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2023
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday | May 14
Two Thousand and Twenty-Three
Annapolis | Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Thirty-First
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Seventh Year
of the College
Prelude
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Welcome
Nora Demleitner
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Demleitner
Joseph Macfarland
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Nathan Dugan
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees of the Class of 2023
President Demleitner
Dean Macfarland
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Demleitner
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Recognition of the Class of 2020
Academic Recession
President Demleitner
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Carrollton Brass Quintet
�B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Kasparas Adomaitis
Vilnius, Lithuania
Huckleberry Finn: the Conscience of Mark Twain’s America
Jack Alford
Vienna, Virginia
The Doomed Romantic: Failure and Fate in Lord Jim
Rhett Anderson
Thetford, Vermont
Wild Apes & Savage Beavers: Examining Identity Post-Colonization in Aime
Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism, James Joyce’s Dubliners, and
Dr. Frederick Wiseman’s Dawnland: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
Max Anthon
Haworth, New Jersey
Terminal Philosophy A Closer Look at the End of Socrates
Ella Rose Barron
Denver, Colorado
Voltaire’s Zadig ou la Destinée: A World Not Directed by Wisdom
Joseph Bennett
Amherst, New Hampshire
A Linguistic Christ Figure in Phenomenology of Spirit
Ben Berghammer
Evanston, Illinois
The Torments of a Deep Conscience: What it Means for Ivan Fyodorovich’s
Heart to be Overcome by God in The Brothers Karamazov
James Lawrence Bieneman
West Bloomfield, Michigan
What differentiates Newton and Leibniz in development and understanding
of their calculus?
Malaika Biwott
Fairfax, Virginia
The Demise of the Laborer
Emory Richmond Boll
New York, New York
Magical Mystery Tour Searching for Soul, Self, and Solace in Jung’s Red
Book
Dashiel Donald Buyske-Friedberg
God and Lucifer through Dante’s the Divine Comedy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
�Meagan Callahan
Sunderland, Maryland
What You Will: Desire and Happiness in Twelfth Night
Stephen Dela Cruz Cariño
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Fiction and Reality: The Imaginations of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Gabriela Carroll
Austin, Texas
The Fruit of Unconscious Activity in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Sihwan Cha
Busan, South Korea
A Touch of Intellect, the Flesh of Man
Bibhusan Chapagain*
Hyeokjae Choi
Kathmandu, Nepal
Seoul, South Korea
Wrestling with the Shade of Plato: The Meno and Lucian’s Hermotimus
Joseph Cunningham
Ambleside, United Kingdom
Out from the Dark Wood: The Importance of Dante’s Awakening and First
Steps into Hell
Sam Detwiler
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
No More. The Text is Foolish: Understanding Shakespeare’s Props in King
Lear
Jonah Donis
South Hamilton, Massachusetts
To See with Eyes Unclouded: A Look at the Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic
Elizabeth SuAnn Dowdy
Fort Worth, Texas
Sisters by Chance or Sisters by Choice? An Examination of Sisterhood in
Sophocles’ Antigone
Samantha Duckworth
On Book X of Euclid’s Elements
Mira Dunan Emmart
Holland, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Locke on Labor For the Right or For the Good?
Isabel Emond
Ocean City, Maryland
Spellbound: The Risks of Learning in Plato’s Protagoras
Mathew Fisher
Weathersfield, Vermont
Unnumbered Strands Exploration of Separation in Dream of the Red
Chamber
Vienna, Austria
On Speech, or the Same and the Other
Cristopher Barrett Ford
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Stamping Ground, Kentucky
A Cry for the Recognition of Living Poetry: Exploring Unreason in Don
Quixote
Alexander Ray Fodor
Of Whales and Men
Amanda Jayne Clemens
Eleanor Carroll Elliott
Reston, Virginia
Freeing Minds: A Treatment for Ignorance
Agnes Sands Galvin
Millerton, New York
To Be Mistress of Pemberley
Kreider Chesterfield Grasse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“The Summit of the Organic Scale” Is Man’s Superciliousness Justified by
Darwin’s View Of the Progression of Man?
Emerson Rieman Graves
Charlotte, North Carolina
“All Myth, The One Reality” of Helen in Egypt
Noah Hale
Seaford, Delaware
The Paradoxical Hero and the Progress of Loss in Job
Allegra Danger Hall
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Absence Makes the Heart: The Present Christ in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Ella Naomi Harel Kirschner
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phaedra the Philosopher Queen: Passionate Thought, Speech, and Deed in
Euripides’ Hippolytus
�Jonathan Harris
Silver Spring, Maryland
Returning Power to the People: An Analysis of Civil Responsibility in the
Commonwealth, as Established in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
Matthew James Hogan
Ava Marie Elisabeth Lehrman
The Curiosity and Conviction of a Humble Man: On Faraday’s
Electromagnetic Phenomena through Inductive Reasoning
St. Helena, California
Lakeland, Florida
Paradox in Paradise
Matthew Jungheim
Highland Park, Illinois
From Aeneas to Zion: An Account of the Essence of Two Nations
John Frederick Kelly
Annapolis, Maryland
Evanston, Illinois
Shaped by Absence: Negation in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Eyes Wide Open: An Inquiry into the Second and Third Chapters of the Book
of Genesis
Zixiong Lin
Wenling, People’s Republic of China
Daryl Jeffrey Locke
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Lucie Carroll McCarthy
Baltimore, Maryland
Delay and the Bounded Self in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Jenny Kim
Chungju, South Korea
Involuntary Memory in Swann’s Way
New Freedom, Pennsylvania
Baudelaire’s Search for the Red Ideal in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Cincinnati, Ohio
Corruption and the Art of Philosophy Education and Friendship in Plato’s
Phaedrus
Chicago, Illinois
God, Moses, and the Golden Rule: Does Hillel’s Famous Statement Hold
True When Reading Exodus?
The Ubiquitous Experience of Exile in Baudelaire’s Swan
Las Vegas, Nevada
Outcast Child Monarch of the Clouds
Isabella Martin Kiedrowski
Hyojeong Lee
Cedar Park, Texas
“The Laws and Loss of Nature” Reinterpreting Tocqueville’s Observations on
the Principle of Equality For the Modern Day
Passion Nailed Down in America: An Inquiry on the Sovereignty of People
The Quest for Political and Spiritual Moderation
Rivka Koppel
Nothing Beside Remains: The Breakdown of Morality in Heart of Darkness
Sarah Janice Fairchild Lieberman
Chelsea Johnson
Craig Koch
Ellicott City, Maryland
Joshua Levins
The “Dark, Sweet Stench” of Loam in Toni Morrison’s Sula.
Mia Kobylski
Needham, Massachusetts
Law, Principle, Rule: What If Darwin’s Laws Are Taken as Laws of Physics?
Burke, Virginia
Ella Hougie
Jake Lees
Incheon, South Korea
Isabel Lucille McDonald
Gambier, Ohio
The Social Outsider: Society, Adventure, and Freedom in Mark Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sylvie McKnight-Milles
Ellicott City, Maryland
In Search of Physical Reality: A Journey through Schrödinger’s
Mathematical Derivation of the Quantum Wave Function
Elizabeth Lynn Meade
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
“You Must Not Be Here:”: Alienation through Law in War and Peace
Ezra Melchor
Catonsville, Maryland
On Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals: The Doubt of Faith and the Will to Truth
Megli Micek
Las Vegas, Nevada
Love, the Inevitable End of Everything in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
�Jozef Miklasz
Crownsville, Maryland
The Five Rings Freedom through the Way of the Warrior
Grace Frances Miller
Trinity, North Carolina
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Louisville, Kentucky
The Life of Isaac McCaslin From Faulkiner’s Go Down, Moses
Giovanni Morgan
Stuart, Florida
The I That is We: How Community Sets Us Free in Hegel’s Phenomenology
of Spirit
Elizabeth “Birdi” Mueller
Ridgway, Colorado
Saving Orlando: Marriage and Mannage in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Brooke Anna Murphy-Petri
Darien, Connecticut
To Love One’s Neighhhbor a Voyage into Gulliver’s Travels
Lillian Pearl Lemmert Naill
Baltimore, Maryland
Old Westbury, New York
The Torment and Ecstacy of Spleen and the Ideal
Tom Ni
Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Virtue or Virtù: The Case of Scipio
Matthew Nugent*
Joseph Padgett
Keene, New Hampshire
Memphis, Tennessee
Die Müh Ist Aus or Finding Rest in Bach’s Passion
Lysithia Page
Do We Get What We Want? An Essay on Plato’s Symposium
Gorham, Maine
Francis Proctor
Annapolis, Maryland
A Consideration of Inheritance, Rights, and Liberty
Alayna Kay Louise Raymond
Spanaway, Washington
Finding Her Epos: An Investigation into Dorothea Brooke’s Potential for Epic
Life in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Elli Megan Rees
Llanelli, Wales
Seduction: A means of Destruction or Reconciliation?
Jennifer Reid
Atlanta, Georgia
Movement in Passivity: A Phenomenological Approach to the Development
of Passivity in the Girl in Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Caroline Grace Ritter
Arlington, Virginia
On Personal Freedom and Historical Inevitability in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
The Four Elements in the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Exploration of Duality within
Nature
Noah Negri
Silas Nathanael Pillsbury
On Attention and Identity: A Study of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Passion and Gospel: Bach’s Double Scoring of Matthew
Caroline Kohl Moeller
Chicago, Illinois
The Dialectic of Violence: Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth
Economy, Passion, Love Exploring What It Means to Marry Well in Jane
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Ruby Mariah Miller
Angel Pantoja Jr.
Garrick Buchanan Rodman
The Identity and Ideals of a Man Betrayed
Jacob Richard Rowley
Bend, Oregon
A Platform of Stability: Eternal Moment in To The Lighthouse
Kostiantyn Rymar
Kyiv, Ukraine
Sin, Death, Suffering, and Baudelaire: How Evil Penetrates l’esprit and
l’corps to Create the Deplorable Nature of the Human Condition
Apurva Sharma
Kathmandu, Nepal
“A Shadow Here and a Light There”: An Exploration of the Self and the Other
in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Lirian Selene Spolaore
Burlingame, California
Glennville, Pennsylvania
Washington, District of Columbia
A Journey through Memory: Experiencing Time with Marcel Proust
�Sachin Cyril Stanislaus
Templeton, California
On Legitimate Authority in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract:
An Inquiry into the Possibility of Justified Social Relations
Honor Dubarry Stanton
Toronto, Canada
The Degradation of Soul and Regime in Plato’s Republic
Wyatt Sweeney
Cleveland, Ohio
Bona Fide: The Anatomy and Apotheosis of Identity through Montaigne’s
Essays
Nathaniel Talbutt
Providence, Rhode Island
Colossus! Interpreting Real and Symbolic Power in Shakespeare’s Tragedy
of Julius Caesar
Nicolas Turner
Arlington, Virginia
What Wants to Be Told: Self-knowledge through the Fables of Aesop and
Jean de La Fontaine
Nya Uberman-Gillon
Olympia, Washington
The Human Frequency: A Marriage of Opposites and Acceptable Paradox
James “Cooper” Ussery
Naples, Florida
A Standpoint Beyond: On The German Ideology
Paul William Vosteen Jr.
Monterey, Virginia
The Frenzied Pied Piper of Idolatry
Libby Watson
Houston, Texas
Thinking of Thinking: Why the Phenomenology of Spirit is a Story
Leonard Wells
Washington, District of Columbia
The Odyssey of L’russe Besuhof in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Tessa Wild
St. Louis, Missouri
“Unnatural Troubles”: An Exploration of Madness in Macbeth
Tong “Cynthia” Wu
Suzhou, People’s Republic of China
Man as a Beautiful Animal: The Evolution of Human Civilization through
Beauty in Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man
Jingyi Zhang
Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
Mal of Les Fleurs du Mal
Rose Meien Zhang
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Something New Under the Sun in Kepler’s Astronomia Nova
Yingxin Zhang
Wenling, People’s Republic of China
How One Should Live a Life: Moderation in Plato’s Republic
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Mark Acebo
Perth, Australia
Sarah Pendleton Alexander
Annapolis, Maryland
§
Alexander Phillip Andreosatos
Quincy, Massachusetts
Jeffrey Robert Boatwright†
Los Angeles, California
§
Adam Burkhart
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
§
David Somerset Christian
Cypress, California
Jesse Clagett
Dahlonega, Georgia
Ari Spencer Coleman†
South Jordan, Utah
Benjamin Crocker
Sydney, Australia
Folke Egerstrom
Santa Ana, Costa Rica
§
Matthew Ely
Des Moines, Iowa
Derek Foret
Washington, District of Columbia
§
Fort Washington, Maryland
†
Madison, Wisconsin
Tanya Malita Fuller
Jay Alexander Gold
Ansley Starr Green
Steven Hayes§
Alachua, Florida
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Jordan Loch Hill
Perth, Australia
†
Joshua C Laperche
§
Connor Morrison
Benjamin Stewart Pershall†
Siobhán Autumn Petersen
†
David R. Pierce
§
Ethan Pyle
Exeter, Rhode Island
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Severna Park, Maryland
Shady Side, Maryland
Santa Teresa, New Mexico
Hartland, Wisconsin
Walker Beau Rogalsky
Winnipeg, Canada
Kasey M Siciliano
Cincinnati, Ohio
Abdullah Wadood
Bethesda, Maryland
§
Chase Waller
Judith Jankowski Wrenn§
*
Upon completion of requirements
†
Degree conferred January 18, 2023
§
Degree conferred October 26, 2022
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Fountain Inn, South Carolina
�Welcoming back our Class of 2020
B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Tbel Abuseridze
Batumi, Georgia
On Voyaging
Zainab Noor Ahmad
Lucknow, India
With Feminine Love & Beauty – A Close Look at Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Angelika Nora Alberstadt
New York, New York
Who Painted the Lion? An Analysis of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales
Alexander Thompson Albert
Towson, Maryland
The Influence of War and Peace on Individuals in War and Peace
Emmet Allen
Lexington, Kentucky
Discovery and Concealment – An Examination of Meaning and
Sedimentation in Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences
August Baganz
Annapolis, Maryland
And Repudiating Immolation: The Motion Towards Understanding in
Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
Thomas Balding
Long Island, New York
Free Will and the Individual in War and Peace – An Investigation of Man’s
Ability to Act in a Historical World
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
Tucson, Arizona
Love’s Language in Tristan und Isolde – An Exploration of Musical Meaning
Darcy Marie Bohlin
Santa Fe, New Mexico
On the Amorality of Forgiveness
Anne Lindsay Brong
The Cumulative Action of Creation – A Calculus Under Darwin
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
�Martha Campbell
Annapolis, Maryland
The Perfect Words in The Perfect Order – The Power of the Poetic in Soren
Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Whether it Succeeds in Saying The
Unspeakable
Charles John Carpenter
Farmington, Connecticut
The Natural Social Man – Finding Morality Free of Prejudice in Rousseau’s
Emile
Cole Caudle
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dynamic Language – An essay concerning how our conception of language
shapes how we engage with the world
Yu Chieh Chang
Taichung, Taiwan
Between Love and Suffering – Confessional Language in Dostoevsky’s Crime
and Punishment
Parker James Chlovechok
Cambridge, Ohio
Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty - An Analysis of the Different Forms of Memory
and their Applications to Life and the Creative Process
Raeann Clement
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
A Pursuit of Virtue
Adelaide, Australia
Time, Nature, & Empathy: A Portrait of Humanity in Goethe’s Faust
Los Angeles, California
Kathmandu, Nepal
Zarathustra’s Solitude – A Path to Self-Overcoming
Collin Doherty
Richmond, Virginia
A Moral Bath- Pierre’s Pursuit of Happiness in War and Peace
“…And the Battlefield is the Heart of Man”: An Inquiry into Love, Judgement,
and Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov
Sierra Engdahl
Estero, Florida
How to Build a Good European: Nietzsche’s Pursuit of a Reformed Science
Noah Estes
Mosier, Oregon
On Storytelling: The Art of Experience, Perception, and Symbolism in Mark
Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sadie Bromberg Funk
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Inseparably Interconnected Infinitesimal Elements: An Exploration of
Tolstoy’s Science of History and its Mathematical Possibilities
Tianqi (Simon) Gao
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
The Idea of “Conflicts” in Federalist Papers and Its Misuse in American
Politics
Pasadena, Maryland
Pain: The Price for Greatness
Carlsbad, California
Death for Philosophers –A Guide to Dispelling the Fear of Death Through
Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things
Beebs Hartzell
Houston, Texas
Maddie Nell Fortier Jane
Charlottesville, Virginia
What Giants? An Exploration of Laughter in Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Annapolis, Maryland
On the Isolation Present in the Modern Poetry of Charles Baudelaire
Kesi Emily Dremel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Antigone: Oedipus’s Complex Daughter
Gorgias: The Rhetoric of Shame
Mary Dray
Ryan Andrew Eberlein
Mitchell Harris
How Ghosts and Art Catch Consciences
Nishan Dhungel
Washington, District of Columbia
Marx, Engels, Ricardo, & Smith- Social labor: Marx’s Critique of Vulgar
Economy
Jodi-Ann Griffin
Jack McGregor Condie
Sam Cooper
Samuel Dreyer
Annapolis, Maryland
Kaila Nicole Johnson
Hagerstown, Maryland
On Violence and Virtue: Hamlet and the Nature of Satisfaction in Revenge
Stories
�Anton Olegovich Kalmysh
Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Limitations of Prospero’s Project and Power
Sila Karabiber
Sakarya, Turkey
Why Two Geometries: The Story of Parallel Lines
Beimnet Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Irregularity: The Pseudo-Perfect Garden- A Deliberation of Perfection and
its Place Within God’s Creative Process
Alexander Kocinsky
Trumbull, Connecticut
Cairo, Egypt
Alone on the Island of Man’s Knowledge – An Examination of the Social and
Asocial in Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Jameson DeWeese Marshall
Fairfax, Virginia
Loving others, by loving ourselves – An exploration of happiness in
Rousseau’s Emile
Tyler Michael Mazur
Cambridge, Ohio
The Fruits That We Bear – An exploration of character and action in
Aristotle’s On Poetics and what the art of fiction tells us about our
perception of reality
Scott Stanaway McCrae
Silver Spring, Maryland
The Tension Within the Leaf: How Conflicting Ends Manifest in the Growing
Plant
Portland, Oregon
A Quantum of Causality – Kantian Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics
Joined
Vienna, Virginia
Achilles’ Wager – On Fate in the Iliad
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Fear of Change: A Look at Time in the Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
Mackenzie Richard–Daffner
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun – I Am the Walrus – The
Beatles
Erica Rochelle Root
Ludington, Michigan
Redemption and Damnation of Humanity: A Story Portrayed by the Lovers of
Gounod’s Faust
James Edward Rubidge
Westport, Connecticut
well maybe I’ve been wrong, maybe my intentions are irrelevant, but
honestly, it’s not just for me. An Analysis of Maturity Through Henry IV Part I
Sterling, Virginia
Change We Can Believe In – Knowledge, Necessity, and History in
Philosophical Fragments
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Finding Satisfaction in a Material World - An Analysis of Lucretius’ On the
Nature of Things
Family and Leadership in Shakepeare’s The Tempest
Elinatan Nelson
Zachary Radford
Kassem Ayad Mansour
John Schuyler Monday
To Whom Do I Owe This Alienation? An Inquiry into Words and Meaning in
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
John Pell
Sacramento, California
Hegel’s Critique of Pure Morality – The Use and Abuse of Conscience in
Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Sean Miller
Stockholm, Sweden
Edan Moses Otto
“Man Errs as Long as he Will Strive”
Zachary Leveroni
Elisabeth Morell
Thousand Oaks, California
Gabriela Sanchez
Wellington, Florida
Miraculous Artworks – On Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition
Anna Seban
Davis, California
Swann in Search of Love and Art: The Role of Art, Aesthetics, and
Appreciation in Swann’s Way
Eireamhán Mitha Semple
Dublin, Ireland & Islamabad, Pakistan
The Generalisation of Economic Thought – An essay on The General Theory
by John Maynard Keynes
�Aishwarya Sharma
Kathmandu, Nepal
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Who Is Antigone? Living a Life Opposed to Life
Glen “Quinn” LeRoy Shivel V
Kennebunkport, Maine
What Sort of Things Are we? Understanding our behavior through the
teachings of Epictetus.
Jakob Stief
St. Louis, Missouri
The Leap of Faith: Resolving the Dialectic between the Esthetic and the
Ethical in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or
Zuowen Tang
How Kant Saved Me from the Void
Mary Elizabeth Turner
Cedar City, Utah
Descartes’ Approach
Muntinlúpa City, Philippines
The Traveler’s Mind, from Both Sides of Jonathan Swift’s Fourth Wall
Grace Villmow
Brookings, South Dakota
Judged, Sentenced, And Condemned - An Exploration of the Truth Behind
Misogyny in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies
Logan Jefferey Zimmerman
Andrew Dorchester
Washington, District of Columbia
Gregory LaMontagne
Jordan Timothy Poyner
Jordana Leah Stern Rozenman
Quang Ngai, Vietnam
Eloping in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Alberto Clemente Antonio Valenzuela III
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Jaime Marquez
Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Hung “Jay” Tram
Lee David Cranberg
Wray, Colorado
Confronting the Mask. An Investigation of the Prelude to a Philosophy of the
Future.
Ryan Shinkel
Annapolis, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
Winona Lake, Indiana
Washington, District of Columbia
Annapolis, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2022.
Offered by the Alumni Association
How Might a Machine Intend?
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Siobhán Petersen, Co-Winner
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
In Search of Physical Reality: A Journey Through Schrödinger’s Mathematical
Derivation of the Quantum Wave Function
The Three Peaks of Aristotle’s Ethics:
A Critique of Magnanimity through Friendship and Wisdom
Sylvie McKnight-Milles
Quinn Rifkin, Co-Winner
Honorable Mention
On Personal Freedom and Historical Inevitability in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Caroline Ritter
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylroie
Stevens
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Isabel Emond
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Stephen Carino
Dorothea Brooke’s Death and Resurrection through Art
Dolan Polglaze
Honorable Mention
Yucen Han
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Let Him Who Has Ears Listen – Parable, Christian Privacy,
and the Mechanics of Transformation
Finn Yepkle
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Saving Glaucon’s Soul – An Examination of Socrates’ Answer
in the Republic in Relation to Glaucon’s Character
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
LE CORBEAU ET LE RENARD FABLE
Ava Lehrman
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
Untitled
Lucie McCarthy
Victoria Horsman
Honorable Mention
A Noble Risk and a Noble Lie: The Doubt and Deception of Socrates
Kaleth Cushman
Honorable Mention
When Rajani poured her love
Bibhusan Chapagain
Honorable Mention
Character in Nicomachean Ethics: Who is to Blame?
Honorable Mention
A Reservation
Michael Engstrom
Chelsea Simons
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2021-2022 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns by a donation from Joe Coelho
Neither Evening nor Dawn: A Comparison of Μεγαλοψυχία and Σοφία in the
‘Nicomachean Ethics’
Jules Spiese
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Alma redemptoris mater
Tarik Mahmud
�To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Elli Rees
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and
Director of Athletics Emeritus
Paolo Medelius
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
Paolo Medelius
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Not awarded
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Jacob Lees
Ava Lehrman
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John’s College
Ezra Melchor
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969
Alayna Raymond
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize.
Daryl Locke
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
World within Hjelmslev Disk
Rose Zhang
�CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
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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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Commencement Program, 2023
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Program for the two hundred twenty-ninth commencement in the three hundred twenty-seventh year of the college.
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Annapolis, MD
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2023-05-14
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ST JOHN'S
College
ANNA POLIS• SANTA FE
2020
COM MEN CEM ENT
EXER CISE S
Sunday I May 10
Two Thous and and Twenty
Annapolis I Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Eighth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Fourth Year
of the College
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Margaret Kirby
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
Welcome
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Alumni Association Board
�BACHELOR OF ARTS
Jawaid Beg
Dublin, California
The Problem of Piety in Sophocles' Antigone
Tbel Abuseridze
Batu mi, Georgia
On Voyaging
Kapil Adhikari
Kathmandu, Nepal
Violence, Ethics, and Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity
Zainab Noor Ahmad
Lucknow, India
With Fem inine Love & Beauty: A Close Look at Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Angelika Nora Alberstadt
Who Painted the Lion? An Analysis of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales
Towson, Maryland
The Influence of War and Peace on Individuals in War and Peace
Emmet Henry Allen
Discovery and Concealment: An Examination of Meaning and Sedimentation in
Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences
Edgewater, Maryland
And Repudiating Immolation: The Motion Towards Understanding in Faulkner's Go
Down, Moses
Thomas Clare Balding
Shirley, New York
Free Will and the Ind ividual in War and Peace: An Investigation of Man's Ability to
Act in a Historical World
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
Tucson, Arizona
Love's Language in Tristan und Isolde: An Exploration of Musical Meaning
Sanju Baral
Mechi, Nepal
East Williston, New York
Fellow Feeling: A Study of Reform in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Subodh Bhandari
Kathmandu, Nepal
Diving into Faith: An Investigation on How One Can Acquire Faith
Lisle, Illinois
Dead Cats: An Exploration of Morbid Curiosity through Nietzsche's The Birth of
Tragedy
Darcy Marie Bohlin
Santa Fe, New Mexico
On the Amorality of Forgiveness
Westminster, Maryland
Faith, Torn Apart: An Examination of Self-Transformatio n in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Annie Lindsey Brong
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
The Cumulative Act ion of Creation: A Calcu lus under Darwin
Martha Elaine Campbell
Annapolis, Maryland
The Perfect Words in the Perfect Order: The Power of the Poetic in S0ren
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Whether it Succeeds in Saying the
Unspeakable
Charles John Carpenter
Farmington, Connecticut
The Natural Social Man: Finding Morality Free of Prejudice in Rousseau's Emile
Kailin Ann Carter
The Certainty of Uncertainty: (Planck's constant (h) and the knowledge of
probability)
Jared John Bassmann
From Throat to Belly: The Body and the Self in Walt Whitman's
"Song of Myself"
Elaina Terrell Bowman
Venice, Florida
August Salladin Baganz
Buda, Texas
Robert D. Blankshain Jr.
New York, New York
Alexander Thompson Albert
Athena Gabrielle Callistra Berreles-Luna
Beaverton, Oregon
Truth in the House of Lies: The Greatness of Shakespeare's King Henry V
James Patrick Casey
Fairfield, Connecticut
A New Great Man: On Historiography and First Principles in War and Peace
�I
Cole Dillon Caudle
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dynamic Language: An Essay Concerning How Our Conception of Language Shapes
How We Engage with the World
Yu-chieh Chang
Taichung, Taiwan
Between Love and Suffering: Confessional Language in Dostoevsky's Crime and
Punishment
Parker James Chlovechok
Cambridge, Ohio
Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty: An Analysis of the Different Forms of Memory and
their Applications to Life and the Creative Process
Yoon Kyoung Choh
Seoul, South Korea
The Origin of Morality: Focusing on the Meaning of Death in Hamlet
Raeann Alyah Clement
Dabadie, Trinidad
Paso Robles, California
Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here: Justice, Faith, and Love in The Brothers
Karamazov
North Adelaide, Australia
Time, Nature, & Empathy: A Portrait of Humanity in Goethe's Faust
Luis Francisco Contreras Moran
Puebla, Mexico
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Zarathustra's Solitude: A Path to Self-Overcoming
Dorothy Rose Diaz-Sullivan
Hyannis, Massachusetts
Love and Anguish in Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Collin Gray Doherty
Richmond, Virginia
Gorgias: The Rhetoric of Shame
I
Annapolis, Maryland
On the Isolation Present in the Modern Poetry of Charles Baudelaire
Clarksville, Tennessee
A Moral Bath: Pierre's Pursuit of Happiness in War and Peace
Samuel Alexander Dreyer
Washington, District of Columbia
Marx, Engels, Ricardo, & Smith
Social Labor: Marx's Critique of Vulgar Economy
Charlotte, North Carolina
"... And the battlefield is the heart of man.": An Inquiry into Love, Judgement, and
Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov
Sierra Irene Engdahl
Estero, Florida
Noah Kai Estes
Moiser, Oregon
On Storytelling: The Art of Experience, Perception, and Symbolism in Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ennui in Baudelaire's Le Voyage
Evanston, Illinois
Divine Nature: Language and Knowledge in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Mackenzie Ann Richard Daffner
Kathmandu, Nepal
How to Build a Good European: Nietzsche's Pursuit of a Reformed Science
How Ghosts and Art Catch Consciences
Benjamin Clarke Crispell
Nishan Dhungel
Ryan Andrew Eberlein
Till Death Do Us Part: On Love and Marriage in Rousseau's Emile
Samuel Austin Cooper
God's Love, Finitudes' Rage: Which Shall Conquer You? A Detailed Analysis of
the Intricacies Involved in a Person's Journey to Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Kesi Emily Dremel
Jessica Michelle Cole
Julia Morgan Cooper
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mary Margaret Dray
A Pursuit of Virtue
Jack McGregor Condie
Aashish Dhakal
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Sitting in an English Garden Waiting for the Sun-"I am the Walrus," The Beatles
Zachary Stuart Flaugher*
Lafayette, New Jersey
�Anne Isabel Freeman
Cary, North Carolina
Let Us Pretend That Life Makes Sense: An Essay on Language and Reality in The
Waves
Sadie Bromberg Funk
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Inseparably Interconnected Infinitesimal Elements: An Exploration of Tolstoy's
Science of History and its Mathematical Possibilities
Tianqi Gao
Beijing, People's Republic of China
The Idea of "Conflicts" in Federalist Papers and its Misuse in American Politics
Jodi-Ann Andrene Griffin
Millersville, Maryland
William Joseph Harrington
Irving, Texas
"By means of signs, including the tempo": An Investigation of Sign and Tempo in
Nietzsche's Ecce Homo
Mitchell Lewis Harris
Carlsbad, California
Death for Philosophers: A Guide to Dispelling the Fear of Death Through Lucretius'
The Nature of Things
Elizabeth Olivia Hartzell
Houston, Texas
Antigone: Oedipus's Complex Daughter
Andrew Rowe Hastings
Brunswick, Maine
Across the Great Divide: Thinking About Mechanics, Pre and Post Quantum
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The Moth, Lovers, and Dying Man: A Portrait of Beauty in Les Fleurs du Mal
Chance Prehn Hogan
Leesburg, Virginia
Anti-Matter for the Master Plan: Euripides's Bacchae as a Self-Conscious Tragedy
Isaac Allen Hoke
Robinson, Illinois
The Artist and the Child: An Exploration of Perspective in Marcel Proust's In Search
of Lost Time
Maddie Nell Fortier Jane
Hagerstown, Maryland
On Violence and Virtue: Hamlet and the Nature of Satisfaction in Revenge Stories
Samuel Emerson Jones
Alna, Maine
Faith and Happiness: An Exploration of Fear and Trembling as the Path to
Happiness
Peter Cornelis Kaemingk
Zeist, Netherlands
Give Me Imagination or Give Me Death! On the Ideological Foundations of
Democracy in the United States via Tocqueville and Pascal
Anton Olegovich Kalmysh
Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
The Limitations of Prospero's Project and Power
Pain: The Price for Greatness
Nancy Renee Hilton
Kaila Nicole Johnson
Charlottesville, Virginia
What Giants? An Exploration of Laughter in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Sila Karabiber*
Sakarya, Turkey
Why Two Geometries: The Story of Parallel Lines
Su Karagoz
Istanbul, Turkey
Dionysus Unleashed: Piety In The Bacchae
Beimnet Negash Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Augustine's Prayer: A Sinner's Guide to Salvation
The Exploration of How a Sinful Creature Can Interact with God that is Outside of
Sin
Kidus Yonas Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Irregularity, the Pseudo-Perfect Garden: A Deliberation of Perfection and its Place
Within God's Creative Process
Alexander David Kocinsky
Trumbull, Connecticut
"Man errs as long as he will strive"
Axel P. Krieger
New York. New York
Hubris the Tyrant? On the Making of a Tyrant in Oedipus Tyrannus
Damon Theodore Kutzin
Genolier, Switzerland
Moving the World: The Role of God in Philosophical Beginnings
Esther Jee-Hae Lee
Timonium, Maryland
Crim e and Punishment: Redemption-The Murderer and the Harlot
�Jeong Ho Lee
Seongnam, South Korea
Put Thy Trust in God: Alyosha's Dynam ic Faith in The Brothers Karamazov
Zachary Michael Leveroni
Elk Grove, California
Hegel's Critique of Pure Morality: The Use and Abuse of Conscience in Hegel's
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Yixing Li
Shenyang, People's Republic of China
Motion through the Lens of Quantum Mechanics
Yuqing Liao
Beijing, People's Republic of China
A Path Open to All: An Analysis on Critique of Pure Reason
Timon Luo
Brooklyn, New York
The Way to Nirvana: Purpose of the Pilgrimage in The Journey to the West
Louis Nathan Mainwaring Foster
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cairo, Egypt
Alone on the Island of Man's Knowledge: An Examination of the Social and Asocial
in Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Jameson Deweese Marshall
Fairfax, Vi rginia
Loving Others by Loving Ourselves: An Exploration of Happiness in Rousseau's
Emile
ZawMaw
Yangon, Myanmar
Wisdom of Self-Experience in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
Cambridge, Ohio
The Fruits That We Bear: An Exploration of Character and Action in Aristotle's On
Poetics and What the Art of Fiction Tells Us About Our Perception of Reality
Sterling, Virginia
Change We Can Believe In: Knowledge, Necessity, and History in Philosophical
Fragments
Zihan Mei
Dionysos's Presence in Th e Bacchae
Finding Satisfaction in a Material World: An Analysis of Lucretius' On the Nature of
Things
Atanas Zdravkov Minev
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Faith: Bringing a Thought- Project to Life, An Essay on S0ren Kierkegaard's
Philosophical Fragments
John Schuyler Monday
Thousand Oaks, California
Family and Leadership in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Elisabeth Marie Morell
Hangzhou, People's Re public of China
Stockholm, Sweden
To Whom Do I Owe This Alienation? An Inquiry into Words and Meaning in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Maplewood, New Jersey
Faraday and Maxwell's Theory of the Whole
Thomas Christopher Mountain
Kassem Ayad Mansour
Scott Stanaway Mccrae
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Reuben Irving Morris
Capital Alive: What Could it Mean?
Tyler Michael Mazur
Sean Alexander Miller
Baltimore, Maryland
Christianity 101: An Examination of Kierkegaard's Established System in
Philosophical Fragments and its Applicabi lity to the Gospel of John
Elinatan Israel Nelson
Silver Spring, Maryland
The Tension Within the Leaf: How Conflicting Ends Manifest in the Growing Plant
Raymond Elijah O'Donnell
Severna Park, Maryland
Epictetus' Principles: An Investigation via Kantian Experience
Luke Timothy Olson
Annapolis, Maryland
How Should We Learn? How Class and Folly Influence Education in Aristophanes'
Clouds
Connor Patrick O'Malley*
Annapolis, Maryland
Edan Moses Otto
Portland, Oregon
A Quantum of Causality: Kant ian Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics Joined
Yunju Park
Changwon, South Korea
Creators of Society: Mark Twain's Th e Adventures of Huckleberry Fin n
I
�Rose Susan Pelham*
Decatur, Georgia
John Francesco Pell
Vienna, Virginia
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Arlington, Virginia
Brendan Myles Reicherter
Development of Character Through Music in James Joyce's Ulysses
Goyang, Republic of Korea
Ludington, Michigan
Redemption and Damnation of Hu manity: A Story Portrayed by the Lovers of
Gounod's Faust
Greenbrier, Tennessee
Westport, Connecticut
I
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Hegelian Dialectics in The Phenomenology of Spirit
Gabriela Maria Sanchez
Wellington, Florida
Miraculous Artworks: On Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition
Lillian Rose Scanlan
Honolulu, Hawaii
Orphaned Souls in Moby-Dick
Saint Louis, Missouri
The Leap of Faith: Resolving the Dialectic between the Esthetic and the Ethical in
Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Swann in Search of Love and Art: The Role of Art, Aesthetics, and Appreciation in
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
How Kant Saved Me from the Void
Thomas Jacob Tatum
Louisvi lle, Kentucky
On the Meno: Can Knowledge be Shared?
Nicholas Donaldson Thorp
Sanford, Florida
Do I Believe in Red Roses? An Exp loration of Belief in Thomas Reid's An I nquiry
into the Mind and a Response to the Melancholy of Rad ical Skepticism
Quang Ngai, Vietnam
Eloping in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Claire Antonia Tucker
Davis, California
Bend, Oregon
Descartes' Geometrie: A Study of Form and Imagination
Hung Khanh Tram
Portland, Oregon
The Will to Choose: Ethics and Esthetics in Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Swann's Way
What Sort of Th ing Are We? Understanding our Behavior Through the Teachings of
Epictetus
Zuowen Tang
"Well maybe I've been wrong/ maybe my intentions are irrelevant/ but honestly,
it's not just for me": An Analysis of Maturity Th rough Henry IV Part I
Anna Joelle Carole Se ban
Kennebunkport, Maine
Abigail Elizabeth Stuart
Catechism of the Two Co mmandments
Qingyang San
Glen Leroy Shivel
Jakob Ethan Stief
Erica Rochelle Root
James Edward Rubidge
Kathmandu, Nepal
Emma Lilia Stewart
Inevitability of Going Beyond the Socratic
Lucy Cabell Ross
Aishwarya Sharma
Who Is Ant igone? Living a Life Opposed to Life
Fear of Change: A Look at Time in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
Han Kyul Rhee
Dublin, Ireland & Islamabad, Pakistan
The Generalisation of Economic Thought: An Essay on The General Theory by John
Maynard Keynes
Achilles' Wager: On Fate in the Iliad
Zachary Augustine Radford
Eireamhan Mitha Semple
Annapo li s, Maryland
The Filial Bonds of Sympathy: Observations of the Commun ion between Man and
Nature
�Cedar City, Utah
Mary Elizabeth Turner
Descartes' Approach
Alberto Clemente Antonio Valenzuela III
Naveed Ahsan •
Manila, Philippines
The Traveler's Mind: From Both Sides of Jonathan Swift's Fourth Wall
Grace Maren Villmow
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
in Christine de Pizan's the Book of the City of Ladies
Johnstown, Colorado
Home is Where the Heart Leads: Using Resourcefulness and Self-Reliance to Go on
Living
Xiaotian Wang
Annapolis, Maryland
Meanings of Language: An Analysis of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Mark Everett Wittmer
Centennial, Colorado
Distant Music: Art, Language, and Mediation in James Joyce's "The Dead"
Xin Ye
Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
The Man of Faith
Julian Paul Zeidler
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
Confronting the Mask: An Investigation of the Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Aidan Thomas Zito
Arlington , Virginia
Purcellville, Virginia
Hudson, Ohio
New York, New York
Patrick Burke Corry •
Seattle, Washington
Thomas Farrell Cox •
Falls Church, Virginia
Lee Cranberg •
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Jacob Jabulani Luseini Davenport •
Syracuse, New York
Liam M. Dempsey
Annapolis, Maryland
Andrew David Dorchester •
Madeleine Nicole Emholtz
Carson James Fall
Washington, District of Columbia
Gulf Breeze, Florida
Washington, District of Columbia
Zachary Nathaniel Greene
Indianapolis, Indiana
Samuel Philip Sexe Hage
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Jaime Marquez •
Thomas Matthew McGuire
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Jacksonville, Florida
Gabrielle Cristine Bruestle •
Gregory LaMontagne •
The Ecstasy of Heroism: On the Line Between Delusion and Insanity
Logan Jefferey Zimmerman
Shane Thomas Ayers •
Nicholas John Bartulovic
Judged, Sentenced, And Condemned: An Exploration of the Truth Behind Misogyny
Katharine Wall
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Joyce Olin •
Margaret Vrooman Post •
Jordan Poyner
Annapolis, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
Georgetown, Delaware
Annapolis, Maryland
Palm City, Florida
Winona Lake, Indiana
To Win Sorrow Beyond What Is Given: Arrogance and Retribution in Homer's
Adam Reed
Odyssey
Jordana Rozenman
Washington, District of Columbia
Kelly Ann Warner •
Indianapolis, Indiana
* Upon completion of requirements
Brandon Matthew Wasicsko
t Degree conferred January 15, 2020
Olney, Maryland
Plantation, Florida
�To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2019-2020 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Soul with Good Sense Guides Correctly
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Samuel Philip Sexe Hage
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
The Man of Faith
Xin Ye
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Jared John Bassmann
Honorable Mention
The Cumulative Action of Creation- A Calculus Under Darwin
Annie Lindsey Brong
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Abigail Elizabeth Stuart
Ivan Nicholas Zembrusky
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law,
Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Not Awarded
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
The Role of Time of Augustine's Confession
Brandon Chon Garcia
Naked and Afraid
Olivia Star Pittard
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Limits of the Noble: the Human and the Div ine in Prince H ector
Allayah Drake Mason-Koehler
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2019.
Offered by the Alumni Association
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Not Awarded
Honorable Mention
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Anagram"
Nortaute Elena-Ruta Grintalis
Honorable Mention
"Your Eyes were Violets"
Samuel J. Berrettini
To the student who submits a tine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
"Lament for Viola"
Love and Suffering in Joyce's Ulysses
Christine Marie Mooradian
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
�To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor
and Director of Athletics Emeritus
Lkhagvabadrakh Sereeter
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
Not Awarded
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Jared John Bassmann
Raeann Alyah Clement
Mitchell Lewis Harris
Elizabeth Olivia Hartzell
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
Kesi Emily Dremel
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969
Reuben Irving Morris
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize.
Portrait of the Artist Missing Croquet (and needing to Shave), oil on canvas
Nicholas Donaldson Thorp
Honorable Men tion
Angel Wings, conte crayon on wood
Julia Morgan Cooper
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
From the Bottom of the Well, painting
Annie Lindsey Brong
�
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Commencement Programs and Addresses
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Annapolis, MD
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Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br />
<ul>
<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
<li>1878</li>
<li>1880</li>
<li>1890</li>
<li>1893</li>
<li>1895</li>
<li>1897</li>
<li>1907</li>
<li>1910-1918</li>
<li>1920-1924</li>
<li>1928-1929</li>
<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
</ul>
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Program for the two hundred twenty-eighth commencement in the three hundred twenty-fourth year of the college.
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St. John's College
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St. John's College
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Annapolis, MD
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2020-05-10
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SJC
St.John's
College
2019
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday I May 12
Two Thousand and Nineteen
Annapolis I Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Seventh
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Third Year
of the College
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Prelude
Academic Procession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
The National Anthem
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Robert Abbott, A04
Address to the Graduating Class
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Kanelos
Dean Macfarland
President Kanelos
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Academic Recession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
�Cameron Milford Byerly
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Cordelia Grace Marie Achen
Otis Orchards, Washington
Outer Spaces Inner Intuitions: How Proofs Shape Our Relation to Mathematics in
Euclid and Lobachevsky
Layton Aho
Rindge, New Hampshire
Invisible Evil: Language, Deception and Authorial Intent in Paradise Lost
Awss Al-Janabi
Babel, Republic of Iraq
Crownsville, Maryland
Marlette, Michigan
Alexandria, Virginia
Millions of Facts of Distributed Light Vision in the Iliad's Deathless Prosopopoeia
Dorothea Sihler Bowerfind
Alexandria, Virginia
A Contemplation of Creation in Genesis: The Dangers of Harmony to Human Life
Zachary Bowman
Arnold, Maryland
Memory, Emotion, Intimacy: How Memory Acts Through Emotion in Proust's Swann's
Way
Dylan Francis Briceno-Hawkins
Silver Spring, Maryland
Columbia, South Carolina
Words, Words, Words to Tell My Story: On the Power of Narrative in Shakespeare's
Hamlet
Matteo Scapini Burrell
Social Problems in Language: A Wittgensteinian Perspective
Meaning: Universal, Contextual, Ethical
Zachary Alexander Cohen
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Erin Britany Compton
Kelsey Eileen Cumiskey
Bellevue, Washington
Chesapeake City, Maryland
The Legacy of the Barricade: Finding Light in the Darkness in Victor Hugo's Les
Miserables
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Waterbury, Vermont
The Gadfly and the Cicadas: Countryside Madness in Plato's Phaedrus
Rhys Edward Davis
Arlington, Virginia
Communism as Naturalism and Naturalism as Humanism: Karl Marx on Human
Nature
Alex Gregory Dicken
Baltimore, Maryland
Rethinking Alienation: A Life Beyond Hegel's Absolute Spirit
Madeline Alyse Edwards
Spartanburg, South Carolina
The Middle Brother: Struggle and Redemption in Ivan Karamazov
Aisha Evita El-Khatib
Love, Mythos, and Pat Metheny
Jacob Samuel Burger
Guiyang, People's Republic of China
John Davis
On Suffering in John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul
Neal Bhattacharya
Weiouqing Chen
Order and Human Nature in Vitruvius· Ten Books on Architecture
Living in the Kingdom: An Exploration into the Self in Genesis and the Gospel of Luke
Henry William Bartholomew
Boundless the Deep: Why Evil is Possible, and Permitted, in Perfect Beings: John
Milton's Paradise Lost
Machiavelli's Man: On the Difference Between Men in The Prince
Fade-In: The Cinematography of Marcel Proust in Swann's Way
Samuel Grenfell Aston
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Gaithersburg, Maryland
The Poetic Relativity of Falling in Love
Graham Stuart Ferguson
Annapolis, Maryland
Deceit in Othello and Iago's True Self
Sagar Gaire
Madhyabindu, Nepal
Value, Labour and Alienation: On the Impact of the Dual Character of Commodities
and Labour on the Capitalist Mode of Production
�Rachel Marie Goad
Seth Elijah Kates
Woodbridge, Virginia
Desire's Lawful Bounds: Sexual Permission in Song of Solomon
Christian Douglas Gordon*
Sophia Kiang
Franktown, Virginia
Benjamin Nathaniel Haas
Dahye Kim
Karlena Anna Haase
Suwon-si, Republic of Korea
On The Characteristics of Humankind: A Linguistic Approach to Genesis 1-3
La Jolla, California
The Two Sides of Natasha Rostov
Carson Joanna King
Patrick David Hamann
Samuel Michael Harder
Prabesh Koirala
Alexander Brock Kwilinski
Vividness and ''I": An Investigation of the Notion of Self in David Hume's Treatise of
Human Nature
Rachael Elizabeth Brooker Langston
Creating Another Nature: The Inner Motions of the Artist At Work
Seung Eun Lee
Two is Strong Where One is Feeble: An Exploration of Love, Commitment and
Community in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
Luque, Paraguay
The Other Woman: The Mastery of Self-Deception in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Meredith Jane Lehan
Waldorf, Maryland
Smith Island, Maryland
An Eve-olution: An Investigation of Eve's Character Progression in Paradise Lost
Blessed are the Meek: An Exploration of Self in War and Peace and Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Tianxiang Li
Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
Necessity, Contingency, and Freedom: An Analysis of Leibniz's World Through the
Lens of Computer Science
Burke, Virginia
The Illness Attending Ambition: On Cruelty and Weakness in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Yuan Liu
Yongin-si, Republic of Korea
Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
The Unhappy Consciousness' Path Towards Happiness: Why is the Confessions Not a
Journey of Self-hatred?
An Ordinary Miracle: The Still Life of Language in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Desiree Lydia Jones
Annapolis, Maryland
"The Church!": Recognition and Recollection in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way
Annapolis, Maryland
Sarah Lynn Irving
Downers Grove, Illinois
Fear and Trembling as a Dialectical Lyric
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Anna Margaret Hubbell
Pokhara, Nepal
Hiding Madness and Expressing Grief
Norwood, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Grace Holt
Bedminster, New Jersey
We Are in The Soup Together: Albert Camus' House of Mirrors
Bend, Oregon
The Birth of Tragicomedy: How Shakespeare Merges Opposites in A Midsummer
Night's Dream
Jaeyon Jo
Atlanta, Georgia
Nostalgia: The Sickness for the Return in Labyrinthine Time, Forward and Back are No
Different
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Man of Stone: How to Live According to Tolstoy
Zoe Hinman
Marquette, Michigan
The Nature of Revelation: The Expression of Art in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Grant William Lorello
Queens, New York
Inside Out An Attempt to Find the Location of Phedre's Feelings
Gambrills, Maryland
Probabilistic Causality: On the Completeness and Elegance of Quantum Mechanics
I
�Katherine Mary Mahaney
Sacramento, California
Decoding the Language of Laughter: An Analysis of Comedy through Cervantes' Don
Quixote
Christopher Lee McGowen
Annapolis, Maryland
Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
What Does It Mean for Us to be Human?: As Illustrated by the Descriptions of Oran,
Tarrou, and Rieux
Russell Thomas Mendez
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Middlemarch: The Study of a Mediocre Life: It's Everything You Thought It Would Be
and More
Thaddia Angelica Mantione
Clifton, Virginia
Taking on the Dimension of Immortality: In Pursuit of a Lasting Beauty in Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du Mal
Falon Muire
Sycamore, Illinois
"Voi che sapete che cosa e amor, vedete s'io /'ho nel car": An Exploration of Love in
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Patrick Sean Mullins
Arlington, Virginia
The Myth of Self: An Essay on the Reflexions au Sentences et Maxims Morales of
Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld
Alexander Vago Muradian
Washington, District of Columbia
Don Quixote's Journey for Dulcinea in Master Pedro's Puppet Show
Hyun Jai Oh
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Washington, District of Columbia
Teaching and Philosophy in Plato's Theaetetus
Ethan Pellegrin
Understanding Sin and Satan in Paradise Lost
The Old Man and The Sea: An Argument Against the Hierarchy of Humanity and
Animals Explained in On the Soul
Tressie Sydney Rhoades
Hardy, Arkansas
Cyrus Albert Schiller
Potomac, Maryland
The Role of Art in Nietzsche's Moral Philosophy
Aisha Khanam Shahbaz
Rehoboth, Namibia
The Possibility of Human Progress in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Aidan William Shaw
Haddonfield, New Jersey
Shades of Morality in Hamlet
Christian Andrew Sheppard*
Morehead City, North Carolina
Ivan Romanovich Syritsyn
Omsk, Russian Federation
On Matters Pertaining to the Maintenance and Dissolution of the State: Or, Is It
Possible to Create a Perpetual Republic?
Yaxuan Tang
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
When the Light Streams In: An Exploration of Raskolnikov's Character in Crime and
Punishment
Camille Rebecca Testa
Arlington, Virginia
Marxian Free Will and the Abstraction of the Objective World
Criticize the Critic: How Moliere Satirizes Self-Superiority in The Misanthrope
Val R. Pehrson
Mar Lin, Pennsylvania
Hide Your Demons: An Exploration of the Quality of Silence in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Myopia and Justice in Aeschylus' Oresteia
Yiyang Mei
Dane Stephen Petchulis
Ayushma Thapa
Lalitpur, Nepal
Transcendence of Andrey Bolkonsky
Himanshu Thapa
Damauli, Nepal
What is a Karamazov Soul? Exploration of the Karamazovian Nature through
Suffering and Redemption in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Milford, Delaware
Prasanna Jung Thapa
A Search for Certainty in Newton's Principia
Kathmandu, Nepal
�Kathryn Irene Trojanowski
Farmington. Michigan
Guilt & Redemption & Crime & Punishment
Thomas Anthony Troop
Lancaster. Pennsylvania
Sacrifice and Love in Othello and Much Ado About Nothing
Sophia Alicia Underwood
Nyack, New York
Everyone Has Gone Mad: An Investigation into Madness in The Tragedy of Hamlet
Willem Owen van Engen
Reston. Virginia
This English Monster: An Investigation of Richard of Gloucester in Shakespeare's
Richard Ill
Stacy Villibord
Washington. District of Columbia
Maximillian von Keudell
Kamuela. Hawaii
The Significance of the Other: An Analysis and Commentary on Hegel's Lord and
Bondsman Dialectic
Colin Kilpatrick Walker
Birmingham. Alabama
Substantial Being: Finding Ourselves through Materialism
Santa Cruz, California
Thinking about How Our Thoughts (and Will) Connect to Motion
Pasadena. Maryland
" ... I Put Away Childish Things": An Investigation into the Meaning and Merit of
Maturity in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Shatoujiao, People's Republic of China
Is Protagoras' Measure Doctrine Really Self-Refuting?
Abraham Liu Zhao
Washington, District of Columbia
Images of Ourselves
Yuejia Zhu
Number, Perception, and Continuity
* Upon completion of requirements
Greenbelt. Maryland
Joseph Richard Coelho
Annapolis, Maryland
Alejandro Ehrenberg
Mexico City, Mexico
Aakarsh Gottumukkala
Joseph Robert Hiles
Sherry Josephine Hinton
Teresa Anne Krone
Christina M. Lambert
Christine Marie Mooradian
Samuel John Peregrin
Ty Weiser-Podlech
Yingzi Zhang
Katherine Marion Badders
Anna E. Kaminski
The Portrayal of Eve in Paradise Lost
Cara Jane Wiley
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Sammamish. Washington
Atlanta, Georgia
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Chicago, Illinois
Charlton, Massachusetts
Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
Edmond, Oklahoma
James Allan Phillips
Annapolis, Maryland
Tahseen Rasheed
Annapolis. Maryland
Nolan W. Reisen*
Dubuque, Iowa
Philip Janney Richmond
Annapolis, Maryland
Ryan Shinkel*
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Robera Tasissa*
Geoffrey Furste Young
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
* Upon completion of requirements
Silver Spring, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Matteo Scapini Burrell
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts. of the Class of 1966
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Desire's Lawful Bounds: Sexual Permission in Song of Solomon
Text: Plato,
Rachel Marie Goad
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law,
Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Samuel Michael Harder
To the student who submits the best English version of a French text.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions (excerpt)
Damon Theodore Kutzin
Mapping the Island of Truth: An Investigation into the Possibility of Metaphysics
Damon Theodore Kutzin
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Moon-Ties"
Samuel Michael Harder
Poetry and Fame in the Divine Comedy
Samuel J. Berrettini
Repentance: The Song David Cannot Sing for Saul
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Untitled
Natalie Grace Walker
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
How to Hunt the Crocodile: An Investigation into the
Significance of Descriptive Information in Herodotus' History
Patrick David Hamann
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
A Line by Line Reading of Flood of Babylon
Jessie Ann Tagliani
Natalie Grace Walker
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
Tragedy and the Body: Fate in the Physical Form
Mi Tradi: A Contemplation of Donna Elvira's Conflict in Don Giovanni
Clio Simmons Jabine
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2018.
Offered by the Alumni Association
On Reason and Faith in Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond
Leland Caswell Ellis Jr.
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2018-2019 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
Prudence and Virtue
Patrick Burke Corry
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and
Director of Athletics
Not Awarded
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
Not Awarded
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Not Awarded
�To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
John Davis
Zoe Hinman
Thaddia Angelica Mantione
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
Zoe Hinman
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969
Rachael Elizabeth Brooker Langston
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize.
The Graduate, oil on canvas painting
Yuan Liu
Honorable Mention
Three embroidered works
Cordelia Grace Marie Achen
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T hree colored pencil and watercolor works
Ai sha Evita El-Khatib
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
Poem, short film
Yaxuan Tang
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ST JOHN'S
College
ANNAPOLIS• SANTA
2021
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COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday 1 May 16
Two Thousand and Twenty-One
Annapolis Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Ninth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Fifth Year
of the College
Prelude
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Chester Burke
Address to the Graduating Class
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
Academic Recession
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
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BACHELOR OF ARTS
Henry Ince Anderson
Savannah Paige Dadds
Secret Life of Plants
Nashville, Tennessee
A Possession for All Time: Self-interest, Morality, and the Athenian Thesis in
Thucydides's War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians
Eric Julian Baker
New York, New York
Engaging with Life While in Isolation: Charles Baudelaire on the Art of Enjoying
a Crowd
Samuel Joseph Be rrettini
Rutherford, New Jersey
Homo Daemonicus: Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Love of the Impossible
Raz Besaleli
Sharon, Vermont
Evolution and Calculus: An Exploration of the Genesis of the Complex Analysis
in Cauchy's 1852 Memorandum
Alysiana Carter
Jupiter, Florida
The Dialectical Mirror: An Exploration of Artistic and Scientific Mediation in
Tarkovsky's Solaris
Juan Guillermo Cassanello Garcia
Asuncion, Paraguay
From Konigsberg to Copenhagen: A Thought on Metaphysics and Quantum
Mechanics
Nobonita Chowdhury
Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Legacy of Plutarch's Lawgivers: An Analysis of the Lives of Lycurgus and
Solon, and Their Impact on Modern Day Ideas of State, Equality, and Justice
Thomas R. Chrisman
Maplewood, New Jersey
Independence of Intellect
Amalie Ballman Christensen
New York, New York
Johnson, Vermont
Springtime: The Dismantling of Romanticism in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Sophia Cote
Virginia Birch Deaver
Berea, Kentucky
Humor: A Cognitive Prayer to Patterns of Time, Absurd ity, and Human Shame
Yanet Teklu Desta
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
When We Are in Love, What Do We Fall in Love With? An Examination of Love
through Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice
Samuel Dietrich
Broad lands, Virginia
Things Just Happen: An Examination of Kant in the Everyday
Kristina Marie Dover
Lake Alfred, Florida
With Effort, with Agony, to Mankind: A Study of Trauma in Woolf's Mrs. Dal/away
Marshall Elizabeth Drake
Columbia, South Carolina
What Does Oppressive Government Look Like? A Theory Based in Hobbes's
Leviathan
Austin Alexander Dumas
Ridgely, Maryland
Quantum Mechanics
Carolina Elizondo Moya
Monterrey, Mexico
When Can the End Justify the Means? An Exploration of Justice in Niccolo
Machiavelli's Political Works, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy
Martin Amory Fischer
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Imagination and Intellect in Spinoza's Ethics
Szymon Piotr Galazka
Wroclaw, Poland
The Revelation of Ivan's Soul in The Brothers Karamazov
Illuminated Faith: An I nquiry of the Role of Testimony, and Its Relation to Belief
in the Gospel of John
Cora Clark
Ridgely, Maryland
New York, New York
The Death of Passion, the Birth of Individuality: Understanding the Self in La
Princesse de Cleves Through Passion, Desire, and the Rejection of Both
Rachel Cresap Gordon
Reisterstown, Maryland
In Search of Eternal Stability: Suffering and Unity in Hegel's Phenomenology of
Spirit
Ellie Grace Gott
York, Pennsylvania
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: The I mportance of Suffering in the
Faithful
Alexander Peterson Grand
On the Inertia of Mankind: A Look into How Societies Develop
Brooklyn, New York
�Nortaute Elena-Ruta Grintalis
Laurel, Maryland
The Embryonic Cradle of Spirit: Breeching the Liminality of the Self through Carl
G. Jung's Liber Novus
Andrew Graham Hill
Vancouver, Washington
Art and Wretchedness in Les Fleurs du ma/: An Examination of Baudelaire's
Horizontal and Vertical Depictions of Sea Voyage
Jasmine Alison Holder
Beach Lake, Pennsylvania
Alvar Yrjo Oskari Huhtanen
Espoo, Finland
Seeing Things with Clarissa Dalloway
Suzhou, People's Republic of China
Dao De Jing: The Meaning of Dao and the Notion of Inaction
Sera Emily Johnson
Middletown, Rhode Island
D MO<DPOIYNH: Marriage in James Joyce's Ulysses
Chicago, Illinois
The Isolation Paradox: An Investigation into Solitude and Social Identity in
Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Michael August Kraus
Memphis, Tennessee
Hyderabad, India
Special Relativity and the Art of Writing: An Investigation of Einstein's Rhetoric
in "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"
Fiona Lau
Castro Valley, California
Nha Trang City, Vietnam
The Willing Surrender of Freedom: Justifying the Soul's Descent into Mortality in
Plotinus's The Enneads
Joshua David Lee
An Imitative Approach to Hamlet
From Maize to Dust
Houston, Texas
The Poet of the World: God as the Salvation of Creativity
Islamabad, Pakistan
Rubab Meraj
Woman as an Abused Asset: A Study of Mankind
Melrose, Massachusetts
Alexis Christina Morrill
Optic Research and Wonder: An Exploration of the Part versus Whole
Relationship in the Heart
Kirabo Pauline Nanyanzi
Kyaliwajjala-Namugongo, Uganda
The Unfolding of Character in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Huntington, West Virginia
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown: A Study of the Tragedy of
Elsa Peter Ordahl
Irvington, New York
Carving Letters on Little Trees: The Permanence and Impermanence of Home in
Virgil's Eclogues
Amanda Rose Pauquette
Gainesville, Florida
The Ethics of Baruch de Spinoza: An Examination of the Belief of God in
Spinoza's Ethics, and the Tranquility of Spirit Which Follows from a Rational
Understanding of Nature's Laws
Jessica Peterson
Westwood, Kansas
What Must the King Do Now?: An Inquiry of Causation, Motivation, and Divine
The Condition of Man and His Labor
Bao Le
West Hartford, Connecticut
Liam James Marshall-Butler
King Henry IV
The Spleen and the Heart: A Study of the Modern Poet through the Works of
Charles Baudelaire and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Avi Kumar
Varieties of Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Anne Nilles
Grace Phan Jones
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Kamrin Lynn Martin
Dao de Jing, Book I: I Wish to Be a Sage with Feeling
Xiaotong Jin
Qingqing Le i
Houston, Texas
Right in Shakespeare's Richard II
Amy Elisabeth Porter
Shady Side, Maryland
Self-revelation and Sincerity: Panache and the Beauty of the Pure Soul in
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
Mary Elizabeth Quinn
Louisville, Kentucky
Death Doesn't Bite: An Examination of the Body and Soul in Plato's Phaedo
�Wilson Trueman Redfield
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
The Riddle of History
Michael Riggins
Mineral Wells, Texas
Inconstancy's Constant Habit: Experiential Christianity in John Donne's
Holy Sonnets
Arpan Sapkota
Kathmandu, Nepal
Los Angeles, California
Fairfax Station, Virginia
Ph iladelphia, Pennsylvania
Exploitation of the Worker in Marx's Capital
Lkhagvabadrakh Sereeter
Murun, Mongolia
On Self-Consciousness in Lordship and Bondage, The Phenomenology of Spirit
as translated by A.V. Miller
Bryan David Shaw
Azle, Texas
Houston, Texas
The Wanderer: A Hegelian Analysis of "White Nights"
Eli Samuel Sneider
Palo Alto, California
Thucydides: Passion at the Root of the Peloponnesian War
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Commencement Address
St. John’s College, Annapolis
given
William Pastille
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At every moment, Life demands that we choose between Love and Strife, between the
powers that bind and those that loose. If we do not hear the urgency of this demand, it is because
we do not live fully in the present moment. Most of our attention streams away toward the
remembered past or imagined future, relaxing our bond with the vivid Here and Now until we drift
too far off to hear the voice of Life above a whisper. But today, with music, ceremony, and
speeches, we try to dam the flood of inattention, to focus on the Now, on this single moment,
which is both ending and beginning for all qf you who are about to receive degrees. If you search
your feelings in this moment, you will find two commingled emotions: melancholy — for all that is
past and gone, for a way of Efe that can never be relived - and expectancy — for all that is yet to
come, for a way of life that you are hoping to create. Please remember this composite feeling,
because it is the feeling that lives in the heart of every Now. When we are not experiencing this
twofold emotion, we are not really in touch with the present, but have allowed our habits of
inattention to separate us from the Now. In this state of habitual inattention, we nevertheless carry
on the daily work of Efe: people are fed, cities and empires built, careers made and unmade, children
reared, and academies of higher learning established for the purpose of passing knowledge and
tradition from generation to generation.
At this ceremony, and at thousands of others Eke it to be held across the nation today and
in the coming weeks, those of us who serve and support the academy will confer upon you and
upon your counterparts at other institutions the outward signs that we have discharged our duty,
and that you, by completing rigorous courses of study, have increased in knowledge and learning.
In thousands of speeches we will extol your virtues; we will praise you for your fortitude,
perseverance, and intelligence; we will encourage you to develop your talents further, and to fulfil
your promise; we will impress upon you the solemn obligation that you pass the baton of learning
to the next generation; and we will express our pride in your achievements, for we honor the
devotion, the toil, and the sacrifice that nourished your success. It is altogether fitting and proper
for us to do this.
But even on such a congratulatory occasion, a decent regard for truth and for honest
self-criticism compels me to speak of failure as well as success — my failure, the failure of my
generation, and of all who consider themselves teachers, mentors, and leaders in all walks of Efe.
For the truth is that we have failed you. We have failed you because, being human, the better
�angels of our nature are often bested by the worse; and because, being consequently inconstant, we
preach ideals that we foil to honor in deeds; and because, being consequently hypocritical, we are
forced to hide painful truths from ourselves; and because, being consequently ignorant, we hand
down to you truth and falsehood mixed indiscriminately in unknown proportions.
Among the falsehoods which we have given you to believe far too easily is this: that
knowledge is an unqualified good. It is no such thing. For insofar as knowledge is power, it
corrupts as power corrupts; and insofar as it is taken to be an unqualified good, it corrupts
surreptitiously. Knowledge can ally itself with the slightest weakness of character and with any
unexamined prejudice, transmuting unjust, intolerant, or self-centered attitudes into the figures of
intelligence and ignorance: a latent racism, sexism, or class prejudice can manifest itself as an
empirical observation that this or that individual is just not as intelligent as we. Egotism, above all,
joins readily with knowledge, leading to the eihpirical observation that no one is quite as intelligent
as we, and to the logical conclusion that everyone needs to be inoculated with ample doses of our
own personal wisdom.
You have witnessed something of this here, in the microcosm of the classroom, whenever I
or one of my colleagues have used our familiarity with the books on the program or our knowledge
of other sources as unfair advantages to attain a position of power in discussion, or to maintain a
tenor of authority, or to sustain our own sense of intellectual superiority, perhaps going so far as to
be dismissive, even rude, to students or to other tutors whom we regard as less knowledgeable, less
experienced, or less sagacious than ourselves. Such behavior clearly creates estrangement and
disaffection, scattering seeds of Strife about the world; it can only be the work of our worse angels.
And yet I fear that some of you admire the ability to wield knowledge as a form of power, and are
planning to master the skill through fbrther schooling. I earnestly hope that my fear is misplaced; I
hope all of you understand that having and using such a skill is not worth the risk of planting a
single seed of Strife in a single human soul.
If the temptation to brandish knowledge as a weapon can infiltrate even here, where we
have an official rhetoric that cautions us against the danger, how much harm is it doing out there, in
classrooms and boardrooms, in factories and chambers of government where no such caution
exists? - where knowledge is valued precisely and only for its fearsome aspect of power? In the
world in which we live, knowledge consorts with Strife; and the belief that knowledge is an
unqualified good has precluded your seeking out the one force able to Uberate knowledge from the
dominion of Strife: Only Love can conquer Strife.
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�Only Love can render knowledge harmless. Only Love can transform thought and
sensibility into wisdom and compassion. Only Love can bind the separate moments of existence
into a whole, meaningful life. But we have become such children of Strife that we no longer
understand the universal application of Love. Because Love always involves submission to deep
and overpowering feeling, we scrutinize it fearfully from within the protective cage of our current
conception of rationality, which is, on the whole, a heartless, soulless intellectualism. Love requires
the courage to hazard sentimentality; for the harm done by sentimentality - which can, after all, be
educated, broadened, and elevated — is very light compared to the harm done by fear of
sentimentality — which, like all fear, is an implacable agent of Strife. Love requires us to feel deeply»
and to be carried away by feeling.
Fortunately, there is always nearby one thing — the present moment — with which we can
practice our ability to love. If we can learn to love the Now, which is to live fully in the present
that is always with us, then the unifying force of Love will always be close at hand to shield us from
the divisive force of Strife. And we are already prepared halfway, because we know the heart of the
Now, we know the twofold feeling of melancholy and expectancy. To make a beginning, we must
carry the memory of that feeling with us at all times; we must cultivate that feeling until the
poignancy and fragility of the moment swells in our hearts, catches in our throats, brings tears to
our eyes. Then comes the hard part — we must give ourselves over completely to the feeling welling
up from within and to the moment embracing us from without, until we seem almost to forget our
own existence. Because this is the essence of Love: sublation of self in the enveloping presence of
the beloved.
If you can love the moment this intensely — as Penelope loved Odysseus, as Dante loved
Beatrice, as you loved when you first fell madly in love — then your knowledge will work no injury,
nor will the seeds of Strife take root in your soul; and the failings of your teachers, mentors, and
leaders will be redeemed. For Love makes all hurt as thou^ it had not been.
At every moment. Life demands that we choose between Love and Strife. For the sake of
the world in which you were raised, for your own sakes, and for the sake of the world to come,
which you will help to fashion: please, please, please - choose Love,
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Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
Graduating students of the College and the Graduate Institute; family and friends; faculty
and guests: it is my honor to speak to you this morning.
As some of you know, I am partial to concise works—among them, the fragmentary remains
of Sappho’s poetry, Anselm’s minimalist proof for the existence of God, and of course the
slightly lengthier six hundred pages of Herodotus’ Histories. This morning, I would like to
mull over just one sentence from a Platonic dialogue, in which Socrates tells the young
Theaetetus a story. I say “young” because from the outset of the dialogue that bears his
name, we know this conversation takes place when he was just starting out in life. Perhaps
Socrates had a weather eye on his young friend’s future when he told him this story.
It is said that while gazing up at the stars, Thales—one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece—
fell into a well; a witty Thracian serving woman, upon observing this, remarked, “How is it,
Thales, that being so wise in the affairs of heaven, you should fail to see what was before
your very feet?”
So who is Thales? Herodotus tells us that he was one of the first to predict the time of a
solar eclipse, so it is no surprise we should find him star-gazing. In the tradition, he is
considered the first philosopher, and Aristotle specifies that he was the first seeker after the
wisdom of nature. So in a way, he is the progenitor of our tribe, someone who, like
Socrates, delved into the things under the earth and peered at those in the sky. Thales
posited that, “All is water,” which might be a way of saying that beings change their form as
water does, but their underlying material remains what it is. He had many accomplishments
to his name, not least of which was an ingenious way to cross a river. Right now you might
be in agreement with the Thracian serving woman that Thales was rather foolish to fall into
his own first principle, so I will tell you this other story to establish his credentials as a
genuine thinker.1 And I tell it because you too might be concerned with how to get from
Here to There.
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I owe this particular formulation of Thales’ fall to Joe Sachs.
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�Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
The army of the Lydian king needed to cross the River Halys and Thales was given the task.
Instead of moving the army over the river by conventional means—boat or bridge, Thales
changed the ground it stood on. He realized that the river was already moving, and instead of
transporting the army over the river, he diverted the river around the army, leaving it on an
island between two new channels. Because the whole was divided, both channels could be
crossed. That is a clever solution, and perhaps one which only someone who had spent
some time thinking about the nature of water would devise.
Now to return to our image from the Theaetetus. Thales is a natural philosopher investigating
the mysterious motions of the stars, and cannot be blamed for tracing the paths of the gods
even as he walks those more terrestrial ones. The Thracian serving woman on the other
hand is down to earth. She has a practical occupation, useful to herself and others. Her
witty question reveals theory to be both useless and dangerous. Stay grounded, she laughs.
You too have noticed, perhaps, that too much time in the hot air balloon above the Socratic
Thinkery can make you light-headed.
But the more I think about Thales falling into the well, the less it seems to warn against the
conflict between theory and practice, and the more it seems to describe an utterly typical
event in a thoughtful life. One minute you have your head in the clouds, inventing likely
hypotheses and following premises to their as-yet undiscovered conclusions, and the next,
the ground has disappeared. What you perceived or understood or believed is no longer
there for you as the immoveable ground it was moments before. What is it about a
thoughtful life that with some regularity the ground you stand on will vanish and leave you
spinning in mid-air?
Let me give you an example of what I mean. You are demonstrating at the chalkboard a
geometrical proposition from that infinitely patient book, Euclid’s Elements. You complete
the diagram by drawing the long final line between points A and B. But as you carry out the
proof, you realize something is wrong. Your ratios are jumbled, the triangles you remember
are not the triangles on the board, and none of the assistance you receive from friendly
classmates makes any sense. Your foot has come down on nothing.
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�Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
You will no doubt recognize this condition—fluttering in your stomach, disorientation and
embarrassment, confusion. This is the straightforward way to fall into a well—to make a
mistake. Perhaps that line wasn’t supposed to go to B, but rather to C. Or maybe one of
your given conditions was wrong. Or you didn’t understand compound ratio as well as you
thought you did. Standing there at the board, exposed and off-balance, you can now
recognize your kinship with that first thinker, Thales, patron saint of bewilderment.
Because most of you are young and intellectually limber, losing your footing can still be
agreeable. Like one of Darwin’s tumbler pigeons, you can perform a Backwards-TripleLutz-Somersault more gracefully than those of us who have been land animals for a longer
time. The Graduate Institute students are by and large older and more experienced, and
deserve special praise for choosing to have the ground pulled out from under them with
some regularity—ground that often was hard won. It is a daunting thing to fall into a well
when you are supposed to know better.
Lest we ever think too highly of our acrobatics, there is the Thracian serving woman with
her ready wit, waiting to point out how ridiculous we thinkers can be at any age. She is
integral to this philosophical image because she reminds us of the perils of losing one’s
intellectual footing in public. What are those perils? There are three.
The first is embarrassment. When you lose your footing, your cheeks burn and you tiptoe
away from what you’ve done. Your self-mocking laughter separates you from yourself. “I
couldn’t have done that,” you think. If the mistake is serious enough and you deny it too
angrily, you separate your present from your past; though as Freud would say, that denial
also means you cannot get over what you’ve done. And just as shame can alienate you from
yourself, it can also exclude from the conversation others who have made mistakes. But if
you have experience at making a mistake in public, you will learn to own what you’ve done,
and alienate neither your own past self nor other thinkers.
The second peril is that you will be distracted from what you were trying to do. When you
fall down a well, the world disappears. It is very difficult to maintain continuity with your
past endeavors. You must reach back in memory and find the thread that led you to the
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�Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
present, however circuitously. But if you have practice at weaving these strands together,
you live a more intricate, coherent life, one in which the activity of your mind persists in
spite of both failure and success, and time holds, an unbroken braid.
The third peril is that you break faith with your fellows. As we all know, there are more
unsettling ways for the ground to disappear than losing the thread of a Euclidean
proposition. You may find yourself doubting what the right thing to do is, or if there is a
right or wrong at all. You may find you’ve harmed a friend and couldn’t say why. Being
confused about your place in the world can render you useless for its present needs. I will
name this peril incivility, with the understanding that I do not mean mere impoliteness but
the failure to fulfill the responsibility you have to your community because you did not have
firm ground to stand on. But in this failing, you can learn to see what your community is
and requires. You can learn to ask for forgiveness from it, and not allow your own failings
to excuse you from your responsibility.
Herodotus tells us that Thales was also a statesman of sorts. He recommended to a number
of neighboring cities that they choose a single meeting place to hear disputes and decide
matters in common, as if each polis were a district of a larger political whole. I wonder if
Thales had this commitment to a common political life because he occasionally fell into a
well and found himself fractured by embarrassment, distraction, and incivility. Thales’
meeting place is the solid ground on which to work at being undivided. It should remind
you of our own classroom: one table, many voices.
There are other ways the ground disappears that have nothing to do with making a mistake.
How often have you talked your way somewhere in seminar and like Elizabeth Bennet found
that you had “wandered about until you were beyond your own knowledge?” You reach for
a familiar world and find it upended and whirling. Time varies with velocity, matter is energy
by another name, God is love: after a particularly good conversation you might well, as
Pentheus did, see two suns in the sky. Aristotle tells us wonder is the source of wisdom, and
perhaps it is by having the ground fall away from beneath us that we are prepared to behold
the world with new eyes.
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�Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
Since you are heading out into the world, I feel bound to tell you something particularly true
of it in this present age: most people are terrible at falling down wells. This is not surprising.
They have little to no practice at making mistakes in public and they believe that the purpose
of education is to learn how to become a certified non-mistake-maker, that is, an expert. At
most, they acknowledge that failure is important, but only as a ditch one leaps out of,
something to laugh at from a more comfortable vantage point. Many commencement
speakers are probably telling graduates right now to accept failure as a necessary evil on their
predestined path to success. I think Thales and the Thracian woman would have a few
choice words for them.
I hope it is clear by now that I am not giving you advice. I am praising you for what you
have been doing here all along. You have not learned how to land on your feet every time
you fall down a well. That would be sophistry—the skill to say something plausible no
matter the circumstances. But you have learned to welcome a fall when it comes. Falls come
in varying heights—from incorrectly drawing a geometrical diagram to realizing that your
whole account for your place in the world didn’t make adequate sense. In the period of your
course in these halls you have practiced disorientation: having your ground—perceptual,
intellectual, moral—fall out from beneath you. You have learned to be more committed to
the conversation than your own embarrassment, distraction, or incivility. You have learned
to remain at the table.
The sun is not yet at its zenith, but this is well past the midpoint of my address and I would
like to tell you a story about my own encounter with a well. Many years ago my family
visited the house where my grandmother was born, in Greene County, Virginia. It had long
since been in other hands, but she wanted to see it again, and she wanted me to see it for the
first time. My grandmother, parents, and I drove down one summer day, warmer than this
one, and turned from the highway onto country roads, until we came to the old home place.
The property was overgrown, and I was the only one who ventured into the abandoned
house. Young trees grew through the floor of the living room and stood like motionless
hosts. Only leaves breathed the quiet air of the house. When I returned to the car, I found
my grandmother upset by the dilapidation of the present and this rough return to the past.
But even in consternation she asked me, “Did you find the well?”
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�Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
The well was an underlying figure in the landscape of her childhood. She was a rare and
powerful storyteller; her memories of that childhood live on in those who heard her stories.
I have a vivid image of her drawing water to cool that morning’s milk as if I had been there
to hold the pail. When I take a drink after a long row here on the Severn I sometimes
remember how she quenched her thirst at the well after a long walk home from school. And
I did find this same well. She told me to watch out for it before I left the road and went into
the woods. The well was deep, and its wooden cover was surely rotted away. But I
discovered it in time, near the back porch stairs—a dark opening in the earth.
This memory gives me cause to rethink my telling of the Thales story. I have praised what
you undertook here at the College. But like Socrates in the Phaedrus, perhaps I have not yet
done justice to the end of that enterprise. I have considered one aspect of the thoughtful
life—when the ground disappears, but I have yet to address another—falling into a well.
Allow me to begin my encomium again, giving due praise not to the fall, but Depth.
You fall, yes, but into what? Thales fell into his own first principle—water, which he took to
be the underlying material beneath everything else. In other words, he fell into the source of
the world. The word for source in Greek is arche, a word that has many resonances with us
here at the College. An arche is a beginning, a cause, a source for the way things are, a spring
that pours forth much. The sources of the world are deep. You cannot always climb down
but must trust the fall. I am reminded of what the German poet Hölderlin wrote, “Wo aber
Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch.” “Where danger is, there salvation also grows.” It is no
accident that we find water in the deep places of the world. There is a secret bond between
the high and the deep. When we set our gaze on the ageless dance of the stars we also find
ourselves falling to the very heart of the world. But I want to describe more specifically
what we fall into when the ground gives way.
When I was in high school, trying to persuade my parents to let me attend the College, we
were invited to an event for prospective students at an alumna’s house. My mother was not
at all sure that this strange school would be worth the risk. I think my father was happy
enough that I was interested in crew to sign off on the whole dubious project. Wouldn’t it
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Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
be better to go somewhere with more options, somewhere more conservative, more
affordable, somewhere with a study abroad program? We met a tutor at the event, Nancy
Buchenauer, and my mother asked her a challenging question: what is the worldview of St.
John’s College? Ms. Buchenauer paused, but did not shy away from an answer. “We believe
there are certain questions that must be asked.” My parents were convinced.
The more I ask opening questions at the beginning of seminar, the more time I live with the
great books that pose those certain questions with unyielding intensity, the more I believe
that a question is not a statement disguised by uncertainty, nor is it an indication of, or an
attempt to induce, confusion. A question is a well-spring sunk into the heart of the world.
A question demands that you must answer it now, in the present, and for yourself; no one
can do it for you. Who am I? What is nature? What ought I do here? What is fleeting,
undying, beautiful? These wells do not run dry however much we draw from them. They
are springs of living water, nourishing tree, city, and soul.
Our time is at its end and you are about to return to a source. I know the College sometimes
seems self-sufficient, but the great world to which you go is one of our sources, and we, its
tributary. Plato has given you many ways to picture life in the world. The darkest is in the
Republic. There it it is like living in a cave, chained by injustice, bound to see only images of
the truth. But in the Theaetetus, he gave you another way of picturing that place underlying all
others. Going back to the world is like falling into a well. Disorienting at first, but in it you
may discover the source of what is. I believe the well of Thales was a place for reunion and
betrothal, like a well in the book of Genesis; or like the pool of Bethesda, where an angel
troubled the waters and the lame came to walk again. Thales falling into the well is an image
of what happens to human beings after they have strained to see the undying beauty above
them, but lost their footing and found themselves in fathomless depth. Perhaps instead of
being forced down to earth as in the cave, they fall there, as Alyosha does, in praise and
wonder.
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<li>1796</li>
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COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday I May 13
Two Thousand and Eighteen
Annapolis I Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Sixth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Second Year
of the College
Prelude
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Welcome
Panayiotis Kanelos
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A8 7
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Matthew Holtzman, AOO
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Kanelos
Dean Macfarland
President Kanelos
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Academic Recession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
�Heather Rosemary Star Boning
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Sylmar, California
Representation and Self-Creation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Cora Leighton Allen
West Hartford, Connecticut
On the Power of Communication Through Poetry in the Works of William Wordsworth
Morgan Anastasi
East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
The Blessings of Liberty
Kira Ruth Anderson
Colorado Springs, Colorado
A Pleasant and Placating Lie: An E loration of Humanity and Agency in Hannah
xp
Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism
Sagar Aryal
Dhading, Nepal
A Blueprint for the Modern World: How Machiavelli's Prince Transformed Our Ideas of
Morality
Isabel Claire August
Annandale, New Jersey
Euclidean Ratios and Dedekind Cuts: An E
xploration of the Continuous Line
Catherine Elianna Baldwin
Delanco, New Jersey
Our Mother, Who Art in Heaven: Women, Desire, and Adoration in Marcel Proust's
Swanns Way
Lauren Rebecca Berlin
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
Unbewu{3t, Hochste Lust On the E
xperience of Resolution in Wagner's Tristan und
Isolde
Richa Bhattarai
Lalitpur, Nepal
Facets of Glory: An Inquiry into the Lives of Those Who Straddle Worlds
Alec Matthew Bianco
Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina
Memoria et Fatum: An Exploration of the Conflict Between Memory and Fate in
Virgil's Aeneid
Liam Bogart
West Chester, Ohio
"This is a paper written by Liam Bogart about Ludwig Wittgenstein written for a
committee of three strangers but it felt more like Liam was writing it for himself. It is
the wi nter of the year 2018. Thanks for all your help Mr. Verdi."
Noah Halle Burns
Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Common Human Decency": Rebellion and the Possibility of a Moral Life
Zoe Stansifer Collins
Denver, Colorado
Creation of Self in the Eternal: An Exploration of Womanhood in The Waves by
Virginia Woolf
Joshua Menelin Colon
Long Island, New York
Reflections of Self, Despair, and Imagination in Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death
Jack Riley Cooper
Los Angeles, California
Abraham Unbound: Faith and Conviction in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Sean Daugherty*
St. Louis, Missouri
Alec Christian Davis
Midland, Michigan
The Dialectical Motion Towards True Philosophy in Hume or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love Uncertainty
Nathan Gilday Dignazio
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
The Death and Rebirth of Hope: On Passion, Paradox, and Resignation in
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Maggie Megee Dillon
Annapolis, Maryland
The Free, the Easy, and the Satisfied: Finding Huck's Religion in Nature
Joseph David Dyer
Atchinson, Kansas
Kant's Critique of Moral E ples: Their Limits and Their Power
xam
Olivia Rose Frawley
Lancaster, Massachusetts
Suddenly and Strangely: The Absurd Question ing of Ivan Karamazov
Joseph James Garry
Delmar, New York
Navigating the Pleasing Illusion: Observing Beauty and Art in Lessing's Laocoon
Ryan Jaller Gleklen
Bethesda, Maryland
Under a Dripping Tree: Love and the Unconscious in James Joyce's The Dead
�Jonathan Jacob Grauberd
Hwi Yang Kim
Petach Tikva, Israel
Seoul, South Korea
Language in the Development of the Self in Phenomenology of Spirit
The Web of Lives: The Void at the Heart of the Human Condition in Sophocle's Theban
Plays
Woo-Sung Andrew Kim
Catherine "Kitty" Elizabeth Hanat
Seou l, South Korea
Saving Grace
Manassas, Virginia
Poverty, Class, and the Stories We Tell: Mark T in's Conversation with Cervantes
wa
Arthur Alejandro Kohn
Michael Martin Hansen
Washington, District of Columbia
The Tragic Waltz of Richard Ill
Costa Mesa, California
The Use and Effect of Dialectic on Theatetus
Lily Zofia Kowalczyk
Shane Michael Hettler
Baltimore, Maryland
The Ache of True Toil: An Examination of Grief in The Aeneid
Calabasas, California
Seeking out (of) Aporia: A Reading of Plato's Meno
Emily Martin Krause
Marcus Richard Hoffman
Becoming Woman, Becoming Other: Simone de Beauvo ir's The Second Sex
Centreville, Maryland
"A Great Leap": Truth and Falsehood in the Mind of Nietzsche's Philosopher of the
Future
Barnabas Ashby Holleran
Ellicott City, Maryland
Kevin Chi Lam
Alexandria, Virginia
Another Day at the Office: E mining Natural Liberty, the Division of Labor, and the
xa
Degradation of Laborers in The Wealth of Nations
Chester, Vermont
Stranger Things: An E
xplorati on of Hospitality in Homer's Odyssey
Robin Timothy Lancaster
Mary Elizabeth Hayes Hommel
Fortuna, California
The Hobbesian Person
Columbia, Maryland
Character in Tragedy: A Speculation of Shakespeare's Othello Through Aristotelian
Terms
Nano Liklikadze
Tbilisi, Georgia
Natasha's Transformation Through Love and Suffering in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Calida Kristen Rose Howell
Santa Rosa, California
Victoria Elizabeth Lockamy
Love Thine Enemy: An Investigation of the Actions and Motivations of Bachelor
Sanson Carrasco in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Jarvis Robert Hunt
Turn the Other Cheek: On the Necessity of Forgiveness in Hegel's Phenomenology of
Spirit
Santa Barbara, California
Joseph Kip Loomis
The Son of Insolence: Impunity and Reason in Success and Failure Within The
Histories of Herodotus
John Anthony Jane III
Charlottesville, Virginia
Going On: An Inquiry into Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
Gene Jerskey
Louviers, France
Justice and Education in The Republic: How to Platonically Save Our Souls
I
i
Simone Irena Louw
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Natasha Rostove, A Tragedy in Th ree Acts: An Exploration of the Painful Journey from
Girlhood to Womanhood
New York, New York
Ramsey Blake Mahaffey
I Am You-You Are Me: Paradox and Empathy at the End of the Iliad
Naomi Marie Johnson
Woodbridge, Virg inia
Edgewater, Maryland
Don Giovanni: The Choice Between Sexual Enslavement or Destructive Eroticism
Davidsonville, Maryland
A Fable of Idealized Neglect: An Exploration of the Relationship of Power and
Corruption in Animal Farm
�Matthew Paul Manotti
Harrisburg, P
ennsylvania
Allie Nicole Matheu
Edgewater, Maryland
Finding Val ue in Douleur: An Inquiry into Poetry Using Charles Baudelaire's Le C
ygne
Pleasant Hill, California
The Individual in Hegel's Account of Spirit: An Inquiry into the Role of Individual and
What It Is the Individual Desires in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Alice Idzik Meyer
Palo Alto, Californi a
R
eflections and Boundaries in Paradise: Paradise Lost by John Milton
John Elliot Mooradian
Spinoza's G as a Necessary Part of Philosophy
od
Madison, Connecticut
Does Mystery Make the Heart Grow F
onder?: An Investigation of Xenophon's
Oeconomicus and Symposium
J ames Grady Orr
Flemington, New Jersey
On Choice in R
acine's Phedre: With a Focus on the Power of Imagination in P
hedre's
Labyrinth Speech
Andre Louis Pellegrin III
Milford, Delaware
Hannah Louise Crozier Peterson
Wallingford, Pennsylvania
The Final Journey: A Reflection on Corruption in G
ulliver's Travels
Caracas, Venezuela
Katy Cruel, I See, I Hear, I Speak: On Language and Change
Clifford Morris
La Porte, Texas
I Am the One in Time, Space, and the World: Antoi ne Roquentin's Discovery of Self in
Sartre's Nausea
Cyrus Wolf Multhauf
Chicago, Illinois
Paean for a Fallen King: Self, Nothingness, and Time in Shakespeare's King Richard II
Rachelle Elise Munsey
Rocklin, California
Liberation in a Dream of Servitude: A Study of the Preservation of Joseph's Brethren
at the End of Genesis
Sawyer Merritt Neale
Jennifer Evelyn Ongley
Into the Yawning Abyss of Freedom: An Exploration of Kierkegaardian Anxiety
Washington Crossing, P
ennsylvania
Sarahgabrielle Moreno
Arlington, Virginia
Machiavellian Justice
Ethics Within Politics: A R
eflection on How Cities Shape Us
Sheridan Amber Mathias
Caitriona Alyce O'Connor
Elizabethtown, P
ennsylvania
Phenomenology and Conversation: On Augustine as Unhappy Consciousness
Subha Niroula
Garrett Stanford Phelps
Phoenix, Arizona
Speaking Vaguely of a Red Nose: An Essay on L
anguage, Abstraction, and Specificity
in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities
J onah Ajax Piscitelli
Norfolk, Massachusetts
R
eason in Plato's Phaedrus
Felipe Pazos Rego
Miami, Florida
Wittgenstein Solved P
hilosophy and So C You: A Look at Philosophical
an
Investigations
Kathryn Malori Richards
Gig Harbor, Washington
Elizabeth Bennet: A True Hero?
Jacob Christopher Richey
Pleasanton, California
The Sound of C
onfusion: Andrei Bolkonsky and the Paradox of E
arthly Life
Biratnagar, Nepal
Conflict Between Reason and Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Ethan McCoy Rogers
Vienna, Virginia
E
ssay on the P
ossibility of Mechanics
Lizbeth Nicole Novelo
The Importance of the Ideal
Nashville, Tennessee
Sarah Fatima Rupani
Plainsboro, New Jersey
The Conflict Between R
eason, Nature, and the Heart of Man: An E ination bf a
xam
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rost's Poetry
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Caldwell, Idaho
A Definition for Life: The Twin Inquiries of Alan Turing and Hans Driesch
Michael William Schmidt
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Insufficiencies of Justice as an Art: A Close Reading of Plato's Republic
Jason Thomas Seaman
Bordentown, New Jersey
Forming an Epoch: Prince Andrei and the Meaning of a Changed Life
Mimi Selena Silver
Ellicott City, Maryland
Elizabeth Karen Skelton
Annandale, Virginia
George Robert Ward
Swampscott. Massachusetts
Deliberations upon F
riendship in Plato's Lysis: An Account of How F
riendship Is
Possible Without Knowing What a F
riend Is
Alexander Murray Warren
Falls Church, Virginia
Henry Lee Whittemore
McMinnville, Tennessee
Tyler James Snyder
Palmerton, Pennsylvania
On the Cause of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
Joohyun Song
Jeonju, South Korea
Eunbee Yu
Seoul, South Korea
Jiaying Yu
Jinan, Peoples Republic of China
Wrestling G An E
od:
xploration of Tension and Discord in Genesis
Strongsville, O
hio
The Dearth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Limits of Economic G
rowth in Adam
Smith's Wealth of Nations
James Cameron Strack
Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China
Human Degeneracy and Society in G
ulliver's Travels
Iago's Intelligence, Imperfection, and Silence in Shakespeare's Othello
Thomas Fredrick Springer
Mifield Xu
Why Are Things Difficu lt to Ta lk About?: An E
xploration of the Inevitable Loss in
Communication, in Thought, and in Human E
xperience
Tested O
aths: Marriage in Homer's Odyssey
Vienna. Virginia
Robert Wyatt Zellers
Arnold, Maryland
The Birth, Death, and R
ebirth of Music and Tragedy
Qi Zhan
Tongcheng, Peoples Republic of C
hina
Probabil istic Quantum Mechanics and the Challenge to Absolute Space
Dionysus and Pentheus: The Fury of God at Man and Man at God
Pueblo West. Colorado
Dante's Paradiso: On Freedom of the Will
Mason Tyler Troupe
Tampa, F
lorida
Knowing and Seeing: On lntellection in Aristotle and Being-One in Plotinus
Patrick Dillon Turley
Hampton, Virginia
Fighting for Love: The E
thical Ramifications of Love in T Canterbury Tales
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War and Peace Within: Pierre Bezukhov's Discovery of Himself
Jessica Nicole Thiebaut
Happiness in the Summa T
heologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas and also Regarding
Some Pertinent C
riticisms
The Devil Abroad in India: The Raj Quartet and Satan's Hand in It
On the Love of Nature: Wordsworth's Transcendence in Tintern Abbey
Benjamin Spencer Smith
Matthew Howard Voges
Saint Paul, Minnesota
To Compass Such a Boundless Happiness: Concerning Perfect and Imperfect
Bethesda, Maryland
The As-Yet-Undetermined Animal: Nietzsche's Darwi nian T
urn
* Upon completion of requirements
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Katrina Mary Atsinger
Michael Paul Birdsell
Nathaniel Andre Booth
Paula Rachel Dorfman
Stanley Edmond
Kathleen Claire Ellis
Hartley Wintney, England
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Annapolis, Maryland
Calvert County, Maryland
Rockville, Maryland
Alexandria, Virginia
Chesterfield, Michigan
Christina Garvan
Towson, Maryland
Celine LaVoie Healey
Thomas Henley Hopkinson
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
Unbewu(3t, Hochste Lust: On the Experience of Resolution
in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Lauren Rebecca Berlin
Honorable Mention
Bowie, Maryland
John Donald Felis
Malca Rebeccah Gottlieb
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Washington, District of Columbia
Annapolis, Maryland
Richmond, Virginia
Joseph Michael Keegin*
Louisville, Kentucky
Heather Frantz Macon
St. Louis, Missouri
Saving Grace
Woo-Sung Andrew Kim
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-i n-law,
Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Morality and Humor in Pride and Prejudice
Rachel Langston
Odenton, Maryland
Andrew Ginn Mcintire
The Death and Rebirth of Hope: On Passion, Paradox, and Resignation
in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Nathan Gilday Dignazio
Jose Miguel Miura
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Mary Carolyne Ross
Plano, Texas
Primeval Protagoras: Anthropocentric Measurement in
Rousseau's Second Discourse
Neal Bhattacharya
Davidsonville, Maryland
Saweed A. Sadatyar
Honorable Mention
Jeremy Burton Sheeler*
Baltimore, Maryland
Samuel Harris Fox Smith
Annapolis, Maryland
Ross Patric Stafford
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Benjamin D. Wampler
Glencoe, Illinois
Jonathan David White
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
But Thy mercy is better than lives, and behold my life is but a scattering
Patrick Ensslin
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
The Clouds: Beyond Highbrow Jokes and Subtle Misanthropy
Joshua Lee
Laurel, Maryland
* Upon completion of requirements
Honorable Mention
Telemachus, Nasuicaa, and the Portrayal of Children and Childhood in the Odyssey
Magdalena Anderson
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To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay in
the year 2017. Offered by the Alumni Association
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Home in Virgil's Aeneid
Not Awarded
Joseph Michael Keegin
To the Senior man and woman who, through participation, leadership, and
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Jennifer Evelyn Ongley
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Text: Xenophon, OlxovoµLx6c;
Samuel Harder
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Tristan Corbiere, "Sonnet posthume"
Liam Twomey
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Robin Timothy La ncaste r
Simone Irena Louw
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
Matthew Pau l Manotti
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969
Alli e Nicole Matheu
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Assonance" & "Dissonance"
Reflection, portrait; Nobody Deserves Mime, portrait; Untitled, polymer sculpture
Be njamin Haas
Cora Leig hton Al len
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Honorable Mention
Movement in G for String Quartet, "King"
Three handcrafted rings: one of walnut and maple, the second of maple and copper,
the third of walnut and fire coral
Morgan Ballard-Wheeler
Ba rn abas As hby Holleran
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Not Awarded
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
Untitled, oil painting
Jiayi ng Yu
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and
Director of Athletics
Jiaying Yu
Honorable Mention
Mifi eld Xu
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
Mifi eld Xu
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Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954
Dr. Granville 0. Adams, 1929
Mildred Alexander
Philip L. Alger, 1912
Alter Graduate Institute Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship
Annapolis Graduate Institute
Aretei Fund
Bradley C. Arms
Richard A. Duhan, 1963
Martin Dyer Book Fund
Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund
Faculty Scholarship
Ron Fielding and Susan Rumore Lobell
James H. Frame, 1950
Friends of St John's
Nancy Gannon Gearing
Harry Golding, Graduate Institute
George M. Austin, 1908
Walter S. Baird, 1930
Betty Beck Bennett, 1960
Fred and Marian Billups
George A. and Eveline T Greenleaf
Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910
John T and Gertrude L Harrison, 1907
John T Harrison Jr.
Jeff Bishop Memorial
Ford K. Brown, H70
Caritas Society of St John's College
Charles W Hass, 1927
Henry B. Higman, A48
Casasco Family Fund
Michael Chiantella
Chicago Regional
Chaninah Maschler Endowed Scholarship
Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp
James T Clark, 1928
Class of 1897
Class of 1898
Class of 2014
Richard F. Cleveland, H54
Bernard Clorety, 1950
Dr. Charles C. Cook
Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969
Richard H. Hodgson, 1906
The Hodson Trust
Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906
Houston Regiona l
John Isaacs
J Seward Johnson Jr.
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones
Col. Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909
Robert E. Kanode, 1939
Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H84
Francis A. Katz, 1929
William R Kenan Jr. Trust
.
John Spangler Kieffer, H70, and Roxana Wh ite
Kieffer, H84
Marie Klebe Memorial
Jacob Klein, H76
Korshin Family Fund
Tom and Cathryn Krause
The Joseph and Robert Cornel l Memorial
Foundation
Thomas Cosgrove
Eugene N , 1929, and Robert G., 1963
Cozzolino
Wiley and Helen Crawford
Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930
Joseph LaPides
Cpl. George E. Cunniff Ill
Blaise and Helen DeAloia
Donna Marie Delattre
Clarence L Dickinson, 1911
Michael Littleton
John D. Mack
Chaninah Maschler
Massachusetts Regional
James Matthews, H99
St John's College Alumni Association
Thomas A. and Julia McDonald
Middendorf Foundation
Martin Conrad Miller (1981) Book Fund
Paul Miller
Philip A. Myers II, 1938
J J Salovaara
NationsBank Foundation (Bank of America)
Christopher B. Nelson Scholarship
Endowment
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O'Grady Memorial
Oklahoma Regional
Molly Owens
Norman G. O
wens
Jules 0. Pagano Memorial Scholarship Fund
Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran Jr.
Passin Family Fund
The Duane and Clementine Peterson
Charitable Fund
LO and Paula Pickens
Pittsburgh Regional
Elizabeth Powers and Andrew Wagner
Reader's Digest Foundation
J Douglas Ramsey, 1937
Greg Riley, 1993
Lenore B. Rinder
Cleo Ritz
Susan I. Roberts, 1966
Clifton C. Roehle
Joan and Bela Ronay
Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938
G.D. Searle/John E. Robson
Robson Fam ily
Rosse Family
Lawrence L. Saporta, PhD
Flora Duvall Sayles
Scholarship Fund 2013
Hazel Norris and J Graham Shannahan, 1908
Doug E. Sherr (1972) Memorial
Rudy Simeone
Thomas J, H94, and Marion K. Slakey
Andrew Smith Memorial
J Winfree Smith, HBO
Harry S. and Vivian B. Spectre Book Fund
James S Spirer, 1970
Raymond and Richard Starke
C. V Starr Foundation
Jean Roberts Staylor
Andrew and Lenore Steiner Book Fund
David H. Stephenson
Clarence W Stryker
Bert Thoms
Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel
Anna K. van Schwerdtner, 2015, and Frederick
J van Schwerdtner, 1901
Mr. and Mrs. William J Vanous
Pattie Bourne Turn er Wa Iker, 1966
Irving and Loretta Wasserman
Charles H. Watts
Richard D. Weigle, H49
John L Williams, 1950
Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams
Frank K. Wi Ison, 1935
Winiarski Endowment Fund
Delores and Stephen Wolf
Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation
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M. Brownell Anderson
Bradley C. Arms
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Harold and Karen Bauer
Peter A. Benoliel and Wil la Carey
Virginia and Stephen Bergen
Janet and Kenneth Berggren
Roseanna Bigham
Fred and Bee Billups
George F. Bingham and Janie Boswoth
Bingham
Sharon Bishop
March Bi shop
Steven J. Bohl in and Rachel O
'Keefe
Betsy Bi ern and Theodore V Booth
E
lizabeth A. Bradford
E T. H. Brann
va
Nancy D. Buchenauer and Franci s H.
Rowsome
Karen and Christopher Camacho
Lauren B. Campuzano
Caritas Society of St. John's College
R. Webster Chamberlin
Robert and Stephanie Clark
James J. Cohler
Daniel and Ma ry Cosgrove
Dianne J. Cowan
Gerard E. Cozzolino
Sabine S. Cranmer
Steven and Margaret Crockett
Deirdre A. Crosse
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Christopher D. Denny
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Loretta R. Haring
Robert and Julie Hell er
And rew S. Hertzoff
Jon Kaufman and Mili ssa Hicks
Henry and Marilyn Higuera
Ma ry A. Hinshaw and James Lofti s
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Morgan G. Hough
Jonathan K. Hustis and Marion Condon
ICFM (Independent College Fund of Maryland)
Richard and Judy Irvine
Margaret Junghans
Leon R. Kass
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Peter E. Keith
Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Memorial
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Edward R. Klebe
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Patricia Koscinski
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Alice F. Kurs
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Victoria and David Riley
Rosemary Rinder
Mark Rinder
Reginald Rinder
Joseph and Barbara Roach
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Lisa B. Saporta
Hyland and Charles Schaller
Kristin M. Scheel
Carl and El izabeth Seastrum
Kathryn J. Seddon
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Lester S. Si lver
Paul and Sara Sinai
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Annapolis, MD
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Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br />
<ul>
<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
<li>1878</li>
<li>1880</li>
<li>1890</li>
<li>1893</li>
<li>1895</li>
<li>1897</li>
<li>1907</li>
<li>1910-1918</li>
<li>1920-1924</li>
<li>1928-1929</li>
<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
</ul>
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Program for the two hundred twenty-sixth commencement in the three hundred twenty-second year of the college.
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St. John's College
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Annapolis, MD
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2018-05-13
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English
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Annapolis, MD
Contributor
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St. John's College Greenfield Library
Description
An account of the resource
Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br />
<ul>
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Commencement Address for the Class of 1999
by Peter Kalkavage
16May 1999
Visitors and Honored Guests, Parents and Family of Students, Members of the Sl
John's Community, Degree Candidates in the Graduate Institute, and, last but not
least, Graduating Seniors!
Dear seniors and soon to be alumni, my thoughts for you on this momentous
dayrevolve around the following question: What makes thinking alive? Over
the last four years your thinking has ranged over a vast field of thinkables: the
wrath of heroes and the longing for home, shape and number, space and time,
being and becoming, the fate of republics, the aspirations of reason and the limits
of reason, what it means to be lost and what it means to be saved. The vastness
of this field of thinkables invites us to look
bac~
to search in that field for what
brought it all to life.
Hegel tells us that nothing great in the world is ever achieved without
passion. He is right, right about the world and right about you. For 'i\'hat you
have done here in coursing through the program is great as well as good, noble
as '''ell as useful. And it has all been the work of your passion for learning. It
was your passion that brought you to this College and kept you here in difficult
times. It was your passion for the thinkable that made thinking alive.
The clearest expression of this passion was something you did every day in all
your classes: you asked
qu~stions.
The perpetual asking of questions, together
"\i\rith the quest for precision in tutorial and laboratory, was your labor of love. In
Plato's Symposium we are told a story about the parentage of Love. Love, it
seems, was the offspring of Poros and Penia. Papa Poros is Resourcefulness or
Contrivance, and Mama Penia is Poverty or Lack. The humorous myth conveys
a deep mystery. Love is paradoxical -- a marriage of opposites. Neither sheer lack
nor sheer cunning, Love is both together. It is a desire that is cunning in its very
poverty, an emptiness that somehow manages to fill itself. In asking questions
over these four years, you, along with your tutors, engaged in just this sort of
�cunning poverty. You practised the art of magically transforming your lack into
a resource. Questions for you were like the raft of Odysseus as he weathers the
world in his effort to get back home. They were the expression of your need and
the means of your transport.
There is a poem by Wallace Stevens that bears the curious title "Questions Are
Remarks." I would emend that title to read: "Questions Are Insights." Consider
the phenomenon of the good question. You all know from experience what this
is:
The good question is the one. you remember, the one that opens up
something important, points the way to the heart and soul of a thought. The
good question, far from being a mere confession of ignorance, is already a highly
precise instance of knowitzg. To ask a good question is to locate and put into
words something that begs to be asked and inquired into. To ask is already to
have seen. Of all the powers you cultivated at this College, this one, I believe,
was the most important: the power of seeing and saying the What-is-to-be-asked.
Thanks to this power, you became formidable at making begiilnings; you became
what you are today -- the virtuosos of com 111 enc em en t..
So much for the eros of asking - now for t Jiu 111 os . You may recall that there
are many verbs in Greek for thinking, knowing, grasping and perceiving. One of
them is especially interesting: enthumeisthai, from which we get our logic term
"enthymeme." It comes up in Plato's Phaedo '\'\'hen it "hits" Phaedo, comes
home to him, that this man he so loves and admires, this Socrates, is about to
die. Enthumeisthai captures the umon of heart and mind that attends all
genuine learning. It has the word thumos embedded in it, which has no exact
analogue in English and means something like spirit, passionateness, heart or
feeling. Thum os is what allows us to take things to heart and to bear up in the
face of danger and difficulty. Sometimes the seat of overwhelming, irrational
passion, it is also where Homeric heroes, notably Odysseus, do their pondering
and mull over alternatives. It is the place in the soul where depth meets clarity.
We experience tile tltumos of thinking when '\Ve realize something deep down,
ponder it in our chests and feel its full weight. Such realizations fill our whole
being, sometimes to the point of transforming us forever.
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�Such was the thinking you were invited to experience in your four years with
us. You were called upon by this program of study not merely to "work on" the
books but to ponder their meaning and take them to heart. I am sure that in the
course of the last week or so, the experience I am trying to describe was very real
to you. As the end of your student days at this College drew ever nearer, as that
last seminar approached and then ... was gone, you, like Phaedo, must have felt
the weight of a truth, the gravity of an impending moment.
This sobering
contemplation of an end is an image of that intellectual seriousness you brought
to reading books and engaging in conversation.
But I have become too serious. For if your learning here was a time of
pondering, it was no less a tini.e of intelligent play. Play, as well as passion,
makes thinking alive. This play is the offspring of imagination, that great and
necessary complemertt to taking things seriously. Through the imagination, we
cultivate a taste for otherness: we take a fascinated interest in opinions we may
not hold, try to look at the world through eyes that are not our own.
Imagination is the faculty of distance and perspective. It "cools us off," prevents
us from being too serious, too wrapped up in ourselves, too consumed by our
passions and our point of view.
'Whereas thumos gives thinking gravity,
imagination gives it levity. Imagination thus liberates. It frees us from the bad
effects of zeal - zeal even for the truth. If the sun is our passion for insight, then
the imagination is a great plane tree like the one in the Phaednts - or perhaps a
tulip poplar like our noble Liberty Tree. In the shade of this tree in the soul '\·ve
find relief and protection, not only from the crudeness of our lower natures but
also from the intensity and self-importance of our higher natures.
There is a danger that you face today. The danger is that, having completed
your program of study, you will cease to be transformed by \·\rhat you have read
and talked about; that you will leave these books and these conversations with
the opinions you now hold and never again submit them to careful
examination. In the language of the Phaedo, the danger consists in letting the
logos within you, the Socrates within you, die. I am sure that for some of you,
there was some book, author or part of the program that was, as the saying goes, a
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�closed book. For some of you it was perhaps Baudelaire, who refused either to
make us feel good or to teach us virtue; for others it was Hegel, who refused to
speak plain English; for others, the Bible, whose God refused to be the
enlightened gentleman we wanted Him to be. Some of you may have found
Socrates himself merely off-putting and obnoxious. I hope that you will not
succumb to the danger of which I speak. It would be a failure of imagination. I
hope that you will return to that all-but-closed book - that dismissed question,
idea or author - and reopen it, remembering that sometimes we learn the most
from those who are most other.
This year you read Dostoievsky's novel about three brothers. At the end of
this novel, one of them, Alyosha, says the following to the boys gathered around
Ilyushechka's grave: "You must know that there is nothing higher_, or stronger_,
or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory,
especially a memory from childhood, from the parental home."
I end by applying this speech to you and to the four years of learning you have
completed at this, your academic home.
follovdng:
Some time soon, ask yourself the
Of all the insights I have experienced here (including all the
questions I have asked and have been asked), which one was the most important
to me? V\Thlch one most caused me to realize something deep down, most
opened my eyes to what I had not seen before? \'\Then you find that insight,
guard it well: it is '\Vhat your education has most been for. I\1ay this remembered
insight be for you that good memory of 1..vhich Alyosha speaks. :May it beget in
you, the children of Poros and Penia, a life of continued pondering and rich
imaginings.
As you enjoy the sunniness of this day that is yours, consider the sun's
likeness to the good you have found at this College. Let the sun with its twofold
~nergy,
its Light and its Warmth_, call to mind that which you will never lose:
whatever intellectual Light you attained here through study and all the '"'arm th
of our affection for you.
My dear comrades in iearning, do not let the logos within you die!
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On the Difficult
Commencement Address for the Graduate Institute
10 August 2007
Peter Kalkavage
Graduates and family members, visitors and colleagues!
There is a famous saying that all beginners in ancient Greek learn: khalepa ta kala. It
means, "Beautiful or fine things are difficult." Today we celebrate your accomplishment
of something beautiful and difficult: the successful completion of your work in the
Graduate Institute of St. John's College. In my remarks this morning I want to reflect
briefly on the experience of the difficult as it appeared in the books you read and in your
struggle to learn. I offer this reflection in tribute to that struggle.
I begin with the Platonic dialogues, those golden examples of beauty joined to
difficulty. Through his hero Socrates, Plato inspires and calls into question; he arouses
and checks; he sets in motion and brings to a stop; he is playful and also deeply serious.
He gives us difficult arguments, and equally difficult myths. Socrates is difficult. He
wears the mask of irony, persists in asking hard questions about the most important
matters of human life, and generates perplexity and the knowledge of ignorance. The
difficulty of Socrates is evident in the Meno. Meno is fascinated by impressive sounding
definitions of virtue. He is an example of what Nietzsche calls "decorative culture." He
wants to be beautiful, as Socrates suggests, but he has no stomach for the difficult.
In your time here, you have experienced the perplexity that abounds in Plato's
dialogues. With more life experience than our undergraduates, more settled opinions,
�and a more formed character, you dared to make a new beginning. You were willing to
be, for a time, unsettled adults, courageous enough to know that you did not know. As
you questioned the books, you also let them question you. In reading all the books on the
program, you let yourself be animated by the beautiful difficulty of Socrates.
Socrates' knowledge of his own ignorance is sometimes taken as an expression of
humility. But that can't be right. If it were, then Socrates would rest content with
opinion; he would not engage in philosophy. Socrates does not say, "I think I don't
know" or "I don't claim to know" or "Who knows what virtue is!" He says, "I know that
I don't know." There is an audacity here, a claim to know. Socrates' admission is a
paradoxical way of saying: "I recognize what is problematic about virtue: I know what
calls forth questioning." Only one who persisted in inquiring into virtue, and who
examined various opinions about it, could say, "I know that I don't know."
This recognition of the difficult and the willingness to bring it out into the open were
at work in our Herodotus preceptorial this summer. In a recent class discussion, one of
you tried to describe why Herodotus was a difficult, if engaging, author. Was his book
like an onion with many layers, or like a tangled ball of yarn, in which every strand leads
to every other in ever-surprising ways? You allowed Herodotus to appear as perplexing
as he really was. His inquiry, historia, was also yours.
My hope is that your experience of Herodotus will enrich your experience of life: that
it will inspire you with the wonder, imagination, and intelligent appreciation of otherness
that Herodotus brought to his mighty task. As you know, one of the central themes in
Herodotus is custom, no mos. What is custom? Why are customs, like this graduation
ceremony, important to us? How do they help us understand what it means to be human?
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�Why should we inquire into our own customs and those of other cultures? Is the life of
unexamined custom, in the words of Socrates, not worth living? Can respect for custom
co-exist with inquiry, and if so, how? How do we know that in looking at other peoples'
customs we are not like Gyges, who looks upon the naked queen while he himself
remains, so he thinks, invisible?
I urge you to continue to ask these questions as you return to your private and
professional lives. I hope that you will remember, as Herodotus wanted you to, the
wonders of Egypt, colorful Persians like Cyrus and Xerxes, spirited women like Queen
Tomyris, who avenges her son, and the great warrior-advisor Artemisia, the heroic deeds
at Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis, and what was required of the Greeks to save
their country from enslavement by a foreign power. I hope you will remember, as fondly
as I do, those Arabian sheep whose long tails must be carried on specially constructed
carts and the gold-digging ants that are smaller than dogs but bigger than foxes. I hope
you will remember Herodotus' terrifying depictions of the human soul as a monster of
unbounded desire, wrath, cruelty, perversity, and madness-especially the madness of
violating the customs of one's own people. These are, to be sure, ugly truths. That is
why it is all the more important to remember them. They are part of the same world in
which beauty dwells.
Another book that mixes beauty with difficulty is Dante's Purgatorio. Some of you
were in the preceptorial last summer when we studied this middle part of Dante's poem.
Purgatory is the place of hope. It is "the mountain where reason searches us." Hope here
is not a passing emotion but a fixed disposition. It is desire for the good joined to the
work of achievement. With the aid of grace, souls on Mt. Purgatory make themselves
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�worthy to be happy. They do this by embracing their torment and playing an active role
in their salvation. The proud bear heavy rocks on their backs, the envious endure having
their eyes sewn shut, and the lustful experience the fire that burns but does not harm or
kill. The soul for Dante is like a beautiful sculpture that has been ruined by sin. The hard
work of purgation is the art by which we reverse time and regain our original shape. It is
the difficulty that is prerequisite to moral beauty.
One of the best opportunities some of you had to experience the marriage of difficulty
and beauty was the mathematics tutorial. The right triangle, as an outward shape, is
beautiful. But it became more of a beauty when you analyzed its many properties and its
precise relation to the squares constructed on its sides. I am referring, of course, to the
Pythagorean theorem. It was perhaps difficult at first to work through Euclid's proof.
But the result was worth it. That result was not merely increased skill in doing
geometrical proofs, or even the certitude that the proposition was indeed true. The goal
was not enhanced power and diminished doubt but something else. In grasping the proof
of the Pythagorean theorem, not merely memorizing it, you enjoyed an insight into the
perfectly formed inner life of a right triangle. The proof was the shining forth of the
intelligible. The beautiful relation that was in the triangle all along came to light as the
sides "sprouted" their squares and the logical connection with more elementary truths
was revealed.
You have read many difficult books while you were here: Aristotle's Metaphysics,
Plato's Timaeus, Kant's Critique ofPure Reason, Hegel's Philosophy of History, and
Lobachevski's Theory ofParallels. That's impressive. But I think the hardest thing we
asked you to do was to engage in serious conversation about the Bible. No philosophic,
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�scientific, or mathematical arguments here, no clarity and distinctness of the right
triangle, not even theology: the Bible has no logical proofs for the existence of God.
How is it possible to discuss this book, to bracket all the belief and rejection alike,
defense and attack, piety and animus, all those centuries of accumulated doctrine and
interpretation? Not to mention the difficulty of understanding the text itself and what it is
telling us about the relation of God and man. No book requires more patience, openness,
imagination, and willingness to examine our presuppositions. As unsettled adults, you
faced this difficulty and took the risk.
In his second letter to Timothy, St. Paul writes: "I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the race, I have kept the faith." You too have fought the good fight, you have
finished the race, you have kept the faith. Your faith has been your trust in this program
of education and its tutors, and in your own powers of learning, or rather what Socrates
calls "recollection." You read hard books, asked hard questions, and submitted to
perplexity. The journey at times was not easy. Some of you had to make personal
sacrifices that our undergraduates do not have to make: time away from jobs and family,
the interruption of established life. But you persisted, and you are here.
As you leave us now, I hope you will remember, above all, how much your learning
owed to your conversations with one another and to the friendships you formed here.
Having begun with a Greek saying, I end with another. It occurs at the end of Plato's
Phaedrus: koina gar ta ton philon, "the things of friends are held in common."
May you always hold dear that which you have held in common at this college: that
noblest, most divine, most shareable of all human activities-thought.
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<li>1932</li>
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<li>1939-1945</li>
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JOHN'S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
1696 - 1941
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Under the Liberty Tree
TUESDAY, JUNE THIRD
NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-ONE
ELEVEN O'CLOCK
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�Commencement
Exercises
PROGRAM
ACADEMIC PROCESSION FROM McDOWELL HALL
INVOCATION
The Reverend Doctor William Pierpoint
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND A WARDS
The President of the College
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
Professor Robert K. Gooch,
University of Virginia
CONFERRING OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
The President of the College
BENEDICTION
The Reverend Doctor William Pierpont
ACADEMIC PROCESSION TO MCDOWELL HALL
Reception and Luncheon in Randall Hall for Graduates
and Guests of the College.
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�CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Cum Laude
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, JAMES HAMILTON CLARK, JR ... . . ... . .. . . .. Mt. Tabor, New Jersey
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, HENRY DAVID CUBBAGE .... . . . . .. .... . . ... .. . .... . Brandywine
, IRVING SELWYN LEWIS ..... ... .. . . . .. . ....... .. ..... B altimore
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, GEORGE LEWIS McDOWELL .
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. .. . . . . Rock Hill, South Carolina
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'EDWARD WILFRED Ross, JR.
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, PAUL AARON SACHS . . ... .... . . ....... . . . . . . . . .... .. Annapolis
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,_-HERBERT BRENT STALLINGS . .. . . . . . ... . . . . ... . .. . .. .. Baltimore
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�HONORS AND PRIZES
To the member of the Senior Class who has attained l
the highest average in his four years' academic work,
a gold medal. Offered by the Board of Visitors . . .. VERNON MORSE PADGETT ·
and Governors.
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To the member of the Freshman Class who bas made )
most progress intellectually during the session, the
John Thomson Mason Award of $50.00. Offered ... ROBERT SEAVER ANDERSON •
by an anonymous friend of ·the College.
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To the member of the Freshman Class who has ex
hibited most all-around leadership during the session, the John Thomson Mason Award of $50.00. r . .. . WILLIAM HURST BRUBECK •
Offered by an anonymous friend of the College.
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To the mem:ber of the Senior Class who has written}
the best final essay, a prize of $2 7 .5 0. Offered .. HENRY MARTYN ROBERT, 3D '
under the will of the late Judge . alter I. Dawkins.
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Alumni Trophy-for excellence in Seamanship . ... . . . . .. WILLIAM ALLEN RUHL, JR. '
The winner of the John Martin Green prize of $1 0 .00, which is offered to the member of
the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior Class who writes the best annual essay, will
be announced at Convocation in September.
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<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
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<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
1696 - 1945
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
SUNDAY, DECEMBER TENTH
NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR
McDOWELL HALL
�Program
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
INVOCATION
The Reverend William Kyle Smith
Alexander Meiklejohn
Lecturer of the College
READING
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS - The President of the College
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
The President of the College
CONFERRING OF DEGREES
BENEDICTION
J. Winfree Smith
Tutor of the College
The Reverend William Kyl e Smith
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
Reception and Tea in Basement .of McDowell Hall for Graduates and t heir
Guests, the Faculty and their Families, the St. John's Sta ff ,
and Students
�Candidates for Degrees
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Rite
- ROBERT LUTHER CAMPBELL, JR.
Hagerstown
,..FRANK BUSH MARSHALL, JR.
Baltimore
-.ERICH NUSSBAUM
Annapolis
·· -
,,-I-JARRY FLETCHER PFEIFFER, JR.
Baltimore
Cum Laude
1-VERNE SCHWAB
Greenbelt
�Honors and Prizes
To the senior who has the highest standing, a gold
medal. Offered by the Board of Visitors and
Governors
VERNE SCHWAB ·
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<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>
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<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
1696 - 1946
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
SUNDAY, DECEMBER SIXTEENTH
NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE
McDOWELL HALL
�Program
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
INVOCATION
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND A WARDS
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
Stringfellow Barr
President of the College
CONFERRING OF DEGREES
BENEDICTION
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
Buffet Supper in Randall Hall for Graduates and their Guests,
the Faculty and their Families, the St. John's Staff,
and Students
�Candidates for Degrees
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Cum Laude
THOMAS JAMES COSGROVE
THOMAS IRWIN FULTON, JR.,
IRWIN ROBERT TUCKER
Bayonne, New Jersey
Irwin, Pennsylvania
Bayonne, New Jersey
�Honors and Prizes
To the senior who has the highest standing, a gold
medal. Offered by the Board of Visitors and
Governors
IRWIN ROBERT TUCKER
To the member of the Senior Class who has written
the best final essay, a prize of $30.00. Offered
under the Will of the late Judge Walter I.
Dawkins
IRWIN ROBERT TUCKER
�
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<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
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<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
1696-1948
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
MONDAY, JUNE SEVENTH
NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT
�PROGRAM
FOR THE
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIXTH COMMENCEMENT
INTHE
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FIRST YEAR OF THE COLLEGE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
INVOCATION ..• . . • . .. . ..•• ..•.. The Reverend W. Kyle Smith
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
The President of the College
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS ...... . ..... Simon Kaplan
Tutor of the College
CONFERRING OF DEGREES . . . ....... The President of the College
BENEDICTION . .... • ... .. ·. . . ..... The Reverend W. Kyle Smith
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
liuncheon for Members of the College and their Guests
College Quadrangle
�Candidates For Degrees
BACHELOR OF ARTS
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1941
Rite
CHRISTIAN HEBBLE MCGARRY ......•. East Orange, New Jersey
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1944
Rite
DAVID DOBREER ......•... . • • .••••.... Los Angeles, California
HENRY RAYMOND FREEMAN, III. ..... . Sewickley, Pennsylvania
JOHN CALVIN SMEDLEY .. .. .•••.•. . • •• •••.•.• .. • • . Annapolis
Cum Laude
WILLIAM HURST BRUBECK . • ..... . .. • •...•. ... .... Annapolis
VERNON ELLSWORTH DERR . ...... . •. • ... • ..•....•. Annapolis
Magna Cum Laude
JAMES RODNEY WHETSTONE ..• . .....• . ...•.. Denver, Colorado
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1945
Rite
THEODORE WILLES CLARK ........... . . Wellfleet, Massachusetts
ROBERT ORVAL DAVIS .....••.......... Scottdale, Pennsylvania
WILLIAM MICHAEL GOLDSMITH .... . ..•. Forest Hills, New York
CHRISTIAN ARNESON HOVDE .......... . . New York, New York
DONALD STANLEY KAPLAN . .... . .. . ...... Brooklyn, New y ork
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER KEANE . ... . . . .. .. Brooklyn, New York
JOHN DUNCAN MACK .... . .•. . .. . .... .. New York, New York
ROBERT JULIAN SCOLNIK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annapolis
STEPHEN WAYNE TERRY, JR... . . . ........ Indianapolis, Indiana
GENE PERKINS THORNTON ... .. ... . Greensboro, North Carolina
�Cum Laude
ROGERS GARLAND ALBRITTON .•••••••••.••••••.•• Chevy Chase
MORRIS ALBERT p ARSLOW ••.••••••••••••. Muskegon, Michigan
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1946
Rite
ALVIN FROSS •••••••.•••••••.••..•...•• Bayonne, New Jersey
JOHN PARKER GILBERT ••..•..• Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
ALLEN Z. HARVEY ••...•.....•.••.•.•••••••..•... Frostburg
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1947
Rite
PETER CLOG HER •.•....••.•..••....•• Englewood, New Jersey
HARRY BOWDEN GERALD HOXBY .•.•••..•.•••• Mariemont, Ohio
WILLIAM wARFIELD Ross .•.••••••.•••••••••••....• Bethesda
WILLIAM KYLE SMITH, JR•...••....•..••.•••.•.•.• Annapolis
GEORGE MONTGOMERY v ANSANT ••.•••.•..••......• Annapolis
THE CLASS OF 1948
Rite
DONALD SEMADENI ELLIOTT ................•....•.. Monkton
DAVID. BARRINGTON LOWDENSLAGER ...••...•........ Baltimore
ALAN SCHUTZ MAREMONT ••...•....••....... Chicago, Illinois
JACK LANCASTER MASON ..................•.. Havre de Grace
CLARENCE ROBERT MORRIS, JR ....•...•.••....•• Austin, Texas
OSWALD NAGLER .................•..••.•..•.•.. Perry Point
WILLIAM WESTERMAN SIMMONS ...•...... Cedar Rapids, Iowa
LANGFORD WHEATON SMITH, JR ........... Berkeley, California
GEORGE ROBERT TRIMBLE, JR ....•...•......•...•.. North East
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON ............... New York, New York
�Honors and Prizes
To the member of the Senior
Class who has written the
best final essay, a prize of
$27.50. Offered under the
will of the late Judge
Walter I. Dawkins ... .. .. .... . ..... Gene Perkins Thornton
Honorable .Mention .. . .. ... .. . . . .James Rodney Whetstone
To the senior who has the
highest standing, a gold
medal. Offered by the
Board of Visitors and Governors . . ..... ...... ... .. . .... .. .James Rodney Whetstone
To the member of the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior
Class who has written the
best annual essay, the John
Martin Green prize of
$10.00 ... .. . . ....... . ..... . ... .. Edmond Everett di Tullio
Honorable Mention ................ Clarence Jay Kramer
To the student who has written the best original sonnet, a prize of $10.00 ........... ... ...... .James Ballard
To the student who has prepared the most elegant solution of a mathematical
problem (the problem for
the year being : Given the
medians of a triangle, to
construct the triangle) , a
prize of $10.00 ..... . ..... . . . . . .. .. Marvin Leon Raebttrn
��•
COMMENCEMENT
WEEK
At
St. John's College
Annapolis, Maryland
1696-1948
JUNE
3-7, 1948
�THURSDAY, JUNE 3
ANDROCLES AND THE LION, a play by George Bernard Shaw, presented by the King William Players
IGLEHART HALL, 8:30 P.M.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
SENIORS' RECEPTION FOR FACULTY AND STAFF
THE GREAT HALL, 5:00 P.M.
ANDROCLES AND THE LION, second performance
IGLEHART HALL, 8: 30 P.M.
BoAT HousE, 11 : 00 P.M.
INFORMAL RECORD D ANCE
SATURDAY, JUNE 5
CLASS DAY EXERCISES
UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE, 11 :00 A.M.
FACULTY-SENIOR BASEBALL GAME
BACK CAMPUS, 3: 00 P.M.
PICNIC SUPPER, for the College Community BACK CAMPUS, 6 :00 P.M.
THE PRESIDENT' S DINNER FOR THE SENIOR CLASS
LoG INN, 7: 00 P.M.
FINAL BALL
IGLEHART HALL, 10 : 00 P.M.
�SUNDAY, JUNE 6
BACCALAUREATE SERVICE
Sermon by the Reverend Doctor J. Winfree Smith, Jr.
ST. ANNE' S CHURCH, 5: 00 P.M.
The Academic Procession
will form in
The Great Hall at 4 : 30 p.m.
THE PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION FOR SENIORS AND THEIR GUESTS
PRESIDENT'S HousE, 6:00 P.M.
MONDAY, JUNE 7
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Address by Simon Kaplan, Tutor, St. John's College
UNDER THE LIBERt'Y TREE, 11 :00 A.M.
The Academic Procession
will form in
The Great Hall at 10:45 a .m.
LUNCHEON AFTER THE EXERCISES, for the College Community
COLLEGE QUADRANGLE
�•
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<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>
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<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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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
1696-1951
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
MONDAY, JUNE ELEVENTH
NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE
�PROGRAM
FOR THE
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH COMMENCEMENT
IN THE
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
INVOCATION •.••.••.••••.••.•.•. The Reverend W. Kyle Smith
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
The President of the College
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
The Reverend J. Winfree Smith
Tutor of the College
CONFERRING OF DEGREES •.••.•..•• The President of the College
BENEDICTION •..•......••.....•. The Reverend
w. Kyle Smith
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
*
Luncheon for Members of the College and their Guests
College Quadrangle
�Candidates For Degrees
BACHELOR OF ARTS
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1943
Rite
MILTON PERLMAN ............•.......•. Memphis, Tennessee
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1949
Cum Laude
ANTON GYSBERTI ·HARDY, JR............. Manchester, Vermont
AS .OF THE CLASS OF 1951
Rite
RICHARD JOHN BATT, JR.............. New Orleans, Louisiana
HUMPHREY RICHARD BIXBY ........••..••...••..•• Annapolis
DONALD ACKER BROWN .........•.....•.•..•. Landover Hills
WILLIAM ALLEN BROWN ..............••. Salt Lake City, Utah
GEORGE BARTON CASE . ........ ..• ..•...•.•..... Cumberland
JOHN JOSEPH COFFEY ....•.•.......•.. Brookfield, Connecticut
WILLIAM CURWEN DAVIS ..•........... Scranton, Pennsylvania
RICHARD TOBI EDELMAN .....•.... ; ...... Brooklyn, New York
JAMES HARTWELL FRAME ................ ...•..... Annapolis
ALFRED PHILIP FRANKLIN ...........•.. New York, New York
THOMAS JEFFERSON HAMILTON ............. Azusa, California
�ERNEST WOLFRAM HANKAMER ....... Greensburg, Pennsylvania
ROBERT SHERMAN HILL .•................. Worthington, Ohio
JOHN FRANCIS HORNE, JR.. .......... ••.•..•...... Brookdale
Lours DONALD KOONTZ .••.••....•...•.••...••. Colby, Kansas
JEROME G. LANSNER ............••..... New York, New York
JOHN KENNETH LUCAS ... . .......•.............. Annapolis
HARRY JOSEPH MARTIN •................. Rosedale, New York
ROBERT
LAVERN~
PARSLOW ........•......•.•....•. Annapolis
JAMES MICHAEL REILLY . .......... West Chester, Pennsylvania
ROBERT NORMAN RICHMAN .........•...••.... Columbus, Ohio
MICHAEL LEE ROURKE .• ............. Beverly Hills, California
RONALD LEE SIMMONS ....•.•...•........••.. Havre de Grace
HERMAN SMALL .•.... •. ................ Brooklyn, New York
RAYMOND PETER STARKE ................•.....•... Bethesda
STEWART ALEXANDER
wASHBURN .... Middleboro, Massachusetts
PETER ANTHONY WHIPPLE ..... .................. Catonsville
THOMAS JOSEPH WILLIAMS ........•.•.. Georgetown, Delaware
Cum Laude
GEORGE CHARLES THRASHER, JR............. Roanoke, Virginia
�Honors and Prizes
*
To the Senior who has the
highest standing, a silver
medal. Offered by the
Board of Visitors and Gov-:
_ .
ernors .......................... George Charles Thrasher, Jr.
To the student who during
the current session has given most evidence of leadership in the service of the
College community, a prize
of $25.00 in books ....................... Robert George Hazo
To the member of the Senior
Class who has written the
best final essay, a prize of
$27.50. Offered under the
will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins ..................... Humphrey Richard Bizby
To the member of the Junior
or Senior Class who has
prepared the most elegant
solution of a mathematical
problem, a prize of $25.00.
Offered by Brig. Gen. A.
W. W. Woodcock, A.U.S.,
Retired ................................ .Hisashi H. Ogushi
To the member of the Freshman or Sophomore Class
who has prepared the most
elegant solution of a mathematical problem, a prize
_ _
_
of $25.00 .............................. .Charks Eric Crooke
To the member of the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior
Class who has written the
best annual essay, the John
Martin Green prize of
$10.00 ............................. Harry Morris Neumann
To the student who has written the best original sonnet, a prize of $10.00 .. ................ ... .... Bert Morgan
��DACCALAUREATE
SERV.ICE
SAINT JOHN 'S .COLLEGE
Annapolis, Maryland
The Great Hall
Sunday, June 10 9 1951, 4:00 P.M.
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
(The aud ience will stand during the Academic Procession)
ORDER OF SERVICE
INVOCATION
(Cong regation standing)
..
HYMN •
• Felice de Giardini
(Congregation standing)
l • Come 9 Thou Almighty King,
Help us Thy name to sing,
Help us to praise :
Father 9 all glorious 9
Oger all victorious 9
Come, and reign ov er us,
Ancient of' Days .
3. Come, Holy Comforter,
Thy sacred witness bear
In this glad hour:
Thou who almighty art,
Now rule in every heart,
And ne'er f'~om us depart,
Spirit of' power.
2 . Come, Thou Incarnate Word 9
Gird on Thy mighty sword,
Our prayer attend: ·
Come 9 and Thy people· bless 9
And give Thy word success;
Spirit of' holiness,
On us descend .
4 • To the great One in Three
The highest praises be,
Hence ever morel
His sovereign majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore. Amen.
Anon; Co 1 757
PSALM
(Congregation sea te.d)
Psalm 1
Reade r:
Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of'
I
the ungodly, nor stood in the way of' sinners, and hath not
sat in the seat of the scornf'ul.
People :
But his delight is in . the .law. of ...the Lord; and . in his law
will he exercise himself' day and night.
Read e rr:.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside,
will bring forth his fruit in due season.
People :
His leaf also shall , not wither; and look, whatsoever he
doeth 9 it shall prosper .
R ea de r::
As for the ungodly, it is not so with them; but they are
like the chaff 9 which the wind scattereth away from the
f'ace of the earth.
Peop le :
Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the
judgment 9 neither the sinners in the congregation of the
righteous.
that
�Reader:,..
.But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; and the
way of the ungodly s hall perish.
GLORIA PATRi i
( CongYegation standing )
Glo :i•y be t o t he Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost ; As it
was in t he beg i nning 9 is now ~ and e ver shall be 9 world without end.
Amen.
Can #o Duarn m Vo c um Ill •
THE CHORUS
• Orlandus Lassus
Eye hath no t seen 9 nor ear heard 9 neither hav e entered into the heart
of man 9 the t hings which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Co 11" ,2:9 . .
..
SCRIPTURE
PRAYER
Canti.o
THE CHORUS
D ~a1! um
Yo c um VI •
• Orlandus Lassus
He t h at f6lloweth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the
1 i ght of life .
John 8 : 12. ,
The Rev . w · Kyle Smith
.
Tutor 9 Saint John ° s . College
SERMON
HYMN
".
0
.
.
.
~Wi.11
lam , Cr oft
( Cong il'e gation standing )
1 0
Our God 9 our Help in ages p a st ,
Our Hope f or years to come 9
Our Shelte r from the stormy b JPet
And our eternal Home :
2 , Before t he h i lls in order stood 9
Or earth received her frame 9
From ever lasting Thou art God 9
To endless years t he same.,·
3. A thousand· ages in Thy sight ·
Are like an evening gone 9
Short as the watch that ends the
night
Before the rising sun. ·
4 • Time 9 like an ever rolling stream 9
B.ears all its sons away9
They fly forgotten 9 as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
5 , Our God 9 our Help in ages past 9
Our Hope for years to come 9
Be Thou our Guard while life shall last 9
And o ur eternal Home . · Amen.
Isaac Watts 9 1719
BENED IC TION
( C ongvega tion standing )
( Th e . Congregat ion w ill rema i n standing until , t he . A c adem ic Pro·
c ession has left th.e , ha ll.);
�COMMENCEMENT
WEEK
At
ST.
JOHN'S
COLLEGE
Annapolis, Maryland
June
8-11, 1951
�FRIDAY, JUNE 8
VARIETY SHOW
Iglef;art Half, f3 :30 P: M.
INFORMAL DANCE
Boat House, ·10:30 P .M.
*
SATURDAY, 'JUNE 9
CLASS DAY EXERCISES
Under the L ibert.y Tree, ,] 1 :00 A. 1'-f.
,
FACULTY-SENIOR PICNIC AND BASEBALL GAME
Back Campus, ·1:00 P.1'-f .;
PICNIC SUPPER 9 FOR THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY
Back Campus, 6:00 P.f11. . ,
THE PRESIDENT 0 S DINNER FOR THE SENIOR CLASS
The Open Door }:00 P.1'-f. ,
JUNE COTILLION
Iglehart Hall, ·10:00 P.1'-f . ,
�SUNDAY, JUNE 10
BACCALAUREATE SERVICE
Great Hall, 4 :00 P .UJ- ,
.
Sermon by the Reverend William Kyle Smith
Tutor 9 St. John ; s College
The Academic Procession
will form in
The Library at 3 : 30 P ~ M.
'l'HE.. PR,ESIDENT 0 S RECEJ>TION FOR SENIORS 9
~ACULTY AND THEIR GUESTS
P resident' s .House , (5 :00 P . A;I. ,
216 Norwood Rd.,
iviONDAY , JUNE 11
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Under the Liberty Tree , ·11 :00 A.i\:1.
Address by Joseph Winfree Smith9
Tutor, St. John 1 s College
The Academic Proc·ession
will form in
The Great Hall at 10 : 45 A.M.
LUNCHEON AFTER THE EXERCISES
for the College Community
College .Quadrangle
�
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<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>
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<li>1920-1924</li>
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<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
1696 - 1952
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
MONDAY, JUNE NINTH
NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO
�PROGRAM
FOR THE
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTIETH COMMENCEMENT
IN THE
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
OF THE COLLEGE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
INVOCATION ........ .. .............. ... .......... . .. .. .. The Reverend W. Kyle Smith
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AwARDS
The President of the College
ANNOUNCEMENT...... ............. The President of the Alumni Association
ADDRESS
'fO
THE GRADUATING CLASS
CONFl!lUUNG
BEN l !l>IC'l'ION
or
DEGREES
Mr. Scott Buchanan
Former Dean of the College
. ...... ...... ........... The President of the College
. .... ... ..... .. .. . .. .... .. .. . ...... .. ..
T he Reverend W. Kyle Sm ith
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
*
Luncheon for Members of the College and their Guests
College Quadrangle
�Candidates For Degrees
BACHELOR OF ARTS
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1906
Rite
WALTER LOUIS MOORE .. ... . .. .... ............. ..... ......... San Antonio, Texas
[Awarded posthumously]
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1950
~
1.8.69:
Rite
Richard Tower Congdon • . . • • . . • . • • DeKalb, Illinois
GEORGE BERTRAM MILLER, JR. .............. ........ ... Watertown, New York
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1951
Rite
LARRY BROWNLOW CHILDRESS .. . .. .. .................. ........
JOHN HENRY FRANKE, JR.
John Dirk Oosterhout
Annapolis
Riva
............... Port Arthur, Texas
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1952
Rite
THOMAS MASON CARNES
PAUL GEORGE CREE, JR.
MARTIN APPELL DYER
.............. ....... . Glenwood, New York
Silver Spring
Baltimore
�WALTER LEE GRAHAM ........... ...... ............... .. ........ .... ..
Annapolis
CARL CHRISTIAN GREGERSEN, JR... ........... .. ... ... ................ .
Annapolis
WILLIAM DUNNING'TON GRIMES ............................... .... ... ... .. Oakland
HENRY DEMUTH JAWISH ...... .... .......... ......... .... ....... Washington, D. C.
CHARLES. SHERMAN KLUTH ... ....... ..... ... ......... .. .. ...... .. ... .. Mentor, Ohio
LANCASTER BENJAMIN KNOTT .. ... ........................ Arlington, Virginia
JOSEPH MANUSOV .............. ............ ............ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DAVID EMRYS NAPPER ........ ............ ....... .. ........ .. ........ Washington, D. C.
HARRY MORRIS NEUMANN ......... ..... .. ..... .. .................. .
Baltimore
HIS AS HI H . OGUSHI ..................... ............. ........ Los Angeles, California
12.4.52: Adam. August Pinsker ••••••••••• New York, New York
JOHN MILTON TwIGG, JR................. ......................... ......... Middletown
WARREN PAUL WINIARSKI
An napolis
Cttm Laude
EDWARD MICHAEL LEE
................. ...... . .. ....... .. .......... Shadyside, Ohio
MASTER OF ARTS
PETER CHRISTIAN WOLFF . .. .......... ..... .. ... ............ .. ..
Chicago, Illinois
�Honors and Prizes
To the Senior who has the highest
standing, a silver medal. Offered
by the Board of Visitors and Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Michael Lee
To the smdent who during the current session has given most evidence of leadership in the service
of the College community, a prize
of $25.00 in books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernard Harry Udel
To the member of the Senior Class
who has written the best final
essay, a prize of $27.50. Offered
under the will of the late Judge
Walter I. Dawkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Michael Lee v
To the member of t he Junior or
Senior Class who has prepared the
most elegant solution of a mathematical problem, a prize of $25.00
Offered by Brig. Gen. A. W W.
\X'oodcock, A. U. S., Retired . . . . . . . . . . .. Hisashi H. Ogushi .,,•
To the member of the Freshman or
Sophomore Class who has prepared the most elegant solution of a
mathematical problem, a prize
of $25.00 . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Gardner Jenkins ./
To the member of the Freshman,
Sophomore or Junior Class who
has written the best annual essay,
the John Martin Green prize
of $10.00 . . . . . .
Honorable Mention
Alfred R . Sugg, Jr. . James Taylor, Jr. -
To the student who has written the
best original sonnet, a prize of
$10.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter Lee Graham
To the smdent who submits a good
translation into English verse of
a Greek poem, a prize of $15.00 . . . . . . . . . Richard .Arlen Smith
To the student who writes the best
college song (words alone, or
words and music), a prize of
$25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .. . . . . . .. .. .. No Award
�
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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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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
1696 - 1953
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
MONDAY, JUNE FIFTEENTH
NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE
�PROGRAM
FOR THE
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST COMMENCEMENT
IN THE
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR
OF THE COllEGE
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
INVOCATION ... ...... ... .. ....... .. ... ..... ..
The Reverend Burrett E. McBee
First Presbyterian Church
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
The President of the College
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS
Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers
President, Kenyon College
CONFERRING OF DEGREES .... .. .... ... ....... ... .. "The President of the College
BENEDICTION ..... ........ ....... ..... ...
The Reverend Burrett E. McBee
Fir st Presbyterian Church
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
Luncheon for Members of the College and their Guests
College Quadrangle
�AS OF THE CLASS OF l:.2J2
1.30.54: Clarence Edward Roache, Jr.
Candidates For Degrees
BACHELOR OF ARTS
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1952
Rite
ROBERT SIGMUND SEELIG .
........ ..... ... . ... Lawrence, New York
*
AS OF THE CLASS OF 1953
Rite
EUGENE BRADY ADKINS
... ... .. .. .. . . .. ... . .... .. ... Tulsa, Oklahoma
l.J0.54 John Davis Alexander,Jr ••••••••••••• Baltimore
DUNCAN BROCKWAY
CECIL E. DIETRICH .
Hebron, New Hampshire
.................. .... Annapolis, Maryland
STEWART GREENFIELD .... ......... .............. ... .... ......... . Brooklyn, New York
5.1.54 Franklin Robert Atwell •••••••••••• Baltimore
�CHARLES S. LERNER ... .. ......... .. .. .... ... ....... .. ....... ..... .. . Baltimore, Maryland
PHILIP H. LYMAN ..... ...... ..... ....... ...... ......... ... ..... ............... Blanding, Utah
FRANK F. POLK ....... ...... .. .. .. .... .. ...... ........... .... . Harrison, New Ymk
]EREMY
PHILIP T ARCHER ... ............... .. ... ... .. ... ..... Stamford, Connecticut
BERNARD H. UDEL ... .. ...... .. ... ........ ...
1°/~/n:
\,V.;ir l..vr.-:-f; ,Pn ... A.
/r.
ADDISON WORTHINGTON ...... .
... Baltimore, Maryland
..... ..... .. Baltimore, Maryland
Cum Laude
JOHN JAQUELIN ,AMBLER, V
Alexandria, Virginia
WILLIAM MONEY ASTON ................... ............ ... ...... Annapolis, Maryland
ROBERT G. HAZO ...................... .......................... Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
�•
Honors and Prizes
To the Senior who has the highest
standing, a silver medal. Offered
by the Board of Visitors and Governors ........... ........... ..... ........ ..... .
To the student who during the current session has given most evidence of leadership in the service
of the College community, a prize
of $25.00 in books ............ .
To the member of the Senior Class
who has written the best final
essay, a prize of $27.50. Offered
under the will of the late Judge
Walter I. Dawkins .
To the member of the Junior or
Senior Class who has prepared the
most elegant solution of a mathematical problem, a prize of $25.00.
Offered by Brig. Gen. A. W. W.
Woodcock, A. U. S., Retired .
To the member of the Freshman or
Sophomore Class who has prepared the most elegant solution of a
mathematical problem, a prize of
$25.00 .
To the member of the Freshman,
Sophomore or Junior Class who
has written the best annual essay,
.the John Martin Green prize of
$10.00
Robert G. Haza .
Sinclair Gearing and ·
Robert G. Haza ·
William M. Aston ..;
Addison Worthington ·
Paul A. Lowdenslager and :/~
Hugh D. McKay .
"'
Arthur C. Reisz and v
James Taylor. Jr. ·
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Annapolis, MD
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Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br />
<ul>
<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
<li>1878</li>
<li>1880</li>
<li>1890</li>
<li>1893</li>
<li>1895</li>
<li>1897</li>
<li>1907</li>
<li>1910-1918</li>
<li>1920-1924</li>
<li>1928-1929</li>
<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
</ul>
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Identifier
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commencementprograms
Text
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Page numeration
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5 pages
Original Format
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paper
Dublin Core
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Creator
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St. John's College
Title
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Commencement Program, 1953 (Draft)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1953-06-15
Description
An account of the resource
Program for the One Hundred and Sixty-First Commencement in the Two-Hundred and Fifty-Sixth Year of the College.
Identifier
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Commencement 1953
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
Commencement
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