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Annapolis - Graduate Institute
Commencement Address,
Summer 2010
Let me begin by expressing my appreciation for the honor of
being invited to offer this commencement address to the
graduating students. Feeling the gravity of this honor, I thought I'd
play it safe and stick to things sacred: I would like to offer you a
reflection on the St. John's Seminar, in light of the parable of the
sower in St. Matthew's Gospel. Like Ms Higuera in her
convocation address, I offer my reflections with trepidation in the
awareness that tutors are rather like rabbis, in that two discussing
the meaning of any sacred thing will always have at least three
opinions between them—so says the Talmud. In any case,
knowing that many of my fellow tutors agree that Seminar is the
heart of the Program, I offer my reflections on what I believe to
have been at the heart of your studies at St. John's as you leave
them to return to the world.
Sometimes when I am trying to persuade either a student or
myself that a bad seminar was not wasted labor, I recall that the
Latin root of the word seminar means a seed-bed: a scattered
conversation may well be scattering seeds, I say, and who knows
which might in due season bear unexpected fruit? In the ancient
way of sowing, seed is scattered and allowed to germinate and
then the best seedlings are selected and cultivated. Modern
agriculture dramatically increases yields by means of methodical
sowing of seeds in linear rows of targeted holes, followed by
mass fertilization, cultivation, and extraction. The result is the
lifeless tomato you can buy for pennies per ounce at your local
�supermarket. The St. John's Seminar seems to cling to the
ancient way of sowing. Tutors eschew the suggestion that there is
a St. John's "method" for doing Seminar. The College has living
customs and usages rather than formalized methods and
measures. Seeds are broadcast and nature is trusted to surprise
us with specimens of rare excellence and unexpected beauty. Of
course, the soil is kept well fertilized with a rich compost of failed
attempts, but a really good tomato is worth it—don't you think?—
even if you can't get it for pennies on the ounce.
This image of the St. John's Seminar as a seed-bed puts me in
mind of Matthew's parable of the sower, which reads as follows:
One day a farmer went out sowing. Part of what he sowed landed
on a foot-path, where birds came and ate it up. Part of it fell on
rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprouted at once since the
soil had no depth, but when the sun rose and scorched it, it began
to wither for lack of roots. Again, part of the seed fell among
thorns, which grew up and choked it. Part of it, finally, landed on
good soil and yielded grain a hundred- or sixty- or thirtyfold. Let
everyone heed what he hears!
This parable makes me ask of Seminar, what is the seed sown in
Seminar and who sows it?
A pious answer leaps to mind: the great books are the seed, the
great minds that wrote them the sowers, and our seminar
conversations the field of their sowing. The Latin root of the words
"concept" and "conception" lead me to extend the analogy further
to animal procreation: Seminar is inseminated by the ideas,
questions, or teachings of great books. However, the daemon of
the place, famously indicted for impiety, gives me pause before
this seeming piety: Plato's Socrates reminds us in the Phaedrus
that great books cannot reply to our questions. If the life of a St.
John's seminar is in asking and replying to questions, how do
�these mute imitations of live speech speak to us? How does the
dead speech of dead men generate live conversation?
Of course, one could wonder this about seeds as well. I like
asking in Freshman Lab whether the seeds produced by living
things are themselves living things. And I like it when a student
before ever reading Aristotle responds that a seed is not life but
the potential for life. Then I like to ask, "Potential for life in the way
that water has the potential to be taken in by a living cell and
incorporated into the fabric of its being, or in the way that the
living cell has the potential to grow and reproduce"? When a
student with a vague tone of triumph parries my question with the
reply, "Neither of those ways," I like to say in a vaguely quizzical
tone, "Okay, in what way, then?"
In what way, then, are the books alive for us and enlivening of our
conversation? If they cannot listen to us or reply to what we ask,
how can they dialogue with us or we with them? Sometimes in
Don Rags or paper conferences I suggest that a student think of
the book or author as a dialogue partner and speak to it as to a
fellow conversant rather than about it as an object of discussion.
But this way of imagining our relation to the books is at best a
heuristic device for turning attention away from conventional
opinions about the books to the books themselves and the things
themselves the books are talking about. Truth is, the books talk to
us only so far as we make them talk to us.
After all, is it not only by our selecting out parts of the text and
framing them with our own questions or remarks about them that
the books come alive for us and become enlivening of our
conversations? Likewise, is it not only by bringing our readings of
the texts to bear on the things themselves, as well as the things
themselves to bear on the text, that we attain to any true being? If
the books are imitations of living speech and thought, then they
are at best stilllife models of living things. They are not the things
�themselves we want to understand, let alone sources of the things
themselves. If mistaken as objects of contemplation, our models
become idols commanding reverence rather than paradigms
pointing to originals. A fascination with models is little better than
a fascination with shadows.
So what keeps our Seminar conversations about great books
from being mere shadows of models of things? What keeps the
walls of our seminar rooms from being our cave walls? Is it the
aim of our seminar conversations to turn away from all shadows
and ascend from our textual models of things to the things
themselves? Here again I am given pause before seeming piety.
First of all, I see that the books we read are hardly in accord with
one another in what they say about things themselves: if the
reading list is a collection of models, it is a very motley collection;
and if of seeds, then our seminar gardens would grow into
impassible thickets. Furthermore, I see that neither our texts nor
our conversations do away with shadows in the sense of images.
After Jesus tells his parable of the sower, his disciples ask him
why he speaks in parables. He replies, "[B]ecause they look but
do not see; they listen, but do not hear or understand." Is this why
our authors speak to us in parables? Why answer the question
about justice with fashioning a city in speech that might never be,
or a state of nature that need never have been? Why fashion
images of an inferno, or of a paradise lost, or of a brave new
world or a brave new consciousness? Why do our models offer us
images? Are their images a way of putting questions to us about
the things themselves? Images select out perceptible
characteristics of beings and arrange them into a kind of icon of
natures perceivable only by understanding. They speak to us only
in relation to the thing and its nature; without the thing, they are
dumb idols.
�The books cannot ask opening questions. A seminar leader asks
an opening question, but I can personally testify that he has no
control over where it may lead. So who leads Seminar? I am
tempted piously to take up Socrates' suggestion that we follow the
logos wherever it leads us. However, is not this leading logos
itself but an image? Am I supposed to believe that although no
single member of the conversation leads it, the conversation as
some sort of collective being or emergent phenomenon has a
motion and direction of its own? I for one cannot believe this of
logos in the sense of human speech. Logos in the sense of
speech is but an image of logos in the sense of thought. So the
question becomes for me, Can our thoughts lead us? Do our
thoughts have motions and directions of their own for us to
follow? Well, I can believe that my own act of thinking is a kind of
motion capable of a kind of direction—to speak in images—but it
doesn't seem quite right to say that my thought leads itself,
especially when it is an inquiring thought about an existing nature.
But there is also logos in the sense of reason, reason both in
those thinking and in the things they are thinking about. My
reasoning is led by a desire to find out reasons why things are as
they are. The reason why a thing is as it is has left its trace and
trail in its effects, its image as it were in the thing. This reason in
the thing is at once the source of its intelligibility for me and the
source of my understanding it. Like a great book, a Seminar
conversation in pursuit of the reasons why beings are as they are
is enlivened by the life of the things it pursues. A conversation
that stops at the text of the great book stops at a dead letter—its
enlivening spirit comes only from a living nature. A great book is a
model of live inquiry—it knows how to question an existing thing
about its nature and how to understand the wordless reply.
When his disciples ask Jesus to explain the imagery of his
parable of the sower, he replies as follows:
�The seed along the path is the man who hears the message
about God's reign without understanding it. The evil one
approaches him to steal away what was sown in his mind. The
seed that fell on patches of rock is the man who hears the
message and at first receives it with joy. But he has no roots, so
he lasts only for a time. When some setback or persecution
involving the message occurs, he soon falters. What was sown
among briers is the man who hears the message, but then worldly
anxiety and the lure of money choke it off. Such a one produces
no yield. But what was sown on good soil is the man who hears
the message and takes it in. He it is who bears a yield of a
hundred- or sixty- or thirtyfold.
It is interesting to me that Jesus identifies the various seeds not
simply with the message spoken but with the kinds of hearer. The
message spoken is one; it becomes many in the many hearers.
The seed fallen on the path is an image of a hearer who does not
understand the message he heard. What stands in the way of his
understanding it? It is the not the evil one. The evil one does not
interfere with the sowing of the seed, but approaches afterward
and can steal it away because of the hearer's not understanding.
What prevents the hearer's understanding what he hears? What
is it we are not doing when we do not understand what we are
hearing?
The seed fallen on rock patches is yet another sort of hearer; he
receives what he hears with enthusiasm but then loses heart
when he confronts some setback or persecution. [Remind anyone
of Seminar?] I wonder, does this enthusiastic hearer understand
what he hears? Is his problem that his understanding proves
ineffectual, or that his enthusiasm does not come from
understanding? The parable says that he lacks roots. Of what are
roots an image? After reading a book or hearing a conversation
with enthusiasm, what do I need to do to set down roots?
�The third sort of hearer germinates the seed he takes in and
generates roots, but fruitlessly, because worldly care and
concupiscence choke what begins to grow in him. The briers
seem like an environmental problem, but care and desire do not
seem to me external things. They are relations to external things,
but their source is internal. Although it may seem to this man that
he is choked from without, it seems to me that he chokes on the
cares and desires within him. Take care what you care about.
Jesus says that the one who yields abundant fruit in due season
is the hearer who both hears the message and takes it in. This
hearer is good soil. Does his taking in what he hears signify even
more than merely understanding it? Unlike the first sort of hearer,
both the hearer that withers and the hearer that chokes at first
understand what they hear. Does this fourth sort of hearer not
merely understand what he hears but make the seed his own by
cultivating it? What makes him good soil for nourishing seed?
What seemingly wasted labor makes good compost for good soil
to bring forth fruit from seed in due season?
In your work here at the College, much seed has been sown in
you, of sundry sorts. Only time will tell which you have taken in,
which you will choose to cultivate, and which will bear fruit in due
season. Although you are returning to a world beset with thieves,
persecutors, and cares, I think the real dangers to your not
bearing fruit are within. If you take care always to sow good seed
in good soil, an enemy may well come by night and sow bad seed
among your good, but the prudent farmer will allow his wheat to
mature amid the weeds, patiently waiting for the harvest time to
gather all in and separate weeds from wheat and chaff from grain.
It seems to me that in the end we are the sowers of our own
souls, when we with enthusiasm take in what we understand and
nurture it with patience, even amid weeds. For a thought to
become mine, I must conceive, generate, and cultivate it within
�myself. A thought on its own is a lifeless form of thinking; it
requires a live act of thinking to come to life. The form can be
common to many; the living act must be each one's own.
Let me conclude these reflections with a prophetic admonition: if
you continue to think for yourself, to probe and to ask why, verily I
say unto you, you will suffer setbacks and persecutions. But I
believe that the kingdom you should care about most is within
you, and it is the place where understanding may yield such fruits
of justice and happiness as are possible for us in a world beset
with injustice and unhappiness. To quote the daemon of the
place, "In heaven perhaps a pattern is laid up for the human being
who wants to see and found a city within himself on the basis of
what he sees."
And who knows when the heavenly logos might come down
among us, and speak to us in parables that require us not only to
listen but to hear, not only to look but to see, if we are to
understand?
Thank you again for inviting me to give this commencement
address. My very best wishes for your going forth from us back
into the world.
John Tomarchio
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COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE AT ST. JOHN’S
COLLEGE, AUGUST 2011
By Lise van Boxel
Congratulations on your successful completion of the Master’s Program in
Liberal Arts!
Now that you have your M.A., it is a good time to reflect upon what you have
learned and the reasons why you began the journey that led you to your degree.
What knowledge have you acquired at St. John's College? Have you gained any
practical skills here? Your employers or potential clients, your friends and your
family will certainly ask such questions. What will you say to them? What do you
say to yourself?
Before turning to a consideration of possible answers to such questions,
consider briefly some of the pre‐suppositions that often underlie them. Frequently,
the real meaning of, “What did you learn?” is, “In what way has this education
contributed to your value as a worker or to your ability to earn a living?”
These questions are not ridiculous. Unless you are lucky enough to be
independently wealthy or you have a patron, you have to think about how to
support yourself. On the other hand, it is wrong‐headed to think of education
simply or primarily in these terms, as if employability and income were the highest,
most important considerations for a human being.
Friedrich Nietzsche offers a vivid description of this impoverished
understanding of education—an understanding that characterizes the modern era.
In sum, he argues that an education that looks solely or primarily to the marketplace
deforms the souls of its students because it is ignorant of, or denies, the proper
fullness and activity of the human soul:
[T]he present age is . . . supposed to be an age, not of whole, mature and
harmonious personalities, but of labor of the greatest possible common
utility. That means, however, that men have to be adjusted to the purposes
of the age so as to be ready for employment as soon as possible: they must
labor in the factories of the general good before they are mature, indeed so
that they shall not become mature—for this would be a luxury which would
deprive the ‘labor market’ of a great deal of its workforce. Some birds are
blinded so that they may sing more beautifully; I do not think the men of
today sing more beautifully than their grandfathers, but I know they have
been blinded. (Nietzsche, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, §
7)
Nietzsche grants that the emphasis on science, and more specifically on
science directed by the marketplace, will indeed produce economic success, at least
in the short‐term. However, he adds that this kind of science is a desiccated version
of the comprehensive understanding that is the proper goal of science or higher
learning more generally—the goal that the modern world has largely abandoned:
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�I regret to use the words of the slave‐owner and the employer of labor
to describe things that in themselves ought to be thought of as free of utility
and raised above the necessities of life; but the words “factory”, “labor
market”, “supply”, “making profitable”, and whatever auxiliary verbs egoism
now employs, come unbidden to the lips when one wishes to describe the
most recent generation of men of learning. Sterling mediocrity grows even
more mediocre, science ever more profitable in the economic sense. . . . Those
who unwearyingly repeat the modern call to battle and sacrifice—“Division
of labor! Fall in!”—must for once be told in round and plain terms: if you
want to push science forward as quickly as possible you will succeed in
destroying it as quickly as possible; just as a hen perishes if it is compelled to
lay eggs too quickly. (Ibid)
If Nietzsche’s account of the trend in modern education aptly describes the
kind of education you did not receive and to which I think St. John’s is opposed, how
might you describe what you did learn here?
While denouncing an overly narrow view of education, Nietzsche alludes to
the effect of a complete education: it would create “whole, mature and harmonious
personalities” (Ibid). Neither you nor I can honestly claim that you acquired a
complete and harmonious soul as a result of several years of education at St. John’s.
This is not to say that I abandon the idea that the truly authoritative education aims
at, and can produce, a harmonious soul. Rather, I think this education is the ongoing
activity of a lifetime. I do think that the liberal education you received here can
contribute greatly to the attainment of this goal. However, I will put aside these
ideas for the moment, and I will turn instead to a more modest articulation of what a
liberal education is and what skills may be acquired as a result of it.
To do so, I will replace Nietzsche’s high‐flying, though accurate, description
of a complete education with Aristotle’s sensible, though still ambitious, account of a
liberal education. In distinguishing a specialist from someone who, like you, has
been generally educated, he says:
With regard to every [kind of] contemplation and inquiry, both lowlier
and more esteemed, there appear to be two ways of being skilled, one of
which it is well to call the science of the thing, and the other . . . a kind of
educatedness. For it is characteristic of an educated man to be able to hit the
mark and judge appropriately what the speaker sets forth finely and what he
does not. For something like this is in fact what we suppose the generally
educated man to be, and . . . to be educated is to be capable of doing this very
thing—except that we believe this one, the generally educated man, is able to
judge about virtually all things, though being one man, whereas the other one
[the scientist or specialist] is able to judge [only] about some limited nature.
(Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals, 639a2 – 15)
I do not recommend launching yourself into this quotation when asked what
practical skills you acquired at St. John’s College, though if you decide to do so, take
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�a deep breath, and deliver it with panache. You can, however, capture the essence of
what Aristotle says in your own words.
In my own words, I say that, as a result of your liberal education, you are
better able to judge when an argument or account is adequate and when it is not.
When it is inadequate, you are more capable of seeing how it is deficient and what
would need to be addressed to alleviate this shortcoming. Such judgment can be
brought to bear on any argument, regardless of the field. If the argument includes
technical language, all you need is the time to look up the definitions of these words
before you are able to proceed as you would with any other account. At bottom,
such an argument is no different from any other.
To Aristotle’s description, I would add that, as a result of your education, you
are now better able to admit when you do not know something, and to do so without
embarrassment. Do not underestimate the value of this intellectual honesty. It will
help you to continue to learn. In addition, it will be greatly appreciated by other
people, most of whom are anxious about their own ignorance, but are afraid to
admit that they do not know. It can be a tremendous relief to encounter someone
who can say without shame that he does not know, but that he wants to learn.
This training in judgment—in clear thinking—is an essential part of a liberal
education. And it can indeed help you to advance your career. I advise you,
therefore, to consider how you can describe this skill to others so that you can
represent it with the full strength that it deserves and in a manner that is readily
apparent to others. If you do this, you will be well equipped to respond to those
who want to know how what you learned can be applied to the workplace.
This account of your education, however, is neither complete nor does it
capture the most important part of it. Aristotle would agree that, in order truly to
judge well, one must have a satisfactory understanding of the ultimate end at which
one aims. It is not enough to have an idea of the proximate goal that one seeks to
fulfill. One must have adequate knowledge of whether and how this proximate goal
accords with the highest and most comprehensive goal at which human beings can
and should aim. Without a sufficient account of this authoritative, supreme good—
The Good—no judgment is adequate, strictly speaking, and one cannot truly be said
to know. Thus, any education can and must be considered in terms of whether and
how it can contribute to The Good. Regarding questions about whether your
education here was practical, therefore, the real issue is not whether this education
will contribute to your employment opportunities, but whether it contributes to
your knowledge of the good. And the real question about you job is not whether
your education has made you suitable for it, but what impact it has on your ability to
lead a good life.
No, I will not let go of the highest account of education to which Nietzsche
alludes and that I dare say all great thinkers share. Moreover, I expect that you
empathize with me in my refusal to forgo these highest goals.
While some of you came to St. John's partly in order to advance your career, I
doubt that any of you came here primarily for this reason. You came because you
had questions—questions that perhaps you could not quite articulate, even to
yourself, but that you could not put aside. As you made your way through the works
of the program, I suspect many of you began to recognize your questions reflected
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�back to you in the Great Books: “What is justice?” “What is love or friendship?”
“What kind of beings are we, and what is our place in this world?”
Many and perhaps all of these questions arise from a common origin: the
yearning to have a good life, combined with the realization that you do not know
clearly enough what this is. I suspect, in other words, that the fundamental reason
why you came here was because you thought this education might help you to
understand The Good.
Since our human life is limited, and since the clock is already ticking on the
time that we have, this question of the good is urgent. No one wants to realize at the
end of his life that he misused or wasted his time. And since none of us know how
much time we have, it is foolish for any of us to postpone the question of the good
indefinitely.
Such talk of mortality and The Good sounds very serious. Well, what did you
expect? Has anything valuable that you have read or discussed here been
unserious? Thankfully, seriousness does not have to be grave. You need only recall
the company you have kept as you have pursued your questions, and you will feel,
not weighted down, but elevated by the astounding souls who have walked
alongside you.
Here is Plato, on the same journey as you, speaking with a voice as nuanced
and relevant as it was some 2,400 years ago. With a touch of mischief, he doubles
himself, adopting the voice of Socrates, who recollects taking this same path, just a
day earlier: “I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, son of Ariston”
(Plato, The Republic, 327a).
Another man introduces himself with the words: “Thucydides, an Athenian,
wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians,
beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great
war” (Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 1.1). He hands you his book, which
contains his thoughts about your shared questions, saying as he does so: “I have
written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as
a possession for all time” (Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 1.22).
Homer turns his blind eyes upon you and points to Achilles and Odysseus,
each of whom tackles the questions of the good life and what it means to be a good
human being. Shakespeare speaks to you with a profundity that is surely expressed
in some of the most beautiful language ever heard. Nietzsche reaffirms life with cry
from his electric soul: “We still feel it, the whole need of the spirit and the whole
tension of its bow” (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, “Preface”).
These souls are among the best students and teachers ever to have lived.
Their greatness consists largely in the fact that they investigated the most serious
eternal questions with unmatched comprehensiveness and depth. What have you
learned from them about The Good?
If you have learned anything, it is that, when speaking to one who does not
already know the answer, you cannot respond meaningfully to this question in a
single sentence or two. You might say, for example, that they taught you that the
good life is the philosophic life or the life devoted to the Divine, but then you would
have to explain what philosophy or the Divine is and what it would mean to dedicate
your life to such things.
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�While there are answers to these questions, each answer leads to a new
question—and this is not the occasion for a long conversation. It is the occasion,
however, to remind you that all of these great students and teachers spent their
lives engaged with such questions. Inquiry is thereby shown to be central to, if not
the essence of, a good human life. Furthermore—and this is worth emphasizing,
since you are have now exited the Master’s Program—these students were able to
learn from virtually everything and everyone, if not directly, then indirectly. Life
after your M.A. may not be as leisurely as it was when you were a student, but you
can and will find opportunities to learn, if only you come to embrace life itself as a
learning opportunity.
I hope and expect that something of this way of life has become a part of you
and that, if you look around now at the faces of your fellow students, you will see in
their eyes something of the souls of those great human beings who are your models.
Continue to be thoughtful. Be open‐minded. Retain the flexibility of soul that
is necessary for continued learning. In sum, keep the goal of a good life always
before you. Use The Good as your North Star to guide every significant action and
decision you make. Doing this will not guarantee that you always make the right
decision, but it will mean that will have done the best that you could do, and that,
whatever contingencies you may face, you will have led the best life that is possible
for you.
Let me conclude with one of Plato’s favorite salutations: “Have success in
action, and do what is good.”
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What Are You Going To Do
With It?
Commencement Address, August 2, 2013
Creig Hoyt, SFGI10
Dean Sterling, Director Carl, esteemed faculty, staff, fellow
graduates of the Institute and friends. I am deeply honored to give
this commencement address. As a recent graduate of the Eastern
Classics program I remain in awe of the uncompromising
commitment of St John’s College to engage in a long-term
community discourse in order to glean meaning and clarity from
the writings of the world’s great thinkers. I also am mindful that
some of the tutors who sit here today on the podium have given
this address at previous graduation ceremonies. That I do not
possess their depth of knowledge of the great writings you have
studied is obvious. Therefore, it would be inappropriate for me to
base my presentation on an analysis of one or some of the
thinkers you have read here.
Moreover, you can hardly expect to receive wise career
counseling from one who stumbled from a flirtation with music to
philosophy in undergraduate school, who became enamored by
neuroscience in medical school primarily because of the beauty of
the brain’s organizational structure, but who fled from a career as
a neurologist because it involved caring for patients I could not
cure and finally stumbled into a rewarding career as an
ophthalmologist specializing in infant visual problems: rewarding
not because the problems primarily involved the visual brain but
because I discovered I loved caring for children despite an
intense dislike of pediatrics in medical school. I hope that by
offering you some personal reflections on the ongoing impact that
�my St John’s education has had on my life and work I will provide
you some useful reflections.
Today we salute these new graduates of the Graduate
Institute. We know the rigor involved in the academic programs
they have completed. We recognize and admire their fortitude and
considerable academic accomplishments. Today is a day of
celebration not only for them but for all of us who deeply care
about the uncompromising scholarly traditions and demands of
this extraordinary college. So let me speak for all us when I say to
the new graduates, “Yours is a noteworthy accomplishment at a
unique institute of higher learning. You have much to be proud of.
Bravo”.
Ok, now let’s get serious. “What are you going to do with it?”
Those were the exact words of my ninety-four year old mother
four years ago when I informed her that I hoped to be a student in
the Graduate Institute. These were not the words of
encouragement a son craves. Adding insult to injury, this was the
first time in my educational wanderings that I was not seeking any
parental financial assistance. So what did she have to lose in
offering her moral support? You would have thought a woman
who lived with a single abiding passion during her 70’s and 80’sto win as many tango competitions as possible- would have
embraced the novelty of her aging son’s desire to become a fulltime student in an area about which he knew absolutely nothing.
What was I going to do with it? I was not even certain I could
qualify for the program let alone complete it. I no longer recall
what attempts at justification I mumbled to her, but the notion that
my adventure was to be judged by what I might “do with it”
irritated me. It reminded me of European colleagues who find it
insulting that the first question Americans ask on meeting them is
“what do you do?” In the remainder of my talk I will reflect on the
�primacy of the notion that one’s education is to be judged by what
one can “do” with it.
Regrettably, the sentiments expressed by my mother have been
heard by all of you in many different guises, all of them cloaked
and protected by the seemingly impervious provenance of real life
experience and practical counsel: “What kind of job can you get
with that degree?”, “Wouldn’t computer science be more
sensible?”, “Can you justify the cost for something so
impractical?” “No one studies humanities anymore!”
No one doubts that it is prudent and wise to carefully consider and
reconsider each step in one’s educational journey. Accumulating
unreasonable amounts of school-related debt can restrict future
life choices. Some professional degrees no longer guarantee an
interesting and well-compensated career: this has become a
serious concern for many of our law schools. Other career
choices apparently require a carefully structured path consisting
primarily of educational prerequisites that permits little time for
exploring what might be simply interesting or enlightening. Note
that I said, “apparently require”. In the case of medical schools
there are some educational prerequisites that absolutely must be
completed, but I can assure you that we who are involved in
medical education are always looking for applicants who are not
only capable of completing the scientific studies in our medical
curriculum, but who also bring to medicine unique educational
and work experiences.
Even though I intensely dislike her question can I now provide my
mother a satisfactory answer? Can I explain in what ways my St
John’s experience has changed not only how I think but what I
do? Undoubtedly, a startling result of my graduate study at St
John’s is that instead of remaining permanently retired I have
resumed my position on the faculty of UCSF Medical School
albeit on a part-time basis and without any administrative duties.
�Why? In no small part because St John’s re-energized my
intellectual curiosity after a long period of time when my career
had become dominated by all-consuming administrative duties
that left no time for the pursuit of my research and creative
activities. I realized I wanted to spend a few more years in the
University concentrating on teaching and completing several
unfinished research and writing projects. It also became clear to
me that I missed caring for children and their parents. I agree with
the Dalai Lama who in his commencement address at Tulane
University this year said, “A pathway toward a meaningful life lies
in caring for other people”. I have returned to what I know how to
do- caring for vision problems in children.
Perhaps surprising to some of you, my St John’s experience
stimulated new research interests that I believe I can study with
the assistance of my UCSF colleagues. Those many seminars on
Buddhism radically disturbed my previously unchallenged notions
concerning certain aspects of what we mean by “perception” and
“cognition”. In particular, I think the techniques of neuroscience
may provide an interesting framework with which to explore the
limitations and unreliability of sensory perceptions.
I am currently studying unusual visual percepts that occur in many
adult patients who experience visual loss. I appreciate that no
Johnnie wants to hear an oversimplified bottom line statement
without first hearing all the details that lead to that conclusion, but
our time today is short. Therefore, let me simply summarize some
preliminary impressions and conclusions. It seems that the
inherently high run rate of the brain does not allow it to turn off or
suppress higher centers when peripheral sensory input is denied
it. In the case of some visually impaired patients the brain will
create a recognizable formed visual image even when the patient
cannot process visual input in the eyes due to pathological
changes such as macular degeneration. This can be profoundly
�unnerving for the patient who is already coping with a serious
visual impairment. From the point of view of the student of
Buddhist thought the only reassuring aspect of this phenomenon
is that the patients are fully aware that the created image is false
although they are often afraid to talk about it for fear that the
listener will conclude they are demented or mentally ill.
Yet, more important than this example of a specific research
question that was initiated and nurtured by my St John’s
experience I would like to consider the learning skills that I and all
students acquire on this campus. Numerous newspaper articles
and news broadcasts have recently addressed the question of
whether American colleges and universities are adequately
preparing students for future employment in a rapidly changing
marketplace.
In a recently published special report of The Chronicle of Higher
Education and American Public Media’s Marketplace half of the
employers in the study reported that they had trouble finding
qualified recent graduates. Most of you will not be surprised by
this jeremiad; you have undoubtedly heard or read similar
complaints. What is noteworthy about this study is that
responding employers were not speaking of deficiencies in
specific educational training or technical skills. Their complaints
were more fundamental: they insisted that the primary obstacles
were that the graduates were deficient in essential core skills. I
quote from the New York Times, dated June 29, 2013: “When it
comes to the skills most needed by employers, job candidates are
lacking most in written and oral communication skills, adaptability
and managing multiple priorities, and making decisions and
problem solving.” In this same article a vice-president of a human
resource organization was even more explicit when he said,
“young employees are very good at finding information, but not as
good at putting that information into context.”
�If we believe these criticisms accurately describe the major
obstacles facing recent college graduates seeking employment,
how are St John’s graduates likely to fare in their attempts?
Perhaps, the most straightforward way to assess this is to ask,
“What does St John’s do best?” My evaluation will be from a
student’s point view and I am aware that some of you may feel I
am oversimplifying the issues. Nevertheless, I think St John’s
prepares students to do exactly what these critics claim today’s
young employees cannot do well. In my experience, the
keystones of the St John’s educational process are learning how
to:
1. read carefully and critically some of the most challenging
literature, and
2. express and defend one’s ideas clearly in a seminar, but also
3. evaluate and integrate the conversations of other students and
tutors into one’s understanding of the problems under
discussion.
I thought I was a reasonably skilled reader until I enrolled here. I
was adept in my professional reading and could quickly find and
prioritize the central issues in a reading a scientific paper. I
successfully edited an international ophthalmology journal that
required me to read and review a few thousand manuscripts a
year. I even imagined myself to be reasonably “well read” outside
my medical field of expertise. Naively, I was not particularly
perturbed by the breadth and length of the reading list sent to me
by the Graduate Institute prior to my enrollment. I was in for a
rude awakening. It became apparent in early seminars how many
details, subtleties and inferences I routinely missed in my
readings. Learning how to be a more nuanced reader was a slow
process and that process continues.
Yet, it is the uniqueness and central importance of the St John’s
seminar that I especially want to highlight and examine. I have
�attended many seminars as a student in undergraduate school
and medical school and as a faculty member of a medical school.
When I came to St John’s I was confident that I understood the
dynamics of a successful seminar and how to function effectively
in it. I was wrong, at least in regards to what was expected here. I
had never been in a situation where my education depended
primarily on the quality of thinking and conversation of my
classmates. My classmates weren’t my competition but rather
they were my teachers. I was amazed by the ability of some of my
classmates to penetrate and analyze texts that appeared to me to
be nothing less than incomprehensible. In particular, I am
recalling certain Vedic texts, Yoga sutras and Nagajura’s notions
of truth, but there were plenty of other readings that I found more
perplexing than enlightening. I remain indebted to my classmates
for so much of what I learned here. I still seek the advice of
several of them about their recommendations for further reading.
Of course, one quickly learns that different skills are brought by
various classmates to the seminars. A small cadre of my
classmates seemed to be able to hold forth on any topic and at
least sound informed and thoughtful. Others enjoyed slowly
mulling over the arguments of other classmates and only adding
an occasional insight or critique and then quickly retreating once
again to the role of thoughtful observer. However, some of this
latter group proved to be essential in keeping conversations
moving forward and exploring avenues of thought untested by the
rest of us. That at times some classmates substituted a bit of
blarney masquerading as insight should surprise no one. Indeed,
one of the endearing features of a St John’s seminar is its
tolerance of what might be called Brownian thinking and even the
occasional complete collapse of group focus resulting in an
unintentional homage to Jabberwocky. A St John’s graduate’s
ability to negotiate through the verbiage of a two hour seminar
�and condense the essential elements of it into a few coherent
sentences is a skill that any potential employer should prize.
Having returned to the clinical practice of medicine I now realize
how invaluable the listening skills that I learned at St John’s are in
my work. Yes, they are helpful in the give and take with student
physicians and in navigating the still far too frequent committee
meetings. More importantly they are critical in the most essential
aspect in caring for a patient: obtaining a history of the patient’s
illness. It may seem counterintuitive to you, but the medical
history obtained from a patient is usually far more important in
establishing the correct diagnosis than the physical examination
or laboratory testing. I remember a wise senior professor of
medicine reassuring me when I was nervous 3rd year medical
student that history taking would be the most difficult skill I
needed to learn in order to be a good physician. Why is this true?
A patient comes to a doctor’s office with a specific complaint: in
most fields of medicine it is pain or physical discomfort but in
ophthalmology it is usually visual loss. The problem is to identify
the cause of the pain or visual loss. The art of history taking is to
question a patient in such a way that they provide the clues to
lead you to the correct diagnosis. This involves ignoring a lot of
the conversation that the patient deems essential but that you
judge to be extraneous or even misleading and diverting. On the
other hand, it is sometimes vital to focus on a seemingly trivial bit
of information that ultimately points you directly to the diagnosis.
Shortly after I returned to clinical practice I was asked to see a
young teenage girl who had suddenly become blind in one eye as
the result of bleeding within the eye. Her referring
ophthalmologists were unable to identify a cause for the bleeding.
Her blood count and clotting studies were normal. She was not a
diabetic. She denied experiencing a blow to the eye. She and her
parents were extremely nervous because of the understandable
�fear that she might become blind in both eyes. I proposed that we
start from the beginning and have her describe how this problem
had come about. She grew frustrated with my suggestion since
she had told her story several times to numerous doctors. She
finally agreed and in a disgusted tone of voice said, “It is simple. It
was the end of my vacation and I woke up one morning and could
not see out of my right eye.” I thought for a moment and then
asked her where she had gone on her vacation. When she said
she had traveled to East Africa a new list of possible diagnoses
entered the picture. After surgical removal of the blood in her eye
we were able to identify a bot fly larva in the retina that
subsequently was destroyed with a laser. I confess I am not
certain why I asked her where she had gone on her vacation
except it seemed to be the most important aspect of her
statement. Moreover, she and her family were extremely nervous
so I had to say something. I often finding myself pondering how
much a St John’s education prior to my medical training would
have improved my skills as a physician.
In concluding these remarks I would like to tell you a story that I
believe highlights the breadth of options that your St John’s
education provides you. When I was chair of our department of
ophthalmology I was anxious to expand our research activities. I
knew that a very innovative retinal surgeon was unhappy in the
university where he was employed. He was working on an
exciting prototype of a retinal prosthesis that could be implanted
directly in the retina of blind patients. I thought he would be an
outstanding addition to our department. I called him and asked
him if he might be interested in joining our faculty. After several
conversations it became apparent that both he and his wife were
excited about the possibility of relocating to the Bay Area. Yet, I
could not make a formal offer to this internationally famous retinal
surgeon until he gave a research lecture not only to the clinicians
�but also the basic scientists in our department. I knew this
potentially might be a deal breaker.
In the past 30 years the top medical schools in the country have
become major biomedical research centers and not simply
professional schools were future physicians are trained. In many
departments basic scientists now outnumber the clinicians. In our
medical school the standing of basic scientists has been further
enhanced by the fact that five Nobel Prizes in Medicine and
Physiology have been awarded to UCSF basic scientists since
1989. We would need to convince our basic scientists, a tough
audience, that this retinal surgeon was qualified to join the UCSF
faculty.
To highlight our problem let me say that as a clinician I see basic
scientists as having much in common with Sanskrit grammar.
They love the passive voice especially in journal articles- “A new
gene has been discovered” or “The sample was divided into equal
aliquots”. New discoveries are often named with mind-numbing
compound nouns- proto-oncogene, macrosquare- wave jerks, or
proximity-luminance covariation. I must admit that most basic
scientists would respond by asserting that clinicians lack the
precision and concern for detail so characteristic of Sanskrit texts.
The tension between these two faculty groups is never more
apparent than in research seminars. I discussed this issue with
my new faculty candidate but he assured me he could deal with it.
You can imagine how stunned I was when he began his research
seminar with this story: “A surgeon is walking beside a river when
he suddenly sees a man struggling as he is swept down river. The
surgeon jumps into the river, swims to the man and grabs him
under the chin and pulls him to shore. A few minutes later the
surgeon while continuing his journey up river hears the calls of
two men who are drowning in the turbulent river. The surgeon,
being a man of action, jumps into the river, swims to the two men
�and holds one with his right arm and the other with the left and
drags them to safety. A few minutes later the surgeon resumes
his walk upstream but almost immediately sees three men being
swept downstream in the river. He jumps in the river but realizes
he is unable to pull all three of them to the shore. He looks up and
sees a basic scientist walking upstream on the other side of the
river. The surgeon calls out to the basic scientist and pleads with
him to jump in the river and help with the rescue effort. The basic
scientist replies, ‘No, I am going to walk upstream and see who is
throwing these guys in the river.’”
What are you going to do with it- your St John’s education? No
doubt some of you firmly believe you have your future planned out
in detail; others of you in a candid moment might admit you
haven’t a clue. For myself, I like to think that at St John’s I learned
to swim more effectively while also being encouraged to walk up
river more often. I envy the many opportunities that await all of
you. Congratulations again. There are great adventures and
challenges ahead. What will you do with them? Ah, that will be an
interesting story.
Dr. Hoyt received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst college,
and his MD from Cornell University Medical College; he served as
Intern in Medicine at Stanford University and as a Resident on
Neurology and then in Opthalmology at University of Californa in
San Francisco. He has served as a flight surgeon in the US Navy,
as a lecturer at the University of Sydney, and from 1978 to the
present he has practiced medicine, taught, and performed
research at at the University of California, San Francisco, where
he is currently Emeritus Professor and Chair of the Department of
Opthalmology. He has authored over 170 peer reviewed scientific
articles, among other publications. In 2010 he received his Master
of Arts in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College. A classmate
reported that he was an anchor of the group, widely respected by
�his fellow students. He is now a member of the Presidents’
Council of St. John’s College.
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<li>1796</li>
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<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
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<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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GI Commencement Address
Summer, 2014
Ms Kraus, Mr. Black, graduates, colleagues, and friends:
Contrary to what you might be expecting, St. John’s is not today conferring a
degree on you. Rather you are conferring it on yourselves. You have been both
students and teachers during your time here, all of you together, in a common
activity that has produced effects both public and private. Who better than you can
attest to the transformations your minds and souls have undergone? Who better
than you knows how you have learned that it is both more profound and more
elevating to ask a single question than to listen to a hundred answers? For a
thinker, which each of you is, an answer is a wall, while a question is a door. At
St. John’s we, all of us thinkers, open doors. That’s all we do, really.
I have been thinking a lot about memory and memories and remembering over this
past year. As the summer session began, I realized that I was starting my fortieth
year as a tutor, a long time to be reading and talking about the same books. My
memories of St. John’s are longer than yours, but not on that account more
revealing or insightful. I was a terrible tutor at first. I wanted desperately to make
my students thinkers, help them see the pathos in the opening lines of the Iliad or
the elegance of a Euclidean demonstration. Then I realized that most of my
students were already well on their way to becoming thinkers and that maybe it
was I who needed to try harder to become one. They were already dissatisfied with
mere answers and eager to question. That’s why they came to St. John’s. That’s
why they stayed. The false starts in seminar, the conversational dead-ends, the
misreading of the books, the self-centered perspectives that adolescents and even
�many adults are apt to have: these could all help constitute an education if only the
question remained alive. I sensed that what I needed most to do was to stay out of
the way, and not erect the walls that would deaden thought. I learned to ask my
questions along with theirs. Socrates helped me to see that this really was the only
way to pursue a philosophical life, if a philosophical life is what one values. I
caught on mostly by recognizing the effect the College was having on me, on my
soul. This is why, almost forty years later, I am still here at this place, this special
place. I suspect you all share my feelings to some degree.
You have acquired many memories while you’ve been at the Graduate Institute,
memories of the books you’ve read, the discussions you’ve shared, the people you
have depended on, and who have depended on you, for help in becoming thinkers.
How do these memories stay alive after you leave this place, this special place?
What are memories, anyway, and why do we think them worth holding on to? As
Augustine says about time, if you don’t ask me, I know, but as soon as I’m asked, I
cannot say. But we must try to articulate what they are, because you will be taking
them with you as you leave the College today. Perhaps they are true thoughts or
images of my past experiences. But what is the past? Once again, Augustine tells
us that whatever the past is, it no longer exists. It’s not trapped in a cave
somewhere, waiting to be released. We live only on this razor’s edge of the
present, the moment that has no duration, no width, just the now, the abyss of the
past on one side and that of the future on the other. Has the past left traces or marks
in me that I can call up like I might open an album and view pictures? This is not
an uncommon view of memory and how the past remains within me. And
something about it feels right. But even so, the calling up or viewing is something I
am doing now, something in the present, something on that ultra-thin line on which
I forever try to maintain my balance. How could any memory display its pastness
�and reassure me that time stretches back behind me? In Borges’s tantalizing short
story, “Funes the Memorious,” after an accident a young man gains what the
narrator takes to be infallible powers of perception and memory. Funes , we are
told, “remembered the shapes of the clouds in the south at dawn on the 30th of
April of 1882, and he could compare them in his recollection with the marbled
grain in the design of a leather-bound book which he had seen only once, and with
the lines in the spray which an oar raised in the Rio Negro on the eve of the battle
of Quebracho.” Funes’s memory, if it can even be called that, is incomprehensible,
and can barely be described by the narrator. Or are these thoughts and images
merely imaginings, inventions of a disturbed and lonely mind? Is Borges
challenging our own cavalier attititudes memory as a storehouse of the past?
Memories don’t carry with them marks or signs that they are true memories and
not imaginings of the present. I have no feeling that guarantees for me that this is a
memory, this is from my past, this really happened. If I had such a feeling,
wouldn’t I have to remember that this feeling is the “memory feeling”? And
wouldn’t that demand a further feeling, a “meta-memory feeling,” to distinguish it
from my imaginings? No, memories are not what they are because they announce
that they come from the past. To decide if what I am now thinking about or
experiencing is in fact a memory, I don’t turn inward to examine it more closely. I
look outside myself. I dig up evidence, I talk to others, I ask questions. This most
intimate of mental experiences, most private we’d like to say, is in fact radically
public.
(Of course many of my memories just seem so true that I harbor no doubts about
them. For example, one fall I offered a laboratory Preceptorial in the Graduate
Institute. It included a demonstration of Newton’s Pail, which some of you may
have seen in the Math and Natural Science Seminar. Newton’s Pail is a bucket with
�some water in it, suspended from the ceiling by a rope. The rope is twisted tight,
the bucket given a good spin, and as everyone gathers around they can watch the
water rise up the side. That year, however, I—either inattentively or intentionally, I
don’t remember which—put too much water into the bucket. My innocent class
watched closely as the water not only rose up, but over and out, escaping the
bucker and spraying them all. A memorable demonstration, I think, whether it
actually happened that way or not.)
When alumni tell me what they remember about their time at St. John’s, of course
they have a lot to say. What sticks out most in their minds, however, whether they
be Graduate Institute or undergraduate alums, are not the books or the discussions.
What they remember best, and delight most in remembering, are the questions:
opening seminar questions, those questions that never cease to arise during a class
discussion, the questions they asked themselves as they were writing essays or
preparing for orals. They’ve long forgotten what anyone said in answer to them,
but the questions remain. Questions move us in the present, as much as or more
than they did in the past. “Why did God reject Cain’s offering?” asked of Genesis.
“Why are these men fighting?” asked of the Iliad. “Why is Hell shaped like a
cone?” asked of Dante’s Inferno. “Can one be both a philosopher and a Christian?”
asked of Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments. Rather than fade as time passes,
they seem as alive and urgent now as then. They demand our attention anew
whenever we bring them to mind. And they move us into the future. Maybe this is
what we mean by calling them timeless. A gift, isn’t it, that we remember so well
what has never been trapped by the illusion of time?
And so, dear graduates, as you confer on yourselves the degree of Master of Arts in
Liberal Arts, as you think back over the time you have spent here at St. John’s,
�realize that the way to keep alive the memories of these days is never to grow
weary of questioning. Never stop at that comfortable wall which is the answer, but
remain vigilant and seek the door of the question. Show it to others, especially to
those you care about, because friends ought to have all things in common. In that
way you will be remembering what happened here by living it, which is the only
kind of remembering worth doing.
Good luck, wherever tomorrow finds you. Thank you.
John Verdi
Annapolis, MD
August 8, 2014
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SIJOHN'S
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A N N A P O L I S • SANTA FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY ELEVENTH
Two THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED TWENTY-SECOND
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED EIGHTEENTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
PRELUDE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1796
WELCOME
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON, SFyo
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
PRESIDENT NELSON
PAMELA KRAUS
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
MR. ANDREW KRIVAK, A86
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN KRAUS
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
JEFF J.S. BLACK
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
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Hume's Empirical Mathematics
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JOSEPH JAMES ALICEA
A Poet as Hero in "The Waste Land"
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DEZIREE GEORGEANNA ARNAIZ
WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA
The Story of a Story: Exploring Imitation in Don Quijote
DANIEL THEODORE BADGIO
MERION STATION, PENNSYLVANIA
Structures of Mathematical Thought: An Essay on Kant's
Philosophy of the Mathematical Mind
MAIA SCOTT BANKS
Thou Mayest Try to Be Perfect: A Study of Perfection
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ERIKA MARGARET BERG
Good Manners and Good Judgments in Jane Austen's
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CALEB BRUCE BERNARD
The Charm of Impossibilities
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BlGYAN BlLASH BHANDARI
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Macbeth's Tragedy: How Macbeth's Choice to Trust His
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COLE ALEXANDER BLAUGHER
CABOT, PENNSYLVANIA
Empty Spaces: Holistic Readings of Fragmentary Thoughts
NUTCHAPOL BOONPARLIT
BANGKOK, THAILAND
Pride and Prejudice: A Judge of Character
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The Straw Worker: Marx's Rhetoric of
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�JULIANA BOZHICH
In Quest of an Ideal Language
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THOMAS WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE
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Together They Go Astray: The Family of Anna Karenina and
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MAXIMILIAN ARION BROSSY
Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
The Security of Liberty: An Examination of the American
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ADAM WILSON BROWN
Here I Am
WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
YITIAN CAI
Restoring the Humility of Reason: A Rethinking of Spinoza
ZHUHAI, CHINA
PHILIP JOHN CALINDA
CHESTER, NEW JERSEY
Finding Home: Man's Journey in Beethoven s Ninth Symphony
CONNOR WILLIAM CALLAHAN
GENESEO, NEW YORK
A Figure of an Indefinite., Indeterminate Sort: Alyosha, the
Karamazovian Force, and the Resolution of the Dual Abyss
CURTIS HENRY CAMPBELL
An Argument for the Defense of Liberty
CLARKSVILLE, MARYLAND
LAURA ALEXANDRA CLEVELAND
Both Whole and Distinct: An Inquiry with Plato's Republic
MOLLY ROSE COHEN
On Piety, Poetry, and the Meaning of Suffering
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SOUTHAMPTON, PENNSYLVANIA
BRENDAN MICHAEL CONNOLLY
BARRINGTON, RHODE ISLAND
Home at Last: Deception and Revelation in the Odyssey
BLAIR ELIZABETH COPPAGE
Nature's "One Long Argument": On the Role of Man's
Ignorance in Charles Darwin's Origin
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
�SUSANNAH GRACE COWAN
The Bloom of Well-Being: The Beginnings of a Good and
Happy Life
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
DOUGLAS TANNER DOXSEY
The Worlds We Have Built: An Exploration into
Man as Deinos
ERIC STEVEN EVANS
Achilles and the Devastation of Learning
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WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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ERIN THERESE FITZPATRICK
That Both Are Valid and Inseparable: A Searchfor a
Psychophysically Reconciled Theory of Life and the Role of
Distance Within It
LIVONIA, MICHIGAN
NOAM EARL FRESHMAN
ST. Louis PARK, MINNESOTA
S/he Had it Coming: A Murder but Not a Crime? Seeing Justice
Done in Aeschylus's Oresteia
GRAHAM PATRICK GALLAGHER
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
The Masses Rising: An Exploration of the Desire for
Republican Government
MADELINE ELIZABETH GARNER
Singer of Stories and Teller of Songs
EASTON, MARYLAND
AMANDA CHARLOTTE GLASGO
LOUDONVILLE, OHIO
The Necessity and Use for Rights: The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights as a Means to Promote Common Goals of
Freedom, Security, Prosperity, Justice, and Peace
ETHAN SCOTT GODDARD
MOULTONBORO, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Revenge and the Permanence of Tragedy in The Virgin Spring
NATHANIEL LEONARD GOLDMAN
The Poetics of Dwelling: Martin Heidegger's "The Origin of the
Work of Art" and John Ashbery 's "The Skaters "
FAIRWAY, KANSAS
�JOHNATHAN WOODROW GoOCH
WlMBERLEY, TEXAS
The Social Swerve: On Morality in a Material World
ANYI Guo
On Greatness in Plutarch's Lives: Alexander the Great
andPompey
SHANGHAI, CHINA
NICHOLAS LAKE HARNER
A Model Error: A Scientific Problem Seen in
Ptolemy's Almagest
OAKWOOD, OHIO
BRENNAN REED HARRIS
DENVER, COLORADO
Sleeping Disciples, Sleeping Sins, and the Final Rest in Death:
A Textual and Musical Thread in Bach's St. Matthew Passion
CHRISTOPHER EVAN HOBART
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA
The Story of Job: The Book of Job, Analyzed as a Human Tool
MICHAEL JOSEPH KALKAVAGE
Through the Looking Glass: Plutarch's Exploration of
Alexander, the Man Behind the History
ALEXANDER KIELMANSKI
Love—A Hero and a Villain: An Exploration of Love in
Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet
JESSICA MAJA KJELLBERG
Love, Power, and Self-Knowledge: Edmund in King Lear
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
PARLIN, NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CHARLIE ANN KLINE
MISSION HILLS, KANSAS
Gee, I Wish I Were a Man - I'd Join the Angels: The Tragedy of
Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost
HALIL UGUR KUPELI
Embodiment: Reconciliation of Artistic Drives Within
Mystery and Searchfor Mother in Hermann Hesse's
Narcissus and Goldmund
TOVA RUTH LECUYER
A Matter of Fiction: Judgment and Vilification in
The Brothers Karamazov
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
�LAWRENCE EDWARD LEIBOWITZ
REISTERSTOWN, MARYLAND
Why Does Ahab Perish Whilst Ishmael Survives? An
Exploration of Ishmael and Ahab's Struggle with Chance,
Free Will, and Necessity
DAVID COLIN LEW
COLUMBIA, MARYLAND
The Political Advantages of Christianity in a Commonwealth
CHANG Liu
What is Nature? Examining Animal Life: The Process of
Assimilation and the "Genus-Process " in Hegel's
Philosophy of Nature
GUANGDONG, CHINA
MICAELA KAYE MACDOUGALL
ABINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA
"lam not madefor perilous quests ": What Makes a Lowly
Hobbit Greater Than the King?
NICOLETTE MAUDE MAIMONE
So, Wives
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA
SARAH JUDITH MARX
CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND
The Gardener's Bible: Land Use, Moral Choice, and the
Cultivation of a People
MARGARET LOUISE MATTHEWS
On Truth and the Whole in Hegel's Science of Logic
MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY
TIMOTHY SOLOMON MCCLENNEN
Making Mythology from History: The Truths that Tacitus Can
Only Convey by Lying
MIAMI, FLORIDA
CHRISTOPHER SCOTT MCPHERSON
TOWSON, MARYLAND
Is Revolution Justifiable? Abraham Lincoln and the Right to
Revolution
CHRISTOPHER KARL MELLON, JR.
Intuition and Intellection: A Theory of Parallels
CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND
BENJAMIN A. MISHKIN
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
For I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds: In Search of an
Ethics Commensurate with Our Power
�CATHERINE MARY MOON
WOLCOTT, CONNECTICUT
Finally a Drop to Drink: How Jesus 9s Blood Fulfills the Law
and Frees Man from Sin
KEVIN WILLIAM MORRIS
CROFTON, MARYLAND
Can Purity of Heart Be Taught? Kierkegaard's View ofMeno's
Old Question
DANIELLE PAIGE NELSON
STAFFORD, VIRGINIA
"A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold
the swelling scene! " The Many Roles of Prince Hal and His
Journey to the Throne in Henry IV Part One
WOLFE CASSEL NELSON
Homeric Happiness: Four Portraits ofAchilleus,
Three Views of the Iliad
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA
MAXWELL DUNNING NORTH
SARASOTA, FLORIDA
The Friction Between Two Worlds: A Look at the Conflict
Between the Mind and the Spirit in The Brothers Karamazov
SOREN ABRAHAM OLEGNOWICZ
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
The Moments of Man: A Brief Psychology of Nietzsche's
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
EVGENIA ARKADYEVNA OLIMPIEVA
We Are What We Make
AIMEE MIGNON PAPPAS
By Force or by Freedom: Ivan's Transformation in
The Brothers Karamazov
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
FRANK JEANPAUL PECORARO
ELLICOTT CITY, MARYLAND
No More Than a Dream: The Relationship of Art and Death
CAMERON PELTZ
MALVERN, PENNSYLVANIA
Mixed Feelings: What the Enjoyment of Farce and Laughter at
Suffering Say About Ethical Judgment
�HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS
Jesus and Jurisprudence: Love as the Fulfillment of the Law of
Moses
EL PASO, TEXAS
ELIZABETH MARY PETERSON
WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
The War of Every Man Against Himself: On the Nature and
Character ofKleinias in Book One of the Laws
CASSIE ELEANOR PETTIT
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE
The Center Cannot Hold: An Exploration on the Disharmony
Within Us
CYNTHIA MICHELE PIERCE
To Be God to You and Your Offspring After You
FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA
ALEXANDRIA MICHELLE PLUNKETT
Harmonizing Souls: An Examination of
The Souls of Black Folk
HOUSTON, TEXAS
MICHELLE NICOLE PORCELLI
On the Motions of the Soul in Plato 9s Phaedo
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
JOANNA JANE PURPICH
Ivan 7s Torment: His Struggle for the Reconciliation of Suffering
and Faith in The Brothers Karamazov
HOUSTON, TEXAS
ALEK PUSHKA
SALISBURY, MARYLAND
Living and Living Well in Nietzsche 9s On the Advantage and
Disadvantage of History for Life
CANEEL RADINSON-BLASUCCI
Skin, Saints, Soldiers, Simpletons, and Second Wives:
An Examination of Pierre's Journey to Happiness and
Self-Knowledge in War and Peace
CHADWICK ALLEN RAINES
A Treatise on Rights and Constitutions
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
DENVER, NORTH CAROLINA
ALEXANDRA MAUDE RAUDONIS-BLICKER
DERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Agape in the Form of Art: An Analysis of Andrei Tarkovsky 's
Andrei Rublev
�VINCENT LEANDRO REESE
On the Lord and Bondsman in the Phenomenology of the
Spirit
COLUMBUS, OHIO
JOHN HENRY FAHEY REILLY
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
The Scientific World/view: The Epistemological Basis of the
Scientific Method
MARGARET ALAPHAIR REITZ
"Grant me Lord to know and understand": An Exploration of
Augustine's Confessions
WOOSTER, OHIO
REBECCA ALEXANDRA RIPPERTON
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
A Place i' the Story: On the part ofEnobarbus in Shakespeare's
Antony and Cleopatra
SEAN CHRISTIAN SABELLA
From Inquiry to Devotion
PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS
BAXTER STEPHEN SAPP
Say I Play The Man I Am
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
ANDREW MICHAEL SCHULMAN
AVON, CONNECTICUT
The Internal Act of Believing: Aquinas on Intellect and Witt
GORDON EDWARD SELTZ
Mankind's Labor: From Alienation to Species Being
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
REBECCA MAE SEXTON
WOODINVILLE, WASHINGTON
Such as Occurs Only Between Women: An Exploration of the
Relationship Between Natasha andMarya in War and Peace
JOHN VALENTINE SITZMANN
ZIONSVILLE, INDIANA
Salvation in the New Testament and Innocence in the Garden
of Eden
JONATHAN TURNER SOSEBEE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
Analyzing Characters Through Examined Conversations
�CAMERON LEIGH SPIRO
The Universal Will: Suffering's Role in the Life of the
Individual
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA
JORDAN ZACHARY STEARNS
The Clement Savage: Rousseau's Proof of Man's Natural
Goodness
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
CHARLOTTE EMILY STEINECKE
One of the Dark Places of the Earth
LAUREL, MARYLAND
MORGAN LINDSEY STEPHENSON
Taming the Typhon: An Inquiry into the Relation of "Self and
"Other" in Hegel's Phenomenology and Sophocles s Antigone
LINDSAY ANN SWIFT
An Examination of Nietzsche's Views on Morality
ANDREW JOHN TRISTER
The Path of Faith
AUSTIN, TEXAS
ALAMOSA, COLORADO
RIVERSIDE, CONNECTICUT
IAN PATRICK TUTTLE
The Burden of Reality: Redeeming Time in T.S. Eliot's
Four Quartets
OJIUGO UCHE
Brooding Over an Inscrutable Intention: Natural Symbolism
and Narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
ABUJA, NIGERIA
HANNAH ELIZABETH UPCHURCH
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
A Choice of Nightmares: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
HUGH HANSARD VERRIER, JR.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Death Hath No More Dominion: Law and Body in Paul's
"Letter to the Romans "
MARGARET MACKENZIE WAGGAMAN
MT. WASHINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Re-Inventing Gulliver: The Struggle to Maintain Self-Identity
�SAMUEL ROBERT WEINBERG
Beyond Both the Old World and the New: A Look into
Baconian Science
ALEXANDRA RUBINOVA WELM
It is Just a Matter of Casting
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MANHASSET, NEW YORK
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
CASEY JAMES WHITNEY
WARRICK, NEW YORK
Falling Apart, Rising Together: Shame and Self-Sacrifice in
Paradise Lost
ELLIOT JONATHAN WOOTEN
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
The Tyranny of Private Property: an Essay on the
Relationship Between the Economic Principles of Adam Smith
and Karl Marx
ALI ClHANSIN YlLDIZ
"I am legion, for we are many": On Ideological Possession and
Idolatry in Dostoevsky's Demons
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
MARGARET JOSEPHINE BAIR
Bowie, Maryland
MELISSA ANN BALCH
Santa Fe, New Mexico
JESSICA ALYSA BANGEL
Citrus County, Florida
CAMDEN CHASE BOWDREN
Annapolis, Maryland
ERIC ALLEN BROTHERTON
Sweetwater, Tennessee
RYAN ANDREW BURNETT
Sacramento, California
JEAN ELIZABETH CHASE
Woodbine, Maryland
Lois GARDINER CLARK
Washington, DC
RICHARD JAMES FINK
* ESTER AN FREEMAN
BRADY JOSEPH LEE
DONALD ROBERT LEOPOLD
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania
Miami, Florida
Baltimore, Maryland
Concord, Massachusetts
JUDITH FENN MCGEORGE
Ellsworth, Maine
JASON ALAN MENZIN
Roslyn, New York
MOLLY KATHARYN MEYER
SARAH LACUGNA MILLER
JOHN ROBERT NEYLAN
MALLORY BROOKE PALMER
AARON MICHAEL PELOT
JODY GENE SHEETS
GABRIELLE SIOBHAN STANTON
JEREMIAH DAVID SWANSON
THOMAS JONATHAN THIGPEN
Davidsonville, Maryland
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coshocton, Ohio
Gainesville, Georgia
BRIAN STEWART WILSON
Rising Sun, Maryland
ANNE ELIZABETH ZOLKOWER
Annapolis, Maryland
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�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,014
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
The Gardener's Bible: Land Use, Moral Choice, and the
Cultivation of a People
SARAH JUDITH MARX
HONORABLE MENTION
Both Whole and Distinct: an Inquiry with Plato 's Republic
LAURA ALEXANDRA CLEVELAND
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her
daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Givenness, Multiplicity, and the Authentic Unity of Objects
RENWICK ELLIS HUDSON
HONORABLE MENTION
Seeing is Believing: A Leibnizian Interpretation
Qiu LIN
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins,
of the Class of 1880
A Study in Optimism: On Suicide
Finding the Deep, Secret Root ofPolydorus 's
Murder and the Forest of Self-Violence
MARINA AUD-JEAN WEBER
�HONORABLE MENTION
"This time does not require those sights ":
Duty, Desire, and Images in Virgil's Aeneid
EMILY FREDA GRAZIER
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
"You will know the sky and how necessity fettered it to hold the
limits of the stars ": Plato 's Parmenides as Ineffable Microcosm
ZACHARY WILLIAM GOLD
HONORABLE MENTION
The Lasting Value ofThucydides 's Peloponnesian War
NATHAN MICHEL HUEY
The Democracy in Speech: Is Philosophy Possible?
SOPHY CORDELIA SCHULMAN
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2013.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Coming Home
CARLIN FELT
and
On Suffering and Death in The Odyssey
JASON ALAN MENZIN
�To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
BENJAMIN A. MISHKIN
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
MICAELA KAYE MACDOUGALL
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Crepe-Myrtle (End of Summer Flowers) "
SARAH MARX
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Caritas Society 1987-1991
"If it is Eternal "
ERIK GUSTAF NEAVE
�To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Garitas Society 1987-1991
Finding Home: Man 's Journey in Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony
PHILIP JOHN CALINDA
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the
Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus
Smut MA
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McGlintock, of the Glass of 1965
NOT AWARDED
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Voltage, Current, and Resistance
SlDHARTH SUBODH SHAH
To the senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS
CHARLIE ANN KLINE
�To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding
service to the Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
HUGH HANSARD VERRIER
)K
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care
for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper,
of the Class of 1969
CHARLIE ANN KLINE
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize
Caesar, digital painting
ALEK PUSHKA
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird Prize.
"Duet for Violin and Cello "
PHILIP JOHN CALINDA
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams,
1954
Richard F. Cleveland,
H54
Harry Golding, Graduate
Institute
Dr. Granville Q. Adams,
1929
Bernard Clorety, 1950
George A. and Eveline T.
Greenleaf
Mildred Alexander
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute
Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate
Institute
Aretei Fund
Bradley G. Arms
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Fred and Marian Billups
Jeff Bishop Memorial
FordK. Brown, H70
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper,
1969
The Joseph and Robert
Cornell Memorial
Foundation
Eugene N. (1929)and
Robert G. (1963)
Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen
Crawford
Cpl. George E.
Cunnifflll
Helen Lee DeAloia
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson,
1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Caritas Society of
St. John's College
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Casasco Family Fund
Ahmet Ertegun
Education Fund
Michael Chiantella
Chicago Regional
Faculty Scholarship
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
Ronald and Donna
Fielding
James T. Clark, 1928
James H. Frame, 1950
Class of 1897
Friends of St. John's
Class of 1898
Nancy Gannon Gearing
Edna G. and Roscoe E.
Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L.
Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Henry B. Higman, A48
Richard H. Hodgson,
1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston,
1906
Houston Regional
John Isaacs
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs
Jones
Col. Robert E. and
Margaret Larsh Jones,
1909
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny
Kaplan, H84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
William R. Kenan, Jr.
Trust
�John Sp angler Kieffer,
H70, and
Roxana White Kieffer,
H84
Marie Klebe Memorial
Jacob Klein, H76
Korshin Family Fund
Tom and Cathryn Krause
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton
John D. Mack
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H99
Thomas A. and Julia
McDonald
Middendorf Foundation
Martin Conrad Miller
(1981) Book Fund
Paul Miller
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
NationsBank Foundation
(Bank of America)
Christopher B. Nelson
Scholarship
Endowment
Rev. Theo O'Brien
O'Grady Memorial
Oklahoma Regional
Norman G. Owens
Jules O. Pagano Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Dr. Thomas Parran and
Thomas Parran, Jr.
Passin Family Fund
J. Winfree Smith, H80
The Duane and
Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
James S. Spirer, 1970
LD and Paula Pickens
Pittsburgh Regional
Reader's Digest
Foundation
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
C.V. Starr Foundation
Harry S. and Vivian B.
Spectre Book Fund
Raymond and Richard
Starke
Jean Roberts Staylor
Lenore B. Rinder
Andrew and Lenore
Steiner Book Fund
Cleo Ritz
Clarence W. Stryker
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Bert Thorns
Clifton C.Roehle
Karl and Evelyn Van
Tassel
Joan and Bela Ronay
Murray Joel and Julius
Rosenberg, 1938
G. D. Searle/John E.
Rob son
Rob son Family
Rosse Family
St. John's College Alumni
Association
J. J. Salovaara
Lawrence Saporta, PhD
Flora Duvall Sayles
Scholarship Fund 2013
Hazel Norris and J.
Graham Shannahan,
1908
Frederick J. Von
Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turner
Walker, 1966
Irving and Loretta
Wasserman
Charles H. Watts
Richard D. Weigle, H49
John L.Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F.
Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
Winiarski Endowment
Fund
Doug E. Sherr( 1972)
Memorial
Delores and Stephen Wolf
Rudy Simeone
Kathy and Jerry Wood
.r oundation
Thomas J.,H94, and
Marion K. Slakey
Andrew Smith Memorial
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
BB&T Charitable
Foundation
Davey Commercial
Grounds
Maryland Capital
Management
Decisive Data Systems
McGladrey & Pullen
Booz Allen Hamilton
Ronald Fielding
Christopher B. Nelson
Baines & Group
ICFM
PhotoLab Services
Bunting Family
Foundation
Invotex Group
Estate of Vernon Smith
Isadore and Bertha
Gudelsky Family
Foundation
State Farm Insurance
Companies
Alba Audiovisual
Caritas Society
Morris & Gwendolyn
Cafritz Foundation
CareFirst BlueCross
BlueShield
Clark-Winchcole Fund
Clifton Larson Allen
Council of Independent
Colleges
Estate of Clifford Jackson
Ensign C. Markland
Kelley Jr. Memorial
Foundation
Kelly & Associates
Kiplinger Foundation
Estate of Gene Thornton
UPS
Peter Weiss
Wells Fargo
Winiarski Family
Foundation
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers Trust
Gifts received after April 15, 2014 are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2015 Commencement Program.
�CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
www. stj ohnscollege. edu/alumni
410-626-2531
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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 TWELFTH
Two THOUSAND AND THIRTEEN
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED TWENTY-FIRST
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
PRELUDE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1796
WELCOME
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON, SFyo
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
PRESIDENT NELSON
PAMELA KRAUS
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
JAMES SCHAMUS
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN KRAUS
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
JEFF J.S. BLACK
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
MAGGY ROSE BARNES
Centreville, Virginia
The Abstinent Lover: The Artist 's Searchfor Knowledge, Unity,
and Wholeness in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
JONATHAN DAVID BARONS
Waterbury, Vermont
Going Against the Groan: The Stoic in Society
REBEKAH LYNN BENTUM
Seeing God Face to Face: An Inquiry into Jacob's Striving with
God and Man in the Book of Genesis
Caribou, Maine
HEATHRYN ALETHIA BERRY
Realism, Idealism, and Onions: Faith and Love in The Brothers
Karamazov
Reston, Virginia
THOMAS ANTHONY BONN
Wisdom in the Whirlwind
LYDIA ELISE BOOZ
Towson, Maryland
Brooklyn, New York
A Taciturn Historian: The Merit of Trivialities in the Annals
CHARLES DAVID BRANAN
Beauty, Necessity, and Shame: Choice in an Aristotelian
Framework
BONNIE JOY BRUMBAUGH
Sandersville, Georgia
Stevensville, Maryland
Song of Myself: Whitman's Examination of Identity Through
Poetry
JASON MICHAEL CARRIER
Weimar, California
Self-Mastery and Man's Creative Power
CRYSTAL CATHERINE CLAWSON
Souffrance: Existence du Poete et le Pouvoir deUart
Waialua, Hawaii
ANTHONY ALAN COLE
In Search of God: Philosophy's Role in Augustine's Confession
Bowie, Maryland
�WILLIAM GORBELL COTTEN-POTTER
Newport News, Virginia
Morality and Sacrifice: An Exploration of the Inside Narrative
in Billy Budd
HUNTER WlLLIAM Cox
Freedom Through Obedience
Hartland, Vermont
RACHEL LOUISE Cox
Spartansburg, Pennsylvania
Knightley Must Marry Her: Discovering the Heart in Jane
Austen's Emma
DRESDEN DENEYS CRAIG
Against Epistemology: On Plato's Theaetetus
Greencastle, Pennsylvania
AlsfNE THERESA CULPEPPER
Sin and Evil in Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal
Providence, Rhode Island
JENNIFER HOPE DALTON
Create in Me a Clean Heart: The Meaning of Prayer Through
David's Psalms
Holland, Michigan
MARC O FRANK DAMIANO
Make 'Em Laugh: As You Like It and the Value of Comedy
Bronxville, New York
LlLLIAN ELLEN DATCHEV
Reawakening the Pendulum of History
Annapolis, Maryland
ClNAR DoRUK
The Birth and Death of the Myth of Human Nature in a Prison
of Word and Flesh
Istanbul,Turkey
BENJAMIN PERRY DOUTHWAITE
Thinkingof Thought: Being, Nothing, and Becoming in Hegel's
Logic
Jessup, Maryland
MATTHEW PETER DUDIK
Vancouver, Washington
Turning the World Inside-Out: Why the Newtonian Theory of
Planetary Motion Supersedes the Ptolemaic
�VIRGINIA CASTOR EARLY
The Self-Focused Yet Free Citizen: A Searchfor Active
Citizenship in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Bethel, Connecticut
NlMA ESHRAGH
Rogers, Arkansas
Seeing Face to Face: An Exposition on Man's Need for Escape
and its Resolution in an Ethical Relationship
EMILY CARROLL EZELL
Rationality for the Hopeless: The Federal Government's
Attempt to Save Us from Ourselves
JOHN MACE FABISZEWSKI
Middletown, Virginia
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Beats, Rhymes, and Life: A Poet's Journey
JOHN CHARLES FARRELL
For All Time: The Negotiation Between Adaptation and
Retention of Identity in Thucydides' History of the
Peloponnesian Wars
Hatfield, Pennsylvania
MADELINE CATHERINE FERGUSON
Annapolis, Maryland
Overcoming in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Story of
Self-Destruction and Redemption
MICHAEL WALTON FOGLEMAN
Knowing Phaedrus, Remembering Ourselves
LEONARD ISAAC FRANKS
If You Have Good Will, You Shall Lack for Nothing: Can
Christian Virtue Be Unrelated to Deeds?
Hingham, Massachusetts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
DANIEL FELDMAN GILLES
West Hartford, Connecticut
The Dragons of Philosophy and the Rebirth of Metaphysics
PETER HIGH GILLIES
"About, My Brains!" Hamlet's Artistic Unconscious
EMILY CATHERINE GORMAN
The Role of Self-Knowledge in Shakespeare's King Lear
Wilton, Connecticut
Hudson, Ohio
�GORDON BRUCE GREER, III
Can Capitalism Survive? An Examination of Socialist and
Capitalist Systems in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Chesterfield, Missouri
RACHEL ELIZABETH HAHN
The Journey to Moriah: Infinite Resignation in Abraham
Sebewaing, Michigan
BRITTANY ANN HANKINS
The Cracked Seed: An Examination of Ivan Karamazov
Wilmington, Delaware
SARAH Coco HARTZELL
"For the Poets are Dearest to the Muse Who Puts Upon Their
Lips the Ways of Life ": Why the Man of Many Ways Must be
His Own Poet
ANDREW PETER HASTINGS
War is Peace: or, The Death of the Republic in Machiavelli's
Discourses on Livy
SAMUEL LAURENCE HYMAN HEMMENWAY
The Nature of Vision
HAU HoANG
Close Your Eyes and Learn Geometry: Embracing Radical
Ideas in Lobachevskian Geometry
Houston, Texas
Columbia, Maryland
Los Angeles, California
Hai Phong, Vietnam
JOHN TYLER WALSH HOGAN
Buena Park, California
A Nice Guy Having a Bad Day: Tragic Characters in Sophocles'
Antigone
CATHERINE MARIE HOISINGTON
Society and Insanity in Dostoevsky's The Idiot
Kenai, Alaska
JOSEPH FRANCIS HORNER
Dedalus Defined: The Song of the Father, and Woman '«$• Dance
Grove City, Ohio
RuOXUAN Hu
What is the Ultimate End of Man? On Happiness, Morality
and Freedom
Shanghai, China
�CHENGHAN JING
There They Talked of Revolution., There They Lit the Flame:
Marx's Quest for the Glory of Man
CHRISTOPHER EARL JOHNS
Deyang, China
Sewickley, Pennsylvania
The Paradox of Originality: A Study of Metaphysical Desire
and Creative Maturation in Dostoyevsky's Notes from
Underground
MARY ELIZABETH JOHNSON
Manhattan Beach, California
"The Artist Arrives at the Gas Chamber": An Exploration of the
Effects of Education Upon the Artist's Return Home
CHRISTINA WERNETT KATAOKA
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Relating Space and Geometry: The Necessity of Spatial
Experience in Association with Multiple Versions of Geometry
DANIEL JACOB KRAFT
God's Chosen People: A Whale of a Tale
Owings Mills, Maryland
BRIAN SANFORD LEE
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Kantian Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge
ROBERT SAUL LEIKEN
Washington, District of Columbia
Denial and Deception in The Death of Ivan Ilyeh
WILLIAM ALFRED LIPINSKI
Vanity and Vexation of Spirit
CHAZAQ LLINAS
Stratford, New Jersey
Berlin, Maryland
Reflecting on the Generation of Knowledge
DANIELA LOBO DlAS
Berlin, Connecticut
The Tension Between Reason and Desire: How Gulliver
Unknowingly Teaches Us to Avoid the Extreme and Seek
Moderation
WILLIAM READ LODER
Optima dies.. .primafugit: Memory, Time, and the Land in
Willa Gather's My Antonia
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
�ADAM MATTHEW MARASCHKY
Chaos and Quanta: Two New Hypotheses in Max Plank's
Theory of Heat Radiation
PILAR ISABEL FRANCISCA MARTINEZ-FRAGA
The Significance of Human Existence and Freedom in Soren
Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments
Shaker Heights, Ohio
Miami, Florida
Jefferson, Massachusetts
MAURA JOAN McCuiSKEY
From Poetry to Philosophy and Back Again: Book X of Plato's
Republic
REECE JORDAN McDEvnr
The Searchfor Virtue, Beauty, and Unity within the Self: An
Exploration of Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
PALMER LEE McMATH
We Speak and It Lives: Bridging the Gap Between an
Individual and the Process of Language Change
JENNIFER ANN McNuury
Of Men, Whales, and Myths: An Exploration of the Creation of
Narrative in Moby-Dick
Evansville, Indiana
Purcellville, Virginia
Chicago, Illinois
DREW DONNALLY MENZER
On the Use and Abuse of Philosophy: An Inquiry into Truth
and Morality in Beyond Good and Evil
Granville, Ohio
CHRISTOPHER HEZEL MOORE
Romancing Excellence: The Art of Instruction in Rousseau's
Emile
Kearney, Missouri
HENLEY ELIZABETH MOORE
A New Kind of Noble: An Exploration of Antony in
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Cambridge, Maryland
ANDREW JAMES MORAN
The Eye of the Storm: Origin, Narrative, and Law in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Norwalk, Connecticut
�HAREL WARD NEWMAN
The Picture of the Closet: Two Reading of The Picture of
Dorian Gray
Chicago, Illinois
MARIA MACARENA PALLARES
Between the Limits of the Two Abysses: Equality and Freedom
in Tocqueville 's Democracy in America
EMILIA MACKENZIE PICKARD
Emilia or On My Education
Wellington, Florida
Fort Collins, Colorado
Louis ALEXANDER PISHA
The Final Antithesis: Experience and Knowing in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Nanuet, New York
DANIEL ALEXANDER POPOV
Irvington, New York
Through the Wind and the Rain: An Exploration of Comedy in
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
DYLAN KNIGHT ROGERS
The Apotheosis of the Dance: Nietzsche's Defense of the Senses
in Twilight of the Idols
Chicago, Illinois
JOHN CHRISTOPHER ROPOULOS
Fremont, California
Experiencing the Dionysian Folk Artist in Nietzsche's The Birth
of Tragedy and Robert Johnson's Gross Road Blues
PHILIP JEFFREY SCHIFFRIN
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
The Last Full Measure of Devotion: A Rhetorical Analysis of
the Gettysburg Address
TlMOTHY ROBERT SCHUM
Waukesha, Wisconsin
The Seeker and the Sought: An Exploration ofQur 'anic
Guidance
ESA GlANNA SCLAFANI
Worcester, Vermont
To Flee a Sinking Ship: Fear of Death in Epictetus' Discourses
CAMERON DOUGLAS SHARP
What is Beyond Good and Evil?
Los Angeles, California
�ERIC ANDREW SHLIFER
How Our Conscience Brings Us Closer to God: A Look at
Morality in The Brothers Karamazov
SARAH LEONA STALTER
Poulsbo, Washington
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
A Life About Nothing: On "The Myth of Sisyphus "by Albert
Camus
ALICIA NlCOLE STANLEY
Glarksville, Maryland
Shakespeare the Artist: Corruption, Forgiveness, and the
Theatrical Experience in The Winter's Tale
JESSICA GENEVIEVE STEER
Virginia Beach, Virginia
All's Well That Weds Well: Love and Order in Shakespeare's
As You Like It
AMY BRENEMAN STEWART
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Rafting with Huck Finn: Navigating Life's Rivers
KURT THEODORE STROM
Jefferson, Massachusetts
Hony Soyt Qui Mai Pence: Sir Gawain in the Castle and the
Forest
MANUEL ANDRES LUCAS SY-QuiA
Pasig City, Philippines
Not for My Sake, but for My Servant's: The Faith of the Roman
Centurion o/"Luke 7:1-10
MANISH JUNG THAPA
Dadeldhura, Nepal
The General Will, the Consensus Problem, and the Legislator
in Rousseau 's Du Contrat Social
CATHERINE ALEXANDRA TRORICH
Charlotte, North Carolina
Musical Theology: Bach's Interpretation of Human Sin and
God's Mercy in the St. Matthew Passion
GRACE ANN TYSON
Pensacola, Florida
Hurrah for Kolya! The Soul's Education in The Brothers
Karamazov
CARLIN MARIE VAN SCHAIK
On Sin and Friendship
Lubbock, Texas
�DHIDHAT VANICHSTIAN
A Man's World: But It Wouldn't Be Nothing, Nothing Without
a Woman
ELIZABETH GRACE VAUGHN
Ordered and Perfected Love in Dante's Paradise
Gaithersburg, Maryland
BRIAN LEE WARCZINSKY
Understanding the Understanding: An Inquiry into Hume's
Account of Human Nature
NICOLAS MARTIN FRANCOIS WEINSTEIN
Peace is a Boot, War a Flame: Hobbes' Leviathan
Midland, Michigan
London, United Kingdom
ZACHARY WRIGHT WELLS
An Essay of the Value of Ideas
TREVOR DAVID WORTHEY
Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov: The Fool's Role in the Theatre
of the Self
JlDAN Xu
Bangkok, Thailand
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Corning, New York
Shenzhen, China
Imaginary Geometry and Our Understanding of Space
YUAN XUE
Encounter the Beautiful with Kant
AUDRA LAUREN ZOOK
Choosing Faith: An Examination of Augustine's Journey to
Conversion
JlNYAO ZOU
Kant on Our Experience
Chengdu, China
Pahrump, Nevada
Haikou, China
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
BENJAMIN AARON BELL
GORBYN RICHARD BERRYMAN
DIANA PAGE BROWN
ABIGAIL RUTH GLEVENGER
MATTHEW HOWELL COOK
MARK JOSEPH DALY
Rome, Georgia
Fuller ton, California
Palmer Lake, Colorado
Fostoria, Ohio
Beaumont, Texas
Cordova, Maryland
MARIANO JOSE DE DOMPABLO
Madison, Wisconsin
ERIN EVELINE DESMOND
Garden Valley, Texas
COLE DONOVAN
Churchton, Maryland
ALVARO ENRIQUE DURAN*
Rockville, Maryland
STEVEN MICHAEL ELLERD
Georgetown, Texas
JOHN RICHARD FARRIS
Crofton, Maryland
CARLIN FELT
GRAHAM WILLIS GORDON
TIANLU JIA
MICHAEL THOMAS KAUDER
SUSAN JANE LAROCCA
GAITLIN MOLLY McGuiRE
ENRICO NASSI
DAVID MICHAEL OLDHAM
Ogden, Utah
Christiana, Tennessee
Guangdong, China
Greensboro, North Carolina
Morrisville, Pennsylvania
Davidsonville, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Nashville, Tennessee
OSCAR ORTIZ DUARTE
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
JASON MARK POARCH
Lenoir, North Carolina
JAMES PATRICK REDMON
Knoxville, Tennessee
EVERETT FRENCH REESE
Annapolis, Maryland
SHAUN PATRICK RIELEY
Millsboro, Delaware
MICHAEL EVAN STAHLY
Germantown, Maryland
*Upon completion of requirements
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2013
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
Kant on Our Experience
JINYAO Zou
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her
daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens
A Problematic Concept: On the Thing-In-Itself in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
NATHANIEL LEONARD GOLDMAN
The Birth of Don Quixote: Madness, Poetry, and Transformation
LAURA ALEXANDRA CLEVELAND
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins,
of the Class of 1880
Flesh
SOPHIA JEANNETTE DILLARD
HONORABLE MENTION
Understanding the Reason Behind the Spheres in Dante 's Paradiso
LESLIE MAE HOWARD
�To the member of the Freshman Glass who has written the best annual essay.
Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, Tutor Emeritus, and his wife,
Else, by Dr. Stuart and Frances Walker
Myth in the Mind of Man
MATTHEW MARQUIS KATCHER
HONORABLE MENTION
Self-Division and Self -Covernance
KELLI ANN ZINN
The Whole Risk: Can the Myth of Er Save Us?
ERIK GUSTAF NEAVE
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2012.
Offered by the Alumni Association
One and Many: Political Order and Friendship in The Odyssey
JAMES PATRICK REDMON
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
CAMERON DOUGLAS SHARP
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Cyropaideia, Xenophon
MICAELA KAYE MACDOUGALL
�To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Circonspection, Paul Verlaine
HAYDEN EUGENE PENDERGRASS
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
Sonnet for Redemption
DANIEL JACOB KRAFT
The Muse
JEZEBEL ST. JOHN
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Caritas Society 1987-1991
24 Preludes
DYLAN KNIGHT ROGERS
HONORABLE MENTION
Finalefor String Quartet
Louis ALEXANDER PISHA
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Garitas Society 1987-1991
No AWARD
�To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the
Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus
YITIAN GAI
HONORABLE MENTION
JlDAN Xu
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
HAU HOANG
HONORABLE MENTION
XIAOQIAN Hu
)K
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Joseph Black 's Super Cooling Experiment
SlDHARTH SUBODH SHAH
To the senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
THOMAS ANTHONY BONN
RACHEL ELIZABETH HAHN
�To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding
service to the Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
No AWARD
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care
for and service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper,
of the Class of 1969
REBEKAH LYNN BENTUM
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize
ADAM MATTHEW MARASCHKY
)K
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird Prize.
Finalefor String Quartet
Louis ALEXANDER PISHA
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams,
1954
Richard F. Cleveland,
H54
Harry Golding, Graduate
Institute
Dr. Granville Q. Adams,
1929
Bernard Clorety, 1950
George A. and Eveline T.
Greenleaf
Mildred Alexander
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute
Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate
Institute
Aretei Fund
Bradley C. Arms
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Fred and Marian Billups
Jeff Bishop Memorial
Ford K. Brown, H70
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper,
1969
The Joseph and Robert
Cornell Memorial
Foundation
Eugene N. (1929)and
Robert G. (1963)
Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen
Crawford
Cpl. George E.
Cunnifflll
Helen Lee DeAloia
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson,
1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Caritas Society of
St. John's College
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Casasco Family Fund
Ahmet Ertegun
Education Fund
Michael Ghiantella
Chicago Regional
Faculty Scholarship
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
Ronald and Donna
Fielding
James T. Clark, 1928
James H. Frame, 1950
Class of 1897
Friends of St. John's
Class of 1898
Nancy Gannon Gearing
Edna G. and Roscoe E.
Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L.
Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Henry B. Higman, A48
Richard H. Hodgson,
1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston,
1906
Houston Regional
John Isaacs
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs
Jones
Col. Robert E. and
Margaret Larsh Jones,
1909
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny
Kaplan, H84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
William R. Kenan, Jr.
Trust
�John Sp angler Kieffer,
H70, and
Roxana White Kieffer,
H84
Marie Klebe Memorial
Jacob Klein, H76
The Duane and
Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
LD and Paula Pickens
Pittsburgh Regional
Korshin Family Fund
Reader's Digest
Foundation
Tom and Gathryn Krause
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers, 1930
Lenore B. Rinder
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton
John D. Mack
Massachusetts Regional
Harry S. and Vivian B.
Spectre Book Fund
Raymond and Richard
Starke
Jean Roberts Staylor
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clarence W.Stryker
Clifton C. Roehle
Bert Thorns
Joan and Bela Ronay
Karl and Evelyn Van
Tassel
Thomas A. and Julia
McDonald
G. D. Searle/John E.
Robson
Middendorf Foundation
Rob son Family
Martin Conrad Miller
(1981) Book Fund
Rosse Family
Paul Miller
St. John's College Alumni
Association
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
J. J. Salovaara
NationsBank Foundation
(Bank of America)
Lawrence Saporta, PhD
O'Grady Memorial
C.V. Starr Foundation
Andrew and Lenore
Steiner Book Fund
Murray Joel and Julius
Rosenberg, 1938
Rev. Theo O'Brien
James S. Spirer, 1970
Cleo Ritz
James Matthews, H99
Christopher B. Nelson
Scholarship
Endowment
J. Winfree Smith, H80
Flora Duvall Sayles
Scholarship Fund 2013
Hazel Norris and J.
Graham Shannahan,
1908
Oklahoma Regional
Doug E. Sherr( 1972)
Memorial
Norman G. Owens
Rudy Simeone
Dr. Thomas Parran and
Thomas Parran, Jr.
Thomas J.,H94, and
Marion K. Slakey
Pas sin Family Fund
Andrew Smith Memorial
Frederick J. Von
Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turner
Walker, 1966
Irving and Loretta
Wasserman
Charles H. Watts
Richard D.Weigle,H49
John L.Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F.
Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
Winiarski Endowment
Fund
Delores and Stephen Wolf
Kathy and Jerry Wood
Foundation
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Alba Audiovisual
BB&T Charitable
Foundation
Davey Commercial
Grounds
Maryland Capital
Management
Decisive Data Systems
McGladrey&Pullen
Booz Allen Hamilton
ICFM
Christopher B. Nelson
Baines & Group
Invotex Group
PhotoLab Services
Bunting Family
Foundation
Isadore and Bertha
Gudelsky Family
Foundation
Estate of Vernon Smith
Caritas Society
Morris & Gwendolyn
Cafritz Foundation
CareFirst BlueGross
BlueShield
Clark-Winchcole Fund
Clifton Larson Allen
Council of Independent
Colleges
Estate of Clifford Jackson
State Farm Insurance
Companies
Estate of Gene Thornton
Ensign C. Markland
Kelley Jr. Memorial
Foundation
Peter Weiss
Kelly & Associates
Wells Fargo
Kiplinger Foundation
Winiarski Family
Foundation
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers Trust
UPS
Gifts received after April 15, 2013, are gratefully acknowled
and will be listed in the 2014 Commencement Program.
�CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
www. stj ohnscollege. edu/alumni
410-626-2531
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SIJOHN'S
College
A N N A P O L I S • SANTA FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY THIRTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND TWELVE
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED TWENTIETH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
PRELUDE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, GLASS OF 1796
WELCOME
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON, SF7O
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
PRESIDENT NELSON
PAMELA KRAUS
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
SALVATORE SCIBONA, SFg7
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN KRAUS
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
JEFFREY BLACK
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
CHELSEA ELIZABETH ADAMS
Language as the Existence of Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology
New Concord, Ohio
SHIKSHYA ADHIKARI
Kalikasthan, Kathmandu, Nepal
Maiestatem Imperatoriam: An Inquiry into the Concept of
'Imperial Majesty' in The Annals of Tacitus
MARIAM ADUASHVILI
You Can 'tPray a Lie: Looking at the Moral Development of
Huck in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tbilisi, Georgia
MANAAN VALERIE LUBIN MAYS ALEXANDER
Gamden, Maine
"For Inferior Who Is Free?" The Relationship between Love
and Equality in Paradise Lost
GENEVIEVE JOAN DUFOUR ALLEN
Albuquerque, New Mexico
"Out of Bondage ": Learning to Live Ethically in Unethical
Times
KYLE DAVID AMANN
Portrait of a Greek Warrior: Why the Tale of Achilles
Exemplifies the Trojan War
SYDNEY MARIE ANDREWS *
KAITLYN EMILY ASHER
The Prophet and the Pig: An Exploration of Characters and
Grace
WADE WINSTON ATKINS
Differences That Are None: Experiencing Self-Identity in
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Jesup, Georgia
St. Louis, Missouri
Decatur, Georgia
Gary, North Carolina
JACOB BENJAMIN LIPSITZ BALDWIN
New Haven, Connecticut
In Pursuit of the Soul: On the Difficulty of Living in the Modern
World
�DOMENICK MlCHAEL BAUER
West Orange, New Jersey
The Lifecycle of Capitalism: An Inquiry into Capitalist
Economics Through the Works of Karl Marx
ERIC MICHAEL BAUER
Longing for the Octave: Words, Music, and Body in Britten's
Death in Venice
Park Ridge, Illinois
PATRICK ALFRED BEEBY II
A Cheerful Philosophy: Education by Experience in
Montaigne's Essays
Dallas, Texas
AALIN REBECCA BELLINGER
The Friendship of Quixote andSancho in Part II of Don
Quixote
Groveland, Massachusetts
NICHOLAS DANTE BENDER
Edgewater, Maryland
Aristotle's Book on Comedy: "I Wouldn 't Really Say I'm
Missing It."
JULIA ANNE BERGGREN
Washington Island, Wisconsin
Reason Which Reason Knows Not: Viewing the World through
Mathematics and What It Means to Do So
ROBERT JEREMY BINDER
Sex and the Citizen; or, Whether or Not Education Can Make
Man Happy?
ALEXANDER IVANOVICH BOBROW
Lombard, Illinois
Silver Spring, Maryland
In Search of Something Left Behind: Aristotelian Causality
Revisited
BARRETT McNEIL BROOKS
Alexandria, Virginia
"An Adventure in Mortality": An Investigation of Life as a
Progression
GANDACE RENE BRYAN
Speech Impediment: Examining the Role of Language in
Coming to God
Memphis, Tennessee
�CHARLES DARWIN GARGAL
On Sense and Sentiment: Causality, Morality, and Belief in the
Mind ofHumean Man
BRANDON DANIEL CARNEY
Nietzsche's Response to Hegel in Terms of the Artist
La Mesa, California
Agoura Hills, California
TAWNY ROSE CASE
"O, there has been much throwing about of brains ": Truth,
Fiction, and Madness in Hamlet
Seattle, Washington
EMALIE MARTHE CLAMAGE
Mansfield, Massachusetts
Morality, Autonomy, and the Surprising Character of the
Good-Willed Man in Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of
Morals
HERBERT TUCKER COBEY
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Prima Ratio Regum: Strength as the Sole Source of Virtue in
Machiavelli's The Prince and Discourses on Livy
STEPHANIE ELISE CONNOLLY
The True Patriot, in Word and Deed
PRENTICE BLAKE COOPER
A Man after God's Own Heart: Why Abraham Is Willing to
Sacrifice the Son Whom He Loves as a Burnt Offering to the
Lord
Manchester, Missouri
Manassas, Virginia
JORDAN LEE COUCH
Look What I Did: Don Quixote's Relationship with the World
Billings, Montana
LEAH MARIE CREAMER
Food from Excrement?: The Nature of Reason in Gulliver's
Travels
Honolulu, Hawaii
TAYLOR PATRICK CRYAN
Abandoning Earthly Armor for Eternal Amour: How Antony
and Cleopatra Come to Leave Their Kingdoms in Life for Love
in Death
Houston, Texas
�HENRY PATRICK DE SIMONE
The Countenance of the Heavens: Ptolemy's Almagest as
Theological Artwork
Blue Ridge, Virginia
JOSHUA CHRISTIAN DfiSlLVA
Kansas City, Missouri
Rousseau's Developmental Psychology: Imagination and SelfLove in Emile
MARIA PATRICIA DlGlOVANNI
All About Eve, According to Milton
Ghico, California
SARAH ANNE LiNDA DOTY
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Man's Path to Scientific Divinity in Bacon's New Organon:
Smashing Idols, Acquiring Discipline, and Reigning Over
Nature
NATALIJA DOBROVIC
Podgorica, Montenegro
Guidebook with No Rules: An Exploration of Freedom Based
on Being in Heidegger's Being and Time
ANDREW J. BONDERS
The Tyrant's Exchange: Wealth and Luxury in the Descent of
Polities
Brooklyn, New York
LOGAN QUINN DWYER
You Are John Gait: The Great and the Human in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged
Flagstaff, Arizona
MEGAN FAULKNER
"A Thing to Break Your Jaws with Laughter": The Aggressive
Comedy ofMachiavelli's Mandragola
Meridian, Idaho
LlNUS HENRY FEDER
Thought in Action
Montclair, New Jersey
LUCY MARGARET FERRIER
Santa Paula, California
Mark the Music: Reflections on Music audits Power to Move
Us toward God
�Signal Mountain, Tennessee
CATHERINE VIRGINIA FIELDS
The Face of a Hero: Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Lover of
Mankind
JAMES MICHAEL FLAIM
Legitimacy of Authority in Plato's Meno
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
JOHN STEWART FLEMING
Completing the Dialectical Circlefrom Plato to Hegel
Gaithersburg, Maryland
ANNA MARIE FLIES
Cherry Blossoms Must Fall
SAMUEL XAVIER FRANK
Matter over Mind: How the World Controls Our Will
Puyallup, Washington
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
DONALD JOHNATHAN FRANKLIN
The Kiss and Sunken Shoulder
JACOB DANIEL GARRETT
Space, Time, and Capital
Lakeland, Florida
Houston, Texas
ANNE DEVEREAUX GEITZ
New Canaan, Connecticut
Mistaken Revenge and Miscarried Revenge: The Tragic Paths
of Othello andlago
HARLIN JAMES HOGH GLOVACKI
Greenfield, Massachusetts
The Order and Connection of Spinoza's Ethics and Spinoza's
Ethics (Are One and the Same)
ALEXANDRA KAYLEE GOETZ-WEISS
"ButAbraham Had Faith ": Paradox and the Absurd in
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
EMMA HANNAH GOLD
Prosecuted, Banished, & Shot: Motive, Moral, and Plot in
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
AMANDA MARIE GRIGGS
An Inquiry into the Self-Organization of Markets
State College, Pennsylvania
Maplewood, New Jersey
Odenton, Maryland
�SEE EUN HA
Seeing Love Makes You Blind, Showing Love Lets You See: A
Question about the Role of First Corinthians Chapter Thirteen
MOSHE DAVIDSON HAMO
Reflections on Qohelet- An Attempt at Herding Wind
Busan, South Korea
Denver, Colorado
KATHERINE MELISSA HAVARD
Beverly Hills, California
The Maker ofMonarchs: The Beginning of the End of Chivalry
in Henry V
HONORE JEAN-JACQUES HODGSON
Creation beyond Tragedy
St. Paul, Minnesota
BENJAMIN MlLLER HOOKER
Albuquerque, New Mexico
"He who had been lost to the world... ": Creating the Life Worth
Living in The Three Metamorphoses
LYDIA MARIE HOVEY
III Met by Moonlight: The Problem with Love in Shakespeare s
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Naperville, Illinois
SAMUEL JOSEPH HUGHES
Free Will and Society in War and Peace
Chattanooga, Tennessee
MICHAEL ROSS JANAKIS
Why Are Flowers Beautiful?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
JANE ELIZABETH JEFFRIES
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Swept Up in the Song: Relationship With God Through Music
inf. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion
LlYU JlANG
Into Time and Free Wilk4 New Way of Perceiving Ourselves
MARIA SANGIRARDI JUNG
Chengdu, China
New York, New York
"We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken
glass ": A Hot Pursuit ofDuende in Lorca 's Blood Wedding
BRITTANY LAUREN KEEHAN
"Desire with Thee Still Longer to Converse"
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
�SAMANTHA MARIE KIFFER
RealPeople:The Nature of Man in The Federalist Papers and
Its Use in the Regulation of the Government
KATHERINE ELIZABETH KOLODZIE
And the Dead Man Came Forth:The Sickness, Death, and
Resurrection of Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's Grime and
Punishment
Strongsville, Ohio
Walnut Greek, California
AARON DANIEL KUBARYK
The Lives ofKaramazovs
Atlanta, Georgia
GRANT AARON KUNING
Being Good and Fearing Death in War and Peace
Columbia, Maryland
MICHAEL THOMAS LACY
Woman—The Image of God: Why uGreat Men" Are the Problem
and How Women, Androgyny, and Vulgarity Are the Solution
in Shakespeare's Gymbeline
ALEX WINSTON HANSEN LANKFORD
"Let the Forest Judge ": Comedy and Nature
Oakton, Virginia
Milwaukie, Oregon
HANNA JUNE LAUER
WestBoylston, Massachusetts
Fame Fulfilled: A Study of Fame in Plutarch's Life of Gaesax
JUSTIN ANDREW LEISHMAN
Bacon's New Instrument
Annapolis, Maryland
ALEXANDER JOSEPH LEONE
Filling in Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to the First Five SelfConsciousnesses
?
Lake Elmo, Minnesota
ALTON PARKER LIND
The Stories We Tell Each Other: (Why We Must Share Our
Lives)
Issaquah, Washington
NOAH JACOB LITVIN
Creativity in Mathematics
Mamaroneck, New York
�YUNZHANG Lu *
Shanghai, China
SARAH ELIZABETH MACGREGOR
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Fact and Fiction: Analogy in Maxwell's Electromagnetism
GALEN VITTORIO MANCINO
Silver Spring, Maryland
•How Does Huck Learn How to Live?An Essay on Mark
Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
BARBARA DUNHAM McClAY
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Little Odious Vermin: Satirizing the Satirist in Gulliver's
Travels
MATTHEW JAMES McMuLLEN
Bowie, Maryland
The Miseducation of Lemuel Gulliver: Learning How Not to
Get along in Gulliver's Travels
SOPHIE LYNN MICHELEWICZ
Nelson, New Hampshire
Motion and Being in Aristotle's Physics
THOMAS LAWRENCE MILLS, JR.
Authority in The Master and Margarita
Douglas, Alaska
ANDREW PAUL MlZE
Versailles, Kentucky
Craftsmanship in The Old Man and the Sea.- An Historical and
Literary Understanding
MARGARET LLOYD MOHR
Cato the Younger: Freedomfrom Virtue
KALI LORRAINE MUNRO
Columbus, Ohio
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Primitivism and Violence: An Analysis of Anger in TwentiethCentury Man
ELIZABETH GRACE NATTERMAN
I Am Not What I Am: logo's Motives and Villainy in
Shakespeare's Othello
Baltimore, Maryland
ASHLEY MICHELLE NEFF
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
On Virgin Ground: A Consideration of Modern Physics Using
Bacon's Novum Organum
�TESSA COLLEEN NELSON
A Mirror up to Nature: On the Function of the Mimetic Art
Centennial, Colorado
LAN Tin HUONG NGUYEN
The Yearning of a Saint in Middlemarch
Hanoi, Viet Nam
KELSEY SUZANNE O'BRIEN
Morality in The Brothers Karamazov: An Analysis of Ivan and
Integrity
CAROL RENEE PARTONEN
Admit Impediments; Love Is Not Love: Ideal and Imbalanced
Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets
HANNAH ESTHER PASTERNAK
ulam there as lam there ": An Investigation into Life as
Understood in Martin Buber's I and Thou
SARAH O 'MALLEY PEARLMAN
Laughing at Poor Clueless Suckers: The Casefor the Comic in
Moliere's The Misanthrope
ANTHONY AUGUSTINO PECORARO
The Living Poetry o/Turgatorio as a Map to Artistic Eden
Davie, Florida
Waldorf, Maryland
Livingston, New Jersey
Teaneck, New Jersey
Ellicott City, Maryland
WILLIAM AUSTIN PECORARO
Ellicott City, Maryland
A Conflict of Interests: On the Religious and Political Powers of
the Papal States audits Effects
KAMILLA TAMAR POLLOCK
"I Feared for My Sanity": Unraveling the Labyrinth of
Memory, Poetry, and Personal Identity in the Short Fictions of
Jorge Luis Borges
RUSSEL ALLEN PROVOST
Incommensurable Man
CHRISTINA ELIZABETH RAINES
"What you want, above all things, on a raft, isfor everybody
to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards others "
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hyattsville, Maryland
Clovis, California
�JAY WESLEY ROHRER
A Strange Justice: Jesus and Jubilee Ethics
JONATHAN JOSEPH ROSSE
The Use and Abuse of Language for Life
EMILY CAROLYN SEE ELL
The Conflict Between the Public Life and the Private Life in
Homer's The Odyssey
Annapolis, Maryland
Concord, Massachusetts
Wayland, Maine
ERIN MICHELLE SHADOWENS
Hooking Leviathan: Job's Challenge to Justice in the City
Grand Rapids, Michigan
GILBERT IRVING SHANK
All the World's a Stage: The Inception of Don Quixote
Bloomington, Minnesota
MARIN MlCHAEL SKOKANDIC
Better Payment for the Slave: Who Profits in Political
Economy?
Santa Monica, California
ELIZABETH MARIE SPAGNOLETTI
"Look only at what belongs to you." On the Boundaries
between Human Beings in The Histories of Herodotus
Voorhees, New Jersey
PHILLIP LEE STALEY
North Charleston, South Carolina
Better Than Fiction: On the Analogies Underlying Maxwell's
Electromagnetic Field Equations
ALLANAH CECILIA STEEN
Our Great Need
Paris, France
XlAOKANG TANG
The Ethical Defense in the Art of Rhetoric
Jinan, China
JONATHAN JAE TINCHER
Laughter and Self-Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Relation
between the Comic and Philosophy
RHIANNA KRISTINE TONER
A Travel Guide: The Education of Lemuel Gulliver
Dunbar, West Virginia
Baltimore, Maryland
�MARY CATHERINE TOPIC
A Searchfor Justice in the World o/"King Lear
Falls Church, Virginia
NATHANIEL DAVID TORREY
Southern Pines, North Carolina
For He So Loved the World: Love, Faith, and Folly in Paul's
Letters and the Gospels
JOSEPH KEENAN TROTTER
Living it Through: Experience in The Recognitions
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SHANNON GERVOIS VAUGHN
The Tolstoyan Spirit
Oxford, Maryland
LUKE ARAKEL WAKEEN
An Amoeba, a Man, and an Anthill
Wilton, Connecticut
Li AM EDWARD KRETZ WALLACE
Teaching and Learning Virtue
Stony Brook, New York
JESSE ADAM WANG
"All right, then, I'll go to heir
Keysville, Virginia
MICHELLE ELIZABETH WEINMANN
To Reverie is to Lose Oneself in a Flower and Rediscover the
Youth of the Human Race
Northport, New York
PETER JULIAN WHITE
An Investigation of Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus
Gary, North Carolina
JOSEPH ANDREW WOOD
Carnality and Communion: The Nature of Love in the Pauline
Letters
RICHARD MATTHEW YOUNG
Sunrise on the Horizon of the Human
"Upon completion of requiremen
Moraga, California
Wellesley, Massachusetts
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
HOWARD BLAIR ANDREWS
DANIEL TIMOTHY BABCOCK
JUSTIN ALAN BROWN
BRANDON SCOTT GAIN
RYAN THOMAS CAMPBELL
Severn, Maryland
Rochester Hills, Michigan
Huntsville, Alabama
Fresno, California
Olathe, Kansas
BENJAMIN SCOTT CHAMBERS
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
LUKE PHILLIPS DOUGHERTY
Baltimore, Maryland
GEORGE SELAS DOUGLAS, II
Alexandria, Virginia
KRISTA MARIE EHASZ
DEVIN CAROLYN FROST
Shady Side, Maryland
Edmond, Oklahoma
MATTHEW JOSEPH FULONE
Millis, Massachusetts
KRISTEN ERICA GODWIN
Annapolis, Maryland
CHRISTINE MARIE IVORY
Poolesville, Maryland
CHASE LANE KITCHEN
ALEX TY KUN
WESLEY JOHN SCHANTZ
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Big Bear Lake, California
Gaithersburg, Maryland
ALEXANDER ELIOT SCHMID
Atlanta, Georgia
LAUREN ELIZABETH SMITH
1\ilsa, Oklahoma
VICTORIA ANN STATTEL
SCOTT PEARSON STEWART
BENNETT TANSEY
VICTORIA ALEXANDRA WILEY
MECAEL LEE HUA YUAN
Franklin Square, New York
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Phoenix, Maryland
Wez, Belgium
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,012.
To the member of the Senior Glass who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Glass of 1966
Longing for the Octave: Words, Music, and Body in Britten's
Death in Venice
ERIC MICHAEL BAUER
Little Odious Vermin: Satirizing the Satirist in Gulliver's Travels
BARBARA DUNHAM McCiAY
HONORABLE MENTION
Language as the Existence of Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology
CHELSEA ELIZABETH ADAMS
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
No prize 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 Sweetness of Chaos
JOSEPH JAMES ALIGEA
"They Shall Be One Flesh ": Human and Godly Love in Genesis
SARAH JUDITH MARX
�HONORABLE MENTION
Playing with Leviathan: On Myth in the Book of Job
NATHANIEL LEONARD GOLDMAN
To the member of the Freshman Glass who has written the best annual essay.
Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, TYitor Emeritus, and his wife,
Else, by Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Walker
The Body and the Soul: How "Popular Music "Is in the
Philosophy Business
LESLIE MAE HOWARD
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2012.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Green-blue Chinamen: An Exploration of "Lapis Lazuli"
by W.B. Yeats
ERIN EVELINE DESMOND
The Confessions byJ.J. Rousseau
DANIEL STUART RANDLETT
To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
CHELSEA ELIZABETH ADAMS
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Plato's Laws
MIGAELA KAYE MAGDOUGALL
�To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
The Lyre of Orpheus by Louise-Victorine Ackermann
JOHN STEWART FLEMING
DANIELA LOBO DIAS
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
Our Family Tree like Wallpaper Shows Us
SOPHIE LYNN MIGHELEWIGZ
HONORABLE MENTION
When I think about the universe . . .
EVGENIA ARKADYEVNA OLIMPIEVA
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Garitas Society 1987-1991
Scherzofor String Quartet
Louis ALEXANDER PISHA
HONORABLE MENTION
Allegro and Minuet for String Quartet
CHELSEA ELIZABETH ADAMS
Sinfonetta in D Major
BRENNAN REED HARRIS
�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
Swept Up in Song: Relationship With God Through Music in
J. S. .Bach's St. Matthew Passion
JANE ELIZABETH JEFFRIES
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
BlGYAN BlLASH BHANDARI
HONORABLE MENTION
HAU HOANG
JlNYAO ZOU
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
LINUS HENRY FEDER
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
SlDHARTH SUBODH SHAH
HONORABLE MENTION
ANDREW J. DONDERS
�To the senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJG athletic program, a special blazer.
LEAH MARIE CREAMER
JOHN STEWART FLEMING
To the member of the Senior Glass who has contributed outstanding
service to the Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Garitas Society of St. John's College
MICHAEL Ross JANAKIS
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
SHIKSHYA ADHIKARI
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
Family Portrait, watercolor
SARAH O'MALLEY PEARLMAN
X
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird prize.
MICHELLE ELIZABETH WEINMANN
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams,
1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams,
Mildred Alexander
Philip L.Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute
Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate
Institute
Aretei Fund
Bradley G. Arms
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
George A. and Eveline T.
Greenleaf
Marvin Brent Cooper,
1969
Edna G. and Roscoe E.
Grove, 1910
The Joseph and Robert
Cornell
Memorial Foundation
John T. and Gertrude L.
Harrison, 1907
Eugene N.( 1929)and
RobertG. (1963)
Cozzolino
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles WHass, 1927
Henry B. Higman, A48
Wiley and Helen
Crawford
Richard II. Hodgson,
1906
Cpl. George E.
Cunnifflll
The Hodson Trust
Helen Lee De Aloia
Alfred and Ruth Houston,
1906
Donna Marie Delattre
Houston Regional
Fred and Marian Billups
Clarence L. Dickinson,
1911
John Isaacs
Jeff Bishop Memorial
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Ford K. Brown, H70
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Caritas Society of
St. John's College
Ahmet Ertegun
Education Fund
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs
Jones
Casasco Family Fund
Faculty Scholarship
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
Ronald and Donna
Fielding
James T.Clark, 1928
James H. Frame, 1950
Class of 1897
Friends of St. John's
Dr. Simon and Fanny
Kaplan, H84
Class of 1898
Nancy Gannon Gearing
Francis A. Katz, 1929
Richard F. Cleveland,
H54
Harry Golding, Graduate
Institute
William R.Kenan, Jr.
Trust
Col. Robert E. and
Margaret Larsh Jones,
1909
RobertE. Kanode, 1939
�John Spangler Kieffer,
H70, and
Roxana White Kieffer,
H84
Marie Klebe Memorial
Jacob Klein, H76
The Duane and
Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
LD and Paida Pickens
Pittsburgh Regional
Korshin Family Fund
Reader's Digest
Foundation
Tom and Gathryn Krause
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers, 1930
LenoreB. Hinder
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton
Memorial
John D. Mack
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H99
Middendorf Foundation
Martin Conrad Miller
(1981) Book Fund
Paul Miller
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
NationsBank Foundation
(Bank of America)
Christopher B. Nelson
Scholarship
Endowment
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Cleo Ritz
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clifton C. Roehle
Joan and Bela Ronay
Murray Joel and Julius
Rosenberg, 1938
G.D. Searle/JohnE.
Robson
Robson Family
Rosse Family
St. John's College Alumni
Association
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Norris and J.
Graham Shannahan,
1908
O'Grady Memorial
Doug E.Sherrf 1972)
Memorial
Oklahoma Regional
Rudy Simeone
Norman G. Owens
Thomas J.,H94, and
Marion K. Slakey
Dr. Thomas Parran and
Thomas Parran, Jr.
Andrew Smith Memorial
Passin Family Fund
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
Irving and Loretta
Wasserman Memorial
Scholarship
Endowment
Charles H. Watts
Endowment Fund
Richard D. Weigle, H49
John L. Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F.
Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
Winiarski Endowment
Fund
Delores and Stephen Wolf
Kathy and Jerry Wood
Foundation
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
THE ASSOCIATED:
Jewish Community
Federation of Baltimore
Richard and Rosalee C.
Davison Foundation,
Inc.
AT&T
Dietz & Watson, Inc.
Dr. Frank C. Marino
Foundation Inc.
BB&T
Dixon Valve & Coupling
Company
Maryland Capital
Management, LLG
Dynamics Research
Corporation
Douglas K. Mayer
Estate of James
Bienemann
Estate of Margaret Blaker
Board of the Friends of
St. John's College
Booz Allen Hamilton
Bunting Family
Foundation
The Eliasberg Family
Foundation, Inc.
Gallagher Evelius &
Jones LLP
Harris CapRock
Communications
CACI International, Inc.
The Campbell
Foundation, Inc.
CareFirst BlueCross
BlueShield
Caritas Society of
St. John's College
Rana Choi
Peter Vance Clark Trust
Computer Sciences
Corporation
Lauren Connolly
Council of Independent
Colleges
Henderson-Webb, Inc.
The Hodson Trust
Hurley W. Howell
Charitable Foundation
The Huether-McClelland
Foundation, Inc.
Ensign C. Markland
Kelly, Jr. Memorial
Foundation
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers
Charitable Trust
Lockheed Martin
Corporation
National Philanthropic
Trust
Christopher B. Nelson
The RCM&D Foundation,
Inc.
SAIC
Serco Inc.
John A. Simmons
Marsha Sirkin
William D. Shafer
Tech USA
Mynydd Teg Foundation
UPS
Verizon
TheWliiting-Turner
Contracting Company
Barbara Zelley
John J. Leidy Foundation
Gifts received after April 15, 2012, are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2013 Commencement Program.
�CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
www. stj ohnscollege. edu/alumni
410-626-2531
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SIJOHN'S
College
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY FIFTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND ELEVEN
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED NINETEENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
PRELUDE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, GLASS OF 1796
WELCOME
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
PRESIDENT NELSON
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
PAMELA KRAUS
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
LEO PICKENS
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN KRAUS
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
MARILYN D. HIGUERA
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
NINO ADUASHVILI
Fears, Hopes and More Fears: Examining American
Democracy with Tocqueville
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
BRIAN PAUL ANDERSON
The Return to God in Augustine's Confessions
Portland, Oregon
DOUGLAS JAKOB ANDERSON
My Sin, My Soul: Morality and the Nature of Fiction in
Nabokov's Lolita
St. Paul, Minnesota
GHARMAINE PRISCILLA BENHAM
To Forgive is Human: The Struggle Between God and Man in
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Oakland, California
RUTH ANNE BROWN
South Hadley, Massachusetts
"Now have I understood all the happiness of life ": Freedom,
Necessity and Contentment in War and Peace
NICHOLAS KEEFE GALLAHAN
Can We Actually Learn Anything About Ourselves by
Comparing Ourselves to Typhon?
Natick, Massachusetts
NATASHA SUN CARLYON
Deception Leads to Discovery
Seoul, South Korea
MARINA CHERNIKOVA
The Man Who Prized History
Kharkov, Ukraine
JUNIA ROSABEL GHO
War and Peace: Understanding Life Through the Horrors of
Death and One's Consciousness of the Infinite
Laurel, Maryland
JEFFREY PATRICK GOLGAN
The Students and the Song of Nietzsche; Or, the Instinct for
Freedom and the Human Necessity of Perpetual Enslavement
Beaumont, Texas
�TIMOTHY PHILLIP GOOVER
Upper Montclair, New Jersey
The King of Infinite Space: The Conflict Between Thought and
Substance, Contemplation and Action in Shakespeare's Hamlet
KAREN KATHLEEN GORDERO
God, Games, and Gargantua; Or, How to Princify the
Princeliest Prince the World Ever Princed
Glenside, Pennsylvania
ERIN ELIZABETH GURZIO
The Marxism Colleges Should Be Teaching: Humor and SelfAwareness, A Defense of Comedy
ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA DANIELS
Forgiving Eve: Companionship in Paradise Lost
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Pacific Palisades, California
DANIEL PAUL DAUSMAN
Brookeville, Maryland
An Investigation into the Supposed Conflict Between NonEuclidean Geometry and the Doctrine of the Transcendental
Ideality of Space
ANNE GLARE DEGER
Santa Fe, New Mexico
"A duty stern and delicate ": Education's Role in Culture and
Society
THOMAS FRANCIS DONAHUE
Havertown, Pennsylvania
A Joint-Stock World: Philosophical Foundations of Democracy
in Moby Dick
LIAM DANIEL DOUGHERTY
The Living God
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
JOHN DAVID MATHER DUSENBURY
Grand Junction, Colorado
Can Rocks have Adequate Ideas? On Mind and Body in
Spinoza's Ethics
ALEXANDRA ELISE FERNANDEZ-BROWN
Harrisonburg, Virginia
"Mainly I wanted to put in the time": Laziness, Play, and
Adventure in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
�KEVIN MICHAEL FINSON
Limitation of the People's Power: Rule by the Few and the
Many in the Constitution and Federalist Papers
Glen Arm, Maryland
COLIN MICHAEL FORHAN
Hippolyte 's Struggle with Monstrosity in Phedre
Takoma Park, Maryland
WILLIAM DANIEL FRASER
Teleology on the Level of Vertical Tonal Gravity
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
CHRISTINE CAROLYN FULLER
Harmonizing Existence with Essence: An Examination of
Marx's Portrayal of Man in Society
Safety Harbor, Florida
ELIZABETH RUTH FULMER
"Moi,je ne suispas Marxiste!": Understanding the Riddle of
History as Presented by Karl Marx
Houston, Texas
VICTORIA FOSTER GIBSON
Woodstock, Vermont
"All Is Connected, All Flows Like an Ocean ": Discovering the
Beauty of Love in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers
Karamazov
KELSEY LYNN GILMORE
Garden Grove, California
Faciendi Liberos exLiberis Ratibus etFluminibus: Making Free
Adults Out of Children by Means of Rafts and Rivers -An
Essay on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
ANNA SEELE GOOLD
Open Thou My Lips: A Realization of Self in the Psalms
Beachwood, New Jersey
MATTHEW DWIGHT GORE
Lindenhurst, Illinois
This Land is My Land, That Land is Your Land: An Essay
Examining the Role of Private Property and the Foundation of
Government
HARRY THOMPSON GREEN
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
Looking to the End - Why is Socrates Happy in the Face of
Death?
�MARTIN LUKE GREENWALD
Bethesda, Maryland
What is the Self?: An Account of'Consciousness, Ego, and the
Soul in Beyond Good and Evil
VIRGINIA ELIZABETH HARNESS
A Divided Land: Conflict, Destruction and Endurance in
The Sound and the Fury
Lynchburg, Virginia
ZACHARY VICTOR HARRINGTON
Certainty, Genealogy, Morality: Nietzsche's Genealogy of
Morals and The Gay Science
Mukilteo, Washington
JULIE ANN HENSON
One True City: Learning Charity in the Terrace of Envy
DIMITAR Ivov INDZHOV
Using Arts and Sciences Without the Harm
Gainesville, Florida
Haskovo, Bulgaria
WILLIAM CRAIG KUNKEL
Glenn Dale, Maryland
So Prone in Every Way to Transmutation: A Study of Dante's
Journey Through the Afterlife
KATHRYN MAXWELL LEWIS
In Black Ink: Gender and Creation in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Wyoming, Ohio
JENNIFER MARGARET LIND
Seattle, Washington
Not Without Reason: An Examination of the Role of Reason for
Faith in the Life and Book of Job
KELLEY ELIZABETH LITTLEFIELD
South Hamilton, Massachusetts
Teaching Faith: Moses'Instruction of the Israelites
TESSA ANA LTVADAS
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
On the Convergence of Comedy and Tragedy in The Bacchae
JACK MCGREGOR LYNN
Gorrales, New Mexico
Transcending Human Nature: Spirituality, Philosophy, Art
and Schopenhauer
�KAURA ELIZABETH MACKEY
Kingston, Washington
For the Good of Others: The Importance of Morality for the
Soul and Society in Tolstoy's War and Peace
DAVID JOHN MAKER
Falls Church, Virginia
The Pre-Paradigm State and the End of Crisis: Lessons from
the Quantum Revolution
ANNE MARA MALONE
On Feelings in A Sentimental Journey
RICHARD BRADLEY MAXHAM
The World of Chivalry
BRENDAN J. McGiVNEY
In Defense of Man: An Exploration of Lying, Reason and
Desires in Gulliver's Travels
SAMUEL ANDREW MERTEN
Being and Thought
Ridgeley, West Virginia
Lynchburg, Virginia
Wilmington, Delaware
Dublin, Ohio
SARAH ELIZABETH MILLER
Bethesda, Maryland
No Place Fd Rather Be: The Importance and Power of Being on
the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
ANNA MIRZAYAN
Storytelling in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
San Ramon, California
GILLIAN CAMPBELL MOLONEY
Rockville, Maryland
On Reason, Morality, and Faith in Faulkner's The Sound and
the Fury
STEPHEN RAFAEL MONTEIRO, JR.
A Thoughtful View of Life
SHANNON MULLOY
Will Beauty Save the World? Faith and Suffering in
Dostoevsky's Idiot
Woodstock, Connecticut
Gaithersburg, Maryland
�BLAKE STUART MYERS
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Engaging the Faculty of the Heart in A Sentimental Journey by
Laurence Sterne
THOMAS PETER MYERS
Ellicott City, Maryland
In the Quiet County, in Simplicity: Searching/or an Idyllic
Eudaemonia
SANDRA KATHRYN TuoNcVi NGUYEN
Calvin andHobbes: On State Religion
LAURA LEE NIEUSMA
Faith Motivating Works in the New Testament
MICHAEL THOMAS O 'BRIEN
The Downfall of the Understanding in Hegel's Dialectic
ANDREW DAVID OLSEN
Man's Unconscious
Fallbrook, California
Okemos, Michigan
Westbury, New York
Mineola, Texas
ACACIA MAY PAPPAS
San Luis Obispo, California
Faith: The Courage of Humility in the Face of Paradox
MAXWELL WISTER PARROTT
South Glastonbury, Connecticut
If These Words Could Talk: The Provocation of Conscious
Ignorance in Plato's Protagoras
CLAYTON READ PASLEY
San Antonio, Texas
Of Fancies and Racehorses, Prisms and Parabolas: Concerning
the Possibility of Universal Scientific Knowledge
JOSHUA WAYNE PAUL
The Tongues of Men and Angels: The Transformation of
Language in Paradise Lost
Fort Meade, Maryland
ANDREW MICHAEL PEAK
Louisville, Kentucky
A Dream of Comic Fancy: The Transformation of Artifice into
Nature in Bergson 's Laughter
�BROOKS S. PENDERGAST
Greenwich, Connecticut
The Manifestation of the Soul in Appearance, Speech, and
Action
ANNA CATHERINE PERRY
Humor & Sympathy in Societal Life
Napa, California
KRISTIN LILY PETERSON
The Incomprehensible Boiler: Completing a Reality in Heart of
Darkness
Owego, New York
KATHERINE PHILLIPS
Castro Valley, California
The Interconnection and Fundamentality of Mathematical
Systems: An Inquiry into the Relations of Arithmetic,
Geometry, and Mechanics
JOSEPH MATTHEW POPE
The Other Tree
PAUL ANTHONY POVLOCK, JR.
Buck the Zeitgeist
Buffalo, New York
Saunderstown, Rhode Island
JASON ANTHONY STOLBA RITZKE
The Revolutionary Wife
Marion, Iowa
ROGER JOHN ROBERTSON, JR.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
More Texvrj, Less Techno: Making Things in the Modern Age
FREDERICK GORE ROCKWELL
Dese Kings O' Ourn Is Reglar Rapscallions: Travel and
Transformation in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
JAMES ABRAHAM RUSSELL
Aeneas: A Man Distinguished in Piety?
RON SADAN
Forces in the World and the Soul in War and Peace
KAITLYN RITA SCHULER
The Beautiful Soul: A Chapter in the Life of God
Richmond, Virginia
Annapolis, Maryland
Carlisle, Massachusetts
Lake Worth, Florida
�JACOB SLOAN SIMON
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Never Trust a Greek Bearing Gifts: The Difference Between a
False Prophet and a True One in Dante's Divine Comedy
ANNA CATHERINE SITZMANN
Unveiling Identity: On the Importance of the Experiential
Process and the Inadequacy of Historical Truth
Zionsville, Indiana
STEPHANY Rossi SNYDER
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Bringing Napoleon to His Knees: Raskolnikov 's
Transformative Journey in Crime and Punishment
MEAGAN ROSE SPICER
North Conway, New Hampshire
A Man, a Woman, and Freedom: On Freedom and Love in
William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
HANNAH ELIZABETH STAHL
Prevailing Uncertainty: Life of the Man Without Qualities
Baltimore, Maryland
MICHAEL VINCENT TAVANI
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
No One Pours New Wine: The Difficulty of Faith; An
Examination of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments
TIEMAR M. TECLEMARIAM
uThe robe does not make the man ": Interpretation in
Gargantua
CAMERON STUART THOMPSON
In Pursuit of Something More: Human Self-Definition
Silver Spring, Maryland
Lorton, Virginia
KELLY LAUREN TROP
Macungie, Pennsylvania
What's with Matter? Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved
theBohm
RACHEL MARY ULRICH
Socrates and His Images: A Display of the Philosopher's
Relation to the City
JOHN CECIL BLUE VINING
Perspective and Accuracy in Ptolemy's Almagest
Carnation, Washington
Studio City, California
�KATE WYLIE WALDEN
The Transformation of Jacob and the Genesis of Israel: The
Fulfillment of God's Will in the Realm of Man
Rye, New York
BABAK AKBARI ZARIN
Fredericksburg, Virginia
A Loving Gaze: Socrates, Alcibiades, and What it Takes to
Know Yourself
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL AUTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
JOSHUA IAN AcKERMAN
SERENA ALAMI
EVAN CHESTER BEARD
GHARLOTTA ELIZABETH BEAVERS
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BRYAN
ABIGAIL ELIZABETH BUTCHER
BRUNO S. CORTES
SARAH CHRISTINE CULVER
JEROME FRANK DAUSMAN
ALEXANDER MAURICE FENCZIK
JOAN CATHY FOGEL
ADAM JOSEPH FRANZ
ROBERT HARRIS COMBINER
ANNA LEIGH GREEN
JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER HAWK
BRIAN DANIEL HowrON
DAVID WAYNE HYSONG, JR.
DAVID LEE JONES
GRANT JACOB KETTERING
Baltimore, Maryland
Brandon, Florida
Youngstown, Ohio
Los Angeles, California
Greencastle, Pennsylvania
Augusta, Georgia
Waterbury, Connecticut
Eugene, Oregon
Brookeville, Maryland
Bourbonnais, Illinois
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
Seattle, Washington
Galveston, Texas
Baltimore, Maryland
Lafayette, Louisiana
Annapolis, Maryland
Endwell, New York
Cherry Hills Village, Colorado
JONATHAN DAVID RNAUP
SARAH JANE LINHARDT
SAMUEL MATLACK
BRIAN ERIC MERRIWEATHER
Long Beach, California
Annapolis, Maryland
Schwoich, Austria
Huntsville, Alabama
PAUL MUSONDA MwANSA
LEE THOMAS NuTINI
Laurel, Maryland
Cookeville, Tennessee
MELISSA CHRISTINE BOUDRIE PETERSON
Easton, Maryland
ELIZABETH HELEN PlNCUS
Minneapolis, Minnesota
JANE FRANCES POLCEN
MARK WILLIAM PURCELL
RANDAL CALVIN PYERS
WILLIAM BRIAN RAMSAY
BRETT KYLE SHOEMAKER
Bowie, Maryland
Normal, Illinois
Martinez, Georgia
Waldorf, Maryland
Dillsburg, Pennsylvania
TARA LYNN SMITH
CHARLES CLAYTON STEWART
ROBERT COLLIN WELSH
LAURA ELENA WILLWERTH
Laurel, Delaware
Point Marion, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Manchester, Massachusetts
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2011
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the class of 1966
I
'
An Investigation into the Supposed Conflict Between
Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Doctrine
of the Transcendental Ideality of Space
DANIEL PAUL DAUSMAN
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her
daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens
Art, Science, and Compassion in George Eliot's Middlemarch
EMMA HANNAH GOLD
Excavating Babel; Or, How Hobbes Establishes a New Science of
Man and Changes Everything
ERIN MICHELLE SHADOWENS
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins,
of the Class of 1880
An Investigation of Order and Place in Shakespeare's King Lear
DRESDEN DENEYS CRAIG
HONORABLE MENTION
Contemplation: A Fruitful Endeavor
MAURA JOAN MCCLUSKEY
�To the member of the Freshman Glass who has written the best annual essay.
Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, TVitor Emeritus, and his wife,
Else, by Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Walker
Finding Fulfillment in the Shadow-land: The Role of Odysseus'
Descent to Hades in The Odyssey
IAN PATRICK TUTTLE
HONORABLE MENTION
Plato Says Our Souls Are Swollen: An Exploration of the City of
Pigs in Comparison with Plato's Republic
SEAN CHRISTIAN SABELLA
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2011.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Moby Dick as a Work of Democracy
ANDREW BENES VLCEK
HONORABLE MENTION
"It's Not You; It's the Beautiful": An Inquiry into the Plight of the
Abandoned Beloved
NICOLE ELAINE ELLIS
To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tidings of Maryland
HANNAH ELIZABETH STAHL
�To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
The Taking of Coriolifrom Plutarch's Life of Goriolanus
ADAM MATTHEW MARASCHKY
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Brise etTempete by Marie Pape-Carpantier
DANIELA LOBO DIAS
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
The Smell of Skin and Dried Leaves
MICHAEL VINCENT TAVANI
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Garitas Society 1987-1991
Fantasy #2 for String Quartet
Louis ALEXANDERPISHA
HONORABLE MENTION
Out of the Depths
CHELSEA ELIZABETH ADAMS
�To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the
Garitas Society 1987-1991
Desiring in Sicut Cervus
MARIA SANGIRARDI JUNG
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem.
Offered by the Glass of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the
Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus
ANYiGuo
HONORABLE MENTION
DAVID JOHN MAKER
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McGlintock of the Glass of 1965
YUAN XUE
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
A Measure of Universal Gravitation
ANDREW!. DONDERS
To the senior man and woman, who, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJG athletic program, a special blazer.
CLAYTON READ PASLEY
RACHEL MARY ULRICH
�To the member of the Senior Glass who has contributed outstanding
service to the Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
MEAGAN ROSE SPICER
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care
for and service to youth residing in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper,
of the Class of 1969
KAURA ELIZABETH MACKEY
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize
Koi, sculpture
KELLY LAUREN TROP
To a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences, the Walter S. Baird prize.
In the Fear of Love, poetry
MICHAEL VINCENT TAVANI
��ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams,
1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams,
1Q9Q
JL J ju J
Mildred Alexander
Philip L.Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute
Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate
Institute
Aretei Fund
Bradley G. Arms
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Dr. Charles C. Cook
George A. and Eveline T.
Greenleaf
Marvin Brent Cooper,
1969
Edna G. and Roscoe E.
Grove, 1910
The Joseph and Robert
Cornell
Memorial Foundation
John T. and Gertrude L.
Harrison, 1907
Bernard Clorety, 1950
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Eugene N.( 1929) and
Robert G. (1963)
Cozzolino
Henry B. Higman, A48
Wiley and Helen
Crawford
Richard H. Hodgson,
1906
CpL George E.
Cunnifflll
The Hodson Trust
Helen Lee De Aloia
Alfred and Ruth Houston,
1906
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Donna Marie Delattre
Houston Regional
Fred and Marian Billups
Clarence L. Dickinson,
1911
John Isaacs
Jeff Bishop Memorial
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Ford K. Brown, H70
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Caritas Society of
St. John's College
Ahmet Ertegun
Education Fund
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs
Jones
Gasasco Family Fund
Faculty Scholarship
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
Ronald and Donna
Fielding
James T. Clark, 1928
James H. Frame, 1950
Class of 1897
Friends of St. John's
Dr. Simon and Fanny
Kaplan, H84
Class of 1898
Nancy Gannon Gearing
Francis A. Katz, 1929
Richard F. Cleveland,
H54
Harry Golding, Graduate
Institute
William R. Kenan, Jr.
Trust
Col. Robert E. and
Margaret Larsh Jones,
1909
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
�John Spangler Kieffer,
H70, and
Roxana White Kieffer,
H84
Marie Klebe Memorial
Jacob Klein, H76
The Duane and
Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
LD and Paula Pickens
Pittsburgh Regional
Thomas J.,H94, and
Marion K. Slakey
Andrew Smith Memorial
J. Winfree Smith, H80
James S. Spirer, 1970
Korshin Family Fund
Reader's Digest
Foundation
C.V. Starr Foundation
Tom and Gathryn Krause
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Harry S. and Vivian B.
Spectre Book Fund
Arthur E. and Hilda
Combs Landers, 1930
Lenore B. Hinder
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton
Memorial
John D. Mack
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H99
Middendorf Foundation
Martin Conrad Miller
(1981) Book Fund
Paul Miller
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
NationsBank Foundation
(Bank of America)
Rev. Theo O'Brien
O'Grady Memorial
Oklahoma Regional
Cleo Ritz
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Andrew and Lenore
Steiner Book Fund
Clifton C. Roehle
Clarence W.Stryker
Joan and Bela Ronay
Bert Thorns
Murray Joel and Julius
Rosenberg, 1938
Karl and Evelyn Van
Tassel
G. D. Searle/John E.
Robson
Frederick J. Von
Schwerdtner
Robson Family
Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Vanous
Rosse Family
St. John's College Alumni
Association
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Norris and J.
Graham Shannahan,
1908
Norman G. Owens
Doug E.Sherr( 1972)
Memorial
Dr. Thomas Parran and
Thomas Parran, Jr.
Rudy Simeone
Passin Family Fund
Jean Roberts Staylor
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
BB&T
H.A. Hammond
Susan M. Bishop
Henry B. Higman
Melanie and David
Bradley
Independent College
Fund of Maryland
Nancy Buchenauer and
Francis Rowsome
James M. Johnston Trust
Carefirst BlueCross
BlueShield
Garitas Society of St.
John's College
Ann and Bryant Cruse
Constance and Paul Dry
Deborah R. Fialka
Christine Fotos
Tamara L. Friedler
Gudelsky Family
Foundation
Ensign C. Markland Kelly
Jr.
Emily Legum
John J. Leidy Foundation,
Inc.
Judith Seeger
Wanda and William
Shafer
John A. Simmons
Marylou and Craig
Symonds
T. Rowe Price
Mynydd Teg Foundation
Janet and Howard Levine
Linda and Jonathan Tuck
C.L. McCarthy
Patricia Watts
Abigail Milner
Curtis and Rebecca
Wilson
National Philanthropic
Trust
The Odyssey School
William D. O'Neal
Katherine H. Haas
PNC Financial Services
Group
John T. Pittman
Robin Weiss and Michael
Dink
Verizon
Richard and Lois Zelina
Gifts received after April 15, 2011, are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2012 Commencement Program.
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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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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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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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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 Program, 2008
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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 THIRTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND SEVEN
�PROGRAM
FOR THE Two HUNDRED FIFTEENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED ELEVENTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
PRELUDE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, CLASS 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
LEON KASS
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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)
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BAIR
A World of Words: The Treacherous World of "Love"
and "Nothing"in King Lear
Basalt, Colorado
CHELSEA RACHEL BATTEN
Lyrical Absurdity: An Essay on Fear and Trembling
San Diego,California
CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH BEA
Adventurous Beyond their Power and Daring Beyond
their Judgement: The Athenian Character in
Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
Alexandria, Virginia
ERICA MARIE BEALL
"At War 'Twixt Will and Will Not": The Psychology of
Politics and Human Justice in Measure for Measure
Columbia, Maryland
Li A ANNA MARINA BOYLE
The Deluge: Man and the Tragic Experience
LAURA LEE BRANNER
Dreams of an Ingenious Gentleman:
Zozobra inBorges' "The Other"
GILLIAN BROCKETT
Everything That Rises Must Converge:
Wavicles and the Demise of Determinism
COLIN DOUGLAS BROWN
Honor in the Iliad: An Examination of Its Human Cost
KATHERINE ANNE BRUBAKER
An Investigation into the Foundations
and Use of Equations
Owings Mills, Maryland
Athens, Ohio
New Britain, Connecticut
St. Charles, Illinois
Santa Fe, New Mexico
�PAUL ARNOLD BURKS
The Correction of Necessity by Reason
in Machiavelli's Discourses
Norwood, Ohio
ERIKA JAYNE BUSH
How Are We to Understand Such a Man?
A Journey through Moliere 's Misanthrope
Tryon, North Carolina
ASCHELY VAUGHAN CONE
An Enquiry into the Work of Paul Cezanne
with a Close Consideration of The Birth of Tragedy
byFriedrich Nietzsche
Fr e der icksburg, Texas
RACHEL REBECCA COONCE
An Exploration of Prince Andrey 's Idealism
in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
MARGARET ELEANOR CORTRIGHT
"Man Was Made a Rebel; Can Rebels Be Happy?''
An Investigation into Ivan Karamazov 's
Searchfor Suffering
Gainesville, Florida
Vallejo, California
BENJAMIN DONALD CRANE
The Pursuit of Happiness:
What Is Fine Shines Through
Springfield, Oregon
MICHAEL TODD CROKER
Hegel's Way of Despair: An Analysis of the
Unhappy Consciousness
Springfield, Oregon
CHRISTOPHER CLAYTON CUDWORTH
Listening to Bartok 's Concerto for Orchestra
ELIZABETH RUTH CURRY
"A Word Fitly Spoken ": Augustine on the
Use and Abuse of Words
Litchfield, Connecticut
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
�RANJAN KUMAR DAS
The World as Will to Power: An Exploration of
Aphorism Thirty-six ofFriedrich Nietzsche's
Beyond Good and Evil
Katonah, New York
ADA PEARL DAVIDOFF
Don Quixote: The Tales of Christianity and the
Religion of Knight Errantry
Morristown, New Jersey
ESTHER WRIGHT DAVIDOFF
A King's Transformation to a Man:
The Storm in King Lear
Morristown, New Jersey
ISAIAH KESEM DAVIDSON-WEISS
An Attempt to Speak about Emerson's "Experience *
JOHN CONSTANTINE BfiNTLY DODGE
Somerville, Massachusetts
Denver, Colorado
Moliere Unmasked: The Comedic Lesson of
Self-Portrayal in The Misanthrope
* BRADLEY GALEN DOLLARD
Cincinnati, Ohio
SARAH MUELLER ELSE
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
"Faith begins precisely ivhere thinking leaves off. "
An Essay on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
DAVID FREDERICK ERDMAN
Truth and the Work of Art in the
Thought of Martin Heidegger
AMY JOY FALK
No Farther than Faith: Abraham's Journey
to Mount Moriah
Flat Rock, North Carolina
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
DAVID LUKE FERRELL
Who Do You Say I Am?
Maineville, Ohio
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW FLETEZ-BRANT
Who is 'Lear'?
Phoenix, Arizona
�JACQUELYN ERIN FRADETTE
"Laugh to Scorn the Pow 'r of Man:'
Macbeth and Man's Limitations
LUKAS KARL GOODMUTH
Beauty and Ennui in Les Fleurs du Mai
RACHEL FRANCINE GOTTLIEB
How Wretched Am I, Really? Grappling with
Faith and Fear and Trembling
RICHARD KEVIN GRAPE, JR.
A Decryption of Stoic Doctrine and Its Necessity
within Our Modern Society... "To stop talking about
what the good man is like, and just be one. "
ALAN LOCKHART HANDLEY
Wholly at Liberty to Choose: Lobachevski and the
Viability of Non-Euclidean Mathematics
HILARY GERI HAWLEY
The Power of the Educated Man
NIKOLAS ROBIN HILGERDT
Huckleberry Finn and the Searchfor the
American Spirit
Framington, Massachusetts
Woodstock, Maryland
Kernersville, North Carolina
Brick, New Jersey
Arlington, Virginia
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Chestnut Ridge, New York
GAITRIN REBECCA HILL
Good and Evil: Which Is Better?
Princeton, New Jersey
SARAH ELIZABETH HOGAN
The Temptation of the Novel: Anna Karenina 's
Imitation of Art in Life
Boston, Massachusetts
MATTHEW THOMAS HORST
World as Music, Music as World: Music in the
Philosophical System of Arthur Schopenhauer
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
ROBERT MICHAEL JOHNSON HURST
The Idolatrous Mind
Morgantown, West Virginia
�BRIAN PATRICK HUWE
Being, Seemir* <*. and Consciousness: Scientific Thought
and Explanation <,,„ Hegel's "Force and
Understanding " and Quantum Mechanics
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
BRANDON GHAISON JANES IV
Vision of Xanadu: A Poetic and Psychological
Investigation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Imagination
Austin, Texas
ANNA LEE JOHNSON
Taking Life Seriously: The Role of Humor in
Moliere 's Le Misanthrope
MIRA CAITLYN JOHNSON
Guilty Woman: Penance, Penitence, and Hope in
The Scarlet Letter
Orrtanna, Pennsylvania
Middletown, Pennsylvania
EVELYN ANNE JOHNSTON
"It is Impossible to Say Just What I Mean!":
/ AlfredPrufrock Asks an Overwhelming Question
Atlanta, Georgia
ANN KEATING
The Murder of Don Quixote: The End of Myth in a
Cartesian World
Chicago, Illinois
MIRIAM JOANNA KEIM
The Devil and Ivan Karamazov
WILLIAM RYAN KELLY
Quantum Strangeness or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Uncertainty Principle
CHARLES WESLEY KITCHEN
Of Spartans and Savages: An Attempt at
Understanding the Place of Sparta in
Rousseau's Politics
CHRISTOPHER REINHARDT KRUEGER
Fundamental Interest, Proper Attention, and the
Choice of a Companion: Adam's Change of Focus
in Paradise Lost
Salisbury, Maryland
Westborough, Massachusetts
Vienna, Virginia
Chocowinity, North Carolina
�NATHAN ABRAHAM LANDE
Knowledge of Paradox and the Paradox of Knowing
Arlington, Virginia
ANNA LOUISE LARSON
Bending the Mind: The Curved Lines ofApollonius
ofPerga and Sir Isaac Newton
Durham, North Carolina
REHANA YASMINE MANEJWALA
On the Nature of the Transfer of Electricity and
Magnetism in Faraday's Experimental Researches
Memphis, Tennessee
MARCOS ALAN MAR
"The Stream of Thought" and Pure Experience:
The Foundations of Psychology as the Science
of Intelligent Life
MATTHEW CHRISTIAN McCLAY
Cause and Skepticism: Classicism, Indeterminacy,
and the Scientific Mind
MATTHEW CHARLES McLEAN
Transcendental Truth: Reasoning Beyond Experience
in Hume's Dialogues
TIMOTHY LEE MEWMAW
Fear, Honor, and Interest: Motives for Empire
CARTER WUERTENBAECHER MOORE
Benito Cereno and the Deeper Shadows
CHRISTOPHER RYAN MULES
"Our souls are like those orphans:"
Deprivation and Isolation in Melville's Moby-Dick
JESSICA CHRISTINE NOHA
Dostoevsky on Suffering, Morality, and God
CHARLES FREDERICK OPALAK
The Fruits of Suffering: A Study of the Unhappy
Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
San Antonio, Texas
Northport, New York
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Annapolis, Maryland
St. Louis, Missouri
Westminster, Maryland
Swampscott, Massachusetts
Fairneld, Connecticut
�NATALIE ANN CROCKER PALEY
A Matter of I ^ and Death: An Exploration of the
Path to Universal JLove in War and Peace
JUSTIN KEENELAND PHELPS
Role of the Babel Incident in Genesis
EMMA KATRINA PLAUT
Something More Noble: Descartes' Triumph:
A Look at the Method and the Math
GEORGE JOHN POGIATZIS
What Is Justice?
BENJAMIN DANIEL RICHEDA
The Outrageous Rapture: Baudelaire's Poet
Oak Hill, Virginia
Cincinnati, Ohio
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
North Hills, New York
San Francisco, California
MICHELLE LOUISA ROBBINS
Consciousness Objectified: How Man Is Reflected
in Time; A Reading of Kant's Anthropology
Newton, Massachusetts
ANDREW JOSEPH ROMITI
The Symbolic Conceptualization of Modernity:
Jacob Klein on the Rise of the General Number Concept
Ellicott City, Maryland
ANNA MICHAEL RUBIN
Living Fragments and Happy Accidents:
The Poetics of Paul Valery
TOBIAS JOSEPH RUSSELL
From Myth to Paradox, or, The Road to London:
An Examination ofSoren Kierkegaard's
Philosophical Fragments
ANNA LEE SCHALL
Boundlessness, Fear and Faith
ELLEN HELM SCHEUERMANN
Aesthetics, Tragedy and the Value of Suffering
Neavitt, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
Maplewood, New Jersey
Bethesda, Maryland
�PAUL ROBERT SCHIEFFER
Hope and the Toads of Reason
DUSTIN ADAM SEBELL
The Groundwork for Nietzsche's Theism
FortWorth,Texas
Wayland, Massachusetts
REILLEY MARIE SHANNON
Navigating the Labyrinth: Duty and Desire
in Racine's Phedre
Seattle, Washington
APRIL NICHELLE SHARP
Race, Sex, Fate, and Joe Christmas:
Maybe He's Not So Terrible After All
Flintstone, Georgia
MARGARET RACHEL SHULTZ
On Love and Beatrice's Identity in
The Divine Comedy
EVA LAURA SIEGEL
On Experience, and Why We Should Embrace
a Valueless Existence
ELIZABETH MIRIAM SILVERMAN
Pride and Morality in Gulliver's Travels
ASHLEY LAUREN SMITH
Fall to Faith: An Examination of Test,
Suffering and Punishment
LOGAN EMERSON SMITH
Trial of the Sensualist: A Synthesis of the Physical
and Spiritual through an Investigation of the
Sensualist Perspective in Fyodor Dostoevsky's
The Brothers Karamazov
CHELSEA LYNN STIEGMAN
The Birth of the Species Being: How the Dialectic
Transforms the Face of Humanity
Delmar, Maryland
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Baltimore, Maryland
New Orleans, Louisiana
Santa Rosa, California
Lusby, Maryland
�HILARY TERASE STIM
A Poet and His City: Thoughts on Baudelaire's
"Tableaux Parisiens "
HANNAH ELISHEBA STONE
Till Death Do Us Part: A Study of the Relationships
in Pride and Prejudice
DEBORAH CAROL STREUSAND
Striving in the Little World of Man
Austin, Texas
Allentown, Pennsylvania
North Potomac, Maryland
DONALD MICHAEL SULLIVAN, JR.
Love Through Commandments and Promise: The First
Epistle of John
Indianapolis, Indiana
KATHRYN ASHLEY SULLIVAN
Converging in the Tide
Baltimore, Maryland
SCOTT ALEXANDER TAYLOR
An Essay on Sensibility in Non-Euclidean Geometry
Woodside, New York
ADAM ROBERT THIMMIG
Blueprints & Burned Bridges: Analytic and Synthetic
Judgments, their Importance in Modern Philosophy,
and their Effect on a Skeptic
Tiburon, California
BLAIR ERIN THOMPSON
Movement and Mortality: An Inquiry Into Living a
Beautiful Life according to Michel de Montaigne
Crofton, Maryland
FREYA ELISE THOMPSON
Fragments of Faith: Faith in the Individual vs. Faith
in the Community
St. Paul, Minnesota
EMILY ROSE TORDO
Waiting for the Denouement: The Life and Death
of Anna Karenina
ERIC BENJAMIN TORGERSON
Liberty, the Last Luxury
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Landover, Maryland
�HOLLY ELIZABETH MARIE TORGERSON
Babel's Ambition and Babel's Shame
LESLIE S. Ujj
On the Dangers of Living in a Literary World:
Real Life and the Underground Man
KYLE BENTON VARNER
Friendship and Happiness in Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics
SERENA BUSH WASHINGTON
Made in His Image: Love and Divinity in Songs of
Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
PAUL TERRY WILFORD
The Making of a Moral Being
ROBERT CALDER WILLIAMS
Technology and Chthonic Nature in Sustainable
Agriculture
MAGDALEN KATHRYN WOLFE
A Match Burning in a Crocus: Form, Meaning,
and the Unifying Power of Language in
Virginia Woolf's The Waves
JAMES LOCKWOOD WRIGLEY
Reconciling Marx's Ethical and Material Elements
Nevada City, California
Trenton, New Jersey
Spokane, Washington
Gainesville, Florida
Charleston, South Carolina
Rutherford, California
Seattle, Washington
Lexington, Massachusetts
NICHOLAS KENNETH YOUNES
The Sea and Moby-Dick
Potomac, Maryland
GEORGE J. ZAHRINGER IV
The Beautiful Socrates: An Attempt at Initiation
into the Mysteries of Eros
Wellington, Florida
* Upon completion of requirements
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
DONELLA LOUISE ADAMS
PAIGE ABJUNA BARENT
Baltimore, Maryland
Berea, Ohio
KEELEY DAWN BARRY
Pine, Colorado
MARY KATE BRENNAN
Baltimore, Maryland
WILLIAM PAUL BROADWAY
WESLEY SCOTT BROWN
St. Louis, Missouri
Winterville, Georgia
JESSICA ELIZABETH BURGARD
Silver Spring, Maryland
DAVID HARPER BYERS
Silver Spring, Maryland
PAUL DAVID CALVIN
KELLEIGH ANN CUNNINGHAM
PRISCILLA BURNS CUNNINGHAM
JAMES RICHARD D ARCANGELO
LILLIAN LOGAN THAYER DERRICK
ZACHARY ANDREW DUNN
ANDREW CHARLES EMERSON
PETER PAUL GELZINIS IV
Annapolis, Maryland
Fryburg, Pennsylvania
Fairfax Station, Virginia
Dumfries, Virginia
Baltimore, Maryland
North Potomac, Maryland
Lincoln, Maine
South Boston, Massachusetts
JONATHAN LEE GREEN
Kansas City, Kansas
COREY GENE HAYDEN
Belleville, Illinois
CORNELIUS JOSEPH HIGGINS
KAREN CHARLOTTE IPPOLITO
ROBERT PRICE IRONS III
JILLIAN STEPHANIE JOHNSON
DAVID A. KANE
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM KAUFFMAN
Alexandria, Virginia
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Charlotte sville, Virginia
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Reston, Virginia
�DAVID THOMAS KEARNS
Hershey, Pennsylvania
DAVID MICHAEL KRAUS
St. Louis, Missouri
LEAH ELIZABETH LAVIN
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
COURTNEY MICHELLE LAWRENCE
Baltimore, Maryland
ROBERT SAMUEL LEIB
Biglerville, Pennsylvania
EMILY BONDO MAWHINNEY
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
DANIEL PATRICK MCGARRON
IRA MILLER
Washington, District of Columbia
Bethesda, Maryland
KELLY JEAN NASH
Rockford, Illinois
JEFFREY MICHAEL PETERS
Millers, Maryland
RYAN THOMAS PHILLIPS
BRIAN THOMAS PIETRAVALLE
ELIJAH EVERETT REED
Dublin, Ohio
Washington, District of Columbia
Scottsboro, Alabama
ANTHONY SCOTT REINER
Orlando, Florida
MARK STEVEN RIPKA, JR.
Tacoma, Washington
LAUREN ELIZABETH ROBBINS
JOSHUA MARC SAKS
CRAIG EDWARD SWANSON
CHARLES JAY THRONSON
ARTHUR ANTHONY TORELLI
Lexington, Virginia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Denver City, Texas
Gunnison, Colorado
Neavitt, Maryland
MATTHEW JOHN URBANSKI
Findlay, Ohio
DlAN OWEN VANDfiMARK
Annapolis, Maryland
JOEL EDGAR WILLIAMS
Williamsburg, Virginia
MARY ELIZABETH WINTERBOTTOM
Ellicott City, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2007
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
"At War 'Twixt Will and Will Not": The Psychology of Politics
and Human Justice in Measure for Measure
ERICA MARIE BEALL
A Match Burning in a Crocus: Form, Meaning, and the Unifying
Power of Language in Virginia Woolfs The Waves
MAGDALEN KATHRYN WOLFE
HONORABLE MENTION
Being, Seeming, and Consciousness: Scientific Thought
and Explanation in Hegel's "Force and
Understanding " and Quantum Mechanics
BRIAN PATRICK HUWE
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
Mortality and Progress in Gulliver's Travels
STEVEN ROBERT FAIRCHILD
Inward Sailing
FABIO HULLEY LOMELINO
�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 Gender, Nature and Politics in
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
IAN KENNETH LINDQUIST
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
Retracing the Divine? Logos in the Sophist
CASSANDRA MICHELLE KREEK
To the member of the January Freshman Class who has written the best
annual essay in the 2005-2006 academic year.
Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta Smith, of the
Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton Nease, of the Class of 1992
On Plato, Mathematics, and Knowledge
KELVIN WAYGID CHUNG
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2006.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Art in The Divine Comedy
LISA MARIE McGovERN
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
NICHOLAS KENNETH YOUNES
�To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Text: Opening Speech from Euripides ' Alcestis
ANDREW JOSEPH ROMITI
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Marie-Claire Bancquart, "Retour d'Ulysse, "
KAYLA JEAN GAMIN
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Killing Time "
ANN KEATING
"He Slumbers, but the Woman Does Not Sleep "
ALEXANDRA GRACE WALLING
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
"Variations for Xylophone and Strings "
ARIEL AVRAM WINNICK
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
No PRIZE AWARDED
�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
THEODORE JAMES SALWEN
CLARE MYERS SAUNDERS
HONORABLE MENTION
WILLIAM RYAN KELLY
MATTHEW CHARLES MCLEAN
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
WILLIAM RYAN KELLY
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Exploring Experimental Design and Data Analysis Through a
Study of the Growth Patterns o/Humex crispus
ANNA LEE JOHNSON
HONORABLE MENTION
Romer 's Experiment
BRIAN PATRICK HUWE
�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
JAMES LOCKWOOD WRIGLEY
EMMA KATRINA PLAUT
)K
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
Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences
Collection of Shakespearian sonnets, illuminated & calligraphed
AMY JOY FALK
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 whose work in the St. John's College Community
Art Exhibition demonstrates mastery of technique and original thought.
Icon of St. Michael Written Under the Prospon School, painting
JOHN CONSTANTINE BENTLY DODGE
Lighter-than-Air Cathedral, ink and watercolor
LUKAS KARL GOODMUTH
HONORABLE MENTION
The Rise and Fall of Shu, scroll painting
DAVID LUKE FERRELL
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929
John D. Alexander, 1920
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Fund
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Annapolis Self-Help
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Fred and Marion Billups Fund
Ford K. Brown, H70
Garitas Society of St. John's College
Casasco Family Fund
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T. Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland, H54
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Eugene N. (1929) and Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Faculty Scholarship
Ronald Fielding Scholarships
James H. Frame, 1950
Friends of St. John's
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
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Pittsburgh Regional
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and will be listed in the 2008 Commencement Program.
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STJOHN'S
College
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY FOURTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND six
�PROGRAM
FOR THE TWO HUNDRED FOURTEENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED TENTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
PRELUDE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
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
JUDITH SEEGER
ASSISTANT DEAN
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)
ANNA AMBROSE AHERN
The Complexities of Decision-Making
in War and Peace
ARTHUR CHARLES ALLEN
Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev:
An Argument for Art
PHILIP GLENDEN ARCHER
Light-Footed Ulysses: The Wandering
Consciousness in James Joyce 9s Ulysses
MARGOT FORSCHER BEHREND
Voyage into "Le Voyage "
BRIANNE AMELIA BELL
Theotokos: Mary's Conflict in Mantegna 's
Madonna with Sleeping Christ Child
MAUREEN ELIZABETH BOWERS
Le Monstre: An Exploration of Love in
Racine's Phedre
AARON GOLDING BRAGER
The Little Engine That Could: Communism
as a Lockean Government
ANNA DOROTHEY BREON
Education and the Rights of Woman in Middlemarch
MICHAEL BRIGHT
"Who is Odysseus?99: Tracing the Roots of Identity
SHILO SHADID BROOKS
The Cosmology ofXenophon 's Socrates: A Reading of
Chapters 1.4 andlV.s ofXenophon's Memorabilia
Lubbock, Texas
Mukilteo, Washington
Oakland, California
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Tacoma, Washington
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Baltimore, Maryland
Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Lubbock, Texas
�AARON KEITH BRUMLEY
Anticipation and Interpretation in the New Organon
and Advancement of Learning, Book One
LORD THOMAS ALTON BURBRIDGE
Man in the City: Encountering Rousseau's
Discourse on the Origin and the Foundation of
Inequality Among Men
ERIN LEE CALLAHAN
Overseas: A Study of Travel and Traveler
Through the Eyes of Gulliver
DAVID SCOTT CANTINE
"For Your Maker is Your Husband": Reflections
on Marriage and the Character of God
SARAH ELIZABETH CHAVEZ
Physical Analogy: Science of the Likely Story
ELEANOR ANNE CLARK
A Pattern for Forgiveness: A Parable of Forgiveness
in Tolstoy'sWai and Peace
Topeka, Kansas
Austin, Texas
Falls Church, Virginia
Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Helotes, Texas
Berlin, Germany
ALEXANDER GREGORY CLAXTON
No End in Sight: An Exploration
of Teleology in Darwinism
Annapolis, Maryland
STEPHEN ROOKE GLOSS
On Montaigne: The Value of Writing
As a Means of Self-Creation
Los Altos, California
JONATHAN DAVID COPPADGE
Deception and Divinity: The Self and Amour-Propre
in Pascal and La Rochefoucauld
CLARE CATHERINE LEA ALOHA CORTRIGHT
From Love to Rage and Back Again
Liberty, Pennsylvania
Vallejo, California
�KATHRYN NICOLE COURTRIGHT
Everyday Enigmas: An Exploration of the Seemingly
Opposed Notions of Continuity and Infinitesimals
GEREMY LEE COY
"The Other Side of Silence": Significance in George
Eliot's Middlemarch
BENJAMIN JAMES CROMARTIE
Point of Rocks, Maryland
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
The Shield of Achilles: Divine Views of Human Life
in the Iliad
JOSEPH PAUL DANIELS
The Glory of the Living Christ
New Bern, North Carolina
MARY REBECCA DAVENPORT
Jesus or You: Choosing a Path in Flannery O 'Connor's
The Violent Bear it Away
Eagle River, Alaska
JOSHUA ALAN DAVIDSON
Faith and Resignation: A Study of the Religious
Individual in S0ren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Snow Hill, Maryland
EMILY KYLE DfiBusK
Life, London, This Moment in June:
The Sense of Life in Mrs. Dalloway
AILEEN SAMANTHA EDANA DICKEY
Montaigne, Au Naturel:
It's Either That or He Eats People
MICHAEL MACDONALD DOBBYN
The Many Ways of Man in Homer's Odyssey
Elkton, Maryland
Tucson, Arizona
Alexandria, Virginia
THOMAS COVINGTON DYER
Leo Tolstoy and Inner Peace
Potomac, Maryland
JENNIFER ELIZABETH FAIT
Imitating Justice: A Discussion of Education and
Lying in Plato's Republic
Mequon, Wisconsin
�ELIJAH KIRK FERBRACHE
"That They May Be One as We Are": Oneness in Jesus'
Last Supper Discourse
ERICA SCHILLER FREEMAN
The Force of Physics: The Truth of Modern Science in
Hegel's Phenomenology
ALEXIS CLARE FRUECHTING
Guided by Leo Tolstoy: Investigating What is Art?
ERIKK MICHAEL GEANNIKIS
The Kingdoms of Power and Wisdom: Cartesian and
Leibnizian Physics, Metaphysics, and Investigation in
the Historical Development of Quantum Mechanics
RACHEL GABRIELLE GILLIS
The Dreams Stuff is Made Of: A Look at
the Mathematical Language of Nature in
Light of Quantum Mechanics in Heisenberg's
Physics and Philosophy
SHOSHANA RUTH GOLDSTEIN
Finding the Territory Ahead of the Rest
REBECCA EMILY GREEN
Fear of the Lord: The Significance of Absolute Fear in
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
THOMAS GROVER GREEN
Abstraction and Imperfection in
Galileo's Two New Sciences
KEVIN THOMAS GRIZZARD
Francis Bacon, Ancient Science, and the Attempt to
Understand Nature
CAMERON DONALD HEALY
Stylish Science: Faraday's 28th Series, Newton's
System of the World
Barnesville, Ohio
Roselle Park, New Jersey
Dallas, Texas
Baldwin, New York
Peakville, New York
Highland Park, New Jersey
Rockville, Maryland
Portland, Oregon
Midlothian, Virginia
St. Michaels, Maryland
�ALLISON HOPE HENNIGAN
Beaute: A Foray into the Question of Whether Beauty
is Good or Evil in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mai
GENEVA KATHRYN HINKLE
A Princely Virtue: Seeking the Good
in MachiavellVs Prince
Decatur, Alabama
Greenfield Center, New York
DANIEL RUSSELL HOUCK
What's Up, Baudelaire?From the Highs
to the Lows of Elevation, Curiosity, and Ennui
Mesa, Arizona
SAMUEL PAUL HUCKINS
EssentialReflexivity: The Role of Perspective in
Describing Universal Development
Fairmont, West Virginia
JULIE ANNE JANICKI
Children of Pride and Fear: An Investigation into
How Man 9s Natural Condition Necessitates an
Artificial Solution
LUKE RAVI JAYAPALAN
Deeper Shadows: The Unsettling Inscrutability
q/*Benito Cereno
BRIAN TED JONES
War in Richard III
ALEXANDER COPLAND KAST
Misanthropic Motive Forces in Moliere's Misanthrope
CATHERINE GRACE KEENE
The Kindness of a Convict: A Look
at Compassion in Les Miserables
IAN JOSEPH KING
Contemplative Action: Xenophon 's Will to Power
Gainesville, Florida
Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Talihina, Oklahoma
Gharlottesville, Virginia
Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania
Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania
�BENJAMIN CHARLES KLOCH
What Makes a Man? Meaningful Associations
in the Nicomachean Ethics
Hurlock, Maryland
MAX ISAAC THOMAS KRONBERG
Abba, Father: Gethsemane and the
Dual Nature of Jesus
Leesburg, Virginia
WILLIAM RAYMOND LADD-CAWTHORNE
Discourse on Methods: Searching/or Truth in the
Unknown; or, The Passion of What Is
ERIC WAYNE LASILOO
An Essay on Descartes 'Interest in Pappus's Problem
JEFFREY DAVID LEE
RaskolnikoVy or On Pushing-Through
GARRETT HAMILTON LEWIS
Appearances and Isolation: The Experience of
Reading Heart of Darkness or I Drink Alone
JENNIFER GRACE LOWE
Sum Pius Aeneas: Piety, Rage, and the Making
of a New Kind of Hero
ANDREW CRAIG MACKINLAY
Maxwell's Mathematical Machine
MATTHEW DAVID MANGOLD
Prosperous Garments: Time and
Transformations in The Tempest
DEBORAH GRACE MANGUM
Meaningless! Meaningless!
The Suspension of Causality
CHESTER PAUL MARTIN
Achilles: The Hero and His Relation to the Community
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Ramah, New Mexico
Atascadero, California
Anacortes, Washington
St. Louis, Missouri
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Winfield, Kansas
Pflugerville, Texas
Hinesburg, Vermont
�JOHN STEWART MASAR
Closing the Gap: An Examination of the Separation
Between Religion and Science Through the Work of
Hegel and Kierkegaard
Silver Spring, Maryland
KERRY MERTENS MORSE
Augustine's Song of Change
Bozeman, Montana
SAMANTHA ANNE MOYERMAN
The Role of Angels in Maimonides'
Guide of the Perplexed
St. Louis, Missouri
MICHAEL NICHOLAS MUNTERS
The Machine That Makes Itself
SARAH LYNNE NAVARRE
The Community and the Anomaly:
Finding Balance in Job
ALEXIS KENNEDY NEMER
What Shall We Do?
EMILY ANNE NISCH
God in Creation: Words and the Word
in the Gospel of John
KATHERYN LOUISE NORRIS
The Tripartite Soul in Plato's Republic: The Result of
Composition or Corruption
Alexandria, Virginia
Urbana, Ohio
Mill Valley, California
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Lakewood, Ohio
MOIRA KRISTIN O'SHEA
Giving An Onion: How Salvation Can Be Born
Of Despair in The Brothers Karamazov
New Paltz, New York
TODD BENJAMIN PARKER
Free Will in C.S. Lewis: A Treatise on The Human Will
in the Writings of C.S. Lewis (in Two Parts)
Salisbury, Maryland
PAUL NATHAN PATRONE
Contemplation Through Action: Athens and the Sea
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
�LAURA JEANNE PINSON
The Phenomenology of SanchoPanza; or,
How to Tell a Story
CATHERINE MARY PISHA
Words and Fire: Intimacy with God
in Pascal's Memorial
Wilmington, Delaware
Nanuet, New York
BRIAN GROUSE QUINN
Are the Blinders On? Misunderstanding
Jesus in the Gospel of John
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MICHAEL DMITRY RASHKIN
The Anti- "Key to All Mythologies ": Feeling Versus the
Intellect in George Eliot's Middlemarch
San Francisco, California
DANIEL Louis RERA
An Inquiry into the Connexion and Interaction
Between Political Structures and Commerce
YONATAN SCHREIBER
Buffalo, New York
Arlington, Massachusetts
Socrates in a Life Better Than Ruling
GREGORY MOERLEIN SCHROEDER
The Greater Number: Popular Government
andPublius' Leviathan
DANIEL SCHWARTZ
On Communicating to Cavemen: Plato, Francis
Bacon, and the Problems of Didactic Persuasion
ELIZABETH DUHRING SCOTT
On Happiness, Freedom and Morality: Toward an
Apology for Kant's Position in "On a Supposed Right
to Liefor Philanthropic Reasons "
ANNE NELLIE SHELLITO
Recollecting in Plato's Meno
Cincinnati, Ohio
Coral Springs, Florida
Richmond, Virginia
New Orleans, Louisiana
�JENNIFER ELIZABETH SILGALS
Expectancy and Faith: The Fatherhood of Abraham
NICHOLAS JAMES STEINER
A City in Mid-Voyage: The Course of Athens
During the Peloponnesian War
DONALD JOSEPH STONE
Odysseus and His Name
CHRISTOPHER JAMES STUART
Revolution and Reconstitution: How the Declaration
of Independence Informs the U.S. Constitution
Summerviile, South Carolina
Vandalia, Missouri
Southington, Connecticut
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
PATRICK COLUM SULLIVAN
Understanding Feeling in The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Midland, Michigan
JENNIFER KAY SWEENEY
On the Role of Experience in Living a Beautiful Life
Using Michel de Montaigne's "Of 'Experience "
Juneau, Wisconsin
CHRISTOPHER BENJAMIN UTTER
Imitation, Salvation, and the Return
to Poetry in Republic X
MICHAEL GREGORY VECCHIOLLA
Eros, The Greatest Beguikr of Men: The Contest
Between Wisdom and Pleasure Through the
Speeches ofAgathon, Socrates, and Alcibiades in
Plato's Symposium
MATTHEW CAILEN WARD
The Living Text and the Texture of the Living: Love,
Writing, and the City in Plato's Phaedrus
MICHAEL-DOUGLAS RODGERS WARD
From Experience to Measurement: An Investigation
ofBrunelleschVs Order
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
St. Charles, Illinois
Sacramento, California
Tacoma, Washington
�SAMANTHA SIGNA WEAVER
Friendship vs. Citizenship in The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Kensington, California
JAMES TUCKER WHITE
The Portrait Baudelaire Paints of Beauty: Hot Damn
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
SARAH PATRICIA WHITFIELD
Making Man Worthy of Happiness: The Role of Moral
Law and Nature in The Perfection of Man
Byram, Mississippi
SARAH STEELE WILSON
Unifying the Soul: The Place of Poetry
in Plato's Republic
Yardley, Pennsylvania
WEBSTER YE
The Notion of Judgment in The Merchant of Venice
McLean, Virginia
AMY ELISE YOUNGKIN
".. Condemning shadows quite." The Bounds of
Emulation and Imagination in Shakespeare's
Antony and Cleopatra
Austin, Texas
NECHAMA ZAKHEIM
The Life and Moral Education of the
Hippocratic Physician
New York, New York
'
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
NORMAN ROBERT ALLEN
SHANNON HOUSTON ANDRUS
Washington, District of Columbia
Lafayette, Louisiana
GEOFFREY SCOTT BAGWELL
Portland, Oregon
WILLIAM PAUL BINDER, JR.
Chicago, Illinois
JOANNA JANE BUTCHER
PAUL BRYAN COOPER
Colorado Springs, Colorado
University Park, Maryland
THOMAS CLINE DABNEY
Alexandria, Virginia
SHEILA ANN DICKERSON
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
PATRICK JOHN FARRELL, JR.
Coeymans, New York
WILLIAM MARTIN FERRELL
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
CHANDRA SOPHIA HANSON
Burlington, Vermont
DONALD Louis HITT
Ann Arbor, Michigan
RACHEL HOFMANN
DENISE CANCIENNE KAHM
BRETT LEWIS KELLER
MICHAEL WILLIAM KELLY
JACQUELINE KENNEDY
LAUREN ANN KOPAJTIC
Scotts Valley, California
Belle Rose, Louisiana
Gurnee, Illinois
Baltimore, Maryland
Lompoc, California
Jarrettsville, Maryland
�COREY WAYNE LONEY
Hartselle, Alabama
KELVIN VICTOR LUCAS
Downingtown, Pennsylvania
ERIC LINN MATTHEWS
Orange Park, Florida
DAVID COLE METCALF
Richmond, Virginia
JONATHAN EDWARD MILLBURN
ALLISON BROOKE OWENS
Cambridge, Maryland
Highland Village, Texas
VASHTI ELIZABETH PEARSON
Birmingham, Alabama
MATTHEW ALEXANDER RAREY
Franklin Park, Illinois
LYNN ELEANOR ROMANO
Annapolis, Maryland
S. FORD ROWAN
Annapolis, Maryland
CHAD SCHROCK
Annapolis, Maryland
ANDREW WARHOL SERIO
DAVID BRENTON SPEER
CHRISTOPHER ROBERT STRAUSS
SUSAN MERRIE SWIER
GREGORY GRANT WILLIAMS
Davidsonville, Maryland
Dalhart, Texas
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Annapolis, Maryland
Bay Area, California
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,006
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
From Love to Rage and Back Again
CLARE CATHERINE LEA ALOHA CORTRIGHT
Words and Fire: Intimacy with God in Pascal's Memorial
CATHERINE MARY PISHA
HONORABLE MENTION
On Happiness, Freedom and Morality: Toward an
Apology for Kant's Position in "On a Supposed Right
to Liefor Philanthropic Reasons "
ELIZABETH DUHRING SCOTT
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
Imagination 's Indispensable Synthesis: An Interpretation of the
Groundwork for Kant's 'Deduction'
ERICA MARIE BEALL
The Greater Self- An Investigation of Hume's Vision of Sympathy
ANN ELIZABETH KEATING
�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
Body, Mind and Heart: The Pilgrimage to God
In Augustine's Confessions
FABIO HULLEY LOMELINO
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
Identifying What One Has Never Seen: Recognition and
Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus
NATHAN SHOLES GATES
HONORABLE MENTION
Language and Form
LAURA LOGAN JOHNS
To the member of the January Freshman Class who has written the best
annual essay in the 2004-2005 academic year.
Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta Smith, of the
Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton Nease, of the Class of 1993
Homophrosynen: The Like-Minded ness of Penelope and Odysseus
LAUREN MICHELLE GOODMAN
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2005.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Poetic Language, Immortality, and the Beloved
ROBERT PRICE IRONS, III
.
�To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
LUKE RAVI JAYAPALAN
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Text: Opening Speech from Euripides ' Cyclops
MATTHEW DAVID MANGOLD
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Gidllaume Apollinaire, "A Madeleine"
KAYLA JEAN GAMIN
)K
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
The Resurrection Sonnets: A Cycle in Three Parts
DAVID LUKE FERRELL
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
"Romances"
LUKE ANTHONY RUSSELL
�To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
The Freedom of Man in Mozart's Don Giovanni
APRIL NICHELLE SHARP
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
WILLIAM RYAN KELLY
HONORABLE MENTION:
KATHRYN NICOLE COURTRIGHT
CLARE MYERS SAUNDERS
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
HONORABLE MENTION
WILLIAM RYAN KELLY
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Electrolytic Fluid Flow Induced by Currents and Magnets.
NICHOLAS KENNETH YOUNES
�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
THOMAS COVINGTON DYER
ANNA AMBROSE AHERN
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
DONALD JOSEPH STONE
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
MICHAEL MACDONALD DOBBYN
JULIE ANNE JANICKI
To the member of the Senior Glass who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize
"Lemma II" From Isaac Newton's Principia, ceramic
MICHAEL-DOUGLAS RODGERS WARD
Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences
"Lemma II" From Isaac Newton's Principia, ceramic
MICHAEL-DOUGLAS RODGERS WARD
�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 Fund
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Annapolis Self-Help
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Fred and Marion Billups Fund
Ford K-Brown, H70
Caritas Society of St. John's College
Gasasco Family Fund
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Qapp
James T.Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland, H$4
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Eugene N. (1929) and Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Faculty Scholarship
Ronald Fielding Scholarships
James H. Frame, 1950
Friends of St. John's
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Houston Regional
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, H&4
Francis A. Katz, 1929
John Spangler Kieffer, H7O, and
Roxana White Kieffer, H84
Jacob Klein, H76
Korshin Family Fund
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton Memorial
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, Hgg
Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund
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. Hinder
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
J.J.Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan, 1908
Doug E. Sherr (1972) Memorial
Thomas J., Hg4, and Marion K. Slakey
J. Winfree Smith, H8o
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.Stryfcer
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
St. John's College
St. John's College Alumni Association
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Alex Brown & Sons Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Allegis Group
Batza Family Foundation
Mrs. Martha Bier
CACI
Caritas Society of St. John's College
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Chevy Chase Bank
C,SC
Erickson Retirement Communities
General Dynamics-Advanced Information
Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Foundation, Inc.
Harris Corporation
Mr. Thomas P. Healy
David and Barbara Hirschhorn Foundation
The Hodson Scholarship Foundation
Hoffberger Foundation
I-Fund
Larry Katz
Mr. Peter E. Keith
The Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers Charitable Trust
The John J. Leidy Foundation
Barbara Leonard (Hss)
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation
Dr. Kevin Manning
Dr. Lois M. Meszaros
Harvey M. and Lynn P. Meyerhoff Fund
Joseph Meyerhoff Fund
Miles & Stockbridge Foundation
Monumental Life Insurance & AEGON USA
Myerberg Foundation, Inc.
Nationwide Foundation
Nationwide Insurance
Mr. Harry O'Mealia
Provident Bank
Raytheon Systems
Mrs. Ann D. H. Rich
Cleo Ritz
Mr. Mitchell Schmale
Mr. John F. Simanski
Ms. Rachel B. Smith
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Cindy Thompson
United Parcel Services
WBFF/WNUV
Ms. Sharon Christopher Wylie
HaidiZech
Gifts received after April 15, aoo6 are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2007 Commencement Program.
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SIJOHN'S
College
A N N A P O L I S • SANTA FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY FIFTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND FIVE
�PROGRAM
FOR THE TWO HUNDRED THIRTEENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED NINTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
PRELUDE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, GLASS OF 1796
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
WELCOME
PRESIDENT NELSON
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
JOSEPH MACFARLAND
TUTOR, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN FLAUMENHAFT
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)
PRANKIE-SlOBHAN MlLLAY AlTC HI SON-CLARK
Leucadia, California
Anticipating the Whole in The Brothers Karamazov
MARGARET LILLIAN ALEXANDER
On Negativity in the Phenomenology
SARAH EMILY ALTMAN
An Investigation Concerning Methods of Knowing
(By Way of Aristotle's Physics,)
CHARLES ARNOTT
Salvation Among the Damned: Dante's Realization
of the Nature of Sin in the Inferno
LINDSEY ELIZABETH BARNES
An Inquiry of the History and of Its Possible Use
IAN MATTHEW BLAUSTEIN
Seeing Other People: On the Necessity of Moral Action
in Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
SAMANTHA KIMBERLY BUKER
Death and the Maiden: The Courtship of
AleksandrPushkin's Tatiana and Onegin
SIR ROBERT GAYLORD BURBRIDGE
Lost in Translation—A Critical Analysis of
Critical Analysis: The Continuity of Matter,
Space-Time, and Reason
TOBIAS DAVID BURRESS
1
Eatontown, New Jersey
Palm Beach, Florida
Easton, Maryland
Kentfield, California
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Baltimore, Maryland
Austin, Texas
Middletown, Rhode Island
�* ELIZABETH BOWLING COOK CAVANAUGH-O'KEEFE
Joy in Wretchedness:
Pascal's Roadmap to Everlasting Joy
MATTHEW BRYAN CLIFFORD
Theatrical Morals:
Paradoxes of Self-Awareness in King Lear
ANN MARIE COCCONI
An Exploration of the Use and
Existence of the Infinite in Mathematics
NICHOLAS JEREMY COLTEN
The Missing Middle
MICHAEL ROBERT CONBOY
Going Beyond Non-Contradiction:
Views of the True in Hegel and Kierkegaard
ALEXANDER HAMILTON CONSTANTINE
Prime Mover and Being: A Comparison of
Aristotle and Parmenides
Laytonsville, Maryland
Hamilton, New Jersey
Wheaton, Illinois
St. Paul, Minnesota
Golden Valley, Minnesota
Rochester, New York
STEPHEN WESLEY COONCE
The Fall and Rise of Man in the Book o/^Genesis
Hawthorne, Florida
SANDEEP SHEKHAR DAS
The Only Thing Harder Than Killing Your God is
Killing Yourself: An Examination of Shortcuts to
Happiness in Dostoevsky's Demons
Katonah, New York
JANAE LEANNA DECKER
In Black and White: Demystifying Moby Dick
MARSHALL KINCAID DERKS
The Ladder and the Path:
Education in Plato's Republic
JOSEPH VINCENT DOBBYN
The Pedagogy of Parables
Portland, Oregon
Columbia, South Carolina
Alexandria, Virginia
�ELIZABETH ALISON DURHAM
Fools, Liars, and Madmen: A Search for Wisdom
in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
LAWRENCE RYEN DWYER
Is Leibniz an Idealist?
COOPER NATHANIEL GALLIMORE
One Noble Aim: The Search for Meaning and the
Great-SouledMan in Hobbes's Leviathan
Portland, Oregon
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Charlotte, North Carolina
THOMAS AUGUSTUS GALLO
Washington, District of Columbia
The Wealth of Exchange and Men: An Inquiry into the
Fate of Free Pursuit
JORDAN BERNARD GANNON
O Memory, What Shall I Make of Thee?
Gridley, California
ADAM BENJAMIN GARBER
A Look at the Spiritual Relationship
Between Community and Individual; or,
Jonah Gets a Timeout to Grow
Atlanta, Georgia
MATTHEW BOGAN GATES
Transcending Historical Aporia
EILEEN SUZANNE GATEWOOD
First Principles in Aristotle's Physics
and Newton's Principia
JOHN FUREY GERARD
And he said, "Here lam ": The Dialectical Struggle of
Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Grants, New Mexico
Princeton, New Jersey
ERIC WILLIAM GLEYSTEEN
Moving Meter and The Wearied Mind
Highland, Maryland
LEE THOMAS GOLDSMITH
Why Is It Called Phedre? or,
The Inward Hero for Racine's Inward Tragedy
Media, Pennsylvania
�LAURA ANN GREENWOLD
Overcoming Luther's Leviathan:
The Relationship Between Faith and Man
in Luther's The Freedom of a Christian
Columbia, South Carolina
GWENDOLYN GREER GURLEY
Degeneration, Dignity, and Deception: Battling
Human Nature in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Frederick, Maryland
RACHEL SARAH HALL
Happiness Through Opposition:
The Natural Man in Rousseau's Second Discourse
Fargo, North Dakota
JAMES Me KAY HARRISON
Beauty and the Aesthetic in Action in Friedrich
Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
Park City, Utah
JOAN BRIANT HENRIKSEN
Divine Absurdity: Man's Relationship with God
Springfield, Illinois
TOBIN JAMES HERRINGSHAW
Tragedy and Transformation:
Aristotle's Poetics
Bay City, Michigan
at Work in
ANDREA SUSANA HINES
What Connubial Felicity Really Was
ELIZABETH WRAY HOHN
Fear and Courage in the Nicomachean Ethics
JOHANNES JAMES BROWNLOW HUESSY
Sovereignty in Confederation: The Independence of
States in Political Union in The Spirit of the Laws,
The Federalist and The Draft EU Constitution
ERIN FARRIS HUGHEY-COMMERS
Seeing the Sky:
Joy and Oblivion in Tolstoy's War and Peace
Annapolis, Maryland
Oberlin, Ohio
Norwich, Vermont
Lovingston, Virginia
�Ross RICHARDSON HUNT
Cyrus the Elder and the Beautiful
in Xenophon 's Kurou Paideia
THOMAS BULEN JACOBS
Son ofPeleus
NORA ELISA KELLEHER
A Hidden Miracle: Alyosha 's Discovery
in The Brothers Karamazov
KATHERINE LEIGH KELLY
Justice in the Balance: On the Oresteia
DWIGHT THOMAS KNOLL
The Kingdom of Heaven in The Sermon on the Mount
VERA SERGEEVNA KOSHKINA
The Necessity of Self-Education in Rousseau's Emile
KYRA ALEXIS KOZEMCHAK
Misinterpretation
CARA FRANCES LAMMEY
Our Spoonful of Sugar: An Examination
of Rousseau Js Cosmopolitan Soul
JUSTIN DALE LANIER
On the Erotic Geometer: How Nothing Can
Guide Our Actions Here Below; or,
A Groundwork for the Mathematics of Morals
NATHAN COE MARSH
Unnatural Obsession: Imagination,
Mathematical Reason, and the Cult of Objectivity
FRANCIS TINGLER MC€ANN
On the Nature of Freedom in the Best
of All Possible Worlds
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fairfax Station, Virginia
New York, New York
Bel Air, Maryland
Stephenville, Texas
Chicago, Illinois
Falls Church, Virginia
West Grove, Pennsylvania
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Tampa, Florida
Leavenworth, Kansas
�IAN CHRISTOPHER McMuRTRY
The Cultural Assimilation of Lawrence of Arabia
Newfield, New York
MATTHEW DORRINGTON MIHLON
Approaches to Truth and Life in Beyond Good and Evil
Tujunga, California
SIMEON ANDREW MORBEY
Taming Apollo: Justice's Connection
to Morality in the Oresteia
BRENT EDWARD MORRIS
Pure Reason and Its End
CHRISTOPHER THAIN MUSCARELLA
The Shapes You Take Are Endless:
Women, Lies, and Storytelling in the Odyssey
ERICA BETH AANA NAONE
The Word and the Image: Investigating Straightness
AIDAN FRANCIS O'FLYNN
Darwin and the Evolution of Scientific Consciousness
MICHAEL MIKHAILOVITCH OSSORGIN VIII
The Death of Pride: Bearing Fruit in the World
SHAKTI CHRISTINE PEARCE
The Voice of Meaning: Song, Word, and
World in Wallace Stevens's Poem
"The Idea of Order at Key West"
JAMES MICHAEL PEARSON
The Patient Agent: Musings on Odyssean
Activity and Passivity
JOHN MATTHEW PETERSON
Impious Youths and Divine Puppets:
Politics in Plato's Laws
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Oakland, New Jersey
Framingham, Massachusetts
DeLand, Florida
Hamilton, New York
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Faber, Virginia
Russell, Pennsylvania
Owego, New York
�SPENCER BRYANT POTTER
The Obscuring Power of Theatrics in Benito Cereno
AUDRA LOUISE PRICE
On Principle and Passion: Moral Education
and Unlikely Heroism in Mansfield Park
Alexandria, Virginia
Grand Junction, Colorado
MATTHEW LAWRENCE REINER
The Discord of Friendship and Justice
in Book One of Plato's Republic
Annapolis, Maryland
NATALIE SUSAN RINN
The Union of Fanny Price and Mansfield Park
St. Cloud, Minnesota
DARLENE BETH ROGERS
On the Fictionalization of Historically Great Men
Egremont, Massachusetts
ERVIN FAURICIO ROMERO
Sin, Law, and Faith —An Exploration of Conflict in
the Individual: Paul's Epistle to the Romans
North Hills, California
JEROD JAMES RULEAUX
Alone in the Dark: The Deadly Fruits of Isolation in
The Brothers Karamazov
Bozeman, Montana
DANIEL TYLER RUSSELL
On Justice in Book I of Plato's Republic
JULIE ANN SAROWSKI
Perfection of Man in Society
Annapolis, Maryland
Shawnee Mission, Kansas
LAUREN WESLEY SHERMAN
"... but now my eyes have seen You ": An Exploration of
Job's Emerging Insight Throughout the Book of Job
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
JILLIAN MARY Sico
On Sympathy and Divine Union:
An Exploration of Music and the St. Matthew Passion
Mount Holly, New Jersey
�BETH ANN SIEKIERA
The Life of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's
Middlemarch: A Study of Greatness in Provincial Life
MELISSA ANN SKOOG
From Here to There—Knowing in Part with
the Hope of Knowing Fully Some Day:
An Examination ofSocratic and Christian Ideas
Presented in Plato's Phaedo, Kierkegaard's
Philosophical Fragments, and the New Testament
ERIC FuRIN SLOAT
East Windsor, Connecticut
Troy, Ohio
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Sorrow of Change: Some Thoughts About
Baudelaire's Poem "Le Cygne "
JOSHUA PAUL SuiCH
Lakeland, Florida
"You Can Kill the Messenger'1: From Prophecy to
Messiah and Apostles to Martyrs—A Synthetic Inquiry
of Their Foundations in the Old and New Testaments
MATTHEW ARTHUR TALAMINI
On the Analogy of the City and the Soul
in the Republic and Other Similar Analogies
AMY ELIZABETH TAYLOR
A Meditation on Johannes Climacus
JACOB JESSE THOMAS
Timonium, Maryland
Littleton, Colorado
Cameron, West Virginia
Condemnation and Redemption: Polyphony and Later
Sacred Music in Light of St. Augustine's Confessions
OLETA LOUISE THOMAS
Falls Church, Virginia
Plato's Forms and Language
LAURA ELANOR TRAINA
O Heavy Vice, Thinking Wicked What is Nice:
Suppression and Elevation of the Soul As Indicative
of Good and Evil in Shakespeare's Othello
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
�SEAN ALEJANDRO VALLES
Castles Made of Sand: Atomism and Building
Knowledge from Assumption in the Works of
Antoine Lavoisier and Michael Faraday
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM WALKER
What is Knowledge? or,
The Triumph of Faith in an Uncertain World
VINCENT WANG
Rousseau and The Myth of the Fall:
An Investigation of Man \s Fall from the State of Nature
ISAAC JOSEPH WEINER
The Knot and the Lock
JOSHUA MARK WEINSTEIN
Nietzsche's Ebb and Flow
WILLIAM LAMAR WELLS
What, Then, is Money? An Examination of Value
and Money in the Works of Karl Marx, Adam Smith,
John Locke, and Aristotle ofMacedon
NICHOLAS DAVID WHITTIER
The Rise and Fall of the Beautiful Soul
Newton, Massachusetts
Woodbridge, Virginia
San Marino, California
High Falls, New York
Lititz, Pennsylvania
Jamesville, New York
Dover, Pennsylvania
JARED COLLIN WILK
What Does it Mean for Jesus to Fulfill the Law
and the Prophets?
Corvallis, Oregon
JESSE TWAIN WORDEN
Socrates, What's Your Point?
Mt. Desert, Maine
NICOLE ASHER YOUNG
Between Nature and Freedom: Natural and Artistic
Beauty in Kant's Critique of Judgment
Acworth, Georgia
ROY LAVI ZAIDENBERG
The Cedar Tree Door: How Gilgamesh Approached
Immortality and Retained his Humanity
Tel Aviv, Israel
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
GREGORY WAYNE BAIR II
CYNTHIA MARY BARRY
MELVIN BENDER
MADI BOBB
DIMITRA CHRISTINA BOLGER
CHARLA ANN GROVER BURT
DANIEL TYREE CALLIS, JR.
DANIEL MORGAN CLARK
AMY LUCILE CLITHERO
STEPHANIE NICHOLE DENNY
JOSHUA MATTHEW GROSSMAN
PETER BURNELL HANSEN
MELISSA SUE HELEN HILL
JOHN ANDREW Izzo
RYAN CARL JENSEN
JENNIFER LYNN JOHNSON
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Annapolis, Maryland
Arnold, Maryland
The Gambia, West Africa
Glenview, Illinois
Sandpoint, Idaho
Washington, District of Columbia
Boyds, Maryland
Lewisville, North Carolina
Pleasant View, Tennessee
Youngstown, Ohio
Austin, Texas
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Mt. Ephraim, New Jersey
Washington, District of Columbia
Minot, North Dakota
NICHOLAS JOHAN KAHM
Stamford, Connecticut
JENNY CAMPBELL KAWA
Athens, Georgia
JOSEPH WILLIAM KEARNS
Hershey, Pennsylvania
JOHN McLfioo LANKFORD
Frederick, Maryland
JEFFREY ALAN LEWIS
Annapolis, Maryland
RAYMOND HEATH LINAM
THOMAS CHARLES LIZARDO
Ponder, Texas
Fairfax, Virginia
LINDA MARY LOUGHREY
Severna Park, Maryland
MICHAEL JOHN MARTENS
High Wycombe, England
TIMOTHY M. MASON
Ashtabula, Ohio
KEYLLA MORILLO-SMITH
Annapolis, Maryland
KATHRYN MARIE PATTON
Baltimore, Maryland
KERI BETH PETERSON
Annapolis, Maryland
GREGORY ROBERTSON
Bridgeport, Connecticut
�JERRY D. SALYER
CYNTHIA DU PONT TOBIAS
JOHN TERRIELL WOODS, JR.
Salyersville, Kentucky
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Pasadena, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,005
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 Word and the Image: Investigating Straightness
ERICA BETH AANA NAONE
HONORABLE MENTION
The Voice of Meaning: Song, Word, and World in Wallace
Stevens's Poem "The Idea of Order at Key West"
SHAKTI CHRISTINE PEARCE
On Sympathy and Divine Union: An Exploration of Music
and the St. Matthew Passion
JILLIAN MARY Sico
Seeing Other People: On the Necessity of Moral Action in Kant's
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
IAN MATTHEW BLAUSTEIN
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
Failure in George Eliot's Middlemarch
GEREMY LEE COY
HONORABLE MENTION
uAnyHope
of Subduing Him is False ": Motion and Passion in
Hobbes 's Leviathan
SARAH LYNNE NAVARRE
�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
Questioning Moses: An Essay on Book XI of
St. Augustine's Confessions
CHELSEA RACHEL BATTEN
HONORABLE MENTION
Breaking Boundaries and the Limits of Nature:
An Interpretation of the Ode to Man
PAUL TERRY WILFORD
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
Socrates in the Symposium: A Love Letter
KATRINA THERESE GERSIE
HONORABLE MENTION
Luck Be a Lady
SUSAN AUDREY HOLCOMB
To the member of the January Freshman Class who has written the best
annual essay in the 2003-2004 academic year.
Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta Smith, of the
Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton Nease, of the Class of 1992
"The Coin for Which All Things Are Exchanged":
Socrates' Defense of Argument in the Phaedo
SARAH ELIZABETH HOGAN
�To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2004.
Offered by the Alumni Association
What Does "I" Mean? Examining Kant's Thoughts on the
Synthetic Unity of Apperception
NEIL ANTHONY BATT
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
LEE THOMAS GOLDSMITH
HONORABLE MENTION
ERICA BETH AANA NAONE
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Text: Chorusfrom Euripides ' Hercales
ANDREW JOSEPH ROMITI
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Jean de La Fontaine, " Volupte "
NORA ELISA KELLEHER
DANIEL SCHWARTZ
�To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"A Current Past"
KATRINA THERESE GERSIE
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
"Chopinesque "
THOMAS BULEN JACOBS
Musical Composition for Piano
TOBIAS JOSEPH RUSSELL
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
On Sympathy and Divine Union:
An Exploration of Music and the St. Matthew Passion
JILLIAN MARY Sico
On the Finale to Don Giovanni
ARTHUR CHARLES ALLEN
HONORABLE MENTION
Bach's Incarnation of the Word in Sound
SAMANTHA KIMBERLY BUKER
�To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the
Glass of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus
No PRIZE
HONORABLE MENTION
ANDREW CRAIG MACKINLAY
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
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
No PRIZE
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
NICHOLAS DAVID WHITTIER
JOAN BRIANT HENRIKSEN
NATALIE SUSAN RINN
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
JACOB JESSE THOMAS
�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
No PRIZE
Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences
Story of Adam and Eve, 2-Dimensional Work of Visual Art
SAMANTHA KIMBERLY BUKER
Maryland State Archives Internship
BETH ANN SIEKIERA
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929
John D. Alexander, Sr., 1920
Philip L.Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Fund
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Annapolis Self-Help
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Bank of America
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Ford K. Brown, H'70
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T.Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland, H'54
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Eugene N.( 1929)and
RobertG. (1963) Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Faculty Scholarship
James H. Frame, 1950
Friends of St. John's
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
George A. and Eveline T. Greenleaf
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Houston Regional
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, H'84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
John Spangler Kieffer, H'70 and Roxana White
Kieffer, H'84
Jacob Klein, H'76
Korshin Family Fund
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton Memorial Fund
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H'99
Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
NationsBank Foundation (Bank of America)
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Oklahoma Regional
Norman G. Owens
Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr.
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Pittsburgh Regional
Reader's Digest Foundation
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Lenore B. Hinder
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clifton C. Roehle
Joan and Bela Ronay
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
G. D. Searle/John E. Robson
Robson Family
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan, 1908
DougE. Sherr (1972) Memorial
J.Winfree Smith, H'80
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
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966
Richard D. Weigle, H'49
John L. Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
St. John's College
St. John's College Alumni Association
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
AES Warrior Run
Alcoa Eastalco Works
Annapolis Banking and Trust
ARINC, Inc.
The Baltimore Sun
BB&T Charitable Foundation
Butler Capital Corporation
Carrollton Bank
Chevy Chase Bank
Clark-Winchole Foundation
Computer Sciences Corporation
Constellation Energy Group
Erickson Retirement Communities
Estate of Mildred E. Alexander
Estate of Albert Pagano, Jr.
Estate of Thomas B. Turner
Farmers Insurance Group, Inc.
Gallagher, Evelius, & Jones LLP
Glenn L. Martin Foundation
Goldsmith Family Foundation
The Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Foundation, Inc.
LaVerna Hahn Charitable Trust
The Hodson Scholarship Foundation
Hub Labels, Inc.
Independent College Fund of Maryland
Larry Katz
The Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation
The John J. Leidy Foundation
Barbara Leonard
Legg Mason, Inc.
Mercantile Fund
Miles & Stockbridge
Nationwide Foundation
Nationwide Insurance
RCM&D
Royal Folly Bed & Breakfast
The St. Paul Companies, Inc. Foundation
SunTrust Bank
Susquehanna Bank
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc.
Verizon-Maryland
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston
Haidi Zech
Gifts received after April 15, 2005 are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2006 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 FOUR
�PROGRAM
FOR THE TWO HUNDRED TWELFTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED EIGHTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
PRELUDE
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
HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
CHESTER W. BURKE
TUTOR, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN FLAUMENHAFT
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
WILLIAM PASTILLE
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
ROBERT CHARLES ABBOTT, JR.
Herodotus VIII. 55
Alexandria. Virginia
CHARLES OLIVER ANDERSON
''Sewer Rats May Taste Like Pumpkin Pie... v:
The Ethics of Eating
Baltimore, Maryland
MARTIN JANIS ANDERSON
In Search of Dignity: An Analysis of Sin and Social
Corruption in Genesis
Rockville, Maryland
JEFFREY LYLE ARMEL
History, Husserl, and the. Crisis
LINDSEY STUART BANNAN
For the City or For the Man: The Motivations of the
Athenian Democracy in Policy-Ma king During the
Peloponnesian War
ANTON BARBA-KAY
The Noble Science of Retreating Well: A Structural
Account of Plato \s Laches
ROBERT EDWARD BENNING
An Examination of Philosophical Transitions in
Tolstoy "s War and Peace
Seal Beach. California
Anchorage. Alaska
Olympia, Washington
Nashville. Tennessee
JUSTIN VIKRAM BERRIER
The Almond Rod and the Boiling Pot: A. Struggle
Between Faith and Doubt in Jeremiah, Gods Most
Tormented Prophet
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
JENNIFER ALEXANDRA BISHOP
The Problem of Hierarchy in Paradise Lost
Cleveland, South Carolina
�ANDREW CRAIG VINCENT BRISTOR
The End of justice in the Aristotelian State
Lutherville. Maryland
HAYDEN McCLURE BROCKETT
Nobility and Friendship in Plato \s Gorgias
New Britain, Connecticut
KIMBERLY ANNE BRYAN
Oh, That "s a Likely Story: An Exploration of True
Opinion and Faith in Plato's Timaeus
MATTHEW JOSEPH BUBAN
A Student's Understanding of Lemma Three from the
First Section of the First Book Within Newton's
Principia
KASIMIR CHRISTIAN BUJAK
The Action of Mercy: Love and Suffering in
The Brothers Karamazov
Chatsworth, California
Terrace Park, Ohio
Palmyra, New Jersey
AURORA JEAN CASSELLS
The Mirage of Right Action
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
PROSE LYSANDRA CASSELLS
Philosophical Playfulness: An Exploration of
Playfulness in Plato's Phaedrus
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
MARY ELIZABETH COCKEY
The Loneliness in Freedom: An Examination of
Huckleberry Fin ?i as a Ghost in the World of the Living
REBEKAH ELEANOR COLEMAN
A Science of the Self
SHANNA KATHLEEN COLEMAN
"BeautifulLives": The Feminine Tragedy of
Absalom, Absalom!
PAMELA LINDA CONNOR
How Grand We Are This Morning: The Ordinary
Becomes Extraordinary in James Joyce's Ulysses
Salisbury, Maryland
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Derry, New Hampshire
Favetteville, New York
�ENJOLI OLEETA COOKE
77/6* Third Person of God: Epitomes of God's Love,
Gift, and Holy Spirit
Annapolis, Maryland
ANDREA CHRISTEN Cox
Freedom of Life: Pierre's Passage Through War and
Peace
Alton, Wyoming
ROBERT ANTHONY CULBERT
Self Discovery Through Justice in the Iliad of Homer
JILL BAKER DELSTON
What is Transcendental Phenomenology?
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Washington, District of Columbia
RHIANNON LEE BOWLING
Pigs, Paradise, and the Vision of a Child in
Flannery O'Connor's The River
Eldershurg, Maryland
MARY FITZGERALD DUFFY
Saying the Ineffable: Translating Poetry
Oxford. Pennsylvania
ELIZABETH COLE EDWARDS
Ecstasy
Sterling. Virginia
KENNETH BERESFORD ERKENBRACK
The Power of Bach *s B Minor Mass
Denver, Colorado
PATRICK NATHANIEL EVANS
Know Thyself: an Exploration of Human Nature and
Sociability in Rousseau Iy Second Discourse
Nokesville, Virginia
KATRIN FINCK
Ideal Imperfection: Governing Man with and for His
Natural Inclinations
Neubrandenburg, Germany
BRYSON WEST FlNKLEA
The Proper Place of a Scientist: A Reconciliation
Between an Academic Scientist and a Thoughtful
Layman
Mocksville. North Carolina
�MARGARET B RICH AM FLEMING
The End of an Odyssey
RHONDA COLLEEN FRANKLIN
The Education to Virtue in Mansfield Park
NICHOLAS ALEXANDER GARKLAVS
7ragedy in Twilight: A Reading of William Faulkner's
The Sound and the Fury
MARTIN ROBERT GAUDINSKI
A Therapy of Logos: An Account of Psychoanalysis
and a Reflection on the Power of its Dialectic
BLAKE ELIZABETH GREGORY
The Magnitude-Number Split: Examining the
Evolution of the Number Line
JOSEPH MARTIN GULHAUGEN
Freedom is Coming: The Growth of the Individual
and the Search for Freedom in Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
LISA MARIE HABEGGER
On Sin and the Self in Purgatorio
THEODORE HADZI-ANTICH, JR.
Justice and Paradox: Exploring Book One of
Plato 's Republic
TATIANA MONIQUE HAMBOYAN
Locked in Marx: An Exploration of How Differences
in Property and Labor Result in Different
Communities in Locke and Marx
JOSEPH HAIM HAY
Hieros Gamos: God, Nature, and the Reality of the
Soul in the Works ofC. G. Jung
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Albany, Oregon
East Meadow, New York
Marlborough, Connecticut
Dallas, Texas
Neenah, Wisconsin
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Williainsville, New York
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Indianapolis, Indiana
�CHRISTOPHER VEATCHEL HENDERSON, JR.
The Fate of the. Ideal in the Aristotelian State
AMANDA DAWN HINTON
Merry Learning: An Inquiry into the Themes of
Integration and Interpretation in Rabelais' Gargantua
KlRSTEN AlSTNE-LlSE HlPSKY
Evansville, Indiana
Morristown, Tennessee
Racine, Wisconsin
Hack Finn and Qualities of the Superstitious
ANDREW CAMERON HORNBECK
Exterminating the Bug
MACKENZIE HOLAWAY HUDSON
An Investigation of Judas and Betrayal in Bach V
St. Matthew Passion
ROBIN BROOKE HUGENS
The Ardent Way ofDlscipleship: Jesus and His
Followers in the Sermon on the Mount
BENJAMIN BEARDSLEY JASNOW
Mud to Gold: Baudelaire's Poetic Devotion
HELEN EDITH KONGSGAARD
A Space in Verse: Passing Through Baudelaire's
Correspondences
PATRICIA KOSCINSKI
The White Elephant: Examining the Role of Greatness
in the Fall of Athens
MEREDITH JEAN LICARI
Unfolding the Folds of the Dual Universe in Liebniz
DANIEL EVAN MALKIEL
Hyperbolic Misgivings
Scarsdale, New York
Atlantic Beach, Florida
Suwanee, Georgia
Bethesda. Maryland
St. Helena, California
Walnutport, Pennsylvania
Timonium. Maryland
Columbia. Maryland
�MICHAEL WHELPLEY MALONE
Infinitesimals: A Little Look at Little Things
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
LAURA ANNE MANGUM
The Dialectic of Faith in Fear and Trembling
Pflugerville, Texas
LAURA MARIE MANION
Understanding Faction in The Federalist, Paper Ten
RYAN JAMES MAWHAR
A Philosophical Triangulation of the Relationship
Between Mathematics and Physics
COURTNEY WAINWRIGHT MAY
A Faction Reaction: The Electoral College
IAN CRISTIAN MC€RACKEN
The Relation of Taste to Morality in Kant *s
Third Critique
Olney, Maryland
Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
McLean, Virginia
Herndon, Virginia
SEAN ALEXANDER McLAiN
Effectual Truth and Virtue in Machiavelli's The Prince
Irving, Texas
KRISTI DEANNA MEADOR
Rightly Spoken Misunderstanding: Speech and Silence
in the Book of Job
Lexington, Kentucky
JOSEPH CAIN METHOD
Washington, District of Columbia
The Truth About Parables: An Engagement with the
Kafka Parable The Truth About Sancho Panza
REBECCA KATE MITCHESON
Doubting God's Justice on One Leg: Ahab in
Moby Dick
Winchester, Massachusetts
TEASEL ELIZABETH MUIR-HARMONY
The Beautiful Death of a Courageous Man
Bernardston, Massachusetts
�JACKSON SWAGGERT O'BRIEN
On Beautiful Music
KELLEY CLARK O'DONNELL
Ahead of the Rest: The Final Departure of
Huckleberry Finn
Nashville, Tennessee
Ascot Berks, United Kingdom
JOHN LAZEAR OKRENT
Sunlight on Water; or, What a Poet Makes: An Essay
on Paul Valery's Le Cimetiere Marin
New York, New York
ERIN MICHELLE PAGE
A Reasonable God: The Role of Reason in the Study of
God in Aquinas
Alexandria, Virginia
GABRIELLE PASTENKOS
Go Down, Moses, And Set My People Free
Ramsey, New Jersey
ZACHARY ROBERT PERRON
The Importance of Being Sensuous: Appearance and
Self-Deception as Described by Baudelaire
ROBERT MARSHALL POLLACK
Being in Flesh: Jesus and Religious Criticism in the
Gospel of John
DANIEL RAYMOND RESSLER
The Value and Function of Asceticism
Mooers Forks, New York
Concord, California
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
KATHERINE ANNE ROACH
GodeVs Incompleteness Theorem: The Limitations of
Formal Logic
Newark. Delaware
SARAH ELIZABETH ROBERTS
Rendering the Universe Less Hideous and the
Moments Less Difficult: An Examination of Beauty,
Morality, and Ennui in Charles Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du Mai
Poolesville, Maryland
�ALEXANDRA LEE ROBINS
Pericles and the Duality of Word and Deed
TODD ROBINSON
The Civil Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Essay on the
Empowerment of Man Through Self-Knowledge as a
Means of Achieving Peaceful Community
Great Neck, New York
Hamburg, Pennsylvania
MARY IRENE RUFFIN
''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" An Analysis
of the Mechanics of Freud's Mind
Bowie, Maryland
RYAN DOUGLAS BARNES RYLEE
Odyssey and Union
Prescott, Arizona
EMILY MERIAM SCHRICK
Marx and the Drowning Man: The Individual in a
Communist Society
Loomis, California
BRIANNE LEIGH SEYMOUR
Julius Caesar: The Virtue of Brutus
JAIME CELESTE SMITH
Why Opposites Don V Necessarily Attract: A Look at
the Marriage ofDesdemona and Othello in
Shakespeare's Othello
SAMUEL LEE SPALDING
On the Necessity and Utility of the Graphic
Imagination for Geometry
NATHAN PAUL STALNAKER
An Insensible Man: An Inquiry into the Nature of Pure
Intuitions in Light of the Non-Euclidean Revolution
TRISTAN MICHAEL STANI
The Question of Temporal Self-Consciousness
Snow Hill, Maryland
Freeport, Maine
Huntsville, Alabama
Ann Arbor, Michigan
�SARAH ELIZABETH STICKNEY
Sweetest Nut Hath Sourest Rind, Such a Nut is
Rosalind
JEREMY MlCHAEL STRYER
Santa Fe, New Mexic
Framingham, Massachusetts
7, Oedipus: A Story of Fatherhood and Fading Away
in Oedipus Tyrannus
RANDALL GARY SULLIVAN
Self-Mastery and Hope - the Price of Free Will
Placerville, California
KATHERINE COLLINS SYKORA
An Exploration of Faith in Fear and Trembling
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
ANDERSON RUSSELL TALLENT
Defending Socrates'Legacy: Appearance, Speech, and
Philosophy in Plato *s Theaetetus
Lake Marv, Florida
CHARLENE LOUISE TAYLOR-BURNS
Seeing God in the Dark: Ivan's Answers to the Eternal
Questions in The Brothers Karamazov
Agua Dulce, California
MELISSA ANN THOMAS
Reconciling Faith with Action
Decatur, Nebraska
MATTHEW CHRISTIAN THOMPSON
The Comedy of Antony and Cleopatra
Youngstown, Ohio
JOHANNA LYNN THRALL
Naked & Afraid: The Fear of God in Genesis
JOSEPH GERARD TOENJES
Adam Smith "s Invisible Hand: How the Nation
Benefits at the Expense of the Individual
MARY MORRISON TOWNSEND
The Question of Soul in Plato's Phaedrus
JUSTIN EDWARD MONTGOMERY TRIEVEL
The Passionate Faith of Abraham
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Topeka, Kansas
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Utica, New York
�DOUGLAS CLIFTON TURNER
A Thing by Nature Prodigal: On Fear and Hope in
Thucydides
DAWN ELLEN WADE
The Merchant of Venice: A Portrayal of Disorder
in the Human Soul and Social Interaction Caused
by the Love of Money, Differences in Race and Creed,
and Love
DAVID JOSEPH WHITE
All in the Family: An Investigation of the Spirit
of Sparta
Groton, New York
New Albany, Indiana
Keyser, West Virginia
ROSEANNA MARIE WHITE
Learning Through Lear What Language Must Obey,
"Speak What We Feel Not What We Ought to Say. "
Wiley Ford, West Virginia
WILLIAM BOYD WHITTAKER, JR.
"Stronger, More Evil and More Profound?":
The Boundaries of Cultural Perspectives and the
Self-Overcoming of the Type "Man" in Beyond Good
and Evil.
Union, Missouri
NAMIR SINCOFF YEDID
The Sound of Silence: A Meditation on God, Abraham,
and the Binding of Isaac
Del Mar, California
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
MATTHEW CURTIS BALTENSPERGER
JAMUNA MERIUM BASTIANPILLAI
ANN SLANE BAUM
JOHN RANDOL BERGQUIST
LAWRENCE PAYNE BLACK
ELI COHEN
JUSTIN LEE CORDER
RACHEL ALEXANDRA YELLIN DARROW
JOHN CHRISTOPHER DUPUY
HANNAH ELIZABETH EAGLESON
STEVANNE ANTOINETTE ELLIS
WILLIAM JERED FAIRES
JEANNE HELEN FAUCHEUX
BRAD RICHARD CLAZA
NINA LEE CUISE-GERRITY
SIRI ELIZABETH HARDING
WILLIAM JOHN HAWKINS IV
MEREDITH JUNE HAWORTH
JAY RICHARD HENNICKE
BREANNE YVETTE HERRERA
STEPHEN MATTHEW JOYCE
AARON JAMES KIPFER
SARA REBECCA LEMMOND
MICHAEL JOHN LOOFT
SEAN MICHAEL MADDEN
Denton, Texas
Toronto, Canada
Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham, Alabama
Alexandria, Virginia
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Harrisonbnrg, Virginia
Riva, Maryland
St. Louis, Missouri
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Greenville, Texas
Charlotte, North Carolina
Reston, Virginia
Bay City, Michigan
Baltimore, Maryland
Livermore, California
Portland, Oregon
San Jose, California
Montville, New Jersey
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Pepper Pike, Ohio
Peoria, Illinois
Silver Spring, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
Mayfield, East Sussex,
United Kingdom
MARY LIN MARTIN
MEGAN KATHERINE McBRiDE
REGINA CONNOR MIANTE
ELIZABETH HOWELL NEAL
Berne, Indiana
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
Annapolis, Maryland
Nashville, Tennessee
�DAVID PAUL RAMSEY
BRIAN NATHANIEL RlCE
RYAN ALAN RISING
Conyers, Georgia
Kennesaw, Georgia
Winfield, Kansas
THEODORE COURTNEY ROGERS
New York, New York
ALANA LEAH ROTH
Baltimore, Maryland
DEREK ALAN SHARP
Knoxville, Tennessee
EDMUND HAL STERN
Edgewater, Maryland
BENJAMIN ROBIN STRICKLAND
AMANDA JEAN SUTTLES
NATHANIEL LEE WHITMAN
SLAVKA KOSTADINOVA ZLATKOVA
Santa Fe, Tennessee
Houston, Texas
Adams, Massachusetts
Pernik, Bulgaria
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,004
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
Herodotus VIII. 55
ROBERT CHARLES ABBOTT, JR.
The Third Person of God: Epitomes of God's Love, Gift,
and Holy Spirit
ENJOLI OLEETA COOKE
HONORABLE MENTION
The Noble Science of Retreating Well: A Structural Account of
Plato ly Laches
ANTON BARBA-KAY
Sunlight on Water; or, Wliat a Poet Makes: An Essay On
Paul Valery's Le Cimetiere Marin
JOHN LAZEAR OKRENT
Defending Socrates*Legacy: Appearance, Speech, and
Philosophy in Plato's Theaetetus
ANDERSON RUSSELL TALLENT
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
Two Political Machines: How the Social Compact Goes
Beyond the Leviathan
Ross RICHARDSON HUNT
�* Happier Far?' The Duality of the Fall in Milton's Paradise Lost
TIMOTHY EDWARDS KILE
HONORABLE MENTION
Faith From Physics: The Continuum of Physics and
Metaphysics for Leibniz
LEE THOMAS GOLDSMITH
The Two Lights of Nature and Grace
JILLIAN MARY Sico
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
Calamity, Proclamation, Solace, and Salvation:
The Lot of the Prophet
ERIKK MICHAEL GEANNIKIS
HONORABLE MENTION
On the Substance of Love's Equilibrium in The Knight's Tale
MICHAEL NICHOLAS MUNTERS
)K
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
On the Composition of the Phaedrus
JANE LOUISE BLAKE
The Way of Truth
NICHOLAS KENNETH YOUNES
�To the member of the January Freshman Glass who has written the best
annual essay in the 2002-2003 academic year.
Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta Smith, of the
Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton Nease, of the Class of 1992
On Justice in Plato 's Republic: A Comparison of Virtue in the
Individual and the Collective
ERICA SCHILLER FREEMAN
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2003.
Offered by the Alumni Association
The Menis of Achilles
SARAH ELIZABETH HERBERT
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
KELLEY CLARK O'DONNELL
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Text: Demosthenes., Against Meidias
ANTON BARBA-KAY
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Hugo, 'Apres une Lecture de Dante "
IAN CRISTIAN McCRACKEN
�To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Astyanax "
JOHN LAZEAR OKRENT
HONORABLE MENTION
"Plaaskind"
ELEANOR ANNE CLARK
"To the American Girl in Rome, 1951'
MARY FITZGERALD DUFFY
"Cherry Spring "
SARAH ELIZABETH STICKNEY
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
"Bottle of Tears"
JENNIFER GRACE LOWE
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
On the Inevitably Human
ISAAC JOSEPH WEINER
HONORABLE MENTION
Ave Verum
PAUL NATHAN PATRONE
�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
SIR ROBERT GAYLORD BURBRIDGE
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
BRYSON WEST FINKLEA
HONORABLE MENTION
ANTON BARBA-KAY
SIR ROBERT GAYLORD BURBRIDGE
JUSTIN DALE LANIER
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Construction of an Electron Microscope
MICHAEL WHELPLEY MALONE
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
MICHAEL WHELPLEY MALONE
BLAKE ELIZABETH GREGORY
�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
BRYSON WEST FINKLEA
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
Un titled, Alabaster Sculpture
TEASEL ELIZABETH MUIR-HARMONY
Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the arts, literature, or sciences
Seven Poems
MARY FITZGERALD DUFFY
A Collection of 11 Poems
JOHN LAZEAR OKRENT
Urban Teaching Scholarship
JACOB JESSE THOMAS
MATTHEW DAVID MANGOLD
Mercantile Bank Scholarship
JENNIFER KAY SWEENEY
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship Fund
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Annapolis Self-Help
George M. Austin, 1908
Waiter S. Baird, 1930
Bank of America
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Ford K. Brown, H'70
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T. Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland, H'54
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial
Foundation
Eugene N. (1929) and Robert G. (1963)
Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Faculty Scholarship
James H. Frame, 1950
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Houston Regional
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones
Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909
Robert E.Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H'84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
John Spangler Kieffer, H'70 and Roxana
White Kieffer, H'84
Jacob Klein, H'76
Korshin Family Fund
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton Memorial Fund
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H'99
Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Oklahoma Regional
Norman G. Owens
Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Par ran. Jr.
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Pittsburgh Regional
Reader's Digest Foundation
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Leanore B. Rinder
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clifton C. Roehle
Joan and Be la Ron ay
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
G. D. Searle/John E. Robson
Robson Family
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Morris and J. Graham Shannahan,
1908
Doug E. Sherr (1972) Memorial
J. Winfree Smith, H'8()
James S. Spirer, 1970
C.V. Starr Foundation
Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund
Jean Roberts Staylor
Andrew and Leonore Steiner Book Fund
Clarence W. Stryker
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Various
Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966
Richard D. Weigle, H'49
John L. Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
St. John's College
St. John's College Alumni Association
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Aegon TransAmerica Foundation
Annapolis Banking & Trust Company
Anonymous
ARINC
B B & T Corporation
Baltimore Life Insurance Company
The John Bickford Foundation
Bunting Family Foundation
Campbell Foundation, Inc.
Arthur & Isadora Dellheim Foundation
Deutsche Bank Alex Brown Charitable Foundation
Dry Family Charitable Foundation
Estate of Joseph L. Bean
Gallagher Evelius & Jones
Glenn L. Martin
Harley W. Howell Charitable Foundation
JJ. Raines Foundation, Inc.
The Estate of Elizabeth J. Hodges
Kiplinger Foundation
The Hodson Scholarship Foundation
Independent College Fund of Maryland
Larry W.Katz
Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation
Morton & Sophia Macht Philanthropic Fund
Legg Mason, Inc.
The John J. Leidy Foundation
McCormick & Company
Procter & Gamble Cosmetics Foundation
Rosemore, Inc.
Saul Ewing LLP
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc.
United Parcel Service
Verizon - Maryland
: Wachovia Corporation
Whiting Turner Contracting Company
Gifts received after April 15, 2004 are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2005 Commencement Program.
��
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SIJOHN'S
College
A N N A P O L I S • SANTA FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY ELEVENTH
Two THOUSAND AND THREE
�PROGRAM
FOR THE TWO HUNDRED ELEVENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED SEVENTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
FANFARE
SYMPHONY No. 5 BY WILLIAM BOYCE
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
PRELUDE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1796
WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
PRESIDENT NELSON
HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
ESSAYIST, AUTHOR, AND EDITOR OF
HARPER 's MAGAZINE
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN FLAUMENHAFT
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
WILLIAM PASTILLE
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
ADITYA ADHIKARI
In the City of Dereliction: Alienation, Art and
Ideal in Baudelaire's Tableaux Parisians
Kathmandu, Nepal
MAYA JESSICA ALAPIN
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The City and the Soul as Circles:
An Image of the Best Life from Plato's Republic
JESSICA LEIGH ALEXANDER
"No Human Heart Changes Half So Fast as the
Shape of a City": Charles Baudelaire's Duality of
Man and Art
VIRGINIA ESTHER CECELIA ALLEN
"Through the Mists I See the Sky":
Finding a Way Out in Racine's Phedre
EastAmherst, New York
Berryville, Virginia
EMILY LYDEN BALDWIN
Washington, District of Columbia
A Kaleidoscope Gifted with Consciousness:
The Role of the Artist as Seen in the Works of
Charles Baudelaire
CHRISTOPHER SILAS BAREFORD
Blameless and Upright
Concord, Massachusetts
MEREDITH ENA BARTON
Aristotle's Investigation: A Look into the Method
of Inquiry in Parts of Animals
Baltimore, Maryland
AMANDA KAY BELL
The Dream of Dmitri Karamazov
Irmo, South Carolina
ELIZABETH ADA BOYCE
"Natura non Facit Saltum": Discovering the
Persuasiveness and Self-Consistency of Darwin's
Argument in the Origin of Species
Aspen, Colorado
�MICHAEL JAMES BRIDGE
God's Thumb: The Political Discourse
of The Federalist
Fairfax, Virginia
GINA MARIE BRILLANTE
Desire, the One True Teacher: The Investigation of
Love Within Plato's Symposium
College Park, Maryland
ALEXANDRA RICABLANCA BROSEUS
The Devil's in the Details: An Examination of Time
and Faith in Hieronymus Bosch's Prado Epiphany
Bethesda, Maryland
RENZO BRUN DEL RE
Smitten with Smith
LADY ELIZABETH PINKLYN BURBRIDGE
Newton's Calculus: The Conduit Between
Man's Mind and the World
KATHRYN DAWN BUSH
"As You See, It Is Really All Very Simple":
A Discussion of the Quantum Mechanics of
P.A.M. Dirac
STEVEN DOUGLAS BUSH
The Return to Society: An Investigation into
Rousseau's Idealization of the Savage State in the
Second Discourse
TRACY LAUREN CAIN
Time, Laughter, and the Absurd, or Faith:
A Reflection Upon Fear and Trembling by Soren
Kierkegaard writing as Johannes de Silentio
MARION FIFE COOK
Stories of Faith and the Finite in Kierkegaard's
Fear and Trembling
KAGAN ERIC COUGHLIN
A Modest Approach to Science Through Analogy
Catonsville, Maryland
Austin, Texas
Green Creek, North Carolina
Laguna Hills, California
Canton, Ohio
Houston, Texas
Springfield, Vermont
�MATTHEW ALLYN CROSIER
Death and the Possibility of Life-A Russian Moral
Bath: An Examination of Pierre Bezukhov in
Tolstoy's War and Peace
ELIZABETH CAULFIELD CUMMING
The U.S. Marshal and the Smell of Gunsmoke:
The Mythology of Justice from Athens to Shinbone
ADAM CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
A Confession of the Confessions
THOMAS RYAN DEVINE
All is One: The Quest to Resolve the Many
into the One in Physics
JESSICA LYON DIAMOND
Telling the Truth About Eros: The Speech of
Socrates in Plato's Symposium
Lubbock, Texas
Towson, Maryland
Leavenworth, Kansas
Fairmont, West Virginia
Columbia, Maryland
JOHN WESLEY DIXON
Locke and Aristotle on Property and Nature
Dewey, Oklahoma
MARY Jo LEONHARDI DOKTER
"And God Said": The Power and Community
Displayed by Speech in Genesis
Dearborn, Michigan
AUDREY ANNE DOLGINOFF
Pilgrimage: Dante's Love for Beatrice by Way of
His Imagination
WlLSON MCCLELLAND DUNLAVEY
Las Vegas, Nevada
Sarasota, Florida
An Experience with Language: Coming to
Terms with Sense-Certainty in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
NATHANAEL ALAN EAGLE
The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces:
An Exegesis of Baudelaire's Le Gouffre^ Au Lecteur,
and Correspondences
Graham, Washington
�NICHOLAS ANTHONY EMBIRICOS
Livy's Historical Method: His Use of Exemplars,
How They Work, and Why He Uses Them
London, England
ANNA GAIL FAGERGREN
The Art of Beauty: A Discussion of Duality in
To the Lighthouse
Olympia, Washington
TESSA ANNE FALLON
Morality, Faith, and Meaning: Raskolnikov's
Struggle in Crime and Punishment
Miller Place, New York
AARON JAMES FOSTER
The Perfect Proteus: Inspiration and a
Crisis of Self in Plato's Ion
LYDIA ELEANOR FREWEN
The Ait of The Waves
ANN-THERESE HATFIELD GARDNER
Socrates and Theaetetus
NOAM ARIEH GEDALOF
Plato's Historical Art: The Socratic Writings
ADAM MICHAEL GIES
The World as a Will and an Interpretation:
On the Will to Power and Epistemological Politics
REBEKAH NEELY GOTTLOB
Proust's Doctrine of Recollection
STEPHANIE WYNNE GRIMMETT
Proof of Progress: Hegel's Self-Examination
Through Human History
ZOE AUGUSTINA HAMSTEAD
Wanted: Guilty For All
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Auburn, Maine
Brookfield, Wisconsin
Jerusalem, Israel
Spokane, Washington
St. George, Virginia
Sundance, Wyoming
Kearneysville, West Virginia
�TAMARA KARA HARDISON
Who is God?: Interpreting God Through
His Paradoxical Actions as Presented in
the Book of Isaiah
DANIEL GREGORY HARMON
Following Our Heart: A Quest for Certainty
in The Brothers Karamazov
EMILY HANNA HAWORTH
The Divine Tragedy: An Unmasking of
Dante's Ulysses
MARGARET ELIZABETH HEJTMANCIK
A Difficult Shade of White: Alcibiades' Impasse in
the Presence of an Erotic Philosopher in Plato's
Symposium
BRIANA LEIGH HENDERSON
Black Magic Woman: An Exploration of
Euripides' Medea
Augusta, Maine
San Francisco, California
Cumberland, Maryland
Derwood, Maryland
San Antonio, Texas
SETH LORENZ HEFNER
The Meeting of Two Non-Cutting Lines of
Thought: Accommodating Lobachevski's
Geometry in Kant's Transcendental Philosophy
Berlin, Germany
JASON NOEL HINOJOSA
No Apologies from the Rough: The Rejection of
Philosophy and the Movement Toward Love and
Nature in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Dallas, Texas
JOHN MACLIN HORTON
Canst Thou Tame the Leviathan?: On the Debate
Concerning Darwin's Origin of Species
NICHOLAS STEUART HUDSON
Moral Teleology and Practical Proofs
Fairhope, Alabama
Ghent, New York
�WILLIAM ALLEN HUDSON
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Zosima's Joy and Ivan's Suffering: Answering Some
Important Questions in The Brothers Karamazov
ANDREW GRAHAM HUNT
Responsible Ecology: An Ethical Approach to the
Natural World
JOSEPH LUCAS HYDE
The Fool in His Own House: Hamlet's Reason
in Madness
JUSTIN MATTHEW JONES
Dante's Education: His Moral and Poetic Perfection
THOMAS ALEXANDER JUSKEVICH
Mind and Structure in Metaphysical Speculation:
A Thematic Discussion on the Nature of the
Universe and Its Relation to Human Experience
KATHLEEN CAMPBELL KELLEY
"Hast Thou Found Me, O Mine Enemy?": Stephen
Dedalus Fights off Time, Memory, and the World
in James Joyce's Ulysses
JOSEPH MICHAEL KING
Two Apparent Trifurcations of Need and the
Secret to Life
JOHN THOMAS KOVACIK
The Fall of Rome and One Man's Chance to Save It
Bethesda, Maryland
Raleigh, North Carolina
Rochester, New York
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Columbia, Maryland
Tampa, Florida
Denver, Colorado
MICHAEL WILLIAM KRELL
Zeal and Despair: On the Persuasive Power of
Hegelian Dialectic
Hagerstown, Maryland
BEKIR HARUN KugiJK
The Harmony of La Rochefoucauld's Diverse
Maxims: An Inquiry into the Problem of
Self-Knowledge in the Maximes
Istanbul, Turkey
�RACHEL LA PRADE
Friday Harbor, Washington
Children are the Best Teachers: An Examination of
the Relationship Between God and Man
DAVID FOSTER LEVY
On Nietzsche's Genealogy
Towson, Maryland
AARON BOYD MACLEAN
Motion as a Kind of Life: On Aristotle's Discussion
of the Void
Burke, Virginia
FRANCIS CHESTER MANHEIM
Quid Pro Quo-Self-interest and Its Restraint:
An Essay on the Affinity Between Economics and
the Moral Sentiments in Adam Smith's The Wealth
of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments
London, England
KYLE JOSEPH MARQUIS
Williamsburg, Massachusetts
Montaigne's Path to Wisdom; or, How Not to Miss
the Point Entirely
RICHARD ROBIN MARTELL
Benevolent Neutrality: John Locke, the Supreme
Court, and the Freedom of Religion
DARREN PAUL MAYBERRY
The Rhetoric of Shame: An Examination of Shame
in Plato's Gorgias
Germantown, Maryland
Falmouth, Maine
KELLY LYNN McCoLLUM
Above All, Aristotle: An Exposition of the
Importance of What is Commonly Said to
Aristotle's Method of Investigation into Nature
OldLyme, Connecticut
KELLIE MARIE McCoY
Looking into Nothing: A Journey into Conrad's
Heart of Darkness
Tarpon Springs, Florida
�JOHN JAMES McNuLTY
Crime and the State; or, How Two Wrongs Make a
Philosophy of Right
MATTHEW DAVID MOKEY
Beholding "The Bear": An Exploration of the
Imagery and Life in William Faulkner's Story
"The Bear"
McLean, Virginia
CASEY CHERI MOORE
The Trees Are Not Willing to Teach Me Anything:
Philosophic Conversation in the Phaedrus
TRAVIS JOHN MULROY
The Crime of Philosophy: An Essay on
Plato's Theages
KATHERINE ELIZABETH NEHRING
What Took Place Between the Readers and the
Authors of Don Quixote, Together with Other
Veracious Events Highly Relevant to this History;
or, This is An Essay
Laguna Niguel, California
Berlin, Connecticut
Washington, District of Columbia
ROBERT VINCENT O'BRIEN III
Understanding Material Order: A Discussion of the
Foundations of Modern Chemistry
COLIN Ross O'NEILL
The First Three Speeches of Plato's Phaedrus
Fairhope, Alabama
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
DANIEL ROBERT NEAL
"Is It Worth It, Is It Worth It?": The Problem of
Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov
BRENDAN ROWAN NORWOOD
A Little Rebellion Now and Then: Melville's
One-Man Revolution
Rapid City, South Dakota
Vashon, Washington
Winchester, Massachusetts
�MICHELLE KAY PAINE
The Amorous Unknown: Love and the Leap of
Philosophy in Kierkegaard's Philosophical
Fragments
AMY MICHELLE PHILLIPS
An Inquiry into the Foundation of
Newton's Principia
STEPHANIE LYNN PORCARO
The Waves, Friendship, and Self-Identity
Delaplane, Virginia
Gloucester Point, Virginia
The Dalles, Oregon
BENNET BRISTOL PORTER
What, Me Worry?: The Journey of Self-Deception
in Cervantes's Don Quixote
Falmouth, Massachusetts
RUSSELL ROBERT RAMSEY
Paul's Gospel: The Worlds of Adam and Christ in
Romans
Columbus, Georgia
KATHERINE MARIE REDDING
On Thoughtfulness and Healthy Philosophy in
Plato's Charmides
JOHN FRANKLIN THOMSON REED
Close Friends, Worlds Apart: An Analysis of
Andrew and Pierre in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
CHRISTY LYNN RHOTON
Just a Little Taste: An Exploration of the Fall of
Man in Genesis
TRENT STEVEN RINEY
Evolution and Economics: Searching for a Pattern
of Thought in Darwin and Smith
ALEXANDER SCHAAN RINN
Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics
Westminster, Maryland
Alexandria, Virginia
Columbus, Ohio
Lebanon, Kentucky
St. Cloud, Minnesota
�ISADORA ROSE SAGENG
The Tragedy of Terrible Justice in the Agamemnon
Annapolis, Maryland
CHRISTOPHER ROBERTSON SCHOR
Beyond Discord-The Evolution of Dissonance: An
Analysis of Octatonicism within Stravinsky's Music
Cherry Hilly New Jersey
CHRISTINA LYNN SERVETNICK
The Calm Temples of Truth: On Serenity and
the Nature of Things
JUSTIN SAYRE SHEPHERD
The Generation of Peace Through War
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Washington, District of Columbia
KATHERINE ANNE SHERMAN
The Being of a Poet: An Examination of Charles
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mai
LEWIS MARK SLAWSKY
Contradiction in the City: An Examination of
Book I of Plato's Republic
Niskayuna, New York
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
IAN MICHAEL SMITH
With Respect of Size: Euclid, Dedekind, and the
Theory of Number
Spokane, Washington
ISAAC STEPHEN SMITH
"My Atoms Are Determined, But My Will's
Another Case": An Essay on the Differentiation of
Theoretical and Practical Reasoning
Myersvitte, Maryland
STEPHEN GUSTAV STEIM
Facing the Dragon: Spiritual Violence in Flannery
O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away
Oak Park, Illinois
ARTHUR WENDEL STOUT IV
The Powers of Government
New Orleans, Louisiana
�EMILY IRENE STRICKLAND
Out, Out Brief Quentin!: Inheriting the Southern
Ideal Through Story and Paradox
JULIA MARIE STRICKLER
Experiencing Incommensurability
ANNA REYNIS STRYKER
Trial of Faith in Pursuit of an Idle Dream:
An Examination of "The Story of the Man
Who Couldn't Keep from Prying" in
Cervantes' Don Quixote
Jefferson
City, Missouri
Garland, Texas
Alameda, New Mexico
BRIAN OWEN SUMNER
The Fullness of Life: The Transformation of
Achilles in The Iliad
Rising Sun, Maryland
THOMAS GLENN SZERECZ
Language in Beyond Good and Evil:
An Instrument for Change in the Hands of the
Philosopher
Annapolis, Maryland
MICHAEL ZEPHYR TEREBEY
Being Numbers: Some Consequences of Formal
Undecidability
AMANDA BETH TREADWELL
The Restoration of Morality: Hume's Defense
of a Secular, Disinterested Moral Sentiment
TIFFANY ELLEN TYRRELL
Some Are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness:
A Study of Heroic Excellence
NATASHA VERMAAK
In Pursuit of Clytemnestra
ABIGAIL SHIRKLEY VINES
Faith in Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling:
On Being at Home in the World
Bozman, Maryland
South Windsor, Connecticut
Lewisberry, Pennsylvania
Ashland, Wisconsin
Hampton, Virginia
�ELIZABETH ANNE WAGNER
Visible Manifestations of the Invisible in
Parker's Back
Charlotte, North Carolina
ALEXANDER EMERSON WALL
The Human World: An Interpretation of
Plato's Gorgias
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SAMANTHA MAY WARBURTON
Transcendental Philosophy: The Solution to
Metaphysics in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
WHITNEY ELIZABETH WELSH
History's Realization of Freedom: A Look at the
Rise of the West
IAN PATRICK WHITNEY
The True, the Good, and the Shoes to Match:
Observations on Flannery O'Connor's
"The Lame Shall Enter First"
DEBRA KIM WILKINSON
Reason and Revelation in Augustine's Confessions
Sewanee, Tennessee
Uniontown, Ohio
Fresno, California
Tiverton, Rhode Island
LEAH COLLEEN WILLCOX
Speak What We Feel: A Call to Ethics Through
Catharsis in William Shakespeare's King Lear
Roseboom, New York
SCOTT FERNON WILLIAMSON
Persuasion: Making the Weaker Argument the
Stronger; or, Partners with Reason
Alexandria, Virginia
SARA WHITE WILSON
Pay Attention to the Girl Bearing Fruits:
The Emergence of Images in Our Mind and the
World in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Hopewell, New Jersey
KATHERINE JENNY WINDSTRUP
Laughing at Love; or, The School for Cynics:
An Examination of Don Alfonso in Cosifan tutte
Belmont, California
�SONIA PARONIAN WISNIEWSKI
To Live Life as a Dangerous Experiment:
Nietzsche's The Gay Science
WILLIAM SAMUEL YOUNG
Whose Spirit is This?: On Reconciling Genius and
Freedom in Kant's First and Third Critiques
SCOTT ANTHONY ZOLLNER
The Cultivation of the Spirit in Nietzsche's
Beyond Good and Evil
Bolingbrook, Illinois
Boston, Massachusetts
Cumberland, Maryland
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
DEREK MICHAEL AGGLETON
Ossining, New York
SUSAN McDoNOUGH BISHOP
Arnold, Maryland
JOYCE LEONARD BRAVO
Bethesda, Maryland
JAN SYLVIA CARPENTER
Melrose, Montana
NINA MARIE CARRIERI
Berkeley, California
MICHAEL JOSEPH COLOMBO
Baltimore, Maryland
NICHOLAS Louis DiNuNzio
Reading, Pennsylvania
JAMES PATRICK EGAN
SARAH ELIZABETH HERBERT
RYAN ERIC JOHNSON
AARON NOAH KREMPA
EDMUND FRANCIS KURYLA II
Walnut Creek, California
Arlington, Virginia
Annapolis, Maryland
Bath, Pennsylvania
Fort Worth, Texas
AUSTIN DANIEL LAGRONE
Shreveport, Louisiana
FRANCES JENNIFER LIMON
Mexico City, Mexico
�MARK HOWARD MACLEAN
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
BRIAN EDWARD MANNING
Baltimore, Maryland
SCOTT MILLER MC€URLEY
Annapolis, Maryland
MARK DAVIS MOORMAN
San Francisco, California
SERGEY MICHAEL NEDELSKY
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
MICHAEL JAMES O'DONNELL
Brooklyn, New York
DEBORAH JANE ROBERGE
SHANNON MARIE SAIA
DANIEL ERIC SHATTUCK
MEREDITH ELIZABETH SMITH
JENNY REBECCA ST. MARTIN
MATTHEW SCOTT VEST
JEFFREY GRANT ZWILLENBERG
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Indian Head, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Fairfax, Virginia
Birmingham, Alabama
Kansas City, Kansas
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2,003
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
Zeal and Despair: On the Persuasive
Power of Hegelian Dialectic
Motion as a Kind of Life: On Aristotle's
Discussion of the Void
HONORABLE MENTION
"Hast Thou Found Me, O Mine Enemy?":
Stephen Dedalus Fights off Time, Memory,
and the World in James Joyce's Ulysses
Being Numbers: Some Consequences
of Formal Undecidability
To the member of the Junior Class who has written
the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory
of her daughter-in-law,
Kathryn Mylorie Stevens
The Philosophical Principles in the
Newtonian Universe
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
Launcelot is Dead: The Consolation of
Chaucer's Prodigal Knight
The Necessity of the Generation
Toward Evil in Plotinus
MICHAEL WILLIAM KRELL
AARON BOYD MACLEAN
KATHLEEN CAMPBELL KELLEY
MICHAEL ZEPHYR TEREBEY
MEREDITH JEAN LICARI
MICHAEL ROBERT CONBOY
JILLIAN MARY Sico
�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
What Antigone Would Be
CLARE CATHERINE CORTRIGHT
Elements of Happiness: An Examination
of the Complete Virtuous Life in Aristotle's
Nichomachean Ethics
To the member of the January Freshman Class who
has written the best annual essay in the 2001-2002
academic year.
Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta
Smith, of the Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton
Nease, of the Class of 1992
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2002.
Offered by the Alumni Association
What I Can Say - What You Can See What There Can Be: More or Less about the
Nature of Scientific Explanation and its
Epistemological and Ontological Implications
Thrinakia: The Rift Between Odysseus and
his Companions
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence
in speaking.
Offered in memory of
Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
To the student who submits the best English version
of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President
Emeritus
Text: Epigrams ofAsklepiades
JENNIFER ELIZABETH FAIT
No PRIZE
WILLIAM THOMAS GROUSE
ROGER MARCUS JACKSON
ALEXANDER EMERSON WALL
ANTON BARBA-KAY
�To the student who submits the best English version
of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and
Governors
Text: "Dante "
To the student who submits a fine original
English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin
in memory of his brother, Henry
"Night Flight Along the East Coast"
ALEXANDRA LEE ROBINS
KATHERINE ELIZABETH NEHRING
HONORABLE MENTION
"Poems "
"Vers toi (de vous) "
"Although Tilted"
To the student who submits a fine original musical
composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
"The Hamlet Suite "
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece
of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
Acts of Listening: Representation Through Music
in Mozart's Don Giovanni
To the student who submits the most elegant solution
of a geometrical problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of
Bryee Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor
and Director of Athletics Emeritus
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
HONORABLE MENTION
JOSEPH LUCAS HYDE
JOHN ANGUS MAC€AULL
CASEY CHERI MOORE
THOMAS BULEN JACOBS
HELEN EDITH KONGSGAARD
ANTON BARBA-KAY
BRYSON WEST FINKLEA
JUSTIN DALE LANIER
ANTON BARBA-KAY
�To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project
Investigating the Seed Germination Pattern of
Rumex crispus under Standard Laboratory
Conditions
MEREDITH ENA BARTON
HONORABLE MENTION
False Starts: An Attempt at a Prologue to
Faraday's Chemical History of a Candle
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
MICHAEL WHELPLEY MALONE
ADAM CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
MARY Jo LEONHARDI DOKTER
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
RUSSELL ROBERT RAMSEY
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
Handcrafted violin bow
LYDIA ELEANOR FREWEN
Bloody Bay, Tobago, black and white photograph
Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has
demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature,
or sciences
"How to Carry It, "short story
Groundworks, series of photographs
SARA WHITE WILSON
KATHLEEN CAMPBELL KELLEY
KATHERINE ANNE SHERMAN
Marshall Scholarship
AARON BOYD MACLEAN
National Science Foundation Research Experience
for Undergraduates (in mathematical sciences)
BRYSON WEST FINKLEA
National Security Scholarship and Internship
DANIEL EVAN MALKIEL
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Annapolis Self-Help
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Bank of America
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Ford K. Brown, H'70
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T.Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland, H'54
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Eugene N.( 1929) and
Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Faculty Scholarship
James H. Frame, 1950
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Houston Regional
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones
Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H'84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
John Spangler Kieffer, H'70 and
Roxana White Kieffer, H'84
Jacob Klein, H'76
Korshin Family Fund
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton Memorial Fund
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H '99
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Oklahoma Regional
Norman G. Owens
Dr. Thomas Par ran and Thomas Parran, Jr.
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Pittsburgh Regional
Reader's Digest Foundation
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Lenore B. Hinder
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clifton C.Roehle
Joan and Bela Ronay
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
G.D. Searle/John E. Robson
Robson Family
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Norris and
J. Graham Shannahan, 1908
Doug E. Sherr (1972) Memorial
J. Winfree Smith, H'80
James S. Spirer, 1970
C. V. Starr Foundation
Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund
Jean Roberts Staylor
Andrew and Leonore Steiner Book Fund
Clarence W.Stryker
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966
Richard D. Weigle, H'49
John L. Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
St. John's College
St. John's College Alumni Association
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
AAI Corporation
Aegon TransAmerica Foundation
AES Warrior Run
Alex Brown & Sons Charitable Foundation
Allfirst Financial Inc.
Annapolis Banking & Trust Company
Baltimore Life Insurance Company
The John Bickford Foundation
Boeing Company
Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Bozzuto Group
Bunting Family Foundation
Butler Capital
Class of 1992
CSC's Defense Group
Richard & Rosalee C. Davison Foundation
DelaPlaine Foundation
Dixon Valve & Coupling Company
Dunbar Armored Express
Eliasberg Family Foundation, Inc.
Farmers National Bank of Maryland/First
Virginia Banks
Ferris Baker Watts Inc.
Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland
Miss Charlotte Fletcher
Gallagher Evelius & Jones
The Gazette
General Dynamics/Government Systems
Corporation
Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberg
JJ. Haines Foundation, Inc.
Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc.
Hedwin Corporation
Henderson-Webb, Inc.
The Estate of Elizabeth Hodges
The Hodson Scholarship Foundation
Hoffberger Foundation, Inc.
Honeywell Technology Solutions
Harley W. Howell Charitable Foundation
J.M. Huber
Independent Can Company
Independent College Fund of Maryland
The James M. Johnston Trust for
Charitable and Educational Purposes
Larry W.Katz
Katz, Abosch, Windesheim, Gershman &
Freedman, PA
KCI Technologies, Inc.
Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial
Foundation
Kiplinger Foundation
L-3 Communications System
Lalley Charitable Fund
Legg Mason, Inc.
The John J. Leidy Foundation
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Lucent Technologies
Macht Philanthropic Fund
Glenn L. Martin Foundation
McCormick & Company
Joseph Meyerhoff Fund, Inc
Miles & Stockbridge Foundation
Northrup Grumman
Number Ten Foundation, Inc.
Potomac Electric Power Company
Procter & Gamble Cosmetics Foundation
Provident Bank of Maryland
Raytheon Systems Company
The Estate of Mary Reever
Riggs, Counselman, Michaels and Downes
SAIC
Saul Ewing LLP
Semmes, Bowen & Semmes Foundation
Shockley Honda
William Smith Scholarship Fund
State Farm Insurance Companies
Stieff Foundation, Inc.
St. Paul Companies
Sun Trust
T. Rowe Price Associates
Foundation, Inc.
United Parcel Service
Verizon - Maryland
Victor Graphics, Inc.
Wachovia Corporation
Whiting Turner Contracting Company
Gifts received after April 15, 2003are gratefullyacknowledged
and will be listed in the 2004 Commencement Program.
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STJOHN'S
College
ANNAPOLIS « S A N T A FE
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY TWELFTH
Two THOUSAND AND Two
�PROGRAM
FOR THE TWO HUNDRED TENTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED SIXTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
PRELUDE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
WELCOME
PRESIDENT NELSON
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
AUTHOR, MILITARY HISTORIAN AND CLASSICIST
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN FLAUMENHAFT
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
WILLIAM PASTILLE
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
AMELIA ANN ADAMS
Considering Phlebas: Life and Death in T.S. Eliot's
The Wasteland
Normal, Illinois
STEPHANIE ELISE ADAMS
For Love of Sophie: The Socialization of Natural
Man
Yorktown, Virginia
MATTHEW ALBANESE
All in the Family: The Julio-Claudian Transition
Toms River, New Jersey
NICHOLAS SYLVAN ALEXANDRA
Hobbes' Noble Lie: An Examination of How
Hobbes' Formulation of Human Nature Shapes
His Description of the Commonwealth
Spring Valley, New York
MONICA PEREZ ANATALIO
How Does the "Faint Voice of Conscience"
Affect Free Choice and Self-Awareness in St.
Augustine's Confessions and Kant's Grounding
for the Metaphysics of "Morals?
Manassas, Virginia
STEPHEN CONRAD BAPPERT
A Portrait of the Artist's City: Images of Societal
Disease in James Joyce's Dubliners
PETER LANGFORD BEARDEN
The Ark of the Covenant
KATHRYN TAYLOR BENSON
The Journey to Self-Realization:
An "Hegelian" Account of Self-Consciousness
in Milton's Paradise Lost
JOSHUA DAVID BLISTEIN
The Strength and Innocence of Humanity in
Camus' The Plague
Coldwater, Michigan
Chatham, New Jersey
Warminster, Pennsylvania
Annapolis, Maryland
�RAQUEL BROMBERG
The Road to Delphi
Sharon, Massachusetts
SARAH FAY BURNHAM
King Saul
Stillwater, Oklahoma
AARON STARR BUTLER
Things Better Left Unsaid: Socrates' Defense and
Conviction in The Apologia
San Diego, California
ALAN BRIAN CARLSON
Eros or Empire? An Inquiry Concerning the Life
of Marcus Antonius, Rome's Great Statesman,
General, and Lover, from Plutarch's Life of Antony
ESTHER JUNG EUN CHAI
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
ALEKSAJNDER HAYDN CHANCE
Spirits in the Temple of Nature:
Baudelaire's Search for Paradise
ERIK JOHN CHILD
The Nature of God in the Book of Exodus
London, New Hampshire
Ogden, Kansas
Bellingham, Washington
Tokyo, Japan
ISABEL HANSBROUGH CLARK
The Consciousness of a Christian: A Study of the
Role of Food in the Bible
Severna Park, Maryland
JONATHAN GREGORY COOPER
Conscience and the Constant Conflict
Needham, Massachusetts
JOHN KELSEY COTTRELL
The Cult of the Untrue: Reverence and Art in
Nietzsche's Thought
Alexandria, Virginia
CATHERINE MARY Cox
Aristotle's Mirror: The Relationship between
Men and Law
Ellicott City, Maryland
�GEORGE THOMAS DEANS II
Dogma's Downfall: Looking at Socrates' Defeat in
Plato's Parmenides
Topsham, Maine
ARIANNE THERESE DOROTHEA DEMPSEY
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
The Restless Heart: An Examination of the WiU
through Rest and Motion in St. Augustine's
Confessions
PAUL EDWARD DETCHEMENDY
Becoming and Denying Christ: Stavrogin's Demon
Forgiveness
JOHN RICHARD DOBBYN, JR.
The Birth of a Nation
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia
RACHEL PAGE DUDIK
The Longing for Mortal Wisdom: An Inquiry
into the Right Sort of Curiosity Necessary for
Seeking Wisdom in an Analysis of The Confessions
of St. Augustine
Centre Hall, Pennsylvania
TERENCE JAMES DUVALL
Shakespeare's Othello: A Look at One That Lov'd
Not Wisely, But Too Well
OldBrookville, New York
ROSHINI EBENEZER
An Analysis of Burke's Primary Concern in
Reflections on the Revolution in France
MICHAEL JOHN ESTERHELD
All of These Look to You: An Inquiry into Seeing
in the Book of Job
JOSEPH JAMES FERRARA
"In Our Image, After Our Likeness": An
Exploration of Separation in Genesis
Dehra-Dun,
Uttaranchal, India
Bowie, Maryland
New Fairfield, Connecticut
�NICOLE MARIE FISHER
On Pineapple Compote and Other Such Evils:
The Seeds of Atheism and Immorality in
The Brothers Karamazov
LUCAS TIMOTHY FORD
Man Made Man
JOHN THOMAS FRENCH
The Job of the Job: Finding Purpose in Job's
Suffering
DAVID WILLARD GEDDES
That Last Stride
JAMES FRASER GILMORE
The Mythology of Life and Self
CARA LYNN GORMALLY
"Good Intentions": The Irony of Appearance and
Reality in Kafka's Metamorphosis
LIAM BRENDAN GRADY
(Essay previously completed)
Sparks, Maryland
Yardley, Pennsylvania
New Fairfield, Connecticut
Derwood, Maryland
Mt. Desert, Maine
Litchfield, Connecticut
Washington,
District of Columbia
MEGAN MARIE GRAFF
History's Heirs: The Burden of Time Past and
Time Future in the Four Quartets
Baltimore, Maryland
EMILY ALLISON GRAZE
The Golden Day: An Analysis of Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man
Norwood, Maryland
PETER MURPHY HEYNEMAN
The Comic Spirit
ANDREW YEUNG-BUN Hui
"Putting Polycletus and Nature to Shame":
Transformation, Transcendence, and the End of
Art in Dante's Purgatorio, X-XII
Silver Spring, Maryland
Garland, Texas
�GABRIELA JANINE QUERCIA HURWITZ
What Does It Mean to be a Creation of God?
TIFFANY MONIQUE JOLY
Emile's Cake
DENIS ALEXANDROVICH KALIAGUIN
Aristotle on the Dual Origins of the City
WARD SHIRO KASHIWA*
SARAH ELIZABETH KELLY
Love and Betrayal in the Garden of Eden
McLean, Virginia
Barnstable, Massachusetts
Moscow, Russia
Honolulu, Hawaii
Pasadena, Maryland
WILLIAM RAIGHNE KIRK
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
The Whole Picture: An Essay on the Role of
Christianity and Platon Karataev in War and Peace
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER KLIM *
KRISTINA MARIE KORONA
Discovery of Poetic Wisdom by Giambattista Vico
Rendering the Proper Understanding of the Mind
Louis EDWARD KOVACS
Time and Curiosity in Baudelaire's Le Voyage
ERIN KATHLEEN KRASNIEWICZ
Night and Day in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
LOGAN MONROE LAUBACH
Traveling Without Moving: An Ascent of the Soul
According to Plotinus
LAURA LEIGH LYON
The Curse of Compassion
MICHAEL EARL MAGUIRE II
A Village Paralyzed by Fear
Arnold, Maryland
Wayne, Michigan
White Plains, Maryland
Riverside, Connecticut
Hughesville, Pennsylvania
Omaha, Nebraska
South Newfane, Vermont
�DAVID SHEFFIELD MARTIN, JR.
Wilderness and Humanity in Joseph Conrad's
Heart of Darkness
Atlanta, Georgia
MEGAN HEATHER MAXWELL-SMITH
The Discovery of Death: Prince Andrew's Motion
Towards Knowing in War and Peace
Studio City, California
BARON GENE MEDENWALD
The Long Road to Happiness: A Study of the
Acquisition of Virtue in Aristotle's Nicomachean
Ethics
Fort Collins, Colorado
SARAH CAMP MUGFORD
An Examination of the Arguments of the Crito and
How the Laws' Speech Benefits Socrates and Crito
White Hall, Maryland
JUSTIN MATTHEW NAYLOR
Toward the Hope of an Excellent Republic (On
Tocqueville and the Possibilities for Democracy)
Wilmington, Delaware
GEORGE JOSEPH NELSON
How Does Reason Overcome the Animal in Man?
An Analysis of Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
LORETTA O'CONNOR
The Clothes Make the Man: Exploring the
Dialectic of Social Materialism
KATHERINE AMY OEHLBERG
A Nature Within and Without: An Inquiry into the
Evolution of the Moral Sense
Kalispell, Montana
Charlottesville, Virginia
Naperville, Illinois
Calvert County, Maryland
JOHN THOMAS OSBORNE
An Argument for an Aesthetic Education:
Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
and Wallenstein Trilogy
�QUINBY MITCHELL OWEN
The Prophet's Purpose: An Examination of
Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away
RANDALL WITMAN PENNELL
Huckleberry Finn: Wild and Uncultivated
SARAH VIRGINIA PETERS
Mirror or Mirage ? Temporal Motion and Meaning
in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Woodstock, Virginia
Nottingham, Pennsylvania
Lodi, California
LARS ANDREW PETERSON
Monsters of the Cloth in Les Fleurs Du Mai
Owego, New York
BLAKELY LAUREN PHILLIPS
"Of Insight and Not of Tradition":
The Foundations of the Creative Capacity in
Emerson's Nature
Woodstock, Georgia
CAROLINE JOHNSTON PICARD
The Song of the Ostrich
JONATHAN THOMAS POLK
Going the Wrong Way on the Wrong Courses:
The Obstacles of Homecoming
RACHEL AVIVA POLLACK
In Search of a "Great Man": An Inquiry into
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
ALICIA MEREDITH POTEE
Fearing God Wisely: Freedom, Love, and Science
in Spinozan Democracy
HIRAM KISTLER POWERS
Freedom and Necessity: An Historical
Examination of Tolstoy's War and Peace
JEFFREY RAMSEY
The Revelation of Eros in Plato's Symposium
Lake Tahoe, California
Athens, Georgia
Silver Spring, Maryland
Lutherville, Maryland
Washington,
District of Columbia
West Chester, Pennsylvania
�DAVID TOWNSEND REINER
The Teaching of Lies: Socrates and Hippias
West Friendship, Maryland
LEE THOMAS ROACH
A Responsibility to Self and to Country:
The Authors of The Federalist
RACHEL MARIE ROCCIA
Bread as a Biblical Symbol for the Human
Condition
Easton, Connecticut
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
NIKKI JANE ROSENBERG
"Visions and Revisions": A Comparison of
J. Alfred Prufrock and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
ARIEL JULIE Ross
Confused Speeches: Poetic Experience in
Les Fleurs du Mai
SEAN ALAN Ross
Jesus' Message of the New Life in the Gospel of
Matthew
PETER FREDERICK SCHADLER
Faith Unseen: A Study of Faith and How We Come
to It in the Gospel of Matthew
RACHEL ELLEN SEAY
"To Weep and Be Thrilled":
Music in War and Peace
AUSTIN MORRISON SETH
Augustine's Restlessness: What Can Be Known
Through Reason and Grace?
LAUREN MICHELLE SHOFER
Concealment in Darkness: A Process of Gaining a
Deeper Understanding of Invisibility
Houston, Texas
Carbondale, Colorado
Stoneville, North Carolina
Washington,
District of Columbia
Denver, Colorado
Richmond, Virginia
Crownsville, Maryland
�PETER COON SKADOW
"I Am Too Hot and Burned by My Own Thoughts;
Often It Nearly Takes My Breath Away"
Tryon, North Carolina
PETER NOLAN SPEER
A Teleological Suspension of the Ethical
Garden City, New York
GRETCHEN VALERIE STILTNER
The Significance of the Moment in Kierkegaard's
Philosophical Fragments
Baltimore, Maryland
LAURA JEAN STRACHE
Toward a Second Sailing in Search of Truth: A
Platonic Reading of Heisenberg's Indeterminacy
Principle
Sherman, Texas
Jo ELLA STRALEY
Transmuting the Bread of Daily Experience
ANNA ELIZABETH STUBNA
An Interpretation of Religion Throughout
Thomas More's Utopia
MICHAEL BYRON SULLIVAN
The Intellect in St. Thomas Aquinas
ERIK KENDALL THOMPSON
"The Lord Liveth": David, a Psalm, and the
Love of Life
MATTHEW JOHN TINQ
Transcending Christian Faith: The Christian's
Fascination and Difficulty with Absolute Knowing
in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
St. Paul, Minnesota
Oakdale, Pennsylvania
Placerville, California
Binghamton, New York
ElPaso, Texas
MARGARETTA AMELIA TOBIAS
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Love and Laugh at Thy Neighbor: An Examination
of Laughter in Pride and Prejudice
�STEPHEN JAMES TRAVIS
The Foundation and Movement of the
Acts of the Apostles
BENJAMIN LAUGHLIN TRUESDALE
A Sacrifice to Eros
MEGAN KYOMI UMEMOTO
Beauty and the Beast: The Union of Jane Austen
and Martin Heidegger
Redlands, California
Hopkinton, New Hampshire
Parker, Colorado
CHRISTOPHER JOHN WARNAGIRIS
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Reason at All Cost: The Defining Human Quality
in Epictetus' Discourses
CAROL ANN WETHERELL
Has Job Sinned in His Heart? Whether Job's
Relationship to His Children Emulates His
Relationship to God
DAVID WARD WILSON
Marlow the Philosopher
Trenton, Missouri
Owings Mills, Maryland
ANNA LORRAINE WORKS
"Of the Truth of Which We Can Assert Nothing,
Whatever We May Say or Think of Its Probability":
An Exploration of Faraday's Method
Townshend, Vermont
MARIAM GULREZ YAZDANI
Conflict of the Common Good and the Individual
as Seen through Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy
in America
Islamabad, Pakistan
CHRISTIAN PATRICK YODER
Moving Towards a State of Motion: Galileo's
Contribution to the Development of the Concept
of Inertia
* upon completion of requirements
Belleville, Pennsylvania
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
ZAHERALLY KASSAMALLY AHAMED
Nairobi, Kenya
BENJAMIN WILLIAM ANDERSON
Holden, Maine
CAROLINE ELIZABETH BRANCH
Atlanta, Georgia
DESIREE EVE BYKER
SALLY McCiAiN CHOATE
WILLIAM THOMAS GROUSE
THEA HADJICONSTANDI DELBALZO
Atlanta, Georgia
Annapolis, Maryland
Riva, Maryland
PENELOPE GWYNN DONNELLY
Berkley, Michigan
WILLIAM RAYMOND GEISLER*
Meade, Kansas
CHARLES SAMUEL A. GREEN
Westlake Village, California
PETER JAMES OLEN HANNAH
Monterey, California
CHRISTOPHER RYAN HART
San Diego, California
AUSTIN EDWARD JOSEPH HATCH
Falls Church, Virginia
ARELI ALLENE HERRING
REBECCA THOMAS HUDSON
ROGER MARCUS JACKSON
ESTHER VICTORIA KAY
KATHERINE MARION LEWIS
Bristol, Tennessee
Ellicott City, Maryland
Cleveland, Tennessee
Amherst, Virginia
St. Paul, Minnesota
�STEVE CHU-CHEN LIN
Ross HALE MACKENZIE
High Bridge, New Jersey
Annapolis, Maryland
MICHAEL LEE MCDONALD
Columbia, Maryland
HUGH BARNES MC!NTOSH
Washington, District of Columbia
GERALD PETER MIANTE
ANNE WHITMAN MILLER
Stevensville, Maryland
Derwood, Maryland
ALLYSON WILLIAMS MOWER
Richfield, Utah
EILEEN FRANCES MURPHY
Baltimore, Maryland
JASON WILLIAM OCKER
Knoxville, Maryland
RONALD ELLIOTT OSBORN
Silver Spring, Maryland
Brookings, South Dakota
ROBIN LEAH RIETZ
LORI LYNN RUBBLING
Emmitsburg, Maryland
STEPHEN MICHAEL SELF
Sacramento, California
MARY RUESEN STRAUSS
Davidsonville, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
JAMES PATRICK TERP
Irving, Texas
DAVID MICHAEL WILLIAMS
MELODIE LOUISE WILSON-VELASCO
FRANZ RHEINHARDT WISE
+degree requirements
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Baltimore, Maryland
met in Annapolis, graduating in Santa Fe
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
COMMENCEMENT 2002
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
A Nature Within and Without: An Inquiry into
the Evolution of the Moral Sense
HONORABLE MENTION
"Putting Polycletus and Nature to Shame":
Transformation, Transcendence, and the End
of Art in Dante's Purgatorio, X-XII
KATHERINE AMY OEHLBERG
ANDREW YEUNG-BUN Hui
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
The Machine: Pascal's Path to Salvation
MICHELLE KAY PAINE
HONORABLE MENTION
Looking Forward by Looking Backward:
Mapping Out the Development of the Human
Soul in Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and
Foundations of Inequality Among Men
MAYA JESSICA ALAPIN
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
Richard's Tragedy
Telling Time by the Moon
MATTHEW BRYAN CLIFFORD
MATTHEW CHRISTIAN THOMPSON
�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 the Dean
Wining, Dining, and Opining '
To the member of the January Freshman Glass who
has written the best annual essay in the 2000-2001
academic year.
Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta
Smith, of the Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton
Nease, of the Class of 1992
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2001.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Mastered by Images: Understanding Socrates'
Criticism of the Poets in Plato's Republic
To a member of the Senior Glass, for excellence
in speaking.
Offered in memory of
Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
To the student who submits the best English version
of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President
Emeritus
Text: Plato, Laws 887C-888B
JOSHUA MARK WEINSTEIN
No PRIZE
CHRISTOPHER RYAN HART
JONATHAN THOMAS POLK
JEFFREY RAMSEY
To the student who submits the best English version
of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and
Governors
Text: Leconte deLisle, "Midi"
KATHERINE ELIZABETH NEHRING
�To the student who submits a fine original
English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin
in memory of his brother, Henry
"OfPapercuts and Pollen "
To the student who submits a fine original musical
composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
"Jubilate Deo: A Motet for Three Voices "
ALICIA MEREDITH POTEE
ERIN MICHELLE PAGE
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece
of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
The Contrapuntal Soul ofLassus' "Beatus Vir"
ANTON BARBA-KAY
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
BENNET BRISTOL PORTER
HONORABLE MENTION
ANTON BARBA-KAY
To the student who submits the most elegant solution
of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McGlintock
MARY Jo LEONHARDI DOKTER
of the Glass of 1965
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory
project.
An Investigation of the Phenomenon of
Imposed Dormancy in the Seeds of
Rumex crispus
GARA LYNN GORMALLY
HONORABLE MENTION
On the Reduction of Water through
Electrolysis
MICHAEL WHELPLEY MALONE
�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
Louis EDWARD KOVACS
MEGAN HEATHER MAXWELL-SMITH
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
ERIN KATHLEEN KRASNIEWICZ
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
16 Young People with Short Hair, painting
CAROLINE JOHNSTON PICARD
Walter S. Baird Prize - for a Senior who
has demonstrated excellence in the arts,
literature, or sciences
16 Young People with Short Hair, painting
CAROLINE JOHNSTON PICARD
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship 2002
Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Germany
David L. Boren/NSEP (National Security Education
Program), undergraduate scholarship for study
abroad in China
Witherspoon Fellowship for Leadership Development
ANDREW YEUNG-BUN Hui
HIRAM KISTLER POWERS
RYAN DOUGLAS BARNES RYLEE
ROSHINI EBENEZER
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929
Philip L.Alger, 1912
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Annapolis Self-Help
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Bank of America
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Ford K. Brown, H'70
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T. Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland, H'54
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Eugene N.( 1929) and
Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Faculty Scholarship
James H. Frame, 1950
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W.Hass, 1927
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Houston Regional
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones
Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H'84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
John Spangler Kieffer, H'70 and
Roxana White Kieffer, H'84
Jacob Klein, H'76
Korshin Family Fund
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton Memorial Fund
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H '99
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Oklahoma Regional
Norman G. Owens
Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr.
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Pittsburgh Regional
Reader's Digest Foundation
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Lenore B. Hinder
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clifton C. Roehle
Joan and Bela Ronay
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
G.D. Searle/John E. Robson
Robson Family
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Norris and
J. Graham Shannahan, 1908
DougE. Sherr (1972) Memorial
J. Winfree Smith, H'80
James S. Spirer, 1970
C. V. Starr Foundation
Jean Roberts Staylor
Clarence W. Stryker
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turner Walker, 1966
Richard D. Weigle, H'49
John L. Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
Frank K. Wilson, 1935
St. John's College
St. John's College Alumni Association
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Annapolis Banking & Trust Company
Applied Signal Technology, Inc.
William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund
Vernal and Florence Bates Foundation
CitiFinancial
Clark-Winchcole Foundation
Class of 1992
Farmers National Bank of Maryland
Miss Charlotte Fletcher
General Dynamics/ Government Systems Corporation
Paul & Annetta Himmelfarb Foundation, Inc.
The Hodson Scholarship Foundation
IBM Corporation
Independent College Fund of Maryland
The James M. Johnston Trust for Charitable and Educational Purposes
Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation
The John J. Leidy Foundation
Lucent Technologies
Merchantile Safe Deposit & Trust Company
OMEN, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc.
Raytheon Systems Company
TRW Intelligence Systems & Information Technology Group
Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc.
United Parcel Service
Gifts received after April 15,2002 are gratefully acknowledged
and will be listed in the 2003 Commencement Program.
��
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STJOHN'S
College
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
SUNDAY, MAY THIRTEENTH
Two THOUSAND AND ONE
�PROGRAM
FOR THE TWO HUNDRED NINTH
COMMENCEMENT IN THE
THREE HUNDRED FIFTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
PRELUDE
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
WELCOME
CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
PRESIDENT NELSON
HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
ELLIOTT ZUCKERMAN
TUTOR EMERITUS, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
DEAN FLAUMENHAFT
CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES
PRESIDENT NELSON
MICHAEL DINK
DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
ACADEMIC RECESSION
CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET
�BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
(with title of essay)
JUSTIN DONALD ANDREWS
Mount Laurel, New Jersey
The Child in the Abyss: Innocence, Ennui, and
the Fracturing of the Poetic Soul in Baudelaire's
Le Voyage
ELIZABETH ANNE AUSTIN
The Fall of a Sparrow: Hamlet's Quest
for Completion
MOLLYNDA VANNA BAGAGLIO
Being Yourself, Staying at Play: An Exploration of
the Nature of Man and His Relationship with Art in
Friedrich Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic
Education of Man
HEATHER ABIGAIL BEHREND
Prospero's Daughter
JULIA ELIZABETH BELL
Dialectic, Rhetoric and Politics: An Analysis
of the Gorgias
South Portland, Maine
Worcester, Massachusetts
Provo, Utah
Ramsey, New Jersey
DANIEL THOMAS BRAITHWAITE
Towards the Consciousness of No Subject
Oak Park, Illinois
LANCE RYAN BRISBOIS
On the Essentially Socratic Nature of the
Philosophical Fragments
Danvers, Massachusetts
JESSICA ALICE BROTMAN
On Plato's Phaedrus
Newton, Massachusetts
JAMIE LYNN BROUGH
The Musical Portrayal of Man's Primordial Roots in
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
High Falls, New York
�BRENDAN SCHANTZ BULLOCK
Knowing That Which Cannot Be Known:
Cause and Necessity in the Metaphysics of Aristotle
and Leibniz
Windham, Vermont
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
LAUREL SHANN CALDWELL
"In loving thou dost well," (VIII.588): Sexual
Relationships as a Metaphor for Relationships to
God in Milton's Paradise Lost
MARIA CHRISTINA CASSIMATIS
Where We Stand - On Heidegger's Ground
BRYAN HOWARD CLEVELAND
Egypt and the Cult of Heracles: Mythology and the
Marvelous in Herodotus' Histories
Kensington, Maryland
Xenia, Ohio
Bainbridge Island, Washington
JONATHAN FREDERICK GULP
The Problem of Human Freedom in the Philosophy
of Rousseau
JOHN PATRICK CURRAN
Issues of Individual Liberty and a Free
Market of Exchange
TIMOTHY VAUGHN DANIELS
Power and Particles: The Role of Explanation
in Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches
in Electricity
WYATT JAMES DOWLING
Prospero and His Project
SUSAN DONAHUE ELLIS
Behind Convention: An Essay on the
Franklin's Tales
JASON MATTHIAS EMERY
Behold, Here I Am: An Examination of Faith,
Resignation, and Abraham's Greatness in
Fear and Trembling
Woodbridge, Virginia
New Bern, North Carolina
Whitman, Massachusetts
Chicago, Illinois
Bedford, New Hampshire
�KEVIN MICHAEL FARRELLY
Don Quijote and Sancho Panza
Montclair, New Jersey
ANDREW JAMES FERGUSON
Story Cycles
Gary, North Carolina
BEVERLY ANN FLEMER
Angel Bread: Purification by Purgatory,
Rise to Paradise
Middlebury, Vermont
EMILY FRANCES FRAMPTON
The Dialogue of Song in Vergil's Eclogues
Charleston, South Carolina
NICOLE SUZANNE FRANK
Liar Liar: An Examination of the Motives and
Meanings Behind Marlow's Lie to the Intended in
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Mount Desert, Maine
TIMOTHY JAMES FREEMAN
A Step Towards Saving the Spirit of Kant's
Metaphysics
Hollywood, Maryland
ROBERT BRUCE ANDERSON GAMBILL
The Balance of Security and Command:
Considerations for the Founding of States
Richmond, Virginia
ANGELA CHRISTINE GIL
Estrangement and Revolution: The Alienated
Individual in Marx's German Ideology and
Emerson's Essays and Lectures
MontgomeryVillage, Maryland
SARAH LOUISE GUYETTE
From the Whale to the Cross: A Prophecy of World
Salvation
MICHELLE DAWN HALL
Love and Ambition in Stendhal's The Red
and the Black
Lakeside, California
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
�KEVIN MICHAEL FARRELLY
Don Quijote and Sancho Panza
Montclair, New Jersey
ANDREW JAMES FERGUSON
Story Cycles
Gary, North Carolina
BEVERLY ANN FLEMER
Angel Bread: Purification by Purgatory,
Rise to Paradise
Middlebury, Vermont
EMILY FRANCES FRAMPTON
The Dialogue of Song in Vergil's Eclogues
Charleston, South Carolina
NICOLE SUZANNE FRANK
Liar Liar: An Examination of the Motives and
Meanings Behind Marlow's Lie to the Intended in
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Mount Desert, Maine
TIMOTHY JAMES FREEMAN
A Step Towards Saving the Spirit of Kant's
Metaphysics
Hollywood, Maryland
ROBERT BRUCE ANDERSON GAMBILL
The Balance of Security and Command:
Considerations for the Founding of States
Richmond, Virginia
ANGELA CHRISTINE GIL
Estrangement and Revolution: The Alienated
Individual in Marx's German Ideology and
Emerson's Essays and Lectures
MontgomeryVillage, Maryland
SARAH LOUISE GUYETTE
From the Whale to the Cross: A Prophecy of World
Salvation
MICHELLE DAWN HALL
Love and Ambition in Stendhal's The Red
and the Black
Lakeside, California
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
�JENNIFER BETH HARRIS
On the Necessity of the Passionate SelfConsciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Miami, Florida
MARSHALL ABBOTT HEVRON
A Degree of Depravity: The Regulation of Vice in
The Federalist Papers
New Orleans, Louisiana
MELISSA LYNN HUTCHINS
A Look at the Power of Natural and Conventional
Languages in Rousseau's Emile
Rockville, Maryland
JAMES HERBERT INZEO
Shakespeare, Sonnets: On Lovers
Greenbelt, Maryland
HANNAH IRELAND
WAKING: Lajeune Parque of Paul Valery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
DAVID LEE JENNINGS
The Failure of Creon
Oakhurst, California
SARAH ELIZABETH JOYCE
The God Who Wants
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
LIZABETH JANET JUMP
Compassion and the Disruption of Complacency:
Huck Finn as a Moral Hero
IAN PETER JUNGBACKER
Making Sense of Penelope
BASIA KAPOLKA
Intimacy with Filth: An Examination of
Baudelaire's Une Charogne
JAIME LYNN KEELING
The Author's Meditation: Preoccupied with
Socrates and an Unaccountable Word
Westminster, Maryland
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Salinas, California
Hot Springs, Arkansas
�ANTHE ALIFERIS KELLEY
Looking into Logic
DANIEL MORLEY KEYS
Hegel in Search of Himself in the State
Boston, Massachusetts
Princeton Junction, New Jersey
A-JlN KlM
The Musical "Don Giovanni": Kierkegaard's Lover
in Mozart's Opera
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
JOSHUA ALVA KIRKMAN
The Devils of the Land: The Human Experience in
Heart of Darkness
Greenville, South Carolina
ANDREW LYLE KOLB
You Speak Like a Book: Reading Notes
from Underground
SEAN ROBERT LALLY
The Dignity of Humanity: An Exploration of the
Content of Kant's Ethics
DAVID LAMAR LEE
The Structure of Human Blessedness in
Augustine's Confessions and De Trinitate
SERGEY LEVCHIN
Eros and History in the Art of C. P. Gavafy
LAURA ANNA LEWIS
The Body Tells the Truth: God Incarnate in
The Violent Bear It Away
SHAWN PATRICK LOHT
Morality within the Limits of Reason in Kant's
Critique of Practical Reason and Groundingfor the
Metaphysics of Morals
JOHN ROBERT LYON
Einstein's New Notion of Space
Flushing, New York
Brentwood, Tennessee
Skokie, Illinois
West Chicago, Illinois
Lewistown, Pennsylvania
Shiloh, Ohio
�New Stanton, Pennsylvania
KRISTIN PAULINE MASSER
"Does one's integrity ever lie in what one is
unable to do?": Backwards to Bethlehem with
Hazel Motes
DANIEL MORGAN MAZAL
Past the Lucid Paradox: The Search for True Sight
in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Deland, Florida
WILLIAM IAN McCov
Resurrection from The House of the Dead
PATRICK EDWARD McDowELL
Nothing Else Matters, and Nothing is So Neglected:
An Argument for Why One Ought to Live Seeking
God, Based upon Pascal's Pensees
ADRIENNE ROXANNE MOORE
Consciousness and Body, Will and Determinism:
Comments on Some Writings by Descartes
East Bangor, Pennsylvania
Alexandria, Virginia
CHARLES WILLIAM MORRISON
A Theological Account of Palestrina's
"Pope Marcellus Mass"
ALI JASON MOUSSALLI
Philosophy and Science in Maxwell and Poincare
DANIEL THOMAS SULLIVAN O'KEEFE
Believing in The Winter's Tale
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Texas
MICHAEL WAYNE MEADOWS
Drawn Down the Magic Cap: Marx and the
Morality of Private Property
ANNE MARGARET NEEDHAM
The Motive for Metaphor: Wallace Stevens'
Desire for Truth
San Antonio, Texas
Pensacola, Florida
Washington, District of Columbia
Wappingers Falls, New York
�ALEXANDER LEE OWEN
The Fall of the Roman Republic
STEPHEN THOMAS PALOPOLI
Paralysis, Gnomon, and Simony: An Analysis
of Deficiency in Joyce's Dubliners
COSMINA lOANA PoPA
Farmington, Michigan
Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania
Arad, Romania
"God Knows How These People Get Made!"
PAIGE ELIZABETH POSTLEWAIT
King Billy and the Paralyzed City
JEREMY ALEXANDER PRATT
A Study of Cyclical History
MARC ANTHONY PRIEST
A Justification of the Value of Scientific Pursuits
Based Upon Francis Bacon's New Organon
KATIE FRANKLIN PRINCE
Rainy Day Women - The Broken Wisdom
of the Artist
SYLVAINE NATHALIE RAMECKERS
Anagogy and Architecture: An Analysis of the
Geometrical Dynamics of Ghartres
JASON BRYAN REES
Process as the Unifying Principle of
Physical Reality
JESSICA KRISTIN REITZ
The Galilean Foundation for Relativity and the
Absolute Significance of Motion in Nature
CATHY OPPER ROSENBERG
A Creator's Unity in a Created World:
Contradiction, Separation, and Ambiguity
in the First Three Chapters of Genesis
Katy, Texas
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
Memphis, Tennessee
Southern Pines, North Carolina
New York, New York
Grass Lake, Michigan
Worcester, Massachusetts
Orlando, Florida
�Marietta, Georgia
ERIC DANIEL ROSENBERG
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and the
Unhappy Consciousness
Annandale, Virginia
ELIZABETH BARAN ROYAL
On the Sickness of Man
ANDREW THOMAS SARAZIN
Not Histories, But Lives: An Exploration of
Plutarch's Method
Charlottesville, Virginia
Hanover, Maryland
COLBY LEE SCHMIDT
Odysseus: Terrorist or Guerrilla Warrior?
Baltimore, Maryland
SARAH LOUISE SCOTT
Georg Cantor's Transfinite Numbers: A Quest for
Objective Knowledge
Swansboro, North Carolina
TALLEY ROLLINGS SCROGGS
Chercher? pas seulement: creer
AARON BROOKS SECHLER
On Heidegger's Aristotle
Silver Spring, Maryland
COLIN HENDERSON SMITH
"Shall I Believe I Am Nothing? Shall I Believe I Am
God?" An Argument Against Edward O. Wilson's
Consilience Theory
Exeter, New Hampshire
MARGARET ELIZABETH SPAETH
Freedom Through Beauty
ERIK PETER STADNIK
In Search of the Balanced Life: Mary, Morality,
and Mansfield Park
KIMBERLY J. STATELER
Through the Ivory Gate: History, Heroes, and
Hopes as Glimmering Illusion
St. Joseph, Minnesota
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Chicago, Illinois
�JONATHAN PAUL STEVENS
How Can a Loving God Allow Death?: An
Examination of the Fall of Man as Described
in Genesis
Boyertown, Pennsylvania
LEO GENE VLADIMIRSKY
On Mirrors, Images, and Ahab in Moby Dick
Weston, Connecticut
MELISSA WACHS
And Lead Us into Temptation: Stephen Dedalus,
Quentin Compson, and the Redemptive Power
of Sin
KRISTOPHER WAYNE WACKERMAN
Swift and Gulliver's Travels: Overcoming the
Problem of Educating Through Satire
MEIR RAPHAEL WALTERS
To Prevail over God and Men: The Formation of
Cities and Nations in the Book of Genesis
CECELIA ALEXANDRA WATSON
The Serial Experimentalist: Michael Faraday's
Method and His "Being Induced"
DANIEL ALBERT WEILAND
Why Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete
FLOYE HEATHER WELLS
The Spectacle of Nature - Man's Image of Himself:
An Exploration of Physical Nature in Rousseau's
Emile
Staten Island, New York
Kansas City, Missouri
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Memphis, Tennessee
Valencia, Pennsylvania
Vail, Colorado
JENNIFER ELIZABETH WESTIE
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Paradise for the Swarm: Discovering the Ennobling
Power of Love in The Brothers Karamazov
SARAH ELIZABETH WHITESEL
The Unstated Self: Madness, Nothing, and
Language in King Lear
Darnestown, Maryland
�NEVIN LAWRENCE YOUNG
Vague Remarks upon Galileo and Dedekind:
Continuity and the Infinite in Magnitude and
Multitude
IVA ZlZA
On Marx
Manchester, Maine
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION
SHERWOOD RAY BELANGIA
Summerfield, North Carolina
JEREMY BRENINGSTALL
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
ERIC DAMIEN CADENA
La Crescenta, California
NATHAN ANDREW CRADDOCK
Cincinnati, Ohio
JILL ERIN CRAWFORD
Brooklyn, New York
ERIC CARL ELLINGSEN
Lexington, Kentucky
SCOTT WILLIAM GREENBERGER
Green Bay, Wisconsin
APRIL DAWN KONCHAR-HARBERT
Pasadena, Maryland
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW LARSON
La Plata, Maryland
YONGHWA LEE
MATTHEW KENNETH LOUGHRAN
JOHN MASON NEW
STEPHANIE NORQUIST
MARTHA ROSEAILEEN ROGERS
SHANNON LYNN ROQUEMORE
THEODORE MARTIN RYAN
DANIEL EVAN SILVERMINTZ
CHARLES WILBUR STOTLER III
Pusan, South Korea
Kensington, Maryland
Richmond, Virginia
Washington, District of Columbia
Annapolis, Maryland
Warner Robins, Georgia
St. Louis, Missouri
Boynton Beach, Florida
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
ANNE LOUISE SULLIVAN
San Diego, California
ERIC H. TWITE
San Diego, California
MILTON LAMONT WELCH
NATHAN D. WILSON
KEVIN B. YOST
WALTER JAMES YUREK
ZEJIAN ZHANG
Newport News, Virginia
Moscow, Idaho
Lincoln, Vermont
Rumbley, Maryland
Chong Qing, People s Republic of China
�HONORS AND PRIZES
COMMENCEMENT 2001
To the member of the Senior Class who has written
the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of
the class of 1966
A Step Towards Saving the Spirit of
Kant's Metaphysics
TIMOTHY JAMES FREEMAN
HANNAH IRELAND
WAKING: La Jeune Parque of Paul Valery
HONORABLE MENTION
Egypt and the Cult of Heracles: Mythology and the
BRYAN HOWARD CLEVELAND
Marvelous in Herodotus' Histories
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the
best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory
of her daughter-in-law,
Kathryn Mylorie Stevens
The Present is Pregnant with the Future:
An Essay on Leibniz
RACHEL ELLEN SEAY
HONORABLE MENTION
Cuckoo and Nightingale: Modes of Inspiration
in Paradise Lost
PETER MURPHY HEYNEMAN
The Significance of Thinking a Concept
as a Problem
BLAKELY LAUREN PHILLIPS
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has
written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late
Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
On Faith and Perfection...
KATHLEEN CAMPBELL KELLEY
HONORABLE MENTION
The Philosopher-Saint Defends his Career: A Study of
Faith and Reason in Aquinas
MICHELLE KAY PAINE
�To the member of the Freshman Glass who has written
the best annual essay.
Offered in memory of Jacob Klein, Tutor
Emeritus, and his wife, Else, by the Dean
ANDERSON RUSSELL TALLENT
The Incontinent Philosopher
HONORABLE MENTION
The Eumenides: Tension
To the member of the January Freshman Class who
has written the best annual essay in the 1999-2000
academic year.
Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta
Smith, of the Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton
Nease, of the Class of 1992
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a
distinguished preceptorial essay in the year 2000.
Offered by the Alumni Association
"The Good Before Him ":
The Role of Eve in Paradise Lost
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence
in speaking.
Offered in memory of
Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
To the student who submits the best English version
of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President
Emeritus
ROBERT CHARLES ABBOTT, JR.
No PRIZE
CORINNE SAVAGE OLIVERIO
SARAH ELIZABETH WHITESEL
No PRIZE
To the student who submits the best English version
of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Hugo, "A Theophile Gautier"
HONORABLE MENTION
JAMIE LYNN BROUGH
AMY MICHELLE PHILLIPS
�To the student who submits a fine original
English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin
in memory of his brother, Henry
FOR
: A Slap-pot Master
PETER HEYNEMAN
To the student who submits a fine original musical
composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
No PRIZE
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece
of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap
The Musical Portrayal of Man s Primordial Roots in
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
JAMIE LYNN BROUGH
To the student who submits the most elegant solution
of a geometrical problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of
Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor
and Director of Athletics Emeritus
JUSTIN WILLIAM HURWITZ
To the student who submits the most elegant solution
of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock
of the Class of 1965
JUSTIN WILLIAM HURWITZ
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory
project.
A Faraday Cage
To the Senior man and woman who by their
participation, leadership, and sportsmanship have
contributed most to the College's athletic program,
special blazers.
Offered by the Alumni Association
of St. John's College
DAVID SHEFFIELD MARTIN, JR.
ANDREW JAMES FERGUSON
JESSICA KRISTIN REITZ
�To the member of the Senior Class who has
demonstrated the greatest care for and service to
youth residing in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of
Marvin B. Cooper,
of the Class of 1969
WILLIAM IAN McCoY
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the
best work of visual art to the Community Art
Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize
Palm After Rainfall, color photograph
SYLVAINE NATHALIE RAMECKERS
Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has
demonstrated excellence in the arts,
literature, or sciences
Preservation, poetry collection
National Security Education Program(NSEP)
Scholarship for Summer Language Study, Egypt
National Security Agency Scholarship
and Internship
MARIA CHRISTINA CASSIMATIS
AARON BOYD MACLEAN
RYAN DOUGLAS BARNES RYLEE
�ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929
Philip L.Alger, 1912
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Annapolis-Self-Help
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Ford K. Brown, H'70
Chicago Regional
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T. Clark
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Richard F. Cleveland, H'54
Bernard Clorety
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
Eugene N.( 1929(and
Robert G. (1963) Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Cpl. George E. Cunniff III
Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Faculty Scholarship
James H. Frame, 1950
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907
John T. Harrison, Jr.
Charles W. Hass, 1927
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Houston Regional
J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones
Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H'84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
John Spangler Kieffer, H'70 and
RoxanaKieffer,H'84
Jacob Klein, H'76
Korshin Family Fund
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Michael Littleton Memorial Fund
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
NationsBank Foundation
Rev. Theo O'Brien
Oklahoma Regional
Norman G. Owens
Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr.
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
Pittsburgh Regional
Reader's Digest Foundation
J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Lenore B. Hinder
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clifton C. Roehle
Joan and Bela Ronay
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
G.D. Searle/John E. Robson
Robson Family
J. J. Salovaara
Flora Duvall Sayles
Hazel Norris and
J. Graham Shannahan, 1908
Doug E. Sherr Memorial
J. Winfree Smith, H'80
James S. Spirer, 1970
C. V. Starr Foundation
Jean Roberts Staylor
Clarence W. Stryker
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous
Richard D. Weigle, H'49
John L. Williams
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
Frank K.Wilson, 1935
St. John's College
St. John's College Alumni Association
�ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS
St. John's College, Annapolis
Allied Signal Technical Services Corporation
AllFirst Financial, Inc.
Annapolis Banking and Trust
Applied Signal Technology
Baltimore Sun
Bank of America
Vernal and Florence Bates Foundation
Becton-Dickinson Microbiology Systems
Bell Atlantic-Maryland
Booz, Allen and Hamilton
Chevy Chase Bank
Clark-Winchcole Foundation
Class of 1992
Computer Science Corporation
Deutschebank Alex. Brown
First National Bank of Maryland
Miss Charlotte Fletcher
The Hodson Scholarship Foundation
Independent College Fund of Maryland
The James M. Johnston Trust
Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation
L-3 Communications System-East
Legg Mason
The John J. Leidy Foundation
TimothyJ. Lyng
Litton/PRC, Inc.
Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Company
OMEN, Inc.
Procter & Gamble
T. Rowe Price Foundation
Pulse Engineering, Inc.
Raytheon/HRB
Rollins/Leutkemeyer
Rosemore, Inc.
The Rouse Company
SRA International
St. Paul Companies
Richard Squires
TRW Systems & Information Technology Group
Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc.
UPS
K. C. Victor
Gifts received after April 15, 2001 are gratefully acknowledged and will be listed in
the 2002 Commencement Program.
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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>
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Program for the two hundred ninth commencement in the three hundred fifth year of the college.
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Commencement Program, 2001
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Friday, June i6th
8 P.M.
Farewell Hop to '93.
Saturday, June ijth
Boat Regatta.
Sunday, June i8th
ii A. M.
Address before Y. M C A , Rev. J. W. Duffey, Baltimore, Md.,
8 P. M.
Baccalaureate Sermon, Rev. W. F. Corkran, D.D.
Monday, June ipth
10 A. M.
Military Drill and Competition for Flag,
8 P.M.
Philokalian Society Celebration.
Tuesday, June 2oth
10 A. M.
Class Day Bxercises,
8 P. M.
Philomathean Society Celebration.
Wednesday, June 2ist
10.30 A. M.
Graduation Exercises and Address before Alumni,
4 P.M.
Business Meeting of Alumni Association,
8.30 P. M.
Alumni Banquet.
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10 a. m.
Call to Order,
Roll Call,
Reading Minutes,
President's Address,
Reports of Officers,
General Business,
Class History,
Class Prophecy,
Class Poem,
Distribution of Presents,
Address to Undergraduates,
Raising Mock Class Shield,
Smoking Class Pipes and Reception.
Office
i-ce^o.
Samuel Mitchell Wagaman, President.
Robert Penington, Vice-President.
William Henry Wilhelm, Recording Secretary.
James Philip Biays, Jr., Corresponding Secretary.
Howard Casper Norris, Treasurer.
Winfield Scott Schley, Jr., Historian.
Jonathan Handy Waller, Prophet.
Charles Early Dryden, Poet.
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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 Class of '93 commencement exercises, June 16th to 21st 1893.
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Commencement Program, 1893
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Commencement Programs and Addresses
Coverage
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Annapolis, MD
Contributor
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St. John's College Greenfield Library
Description
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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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commencementprograms
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paper
Page numeration
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7 pages
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Creator
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St. John's College
Date
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1911-06
Identifier
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CommencementExercises1911
Coverage
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Annapolis, MD
Publisher
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St. John's College
Language
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English
Type
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text
Rights
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St. John's College owns the rights to this publication.
Format
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pdf
Description
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Program for the one hundred nineteenth annual commencement exercises, June fifteenth to twenty first.
Subject
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Commencement (St. John's College, Annapolis, MD)
Title
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Commencement Program, 1911
Commencement