYCE
The Education of Emma Woodhouse: A Lesson in
Satisfaction
ANNA WEINGAST BROWN
Truth, Beauty, and Geometric Certainty
Manteo, North Carolina
Hollywood, Florida
Westminster, Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
�JOHN FREEMAN BROWN
Under the Indifferent Heaven: The Desert's Impact on
Modern Prophets
ELIZABETH MCDOWELL BURLINGTON
From Sacred to Mundane: On the Kingdom of God
and the Sovereign in Hobbes' Leviathan
SAMUEL CHARLES CANDLER
Abandoning Reason
ASHLEY ELIZABETH CARDIFF
King Richard II
STEPHEN FRANKLIN CLARK
Understanding Childhood in the Lamentation
of "Fern Hill"
BRENDAN JAMES CLAY
Speaking to Nature: Beauty and Imagination in
Scientific Study
ERIC CARL CLOSS
On the Love of Beatrice to the Love of God: An Essay
on Dante's Journey in The Divine Comedy
GEORGE SLADE COLE, JR.
Discussing Happiness and Friendship in Aristotle's
Ethics
JOHN GORDON COOKE VI
On a Definition of Beauty
Cle Elum, Washington
New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania
Atlanta, Georgia
Sebastopol, California
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Savannah, Georgia
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
RANDALL GEORGE DARLING, JR.
Unity and the U. S. Constitution: An Understanding of
Balance in Political Science
Chardon, Ohio
RACHEL TARA DAVISON
Against the Tide of Tyranny: Voluntary Associations
in Alexis de Tocqueville 's Democracy in America
Houston, Texas
�LARISSA LIDDELL DEATON
Germanicus and the Logos of Violence
Great Falls, Virginia
ANNELIES DEGROOT
All She Wants to Do is Dance or How Natasha's Joyful
Dancing Brought Me Joy
Bethesda, Maryland
JOHN JOSEPH DONAHOE, JR.
"Though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Hope In Him":
Transformative Suffering, Unconditional Fear, and the
Case Against God in the Book of Job
Portola Valley, California
GARRET CHARLES DREXLER
Look to the West: Equality, Liberty, and Independence
in American Individualism
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
SAMANTHA MARIE ENNS
Oedipus as a Paradigm
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
FELICIA MARIE ENRIGHT
Ecstasy of Affliction: Mourning in War and Peace
TRISTAN WILLIAMS EVANS-WILENT
Accost Means Woo Her: An Essay on Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night
STEVEN ROBERT FAIRCHILD
Descartes, le plus grand democrate: Tocqueville on
Theory, Practice, and the Grandeur of the Democratic
Self
Chicago, Illinois
Laguna Beach, California
Troy, Michigan
SARAH KATHRYN FARY
Filling the Silence: The Role ofDiegesis and Dialectic
in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Silver Spring, Maryland
ANNE SEAVER FLEMING
L'inconstance fatale: The Passion and Suffering
Phedre
Gaithersburg, Maryland
of
�CHARLES HENRY FLEMING
"Free and Easy and Comfortable ": Life on the River in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
KAYLA JEAN GAMIN
Neither Slave Nor Tyrant: The Education of a Free
Man in Rousseau's Emile
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Lakewood, Ohio
KATRINA THERESE GERSIE
Socrates on Trial: A New Politician's Farewell
Wantage, New Jersey
CHARLES PETER GILLMARTEN
Jousting at Windmills? How Our Love of Don Quixote
Tests Our Faith
Alexandria, Virginia
STAGEY LYNNE GOGUEN
Kantv. Hume: The Battle Over Knowledge, Certainty,
and Science
Leominster, Massachusetts
LAUREN MICHELLE GOODMAN
Six Circles, One Triangle, and a Field: The Conflict of
Virtue and Ethics in Shichinin no Samurai
PETER ARA GUEKGUEZIAN
Liberte, Fraternite, et Egalite! Freedom and the
Citizen in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's On The Social
Contract
Naples, Florida
Fresno, California
CHARLES WILLIAM HAMM
The Revolution o/Traternite: Love and Duty in Les
Miser able s
Bethesda, Maryland
IAN JOSEPH HANOVER
All this Chaos is the Winds
New York, New York
ANDREW SCOTT FORBES HARRISON
On Nihilism: Being an Account of the Suicide of
Philosophy and What Growsfrom its Ashes
Summerville, South Carolina
�ALLISON CHARLOTTE HAUSPURG
Finding Faith in Philosophical Fragments
MAGGIE ARINA HEIM
Kierkegaard's Challenge to Philosophy Through the
Possibility of Faith
MARGARET CARPENTER HENNESSEY
Imagination, Reason, and Geometry
THOMAS BRADFORD HIGGINS
On the Vinteuil Sonata
Potomac, Maryland
Indian Harbor Beach, Florida
Middletown, Connecticut
New York, New York
BENJAMIN Ross HOFFMAN
Is Truth Valuable? The Relation Between Context and
Meaning: A Treatise of Hume and Nietzsche
Stamford, Connecticut
SUSAN AUDREY HOLCOMB
A Tale as Dry as Esparto Grass: A True History of the
Author, the Lover, and the Ingenious Gentleman
Dallas, Texas
WILLIAM SEAN HOLLINGSWORTH
An Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: Science
and the Civil Polity in Sir Francis Bacon's The New
Atlantis
Eugene, Oregon
SAMUEL RHYS JONES
On The Creative Soul: Baudelaire, Art and Suffering
Boston, Massachusetts
TIMOTHY RUSSELL JONES
Maxwell's Geometrical Argument
ADAM HARRIS HUNTER JUSKEWITCH
""Only the Good Man Is Free and All Bad Men Are
Slaves ": An Examination of the Death ofCato the
Younger
TAMMIE DENISE KAHNHAUSER
A Sacrifice and a Gold Ring: Crisis and Reconciliation
in the Book of Job
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Portland, Maine
Setauket, New York
�PAMELA RACHEL KESSLER
Explaining the Persian Defeat
WILLIAM AINSWORTH KNIGHT
The Lord Reckoned it to Him as Righteousness: Faith
and the Ethical in S0ren Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
MATTHEW ALAN LANCER
Stephane Mallarme: The Absent Signified
PHILIP JOSEPH LAZZARA
The Biological Problem of Mind: An Examination of
Mental Qualities and Their Development in The
Descent of Man
JUSTIN CHUN LEE
Truth and Transcendence in CormacMcCarthy's
The Crossing
ALDEN THOMAS MACKEY
The Poetry q/The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides'
Use of Poetic License in the Context of the Historical
Narrative
SHUNJI MATSUZAWA
Do We Have an Eschatological and Pleromatic
Imperative to Know Ourselves and Each Other?:
Jung's Integrative Psychology of Religion
ELISABETH RENEE McCLURE
"Merde!" in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
WILLIS KESTREL WRIGHT McCuMBER
Beautiful Action and the Repudiation of Ownership in
Faulkner's The Bear
JEFFREY RYAN MC!LVAIN
Building Bridges and Burning Them: On Greece's
Failure to Destroy the Persian Empire
Shelburne, Massachusetts
Burke, Virginia
Princeton, New Jersey
Burr Ridge, Illinois
Mililani, Hawaii
Bainbridge Island, Washington
Tokyo, Japan
Georgetown, Texas
Unity, New Hampshire
Westminster, Maryland
�BRYAN PATRICK MCNEILLY
On the Unspeakable Atmosphere of Joseph Conrad's
Heart of Darkness
Woodway, Washington
LAURENT DANIEL MERCERON
Friendship Between Montaigne and His Reader
Bloomington, Indiana
ADAM Ross MEYERS
"Is there a sound addressed not wholly to the ear?":
Music and the Poet's Task in W. C. Williams'
The Desert Music
Kansas City, Missouri
JOHN NEWTON
The Union Shall Not Fail: Trying to Justify the
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Oakland, California
NICHOLAS JOSEPH NOVITSKI
The Quest of the Philosopher in War and Peace
Miami, Florida
ClARAN SUALDAM O'BRIEN
South Salem, New York
The Beauty and Tragedy of Wildness in Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
NATHANAEL DEHAUS OKHUYSEN
Notions of Equilibrium: Balance, Tension, and Ethics
SEAN GRANT PENNY
Artistic Dualities and Uncertainties of Sight and Being
in Mann's Death in Venice
CORINNE DRUFFEL PETERS
Affirming Existence in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
KARL LEE PETRICK
Excellence Fallen: Heroism in the Aeneid and Paradise
Lost
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Ocala, Florida
Cincinnati, Ohio
Clearfield, Pennsylvania
�* DAVID MICHAEL PINEDO
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
JOHN TRAVIS PITTMAN
The Way to God in the Gospel According to John
Williamsburg, Virginia
LYDIA SPRAGUE PUTNAM
The Man Behind the King: The Apprenticeship of
Prince Hal
Hatfield, Pennsylvania
SANDRA IVELISSE QUINTANA
Death is Beautiful: A Study of Contraries in Plato's
Phaedo
San Juan, Puerto Rico
DANIEL STUART RANDLETT
Self and State: Rousseau, The Arts, and Virtue
Gainesville, Virginia
DANIEL PHILIP REKSHAN
Searchingfor the Spiritual Basis of a Painting: A
Textual and Pictorial Inquiry into Kandinsky's On the
Spiritual in Art, Improvisation 7, and Composition 6
Marquette, Michigan
AURORA DARE RIVENDALE
Wind, Women and Water
Annapolis, Maryland
LAUREN ELIZABETH ROBERTSON
"Something Rich and Strange": Time, Place, and the
Liberal Arts in The Tempest
ASHLEY SABRINA ROURKE
First Impressions: Which is Right and Which is an
Illusion
CLARE MYERS SAUNDERS
Looking for Truth: The Role of Observation in
Relativity and Quantum Theory
CLARKE MATHEW-THOMAS SAYLOR
Suffer An Hour, Live For An Age: The Struggle for
Internal Peace in Tolstoy's War and Peace
Sturgis, Michigan
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Athens, Georgia
Garrison, Maryland
�STERLING ALEXANDER SCHLEGEL
"A voice! a voice!": An Investigation of Narration
within Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
ALEXANDRA VICTORIA SCHWAB
Faith and Free Will in Tolstoy's War and Peace
JESSICA CAROLINE SEILER
The Failure of Reason and the Triumph of Philosophy
SHANT RAFFIE SHAHRIGIAN
The Hawthorn and the Orchid: On Love and Art in
Swann's Way
MATTHEW Louis SHEAR
By the Dog, Socrates is Wrong: The Evolution of
Tragic Art in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy
DYLAN Ross SHERRY
A World of Seduction: Examining Philosophy Using
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
VISHAL JITEN SHETH III
Faith as Habit in Fear and Trembling: Or, How to
Become a Bourgeois Philistine
ANDREW PAUL CORCORAN SHIELDS
Morality and Divinity
JON KARA SYLVESTER-JOHNSON SHIELDS
The Heart of a Hebrew King: An Analysis of the Story
of David andBathsheba
GREGORY Ross SINGER
Cyclopes, Witches, and Fairies: co JLIOI eyco! Variations
on oiTOCpccyoi in Homer's Odyssey: An
Anthropological Inquiry
GIOVANNI LYON ROGERS SMEDLEY
Into Freedom 'sAir: Magic Mountain's Morals
West River, Maryland
Richmond, Virginia
Los Angeles, California
Annandale, Virginia
Larchmont, New York
Amherst, New Hampshire
Bombay, India
Willow Park, Texas
Roanoke, Virginia
Annapolis, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland
�BRYAN ARTHUR SMITH
The Killing Ideal: Love and Art in Baudelaire's "Une
Charogne"
Americus, Georgia
MAX BENTON SOCOL
Gentleman, Fool: Changing Roles in As You Like It
Greensboro, North Carolina
ERICA LYNN STRATTON
What Breeds About the Heart
Morgantown, West Virginia
THOMAS SCHUYLER STURM
Aspects of War and Peace in Aristophanes' Peace,
Hesiod's Works and Days and Thucydides'
Peloponnesian War
Lyndonville, Vermont
HAYLEY VIRGINIA THOMPSON
Heroics in History: A Study of Greatness and Heroism
Looking at the Lives of Alexander, Cato the Younger,
and Caesar
Seattle, Washington
ZACHARY DAN THROOP
To the Elements: Freedom and the Dissolution of Art
in The Tempest
Woodstock, Georgia
* ASHLEE DAWN TURNBULL
Roeland Park, Kansas
AMANDA MOORE VOELKER
The Journey to Happiness: A Look at Society's
Influence on Personal Happiness in Middlemarch
Santa Rosa, California
SARA MARIE WAGNER
Copyrighted Material All Rights Reserved: ImageReflection and Authority in Milton's Eden
JOHN PATRICK WELLER
Metabolism and Mind: A Quantitative Irrelevancy of
Cosmic Importance
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
�DANIEL WILHELM WHEATLEY
Once You 've Made Your City, You 'II Have to Lie in It:
The Treatment of Lies in the Republic
JENNIFER ASHLEY WRIGHT
The Picture of Beauty: The Moral Implication of a
Book on Dorian Gray
SARA!EAN MARIE WRIGHT
The Significance of Childhood
* Upon completion of requirements
Baltimore, Maryland
Glencoe, Illinois
Fort Collins, Colorado
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
BRIAN RICHARD BECKER
Washington, District of Columbia
TALITHA BENJAMIN
Washington, District of Columbia
JUSTIN SCOTT BIELER
DONALD NEWTON BRIGGS
KEVIN ARNOLD BROOKS
FRANKLIN LER.OY CARROLL IV
WALTER RODERICK COFIELD, JR.
ZEBULIN Louis CULVER
CARLY PHYSIOC Fox
BILLI JACQUELYN LONDON GRAY
MIRIAM SHULAMIT JACOBS
AMY LEIGH LAUGHLIN
JOHN TALBOT MANVEL, JR.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Emmitsburg, Maryland
Rochester, Minnesota
Fullerton, California
Salisbury, Maryland
Eugene, Oregon
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Wylie, Texas
Severna Park, Maryland
Ada, Michigan
Annapolis, Maryland
LlSA MlCHELE McCoRKELL
T\ilsa, Oklahoma
CASEY DAVID McCoY
Eugene, Oregon
JOHN DAVID MC&NTY
TRACI LEEANN MELLOR
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Reston, Virginia
NICOLE PATRIECE MILLER
Washington, District of Columbia
DANIEL LOREN PETERSON
West Chester, Pennsylvania
MATTHEW DOUGLAS SANDWISCH
LOUISE EUPHEMIA THOMAS
GARETH THOMAS WILLIAMS
Oak Harbor, Ohio
Chicago, Illinois
Towson, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,008
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
"Merde!" in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
ELISABETH RENEE McCuiRE
The Killing Ideal: Love and Art in Baudelaire's "Une Charogne"
BRYAN ARTHUR SMITH
HONORABLE MENTION
A Tale as Dry as Esparto Grass: A True History of the Author,
the Lover, and the Ingenious Gentleman
SUSAN AUDREY HOLCOMB
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
Kantian Synthesis and Hume 's Chimera:
The Unity of the Manifold
•
CLAIRE MURPHY GRIFFIN
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
"What Is My End, That I Should Be Patient?"
TAYLOR KENT REESE
�HONORABLE MENTION
Will and Faith in Augustine's Confessions
RAPHAELA DORIS CASSANDRA
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, Tutor Emeritus, and his wife,
Else, by Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Walker
Loving the Corruptible
KAITLYN RITA SCHULER
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2007.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Rereading Proust
ABIGAIL FOOTE THOMAS
HONORABLE MENTION
Dante's Game ofHide-and-Seek
DIAN OWEN VANDEMARK
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
ELISABETH RENEE MCCLURE
�To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Text: Opening of Aeschylus 'Prometheus Bound
JULIA CATHERINE PATTERSON
HONORABLE MENTION
BRADLEY JOHN VAN UDEN
)K
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Andre Chenier, "Hymne a la nuit"
KAYLA JEAN GAMIN
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"'Christine ' - 1 said, but you had closed the door "
RACHEL MICHELLE BARTGIS
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
"Serenade "
LUKE ANTHONY RUSSELL
�To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
On Repentance: An Examination and Comparison of the
Repentance Arias of Judas and Peter in Bach 's
St. Matthew Passion
LUKE ANTHONY RUSSELL
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
ELIZABETH EMILY FLEMING
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
No PRIZE AWARDED
HONORABLE MENTION
JOHN STEVEN SCHULER
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Making the Perfect Slide: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love Chromosome Microscopy
KATHERINE ELAINE HALE
Metamorphosis o/'Abystoma Mexicanum: Experiment Using
Thyroid Hormone Immersion
JOHN THOMAS WELSH AND JEAN M. HOGAN
�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
CHARLES HENRY FLEMING
HAYLEY VIRGINIA THOMPSON
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 PRIZE AWARDED
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
NO PRIZE AWARDED
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
3 Pieces of Cloth, 2 Apples, 1 Mango, oil on panel
DANIEL PHILIP REKSHAN
HONORABLE MENTION
Untitled, ceramic
SAMANTHA MARIE ENNS
�Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences
Untitled, digital photograph
JUSTIN CHUN LEE
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Helen de Aloia
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 192,9
Donna Marie Delattre
Mildred Alexander
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship
Fund
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Faculty Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship
Ronald and Donna Fielding
Annapolis Graduate Institute
James H. Frame, 1950
Annapolis Self-Help
Friends of St. John's
George M. Austin, 1908
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
Walter S. Baird, 1930
George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
Fred and Marion Billups Fund
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
Ford K. Brown, Hyo
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Garitas Society of St. John's College
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Gasasco Family Fund
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
Chicago Regional
The Hodson Trust
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
James T. Clark, 1928
Houston Regional
Class of 1897
John Isaacs
Class of 1898
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Richard F. Cleveland, H54
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh
Jones, 1909
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H84
Eugene N. (1929) and Robert G. (1963)
Cozzolino
John Spangler Kieffer, H7O, and
Roxana White Kieffer, H84
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Jacob Klein, H76
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Korshin Family Fund
Francis A. Katz, 1929
�Tom and Cathryn Krause
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers,
G. D. Searle/John E. Robson
193°
Joseph LaPides
Robson Family
J. J. Salovaara
Michael Littleton Memorial
Flora Duvall Sayles
Massachusetts Regional
Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan,
1908
James Matthews, Hgg
Middendorf Foundation
DougE. Sherr (1972) Memorial
Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund
Thomas J., H94, and Marion K. Slakey
Paul Miller
J. Winfree Smith, H8o
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
James S. Spirer, 1970
NationsBank Foundation (Bank of
America)
C.V. Starr Foundation
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book
Fund
O'Grady Memorial
Jean Roberts Staylor
Oklahoma Regional
Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book Fund
Norman G. Owens
Clarence W. Stryker
Dr. Thomas Parran and
Thomas Parran, Jr.
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner
Passin Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966
Richard D. Weigle, H49
Pittsburgh Regional
John L. Williams, 1950
Reader's Digest Foundation
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
Lenore B. Hinder
Delores and Stephen Wolf
Cleo Ritz
Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
St. John's College Alumni Association
Clifton C. Roehle
Joan and Bela Ronay
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Estate of Eugene Adkins
Huether-McClelland Foundation
Maria Baker
James M. Johnston Trust
Baltimore Sun Media Group
Larry Katz
BB&T
KAWG&F
Beachley Foundation
KCI Technologies, Inc.
Bunting Family Foundation
Campbell Foundation
Ensign J. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial
Foundation
GareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
KPMGLLP
Garitas Society of St. John's College
Lalley Charitable Fund
Center for Funds & Foundations
John Larson
Chevy Chase Bank
Legg Mason, Inc.
Chimes International Limited
John J. Leidy Foundation
Comcast Cable
Harvey M. and Lyn P. Meyerhoff Fund
Lauren Connolly
Estate of Paul Miller
Richard & Rosalie C. Davison
Foundation
Number Ten Foundation
Arthur & Isadora Dellheim Foundation
Josephine and Harvey Poe
Dixon Valve and Coupling Company
Eliasberg Family Foundation, Inc.
Procter & Gamble Cosmetics
Foundation
FOX45
RCM&D Foundation, Inc.
Amy McConnell Franklin
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation
Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky
Foundation
United Parcel Service
PNC/Annapolis Banking and Trust
LaVerna Hahn Charitable Trust
Venable, Baetjer and Howard
Foundation
Henderson-Webb
Victor Graphics
Hoffberger Foundation
The Whiting-Turner Contracting
Company
Harley Howell Charitable Foundation
Henry H. Lewis Contractors, LLC
Gifts received after April 15, 2008 are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2,009 Commencement Program.
��
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<li>1947-present </li>
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2008-05-11
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Program for the two hundred sixteenth commencement in the three hundred twelfth year of the college.
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Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD)
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Commencement Program, 2008
Commencement
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SIJOHN'S
College
A N N A P O L I S • S A N T A FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY SEVENTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND NINE
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH 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
MICHAEL DINK
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
ANITA L. KRONSBERG
TUTOR AND ASSISTANT DEAN
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN DINK
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)
SETH GREGORY APPELBAUM
Baltimore, Maryland
The Confrontation Between Divine Inspiration and Human
Worth in Plato's Ion (With Frequent Reference to the Apology
of Socrates)
KATHERINE MAE ARMITAGE
Hold onto the Concrete
Tacoma, Washington
PlOTR MAURYCY AxER
Portland, Oregon
Man Alone: An Examination of the Underground Man in
Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground
SUSANNAH PORTER BALL
Vincy Vincit: A Study of Provincial Life
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
RACHEL MICHELLE BARTGIS
To Love, Honor, and Obey: Grisilde and Her Marriage Vow
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW BARTOS
Where Are We Going? Directionality in Natural Selection
Millersville, Maryland
Clifton Park, New York
MlCAH JORDAN BECK
Lansing, New York
On the Transition of Political Power in Ancient Israel into
Monarchy: That it Was Both a Necessity and a Sin, and That
David was the Ideal of the Compromise
KELLY ELISABETH BECKER
The "Somewhat Expanded" Don Quixote and His Discoveries
of Part One and Part Two
MEGHAN JACOBSON BENSON
Baring Lear: A Study of the Loss and Retrieval Of Lear's Titles
ALYSSA GAIL BERNANKE
Arlington, Virginia
Saline, Michigan
Washington, District of Columbia
The Loss of Natural Selection: A Darwinian Approach to
Domestication and Breeding
�CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BORCHERT
Hagerstown, Maryland
Ending It When It's Over: An Investigation into Turnus'Death
and the Last Scene of the Aeneid
CHRISTOPHER PIERCE BORDERS
Abraham and Kierkegaard's Moment
Annapolis, Maryland
TIMOTHY GRANT BRISNEHAN
"Comme les exiles, ridicule et sublime," The Poet in the City
in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mai
NOEL RALPH BROCKETT
The Music of Plato: An Inquiry into the Best Education
Through the Works of Plato
New Britain, Connecticut
SCOTT TERRENCE BULLARD
Education Through Dialectic in Speech and Action in Plato's
Republic
* MATTHEW NEELY BUTLER
CHELSEA PANTALONE CARPENTER
God, the Joy Giving and Sole Saving Diversion
MELINDA LEE CARRERA
Music, Fire and the Feminine Soul: Natasha's Education into
Womanhood
MATTHEW KAI CARTER
The Castaway and Immensity
Aurora, Colorado
Westport, Connecticut
Columbia, Maryland
Manasquan, New Jersey
Camarillo, California
Dagsboro, Delaware
KELVIN WAYGID CHUNG
Garden Grove, California
An Attempt to Understand Hegel's Account of the Unhappy
Consciousness
JOSEPH ANTHONY CIUMMO
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Fighting the Fight." Strife, Truth, and History: The Essence of
Art in Martin Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art
�THOMAS JOSEPH CLEVELAND
The Beautiful and Good: On Plato's Hippias Major
Norfolk, Virginia
MICHAEL ANDREW COONEY
Rockport, Massachusetts
Fates Past Counting: The Life and Death of the Warrior Soul
CECELIA ELLIOTT CORRIGAN
Into the Labyrinth: An Exploration q/Dessein in Racine's
Phedre
JOHN MICHAEL GRADES II
Flowers of Antimony by Any Other Name: Lavoisier and the
Language of Learning
TIMOTHY MARK CREIGHTON
The Habit of Being
Delmar, New York
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Gap, Pennsylvania
CAITLIN GAIL CURTIS
Self Awakening and the Pursuit of Marriage in Pride and
Prejudice
Seattle, Washington
HANNAH CUSTIS
"Thesefragments I have shored against my ruins ": Form,
Content, and the Mythical Method in The Waste Land
Cambridge, Maryland
ROXANNE ELIZABETH DARNTON
Education and the Divine: Exploring the Motivation Behind
Echeis Moi Eipein, O Sokrates
KRISTINA DIMITRIJEVIC
On Human and Divine Union
JOHN ZACHARY DORNBERGER
The Death of the Man of La Mancha
El Segundo, California
Largo, Florida
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
KlERAN PATRICK DOWDY
Why Am I Here? What Am I Doing? Pierre's Search for
Meaning in Tolstoy's War and Peace
Huntsville, Alabama
�JOAO PEDRO SANTA-RITA FERNANDES
Freedom and the Spartan Character
Fayetteville, Arkansas
ASHLEY RENEE FETTEROLF
L'Amant, 1 Ami, et le Misanthrope
Earleville, Maryland
JOSEPH FlLVAROF
Silver Spring, Maryland
Belief and Experience in the Book of Jonah
TAMARA LYNNE FRIEDLER
The Fall of the House ofSutpeniAn Exploration of Innocence
in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
DAVID THOMAS FUHRMAN
Annandale, Virginia
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Heart of Darkness: The Changes Take Place Inside, You Know
JAMES WILLIAM FULMER
The God of the Adversary and the Malefactor on the Cross
Troubles Job, Living on theFrontier of Experience: When Job is
Naught, Then He is a Man
PAMELA JOAN GARDNER
Dorothea's Pursuit of Greatness in Middlemarch
NATHAN SHOLES GATES
Houston, Texas
Fairfield, Connecticut
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
"To Join in Love, Not Hate ": The Magnificent Failure of
Friendship in Antigone
LlNDEN KATE GEIGER
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Kirillov andShatov: Paths of Belief
CLAIRE MURPHY GRIFFIN
Richmond, Minnesota
Embodied Experience: On Maurice Merleau-Ponty's
Phenomenology of Perception
KATHERINE ELAINE HALE
Durham, North Carolina
"Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its
name ": Scientific Classification in Aristotle, Darwin and
Lavoisier
�TABITHA RAE HALL
Fearful Humans, Loved by God: An Essay on the Nature of
God's Love and Humans' Response to It
ANNA ELIZABETH HARVEY
Division and Identity in Macbeth
Akron, Ohio
Yorktown Heights, New York
WYNNE HEDLESKY
How to Philosophize After Nihilism: A Not-So-Easy Guide for
the "Predisposed and Predestined"
Dublin, Virginia
PATRICK AuER JONES
Catonsville, Maryland
Socratic Piety and the Discovery of Political Philosophy in the
Minos
JULIA WELLS JOYCE
The Searchfor Freedom: The Extent of Man 9s Freewill in
Tolstoy's War and Peace
Peacham, Vermont
KRISTOPHER STEVEN KLOTZ
Montoursville, Pennsylvania
God as Consequent and Superject: Examining Religious
Prehensions in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality
NATHAN GERALD KROSS
Death in War and Peace
Washington, Pennsylvania
EDWARD JOHN KUENZI
On Predestination, Free Will and Two Love Stories in Leo
Tolstoy's War and Peace
MICHAEL JOHN LEBLANC
A Paradigm/or the Properly Governed: Thucydides'Response
to Glaucon
ROSE KATHERINE LIMANNI
"Into the World ofLoneness": The Conflict Between Reason
and Desire in William Blake's The Book of Ahania
Sharpsburg, Georgia
Lyndhurst, Ohio
Dallas, Texas
�IAN KENNETH LINDQUIST
Unionville, Connecticut
Between Beast and God: Human Cultivation, Tradition and
Community in Homer's Odyssey
DALTON LOBO DlAS
The Baconian Revolution and the Rise of the Scientific Animal
FABIO HULLEY LOMELINO
The Amnesiac: Extracting Meaning from the Earth
SARA CHRISTINE LUELL
"The king is not himself: The Character of Richard II
I
MARIA NlCOLE LUNSFORD
Mercy and Defeat in Flannery O 'Connor 9s "The Artificial
Nigger"
BRITTANY RAE McBRIDE
The Importance of the Sense Education in Rousseau's Emile
OWEN J. McGLAIN
Defending Don Quixote: A Jester's Place Among the Giants of
Philosophy
Berlin, Connecticut
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Friendswood, Texas
Brookeville, Maryland
Mitchellville, Maryland
Lincoln, Vermont
MARK FREDERICK McCLAY
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
The Problem of Silence: Aeschylus's Agamemnon and the
Meaning of the Unspoken
JOHN PAUL LUCIEN MclNTYRE
The Salute to the Creator in Newton and Darwin: Divinity in
the Principia andThe Origin of Species
ERIN MICHELLE McMuLLIN
Iphigeneia and the Horror of War
LAUREN ELAINE MOONEY
Self-Knowledge in Love: The Construct of Self in Pursuing
Romantic Relationships
Baltimore, Maryland
Eatonton, Georgia
Rockville, Maryland
�DANIEL ROCHE MUENZER III
Francis Bacon's Theory of Knowledge
Cincinnati, Ohio
ALEXANDRA ELAINE MUNTERS
Thought Seeing: Perception and the Intellect in Aristotle's On
the Soul
Alexandria, Virginia
MY THUY NGUYEN
"Experience had embittered his heart to the world":
Understanding Poverty, Paralysis, and Epiphany in James
Joyce's Dubliners
Mabelvale, Arkansas
AUBREY LEE NIGHSWANDER
How Man Stands Now: An Exploration of the Paths Man
Pursues that Lead Him to Unintended Weariness
Port Clinton, Ohio
NATHAN JEFFREY OESCH
A More Perfect Union: The Foundations of Politics as a Science
in The Federalist
LAUREL SlERRA PAPPAS
Bethesda, Maryland
San Luis Obispo, California
Signatures of the Divine: Nature and Morals in Immanuel
Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason and Charles Darwin's The
Descent of Man
JULIA CATHERINE PATTERSON
Man of Many Names: Some Epithets of Odysseus in Odyssey
XIII
MELISSA ANNE PEISER
,
Fairfax, Virginia
Owings Mills, Maryland
The Virtue of Friendship: The Friendship of Don Quixote and
Sancho Panza
JESSICA LYSHOJ PERRY
Mill Valley, California
Brother, Lover, Master: Sexual Imagery in William Faulkner's
Absalom, Absalom!
STEFFANIE MARIE PETERSON
Mortal Thoughts as Mortals Should
Crookston, Minnesota
�SAMUEL PORTER
Saratoga Springs, New York
"The rigging lived... ": The Pequod as a Character in Moby-Dick
LAUREL KATHLEEN PRICE
Those Beautiful Vessels: So Many Shrouded Ghosts: A Look at
the Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass
Quincy, California
CLINT ALLAN RICHARDSON
East Lansing, Michigan
Why Rule? An Inquiry into the Actions of the Philosophic Man
as Embodied by Cicero
PATRICK LAWRENCE RIEDER
The Education of Cyrus
KATHARINE NOELLE RlOS
Albany, Oregon
Wildomar, California
"But what then am I?" Essence and Experience in Descartes'
Meditations
MARY REBECCA ROACH
Newark, Delaware
Why Does it Have to Hurt? Violence and Revelation in
Flannery O 'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First"
MOLLY FRANCES ROTHENBERG
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Less Elevated, More Just: The Threat and Promise of Equality
in Democracy in America
LUKE ANTHONY RUSSELL
Annapolis, Maryland
The Ancient and Modern View of Man and Political Rule: An
Essay Concerning Hobbesian Man
VIRGINIA JEANETTE RUSSOM
Nikolai Stavrogin: A Character Study from Dostoyevsky 's
Demons
Chama, New Mexico
CHAD ETHAN SALECKER
Charlottesville, Virginia
Distinguishing Humanity from the Darkness Within: Fyodor
Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground
�THEODORE JAMES SALWEN
The Part of Us That is Not Submerged: The Overman, the
Absolute, and Individual Choice
JOHN HENRY SCHLEY
The Will to Life
JOHN STEVEN SCHULER
Political Memory at the Close of the Age of Heroes: The
Cosmopolitan Nature of Man
New York, New York
Jersey City, New Jersey
Lake Worth, Florida
ROBERT GAIUS SHAVER
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Wealth of Nations, Wealth of Faiths: The Interrelation of
Wealth, Politics, and Faith in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
JESSE CLAYTON SHEARER
Subjectivity and the Evasion of Historical Suppression: On
Spontaneity, Ethics, and Erotic Love in Emmanuel Levinas'
Totality and Infinity
Boston, Georgia
TABITHA ROSE SILVER
From Abysmal Thought to Burden-Song: The Redemption of
Zarathustra
New York, New York
DAVID COLE SlMMONS
"This will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the
strength of iron in it": An Inquiry into the Divisive Effects of
Locke's Toleration and the Christian Church
Harrisonburg, Virginia
PAULINE CECILE STACCHINI
"Beauty laid bare ": A Discussion of the Boundaries of Beauty
in Baudelaire
Versailles, France
ROBERT ALLAN STEWART
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Second Tree of Knowledge: How Can Philosophy be a
Living Thing?
MICHAEL JOSEPH STINNETT
Downers Grove, Illinois
Reading Adventures: Understanding the Notice in Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
�JENNIFER ANN STOCKLIN
Civilizing Experience: Solitude and Story telling in Conrad's
Heart of Darkness
Lancaster, Ohio
MICHAEL ALBERT STOKLEY
The Hidden and Their Discovery
Longmont, Colorado
AlSfDREW TiESSEN SUTTON
Altadena, California
On the Possibility of Moral Development
ROBERT DRAKE TALLEY
On Becoming One Out of Many
Memphis, Tennessee
EMMANUEL EARL THOMAS
Beginnings in Plato's Phaedrus
Chicago, Illinois
PAUL ANTHONY THOMPSON
Clearfield, Pennsylvania
All Men Must Die, But First Let Us Live
CHRISTOPHER SCOTT THORN
Davidsonville, Maryland
Life: All for One or Onefor All?'An Investigation of the Good
for Organic Life
MlRANDA MARIA ToMIC
Port Washington, New York
Resignation as a Means to Faith
ASHLEY BROOKE TYLER
Annapolis, Maryland
Maxwell and Method
CAROLYN MARIE WALSH
Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Without knowing what I am and why I'm here, it is
impossiblefor me to live ": The Searchfor Meaning in Tolstoy's
Anna Karenina
KATHERINE LEIGH WALTER
Poetry and Mathematics: A Love of Rhyme and Reason
WARREN SCOTT WEBER
"I Reckon It's So ": A Study of Morality in Huckleberry Finn
Westminster, Maryland
Haverhill, Massachusetts
�KELLY MARIE WILSON
The Discipline of Angels: An Examination of the Creative Act
in Three Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
SAMUEL MAXWELL ENGLAND YELTON
Herodotus and the Meaning of History
YUHUAI ZHOU
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Charlotte, North Carolina
Guangzhou, Republic of China
From Sympathy to Morality
JESSICA MOON ZIMMERBERG-HELMS
Nature and the Language of the Sense: An Illumination of
"Tintern Abbey" Through the Works of Edmund Husserl
* Upon completion of requirements
Santa Fe, New Mexico
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
ANDREW EVAN ACHTER
Greensboro, North Carolina
JOHN HARRISON AKINS
Maryville, Tennessee
ERIC ANDREW ALLISON
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
JOHANNA LORRAINE ANDERSON
Smithfield, Rhode Island
BERNARDO APARICIO GARCIA
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
DAVID NICHOLAS BAHR
Kensington, Maryland
BRENT WALKER BEAUMONT
Birmingham, Alabama
STEPHEN DOUGLAS BECK
NATHAN ANDREW BETZ
THOMAS REES BEVAN
CHRISTOPHER JAMES BISHOP
JENNIFER ANNE BOYD
DARRIN SHANE BROADWATER
KATHARINE MARIE GEREZO
NATHANIEL JAMES GOCHRAN
CAROLYN DONNA COMMER
ALESSANDRO COTA
SARAH JOAN CROKER
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Irvine, California
Allison Park, Pennsylvania
Ramsey, New Jersey
Baltimore, Maryland
LaVale, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
Fairfax, Virginia
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
Atlanta, Georgia
GIULIANA SAGE DE GRAZIA
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
JARED ALEXANDER FAVOLE
Annapolis, Maryland
SABRINA IRENE FRANK
KEVIN DAVID GURUBATHAM
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Silver Spring, Maryland
�LAUREN E. HAMILL
ROSEMARY HARTY
WILLIAM EDWARD HOARD
NICHOLAS SOLWAY JAN HONDRUM
JONATHAN ADAM JACKSON
CHRISTOPHER DANE MENGES
LISA MARIE MOSCATIELLO
COLIN ANDREW JOSEPH MURPHY
APRIL DAWN PIERMAN
JEFFREY SCOTT POUSHTER
MATTHEW LEE REPPERT
NICOLE KRISTY RIZKALLAH
Arlington, Texas
Annapolis, Maryland
Aiken, South Carolina
Baltimore, Maryland
North Richland Hills, Texas
Amarillo, Texas
Takoma Park, Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Grasonville, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Simi Valley, California
AMY RENEE SANDEFUR
Abilene, Texas
JAMES EDWARD SAVAGE
Southfield, Michigan
ARNOLD RANDOLPH STERLING, III
MARISSA RUTH WALSH
JOHNNY LEE YOUNG
Duncanville, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia
Severn, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,009
To the member of the Senior Glass who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the class of 1966
Nature and the Language of the Sense: An Illumination of
"Tintern Abbey " Through the Works of Edmund Husserl
JESSICA MOON ZIMMERBERG-HELMS
«/
HONORABLE MENTION
Embodied Experience: On Maurice Merleau-Ponty 's
Phenomenology of Perception
CLAIRE MURPHY GRIFFIN
ir
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
Transcendental Deduction: Not what, but how? /
BRADLEY JOHN VAN UDEN
HONORABLE MENTION
Swift's Noble Lie: Pride, Irony, and the Horses Which Are Not
KlRSTIE NlCCOLE DODD
To the member of the Sophomore Glass who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins,
of the Class of 1880
Moving Toward Stillness; Eternity in Augustine's Confessions
SHANNON MULLOY
v
�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. and Mrs. Stuart Walker
Socrates in the Apology: Guilty As Charged?
GILBERT IRVING SHANK
^
HONORABLE MENTION
Natural Slavery and Moral Virtue
JONATHAN JAE TINCHER
I/
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2008.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Battling the Untamable Lion of Storytelling
JENNIFER ANNE GAVIN
/
HONORABLE MENTION
Flaming Generations: An Exploration of Passion in the Aeneid
GIULIANA SAGE DE GRAZIA
To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. lydings of Maryland
THOMAS JOSEPH CLEVELAND
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Homer's Odyssey, Book 23, lines 181 - 204
BRADLEY JOHN VAN UDEN \f
NATHAN SHOLES GATES ^
I
�To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
"Non, 1'amour n'est pas mort" by Robert Desnos
KlRSTIE NlCCOLE DODD ^
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"He Would Not Hear My Heart"
KELLY MARIE WILSON ^
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Garitas Society 1987-1991
Sonata
LUKE ANTHONY RUSSELL *
HONORABLE MENTION
Prelude in A-flat Major f
JESSE BLAKE RUNDLE
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
Music Enhancing the Words in Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus
JOHN IRA KENNEDY III ^
HONORABLE MENTION
Mystery and Expectancy
LUKE ANTHONY RUSSELL
�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
Class of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus
ALEXANDER JAMES SHAEFFER </
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
ELIZABETH EMILY FLEMING ^
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
"A Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye ":
Experiences with Robert Hooke's Micrographia
KATHERINE ELAINE HALE >]/
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
JOAO PEDRO SANTA RITA FERNANDES
CECELIA ELLIOTT CORRIGAN
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
MATTHEW KAI CARTER
�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
RACHEL MICHELLE BARTGIS
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
Dwelling Place, painting
JOSEPH ANTHONY CIUMMO
The Fish, painting
KRISTINA DIMITRIJEVIC
To a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird prize.
"Sentinel", short story
KELLY MARIE WILSON
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams,
1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams,
1929
Mildred Alexander
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute
Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate
Institute
Aretei Fund
The Joseph and Robert
Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Richard H. Hodgson,
1906
The Hodson Trust
Eugene N . ( 1929)and
Robert G. (1963)
Cozzolino
Alfred and Ruth Houston,
1906
Houston Regional
Wiley and Helen
Crawford
Cpl. George E.
Cunnifflll
Helen Lee De Aloia
Donna Marie Delattre
Bradley G. Arms
Clarence L. Dickinson,
1911
George M. Austin, 1908
Richard A Duhan, 1963
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Ahmet Ertegun
Education Fund
Faculty Scholarship
Fred and Marian Billups
Jeff Bishop Memorial
Ford K. Brown, H70
Ronald and Donna
Fielding
Caritas Society of
St. John's College
James H. Frame, 1950
Gasasco Family Fund
Friends of St. John's
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T. Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Nancy Gannon Gearing
Harry Golding, Graduate
Institute
George A. and Eveline T.
Greenleaf
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 Spangler Kieffer,
H70, and
Roxana White Kieffer,
H84
Marie Klebe Memorial
Jacob Klein, H76
Korshin Family Fund
Tom and Cathryn Krause
Dr. Charles C. Cook
John T. and Gertrude L.
Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Marvin Brent Cooper,
1969
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton
Memorial
John D. Mack
Massachusetts Regional
Henry B. Higman, A48
James Matthews, H99
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland,
H54
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Edna G. and Roscoe E.
Grove, 1910
�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
Norman G. Owens
Dr. Thomas Parran and
Thomas Parran, Jr.
Passin Family Fund
The Duane and
Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Pittsburgh Regional
Reader's Digest
Foundation
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
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 Family
Rosse Family
St. John's College Alumni
Association
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
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, H80
James S. Spirer, 1970
C.V. Starr Foundation
Harry S. and Vivian B.
Spectre Book Fund
Jean Roberts Staylor
Andrew and Lenore
Steiner Book Fund
Clarence W.Stryker
Bert Thorns
Karl and Evelyn Van
Tassel
Frederick J. Von
Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turner
Walker, 1966
Richard D.Weigle,H49
John L. Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F.
Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
Delores and Stephen Wolf
Kathy and Jerry Wood
Foundation
ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
AAI Corporation
AT&T
The Associated: Jewish
Community Foundation
of Baltimore
Baltimore Community
Foundation
Baltimore Sun
Bank of America
BB&T
Beachley Foundation, Inc
Estate of Frederick J.
Beardsley
Bon Appetit
Booz Allen Hamilton
Bunting Family
Foundation
CACI
Cafritz Family
Foundation
The Campbell
Foundation, Inc.
CareFirst BlueCross
BlueShield
Caritas Society of St.
John's College
Chevy Chase Bank
�Chimes Foundation, Inc.
Citi Foundation Smith
Barney Compass Group
Computer Sciences
Corporation
Constellation Energy
Group
Richard &RosaleeC.
Davison Foundation
Delaplaine Foundation,
Inc.
Dixon Valve and Coupling
Company
R.R. Evans Foundation
Saul Ewing LLP
Estate of Charlotte
Fletcher
Estate of Mary Fletcher
France-Merrick
Foundation
Gallagher Evelius & Jones
LLP
General DynamicsAdvanced Information
Systems
Gudelsky Family
Foundation
Laverna Hahn
Foundation
Catherine Haigney
JJ. Haines Foundation
Hecht-Levi Foundation
The Hoffberger
Foundation, Inc.
Huether-McClelland
Foundation
IBM
James M. Johnston Trust
KCI Technologies, Inc.
Ensign J. Markland Kelly,
Jr. Memorial
Foundation
Kiplinger Foundation
KPMGLLP
Lalley Charitable Fund
Arthur E. & Hilda Combs
Landers Trust
Legg Mason
John J. Leidy Foundation
Henry H. Lewis
Contractors, LLC
Lockheed Martin
Lord Baltimore Capital
Corporation
Vanni Lowdenslager
M&T Bank
Lois & Philip Macht
Philanthropic Fund
Marlen Maier
ManTech International
Dr. Frank C. Marino
Foundation
Estate of Eugene F.
Martin
Maryland Capital
Management
Harvey M. Meyerhoff
Fund
Joseph Meyerhoff Fund
National Security Agency
The Newman Family
Charitable Trust
Otsuka America
Pharmaceutical, Inc.
The P&G Fund
The Passano Foundation,
Inc.
Albert F.Peters
PNC
T. Rowe Price
Raytheon Systems
RCM&D
SAIC
Serco, Inc.
Shockley Honda
Shoppers Food
Warehouse
John A. Simmons
Sinclair Broadcast Group,
Inc.
SRA International
SunTrust Bank
Travelers Foundation
UPS
Venable Foundation
Verizon Foundation
Verizon-Federal Network
Systems
Victor Graphics
VPC Inc.
Wachovia Foundation
WBFF/WNUV
Weis Markets
Whiting-Turner
Contracting Co.
Janet Youkeles
Gifts received after April 15, 2009, are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2010 Commencement Program.
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SIJOHN'S
College
A N N A P O L I S • S A N T A FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY SIXTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND TEN
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED EIGHTEENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH 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
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
PRESIDENT NELSON
MICHAEL DINK
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
PRESENTATION OF AWARD TO WARREN P. WINIARSKI, AS^,
AS HONORARY FELLOW OF THE COLLEGE
PRESIDENT NELSON
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
WARREN P. WINIARSKI
VISITOR EMERITUS, ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN DINK
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)
ROBB MATTHEW ALEXANDER
Theomachy: Confronting Gods Within and Without
Syracuse, New York
MARGARET EMILY ANSELL
Behind Infinity, Before Eternity: Augustine's Spatio-Temporal
Transcendence
JAMAAL SPENCER BARNES
Of Things Unspoken and Unseen: Friendship, Society, and
Solitude in Book One of Montaigne's Essais
Lake Worth, Florida
Sanfbrd, North Carolina
ELLEN KATHLEEN BARNHART
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
The Greatest Prince Loves Both His Country and His Queen:
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
JESSE NATHANIEL BATES
Abstraction and the Intelligibility of Nature
CATHERINE YOLANDE BERUBE
"There is no difficulty in speaking about what virtue is."
Or, The Importance of Opening Questions
ALLEGRA JUDITH BISBEE
On Behalf of the Tax Collector: An Attempt to Reconcile
Abraham with the Modern Man of Faith in Kierkegaard's
Fear and Trembling
JOHN EDWARD BLECHL
The Epistemological Oedipus: An Optimistic View of Tragedy
Dallas, Texas
Rolle, Switzerland
Ridgefield, Washington
Dallas, Texas
CATERINA BELLA MARIA BONACINI
Oakland, California
Polymath Love's Androgynous Advocate: An Investigation into
Examining Our Pasts in William Faulkner's Absalom,
Absalom!
ETHAN AARON BROOKS
Continuity and the End of Creation in Richard Dedekind's
Essays on the Theory of Numbers
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
�MARIANNA BROTHERTON
Bartlett, New Hampshire
From the Pear Tree to the Garden... Hesitation in Augustine's
Confessions
NOLAND WlLLIAM BROWN
Concord, North Carolina
"7b the things themselves!" The Role of Critique in Ontological
Investigation
THOMAS WEST BROWNING
Who Mixes Wisdom's Wine?: Learning and Ripping in
Euripides' Bacchae
Austin, Texas
VIRGINIA JEAN BUESCHER
Annandale, Virginia
Finding the Way to Theophany Street: Identity in Dostoevsky's
Demons
ALEXANDER BUNNELL
Alexandria, Virginia
Epictetus 's Stoicism and Human Nature
KATHERINE ELIZABETH BURKE
Wilmington, North Carolina
Confronting Unity: A Reckless Flight to the Unknowable
DAVID MICHAEL CAMPBELL
Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru: To Live as a Light in a Dark World
RAPHAELA DORIS CASSANDRA
Hope, Love, and the Hero: An Examination of the Self in
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
THEA AMES CHIMENTO
Freedom in Service? The Question of the Franklin's Tale
CAMERON COATES
The Wholeness of Human Life in Aristotle's Nicomachean
Ethics
DANIEL SNYDER CONNELLY II
The Quest for the Eternal: An Inquiry into St. Augustine's
Confessions
Alexandria, Virginia
Garden City, New York
Rockville, Maryland
Chicago, Illinois
West Chester, Pennsylvania
�LAUREN ADELE COOPER
Erotic Transfiguration as the Inward Ascent to Numinous
Beauty in Dante andPlotinus
Aurora, Colorado
THOMAS ANTHONY CROMER
Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Faith and the Transcendent Will: A Eulogy on Ahab
ANDREW THOMAS DAVENPORT
Pascal & Marx: The Transformation of Religion into Politics;
or, An Atheist's Apology
San Rafael, California
KAYLA ZOE DfiLoY
Georgia, Vermont
"Crack Nature's Molds: "King Lear's Changing View of Nature
KELLY LAUREN DIAZ-ALBERTINI
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Facing Up to the Hero: An Exploration of Heroism in The Iliad
ALLISON MICHELLE DiETZ
Bethesda, Maryland
Acting i(Here Upon This Bank and Shoal of Time"
ANNA CATHERINE DIRKSE
The Role of Duration and Disorder in the Evolution of Life
Jenison, Michigan
ELSABE CORNELIA DIXON
The Art of Seduction: Power and Persuasion in Plato's
Phaedrus
Chatham, Virginia
KlRSTIE NlCCOLE DODD
Sanford, Florida
On the Purpose of History
SEAN GRAIN DONAHUE
Beaver, Pennsylvania
Reason's Role in Action and Aristotle's Ethics
LlNDEN ANNE DUFFEE
Birmingham, Alabama
"Parker's Back: "An Artistic Examination of Christian Art;
or, In Defense of the Imagination
NORA SOFIA EDGE
An Examination of Pierre's Quest for Peace: Tolstoi's
War and Peace
Leverett, Massachusetts
�JONATHAN DAVID ENGLISH
Roslyn, Pennsylvania
The Meaning of Life in the Philosophy of Leibniz: An Inquiry
into the Nature of Animals and Living Substances
TYLER Ross FANNING
Certainty andSureness in Descartes' Meditations on First
Philosophy and Plato ys Theaetetus
Amity, Oregon
MICHAEL VINCENT FELDMAN
On the Ontological and Epistemological Entanglements of
Quantum Mechanics
Virginia Beach, Virginia
MEGAN CATHERINE FIELD
Unearthing the Weathered Edifice of Man's Nature in
Rousseau's On the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality
Among Men
Richmond, Virginia
LAUREL ALEXANDRA FISCHER
Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden
Tree
La Quinta, California
ELIZABETH EMILY FLEMING
Gaithersburg, Maryland
The Incommensurability of Mind and Matter: An Examination
and Evaluation of William James' Physiological Psychology
ELEIS LESTER FORTI
The March Toward Species Being
ANNE MARIE FRAZIER
Chester, Virginia
Fort Wayne, Indiana
The End of Desire: The Reconciliation of Tristan and Isolde
CHELSEA MARIE FROST
We Think, and We are Free: An Investigation of Stoicism
South River, New Jersey
SARAH ELIZABETH FRY
Ignorance is not Bliss: The Development of Morality and
Humankind's Independence from the Divine
Buda, Texas
ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS
The Origins and Necessity of Doubt
New York, New York
�DONALD FRANKLIN GEORGETTE
What am I Doing? A Critical Examination of I, Me, Ego and
the Operations of Consciousness in Sartre's Transcendence of
the Ego
Avon, Indiana
PHILLIPA LEE GOWDY-JAEHNIG
Is Economics Natural? An Investigation of Adam Smith's
"Natural System "
Decorah, Iowa
ABRAHAM JACOB GREENSTINE
Reason and the Transformation of Transcendental Idealism
into Absolute Idealism
Glenside, Pennsylvania
PATRICK RYAN HALTER
An Exploration of Conscience Through HegeVs
Phenomenology of Spirit
Palm Bay, Florida
MATTHEW JESSE HARRIS
Needham, Massachusetts
Promoting Perfection in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
CHRISTOPHER HEARSE
Knight-Errants and Giants: Truth in Fiction
Severna Park, Maryland
MlRANDA ARIANNA HELCK
The Predominant Passion of the Youthful Beginner:
An Exploration of the Aesthetic Life
JEANA JOY HICKLING
Reconstructing Rousseau's Self-Centered Family Man:
An Essay on Natural Love and Virtue
Granbury, New Jersey
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ALEXANDRIA MEADOWLARK HINDS
Pride, Lust and Fear: Symptoms of a Spiritual Illness
Gortland, New York
JEAJN MARIE HOGAN
Language and the Soul in Shakespeare's Hamlet
San Jose, California
ERIC ANDERSON HONOUR
Shuffling Off This Moral Coil: Steadfastness, Blasphemy and
Judgment in Moliere 's Don Juan
Fairfax, Virginia
�KATHERINE NICOLE HUELS
Beauty Will Set You Free: A Discussion of How Beauty and the
Aesthetic Lead to the Ideal Man and Society
BENJAMIN SWAN HUTCHINS
On Mass: How Newton Finds God in the Principia
Winnetka, Illinois
Stowe, Vermont
PATRICK RUDDEN JACOBS
Transferring Trains of Thought: Abstractions from the
Language ofHobbes
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
MATTHEW ROBERT KALKAVAGE
These Were Men: Internal, External, Other and Self in
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Annapolis, Maryland
JOHN IRA KENNEDY
Birmingham, Alabama
Is Faith a Virtue? An Exploration of Faith in Martin Luther's
The Freedom of a Christian
MEGAN MARIANNE KENNEDY
Love as the End of Reason: On Dostoevsky's Notes From
Underground
Camden, Maine
CHARLOTTE SEIDELMAN LICKER
Worlds Apart: The Influence of Society on the Fantastical
World of Don Quixote de la Mancha
New Rochelle, New York
GABRIEL THOMAS LuziER
Brandywine, Maryland
A Person's Conscience Ain 't Got No Sense: Unarticulated
Meaning and Morality in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
KATHERINE ROSE MAHAN
A Man and His Dreams: An Introspective Look at the Life of
William Butler Yeats, An Idealistic and Principled Man
Trapped in the Rational Modern World, through His Works of
Poetry
CHASE ROARK McKELVY
Philosophy and Eros: Aristophanes in the Symposium
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Memphis, Tennessee
�BROOKE HOLLAND MEYER
Alexandria, Virginia
Insects to Onions: An Exploration of One Man's Transition
from Shame to Joy in The Brothers Karamazov
KELSEY ALANA MlLLER
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Morality Through Beauty: An Inquiry into Humanity
MAGDALEN EDITH MILLMAN
Subjective Truth and Existential Suffering: Kierkegaard
on Suffering
Green Brook, New Jersey
PHILIP THOMAS MOHR
Developing the Hermeneuticfor the Whole
Bath, New York
MACALL YAVNER MORAN
Lutherville, Maryland
"What is Found so Rarely Must be Hard:" On God and Human
Freedom in Spinoza's Ethics
PAUL DOUGLAS MORRILL
East Palo Alto, California
The Possibility of the Absurd; or, On the Importance of Telling
Abraham's Boring Story
MICHAEL ANDREW MOWERY
University Park, Maryland
On the Relationship Between Work and Happiness in Tolstoy's
Anna Karenina
CALEB THOMAS NOLEN
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Safeguarding the Possibility of Poetry in a Technological Age
DANIEL BRANDON OSBORNE
The Metaphysics of Art and Suffering: The Beautiful in Hegel's
Account of Painting
Lafayette, Louisiana
PAVLOS LEONIDAS PAPADOPOULOS
Natick, Massachusetts
The Long Creation Story: The Genesis of Fraternity and the
Development of Humanity; or, Reading the Book of Genesis as
a Whole
SAMUEL PETER PASKEWITZ
Kant, Hume and the Existence of God
New York, New York
�SHANNON ELIZABETH QUIRK
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Why John Marshall is the True Founder of Justice in the United
States: Exploring a Government of Men versus a Government
of Laws Through Marbury v. Madison
JON MICHAEL RAGSDALE
A Look at the Philosopher and Poet in Johannes de Silentio 's
Fear and Trembling, and Their Fascinating Struggle to Answer
the Great Question: Is Abraham a Murderer or the Greatest
Man to Ever Live?
TAYLOR KENT REESE
Chicago, Illinois
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Kant on Our Sublime Nature
ELYSSA JORDAN REID
Fresno, California
The Past, Present, and Future as an Argumentfor the
Constitution of the United States
EVERETT WILLIAM MORENO ROBERTS
A Man and Arms: Aeneas' Journey from Trojan to Roman
Bellingham, Washington
GEORGE EDWARD ROBINSON IV
Bring Me a Higher Love: Finding a Higher Power in
Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death
Austin, Texas
DREW ALEXANDER RoBISON
Baltimore, Maryland
The Supreme Fictions of Life: An Essay About Reality and the
Imagination
JESSE BLAKE RUNDLE
Manhattan, Kansas
Thrasymachus v. Madison: Justice in The Federalist's Republic
ROBERT ANDREW SALE
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Kant Goes to Copenhagen: Quantum Mechanics and the
Possibility of Free Will
CHARLES SAMUEL SALEM
Imagine That! Thinking and Imagination in Aristotle's
On the Soul
Annapolis, Maryland
�EUGENE E. SAMARIN
Moscow, Russian Federation
We The People: Does the US Constitution Achieve the Promises
Made in the Preamble?
ALEXANDER JAMES SHAEFFER
Examining the Sophist
DANIEL PAUL SHIPLEY
Being, Becoming & The Will to Power: An Interpretation of
"On Old and New Tablets"
JUSTIN PAUL SNYDER
Why You Think You Have Free Will
Issaquah, Washington
Baltimore, Maryland
Little Rock, Arkansas
JOSIAH NATHANIEL STEPHENS
Binghamton, New York
What is the Benefit of a Liberal Education to a Free Market
System According to the Economic and Moral Theory of Adam
Smith?
SARAH ELIZABETH STITES
Kansas City, Missouri
Space, Force, and Body in Newtonian and Leibnizian Physics
JENNIFER GAITLIN SWANSON
Fictions and Falsehoods
San Diego, California
ROWENNA BETH THORSON
Germantown, Wisconsin
A Royal Freedom: On the Futility of Man's Free Will in Martin
Luther's The Bondage of the Will
HANNAH ELIZABETH VANHOOSE
Highwood, Montana
"Life Does Not Stop, and One Has to Live:" The Tension
Between the Individual and the Universal in Tolstoy's War and
Peace
BRADLEY JOHN VAN UDEN
Thousand Oaks, California
The Other is Our Friend: The Taming of Socrates in Plato's
Parmenides
�MATTHEW AARON VlTLIN
San Francisco, California
In Search of Geneva: An Examination of Whether Men Need
Civil Society and What the Roots for this Need Are
MOLLY MABEL MC£NROE WATERS
Transformation and Healing in Natasha's Prayer
JOHN THOMAS WELSH
A Perspective on the Origins of the Scientific Method
SARAH MARIE WHITE
Social Tyranny and Individual Sovereignty: An Inquiry into
the Philosophy of Political Liberty
Annapolis, Maryland
Summit, New Jersey
Brentwood, Tennessee
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
ANNE G. BARENKAMP
St. Louis, Missouri
PEYTON LEE BEARD
Bremerton, Washington
DEREK FORBES BITTER
Santa Glarita, California
RICHARD BOLTE III
Voorhees, New Jersey
ALEXANDER WESLEY BRADY
Annapolis, Maryland
LORETTE LOUISE CAMERON
Pelham, New York
ASHLEY ALBERTINE COLLINS
AARON CHRISTOPHER DUKETTE
Manchester, Connecticut
Montpelier, Vermont
CRYSTAL MARIE EBERT
Allentown, Pennsylvania
STEPHEN DAVID ENGEL
Los Angeles, California
GIANNA DOMINIQUE ENGLERT
JOSHUA CHASE ALAN HARRIS
JULIA DOWNEY HART
New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Washington, District of Columbia
Alexandria, Virginia
JOHN EDWARD KANE
McLean, Virginia
ARRON MATHEW KAU
Lebanon, Oregon
SHANNON S. KIRKPATRICK
Portland, Oregon
DARYL ZHIZHANG Li
Singapore
KYLE A. LONG
Crown Point, Indiana
CHRISTIANA REED MOLLIN
Annapolis, Maryland
MEGAN DAY VALLEAU PAPPAS
Sarasota, Florida
BRADLEY DENTON REESE, JR.
Auburn, Illinois
QUAY ALEXANDER RICE
URAYNAB SAID
VICTORIA HESTER SMITH
KYLE CRAIG STEWART
SEAN BRENDAN STEWART
Augusta, Georgia
Columbia, Maryland
Davidsonville, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
Cape Canaveral, Florida
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2010
To the member of the Senior Glass who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the class of 1966
Who Mixes Wisdom's Wine?Learning and
Ripping in Euripides' Bacchae
THOMAS WEST BROWNING
HONORABLE MENTION
"Parker's Back ": An Artistic Examination of Christian Art; or,
In Defense of the Imagination
LINDEN ANNE DUFFEE
The Other is Our Friend: The Taming of
Socrates in Plato's Parmenides
BRADLEY JOHN VAN UDEN
To the member of the Junior Glass who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her
daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens
From Words to Warfare: The Obligation of the
Man of Letters to Pursue the Life of Arms
ANNA CATHERINE SITZMAN
�To the member of the Sophomore Glass who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins,
of the Glass of 1880
The New Love: Light, Love, and the Vision of the
Mind in Dante's Paradiso
BARBARA DUNHAM McCLAY
The Resurrection of Lazarus: A Certain Man in Uncertain Death
ELIZABETH MARIE SPAGNOLETTI
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. and Mrs. Stuart Walker
Seven Definitions in the Ancient World
LEONARD ISAAC FRANKS
HONORABLE MENTION
Perfection and Imperfection in Plato 's Symposium
MAURA JOAN MCGLUSKEY
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2010.
Offered by the Alumni Association
The Pity and The Way: Ugolino
GIULIANA DE GRAZIA
Time as Problem and Solution
JESSE L. MAXWELL
�To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
CAMERON GOATES
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Pappus Synagoge
BRADLEY JOHN VAN UDEN
HONORABLE MENTION
THOMAS WEST BROWNING
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
"D'ou viennent les mots?" by Venus Khoury-Gata
KlRSTIE NlCCOLE DoDD
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Almanac"
KlRSTIE NlCCOLE DoDD
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Caritas Society 1987-1991
"Fantasy for 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
''Scarborough Fair"
JANE JEFFRIES
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem.
Offered by the Glass of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacob sen, of the
Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus
NO PRIZE AWARDED
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
ETHAN AARON BROOKS
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
NO PRIZE AWARDED
HONORABLE MENTION
Sound as Influence in the Growth of Bacteria Cultures
GALEN ANDREW COOK-THOMAS
�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
MARGARET EMILY ANSELL
JUSTIN PAUL SNYDER
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
PHILLIPA LEE GOWDY-JAEHNIG
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
BROOKE HOLLAND MEYER
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
Inner Sanctuary, painting
KELSEY ALANA MILLER
HONORABLE MENTION
Rocks at Great Falls, painting
MICHAEL ANDREW MOWERY
�To a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird prize.
Inner Sanctuary, oil on canvas painting
KELSEY ALANA MILLER
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929
Helen Lee De Aloia
Mildred Alexander
Donna Marie Delattre
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Alumni Scholarship
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund
AreteiFund
Faculty Scholarship
Bradley G. Arms
Ronald and Donna Fielding
George M. Austin, 1908
James H. Frame, 1950
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Friends of St. John's
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Nancy Gannon Gearing
Fred and Marian Billups
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
Jeff Bishop Memorial
George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf
Ford K. Brown, H70
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
Garitas Society of St. John's College
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
Casasco Family Fund
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Chicago Regional
Charles W.Hass, 1927
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
Henry B. Higman, A48
James T. Clark, 1928
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
Class of 1897
The Hodson Trust
Class of 1898
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Richard F. Cleveland, H54
Houston Regional
Bernard Clorety, 1950
John Isaacs
Dr. Charles C. Cook
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh
Jones, 1909
Eugene N. (1929) and Robert G. (1963)
Cozzolino
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H84
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Francis A. Katz, 1929
�William R. Kenan, Jr. Trust
Clifton C. Roehle
John Spangler Kieffer, H70, and
Roxana White Kieffer, H84
Joan and Bela Ronay
Marie Klebe Memorial
G. D. Searle/John E. Robson
Jacob Klein, H76
Robson Family
Korshin Family Fund
Rosse Family
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
Tom and Gathryn Krause
St. John's College Alumni Association
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers,
1930
J. J. Salovaara
Joseph LaPides
Flora Duvall Sayles
Michael Littleton Memorial
Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan,
1908
John D. Mack
DougE. Sherr (1972) Memorial
Massachusetts Regional
Rudy Simeone
James Matthews, H99
Thomas J., H94, and Marion K. Slakey
Middendorf Foundation
Andrew Smith Memorial
Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund
J. Winfree Smith, H80
Paul Miller
James S. Spirer, 1970
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
C.V. Starr Foundation
NationsBank Foundation (Bank of
America)
Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book
Fund
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Jean Roberts Staylor
O'Grady Memorial
Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book Fund
Oklahoma Regional
Clarence W.Stryker
Norman G. Owens
Bert Thorns
Dr. Thomas Parran and
Thomas Parran, Jr.
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Passin Family Fund
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966
LD and Paula Pickens
Richard D. Weigle, H49
Pittsburgh Regional
John L. Williams, 1950
Reader's Digest Foundation
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
Lenore B. Hinder
Delores and Stephen Wolf
Cleo Ritz
Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
BB&T
Larry Katz
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Davis United World College Scholars
Program
Ensign J. Markland Kelly, Jr.
Memorial Foundation
John J. Leidy Foundation
R. R. Evans Foundation
Estate of Eugene F. Martin, Jr.
Isadore & Bertha Gudelsky Family
Foundation
Henry B. Higman
Henry M. Robert
T.Rowe Price
UPS
James M. Johnston Trust
Verizon
Gifts received after April 15, 2010, are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2011 Commencement Program.
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<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
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SJC
St.John's
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2019
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday I May 12
Two Thousand and Nineteen
Annapolis I Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Seventh
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Third Year
of the College
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Prelude
Academic Procession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
The National Anthem
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Robert Abbott, A04
Address to the Graduating Class
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Kanelos
Dean Macfarland
President Kanelos
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Academic Recession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
�Cameron Milford Byerly
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Cordelia Grace Marie Achen
Otis Orchards, Washington
Outer Spaces Inner Intuitions: How Proofs Shape Our Relation to Mathematics in
Euclid and Lobachevsky
Layton Aho
Rindge, New Hampshire
Invisible Evil: Language, Deception and Authorial Intent in Paradise Lost
Awss Al-Janabi
Babel, Republic of Iraq
Crownsville, Maryland
Marlette, Michigan
Alexandria, Virginia
Millions of Facts of Distributed Light Vision in the Iliad's Deathless Prosopopoeia
Dorothea Sihler Bowerfind
Alexandria, Virginia
A Contemplation of Creation in Genesis: The Dangers of Harmony to Human Life
Zachary Bowman
Arnold, Maryland
Memory, Emotion, Intimacy: How Memory Acts Through Emotion in Proust's Swann's
Way
Dylan Francis Briceno-Hawkins
Silver Spring, Maryland
Columbia, South Carolina
Words, Words, Words to Tell My Story: On the Power of Narrative in Shakespeare's
Hamlet
Matteo Scapini Burrell
Social Problems in Language: A Wittgensteinian Perspective
Meaning: Universal, Contextual, Ethical
Zachary Alexander Cohen
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Erin Britany Compton
Kelsey Eileen Cumiskey
Bellevue, Washington
Chesapeake City, Maryland
The Legacy of the Barricade: Finding Light in the Darkness in Victor Hugo's Les
Miserables
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Waterbury, Vermont
The Gadfly and the Cicadas: Countryside Madness in Plato's Phaedrus
Rhys Edward Davis
Arlington, Virginia
Communism as Naturalism and Naturalism as Humanism: Karl Marx on Human
Nature
Alex Gregory Dicken
Baltimore, Maryland
Rethinking Alienation: A Life Beyond Hegel's Absolute Spirit
Madeline Alyse Edwards
Spartanburg, South Carolina
The Middle Brother: Struggle and Redemption in Ivan Karamazov
Aisha Evita El-Khatib
Love, Mythos, and Pat Metheny
Jacob Samuel Burger
Guiyang, People's Republic of China
John Davis
On Suffering in John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul
Neal Bhattacharya
Weiouqing Chen
Order and Human Nature in Vitruvius· Ten Books on Architecture
Living in the Kingdom: An Exploration into the Self in Genesis and the Gospel of Luke
Henry William Bartholomew
Boundless the Deep: Why Evil is Possible, and Permitted, in Perfect Beings: John
Milton's Paradise Lost
Machiavelli's Man: On the Difference Between Men in The Prince
Fade-In: The Cinematography of Marcel Proust in Swann's Way
Samuel Grenfell Aston
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Gaithersburg, Maryland
The Poetic Relativity of Falling in Love
Graham Stuart Ferguson
Annapolis, Maryland
Deceit in Othello and Iago's True Self
Sagar Gaire
Madhyabindu, Nepal
Value, Labour and Alienation: On the Impact of the Dual Character of Commodities
and Labour on the Capitalist Mode of Production
�Rachel Marie Goad
Seth Elijah Kates
Woodbridge, Virginia
Desire's Lawful Bounds: Sexual Permission in Song of Solomon
Christian Douglas Gordon*
Sophia Kiang
Franktown, Virginia
Benjamin Nathaniel Haas
Dahye Kim
Karlena Anna Haase
Suwon-si, Republic of Korea
On The Characteristics of Humankind: A Linguistic Approach to Genesis 1-3
La Jolla, California
The Two Sides of Natasha Rostov
Carson Joanna King
Patrick David Hamann
Samuel Michael Harder
Prabesh Koirala
Alexander Brock Kwilinski
Vividness and ''I": An Investigation of the Notion of Self in David Hume's Treatise of
Human Nature
Rachael Elizabeth Brooker Langston
Creating Another Nature: The Inner Motions of the Artist At Work
Seung Eun Lee
Two is Strong Where One is Feeble: An Exploration of Love, Commitment and
Community in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
Luque, Paraguay
The Other Woman: The Mastery of Self-Deception in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Meredith Jane Lehan
Waldorf, Maryland
Smith Island, Maryland
An Eve-olution: An Investigation of Eve's Character Progression in Paradise Lost
Blessed are the Meek: An Exploration of Self in War and Peace and Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Tianxiang Li
Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
Necessity, Contingency, and Freedom: An Analysis of Leibniz's World Through the
Lens of Computer Science
Burke, Virginia
The Illness Attending Ambition: On Cruelty and Weakness in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Yuan Liu
Yongin-si, Republic of Korea
Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
The Unhappy Consciousness' Path Towards Happiness: Why is the Confessions Not a
Journey of Self-hatred?
An Ordinary Miracle: The Still Life of Language in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Desiree Lydia Jones
Annapolis, Maryland
"The Church!": Recognition and Recollection in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way
Annapolis, Maryland
Sarah Lynn Irving
Downers Grove, Illinois
Fear and Trembling as a Dialectical Lyric
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Anna Margaret Hubbell
Pokhara, Nepal
Hiding Madness and Expressing Grief
Norwood, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Grace Holt
Bedminster, New Jersey
We Are in The Soup Together: Albert Camus' House of Mirrors
Bend, Oregon
The Birth of Tragicomedy: How Shakespeare Merges Opposites in A Midsummer
Night's Dream
Jaeyon Jo
Atlanta, Georgia
Nostalgia: The Sickness for the Return in Labyrinthine Time, Forward and Back are No
Different
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Man of Stone: How to Live According to Tolstoy
Zoe Hinman
Marquette, Michigan
The Nature of Revelation: The Expression of Art in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Grant William Lorello
Queens, New York
Inside Out An Attempt to Find the Location of Phedre's Feelings
Gambrills, Maryland
Probabilistic Causality: On the Completeness and Elegance of Quantum Mechanics
I
�Katherine Mary Mahaney
Sacramento, California
Decoding the Language of Laughter: An Analysis of Comedy through Cervantes' Don
Quixote
Christopher Lee McGowen
Annapolis, Maryland
Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
What Does It Mean for Us to be Human?: As Illustrated by the Descriptions of Oran,
Tarrou, and Rieux
Russell Thomas Mendez
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Middlemarch: The Study of a Mediocre Life: It's Everything You Thought It Would Be
and More
Thaddia Angelica Mantione
Clifton, Virginia
Taking on the Dimension of Immortality: In Pursuit of a Lasting Beauty in Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du Mal
Falon Muire
Sycamore, Illinois
"Voi che sapete che cosa e amor, vedete s'io /'ho nel car": An Exploration of Love in
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Patrick Sean Mullins
Arlington, Virginia
The Myth of Self: An Essay on the Reflexions au Sentences et Maxims Morales of
Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld
Alexander Vago Muradian
Washington, District of Columbia
Don Quixote's Journey for Dulcinea in Master Pedro's Puppet Show
Hyun Jai Oh
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Washington, District of Columbia
Teaching and Philosophy in Plato's Theaetetus
Ethan Pellegrin
Understanding Sin and Satan in Paradise Lost
The Old Man and The Sea: An Argument Against the Hierarchy of Humanity and
Animals Explained in On the Soul
Tressie Sydney Rhoades
Hardy, Arkansas
Cyrus Albert Schiller
Potomac, Maryland
The Role of Art in Nietzsche's Moral Philosophy
Aisha Khanam Shahbaz
Rehoboth, Namibia
The Possibility of Human Progress in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Aidan William Shaw
Haddonfield, New Jersey
Shades of Morality in Hamlet
Christian Andrew Sheppard*
Morehead City, North Carolina
Ivan Romanovich Syritsyn
Omsk, Russian Federation
On Matters Pertaining to the Maintenance and Dissolution of the State: Or, Is It
Possible to Create a Perpetual Republic?
Yaxuan Tang
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
When the Light Streams In: An Exploration of Raskolnikov's Character in Crime and
Punishment
Camille Rebecca Testa
Arlington, Virginia
Marxian Free Will and the Abstraction of the Objective World
Criticize the Critic: How Moliere Satirizes Self-Superiority in The Misanthrope
Val R. Pehrson
Mar Lin, Pennsylvania
Hide Your Demons: An Exploration of the Quality of Silence in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Myopia and Justice in Aeschylus' Oresteia
Yiyang Mei
Dane Stephen Petchulis
Ayushma Thapa
Lalitpur, Nepal
Transcendence of Andrey Bolkonsky
Himanshu Thapa
Damauli, Nepal
What is a Karamazov Soul? Exploration of the Karamazovian Nature through
Suffering and Redemption in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Milford, Delaware
Prasanna Jung Thapa
A Search for Certainty in Newton's Principia
Kathmandu, Nepal
�Kathryn Irene Trojanowski
Farmington. Michigan
Guilt & Redemption & Crime & Punishment
Thomas Anthony Troop
Lancaster. Pennsylvania
Sacrifice and Love in Othello and Much Ado About Nothing
Sophia Alicia Underwood
Nyack, New York
Everyone Has Gone Mad: An Investigation into Madness in The Tragedy of Hamlet
Willem Owen van Engen
Reston. Virginia
This English Monster: An Investigation of Richard of Gloucester in Shakespeare's
Richard Ill
Stacy Villibord
Washington. District of Columbia
Maximillian von Keudell
Kamuela. Hawaii
The Significance of the Other: An Analysis and Commentary on Hegel's Lord and
Bondsman Dialectic
Colin Kilpatrick Walker
Birmingham. Alabama
Substantial Being: Finding Ourselves through Materialism
Santa Cruz, California
Thinking about How Our Thoughts (and Will) Connect to Motion
Pasadena. Maryland
" ... I Put Away Childish Things": An Investigation into the Meaning and Merit of
Maturity in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Shatoujiao, People's Republic of China
Is Protagoras' Measure Doctrine Really Self-Refuting?
Abraham Liu Zhao
Washington, District of Columbia
Images of Ourselves
Yuejia Zhu
Number, Perception, and Continuity
* Upon completion of requirements
Greenbelt. Maryland
Joseph Richard Coelho
Annapolis, Maryland
Alejandro Ehrenberg
Mexico City, Mexico
Aakarsh Gottumukkala
Joseph Robert Hiles
Sherry Josephine Hinton
Teresa Anne Krone
Christina M. Lambert
Christine Marie Mooradian
Samuel John Peregrin
Ty Weiser-Podlech
Yingzi Zhang
Katherine Marion Badders
Anna E. Kaminski
The Portrayal of Eve in Paradise Lost
Cara Jane Wiley
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Sammamish. Washington
Atlanta, Georgia
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Chicago, Illinois
Charlton, Massachusetts
Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
Edmond, Oklahoma
James Allan Phillips
Annapolis, Maryland
Tahseen Rasheed
Annapolis. Maryland
Nolan W. Reisen*
Dubuque, Iowa
Philip Janney Richmond
Annapolis, Maryland
Ryan Shinkel*
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Robera Tasissa*
Geoffrey Furste Young
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
* Upon completion of requirements
Silver Spring, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Matteo Scapini Burrell
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
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Desire's Lawful Bounds: Sexual Permission in Song of Solomon
Text: Plato,
Rachel Marie Goad
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
Samuel Michael Harder
To the student who submits the best English version of a French text.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions (excerpt)
Damon Theodore Kutzin
Mapping the Island of Truth: An Investigation into the Possibility of Metaphysics
Damon Theodore Kutzin
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
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Moon-Ties"
Samuel Michael Harder
Poetry and Fame in the Divine Comedy
Samuel J. Berrettini
Repentance: The Song David Cannot Sing for Saul
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Untitled
Natalie Grace Walker
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
How to Hunt the Crocodile: An Investigation into the
Significance of Descriptive Information in Herodotus' History
Patrick David Hamann
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
A Line by Line Reading of Flood of Babylon
Jessie Ann Tagliani
Natalie Grace Walker
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
Tragedy and the Body: Fate in the Physical Form
Mi Tradi: A Contemplation of Donna Elvira's Conflict in Don Giovanni
Clio Simmons Jabine
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2018.
Offered by the Alumni Association
On Reason and Faith in Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond
Leland Caswell Ellis Jr.
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2018-2019 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
Prudence and Virtue
Patrick Burke Corry
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
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
Not Awarded
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
Not Awarded
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 members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
John Davis
Zoe Hinman
Thaddia Angelica Mantione
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
Zoe Hinman
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
Rachael Elizabeth Brooker Langston
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.
The Graduate, oil on canvas painting
Yuan Liu
Honorable Mention
Three embroidered works
Cordelia Grace Marie Achen
11
T hree colored pencil and watercolor works
Ai sha Evita El-Khatib
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
Poem, short film
Yaxuan Tang
�
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ST JOHN'S
College
ANNA POLIS• SANTA FE
2020
COM MEN CEM ENT
EXER CISE S
Sunday I May 10
Two Thous and and Twenty
Annapolis I Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Eighth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Fourth Year
of the College
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Margaret Kirby
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
Welcome
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Alumni Association Board
�BACHELOR OF ARTS
Jawaid Beg
Dublin, California
The Problem of Piety in Sophocles' Antigone
Tbel Abuseridze
Batu mi, Georgia
On Voyaging
Kapil Adhikari
Kathmandu, Nepal
Violence, Ethics, and Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity
Zainab Noor Ahmad
Lucknow, India
With Fem inine Love & Beauty: A Close Look at Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Angelika Nora Alberstadt
Who Painted the Lion? An Analysis of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales
Towson, Maryland
The Influence of War and Peace on Individuals in War and Peace
Emmet Henry Allen
Discovery and Concealment: An Examination of Meaning and Sedimentation in
Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences
Edgewater, Maryland
And Repudiating Immolation: The Motion Towards Understanding in Faulkner's Go
Down, Moses
Thomas Clare Balding
Shirley, New York
Free Will and the Ind ividual in War and Peace: An Investigation of Man's Ability to
Act in a Historical World
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
Tucson, Arizona
Love's Language in Tristan und Isolde: An Exploration of Musical Meaning
Sanju Baral
Mechi, Nepal
East Williston, New York
Fellow Feeling: A Study of Reform in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Subodh Bhandari
Kathmandu, Nepal
Diving into Faith: An Investigation on How One Can Acquire Faith
Lisle, Illinois
Dead Cats: An Exploration of Morbid Curiosity through Nietzsche's The Birth of
Tragedy
Darcy Marie Bohlin
Santa Fe, New Mexico
On the Amorality of Forgiveness
Westminster, Maryland
Faith, Torn Apart: An Examination of Self-Transformatio n in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Annie Lindsey Brong
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
The Cumulative Act ion of Creation: A Calcu lus under Darwin
Martha Elaine Campbell
Annapolis, Maryland
The Perfect Words in the Perfect Order: The Power of the Poetic in S0ren
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Whether it Succeeds in Saying the
Unspeakable
Charles John Carpenter
Farmington, Connecticut
The Natural Social Man: Finding Morality Free of Prejudice in Rousseau's Emile
Kailin Ann Carter
The Certainty of Uncertainty: (Planck's constant (h) and the knowledge of
probability)
Jared John Bassmann
From Throat to Belly: The Body and the Self in Walt Whitman's
"Song of Myself"
Elaina Terrell Bowman
Venice, Florida
August Salladin Baganz
Buda, Texas
Robert D. Blankshain Jr.
New York, New York
Alexander Thompson Albert
Athena Gabrielle Callistra Berreles-Luna
Beaverton, Oregon
Truth in the House of Lies: The Greatness of Shakespeare's King Henry V
James Patrick Casey
Fairfield, Connecticut
A New Great Man: On Historiography and First Principles in War and Peace
�I
Cole Dillon Caudle
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dynamic Language: An Essay Concerning How Our Conception of Language Shapes
How We Engage with the World
Yu-chieh Chang
Taichung, Taiwan
Between Love and Suffering: Confessional Language in Dostoevsky's Crime and
Punishment
Parker James Chlovechok
Cambridge, Ohio
Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty: An Analysis of the Different Forms of Memory and
their Applications to Life and the Creative Process
Yoon Kyoung Choh
Seoul, South Korea
The Origin of Morality: Focusing on the Meaning of Death in Hamlet
Raeann Alyah Clement
Dabadie, Trinidad
Paso Robles, California
Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here: Justice, Faith, and Love in The Brothers
Karamazov
North Adelaide, Australia
Time, Nature, & Empathy: A Portrait of Humanity in Goethe's Faust
Luis Francisco Contreras Moran
Puebla, Mexico
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Zarathustra's Solitude: A Path to Self-Overcoming
Dorothy Rose Diaz-Sullivan
Hyannis, Massachusetts
Love and Anguish in Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Collin Gray Doherty
Richmond, Virginia
Gorgias: The Rhetoric of Shame
I
Annapolis, Maryland
On the Isolation Present in the Modern Poetry of Charles Baudelaire
Clarksville, Tennessee
A Moral Bath: Pierre's Pursuit of Happiness in War and Peace
Samuel Alexander Dreyer
Washington, District of Columbia
Marx, Engels, Ricardo, & Smith
Social Labor: Marx's Critique of Vulgar Economy
Charlotte, North Carolina
"... And the battlefield is the heart of man.": An Inquiry into Love, Judgement, and
Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov
Sierra Irene Engdahl
Estero, Florida
Noah Kai Estes
Moiser, Oregon
On Storytelling: The Art of Experience, Perception, and Symbolism in Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ennui in Baudelaire's Le Voyage
Evanston, Illinois
Divine Nature: Language and Knowledge in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Mackenzie Ann Richard Daffner
Kathmandu, Nepal
How to Build a Good European: Nietzsche's Pursuit of a Reformed Science
How Ghosts and Art Catch Consciences
Benjamin Clarke Crispell
Nishan Dhungel
Ryan Andrew Eberlein
Till Death Do Us Part: On Love and Marriage in Rousseau's Emile
Samuel Austin Cooper
God's Love, Finitudes' Rage: Which Shall Conquer You? A Detailed Analysis of
the Intricacies Involved in a Person's Journey to Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Kesi Emily Dremel
Jessica Michelle Cole
Julia Morgan Cooper
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mary Margaret Dray
A Pursuit of Virtue
Jack McGregor Condie
Aashish Dhakal
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Sitting in an English Garden Waiting for the Sun-"I am the Walrus," The Beatles
Zachary Stuart Flaugher*
Lafayette, New Jersey
�Anne Isabel Freeman
Cary, North Carolina
Let Us Pretend That Life Makes Sense: An Essay on Language and Reality in The
Waves
Sadie Bromberg Funk
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Inseparably Interconnected Infinitesimal Elements: An Exploration of Tolstoy's
Science of History and its Mathematical Possibilities
Tianqi Gao
Beijing, People's Republic of China
The Idea of "Conflicts" in Federalist Papers and its Misuse in American Politics
Jodi-Ann Andrene Griffin
Millersville, Maryland
William Joseph Harrington
Irving, Texas
"By means of signs, including the tempo": An Investigation of Sign and Tempo in
Nietzsche's Ecce Homo
Mitchell Lewis Harris
Carlsbad, California
Death for Philosophers: A Guide to Dispelling the Fear of Death Through Lucretius'
The Nature of Things
Elizabeth Olivia Hartzell
Houston, Texas
Antigone: Oedipus's Complex Daughter
Andrew Rowe Hastings
Brunswick, Maine
Across the Great Divide: Thinking About Mechanics, Pre and Post Quantum
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The Moth, Lovers, and Dying Man: A Portrait of Beauty in Les Fleurs du Mal
Chance Prehn Hogan
Leesburg, Virginia
Anti-Matter for the Master Plan: Euripides's Bacchae as a Self-Conscious Tragedy
Isaac Allen Hoke
Robinson, Illinois
The Artist and the Child: An Exploration of Perspective in Marcel Proust's In Search
of Lost Time
Maddie Nell Fortier Jane
Hagerstown, Maryland
On Violence and Virtue: Hamlet and the Nature of Satisfaction in Revenge Stories
Samuel Emerson Jones
Alna, Maine
Faith and Happiness: An Exploration of Fear and Trembling as the Path to
Happiness
Peter Cornelis Kaemingk
Zeist, Netherlands
Give Me Imagination or Give Me Death! On the Ideological Foundations of
Democracy in the United States via Tocqueville and Pascal
Anton Olegovich Kalmysh
Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
The Limitations of Prospero's Project and Power
Pain: The Price for Greatness
Nancy Renee Hilton
Kaila Nicole Johnson
Charlottesville, Virginia
What Giants? An Exploration of Laughter in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Sila Karabiber*
Sakarya, Turkey
Why Two Geometries: The Story of Parallel Lines
Su Karagoz
Istanbul, Turkey
Dionysus Unleashed: Piety In The Bacchae
Beimnet Negash Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Augustine's Prayer: A Sinner's Guide to Salvation
The Exploration of How a Sinful Creature Can Interact with God that is Outside of
Sin
Kidus Yonas Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Irregularity, the Pseudo-Perfect Garden: A Deliberation of Perfection and its Place
Within God's Creative Process
Alexander David Kocinsky
Trumbull, Connecticut
"Man errs as long as he will strive"
Axel P. Krieger
New York. New York
Hubris the Tyrant? On the Making of a Tyrant in Oedipus Tyrannus
Damon Theodore Kutzin
Genolier, Switzerland
Moving the World: The Role of God in Philosophical Beginnings
Esther Jee-Hae Lee
Timonium, Maryland
Crim e and Punishment: Redemption-The Murderer and the Harlot
�Jeong Ho Lee
Seongnam, South Korea
Put Thy Trust in God: Alyosha's Dynam ic Faith in The Brothers Karamazov
Zachary Michael Leveroni
Elk Grove, California
Hegel's Critique of Pure Morality: The Use and Abuse of Conscience in Hegel's
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Yixing Li
Shenyang, People's Republic of China
Motion through the Lens of Quantum Mechanics
Yuqing Liao
Beijing, People's Republic of China
A Path Open to All: An Analysis on Critique of Pure Reason
Timon Luo
Brooklyn, New York
The Way to Nirvana: Purpose of the Pilgrimage in The Journey to the West
Louis Nathan Mainwaring Foster
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cairo, Egypt
Alone on the Island of Man's Knowledge: An Examination of the Social and Asocial
in Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Jameson Deweese Marshall
Fairfax, Vi rginia
Loving Others by Loving Ourselves: An Exploration of Happiness in Rousseau's
Emile
ZawMaw
Yangon, Myanmar
Wisdom of Self-Experience in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
Cambridge, Ohio
The Fruits That We Bear: An Exploration of Character and Action in Aristotle's On
Poetics and What the Art of Fiction Tells Us About Our Perception of Reality
Sterling, Virginia
Change We Can Believe In: Knowledge, Necessity, and History in Philosophical
Fragments
Zihan Mei
Dionysos's Presence in Th e Bacchae
Finding Satisfaction in a Material World: An Analysis of Lucretius' On the Nature of
Things
Atanas Zdravkov Minev
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Faith: Bringing a Thought- Project to Life, An Essay on S0ren Kierkegaard's
Philosophical Fragments
John Schuyler Monday
Thousand Oaks, California
Family and Leadership in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Elisabeth Marie Morell
Hangzhou, People's Re public of China
Stockholm, Sweden
To Whom Do I Owe This Alienation? An Inquiry into Words and Meaning in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Maplewood, New Jersey
Faraday and Maxwell's Theory of the Whole
Thomas Christopher Mountain
Kassem Ayad Mansour
Scott Stanaway Mccrae
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Reuben Irving Morris
Capital Alive: What Could it Mean?
Tyler Michael Mazur
Sean Alexander Miller
Baltimore, Maryland
Christianity 101: An Examination of Kierkegaard's Established System in
Philosophical Fragments and its Applicabi lity to the Gospel of John
Elinatan Israel Nelson
Silver Spring, Maryland
The Tension Within the Leaf: How Conflicting Ends Manifest in the Growing Plant
Raymond Elijah O'Donnell
Severna Park, Maryland
Epictetus' Principles: An Investigation via Kantian Experience
Luke Timothy Olson
Annapolis, Maryland
How Should We Learn? How Class and Folly Influence Education in Aristophanes'
Clouds
Connor Patrick O'Malley*
Annapolis, Maryland
Edan Moses Otto
Portland, Oregon
A Quantum of Causality: Kant ian Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics Joined
Yunju Park
Changwon, South Korea
Creators of Society: Mark Twain's Th e Adventures of Huckleberry Fin n
I
�Rose Susan Pelham*
Decatur, Georgia
John Francesco Pell
Vienna, Virginia
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Arlington, Virginia
Brendan Myles Reicherter
Development of Character Through Music in James Joyce's Ulysses
Goyang, Republic of Korea
Ludington, Michigan
Redemption and Damnation of Hu manity: A Story Portrayed by the Lovers of
Gounod's Faust
Greenbrier, Tennessee
Westport, Connecticut
I
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Hegelian Dialectics in The Phenomenology of Spirit
Gabriela Maria Sanchez
Wellington, Florida
Miraculous Artworks: On Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition
Lillian Rose Scanlan
Honolulu, Hawaii
Orphaned Souls in Moby-Dick
Saint Louis, Missouri
The Leap of Faith: Resolving the Dialectic between the Esthetic and the Ethical in
Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Swann in Search of Love and Art: The Role of Art, Aesthetics, and Appreciation in
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
How Kant Saved Me from the Void
Thomas Jacob Tatum
Louisvi lle, Kentucky
On the Meno: Can Knowledge be Shared?
Nicholas Donaldson Thorp
Sanford, Florida
Do I Believe in Red Roses? An Exp loration of Belief in Thomas Reid's An I nquiry
into the Mind and a Response to the Melancholy of Rad ical Skepticism
Quang Ngai, Vietnam
Eloping in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Claire Antonia Tucker
Davis, California
Bend, Oregon
Descartes' Geometrie: A Study of Form and Imagination
Hung Khanh Tram
Portland, Oregon
The Will to Choose: Ethics and Esthetics in Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Swann's Way
What Sort of Th ing Are We? Understanding our Behavior Through the Teachings of
Epictetus
Zuowen Tang
"Well maybe I've been wrong/ maybe my intentions are irrelevant/ but honestly,
it's not just for me": An Analysis of Maturity Th rough Henry IV Part I
Anna Joelle Carole Se ban
Kennebunkport, Maine
Abigail Elizabeth Stuart
Catechism of the Two Co mmandments
Qingyang San
Glen Leroy Shivel
Jakob Ethan Stief
Erica Rochelle Root
James Edward Rubidge
Kathmandu, Nepal
Emma Lilia Stewart
Inevitability of Going Beyond the Socratic
Lucy Cabell Ross
Aishwarya Sharma
Who Is Ant igone? Living a Life Opposed to Life
Fear of Change: A Look at Time in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
Han Kyul Rhee
Dublin, Ireland & Islamabad, Pakistan
The Generalisation of Economic Thought: An Essay on The General Theory by John
Maynard Keynes
Achilles' Wager: On Fate in the Iliad
Zachary Augustine Radford
Eireamhan Mitha Semple
Annapo li s, Maryland
The Filial Bonds of Sympathy: Observations of the Commun ion between Man and
Nature
�Cedar City, Utah
Mary Elizabeth Turner
Descartes' Approach
Alberto Clemente Antonio Valenzuela III
Naveed Ahsan •
Manila, Philippines
The Traveler's Mind: From Both Sides of Jonathan Swift's Fourth Wall
Grace Maren Villmow
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
in Christine de Pizan's the Book of the City of Ladies
Johnstown, Colorado
Home is Where the Heart Leads: Using Resourcefulness and Self-Reliance to Go on
Living
Xiaotian Wang
Annapolis, Maryland
Meanings of Language: An Analysis of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Mark Everett Wittmer
Centennial, Colorado
Distant Music: Art, Language, and Mediation in James Joyce's "The Dead"
Xin Ye
Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
The Man of Faith
Julian Paul Zeidler
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
Confronting the Mask: An Investigation of the Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Aidan Thomas Zito
Arlington , Virginia
Purcellville, Virginia
Hudson, Ohio
New York, New York
Patrick Burke Corry •
Seattle, Washington
Thomas Farrell Cox •
Falls Church, Virginia
Lee Cranberg •
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Jacob Jabulani Luseini Davenport •
Syracuse, New York
Liam M. Dempsey
Annapolis, Maryland
Andrew David Dorchester •
Madeleine Nicole Emholtz
Carson James Fall
Washington, District of Columbia
Gulf Breeze, Florida
Washington, District of Columbia
Zachary Nathaniel Greene
Indianapolis, Indiana
Samuel Philip Sexe Hage
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Jaime Marquez •
Thomas Matthew McGuire
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Jacksonville, Florida
Gabrielle Cristine Bruestle •
Gregory LaMontagne •
The Ecstasy of Heroism: On the Line Between Delusion and Insanity
Logan Jefferey Zimmerman
Shane Thomas Ayers •
Nicholas John Bartulovic
Judged, Sentenced, And Condemned: An Exploration of the Truth Behind Misogyny
Katharine Wall
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Joyce Olin •
Margaret Vrooman Post •
Jordan Poyner
Annapolis, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
Georgetown, Delaware
Annapolis, Maryland
Palm City, Florida
Winona Lake, Indiana
To Win Sorrow Beyond What Is Given: Arrogance and Retribution in Homer's
Adam Reed
Odyssey
Jordana Rozenman
Washington, District of Columbia
Kelly Ann Warner •
Indianapolis, Indiana
* Upon completion of requirements
Brandon Matthew Wasicsko
t Degree conferred January 15, 2020
Olney, Maryland
Plantation, Florida
�To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2019-2020 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Soul with Good Sense Guides Correctly
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Samuel Philip Sexe Hage
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
The Man of Faith
Xin Ye
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Jared John Bassmann
Honorable Mention
The Cumulative Action of Creation- A Calculus Under Darwin
Annie Lindsey Brong
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Abigail Elizabeth Stuart
Ivan Nicholas Zembrusky
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
Not Awarded
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
The Role of Time of Augustine's Confession
Brandon Chon Garcia
Naked and Afraid
Olivia Star Pittard
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Limits of the Noble: the Human and the Div ine in Prince H ector
Allayah Drake Mason-Koehler
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2019.
Offered by the Alumni Association
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Not Awarded
Honorable Mention
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Anagram"
Nortaute Elena-Ruta Grintalis
Honorable Mention
"Your Eyes were Violets"
Samuel J. Berrettini
To the student who submits a tine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
"Lament for Viola"
Love and Suffering in Joyce's Ulysses
Christine Marie Mooradian
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
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
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
�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 Emeritus
Lkhagvabadrakh Sereeter
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
Not Awarded
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Jared John Bassmann
Raeann Alyah Clement
Mitchell Lewis Harris
Elizabeth Olivia Hartzell
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
Kesi Emily Dremel
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
Reuben Irving Morris
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.
Portrait of the Artist Missing Croquet (and needing to Shave), oil on canvas
Nicholas Donaldson Thorp
Honorable Men tion
Angel Wings, conte crayon on wood
Julia Morgan Cooper
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
From the Bottom of the Well, painting
Annie Lindsey Brong
�
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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>
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Program for the two hundred twenty-eighth commencement in the three hundred twenty-fourth year of the college.
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ST JOHN'S
College
ANNAPOLIS• SANTA
2021
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COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday 1 May 16
Two Thousand and Twenty-One
Annapolis Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Ninth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Fifth Year
of the College
Prelude
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Chester Burke
Address to the Graduating Class
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
Academic Recession
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
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BACHELOR OF ARTS
Henry Ince Anderson
Savannah Paige Dadds
Secret Life of Plants
Nashville, Tennessee
A Possession for All Time: Self-interest, Morality, and the Athenian Thesis in
Thucydides's War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians
Eric Julian Baker
New York, New York
Engaging with Life While in Isolation: Charles Baudelaire on the Art of Enjoying
a Crowd
Samuel Joseph Be rrettini
Rutherford, New Jersey
Homo Daemonicus: Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Love of the Impossible
Raz Besaleli
Sharon, Vermont
Evolution and Calculus: An Exploration of the Genesis of the Complex Analysis
in Cauchy's 1852 Memorandum
Alysiana Carter
Jupiter, Florida
The Dialectical Mirror: An Exploration of Artistic and Scientific Mediation in
Tarkovsky's Solaris
Juan Guillermo Cassanello Garcia
Asuncion, Paraguay
From Konigsberg to Copenhagen: A Thought on Metaphysics and Quantum
Mechanics
Nobonita Chowdhury
Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Legacy of Plutarch's Lawgivers: An Analysis of the Lives of Lycurgus and
Solon, and Their Impact on Modern Day Ideas of State, Equality, and Justice
Thomas R. Chrisman
Maplewood, New Jersey
Independence of Intellect
Amalie Ballman Christensen
New York, New York
Johnson, Vermont
Springtime: The Dismantling of Romanticism in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Sophia Cote
Virginia Birch Deaver
Berea, Kentucky
Humor: A Cognitive Prayer to Patterns of Time, Absurd ity, and Human Shame
Yanet Teklu Desta
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
When We Are in Love, What Do We Fall in Love With? An Examination of Love
through Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice
Samuel Dietrich
Broad lands, Virginia
Things Just Happen: An Examination of Kant in the Everyday
Kristina Marie Dover
Lake Alfred, Florida
With Effort, with Agony, to Mankind: A Study of Trauma in Woolf's Mrs. Dal/away
Marshall Elizabeth Drake
Columbia, South Carolina
What Does Oppressive Government Look Like? A Theory Based in Hobbes's
Leviathan
Austin Alexander Dumas
Ridgely, Maryland
Quantum Mechanics
Carolina Elizondo Moya
Monterrey, Mexico
When Can the End Justify the Means? An Exploration of Justice in Niccolo
Machiavelli's Political Works, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy
Martin Amory Fischer
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Imagination and Intellect in Spinoza's Ethics
Szymon Piotr Galazka
Wroclaw, Poland
The Revelation of Ivan's Soul in The Brothers Karamazov
Illuminated Faith: An I nquiry of the Role of Testimony, and Its Relation to Belief
in the Gospel of John
Cora Clark
Ridgely, Maryland
New York, New York
The Death of Passion, the Birth of Individuality: Understanding the Self in La
Princesse de Cleves Through Passion, Desire, and the Rejection of Both
Rachel Cresap Gordon
Reisterstown, Maryland
In Search of Eternal Stability: Suffering and Unity in Hegel's Phenomenology of
Spirit
Ellie Grace Gott
York, Pennsylvania
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: The I mportance of Suffering in the
Faithful
Alexander Peterson Grand
On the Inertia of Mankind: A Look into How Societies Develop
Brooklyn, New York
�Nortaute Elena-Ruta Grintalis
Laurel, Maryland
The Embryonic Cradle of Spirit: Breeching the Liminality of the Self through Carl
G. Jung's Liber Novus
Andrew Graham Hill
Vancouver, Washington
Art and Wretchedness in Les Fleurs du ma/: An Examination of Baudelaire's
Horizontal and Vertical Depictions of Sea Voyage
Jasmine Alison Holder
Beach Lake, Pennsylvania
Alvar Yrjo Oskari Huhtanen
Espoo, Finland
Seeing Things with Clarissa Dalloway
Suzhou, People's Republic of China
Dao De Jing: The Meaning of Dao and the Notion of Inaction
Sera Emily Johnson
Middletown, Rhode Island
D MO<DPOIYNH: Marriage in James Joyce's Ulysses
Chicago, Illinois
The Isolation Paradox: An Investigation into Solitude and Social Identity in
Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Michael August Kraus
Memphis, Tennessee
Hyderabad, India
Special Relativity and the Art of Writing: An Investigation of Einstein's Rhetoric
in "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"
Fiona Lau
Castro Valley, California
Nha Trang City, Vietnam
The Willing Surrender of Freedom: Justifying the Soul's Descent into Mortality in
Plotinus's The Enneads
Joshua David Lee
An Imitative Approach to Hamlet
From Maize to Dust
Houston, Texas
The Poet of the World: God as the Salvation of Creativity
Islamabad, Pakistan
Rubab Meraj
Woman as an Abused Asset: A Study of Mankind
Melrose, Massachusetts
Alexis Christina Morrill
Optic Research and Wonder: An Exploration of the Part versus Whole
Relationship in the Heart
Kirabo Pauline Nanyanzi
Kyaliwajjala-Namugongo, Uganda
The Unfolding of Character in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Huntington, West Virginia
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown: A Study of the Tragedy of
Elsa Peter Ordahl
Irvington, New York
Carving Letters on Little Trees: The Permanence and Impermanence of Home in
Virgil's Eclogues
Amanda Rose Pauquette
Gainesville, Florida
The Ethics of Baruch de Spinoza: An Examination of the Belief of God in
Spinoza's Ethics, and the Tranquility of Spirit Which Follows from a Rational
Understanding of Nature's Laws
Jessica Peterson
Westwood, Kansas
What Must the King Do Now?: An Inquiry of Causation, Motivation, and Divine
The Condition of Man and His Labor
Bao Le
West Hartford, Connecticut
Liam James Marshall-Butler
King Henry IV
The Spleen and the Heart: A Study of the Modern Poet through the Works of
Charles Baudelaire and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Avi Kumar
Varieties of Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Anne Nilles
Grace Phan Jones
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Kamrin Lynn Martin
Dao de Jing, Book I: I Wish to Be a Sage with Feeling
Xiaotong Jin
Qingqing Le i
Houston, Texas
Right in Shakespeare's Richard II
Amy Elisabeth Porter
Shady Side, Maryland
Self-revelation and Sincerity: Panache and the Beauty of the Pure Soul in
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
Mary Elizabeth Quinn
Louisville, Kentucky
Death Doesn't Bite: An Examination of the Body and Soul in Plato's Phaedo
�Wilson Trueman Redfield
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
The Riddle of History
Michael Riggins
Mineral Wells, Texas
Inconstancy's Constant Habit: Experiential Christianity in John Donne's
Holy Sonnets
Arpan Sapkota
Kathmandu, Nepal
Los Angeles, California
Fairfax Station, Virginia
Ph iladelphia, Pennsylvania
Exploitation of the Worker in Marx's Capital
Lkhagvabadrakh Sereeter
Murun, Mongolia
On Self-Consciousness in Lordship and Bondage, The Phenomenology of Spirit
as translated by A.V. Miller
Bryan David Shaw
Azle, Texas
Houston, Texas
The Wanderer: A Hegelian Analysis of "White Nights"
Eli Samuel Sneider
Palo Alto, California
Thucydides: Passion at the Root of the Peloponnesian War
Jaeri Suh
Seoul, South Korea
Life on Earth
Hope Allegra Taglich
New York, New York
A Quiet Revolution: On Chastity and Self-Ownership in The Princess of Cleves
Ciel Torres
Being Also Beholding: Alternatively, A Situation in Five Scenes
Burke, Virginia
Matthew Alexander Tyska
Tie Siding, Wyoming
Luisa Anne Wayman
Annapolis, Maryland
Erik West
Mountain River, Australia
The Baffled King Composing Hallelujah, or, Where David Was Forgiven Where
Saul Was Not, and What This Says about the Nature of God
Ives Williams
Annapolis, Maryland
Ragged Figures: A Journey Through Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and the
Path to Salvation
Shane C. Williams
In Defense of Universal Uniformity
Anna Simmons
Liam Ethan Twomey
On the Conflation of Morality and Virtue in the Summa Theologica and its
Consequences for the Secularization of Popular Morality
Fear and Rebellion
Nicholas Joseph Scott
One for All, All for One: An Investigation of Community in Hobbes's Leviathan
and Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah
Lucretian Imagery and Thought in Virgil's Aeneid
Just a Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down: The Wormwood and
Honey of Baudelaire's Poems
Adam Joseph Schulman
Izmir, Turkey
Inspiration, Imitation, and Interpretation: Three Accounts of Art
Machiavellian Prince: A Product of Human Nature
Petra Schaaf-Grisham
Ece Nur Tuglu
Los Angeles, California
Lubbock, Texas
Between the Angel and the Deep Blue Sea: Analyzing the Nature of Captain Vere
in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
Luke Chapin Wilson
Peterborough, New Hampshire
I am Now Alone on Earth: How Our Identity is Shaped by Solitude
Rediet Worku
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Memories of Discernment: Andrey's Moment of Freedom
Maxwell Clark Wright
Wyncote, Pennsylvania
Soft Despotism and the Most Existential Fear of Democracy
Xi Xue
The Genesis of 1
Chongqing, People's Republic of China
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Carly Nicole Berndtt
Justin Edward Bradyt
Lisa Christian
Marley Annika Crank
Kelly Duvall Custer
Bexley, Ohio
Baltimore, Maryland
Washington , District of Columbia
Annapolis, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Leith Genghis Daghistanit
Fai rfax, Virginia
William Winston Elliott, III§
Houston, Texas
NehaGaddam
Annapolis, Maryland
Alexander Michael Habighorst
Picayune, Mississippi
Melvin Aaron Hanson
William John Harvardt
Mustafa Kamalt
Dimple Kault
Akaylaquriveria Tierra Lewis
Joseph Elias Malfitanot
Manhattan, Illinois
Elverson, Pennsylvania
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Ghaziabad, India
Franklin, Louisiana
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Albert Joseph Matricciani Jr.
Baltimore, Maryland
Michael Gideon Marta
Kansas City, Missouri
Colin James Morrisseyt
Newark, New Jersey
Ian August Mosleyt
Clifford Geroge Mumm
Nichella Floraine Nalt
Hayley River Smitht
Hollister, Missouri
Sperryville, Virginia
Colorado Spri ngs, Colorado
Annapolis, Maryland
John Townsend Stemmlet
Cheverly, Maryland
Jonathan David Stewartt
Richmond , Virginia
Paul Christopher Tsavoussist
Courtney Michele White
† Degree conferred January 27, 2021
§ Degree to be conferred May 22, 2021 in Santa Fe
Dunedin, Florida
Los Angeles, Californ ia
�To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2020-2021 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
PRIZES AND AWARDS
How Do We Learn? Is Anything Teachable?
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
Andrew Graney
The Isolation Paradox: An Investigation into Solitude and
Social Identity in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Grace Phan Jones
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Alvar Yrjo Oskari Huhtanen
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
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,
Stephen Carino
Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Honorable Mention
How to Snuff Out a Candle: An Examination of 'Light'
and Authentic Companionship in Middlemarch
Sofia Martin
Half Abashed: A Study of Sex Before-and After-the Fall of Man
Ivan Zembrusky
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Jessie Tagliani
Olivia Pittard
Honorable Mention
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
Cato in Purgatory
Ezra Melchor
Honorable Mention
Divina Musicale: The Music Between Heaven and Earth
Ruby Miller
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Not Awarded
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2020.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Liam Twomey
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"A Ballade of Paradise Lost, or Lines 1-6 Reimagined"
Brandon Garcia
Honorable Mention
"Mercury"
Allayah Mason-Koehler
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
" ~tiiiJ" ("North River")
Xi Xue
An Essay on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Anthony Mette
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
An Evolution of Tension: How Bach Portrays
The Emotional and Theological Aspects of Grieving
Sofia Martin
J
�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 Emeritus
Not Awarded
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
Liam Ethan Twomey
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Not Awarded
Honorable Mention
Stephan Mason
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Sera Emily Johnson
Shane C. Williams
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
Rachel Cresap Gordon
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 196 9
Amy Elisabeth Porter
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.
Tea Set with Copper Wire and Found Wood, ceramic
Sophia Cote
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
Tea Set with Copper Wire and Found Wood, ceramic
Sophia Cote
�CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
sjc.edu
410-626-2531
�
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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&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
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Program for the two hundred twenty-ninth commencement in the three hundred twenty-fifth year of the college.
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Annapolis, MD
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2023
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday | May 14
Two Thousand and Twenty-Three
Annapolis | Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Thirty-First
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Seventh Year
of the College
Prelude
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Welcome
Nora Demleitner
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Demleitner
Joseph Macfarland
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Nathan Dugan
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees of the Class of 2023
President Demleitner
Dean Macfarland
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Demleitner
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Recognition of the Class of 2020
Academic Recession
President Demleitner
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Carrollton Brass Quintet
�B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Kasparas Adomaitis
Vilnius, Lithuania
Huckleberry Finn: the Conscience of Mark Twain’s America
Jack Alford
Vienna, Virginia
The Doomed Romantic: Failure and Fate in Lord Jim
Rhett Anderson
Thetford, Vermont
Wild Apes & Savage Beavers: Examining Identity Post-Colonization in Aime
Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism, James Joyce’s Dubliners, and
Dr. Frederick Wiseman’s Dawnland: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
Max Anthon
Haworth, New Jersey
Terminal Philosophy A Closer Look at the End of Socrates
Ella Rose Barron
Denver, Colorado
Voltaire’s Zadig ou la Destinée: A World Not Directed by Wisdom
Joseph Bennett
Amherst, New Hampshire
A Linguistic Christ Figure in Phenomenology of Spirit
Ben Berghammer
Evanston, Illinois
The Torments of a Deep Conscience: What it Means for Ivan Fyodorovich’s
Heart to be Overcome by God in The Brothers Karamazov
James Lawrence Bieneman
West Bloomfield, Michigan
What differentiates Newton and Leibniz in development and understanding
of their calculus?
Malaika Biwott
Fairfax, Virginia
The Demise of the Laborer
Emory Richmond Boll
New York, New York
Magical Mystery Tour Searching for Soul, Self, and Solace in Jung’s Red
Book
Dashiel Donald Buyske-Friedberg
God and Lucifer through Dante’s the Divine Comedy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
�Meagan Callahan
Sunderland, Maryland
What You Will: Desire and Happiness in Twelfth Night
Stephen Dela Cruz Cariño
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Fiction and Reality: The Imaginations of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Gabriela Carroll
Austin, Texas
The Fruit of Unconscious Activity in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Sihwan Cha
Busan, South Korea
A Touch of Intellect, the Flesh of Man
Bibhusan Chapagain*
Hyeokjae Choi
Kathmandu, Nepal
Seoul, South Korea
Wrestling with the Shade of Plato: The Meno and Lucian’s Hermotimus
Joseph Cunningham
Ambleside, United Kingdom
Out from the Dark Wood: The Importance of Dante’s Awakening and First
Steps into Hell
Sam Detwiler
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
No More. The Text is Foolish: Understanding Shakespeare’s Props in King
Lear
Jonah Donis
South Hamilton, Massachusetts
To See with Eyes Unclouded: A Look at the Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic
Elizabeth SuAnn Dowdy
Fort Worth, Texas
Sisters by Chance or Sisters by Choice? An Examination of Sisterhood in
Sophocles’ Antigone
Samantha Duckworth
On Book X of Euclid’s Elements
Mira Dunan Emmart
Holland, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Locke on Labor For the Right or For the Good?
Isabel Emond
Ocean City, Maryland
Spellbound: The Risks of Learning in Plato’s Protagoras
Mathew Fisher
Weathersfield, Vermont
Unnumbered Strands Exploration of Separation in Dream of the Red
Chamber
Vienna, Austria
On Speech, or the Same and the Other
Cristopher Barrett Ford
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Stamping Ground, Kentucky
A Cry for the Recognition of Living Poetry: Exploring Unreason in Don
Quixote
Alexander Ray Fodor
Of Whales and Men
Amanda Jayne Clemens
Eleanor Carroll Elliott
Reston, Virginia
Freeing Minds: A Treatment for Ignorance
Agnes Sands Galvin
Millerton, New York
To Be Mistress of Pemberley
Kreider Chesterfield Grasse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“The Summit of the Organic Scale” Is Man’s Superciliousness Justified by
Darwin’s View Of the Progression of Man?
Emerson Rieman Graves
Charlotte, North Carolina
“All Myth, The One Reality” of Helen in Egypt
Noah Hale
Seaford, Delaware
The Paradoxical Hero and the Progress of Loss in Job
Allegra Danger Hall
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Absence Makes the Heart: The Present Christ in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Ella Naomi Harel Kirschner
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phaedra the Philosopher Queen: Passionate Thought, Speech, and Deed in
Euripides’ Hippolytus
�Jonathan Harris
Silver Spring, Maryland
Returning Power to the People: An Analysis of Civil Responsibility in the
Commonwealth, as Established in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
Matthew James Hogan
Ava Marie Elisabeth Lehrman
The Curiosity and Conviction of a Humble Man: On Faraday’s
Electromagnetic Phenomena through Inductive Reasoning
St. Helena, California
Lakeland, Florida
Paradox in Paradise
Matthew Jungheim
Highland Park, Illinois
From Aeneas to Zion: An Account of the Essence of Two Nations
John Frederick Kelly
Annapolis, Maryland
Evanston, Illinois
Shaped by Absence: Negation in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Eyes Wide Open: An Inquiry into the Second and Third Chapters of the Book
of Genesis
Zixiong Lin
Wenling, People’s Republic of China
Daryl Jeffrey Locke
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Lucie Carroll McCarthy
Baltimore, Maryland
Delay and the Bounded Self in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Jenny Kim
Chungju, South Korea
Involuntary Memory in Swann’s Way
New Freedom, Pennsylvania
Baudelaire’s Search for the Red Ideal in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Cincinnati, Ohio
Corruption and the Art of Philosophy Education and Friendship in Plato’s
Phaedrus
Chicago, Illinois
God, Moses, and the Golden Rule: Does Hillel’s Famous Statement Hold
True When Reading Exodus?
The Ubiquitous Experience of Exile in Baudelaire’s Swan
Las Vegas, Nevada
Outcast Child Monarch of the Clouds
Isabella Martin Kiedrowski
Hyojeong Lee
Cedar Park, Texas
“The Laws and Loss of Nature” Reinterpreting Tocqueville’s Observations on
the Principle of Equality For the Modern Day
Passion Nailed Down in America: An Inquiry on the Sovereignty of People
The Quest for Political and Spiritual Moderation
Rivka Koppel
Nothing Beside Remains: The Breakdown of Morality in Heart of Darkness
Sarah Janice Fairchild Lieberman
Chelsea Johnson
Craig Koch
Ellicott City, Maryland
Joshua Levins
The “Dark, Sweet Stench” of Loam in Toni Morrison’s Sula.
Mia Kobylski
Needham, Massachusetts
Law, Principle, Rule: What If Darwin’s Laws Are Taken as Laws of Physics?
Burke, Virginia
Ella Hougie
Jake Lees
Incheon, South Korea
Isabel Lucille McDonald
Gambier, Ohio
The Social Outsider: Society, Adventure, and Freedom in Mark Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sylvie McKnight-Milles
Ellicott City, Maryland
In Search of Physical Reality: A Journey through Schrödinger’s
Mathematical Derivation of the Quantum Wave Function
Elizabeth Lynn Meade
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
“You Must Not Be Here:”: Alienation through Law in War and Peace
Ezra Melchor
Catonsville, Maryland
On Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals: The Doubt of Faith and the Will to Truth
Megli Micek
Las Vegas, Nevada
Love, the Inevitable End of Everything in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
�Jozef Miklasz
Crownsville, Maryland
The Five Rings Freedom through the Way of the Warrior
Grace Frances Miller
Trinity, North Carolina
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Louisville, Kentucky
The Life of Isaac McCaslin From Faulkiner’s Go Down, Moses
Giovanni Morgan
Stuart, Florida
The I That is We: How Community Sets Us Free in Hegel’s Phenomenology
of Spirit
Elizabeth “Birdi” Mueller
Ridgway, Colorado
Saving Orlando: Marriage and Mannage in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Brooke Anna Murphy-Petri
Darien, Connecticut
To Love One’s Neighhhbor a Voyage into Gulliver’s Travels
Lillian Pearl Lemmert Naill
Baltimore, Maryland
Old Westbury, New York
The Torment and Ecstacy of Spleen and the Ideal
Tom Ni
Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Virtue or Virtù: The Case of Scipio
Matthew Nugent*
Joseph Padgett
Keene, New Hampshire
Memphis, Tennessee
Die Müh Ist Aus or Finding Rest in Bach’s Passion
Lysithia Page
Do We Get What We Want? An Essay on Plato’s Symposium
Gorham, Maine
Francis Proctor
Annapolis, Maryland
A Consideration of Inheritance, Rights, and Liberty
Alayna Kay Louise Raymond
Spanaway, Washington
Finding Her Epos: An Investigation into Dorothea Brooke’s Potential for Epic
Life in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Elli Megan Rees
Llanelli, Wales
Seduction: A means of Destruction or Reconciliation?
Jennifer Reid
Atlanta, Georgia
Movement in Passivity: A Phenomenological Approach to the Development
of Passivity in the Girl in Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Caroline Grace Ritter
Arlington, Virginia
On Personal Freedom and Historical Inevitability in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
The Four Elements in the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Exploration of Duality within
Nature
Noah Negri
Silas Nathanael Pillsbury
On Attention and Identity: A Study of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Passion and Gospel: Bach’s Double Scoring of Matthew
Caroline Kohl Moeller
Chicago, Illinois
The Dialectic of Violence: Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth
Economy, Passion, Love Exploring What It Means to Marry Well in Jane
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Ruby Mariah Miller
Angel Pantoja Jr.
Garrick Buchanan Rodman
The Identity and Ideals of a Man Betrayed
Jacob Richard Rowley
Bend, Oregon
A Platform of Stability: Eternal Moment in To The Lighthouse
Kostiantyn Rymar
Kyiv, Ukraine
Sin, Death, Suffering, and Baudelaire: How Evil Penetrates l’esprit and
l’corps to Create the Deplorable Nature of the Human Condition
Apurva Sharma
Kathmandu, Nepal
“A Shadow Here and a Light There”: An Exploration of the Self and the Other
in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Lirian Selene Spolaore
Burlingame, California
Glennville, Pennsylvania
Washington, District of Columbia
A Journey through Memory: Experiencing Time with Marcel Proust
�Sachin Cyril Stanislaus
Templeton, California
On Legitimate Authority in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract:
An Inquiry into the Possibility of Justified Social Relations
Honor Dubarry Stanton
Toronto, Canada
The Degradation of Soul and Regime in Plato’s Republic
Wyatt Sweeney
Cleveland, Ohio
Bona Fide: The Anatomy and Apotheosis of Identity through Montaigne’s
Essays
Nathaniel Talbutt
Providence, Rhode Island
Colossus! Interpreting Real and Symbolic Power in Shakespeare’s Tragedy
of Julius Caesar
Nicolas Turner
Arlington, Virginia
What Wants to Be Told: Self-knowledge through the Fables of Aesop and
Jean de La Fontaine
Nya Uberman-Gillon
Olympia, Washington
The Human Frequency: A Marriage of Opposites and Acceptable Paradox
James “Cooper” Ussery
Naples, Florida
A Standpoint Beyond: On The German Ideology
Paul William Vosteen Jr.
Monterey, Virginia
The Frenzied Pied Piper of Idolatry
Libby Watson
Houston, Texas
Thinking of Thinking: Why the Phenomenology of Spirit is a Story
Leonard Wells
Washington, District of Columbia
The Odyssey of L’russe Besuhof in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Tessa Wild
St. Louis, Missouri
“Unnatural Troubles”: An Exploration of Madness in Macbeth
Tong “Cynthia” Wu
Suzhou, People’s Republic of China
Man as a Beautiful Animal: The Evolution of Human Civilization through
Beauty in Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man
Jingyi Zhang
Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
Mal of Les Fleurs du Mal
Rose Meien Zhang
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Something New Under the Sun in Kepler’s Astronomia Nova
Yingxin Zhang
Wenling, People’s Republic of China
How One Should Live a Life: Moderation in Plato’s Republic
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Mark Acebo
Perth, Australia
Sarah Pendleton Alexander
Alexander Phillip Andreosatos
Jeffrey Robert Boatwright†
Adam Burkhart
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Annapolis, Maryland
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Los Angeles, California
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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David Somerset Christian
Cypress, California
Jesse Clagett
Dahlonega, Georgia
Ari Spencer Coleman†
South Jordan, Utah
Benjamin Crocker
Sydney, Australia
Folke Egerstrom
Santa Ana, Costa Rica
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Matthew Ely
Des Moines, Iowa
Derek Foret
Washington, District of Columbia
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Fort Washington, Maryland
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Jay Alexander Gold
Madison, Wisconsin
Ansley Starr Green
Alachua, Florida
Tanya Malita Fuller
Steven Hayes§
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Jordan Loch Hill
Perth, Australia
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Joshua C Laperche
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Connor Morrison
Benjamin Stewart Pershall†
Siobhán Autumn Petersen
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David R. Pierce
Ethan Pyle
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Exeter, Rhode Island
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Severna Park, Maryland
Shady Side, Maryland
Santa Teresa, New Mexico
Hartland, Wisconsin
Walker Beau Rogalsky
Winnipeg, Canada
Kasey M Siciliano
Cincinnati, Ohio
Abdullah Wadood
Bethesda, Maryland
Chase Waller
§
Judith Jankowski Wrenn§
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Upon completion of requirements
†
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
Fountain Inn, South Carolina
�Welcoming back our Class of 2020
B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Tbel Abuseridze
Batumi, Georgia
On Voyaging
Zainab Noor Ahmad
Lucknow, India
With Feminine Love & Beauty – A Close Look at Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Angelika Nora Alberstadt
New York, New York
Who Painted the Lion? An Analysis of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales
Alexander Thompson Albert
Towson, Maryland
The Influence of War and Peace on Individuals in War and Peace
Emmet Allen
Lexington, Kentucky
Discovery and Concealment – An Examination of Meaning and
Sedimentation in Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences
August Baganz
Annapolis, Maryland
And Repudiating Immolation: The Motion Towards Understanding in
Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
Thomas Balding
Long Island, New York
Free Will and the Individual in War and Peace – An Investigation of Man’s
Ability to Act in a Historical World
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
Tucson, Arizona
Love’s Language in Tristan und Isolde – An Exploration of Musical Meaning
Darcy Marie Bohlin
Santa Fe, New Mexico
On the Amorality of Forgiveness
Anne Lindsay Brong
The Cumulative Action of Creation – A Calculus Under Darwin
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
�Martha Campbell
Annapolis, Maryland
The Perfect Words in The Perfect Order – The Power of the Poetic in Soren
Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Whether it Succeeds in Saying The
Unspeakable
Charles John Carpenter
Farmington, Connecticut
The Natural Social Man – Finding Morality Free of Prejudice in Rousseau’s
Emile
Cole Caudle
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dynamic Language – An essay concerning how our conception of language
shapes how we engage with the world
Yu Chieh Chang
Taichung, Taiwan
Between Love and Suffering – Confessional Language in Dostoevsky’s Crime
and Punishment
Parker James Chlovechok
Cambridge, Ohio
Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty - An Analysis of the Different Forms of Memory
and their Applications to Life and the Creative Process
Raeann Clement
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
A Pursuit of Virtue
Adelaide, Australia
Time, Nature, & Empathy: A Portrait of Humanity in Goethe’s Faust
Los Angeles, California
Kathmandu, Nepal
Zarathustra’s Solitude – A Path to Self-Overcoming
Collin Doherty
Richmond, Virginia
A Moral Bath- Pierre’s Pursuit of Happiness in War and Peace
“…And the Battlefield is the Heart of Man”: An Inquiry into Love, Judgement,
and Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov
Sierra Engdahl
Estero, Florida
How to Build a Good European: Nietzsche’s Pursuit of a Reformed Science
Noah Estes
Mosier, Oregon
On Storytelling: The Art of Experience, Perception, and Symbolism in Mark
Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sadie Bromberg Funk
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Inseparably Interconnected Infinitesimal Elements: An Exploration of
Tolstoy’s Science of History and its Mathematical Possibilities
Tianqi (Simon) Gao
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
The Idea of “Conflicts” in Federalist Papers and Its Misuse in American
Politics
Pasadena, Maryland
Pain: The Price for Greatness
Carlsbad, California
Death for Philosophers –A Guide to Dispelling the Fear of Death Through
Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things
Beebs Hartzell
Houston, Texas
Maddie Nell Fortier Jane
Charlottesville, Virginia
What Giants? An Exploration of Laughter in Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Annapolis, Maryland
On the Isolation Present in the Modern Poetry of Charles Baudelaire
Kesi Emily Dremel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Antigone: Oedipus’s Complex Daughter
Gorgias: The Rhetoric of Shame
Mary Dray
Ryan Andrew Eberlein
Mitchell Harris
How Ghosts and Art Catch Consciences
Nishan Dhungel
Washington, District of Columbia
Marx, Engels, Ricardo, & Smith- Social labor: Marx’s Critique of Vulgar
Economy
Jodi-Ann Griffin
Jack McGregor Condie
Sam Cooper
Samuel Dreyer
Annapolis, Maryland
Kaila Nicole Johnson
Hagerstown, Maryland
On Violence and Virtue: Hamlet and the Nature of Satisfaction in Revenge
Stories
�Anton Olegovich Kalmysh
Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Limitations of Prospero’s Project and Power
Sila Karabiber
Sakarya, Turkey
Why Two Geometries: The Story of Parallel Lines
Beimnet Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Irregularity: The Pseudo-Perfect Garden- A Deliberation of Perfection and
its Place Within God’s Creative Process
Alexander Kocinsky
Trumbull, Connecticut
Cairo, Egypt
Alone on the Island of Man’s Knowledge – An Examination of the Social and
Asocial in Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Jameson DeWeese Marshall
Fairfax, Virginia
Loving others, by loving ourselves – An exploration of happiness in
Rousseau’s Emile
Tyler Michael Mazur
Cambridge, Ohio
The Fruits That We Bear – An exploration of character and action in
Aristotle’s On Poetics and what the art of fiction tells us about our
perception of reality
Scott Stanaway McCrae
Silver Spring, Maryland
The Tension Within the Leaf: How Conflicting Ends Manifest in the Growing
Plant
Portland, Oregon
A Quantum of Causality – Kantian Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics
Joined
Vienna, Virginia
Achilles’ Wager – On Fate in the Iliad
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Fear of Change: A Look at Time in the Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
Mackenzie Richard–Daffner
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun – I Am the Walrus – The
Beatles
Erica Rochelle Root
Ludington, Michigan
Redemption and Damnation of Humanity: A Story Portrayed by the Lovers of
Gounod’s Faust
James Edward Rubidge
Westport, Connecticut
well maybe I’ve been wrong, maybe my intentions are irrelevant, but
honestly, it’s not just for me. An Analysis of Maturity Through Henry IV Part I
Sterling, Virginia
Change We Can Believe In – Knowledge, Necessity, and History in
Philosophical Fragments
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Finding Satisfaction in a Material World - An Analysis of Lucretius’ On the
Nature of Things
Family and Leadership in Shakepeare’s The Tempest
Elinatan Nelson
Zachary Radford
Kassem Ayad Mansour
John Schuyler Monday
To Whom Do I Owe This Alienation? An Inquiry into Words and Meaning in
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
John Pell
Sacramento, California
Hegel’s Critique of Pure Morality – The Use and Abuse of Conscience in
Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Sean Miller
Stockholm, Sweden
Edan Moses Otto
“Man Errs as Long as he Will Strive”
Zachary Leveroni
Elisabeth Morell
Thousand Oaks, California
Gabriela Sanchez
Wellington, Florida
Miraculous Artworks – On Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition
Anna Seban
Davis, California
Swann in Search of Love and Art: The Role of Art, Aesthetics, and
Appreciation in Swann’s Way
Eireamhán Mitha Semple
Dublin, Ireland & Islamabad, Pakistan
The Generalisation of Economic Thought – An essay on The General Theory
by John Maynard Keynes
�Aishwarya Sharma
Kathmandu, Nepal
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Who Is Antigone? Living a Life Opposed to Life
Glen “Quinn” LeRoy Shivel V
Kennebunkport, Maine
What Sort of Things Are we? Understanding our behavior through the
teachings of Epictetus.
Jakob Stief
St. Louis, Missouri
The Leap of Faith: Resolving the Dialectic between the Esthetic and the
Ethical in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or
Zuowen Tang
How Kant Saved Me from the Void
Mary Elizabeth Turner
Cedar City, Utah
Descartes’ Approach
Muntinlúpa City, Philippines
The Traveler’s Mind, from Both Sides of Jonathan Swift’s Fourth Wall
Grace Villmow
Brookings, South Dakota
Judged, Sentenced, And Condemned - An Exploration of the Truth Behind
Misogyny in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies
Logan Jefferey Zimmerman
Andrew Dorchester
Washington, District of Columbia
Gregory LaMontagne
Jordan Timothy Poyner
Jordana Leah Stern Rozenman
Quang Ngai, Vietnam
Eloping in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Alberto Clemente Antonio Valenzuela III
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Jaime Marquez
Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Hung “Jay” Tram
Lee David Cranberg
Wray, Colorado
Confronting the Mask. An Investigation of the Prelude to a Philosophy of the
Future.
Ryan Shinkel
Annapolis, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
Winona Lake, Indiana
Washington, District of Columbia
Annapolis, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2022.
Offered by the Alumni Association
How Might a Machine Intend?
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Siobhán Petersen, Co-Winner
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
In Search of Physical Reality: A Journey Through Schrödinger’s Mathematical
Derivation of the Quantum Wave Function
The Three Peaks of Aristotle’s Ethics:
A Critique of Magnanimity through Friendship and Wisdom
Sylvie McKnight-Milles
Quinn Rifkin, Co-Winner
Honorable Mention
On Personal Freedom and Historical Inevitability in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Caroline Ritter
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
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Isabel Emond
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Stephen Carino
Dorothea Brooke’s Death and Resurrection through Art
Dolan Polglaze
Honorable Mention
Yucen Han
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
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Let Him Who Has Ears Listen – Parable, Christian Privacy,
and the Mechanics of Transformation
Finn Yepkle
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Saving Glaucon’s Soul – An Examination of Socrates’ Answer
in the Republic in Relation to Glaucon’s Character
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
LE CORBEAU ET LE RENARD FABLE
Ava Lehrman
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
Untitled
Lucie McCarthy
Victoria Horsman
Honorable Mention
A Noble Risk and a Noble Lie: The Doubt and Deception of Socrates
Kaleth Cushman
Honorable Mention
When Rajani poured her love
Bibhusan Chapagain
Honorable Mention
Character in Nicomachean Ethics: Who is to Blame?
Honorable Mention
A Reservation
Michael Engstrom
Chelsea Simons
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2021-2022 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns by a donation from Joe Coelho
Neither Evening nor Dawn: A Comparison of Μεγαλοψυχία and Σοφία in the
‘Nicomachean Ethics’
Jules Spiese
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Alma redemptoris mater
Tarik Mahmud
�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
Elli Rees
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 Emeritus
Paolo Medelius
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
Paolo Medelius
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 members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Jacob Lees
Ava Lehrman
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
Ezra Melchor
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
Alayna Raymond
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.
Daryl Locke
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
World within Hjelmslev Disk
Rose Zhang
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2024
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday | May 12
Two Thousand and Twenty-Four
Annapolis | Maryland
��PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Thirty-Second
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Eighth Year
of the College
Prelude
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Welcome
President Demleitner
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Demleitner
Dean Paalman
Address to the Graduating Class
Mark Roosevelt
Collegewide and Santa Fe Campus President
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
President Demleitner
Dean Paalman
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Demleitner
Associate Dean Boyle
Academic Recession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
��B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Erin Allen
Coatesville, Pennsylvania
On Physical Analogies, Quantum Physics, and Determinism
Logan Arendt
Levittown, Pennsylvania
Beatrice or Ulysses: On Dante’s Sins in the Divine Comedy
Parth Sarthi Bajaj
Katni, India
The Allure of War: An Examination of the Individual lives and the historical
thoughts in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Emma Barron
Monroe, Louisiana
The Women of the Aeneid: An Exploration of Vergil’s Female Characters
Lucinda-Cecilia Bellamy
Washington, District of Columbia
The True Vision of the Uncertain Self - (An Investigation of the Mystical
Relationship Between Memory and Conversion)
Peter Boersema
Shoreline, Washington
What are Political Economists For?
Ana Bojaxhi
Camarillo, California
A Mental Discourse on the Jealousy, Greed, and Glory of Man in Hobbes’
Leviathan
Luke Briner
The Alone to the Alone: The One and the Good in Plotinus
Northport, New York
�Allyson Brink
St. Louis, Missouri
Reading the Oresteia with Cassandra in Mind
Carter Brown
Fairfax, Virginia
Moving Without Ark: On Conversation and Compassion in the Book of Job
Acacia Burnham
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Edgar I Nothing Am: Paradox & Performance in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Leul Campbell
Newburgh, New York
The Inequality of Man: The Leap from Property to Slavery in Rousseau’s
Second Discourse
Seneca Case
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Eros and the Divine: An Exploration of the Role of Beatrice and the Feminine
Form in the Divine Comedy
Carolynn Ceci
Bel Air, Maryland
The Wind and the Wise: An Inquiry into a human’s application of Divine
Wisdom
Hannah Chavers
Farmington, New Mexico
The Lullaby of Philosophy and the Importance of Storytelling: A Musical
Endeavor Propounded by Fear and an Effort to Uncover What Is
Yiyang Cheng
Suzhou, People’s Republic of China
Home: the Stability, the Power, the Source of Struggle: The Power Distortion
in the Family as a Cause of the Tragedy in Jean Racine’s Phèdre
Paige Chesney
Washington Grove, Maryland
On the Sun, Equinox, and Celestial Recurrence in Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso
�Caleb Clark
Hollis, New Hampshire
Perfectibilité and the Fall of Man in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality
Marshall Cooperman
Washington, District of Columbia
The Role of Justice in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War
Elisabeth Crosby
New Haven, Connecticut
Nietzsche’s Meditation on How to Survive History: A Return to Being Human
Charles Dang
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
A Tale of Two Cities: An Exploration of the Atlantis Myth in Plato’s Timaeus
and Critias
Sydney Davis
Arnold, Maryland
Knowing Clytemnestra: On Fully Understanding Character, Past Initial
Impression
James Dormer
Pleasanton, California
A Web Sovereignty: On People and Power in Democracy in America
Frederic Duch Clerici
Barcelona, Spain
The Fundamental Law of Natural Philosophy: An Investigation into the
Scientific Mind
Michael Engstrom
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Over Better Waters: Guidance and Innate Freedom in Dante’s Purgatorio
Tallis Estevez
Silver Spring, Maryland
Purely to Look On: Consciousness’s Self-Examination in The Phenomenology
of Spirit
�Hannah Fodor
Vienna, Austria
What Does it Take to Believe a Story? A Look into the Imaginative Space in
Don Quixote
Audrey Fox
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
The Drama of Justice: Thrasymachus and Glaucon’s Performance in Plato’s
Republic
Adam Francavilla
Traverse City, Michigan
Democracy in America: The Dangers of Democratic Revolution
Tait Geijer
San Clemente, California
Things Change: Heraclitus’ Cosmology of Πῦρ
Hannah Glick
Warminster, Pennsylvania
The Psychology of a City
Ian Glueckert
Columbus, New Jersey
The Three Deaths of Prince Andrei: On Inevitability, Freedom, and God in
War and Peace
Daniela Gonzalez
Lynn, Massachusetts
What is invisibility?
Oscar Gonzalez
Silver Spring, Maryland
The Hermit’s Sojourn: A Study of the Inner and Outer in Either/Or
Stephanie Harris
Happy Valley, Oregon
Navigating Life’s Deluge: The Metaphor of Movement in Rimbaud’s
Illuminations
�Nelli Harutyunyan
Yerevan, Armenia
What is Philosophy Good For?
Karina Havener
Washington, District of Columbia
Memory in Swann’s Way
Troy Herner-Brown
Alameda, California
The Eye of the Beholder: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, and the Nature of
Scientific Progress
Gabiel Hess
Stanardsville, Virginia
An Essay on the Role of Reason in Dante’s Salvation and Ours
Adelina Hill
Bridgeport, West Virginia
The Hidden Philosophy of Psychology and the Mystery of Man
Henry Hills
Easton, Maryland
On the Mythical Riddles Concerning Paternal Succession in Hesiod’s
Theogony
Veronique Hornquist
Miami Beach, Florida
An Exploration into the Notion of Beauty in Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleur du
mal
Ian Howell
Blue Hill, Maine
“The Love of the Grotesque”: Nostalgia in Baudelaire
Genevieve Hoyah
Laurel, Maryland
On Those Who Dwell in the Hollow of the Earth: A Hegelian Critique of the
Human Body as Presented in Plato’s Phaedo
�Zeinip Ibragim Kyzy
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Love’s Alchemy: Exploring Faust’s Transformative Journey and Its
Implications in Goethe’s Faust
Annelise Invanescu
Dearborn Heights, Michigan
Against Birth: An Analysis of the Concept of Death in Sophocles’ Antigone
Alexandra Jacobs
Austin, Texas
Language and Signs: An Inquiry into the Embodied “Word” in the Gospel of
John
Robert Jacobsen
Orient, Ohio
Broken Crockery: The Greatness of General Mikhail Kutuzov
Songeun Grace Jang
Seoul, Republic of Korea
An Attempt to Know the World: Exploration into Aristotle’s Physics
Francis Kane
Easton, Maryland
The Machiavellian Notion of Virtue: (An Investigation of the use of Virtue in
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli)
Ranger Kasdorf
Waterford, Virginia
Milton’s Elements
Katherine Kennedy
Charlottesville, Virginia
When the Lights of Health Go Down: Virginia Woolf on Illness
JinHyung Kim
Haeundae, Republic of Korea
On Self-Love and Perfect Liberty in Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
�Sahn Kim
Seongnamsi Bundang-Gu, Republic of Korea
A Meaningful Life: In Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ranna Kisswani
Las Vegas, Nevada
From Soil We Were to Dust We Shall Be: Likeness & Createdness’ Role in
the Fall
Daniella Kolen*
Baltimore, Maryland
Dagny Kulkarni
Redlands, California
The Resilience of the Wild Rose-Bush: On the Interconnectedness of
Human Nature and the Natural World in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet
Letter
Benjamin Kushnir
Tokyo, Japan
Concerning Spinoza’s Idea of Human Nature
Valentine Lamb
Falls Church, Virginia
Criminal Blood, Justified Blades: Debt, Duty, Desire, and Death in Virgil’s
Aeneid
Ye Seul Lim*
Alexander Macaulay
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Charlestown, Massachusetts
The Moral Failure of Civilization in Gulliver’s Travels
Bridget Mace
Power for the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales
Chappaqua, New York
�Benjamin Maier
Oakland, California
The Drowning of Hippasus: How Incommensurable Magnitudes Became the
Real Numbers
Nathaniel Martin
Fort Worth, Texas
Anomalistic Growth as Proof of Nature’s Goal: Metamorphosis’
transformation of understanding in Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants
Allayah Mason-Koehler
Valparaiso, Indiana
Sinning and Sighing in Sign: Lies and Their Repair in a Paradise Lost
Max Mersmann-Jones
Stockton, California
The Power of Two: In Search of a Fundamental Theory of Subjection
Madelyn Minor
Rochester, New York
Repeat After Me: On the Relationships Between Images and Their Origins in
the Tale of Echo and Narcissus
Tuyět-Nhi Nghiêm
Cerritos, California
The Good in Bad Friends: Reaching for The Good Beyond Justice by
Examining Friendship in the Nichomachean Ethics
Charlotte Nicholas
Cowbridge, Wales
Natasha’s Final Harmony: On Music in War and Peace
George Augustus Pananas
Staunton, Virginia
According to Nature: The Application of the Stoic System to Human Life
Mila Passoff
New York, New York
One is Not a Lonely Number: Dedekind’s “Free Creation” and Scientific
Knowledge
�Dolan Polglaze
Walkersville, Maryland
Aristotle’s Biologist: Is Our Contemplation the Animals’ Salvation?
Abigail Poppleton
Storrs Manfield, Connecticut
Songs of the Underworld: An Essay on Homer’s Odyssey
Adam Powers
New York, New York
American Jeremiah: Providential Fact in Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy
in America
Daniel Redish
Bloomington, Minnesota
A Polity by Any Other Name: An Analysis of Naming in Thucydides’ History
of the Peloponnesian War
Catherine Row
Glen Allen, Virginia
Lilacs in a Thunderstorm – or – The Necessity of Art in the Face of Nature: A
Reflection on Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Sori Ryu
La Mirada, California
A Study of Geneology on the Royal Line of David
Ahan Sagreiya
Jabalpur, India
Understanding Nature and the Nature of Understanding: On the Natural
Path to Understanding and Science in Aristotle’s Physics
Antonina Schlussman
New York, New York
Free Me from the Bonds of Passion! An Exploration of Moral Virtue in
St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiæ
Bennett Scott
Cherry Hulls Village, Colorado
An Ethics of Eternity: Deciding on Infinity in the Iliad and Pascal
�Andrew Selway
Baltimore, Maryland
Finding Freedom in the Woods: Isaac’s Path to Liberty in The Bear
Aaron Shelsby
Washington, District of Columbia
The Origin of Deliberative Speech and Its Consequences for the Minds of
Milton’s Fallen Angels
Samuel Soderland
King George, Virginia
Converging on Conversion: Why Should One Follow God? According to
Augustine
Dohyun Song
Jeonju, Republic of Korea
Man’s Perpetual Journey of Sensing and Conversing in Gulliver’s Travels by
Jonathan Swift
Zhiheng Song
Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
On Knowing: Boundaries of the Recollectible from Meno
Chloe Steer
Catonsville, Maryland
But His Flaw’d Heart Burst Smilingly: Despair, Trifling, and Cures in King Lear
Emma Strauss
Pasadena, Maryland
Heaven or Hell: Which One Will You Choose? An Exploration into
Nonconformity and Making a Way for Oneself
Joshua Tague
Annapolis, Maryland
An End of Grief
Kimberly Taylor
The Elements of Government: A Mathematical Examination of the U.S.
Founding Documents
McLean, Virginia
�John Teague
Woodlands, Texas
Beyond Experience: The Faculties of Consciousness and Rationality in Leo
Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Christopher Thomas
Okemos, Michigan
Gathering Time: Memory and Wholeness in Augustine’s Confessions
Stephaun Turner
Bridgeton, Missouri
Threading the Weaver’s Loom: Plotinus and Hegel Illuminate Creation’s
Metaphysical Depths in Genesis
Christopher Turney
Atlanta, Georgia
The Teachable Yahoo: An Exploration of Identity in Gulliver’s Travels
Naina Wagh
Pune, India
Zarathustra’s Descent into Mankind: Looking at Zarathustra’s Prologue as a
Tragedy
Micah Warren
Alexandria, Virginia
The Perfection of the State in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy
Isabella Watmough
Damariscotta, Maine
The “special providence in the fall of a sparrow” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
A Study of the Noble Conscience in the Midst of Tragedy (with Help from
Hegel)
Senrui Yang
Chongqing, People’s Republic of China
A Reading of Les Fleurs du Mal: Is Life Worth Living? Reflections on the Dark
Side of the Contemplative Life and Modern Man’s Search for Positive Beliefs
and Meaning in Life
�Nicholas Yurasko
Medford, Massachusetts
On the Psychodynamic Theory of Dreams & Neurotic Symptomatology
Henry Zheng
Washington, District of Columbia
Look Back at Education’s Past, Present, and Future: The History of
Education from Europe to America and Anticipatory Predictions of What
Happens to Education After Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Sylvie Bernhardt
Annapolis, Maryland
Michael Connors
Brisbane, Australia
Lyndsey Cornell§
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Jose Coronado Flores
Nicholas Dacosta
Brian Doyle§
Dominic Escorpeso
William Galloway
Grant Gombert†
Elizabeth Hartley
Sonya Holbrook§
Theodorus Johan Jeursen†
Stuart Kenny
Yonas Ketsela
Frederick, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Bethesda, Maryland
Waldorf, Maryland
Camden, South Carolina
Boerne, Texas
The Dalles, Oregon
Cornelius, North Carolina
‘s-Gravenzande, Netherlands
Lincoln, Nebraska
Ethiopia
Jordan Klein
Annapolis, Maryland
Viktoriya Kudryavtseva§
Baltimore, Maryland
Melissa Moore§
Benjamin Morgan
Luis Parrales
Wolfboro, New Hampshire
Washington, District of Columbia
Arlington, Virginia
�Bethany Pautrat§
Laurel, Maryland
Noah Perrin§
Richmond, Virginia
Quinn Rifkin
Ellicottville, New York
Gavin Robillard
Armando Rodriguez§
Fairfax, Virginia
Puebla, Mexico
Anthony Roncalli
New York, New York
Brandon Rothenberg§
Rockville, Maryland
Jack Ryan
Luca Stephen-Sujdovic
Houston Taylor
Annapolis, Maryland
Sydney, Australia
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Kevin Telford
Oceanside, New York
Noah Vancina†
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Ray Whitney
Millsboro, Delaware
*
Upon completion of requirements
Degree conferred January 24, 2024
§
Degree conferred October 21, 2023
†
�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
Aristotle’s Biologist: Is Our Contemplation the Animals’ Salvation?
Dolan Polglaze
Honorable Mentions
Edgar I Nothing Am: Paradox & Performance in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Acacia Burnham
Sinning and Sighing in Sign—Lies and Their Repair in a Paradise Lost
Allayah Mason-Koehler
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
Honorable Mentions
The Everlasting Covenant or Immortalizing Leviathan—
The Maintenance of the Commonwealth
Helen Felback
On le forcera d’etre libre: An Essay on Rousseau
Benjamin Kay
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
Reaching Up to the Heavens–A Study of How We Know
About God Through Aquinas
Victoria Horsman
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Death in Athens
Henry Haggard
ἡ Θεωρία τῶν Θεῶν: The Activity and Forms of Contemplation in
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Albert Shapiro
�To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2023-2024 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns by a donation from Joe Coelho
The Last Man: An Introduction to Nietzsche’s on the Advantages
and Disadvantages of History for Life
Armando Rodriguez
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2023.
Offered by the Alumni Association
The Constitution of Opinion: On David Hume’s First Principles of Government
Benjamin Crocker
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Michael Engstrom
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Max Dreyfuss
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
Astraea’s Rhapsody Or, Innocence Departed
Luke Briner
Honorable Mention
The Midwife
Mia Guill
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Ave verum corpus
Tarik Mahmud
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
Honorable Mention
An End Beyond Endings: Word-Tone Relationships in the Seikilos Epitaph
Helen Wagner
�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 Emeritus
Peter Boersema
Honorable Mention
Theodora Montague
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
Troy Herner-Brown
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Honorable Mention
The Barber-pole Effect
Ahan Sagreiya
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Charlotte Nicholas
Frederic Duch Clerici
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
Madelyn Minor
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
Luke Briner
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
Two Mechanical Voices, Fluent as a Dance
Ranger Kasdorf
Thinking Outside the Boox A Mini-Portfolio of Poetry, Inspired by the Liberal Arts
Tuyět-Nhi Nghiêm
���CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
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2022
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday | May 15
Two Thousand and Twenty-Two
Annapolis | Maryland
��PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Thirtieth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Sixth Year
of the College
Prelude
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Welcome
Nora Demleitner
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Demleitner
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Mark Sinnett
Tutor Emeritus
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Demleitner
Dean Macfarland
President Demleitner
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Academic Recession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
��B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Leila Al-Haider
Seattle, Washington
The Spiritual Side of Morality: Doing What’s Right According to Hegel’s
Phenomenology of Spirit
Magdalena Solveig Anderson
Chicago, Illinois
Soothing the “Splénétique” Spirit—an Exploration of Ennui and the Creative
Process in Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
Rosalie Anderson
New York, New York
Becoming the Man That Knows in Parmenides’ On Nature
Sydney Antonoff-Wertheimer
Kentfield, California
On the Conflict between Individual and Class in The Second Sex
Noah Baia
Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania
The Search for Self Knowledge in a Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
Enkh-Od Batzorig
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Free Play of the Imagination, On Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting
and Poetry by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
James Michael Beckwith
Bolton, Connecticut
Warfare in the Age of the Worker—The Logic of Modern War in Ernst
Jünger’s On Pain
Hannah Gwen Beversluis
Escanaba, Michigan
Evil in the East: An Exploration of East of Eden
Declan Bigger
Chicago, Illinois
The Twain Colonels: Being a Man in Huckleberry Finn
Aleksander Bojaxhi
Tirana, Albania
A book for all time
Madeline Elise Bourge
Washington, District of Columbia
God and Lucifer Through Dante’s The Divine Comedy
Alicia Herrick Bravo
An Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Troy, Ohio
�Ann Dixon Burke
Baltimore, Maryland
Love and Identity in the Red and the Black: A Study of Superior Beings
Grace Calk
Ogdensburg, New York
Acquaintance with the Spirit: Madness, Rapture, and Healing in
The Brothers Karamazov
Luke Cartrite
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Justification and Limitations of Individualized Morality in Kant’s Grounding
for the Metaphysics of Morals
Rebecca Chen
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Breaking the Cycle: An Exploration of Morality in The Gay Science
Elias McCloskey Christian
Eagle River, Arkansas
Becoming World—An Inquiry into Love & Labor in Hegel & Rilke
Kay Cobb
Newport Beach, California
On the Poet in Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs Du Mal
Jackson Sears Coerr
Falls Church, Virginia
No Delight But In Tears: An Investigation of Touch in Augustine’s
Confessions
Clarece Herrera Collins
Burbank, California
Paint, Perception, and the Pursuit of Wholeness: A Formal Analysis of
Artistic Reason
Ava Grace Cusey
Falls Church, Virginia
The Inhabitant of the Breast—What Drives Individuals toward Mutuality
Sheba Ross Delaney
Houston, Texas
For the Common Good: Social Responsibility in The Brothers Karamazov,
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Genevieve DeMajistre
Annapolis, Maryland
As You Like It: The Dynamics of the Country and the Court
James Dennis-Siranovich
Annapolis, Maryland
Can You Imagine?: An Exploration of Jacob Klein’s Greek Mathematical
Thought and The Origin of Algebra and Its Implications, in Three Parts,
Three Interludes, and a Coda
�Caleb Conrad Dutton
East Falmouth, Massachusetts
Andrei Bolkonsky’s Observations in War and Peace
Emily Burton Evans*
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lena Isabella Fisher*
Carlsbad, California
Conor Flynn
Lusby, Maryland
An Acutely Conscious Mouse: Lineaments of Spite and Spurned Desire in
Notes from the Underground
Alyssa Gabrielle Funai
Fredericksburg, Virginia
To the Teeming Profusion: An Inquiry into Nature in Goethe’s
Metamorphosis of Plants
Brandon Chon Garcia
Houston, Texas
Philosophy in America: An Exploration of the Democratic Effects on
Philosophical Aptitude in Tocqueville’s America
Jakob Garvey
Scottsdale, Arizona
Behind the Mask: A World of First Appearances and the Power of Beauty
David Gibbons
Beverly, Massachusetts
On Aesthetic Education and the Complexity of the Modern Age
Hun Jin Ha
Seongnam, South Korea
On the Formula of Life by Nietzsche
Daniel Han
Flushing, New York
Midwifery, The Art of Fostering Babies
Winston Hayward
Cambria, California
Reading with a Dwarf on Your Shoulder—Reading and Writing in Nietzsche’s
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Shen Zhou Hong
Bucharest, Romania
Contingency and Apotheosis in Sartrean Metaphysics: An Investigation into
the Question of Whether Love and Philosophy are Possible
Yeqi Hu
Changsha, People’s Republic of China
Through the Lens of Newton’s Elegant System—An investigation into
Newton’s Time and Force
�Christopher John Irwin-Diehl
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A Passion for Reason and A Reason for Passion—Society and Human Nature
in Gulliver’s Travels
Masako Sydney Ito
Tokyo, Japan
The Disengagement: An Investigation of Responses in Wilson’s
The Piano Lesson
Clio Jabine
Buffalo, New York
One, the Other, or Both at Once: An Exploration of the Dual Self in Jean
Racine’s Phedre
Willow Jackson
Woodland, California
The Connection and Necessity of Reason and Belief: Understanding
Suffering in The Book of Job
Keaton Jahn
Rogue River, Oregon
The Hardest Thing of All: An Inquiry into Hegel’s Dialectical Method in
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Spencer Fox Jay
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Divine Blight of Kings—Decay and Transgression in Richard II
Noah Conley Jones
Alna, Maine
Derivation of Spirit: A Treatise on Human Motion
George Kalandadze
Tbilisi, Georgia
The Voyager’s Handbook: A Contemplative Exploration of Voyaging in
Les Fleurs du Mal
Levan Kiladze
Tbilisi, Georgia
Revering Reverence: The Study of Antigone’s Action
Ali Kiziltug
Walnut Creek, California
Becoming Disciples—Learning in John
Ellie Gold Laabs
Boston, Massachusetts
“An Exquisite Suspense”: Moments of Presence in Mrs. Dalloway
Aadi Lahiri
Daimonology: Tolstoy on the Subconscious
Seattle, Washington
�Maya Sofia Lake
La Jolla, California
Truth if for the Living: An analysis of language and knowledge with respect
to truth in Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”
Bryson Ronald Lambes
Canton, Ohio
What is a Mode? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)
Gavin James Lancaster
Mansfield, Massachusetts
Managing the Inequality of Skill
Joseph Lee
Timonium, Maryland
The Confessions of Augustine—Conversion in the Confessions: An Inquiry
into the Common Nature of Conversion
Jungeun Lee
Seoul, South Korea
A Short Guide to the Roundness in War and Peace
Soojin Lee
Busan, South Korea
On Physical Reality in the Quantum World
Chris Liu
Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
A Debt of Two Reales: Don Quixote’s Struggle to Free His Imagination in the
Face of Reality
Jiaxin Lu
Taiyuan, People’s Republic of China
The Psychological Development of Self & The Earnestness of Existence in
Kierkegaard’s Repetition
Sofia Martin
Seattle, Washington
Exiting the House: An Exploration of Family, Heroism, and Societal Renown
in Euripides’ Medea
Stephan Mason
Annapolis, Maryland
Rhetoric: What Is the Importance of Truth in Persuasion?
Joseph Mastrodonato
Union, New Jersey
Universality and Consciousness: An Essay on the Dialectical Character of
Perception in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Ray Matsumoto
In Search of Monsters: The Origins of American Imperialism
Kobe, Japan
�Henry McNeill
Bethesda, Maryland
Sundered Moments and Sundry Selves
Juana Melendez
Guadalupe, Peru
Book XVI of the Iliad—On Patroklos’ Death
Gabriel Mendez
San Diego, California
The ‘Eternal joy of Becoming’: A Dionysian Perspective of Greek Moralism in
Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols
Monica Molina
Las Vegas, Nevada
My Year of Projection and Contemplation: An Analysis of the Human
Condition through the Women of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Kyla Rose Murphy
Dedham, Maine
Alonso through the Looking Glass: An Investigation of Art and Madness in
Don Quixote
Jenny Nguyen
Tucson, Arizona
The Complexities of the Perfect and the Holy
Hayley Nord
Noblesville, Indiana
Coping with Grief and Suffering in Sophocles’ Antigone
Stephen Norris
Annapolis, Maryland
On Redemption and a New Scale for Moral Judgements
Rei Osmani
Tirana, Albania
Equality inserica—An Inquiry regarding the equality of conditions in
American Democracy
William David Payne IV
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Are We There Yet? Recurrence and Affirmation in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Zion D.E. Peart
Jessup, Maryland
Spatial Stories: Architecture as an Occasion for the Union of the Liberal Arts
and Its Historical Implications
Dante Giovanni Perrotto
Albany, New York
The Birth of the Underground Man—An Inquiry into Consciousness in Fyodor
Dostoyevsky’s Notes From The Underground
�Olivia Star Pittard
Denver, Colorado
Striving Homewards: An Exploration of Marriage in the Odyssey
Katherine Grace Quinn
Richmond, Virginia
The Moabite Widow and the Jewish Queen: The Biomodal Impact of Law in
Ruth and Esther
Joseph Richard
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Now Everybody—Anarchist Eschatology in Gravity’s Rainbow
Elsa Hensley Risgin
Winchester, Massachusetts
The Antihero inside All of Us: An Analysis of Phaedra
Hannah Sophia Rose
Westminster, Maryland
The Fertile Tomb: Death as Generation in the Suicide of Antigone
Raphael Isaac Rose
Silver Spring, Maryland
Mechanical Faith and Human Time—A Study of Feynman’s Path Integral
Formulation of Quantum Mechanics and the Human Experience
Paul Rosenberger III
Damascus, Maryland
Friends of the Academician: Science as Presented and Practiced in Galileo’s
Two New Sciences
Hunter Lewis Sears
Charleston, West Virginia
Discipline’s Body: How Prison Practices Changed Our Understanding of Self
Connor Alexander Shin
Bethesda, Maryland
Ubi Concordia: Russia’s Instinctual Soul in War and Peace
Chester Sims
Madison, Connecticut
Repression Under Capitalism in Eros and Civilization
Nathalie Smallidge
Ithaca, New York
Prosperity in the Colonies—An Analysis of How Regulation Influenced the
Successes of Foreign Trade in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Jessie Ann Bylenga Tagliani
Geneva, Switzerland
Grasping the Lighting Rod: An Inquiry into the Use of Scientific Imagery in
Moby Dick
�Caitlin Paula Tobies
Groton, Massachusetts
Thus She Mourned: An Exploration of Maternity in Fleurs du Mal
Aidel Townsley
Los Angeles, California
Shifting Tides: When Heart and Convention Collide in the Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Rigel Turner
Athens, Georgia
Point Omega: A Journey Towards Unity through the Writings of Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
Tergel Tuvshinjargal
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Human Action and History
Khoa Minh Văn
Vung Tau, Vietnam
On Rulership in Society—an Examination of the Dynamic between the Ruler
and the Ruled
Devin Van Gorden
Wallingford, Pennsylvania
Athens and Jerusalem: Moving Beyond Socratic Intellect to Christian
Experience by Way of Dialectic
Ian Archibald Walker
Owings, Maryland
The Implications of Historical Materialism with The German Ideology
Madison Wall
Annapolis, Maryland
On the Nature of Intertemporality in Proust’s Swann’s Way
Yuanning (Renee) Wang
Taiyuan, People’s Republic of China
Transcendence and Immancence: What Transcendence Is Possible for
Women and Humanity as a Whole
Ryan Patrick Watson
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Reflections of the Soul: Searching For Spiritual Contentment in
War and Peace
Madeleine Weaver
Frederick, Maryland
What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains? On Nature and Growth in Jane
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
�Catherine Ao Wei
Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
The Hunt for Knowledge
Jordan Taylor West
Wilmington, Delaware
Our Invisible Chains: A Journey to Better Understand the General Will in
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract
Sean White
Chicago, Illinois
Hegel on Conscience
Lilly Faith Wikner
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Figures of Infinite Pathos—Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse
Jack Charles Williams
Hawthorne, California
The Verbalized Reality of Othello
Mali Woodward
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Liberation of a Man Who Believes He Is Free: Understanding Freedom,
Necessity, and Human Nature in Spinoza’s Ethics
Huanshu Xu
Chongqing, People’s Republic of China
Herodotus on the Life of Croesus—A Contemplation of Good Fortune and
Happiness
Kaylee Rose Young
Honolulu, Hawaii
“What Transports Thee So, An Outside?”: An Exploration of Images in
Paradise Lost
Mohab Sherif Younis
Cairo, Egypt
Living Formalism in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Its Implications for
Contemporary Thought and Action
Mana Yumi
Tokyo, Japan
Man and Nature—an Analysis of the Relationship of Nature and Society in
Emile, or on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ivan Nicholas Zembrusky
Immediacy, Recollection, and Repetition: the Movement of Faith in
Repetition—An Essay on Repetition by Søren Kierkegaard
Deer Isle, Maine
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Granite Falls, Washington
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Chatsworth, Georgia
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Norfolk, Virginia
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L’Anse, Michigan
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Sharon, Massachusetts
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Washington, District of Columbia
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Alexandria, Virginia
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Portland, Oregon
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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 Hardest Thing of All: An Inquiry into
Hegel’s Dialectical Method in The Phenomenology of Spirit
Keaton Jahn
Honorable Mention
Olivia Pittard
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
How mathematics allows us to enjoy the vision of God:
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Isabel Emond
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Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
On the Parable of the Talents in the Gospel of Matthew
Gabriel Hess
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The Humanistic Turn: From Divine Justice to Human Reasonings
Yucen Han, Co-Winner
Only the Dead Find Love or How Comedy and Tragedy
Unite in the Symposium to Bring Immortality to Light
Juliann Yoder, Co-Winner
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Rosaire Leon
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essay in the year 2022.
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The Poet and the Scop: The Parallel Structure of the World of Beowulf
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2021-2022 academic year.
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The Irreligious Hospitality of the Franklin
Will Freda
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Olivia Pittard
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Stephen Carino
Honorable Mention
Ivan Zembrusky
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Not awarded
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Ava Lehrman
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
Babel
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Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
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Yiyang Cheng
Louis Rosenberg
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Chris Liu
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
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Ellie Laabs, Co-Winner
Jessie Tagliani, Co-Winner
Honorable Mention
Soojin Lee
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Ray Matsumoto
Olivia Pittard
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Greater Annapolis Community.
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Conor Flynn
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
Aidel Townsley
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.
“1/5” Earthenware
Enkh-Od Batzorig
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the Walter S. Baird prize.
“In Expectation of Summer,” poem
Ellie Laabs
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COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS St. John’s College, Annapolis
May 9, 2026
Rebecca Steiner Goldner
Thank you so much to the class of 2026 for inviting me to speak with you today.
Many of you know that, come springtime, I have a question I regularly ask seniors. I do not ask
where you will head after graduation or what work or school you have planned for the future.
Instead, the question I like to ask seniors is “what will you read next?”.
There is an assumption behind this question, an assumption I largely stand by as an assertion. That
assertion is this: to be a Johnnie, you have to be a reader. Being a reader takes myriad forms, but a
rough sketch will suffice: to be a reader, you have to choose books, books of any sort, as
companions. You see books as real beings, beings with whom you are willing to spend quite a bit of
time. You, as then-future and now-forever Johnnies, likely chose your compatriots early in life,
finding some book, some series, or some author who, through words put to page, constructed a
place you wanted to be. Whether the books were fiction, fantasy, romance, philosophy, science,
plays or poetry matters not. What matters is that magical combination of physical object and
internal content. Something you held in your hands, carried around with you, and entered
whenever the opportunity presented itself. Therein, you found a new world.
Here, at the college, we readers have found each other. We are a community, a gathering of readers.
If I had to come up with a collective noun for us, I would call it “a companionship of readers”. This is
what we have found, or, better, what we have made and what we continue to make persist here.
The worlds of our books live on in our conversations, both in and out of the classroom. Those
worlds are nourished and enriched by the ongoing discussions of what we read and also by the
friendships we build around them.
It may be there are a handful of you who do not consider yourselves readers. You perhaps came
here for the discussions, or for some sense of ‘great ideas’. My guess, however, is we have made of
you something of a reader. It is possible, for some of you, that you find yourselves, in this moment,
so exhausted by the onslaught of reading that is our program that you think you need a break from
reading for a bit. But I am willing to bet that you will all find your way back to books, sooner rather
than later.
Reading, however, is not a mere habit for us. Nor is it a quaint pastime, the quirky- perhaps even
trendy- hobby of those who long for simpler times with fewer distractions and devices. Reading, for
us, is pleasurable, but it is also quite serious. Reading is central to our mission of liberal arts
education and to our dedication to community. Reading is a matter of freedom and reading is a
matter of friendship.
What do I mean when I say that reading is a matter of freedom? I mean this: reading is an
imaginative activity that repositions us, that takes us beyond our own thoughts, perspectives and
beliefs. To be a free person one must be capable of seeing what is not immediately present to you, of
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�positing choices beyond the obvious, of surveying alternatives that arise from a sense of the past
and a vision for the future. This vision is the work of imagination, so let’s think about the ways in
which reading supports the imagination, our faculty for freedom.
Seniors recently read Frederick Douglass, though not his Narrative of the Life of a Slave. In that
work, as Douglass recounts his journey from slavery to freedom, a central moment concerns
learning to read. His master’s wife has decided to teach him to read; his master disapproves,
remarking that learning to read would “forever unfit him to be a slave.” i Hearing this, Douglass
understood that reading was “the pathway from slavery to freedom”.ii It was not an easy path for
Douglass, either to learn to read in stolen moments, or “to find that very discontentment which
Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read…As I writhed under it, I would at
times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing.”iii
The discontentment Douglass notes, the same discontentment that led him to flee slavery and
ultimately to write the very works we read in seminar, is the discontent of seeing a world better
than the one you exist in. Of seeing the potential for revolt, for education and a life beyond slavery.
Of being able to place oneself beyond the path that seems inevitable.
Reading, in fact, demands this un-settling of us. Reading tears us away from the present and
launches us into the world offered to us by an author. Thus to read is to find oneself at home, ever
so briefly, in the mind of someone else. It is to enmesh oneself in someone else’s words and
thoughts. A striking example: Toni Morrison’s novel Jazz ends most extraordinarily. In the final
lines of the book, our unknown narrator speaks directly to us, and this is what she says:
“I can’t tell anyone that I have been waiting for this all my life and that being chosen to wait
is the reason I can. If I were able, I’d say it. Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it
and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.” iv
Our hands, of course, are on the book. Why does Morrison, at the end of the story, draw our
attention to the fact that we have been reading? Why create such intimacy, such awareness,
between the reader and the narrator of our book? She reminds us of our freedom, and of hers. Free
recognition of one another, grounded in our choice to enter the world she has created, to linger
there, to feel there, to experience there- all of this demonstrates a belief that in the reading we
become active participants in bringing that world to life through our own imagination. Because
reading is a way of being-at-work, reading requires activity. Reading does not merely passively
show us a world, it requires of us the real work of contributing to the existence of that world. We,
too, are artists. We make the book into something real just as the book brings about changes in us.
“Narrative,” Morrison has said, “is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.” v
Jean-Paul Sartre recognizes a similar reciprocation between reader and author when he writes : “
the author… requires that (the readers) recognize his creative freedom, and that they, in turn solicit
it by a symmetrical and inverse appeal. Here there appears the [other] dialectical paradox of
reading; the more we experience our freedom, the more we recognize that of the other; the more he
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�demands of us, the more we demand of him.”vi The dialectical paradox of reading is that the more
we are changed- freed, discontented- through the work of reading, the more we want that others
likewise change, grow, and experience their own freedom. Reading does not just free us, it incites us
to work for the freedom of others, to wish for them the radical uncovering of potential that we
experience when we read.
It is not only literature, of course, that can ask and demand this of us. When the seniors or GIs read
Lobachevski, they again find this act of reciprocal creation and freedom. With no real guide other
than his words, we must imagine the non-Euclidean world with Lobachevski which defies our visual
experience. We must assent to his propositions in order to bring this world to life, and we must be
flexible and bold enough to, even temporarily, find ourselves at home in a world where infinitely
converging lines can be parallel. We read ourselves into the being of plants, the movements of the
heavens, the desire of tones to find their tonic, lines of force, imaginary numbers and special
relativity. In doing so, we train the muscle of the imagination to offer us more, we resist the
temptation to become inflexible and atrophied. We dwell in the discomfort produced by the hard
work of being open to possibility.
You may recall, dear readers, that I have also said that reading is a matter of friendship. It is of
course the case that reading gives us some of the most beautiful images of friendship a life could
ever know: Achilles and Patroclus; Socrates, Aristophanes and Agathon; Augustine and Monica;
Dante and Virgil; Rocinante and the Grey donkey; Dorothea and Lydgate, Elizabeth and Jane; Pierre
and Andrei, Ilyushka and his schoolmates, to name but a few. But I also mean that the virtues of a
good reader mirror those of the good friend: patience, playfulness, courage, honesty in questioning.
We exercise these virtues when we extend to authors the openness we aspire to grant to friends.
Sartre, again, tells us that “reading is a pact of generosity between author and reader. Each trusts
the other; each one counts on the other, demands of the other as much as he demands of himself.” vii
Reading requires that we exercise discretion about what to accept and what to reject, but we learn
that we must spend time with the author before making those choices; we must carefully evaluate
what we are offered before we leap to judgement. We treat the authors as friends when we show
ourselves willing to explore with them, laugh with them, and respectfully challenge them. The
authors treat us as friends insofar as they expect this of us. The imaginative act of free worldbuilding is a joint activity, one that works best among those who trust one another. Reading, as
Morrison reminds us at the end of Jazz, is a deeply personal relation.
And here, at the college, we apply these virtues not only to authors but to our friends: the
classmates, tutors and peers we find in this community. In our conversations about the books, we
strive to offer to one another the same generosity, the same trust, the same thoughtful and patient
judgement. Perhaps in our weakest moments we fall short, but the books we share and the activity
of bringing them to life together offer firm and common ground on which to jointly discover and
create. Through reading, we learn to explore and inhabit the thoughts of others; when we put down
our books, we turn to encounter those around us with this gift of openness.
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�I would be remiss if I did not address the elephant in the room: the potential problem that Don
Quixote presents, the man who entered the world of his books and struggled to leave, the character
his own loving author described as “mad”. And, yet, who better than Quixote as the hero for the day:
a man who saw a world in disarray and sought to remake that world in the imaginative vision of his
books. Quixote did not remain passive, he found liberation through reading and sallied forth. And in
his quest to make the world in the image of his books, he found the priest, the barber, the bachelor
and his most faithful of companions, Sancho Panza- the friends who gather at his deathbed. After
having been a lonely, isolated man, Quixote populated his ideal world with real people, true friends,
those who are with him as his story comes to an end. Who better to teach us that reading is a matter
of freedom and a matter of friendship?
As we approach the moment when you will receive your diplomas, you- the undergraduate and
graduate students of 2026- already have before you a rather delectable form of freedom: the
freedom to choose the very next book you will read. And on this topic, too, I have thoughts.
It took me a long time in life to begin to discover who I am as a reader. To learn to love what I loved
and not what I ought to love, to see beauty where I found it, not where others told me it would be,
to realize that learning who you are as a reader is a matter of learning your own character.
Choosing what to read then becomes an enactment of the Socratic quest to know thyself. It is not an
easy task; indeed it is, as Kierkegaard tells us of faith, a task for a lifetime.
But, in a world which threatens us with scrolling through life, passively digesting what algorithms
feed us, I feel confident that you, our graduates, will continue to choose the stunning discontent of
being readers. You are now lifelong members of the companionship of readers. Give us our books,
overflowing into the world we imagine and create with them. Set out with images drawn from the
greatest minds and read into your own souls. Sally forth into that world with friends who want to
create and recreate it alongside you.
Be, in short, quixotic.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Chapter VI.
Yale University Press: Connecticut, 2016. Page 32.
ii Ibid.
iii Ibid. Chapter VII. Page 37.
iv Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Vintage International. New York: 2004. Page 229.
v Morrison, Toni. “The Nobel Lecture in Literature” (in The Source of Self-Regard, Vintage International. New York, 2020). Page 108.
vi Sartre, Jean-Paul. ”What is Literature” and Other Essays. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass, 1988. Page 58.
vii Ibid. Page 61.
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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>
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Identifier
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commencementprograms
Text
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Original Format
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PDF
Page numeration
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4 pages
Dublin Core
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Title
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Commencement Address, St. John's College, Annapolis, May 9, 2026
Description
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Typescript of the commencement address given on May 9, 2026, by Rebecca Steiner Goldner at the end of the Spring 2026 semester in Annapolis, Maryland.
Creator
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Goldner, Rebecca
Publisher
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St. John's College
Coverage
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Annapolis, MD
Date
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2026-05-09
Rights
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In copyright.
Type
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text
Source
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PDF
Subject
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Books and reading
Graduation speeches
St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.)
Language
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English
Identifier
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COM_Goldner_Rebecca_2026-05-09